Rev. Nathaniel STONE

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Rev. Nathaniel Stone born on the old tone homestead at Mount Auburn in Watertown, Mass., in Apr. 1667, was the first Stone born in America to acquire a liberal education. In 1690 he graduated at Harvard College with the degree of A.B.' until 1773, the graduates in each class were place according to family social rank, and in a class of twenty-two members, Nathaniel Stone was ninth, being preceded only by sons either of political leaders of the Colony or of ministers, a fact which shows his father's good position in the community. After a few years of theological study and preaching, on 16 Oct. 1700, he was ordained pastor of a new church that day organized in the part of harwich, Mass., which over a century later (1803), was established as the present town of Brewster, Mass. Mr. Stone continued pastor of this church for over fifty-four years until his death in his eighty-eight years, and was the sole minister, except during the last six years when Rev. Isaiah Dunster, (Harvard College, A.B. 1741), served as his assistant.

"Mr. Stone was a man of piety, talents and firmness, much revered and beloved by the people of his charge. He held a prominent position among the clergymen of his day and published (1731) a volume entitled "The Wretched State of Man by the Fall"; he also published a sermon preached by him before the first Supreme Judicial Court holden in the county. He as tenacious, of high literary and other qualifications for the ministry and rigidly opposed to the introduction of an itineracy." (Freeman's "History of Cape Cod," vol. 1, p.392) His name appears as a subscriber in 1728 for two copies of rev. Thomas Prince's "Chronological History of New England." He died in harwich (now Brewster) 8 Feb. 1755, in his eighty-eighty year.

Nathaniel married Reliance HINCKLEY on 15 Dec 1698 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Reliance (daughter of Gov. Thomas HINCKLEY and Mary SMITH) was born on 15 Dec 1675 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts; died on 24 May 1759 in Harwich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rev. Nathan STONE was born on 18 Feb 1707/8 in Harwich, Massachusetts; died on 31 May 1781.