Individual Details

Simon Stone

(8 Oct 1671 - 1747)

Simon grew up surrounded by tragedy. His father murdered his mother in a drunken rage in 1689 and was executed when he was eighteen. He was severely wounded during his military service in 1690. Then two years later in 1692, his grandmother was accused of witchcraft and died in jail.
He eventually married in 1716 and had a family of five children with his cousin Esther Foster and settled in Shrewsbury and Lancaster.

Events

Birth8 Oct 1671Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, British America
Military1690
Marriage24 Dec 1716Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, British America - Esther Foster
Death1747Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Bay, British America

Families

SpouseEsther Foster (1680 - )
ChildDaniel Stone ( - )
ChildAbiel Stone ( - )
ChildSarah Stone (1721 - )
ChildJohn Stone ( - )
FatherHugh Stone ( - 1689)
MotherHannah Foster (1643 - 1689)
SiblingJohn Stone (1668 - )
SiblingKatherine Stone (1674 - )
SiblingDaniel Stone (1677 - )
SiblingHannah Stone (1680 - )
SiblingHugh Stone (1682 - )
SiblingKezia Stone (1686 - )

Notes

Military

Simon Stone served in the company commanded by Lieutenant Bancroft which engaged the Indians at Exeter. Simon was severely wounded in the encounter. In his petition to the Boston court to obtain monetary relief on November 29, 1738, Simon recounted his ordeal: "... dureing the fight your petitioner had the misfortune to Receive Nine of the enemys Shot in Severall parts of body and was given up for Dead for a Considerable time
That after sd fight was over a party of Indians making discovery of what persons were Slain happened up on your Petitioner and perceiving Life in him ... Gave him Two very Grevious wounds in the head with a Hatchett, but ye English being near had not time to Scalp your Petitioner. "
An account by the Rev M Cotton Mather on this incident also describes Simon's grievous wounds and rescue by the English and ends with ..."But Simon Stone was thoroughly cured, and is at this day a very lusty man; and as he was born with two thumbs on one hand, his neighbors have thought him to have as many hearts as thumbs!"
On Dec. 9, 1738 the court granted Simon Stone of Shrewsbury two hundred acres of unappropriated land for his service in the Indian wars and the wounds he received by the enemy. The survey was returned and the grant confirmed Jan. 1739/40.

Endnotes

1. Pierce, Frederick Clifton,, Foster genealogy : being the record of the posterity of Reginald Foster, an early inhabitant of Ipswich, in New England, whose genealogy is traced back to Anacher, great forrester of Flanders, who died in 837 A.D. ... (Chicago: F.C. Pierce, 1899, 1085 pgs.), p 1038.

2. Ezra Scollay Stearns, "Simon Stone the soldier at Exeter," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 66 (July 1912) (https://books.google.com : accessed 31 October 2015).

3. Ezra Scollay Stearns, "Simon Stone the soldier at Exeter," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 66 (July 1912) (https://books.google.com : accessed 31 October 2015).

4. Pierce, Frederick Clifton,, Foster genealogy : being the record of the posterity of Reginald Foster, an early inhabitant of Ipswich, in New England, whose genealogy is traced back to Anacher, great forrester of Flanders, who died in 837 A.D. ... (Chicago: F.C. Pierce, 1899, 1085 pgs.), p 1038.

5. Ezra Scollay Stearns, "Simon Stone the soldier at Exeter," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 66 (July 1912) (https://books.google.com : accessed 31 October 2015).