Person:William Stone (10)

William was described as a mon of industry, integrity, and much respected and beloved as a "kind husband, tender parent, and good neighbor." He was a captain in the Providence County militia, 1746.

BIOGRAPHY: Genealogy of the Stone Family originating in Rhode Island By Richard C. Stone. Providence: Knowles, Anthony and Company,Printers 1866 Page 145 Note 147.

  William Stone (658) was born in old Warwick, the year before his father moved to Mashantatack. In this neighborhood he spent most of his life, his sons and daughters reaching maturity, and settling as heads of families in the same neighborhood. It is very probable that John Stone (4) died with this son, as he William (658), owned and lived upon the farm which Hugh Stone (1) bought of Susan Lawrence, and which, at Hugh's death, passed into the possession of John (4). On this farm William (658), lived till the year 1779, when he sold the farm to Dr. William Aldrich, and with his son, Jabez Stone (1050), moved to Coventry, where, seven years afterwards, he died, aged 74. His remains now rest in a wall-enclosed cemetery, in the South part of Scituate, on the farm where his son Jeremiah Stone (1051), lived and died. Capt. William Stone, as he was usually called, was a man of talent and integrity, and , in his day, was highly respected, filling many important military and civil offices. He married Miss Eleanor Westcott, who died before he removed to Coventry. The following is copied from the family record, now in the hands of a great grandchild: "Died, in Coventry,on Tuesday, February the 21st, Capt. William Stone, in the 74th year of his age, after a long and tedious illness which he underwent with great patience and fortitude of mind. A kind husband, a tender parent, and a respectable neighbor, one whose company is much lamented by all".