Person:Simeon Stone (2)

Personal History

Simeon Stone, third son of Jonathan Stone^[7] and Abiel^[4] (Bigelow), was baptized 9 February 1723/4, in Framingham, Province of Massachusetts Bay, after the death of his father and on the same day as his three brothers,^[4] and was said to be in his 15th year of age on 8 April 1734.^[7]

In the will of his grandfather, Nathaniel Stone, dated 23 June 1732,^[8] the heirs of “my third son Jonathan Ston being deceased” were bequeathed a tract of land in Framingham of about 50 acres “to be distributed by Abiele Ston the relict widow.” On 12 March 1734,^[7] in Framingham, Simeon Stone, aged 14 years, son of Jonathan Stone late of Framingham, along with his brothers Jonathan and Reuben, signed a letter declaring that he had chosen Micah Stone to be his guardian. On 8 April 1734, Micah Stone of Framingham, husbandman, signed bonds in the amount of £200 each for granting the three guardianships.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1905)
   p. 250.

   STONE, Simeon, [died] May 12, 1785, in 66th year. G.S.
   [Birth about 1719.]

2. ↑ Reed, Jonas, and Daniel Bartlett. A history of Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts: from its earliest settlement, with a biography of its first settlers [supplement added]. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
   149.

   Mr. Simon Stone and his wife, Hannah, from Framingham, came to Rutland. He bought land laid to Lieut. Simon Davis, and set up a tannery, (supposed to be the first in town,) where he for several years carried on the tanning and currying business; he sold and bought a farm now owned by his son, Jonas, originally granted to Samuel Sewall, Esq. Mr. Stone was of the same family as others of that name that settled in Rutland. Part of their children were born in Rutland: Daniel, Feb. 23, 1747-8; David, Feb. 24, 1749; Jonas, Aug. 10, 1752; Lucy, Aug., 1754, second Daniel, May 28, 1757; Susanna, Nov. 15, 1760. One daughter is now living, aged 90 years.
   The family by the name of Stone that settled in Rutland were respectable, - their descendants are numerous and settled in various parts of America.

3. ↑ Find A Grave: Old Burial Ground, Rutland, Mass., in Find A Grave
   Stone {{{2}}}.

   [Note: no image]

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} “Framingham births”, in Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Framingham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911)
   p. 189.

   “STONE, Simeon, s. of wid. Abiel, bp. Feb. 9, 1723–4. record from diary of Rev. Jonathan Swift, now in possession of Framingham Historical Society.”
   Note: this is the same date that his brothers Jonathan, Levi, and Reuben were also baptized.

5.   Massachusetts. Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986
   Worcester, Book 102: 173-175.

   Stone, Simeon & wife to Jonas Stone indenture signed 23 Aug 1781
   Full transcription

6.   Bartlett, J. Gardner. Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917. (Boston, Massachusetts: Stone Family Association, 1918)
   p. 147-148.

   SIMEON STONE (Jonathan4, (21), Nathaniel3, Elder John2, Dea. Gregory1), was born in Framingham, Mass., about 1721, and was baptized there 9 Feb. 1723/4, a few months after his father's death. Like his brothers he was given one-fourth of fifty acres of land by the will of his grandfather Nathaniel3 Stone in 1732, and on 12 Mar. 1733/4, he chose for his guardian his kinsman Lieut. Micah5 Stone. About the time of his marriage in 1745 he had lived a few years in Southborough, Mass., but soon afterwards he settled in Rutland, Mass., where he was a farmer and tanner. During the Revolution he served in the guards at Rutland Barracks in Capt. Joseph Livermore's company from 1 July to 4 Oct. 1779; also from 27 Oct. to 28 Nov. 1779, in Capt. Sylvanus Rice's company, Col. Israel Chapin's regiment on service at Claverack, N. Y. (" Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution," vol. 15, p. 122.) He died at Rutland 12 May 1785, leaving no will, and no administration was taken out on his estate.
   
   He married at Southborough, 16 Jan. 1744/5, HANNAH KENDALL, born in Lexington 9 Nov. 1720, daughter of Eleazer and Hannah (Rowe) Kendall; she died in Rutland 24 Mar. 1801, in her eighty-first year.

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
   first series 1648–1871, file no. 21653, Jonathan Stone & al, 1734; FHL 421530 (Probate papers 21608–21691), image nos. 494–498 (DGS 7553808, starting at image 496).

   (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9D5-NSJ4 : accessed 23 Feb. 2017)
   
   Three bonds £200 each, dated 8 April 1734, guardian of Jonathan Stone (18th year of age), Reuben Stone (16th year of age), Simeon Stone (15th year of age) (all sons of Jonathan Stone late of Framingham) to Micah Stone; wit. by S. Danforth, W^m Ireland. Guardian declaration by Jonathan Stone, Reuben Stone, Simeon Stone, “miners of above 14 years of age,” dated 12 March 1734, Framingham.

8. ↑ See the references for his grandfather's probate. From his will: “my third son Jonathan Ston being Dcestd I Give and bequeth unto his Heirs a cartain tract of Land lying and being situat within the bounds of Framingham by estemation fifty acers be the same more or less … the said land to be Distributed by Abiele Ston the Relict widow of the said Jonathⁿ Ston”.