Milford Cemetery, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA [2]
The inventory of John Stone, late of Milford was taken on 8 May 1686 and recorded in New Haven.[3]
Sources
↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F747-FP2 : 11 February 2018), John Stone, 10 Aug 1644; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 04 July 2019), memorial page for John Stone (14 Aug 1644–1686), Find A Grave: Memorial #33081042, citing Milford Cemetery, Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Nareen, et al (contributor 46613568) .
↑ “New Haven Probate Records, Vol. 1-2, 1647-1703”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9NX-B : 11 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 007626739, image 223. New Haven Probate Record, 1647-1687, Vol. 1, Part 2, page 148.
"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F747-45L : 11 February 2018), John Stone in entry for Samuel Stone, 27 May 1674; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
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I know very little about John Jr., but I do find it interesting he and two brothers are listed as all dying in the 1680's while they were in their 30's and 40's. If the dates are correct Thomas and Noah died at opposite ends of a very brutal winter. There was also a "general sickness" that year. Something that was killing men in their prime. My best guess would be a bad variety of influenza, but I'm only speculating based on time of year, age of death, and what was going around during those years. John himself died a few years later, possibly of similar circumstances.
A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases: With the Principal Phenomena of the Physical World, Which Precede and Accompany Them, and Observations Deduced from the Facts Stated
Book by Noah Webster
"The winter of 1683-4 was the coldest that could be recollected by the oldest men living. Trees of large size split with the frost. The same winter was excessively severe in America, and from a passage in a letter of the Rev. John Eliot, the sea|son appears to have been sickly.
The year 1683 was also remarkable for general sickness in Connecticut, and in some places, unusual mortality. Some towns suffered by excessive rains."
A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases: With the Principal Phenomena of the Physical World, Which Precede and Accompany Them, and Observations Deduced from the Facts Stated Book by Noah Webster
"The winter of 1683-4 was the coldest that could be recollected by the oldest men living. Trees of large size split with the frost. The same winter was excessively severe in America, and from a passage in a letter of the Rev. John Eliot, the sea|son appears to have been sickly.
The year 1683 was also remarkable for general sickness in Connecticut, and in some places, unusual mortality. Some towns suffered by excessive rains."