Rev. Samuel Stone

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GEN: See Historical Document. NOTE _FA1\0=\0:PLAC A founder of Hartford, Conn. with John Steel and Rev. Thomas Hooker\0=\0: NOTE _FA2\0=\0:PLAC The name "Hartford" was derives from Stone's birthplace in England, H NOTE ertford\0=\0:_FA3\0=\0:PLAC A Puritan preacher\0=\0:_FA4\0=\0:PLAC Fled to America on the ship G NOTE riffin with John Cotton, Thomas HookerNotes for Samuel Stone:\0=\0:Arrived in Boston NOTE on the Griffen on Sept. 4, 1633. This information is from Planters of the Commo NOTE nwealth, Ships and Planters by Charles Edward Banks, pgs. 105, 106. His first wi NOTE fe, mother of Rebecca, Mary, and Sarah, died shortly after arrival in America. H NOTE e remarried to Elizabeth Allen. He was a Puritan, who served as Teacher with the NOTE Rev. Thomas Hooker. One of the founders of Hartford, CN.\0=\0:Samuel - bap. Jul. 30 NOTE , 1602, All Saints, Hertford, Herts., England; d. July 20, 1663, Hartford, CT. G NOTE raduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and curate at Stisted, Essex, England Ju NOTE ne 13, 1627 to Sep. 13, 1630. Arrived at Boston, MA Sep. 4, 1633 in the 'Griffin NOTE .' Teacher of church at Cambridge, MA Oct. 11, 1633, and freeman May 14, 1634. T NOTE o Hartford, CT 1639, where he received a gift of land in 1640 from John STONE. S NOTE ee note following concerning John STONE of Guilford, CT. Rev. Samuel was Chaplai NOTE n to troops in Pequot War 1637 and pastor of First Church, Hartford, CT. His fir NOTE st wife died in 1640, and he married second before July 1641 Mrs. Elizabeth ALLE NOTE N (d. 1681). Elizabeth, as widow of Rev. Samuel STONE, married third about 1673 NOTE George GARDNER. Elizabeth GARDNER was a witness to the 1675 will of William WADS NOTE WORTH. Children of first marriage: John; Rebecca married Timothy NASH; Mary marr NOTE ied Joseph FITCH; and Sarah married Thomas BUTLER. Children of second marriage: NOTE Joseph died young; Lydia died young; a son died young; Abigail died young; and S NOTE amuel did not marry.\0=\0:Samuel Stone Will:\0=\0:REV. SAMUEL STONE.\0=\0:FIRST GENERATION.\0= NOTE \0:REV. SAMUEL STONE, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., and second Pas NOTE tor of the First Church in that town, appears to have been twice married. 1. To NOTE Hope Flectcher. 2. To Elizabeth Allen.(*) His wife survived him and was marrie NOTE d to George Gardiner of Salem, Mass., merchant. [Mr. Gardiner appears to have be NOTE en of Hartford in 1673.] Mr. Samuel Stone, the Reverend Teacher of the Church o NOTE f Christ at Hartford, died July 20, 1663.(+)\0=\0:(*)On Boston 1st Church Records, p NOTE . 25, date of July 1641. "Letters of commendation were granted to John Winthrop NOTE the younger, going to England, the like for our bro. Mr William Hibbins also goi NOTE ng to England.\0=\0:"Mrs Elizabeth Stone, lately called Mrs Eliza Allen, but now the NOTE wife of Mr Samuel Stone the teacher of the church of Hartford, in Conn., was gr NOTE anted letters of recommendation thither."\0=\0:Turning back to 24 March, 1638-9, I f NOTE ind the admissions were Mrs Elizabeth Allen, Mrs\0=\0:Penelope Pelham and Elizabeth NOTE Story. Whether Elizabeth Allen were maiden or widow is not known to me, but my o NOTE pinion is that not being called wife of any or widow, she was a young woman, for NOTE she lived to 1681. [Judge Savage.]\0=\0:(+)The last Will and Testement of the Rever NOTE end Mr Samll Stone, late teacher of the church of XO at Hartford, who deceased J NOTE uly 20th, 1663.