Ebenezer Stone

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• Alternate birth: of Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ebenezer married Prudence Pratt on 10 May 1721 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Prudence (daughter of Joseph Pratt and Hannah Provender) was born on 22 Apr 1698 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Silas Stone was born on 29 Apr 1728 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died about 24 Oct 1777 in Lansingburg (now part of Troy), Rensselaer, New York.

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• Alternate birth: of Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Nathaniel married Sarah Waite on 25 Apr 1684 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Capt. John Waite and Mary Hills) was born about 1664 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 12 Nov 1732. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft Jun 1732

Notes:

Several respectable sources, including the New England Early Families Study Project (citation details below) and The Snow-Estes Ancestry (citation details below), list her as a daughter of Capt. John Waite and Mary Hills. Notably, Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton IV does not.

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He emigrated to New England at age 17 in 1635 with his father, his stepmother Lydia, and several siblings and half-siblings. The family settled in Watertown and Cambridge. He moved to Newbury by 1939, then Sudbury and what later became Framingham. In 1672, following his father's death, he returned to Cambridge to inherit his property.

In Sudbury he was a deacon of the town church. In Cambridge, on 15 Nov 1682, he was made the church's ruling elder. He held various public offices and responsibilities throughout his life, and his final two years he was deputy for Cambridge at the General Court.

John married Anne before 1640. Anne died after 7 Nov 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 5 May 1683

Notes:

Her origins are unproven, but the most recent and probably best theory was put forward by Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn in The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996), pp. 450-51. In her sketch for John Stone (login required) in the Early New England Families Study Project (citation details below), Alicia Crane Williams summarized the discussion:

"Likely daughter of Barnaby and Mary (Wells) Rogers. John Stone and his wife, Anne, and Nathaniel Treadway were legatees in the wills of EDWARD HOWE (GMB, 2:1013-16) and his wife Margaret Wells, but the exact nature of their relationship 'remains a matter of discussion.' J. Gardner Bartlett disproved the theory that Anne was a sister of Treadway's wife and thus a daughter of Edward Howe. He believed that Anne was likely a sister of Nathaniel Treadway and that their mother was probably a sister of Edward Howe. Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn in their 1995 TAG article 'The English Origins of The Howe and Treadway Families of Watertown. Massachusetts' accepted that relationship, but by 1996 in The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton... Part I, further research had led them to suggest it was more likely that John Stone's wife was Ann Rogers, baptized at Boxted, England, 14 May 1615 to Barnaby and Mary [Wells] Rogers, and thus a niece of Margaret Wells, who had married Edward Howe."

If John Stone's wife Anne was indeed Anne Rogers, daughter of Barnaby Rogers and Mary Wells, she was baptised at Boxted, Essex on 14 May 1615.

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According to Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills, etc. (citation details below), he probably arrived on the Susan and Ellen in 1638.

He was Malden's representative to the House of Deputies from 1666 to 1685, and was Speaker of the House in 1684.

John married Mary Hills before 1650. Mary (daughter of Joseph Hills and Rose Clarke) was born before 13 Nov 1625; was christened on 13 Nov 1625 in Great Burstead, Essex, England; died on 25 Nov 1674 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deacon married Margaret Garrad on 20 Jul 1617 in Nayland, Suffolk, England. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Garrad and Christian Frende) was born before 5 Dec 1597; was christened on 5 Dec 1597 in Nayland, Suffolk, England; died before 4 Aug 1626; was buried on 4 Aug 1626 in Nayland, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary Ward. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his family arrived at Boston 17 July 1638 on the Susan and Ellen. He was a woolen draper.

Selectman of Charlestown in 1644; in 1646, representative to the General Court. Re-elected in 1647, he was chosen speaker of the House of Deputies. Captain of the Malden train-band. He is most remembered for having, in 1648, led the committee that first codified and published all the laws of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Ironically, this led to a small spot of bother on the occasion of his third marriage, to Helen Atkinson, as reported in Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills (citation details below):

"In the early days of the Colony all marriages were solemnized by magistrates, the clergy having no part in the ceremony. In 1641 Governor Bellingham, as magistrate, married himself to Penelope Pelham, and when called on to come down from the bench and plead to a complaint against him for the act, refused to do so. Joseph Hills was a magistrate for the trial of small causes, and followed the Governor's example in his marriage of January, 1656, but, unlike the Governor, did not escape public censure. The records of the Court for Middlesex County show that, April 1, 1656, 'Mr. Joseph Hills of Mauldon being presented by the Grand Jury for marrying of himself, contrary to the law of this Collony page 38 in ye old Booke. Hee freely acknowledged his offence therein, and his misvnderstanding the grounds whereon he went which he now confesseth to be vnwarrantable, And was admonished by the Court.'"

Joseph married Rose Clarke on 22 Jul 1624 in Great Burstead, Essex, England. Rose was born about 1604; died on 24 Mar 1650 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Rose Clarke was probably related to James Clarke, grocer, and Josias Clarke, both business associates of Joseph Hills in Great Burstead in the 1630s." [Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton IV, citation details below]