Disambiguation

Sarah (Farnsworth) Stone and Sarah (Nutting) (Farnsworth) Stone are often confused. They lived in the same area (Middlesex, Massachusetts) during similar years in the late 1600s and early 1700s. They both carried the same surnames (Farnsworth and Stone) during some period of time in their lives. They married brothers: Dea. Simon Stone, III and John Stone.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stone-748
John Stone (1658 - abt. 1735)

John Stone, son of Simon Stone and Mary Whipple, was born 23 Jul 1658 on the Stone homestead at Mount Auburn in Watertown, Massachusetts.[1]

He enlisted, at the age of 17, in Captain John Whipple's Company scouting along the Connecticut River in the spring of 1676, during King Philip's War, and received 3 pounds, 8 shillings, 6 pence for this service. He was also in Captain Jonathan Poole's Company in the spring of 1676 on garrison duty in the Connecticut River Valley towns, and received 1 pound, 11 shillings. His name also appears under Watertown soldiers, credited with 3 pounds, 3 shillings, 6 pence. [Bodge, "Soldiers in King Philip's War," pp. 283, 260 and 376].[1]

John Stone and his brother Simon Stone settled on land in Groton, Massachusetts that their father had obtained as an early proprietor of the town. It is likely that John Stone lived in his brother's household until his marriage. The records of Groton show that John Stone and Simon Stone were of the same garrison house with the Farnsworth family on 17 March 1692. Groton suffered from Indian raids during this period, since it was a frontier town, and the inhabitants lived in a state of constant alarm and vigilance. On 27 July 1694, the town was attacked by Indians and 21 persons were killed, three were seriously wounded, and thirteen were captured. In 1707, the frontier towns were so harassed by Indians that on 9 July 1707 over thirty householders of Groton, including John Stone, notified the Massachusetts General Court that they would be obliged to abandon the town unless a military guard was maintained there [Massachusetts Archives, 113.420].[1]

On 4 September 1715, John Stone and his wife Sarah of Groton, sold three and a half acres of land there to Samuel Kemp [recorded 26 December 1735, Middlesex County Deeds 37.151, LDS Microfilm a,bbb,ccc].[1]

No will, administration, death record, burial record or gravestone of John Stone can be found. He evidently died in 1735, since his son John Stone was styled "junior" in a deed dated 4 April 1735 and was listed without the "junior" in another deed dated 1736.[1]

Birth

Date: 23 Jul 1658
Place: Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]
Marriage

Husband: John Stone
Wife: Sarah Nutting
Child: John Stone
Child: James Stone
Marriage:
Date: 16 Dec 1698[1]
Place: Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]
Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. Simon Stone genealogy: ancestry and descendants of Deacon Simon Stone Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926. (Boston: Stone Family Association, 1926) at HathiTrust.org, pages 52-56, 62-63.
↑ Watertown MA V1 & V2 Town Records, Comprising the First and Second Book of TownProceedings, with the Land Grants and Possessions. etc. (Watertown, Mass. : Watertown Historical Society, 1894) at New England Historic Genealogical Society. http://www.AmericanAncestors.org
↑ Concord MA BMD, 1635-1850, George Tolman (compiler), Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Concord, Mass : Committee on Printing, 1894). San Diego Family History Center.
See also:

New England Marriages prior to 1700; page 714
Henry Bond ; Early Settlers of Watertown; pages 585, 586 (Stone)
Ancestry Family Trees: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com.
Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of randys ancestors-10generations.ged on 10 March 2011.
WikiTree profile Stone-1440 created through the import of Ancestors of PBHowe.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Buck Howe.