\0=\0:Inasmuch as all men on earth are mortall, and the time of dying NOTE , wth the maner\0=\0:thereof is only foreknowne and predetermined by the Majestie on NOTE high, and that it is a duty incumbent on all so farr forth to have their house NOTE set in order, as considerately to determine and dispose of all there outward est NOTE ate, consisting in Heredetaments, Lands, Chattells, Goods of what kind soever, NOTE wth all and either there appurtenances, to severall persons, that Righteousness NOTE and peace wth love might be mayntained for the future, and whereas at this prese NOTE nt: That I Samuel Stone, of Hartford, vpon Conecticut; am by a gracious visitati NOTE on, and warneing from the Lord invited and called to hasten this present duty an NOTE d seruice for ends premised, Being through the gentle and tender dealeing of the NOTE Lord in full and perfect memorie, make and appoint this as my last Will and Tes NOTE tament as followes,\0=\0:Imp: It is my will that Mrs Elizabeth Stone my loving wife NOTE shall be my true and sole executrix of this my last Will and Testament, and that NOTE whout any intanglemt or snare: the legacies given to herself being firstly pos NOTE sessed, all and every of them as they follow, and the after legacies to be made NOTE good out of ye remayneing estate if sufficient, otherwise a distribution accordi NOTE ng to that proportion, yet if there happen any overpluss to be wholly and solely NOTE at the disspose of my sayd wife. Allso I give unto my sayd wife (dureing the te NOTE rme of her life) half my houseing and lands wthin the liberties of Hartford and NOTE to have the free dispose of the value of the sayd halfe of my lands at the time NOTE of her death, by legacy or otherwise. Allso farther it is my will and I doe free NOTE ly give unto my wife all the houshold stuff that I had wth her when I marryd her NOTE , to be at her full and free dispose as shee shall see cause, other gifts which NOTE are more casuall appeare in the legacies following,\0=\0:Itt: Allso as my last will NOTE and Testament and in token of my fatherly loue and care, I doe freely giue and b NOTE equeath unto my son Samuel Stone at the time of my deceasse the other halfe of m NOTE y houseing and lands wthin the liberties of Hartford afoarsayd, and the other ha NOTE lfe of the houseing at the time of the death of my sayd wife, freely wthout any NOTE valuable consideration to be in any wise required, as allso the other halfe of y NOTE e Land, but upon a valuable consideration as before premised in the Legacy given NOTE to my deare and louing wife. Allso farther I doe freely giue unto my sayd sonn NOTE e all my Bookes excepting such as are otherwise disposed of in this my sayd last NOTE Will and Testament; But, provided my sonne Samuell departe this life before he NOTE is marryed, that then the whole of this my present legacy remayneing shall retur NOTE ne to and be wholly at ye disspose of my sayd louing wife. Mrs. Elizabeth Ston NOTE e, alias Gardiner, died at Hartford, in 1681.\0=\0:SECOND GENERATION.\0=\0:Children of R NOTE ecord.\0=\0:I. Joseph, bap. October 18, 1670.\0=\0:II. Lydia, bap. Feb. 22, 1647-8. Prob NOTE ably died young.\0=\0:III. Son, bap. April 29, 1649.\0=\0:IV. Abigail, bap. September 9, NOTE 1650.\0=\0:Named in his will.\0=\0:V. Samuel, born\0=\0:VI. Elizabeth,\0=\0:born Married, 1. Sa NOTE muel Sedgwick, and then, John Roberts, and removed to\0=\0:New Jersey\0=\0:VII. Rebecca, NOTE born Married a Nash, of New Haven.\0=\0:VIII. Mary, born Married Joseph Fitch.\0=\0:IX. NOTE Sarah, born Married Thomas Butler, of Hartford.\0=\0:Itt: Allso unto my daughter El NOTE izabeth, I doe giue and order to be payd the full sume of\0=\0:one hundred pounds in NOTE household goods chattells and other countrey pay, what my louing wife can best NOTE part wthall, or in two or three acres of Land at price currant before the sayd L NOTE and be diuided betwixt my louing wife and sonne as afoarsayd, and this sayd lega NOTE cy to be performed and made good wthin two years after the marriage of my sayd d NOTE aughter Elizabeth, provided that if my sayd daughter shall match or dispose of h NOTE erself in marriage either wthout or crosse to the minde of her dear mother my lo NOTE uing wife afoarsayd, and the mind and consent of my louing ouerseers hereinafter NOTE mentioned, then this my last will concerning her to stand voyd, and she gladly NOTE to accept of such a summe and quantity of portion as her sayd mother shall freel NOTE y dispose to her or: And in case my sayd Daughter shall dye and depart this worl NOTE d before shee receiue her sayd portion, the whole thereof shall fully returne an NOTE d\0=\0:belong vnto my sayd wife, at her dispose.