Individual Details
Simon Stone
(8 Oct 1671 - 1747)
He eventually married in 1716 and had a family of five children with his cousin Esther Foster and settled in Shrewsbury and Lancaster.
Events
Families
Spouse | Esther Foster (1680 - ) |
Child | Daniel Stone ( - ) |
Child | Abiel Stone ( - ) |
Child | Sarah Stone (1721 - ) |
Child | John Stone ( - ) |
Father | Hugh Stone ( - 1689) |
Mother | Hannah Foster (1643 - 1689) |
Sibling | John Stone (1668 - ) |
Sibling | Katherine Stone (1674 - ) |
Sibling | Daniel Stone (1677 - ) |
Sibling | Hannah Stone (1680 - ) |
Sibling | Hugh Stone (1682 - ) |
Sibling | Kezia 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 timeThat 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).