Stone Genealogy

Spouse:     Mary ___
Marr:         1642, Connecticut

Children:  John
                    Samuel
                    Nathaniel (1648-1709)
                    Thomas
                    Noah

Notes:  “John Stone, an original proprietor (of Hartford, CT), had an allotment of lands, but conveyed it to Samuel Stone by gift before 1640.  Lechford speaes of him as ‘Mr. John Stone, of Hartford,’ Sept. 16,1639; removed to Guilford, where he was one of the signers of the original compact in 1639.  Lands were recorded to John Marsh, Feb. 1639-40; ‘part whereof did belong to John Stone and were by him given to Sam’l Stone, and so by the said Sam’l Stone unto John Marsh, of Hartford, and now belongeth to him and his heirs.’  His home-lot was on the west side of Front St.” [“The Original Proprietors,” by Mary K. Talcott which appeared as Section II of The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, edited by J. Hammond Trumbull (1886).]
 

(2) Nathaniel STONE
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Birth:        15 Sep 1648, Guilford, New Haven, CT
Death:       11 Aug 1709, Connecticut

Spouse:     Mary BARTLETT
Birth:         1 Feb 1654, Branford, New Haven, CT
Death:        5 Nov 1724, Connecticut
Father:       George BARTLETT (-1669)
Mother:     Mary CRUTTENDEN (-1669)
Marr:          10 Jul 1673, Guilford, New Haven, CT

Children:  Joseph
                    Ebenezer
                    Nathaniel
                    Anna
                    Caleb (Died in Youth)
                    Caleb (1685-1765)
                    Noah
                    John
                    Anna
                    Timothy

Notes:  Lieutenant in Militia in 1702.  Deputy of the 1st and 2nd sessions of General Court of New Haven.
 

(3) Caleb STONE
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Birth:          10 Nov 1685
Death:         25 May 1765

Spouse:      Sarah MEIGS
Birth:          14 Feb 1686, East Guilford, New Haven, CT
Death:         4 May 1775
Father:        John MEIGS Jr. (1640-1713)
Mother:      Sarah WILCOXSON (ca1646-1691)
Marr:           28 May 1713, Guilford, New Haven, CT

Children:  Caleb
                    Sarah
                    Rhoda
                    Deborah
                    Reuben (1726-1804)
                    Solomon
                    Tryphenia
 

(4) Reuben STONE
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Birth:          31 Mar 1726, Guilford, New Haven, CT
Death:         5 Oct 1804, Guilford, New Haven, CT

Spouse:      Ann EVERTS
Birth:         1728, Guilford, New Haven, CT
Death:        1 Aug 1763, Guilford, New Haven, CT
Marr:          19 Jan 1748, Guilford, New Haven, CT

Children:  Deborah (1748-)
                    Reuben (Died in Youth) (1750-1751)
                    Anna (1752-)
                    Rhoda
                    Reuben
                    Russell
                    Bille (1761-1827)

Notes:  Captain of Militia Co. at Guilford. Turned out at New Haven Alarm in Tryson's Invasion of CT.    Served under Epaphias Sheldon.
 

(5) Bille STONE
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Birth:          31 May 1761, Guilford, New Haven, CT
Death:         2 Aug 1827, Mount Pleasant, Wayne, PA
Burial:        Mount Pleasant, Wayne, PA
Occ:              Farmer

Spouse:     Rachel WARD
Birth:         2 Dec 1757, Guilford, New Haven, CT
Death:        16 Aug 1847, Mount Pleasant, Wayne, PA
Burial:       Mount Pleasant, Wayne, PA
Father:       Capt. John WARD (1726-1810)
Mother:     Rebecca MEIGS
Marr:          22 Mar 1786, Guilford, New Haven, CT

Children:  Harriet Ward (1786-1879)
                    Maria (1788-1852)
                    Henry Ward (1791-1881)
                    William Russell (1805-1889)

Notes:  Soldier in Revolution.  Member of Guilford Guards.
Wounded March 17, 1782.
 

(6) Henry Ward STONE
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Birth:          17 May 1791, Guilford, New Haven, CT
Death:         20 Aug 1881, Honesdale, Wayne, PA
Occ:              Proprietor Of General Store

Spouse:      Catherine Walsh NIVEN
Birth:          28 Aug 1801, Newburgh, Orange, NY
Death:         30 Jul 1876, Honesdale, Wayne, PA
Burial:        Honesdale, Wayne, PA
Father:        Daniel NIVEN (1742-1809)
Mother:      Jane WALLACE (1764-1828)
Marr:           24 Jun 1822/1823, Newburgh, Orange, NY

Children:  Charles Niven (Died in Youth) (1824-1830)
                    Harriet Ward (1826-1884)
                    Jane Elizabeth (1829-1868)
                    Charlotte Niven (1831-1909)
                    Jeanette Scott (1833-1885)
                    William Henry (1835-)
                    Mary Blake (1838-1853)

Notes:  He remembered the War of 1812; how British foragers came to steal milk from his grandfather's barn and he "fought" them two or three times a week. War vessels lay offshore in the sound and fishing boats were seized, and when the Stones bought theirs back, there was not time to overhaul it before the salmon season began. Consequently, he almost lost his life in a gale off Montauk. [Handwritten Family Notes]
 

(7) Charlotte Niven STONE
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Birth:          17 Jul 1831, Mount Pleasant, Wayne, PA
Death:         25 Nov 1909, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
Burial:        Honsdale, Wayne, PA

Spouse:      Horace Chapman HAND
Birth:          15 May 1830, Windham, Geene, NY
Death:         16 Aug 1909, Honesdale, Wayne, PA
Burial:        Honesdale, Wayne, PA
Father:        Ezra HAND (1799-1875)
Mother:      Catherine Cochran CHAPMAN (1808-1898)
Marr:           3 Oct 1854, Honesdale, Wayne, PA

Children:  Charles Waller (1856-1915)
                    Alfred Chapman (1859-1892)
                    Henry Stone (1865-) 

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