\0=\0:Itt: Allso (as a token of my fathe NOTE rly love and respect) I doe giue unto my three daughters Rebeccah, Mary and Sara NOTE h, forty shillings, each of them to be payd them by my dear wife in houshold stu NOTE ffe, as it shall be prized in Inventory. And farther whereas the Honoured Court NOTE of this Colony were pleased to giue or grante a farme unto me, acknowledging the NOTE re favoure therein and requesting them to assigne the same unto my sonn and dear NOTE e wife in some conuenient place, where they may receiue benefitt by it, to whom NOTE I do freely give the same indifferently both for the present benefitt and future NOTE disspose:\0=\0:And farther itt is my desire that such of my manuscripts as shall be NOTE judged fitt for to be printed, my Reverend Friend, Mr John Higginson pastor of NOTE the church of Xt at Salem may haue the peruseall of them, and fit them for the p NOTE ress, especially my catechisme. And that my louing wife may have some direct re NOTE fuge for aduise and helpfullness in all cases of difficulty in and about all or NOTE any of the premises my great desire is that my Bretheren and friends Mr Mathew A NOTE llyn, Broth. Wm Wadsworth Mr John Allyn and my sonn Joseph Fitch would affoarde NOTE their best assistance, whome of this my last will and testament I doe constitute NOTE as my most desired overseers, nothing doubting of their readiness herein, and u NOTE nto whome wth my loveing wife I doe leave the disposal of my sonne Samuel and da NOTE ughter Elizabeth to be aduised and counselled in the feare of the Lord. Subscrib NOTE ed by me SAMUEL STONE. In the presence and witnesse of Bray Rosseter.\0=\0:An Inv NOTE entory of the goods and chattells of Mr Samll Stone the late Reverend teacher of NOTE the Church of Christ at Hartford, who departed this life July the 20th 1663.\0=\0:I NOTE mprimis. In his purss and apparell 18 13 00\0=\0:In the Hall. In a table joynt s NOTE tooles and chairs 01 04 00\0=\0:In a Trammell Andirons Tongs and Bellowes 01 05 NOTE 06\0=\0:In a cubboard 00 09 00\0=\0:In a feather bed, Pillowes Bowlsters, rug, Blancket NOTE s, curtains, straw bed 09 15 00\0=\0:In one flock bed, Boulster, rug, Blanket, a gre NOTE at bedstead a Trucle b. 03 10 00\0=\0:In ye Parlor. In a table forme, carpett, joynt NOTE stooles, chayres 03 16 00\0=\0:In a chest of drawers, a green cupboard, cloth, Gla NOTE ss case 02 18 00\0=\0:In a payer of Scales, weights, hower glass, andirons 00 13 NOTE 00\0=\0:In two glass cases, Hamer, gimlet, cushion 00 12 06\0=\0:In ye Closet. In plat NOTE e in seuerall peices 06 16 00\0=\0:In a flagon, pinte pot, spoones, cutting knife NOTE 00 17 00\0=\0:In a lanthoren, Line, Trenchers, six saucers 00 15 00\0=\0:In a halfe NOTE Bushell, glass case 00 05 06\0=\0:In Bees wax and Honey and earthen ware 01 04 NOTE 00\0=\0:In a Baskett, wooden ware, Butter, candles, china ware 01 16 00\0=\0:In the kitc NOTE hen. In Pewter 40lb and pewter Bason, candlesticks 04 11 00\0=\0:In three Brasse NOTE candlesticks, three chamber potts, 01 01 00\0=\0:In five porrengers, small Brass NOTE e candlesticks, 00 07 00\0=\0:In tin ware, earthen ware, three brass skilletts, 0 NOTE 1 03 06\0=\0:In Iron Potts, Pot Hooks, In wooden ware, 02 00 00\0=\0:In pailes, siues NOTE , Tubbs, meal Trough, Baskett 01 03 00\0=\0:In a Table, Jack Spitts, Gridiron, f NOTE rying pan 01 14 00\0=\0:In a Morter pestle, Trammells a piece of Iron, Tonges 0 NOTE 0 17 00\0=\0:In a Brass Copper, Kettles, cheespresse, Bake