"17. Joseph4 Stone (6. Dea. Matthew3 Dea. Simon2, Dea. Simon1), born probably in Lancaster, Mass., about 1685, in boyhood was taken by his parents in their removal to Sudbury, Mass., where he was brought up. Soon after he became of age he was probably established by his father on some of the latter's lands in Lancaster, in which town he lived about ten years; but about 1720 he returned to Sudbury, where he resided most of the rest of his life, engaged in farming. He also acquired a farm in Southborough, Mass., which on 30 June 1737, he conveyed to his son Jonathan5 Stone as his portion. (Worcester County Deeds, vol. 9, p. 296.) He inherited his father's Narragansett claim for service in King Philip's War in 1675, which was drawn in Narragansett Grant No. 2 (Westminster, Mass.); on 3 May 1740, he sold this right in Westminster to Jonathan White and Gardner Wilder of Lancaster for £300. (Worcester County Deeds, vol. 16, p. 59.) His homestead farm was located in that part of Sudbury, which in 1780 became East Sudbury and in 1835, Wayland; and he died 3 Jan. 1755, aged about seventy years, leaving neither will nor administration as he had deeded his property to his children during his lifetime, his homestead in Wayland being settled on his second son, 59. David5 Stone."
