Jonathan Stone

b. 7 May 1730, d. before 22 January 1799
Jonathan Stone|b. 7 May 1730\nd. b 22 Jan 1799|p8584.htm|Jonathan Stone|b. 2 Sep 1702\nd. 11 Jan 1749/50|p8798.htm|Hannah Lovett|b. 7 Jul 1695|p8799.htm|Nehemiah Stone|b. 29 May 1670|p8859.htm|Lydia Hart|b. 5 Jan 1671/72\nd. bt Sep 1732 - Jul 1734|p8864.htm|Simon Lovett|b. 1659\nd. 2 Feb 1744|p9063.htm|Annis (—?—) (Swetland-Lovett)||p9064.htm|

3rd great-grandfather of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
5th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     Jonathan Stone was born on 7 May 1730 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts.3,4,5 He was the son of Jonathan Stone and Hannah Lovett.1,2 He married first Hannah Griffin circa 1753.3 He married second Phebe Downing, daughter of Benjamin Downing and Elizabeth Fabyan, in 1758.3 He married third widow Sarah Miller Washburn on 1 April 1788.3,6 He died before 22 January 1799 in Arundel, York County, Maine; when the heirs of Col. Jonathan Stone appointed Jacob Wildes, Esq., to settle his estate.3
     
     Jonathan Stone was a private in the American Revolution and was on the Penobscot expedition, the largest American naval expedition of the Revolution. In 1779, American naval and land forces attempted to destroy the British base at Penobscot Bay, in Maine. The expedition was a spectacular failure, in which the American forces lost 43 ships and approximately 500 men. A committee of inquiry blamed the failure on poor coordination between land and sea forces, and on Commodore Dudley Saltonstall's failure to engage British naval forces.

Additional Data
Jonathan Stone shared in the distribution of his father Jonathan Stone's estate on 26 August 1756 with his mother and siblings.1

Stone, Jonathan.Private, Capt. Nathaniel Cousens's co., (late) Maj. Littlefield's detachment of York Co. militia; entered service July 6, 1779; discharged Aug. 24, 1779; service, 1 mo. 19 days, on Penobscot expedition.7

Children of Jonathan Stone and Hannah Griffin

Children of Jonathan Stone and Phebe Downing

Citations

  1. [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 393, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  2. [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 392, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  3. [S836] Charles Bradbury, History of Kennebunkport, from its First Discovery by Bartholomew Gosnold, 1602, to a.d. 1837 (Kennebunk, Maine: J. K. Remich, (1837) 1992), 277.
  4. [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 394, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  5. [S851] Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts to the Year 1950 (Salem, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1906-1907), 1: 315.
  6. [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 108: 123.
  7. [S149] Secretary of the Commonwealth, compiler, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 vols. (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1907), 15: 107.
  8. [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 395, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).