pan 06 03 00\0=\0:In a churne NOTE , cupboard, a Barrell of Beif Tallow 03 01 00\0=\0:In two Tubbs 00 05 00\0=\0:In the NOTE Celler. In Cheese, Cyder, Aples, Table, Wooden ware 04 19 00\0=\0:In the Parlor Ch NOTE amber. In a liuery Cub-board, Andiorns, Bedsted, 2 chests 03 05 00\0=\0:In cushions, NOTE curtaines & valions, Boulsters and Pillowes, Brushes, blancketts 07 18 00\0=\0:In G NOTE oods, Broadcloth searge 07 14 00\0=\0:In earthen ware, Two sadles, Napkins, Table NOTE Cloath 03 04 00\0=\0:In Napkins, sheets, pillow Beers, Cupboard Cloath 13 10 00\0= NOTE \0:In Napkins, Table Cloath, pillow beers, Towels, sheets & glasses, a wheel, & re NOTE ale a press, Napkins 09 19 00\0=\0:In the Kitchen Chamber. In a bedsteed, pillowe NOTE s, rugg, forme 01 00 00\0=\0:In ye Hall Chamber. In a Table, bedsteed, cutlash 0 NOTE 1 00 00\0=\0:In a Bed, boulster pillow curtaines & valliance 04 05 00\0=\0:In a Rugg, NOTE Blanketts, sheets 05 14 00\0=\0:In the study. In Tables, chayres, chest 001 01 00\0=\0: NOTE In Andiorns, Tonges, firepan 000 10 00\0=\0:In Bookes & c 127 00 00\0=\0:In the Garret NOTE t In Cask, Bedsteedes, Indian Corne 002 12 00\0=\0:In a Tronkle Bedsted & Bed 00 NOTE 3 00 00\0=\0:In pease & wheat & caske 001 18 00\0=\0:In Mault 001 07 00\0=\0:In Woole 001 NOTE 00 00\0=\0:In Cattle 029 10 00\0=\0:In sheep & swine 010 00 00\0=\0:In House & Home lott NOTE 100 00 00\0=\0:In Meadow 20 Acres 129 00 00\0=\0:In fower seuerall wood lotts 010 NOTE 00 00\0=\0:In two hiues of Bees 001 00 00\0=\0:More Hay 006 00 00\0=\0:Sume totall is \9< NOTE 563 01 00\0=\0:apprized Nouember 1663\0=\0:p nos JOHN ALLYN\0=\0:WILL: WADSWORTH.\0=\0:DESCENDAN NOTE TS IN THE LINE OF SAMUEL STONE, SON OF THE REV. SAMUEL STONE.\0=\0:THIRD GENERATION. NOTE \0=\0:SAMUEL STONE, of Hartford, Conn., never was married. He was educated for the m NOTE inistry, and preached some time at Simsbury, Conn., and afterwards at Wethersfie NOTE ld, Conn. Rev. Samuel Stone died in Hartford, October, 1693. The manner of his NOTE death is narrated in the following words:\0=\0:October 8, 1693, at 9 o'clock in the NOTE evening, Mr. Stone came from Henry Howard's house, and falling down the bank of NOTE the Riverlett, some small distance eastward beyound the rayles of the bridge, t NOTE hat crosses the sayd riverlett on the south side of the sd River, received sever NOTE all wounds upon his head which was the occasion of his death.\0=\0:STONE, REVEREND S NOTE AMUEL, 1602-1663, Conn. Chaplain in Pequot War.\0=\0:"Reverend Samuel Stone came on NOTE the Griffin, reaching Boston after a voyage of eight weeks, Sept. 4, 1633. The NOTE passenger list included many men of means and high standing, among them Rev. Joh NOTE n Cotton, Rev. Thomas Hooker, John Haynes, who became Governor of Massachusetts NOTE , and later of Connecticut, and others who were afterward prominent in colonial NOTE affairs. Mr. Stone was made Teacher1 of the church in\0=\0:Cambridge on Oct. 11th a NOTE nd remained there until Hooker's party went to Hartford in 1636. He was baptis NOTE ed July 30, 1602, in Hertford, Herts, England, he died July 20, 1663\0=\0:He married NOTE first Hope Fletcher, born in England and died before Nov. 2, 1640. He marrie NOTE d second, Elizabeth Allen, of Boston, before July 25, 1641. She died shortly b NOTE efore Jany. 4, 1682. She married second, Lieut. George Gardner, of Salem and NOTE Hartford, about 1673.\0=\0:Rev. Samuel Stone was the son of John Stone of Hertford, NOTE Eng. He was baptized in All Saints church and educated at Hale's Grammar School NOTE in that town.\0=\0:He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, April 19, 1620; was made NOTE B. A., 1624; M. A., 1627.