Jonathan Stone1

b. 2 September 1702, d. 11 January 1749/50
Jonathan Stone|b. 2 Sep 1702\nd. 11 Jan 1749/50|p8798.htm|Nehemiah Stone|b. 29 May 1670|p8859.htm|Lydia Hart|b. 5 Jan 1671/72\nd. bt Sep 1732 - Jul 1734|p8864.htm|John Stone|b. c 1622\nd. b 25 Sep 1691|p8852.htm|Abigail Dixey|b. 25 Dec 1636\nd. bt 1691 - 1703|p8853.htm|Jonathan Hart|d. b 1721|p9149.htm|Lydia Neale|b. 7 Apr 1650\nd. bt 1678 - 1681|p9150.htm|

4th great-grandfather of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
6th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     Jonathan Stone was baptized on 2 September 1702 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts.1 He was the son of Nehemiah Stone and Lydia Hart.2,3 He married Hannah Lovett, daughter of Simon Lovett and Annis (—?—) (Swetland-Lovett), on 31 October 1726 at Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts.4 He died on 11 January 1749/50 at age 47.1 He was buried in Huff's Neck.1
     
     The town of Arundel, Maine, having made a large grant of land to Edmund Goffe of Cambridge, on condition that he either settle in Arundel himself or provide a substitute, he engaged Jonathan Stone as his agent, and Stone, calling himself a coaster, of Beverly, purchased 123 acres of land in Arundel from John Watson on 13 May 1735.5 In 1736, having established his family in Arundel, he sold "my now dwelling house in Beverly with half an acre of land" to Moses Morgan.6

     Stone was made a proprietor of the town in 1737. He continued in the coasting trade, and in 1747 the Rev. Mr. Hovey mentions his schooner Mary in his diary. His female negro slave was one of the few held in Arundel and was valued highly.

     Mr. Hovey writes in his diary "Mr. Stone died after a long confinement with jaundice, followed with a numb palsy and dropsy, which brought him to his end January 11." His gravestone on Huff's Neck gives his age as 47 years, 6 months. His widow fell from her horse while going to court at York to apply for administration of his estate, and under the date of March 26, Mr. Hovey says "Mrs. Stone returned from York where she hath been from February 27, and came home so lame as to be unable to walk ... two men carried her in a chair to her fireside."1

Additional Data
Jonathan Stone was granted administration of his father Nehemiah's estate on 1 January 1732/33.3

Hannah Stone, widow, and Israel Stone, joiner, of Arundel were appointed administrators of Jonathan Stone's estate, with Thomas Perkins, Esq., and Dixey Stone, mariner, as sureties on 1 March 1749/50. The estate was very large and the inventory lists among other items his Arundel homestead (£200), fifty acres and half of Scargo saw-mill (£66), three-eights of a sloop (£29: 17: 4), a schooner (£40), three punch bowls, a sky glass, a watch (£8), shoe buckles, sleeve buttons, wig and cane. An additional inventory of his Beverly property, all real estate, valued at £155. was made by Robert Hale, Esq., Capt. Henry Herrick and Mr. John Stevens. In her account the widow claimed £31 for "her fall when in her Journey to York by which she was wounded and Lame long time." The estate was divided on 26 August 1756, between the widow, sons Israel, Jonathan, John, William and Nehemiah, and only daughter Lydia.1

Children of Jonathan Stone and Hannah Lovett

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, 385, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  3. [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 384, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  4. [S851] Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts to the Year 1950 (Salem, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1906-1907), 2: 198.
  5. [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 392, 393, citing York Deeds, XVII: 19, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  6. [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 393, citing Essex Deeds, 73: 138, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  7. [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).
  8. [S845] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Stone, of Beverly and Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 396, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).