Person:Henry Stone (11)

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Henry Dessex Stone
b.Abt 1767 Charleston, South Carolina, United States
d.24 Dec 1840 Calhoun, Florida, United States
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  • H.  Henry Dessex StoneAbt 1767 - 1840
  • W.  Ann MaxwellAbt 1770 - 1809
m. 15 Sep 1791
  1. Lachlan McIntosh Stone1801 - 1842
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Name Henry Dessex Stone
Alt Name Henry D. Stone
Alt Name H. D. Stone
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1767 Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Marriage 1788 to Susannah McClelland
Marriage 15 Sep 1791 to Ann Maxwell
Marriage Aft 1808 Morgan, Georgia, United Statesto Elizabeth Hansford
Residence? From 1813 to 1815 Jones, Georgia, United States
Residence? 1816 Mississippi TerritoryMontgomery County
Residence? 1817 Alabama TerritoryMontgomery County
Marriage Abt 1830 to Sarah Nora Nall
Other? 21 Jan 1834 Calhoun, Florida, United StatesFiled for Divorce on Sarah N. She had left him two years prior.
Death? 24 Dec 1840 Calhoun, Florida, United States
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H. D. Stone

Henry Dessex Stone b. 1767 Charleston, SC. m. Susannah McClelland in 1788. Susannah died 16 January 1790 at Stone Vale, Georgia. On 15 September 1791 in Liberty County, Georgia, Henry married (2) Ann (Maxwell) Oswald. Henry married (3) ca. 1807/08 in Morgan County, Georgia Elizabeth Hansford. Elizabeth died 5 March 1826 at Chipola, Florida. Henry married in 1830 (4) Sarah N. _______. On 21 January 1834, Henry petitioned the Legislative Council of Florida for a divorce from Sarah N. Stone, who had left him more than two years earlier. Colonel Henry D. Stone died 24 December 1840 at his residence in Calhoun County, Florida. He was buried in the Iola Cemetery.
Henry and Elizabeth lived in Jones County, Georgia from 1813-1815 where he in 1814 was on the tax rolls for 107 1/2 acres. (In 1814, he also was taxed on 569 acres in Glynn County, Georgia.) They, thereafter, moved to the Mississippi Territory.
In 1816 Henry was enumerated in the census for Mississippi Territory, becoming a resident of Alabama Territory in 1817.
Alabama Archives document Henry's judicial career and residency in Montgomery County, Alabama: Official Bonds, Mississippi Territory, bond of Phillip Fitzpatrick as Tax Collector, Montgomery County, Alabama 16 June 1817 recorded Libre A Fol. 1 of Record of Bonds, 17 June 1817, shows H. D. Stone, Chief Justice of Orphans Court, Montgomery County, Alabama, Mississippi Territory. Mississippi Territory Records Civil Service. He is also listed on bonds of 27 October 1817. “Petition to Governor Bibb to appoint Elias Spencer as Justice of the Peace, “dated 9 May 1818, shows H. D. Stone, Line Creek Settlement, Alabama Territory-Citizen. A list of Civil and Military Appointments for Alabama Territory by Governor Holmes 1818, shows Henry D. Stone, Montgomery County, Alabama, Alabama Territory, Chief Justice of Orphans Court, 23 May 1817. A letter from Samuel Hanies to Honorable Henry Hitchcock, dated 17 August 1818, shows Henry D. Stone, Montgomery County, Alabama, Alabama Territory, Chief Justice of Orphan's Court. (Edward S. Stone cited 2 October 1817 for his appointment as Chief Justice of Orphans Court.) He was appointed Justice of City, Montgomery County, Alabama, 18 December 1819.
Miscellaneous Alabama records and Anita Eakin, family historian, provide additional data. Chief Justice of Orphans Court H. D. Stone held the first court in June 1817 at Ft. Jackson (old Ft. Toulouse) and served until least 22 January 1821. The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 6, 1944, listed that Henry D. Stone was commissioned Colonel on 28 March 1820. He had been elected Colonel of Alabama Militia, 24th Regiment of Infantry, Montgomery County, Alabama. He was mentioned in July 1821 as Colonel commanding the Regt. of Augusta Militia (formerly Pleasant Level). He later moved to Mobile, Alabama. Mobile, Alabama, U. S. District Court Minutes, respectively, 22 January 1824 for November 1824 term and 1824-27, showed that in the case of Postmaster-General vs. H. D. Stone and T. Coker, page 248, defendants failed to appear in court when called and forfeited the case, suit being for $631.29 plus costs, while in the latter, page 6, Mobile, Alabama, E. Ervin, Jr. vs. H. D. Stone and J. H. Stone, no plea was made and the defendants lost. Henry was then in Florida.
References
  1.   Stone, Spessard. Colonel Henry Dessex Stone, in Website: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.
  2.   Sewell, Christopher Scott; Hill, S. Pony. The Indians of North Florida: From Carolina to Florida, The Story of the Survival of a Distinct American Indian Community. (Palm Coast, Florida: Backintyme Publishing, June 2011)
    Chapter 6, Jun 2011.

    “A settlement or Town of their own”
    Scotts Ferry, Calhoun County, Florida

  3.   Alabama. Department of Archives and History (Montgomery, Alabama), and Marie Bankhead Owen. The Alabama historical quarterly. (Montgomery, Alabama: State Department of Archives and History, 1938-)
    Vol. 06, No. 02, Summer Issue 1944.

    H. D. Stone was appointed by Governor Holmes to be the Chief Justice in Montgomery on the 2 Oct 1819.
    Henry D. Stone is Colonel of the 3rd Division, 7th Brigade, 4th Regiment on the 28 Mar 1820.
    Henry D. Stone is Justice of the City Court, Montgomery on the 18 Dec 1820.

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