\0=\0:In 1630 Mr. Stone went as Puritan Lecturer to the lar NOTE ge market town of Towcester in Northamptonshire, and while there he was invited NOTE "by the judicious Christians that were coming to New England with Mr. Hooker," t NOTE o be "an assistant unto Mr. Hooker with something of a disciple also." Winthrop, NOTE in his Journal, mentions "a fast at Newtown where Mr. Hooker was chosen pastor, NOTE and Mr. Stone teacher," October 11, 1633, and adds that the ceremony of ordinat NOTE ion was the same that he had seen in Boston the day before in the case of Rev. J NOTE ohn Cotton.\0=\0:Upon the arrival of the Hooker party at their destination, one of t NOTE he earliest transactions was the purchase of the land from the Indians, Rev. Sam NOTE uel Stone and Elder William Goodwin being selected to undertake the negotiations NOTE . The territory included in the purchase was about coincident with the territory NOTE subsequently known as the township of Hartford. A previous purchase of a part o NOTE f the same territory, a mile wide along the Connecticut, by the Dutch, who built NOTE a trading post at the mouth of Little River in 1633, seems to have been wholly NOTE ignored. The portion needed for the little village was divided into home lots av NOTE eraging two acres each. Mr. Stone's was on the north side of Little River, betwe NOTE en Hooker's and Elder William Goodwin's. The next year war was declared against NOTE the Pequots, Capt. John Mason commanding the little army of ninety men, and Mr. NOTE Stone went with the men as their Chaplain. Capt. Mason, in reporting his victory NOTE , says: "It may not be amiss here also to remember Mr. Stone (the famous Teacher NOTE of the Church of Hartford), who was sent to preach and pray with those who went NOTE out in those Engagements against the Pequots. He lent his best Assistance and C NOTE ounsel in the Management of those Designs, and the night in which the Engagement NOTE was, (in the morning of it), I say that Night he was with the Lord alone, wrest NOTE ling with Him by Faith and Prayer, and surely his Prayers prevailed for a blessi NOTE ng; and in the very Time when our Israel was ingaging with the bloud-thirsty Peq NOTE uots, he was in the Top of the Mount, and so held up his Hand, that Israel preva NOTE iled."\0=\0:It seems that when Mason's little army reached Saybrook, Lion Gardiner a NOTE nd Capt. John Underhill, who commanded a detachment of twenty men that the Engli NOTE sh company had caused to be sent from the Massachusetts colony for the defence a NOTE nd protection of the Saybrook settlement, both opposed the expedition. Each one NOTE had seen military service in the Netherlands, and looked upon an attack on the m NOTE ost warlike tribe in New England as a very hazardous undertaking for so small a NOTE band. Capt. Mason finally turned to Mr. Stone "and desired him that he would tha NOTE t Night commend their Case and Difficultyes to the Lord." The chaplain did so, a NOTE nd in the morning told Mason "that though he had formerly been against sailing t NOTE o Naraganset and landing there, yet now he was fully satisfied to attend to it." NOTE \0=\0:This appears to have decided the matter, as "they agreed all with one accord" NOTE to go on.\0=\0:The General Court3 at Hartford, Oct. 8, 1663, gave to Mrs. Stone and NOTE her son Samuel five hundred acres of upland and f ifty acres of meadow, in lieu NOTE of a former grant to the husband and father of a farm, for "his good service to NOTE the Country, both in the Pequot war and since."\0=\0:About six years after Mr. Hooke NOTE r's death, a quarrel began in the Hartford church that attracted the attention o NOTE f all the churches in New England, and which occupies a large place in the histo NOTE ry of early ecclesiastical affairs in the colony.\0=\0:It began with a difference be NOTE tween Mr. Stone and his Ruling Elder, William Goodwin, either about the admissio NOTE n of some member to the church, or the administration of the rite of baptism, bu NOTE t soon involved many other points of ecclesiastical polity, and, at a general co NOTE uncil of the Connecticut and Massachusetts churches held in Boston in June, 1657 NOTE , no less than twenty-one questions were discussed in a session extending over t NOTE wo weeks. This Hartford controversy was, for its circumstances, duration and obs NOTE tinacy, the most remarkable of any of its day.