John Stone

  General Notes:

GEN: Notes concerning John Stone of Guilford, CT GEN: Talcott in the following refers to the work of Miss Mary K. Talcott, author of "The Original Proprietors," which appears as GEN: Section II of The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, edited by J. Hammond Trumbull (1886). Talcott's "The GEN: Original Proprietors" has been reprinted (after Aug. 1986) by the Society of The Descendants of the Founders of Hartford, Inc. GEN: John STONE of Hartford, CT was an original proprietor. The following is the full text from Talcott concerning his land GEN: allotment: "John Stone, an original proprietor, had an allotment of lands, but conveyed it to Samuel Stone by gift before GEN: 1640. Lechford speaks of him as 'Mr. John Stone, of Hartford,' Sept. 16, 1639; removed to Guilford, where he was one of the GEN: signers of the original compact in 1639. Lands were recorded to John Marsh, Feb. 1639-40; 'part whereof did belong to John GEN: 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 GEN: him and his heirs.' His home-lot was on the west side of Front St." It is hardly likely that John STONE, baptized 1579 is the GEN: same as John STONE, freeman of Guilford in 1669. Therefore, John STONE, the original proprietor of Hartford, was apparently GEN: not brother-in-law of Rev. Ezekiel ROGERS of Rowley, MA, and father of Rev. Samuel STONE, Elizabeth (STONE) WADSWORTH, and GEN: Sarah (STONE) HOWARD. GEN: John STONE is named as a grand nephew, son of Rev. Samuel STONE, in the Apr. 17, 1660 will of Rev. Ezekiel ROGERS. There is GEN: some question as to whether all of the events noted for Rev. Samuel STONE of Hartford, CT above are for the same man. Talcott GEN: uses the phrase "probably this one" when referring to Rev. Samuel STONE of Stisted, Essex relative to the son of John STONE GEN: who was baptised in 1602 at Hertford, Herts. Talcott states that John, son of Rev. Samuel STONE of Hartford, graduated Harvard GEN: in 1653 and soon left for England where he received his MA from the University of Cambridge. Robert Charles Anderson, in The GEN: Great Migration Begins, Volume 3, pages 1769-1773, identifies Rev. Samuel STONE of Hartford as the same person as the curate GEN: of Sisted, Essex, and the child baptized in 1602 at Hertford, Hertfordshire. But he states that son John "presumably d. before GEN: the date of his father's will." This would appear to preclude this John STONE from being the resident of Guilford, CT.