\0=\0:It affected all the churches and NOTE made its way into the affairs of societies, towns and the whole commonwealth. C NOTE otton Mather in his figurative manner says; "From the fire of the altar there is NOTE sued thunderings and lightning and earthquakes, through the colony."\0=\0:It was con NOTE sidered the more remarkable as the church at Hartford had been famous for its in NOTE struction, light, gifts, peace and brotherly love. It was one of the leading chu NOTE rches of New England, and its dissensions were a ground of great sorrow to all t NOTE he good people in the country.\0=\0:On the whole, respecting the controversy itself, NOTE the impartial verdict of history must be that in spite of many irregularities a NOTE nd doubtless a good deal of ill temper on both sides, the general weight and jus NOTE tice was with the defeated and emigrating party.\0=\0:Mr. Stone survived this passag NOTE e in his experience four years. They were years of seeming harmony in the church NOTE and of comfort to himself. Within a year after the adjustment of the church qua NOTE rrel an associate Pastor was settled in connection with Mr. Stone, the Rev. John NOTE Whiting, and from then on, by reason of Mr. Stone's advanced age, the main part NOTE of the ministerial work devolved on Mr. Whiting.\0=\0:The unfortunate affair which NOTE occupies so large a chapter in Mr. Stone's ministry, and for which it must be ad NOTE mitted he was largely responsible, is liable to obscure the many admirable quali NOTE ties of one who was certainly, in spite of all his imperfections, a man of marke NOTE d abilities and sincere godliness.\0=\0:In the few of his writings which have been NOTE preserved to us he appears as a somewhat tedious writer by reason of the scholas NOTE tic method of his thought and composition.\0=\0:He was a good talker, fond of anecdo NOTE te, and had capacity for pat and epigrammatic expression; all accounts agree as NOTE to his conversational powers and his influence over men.\0=\0:He was a man of great NOTE clearness of thought and marked power in argument, of wit, and quickness as well NOTE as strength of mind; he was a leader of force, though not of the ability or of NOTE the conciliatory skill of Hooker.\0=\0:But he obviously entertained very high views NOTE of the prerogatives of his office.\0=\0:His conception of ministerial authority belo NOTE nged more to the period in which he had been educated in England than to the new NOTE era into which he had come in New England. His own graphic expression, "A speak NOTE ing aristocracy in the face of a silent democracy" is the felicitous phrase whic NOTE h sets forth at once the view he took of church government and the source of all NOTE his troubles. Cotton Mather speaks enthusiastically of his religious feeling an NOTE d his zeal for the Church's spiritual welfare.\0=\0:That he must have been a man of NOTE popular quality is shown by the feeling toward him of the soldiers of the Pequot NOTE expedition, and the selection of the name of his home in England, rather than t NOTE hat of any other of the founders, as the name of the new settlement on the bank NOTE of the Connecticut, is a lasting memorial of him. He was buried on one side of h NOTE is distinguished colleague, Rev. Mr. Hooker; Gov. Haynes, who came over in the s NOTE ame vessel with them, lying on the other.\0=\0:.\0=\0:

Rev. married Hope Fletcher about 1625 in Sisted, Essex, England. (Hope Fletcher was born about 1605 in England and died in 1640 in Hartford, Conn..)

Rev. next married Elizabeth Allen in Jul 1641 in Boston, Mass. (Elizabeth Allen was born about 1606 in Mass..)