Lucy WARD

Lucy married Caleb MORSE on 20 Nov 1776 in Newton, Massachusetts. Caleb (son of Capt Moody MORSE and Hannah CARLETON) was born on 26 Jul 1753 in Sutton, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Experience STONE on 5 Jul 1733. Experience (daughter of Hon. Ebenezer STONE and Margaret TROWBRIDGE) was born in 1707; died on 26 Dec 1798 in Spencer, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph Ward resided at Newton, and d. there, Oct. 26, 1742, aged 65. His wid., Esther, undertook the settlement of his estate, but soon losing her mind, her bro, Caleb Kenrick, was appointed her guardian, Dec. 13, 1742; and so continued, until her death, July 2, 1761, at the age of 84 years.

Joseph married Esther KENRICK. Esther was born on 22 Sep 1677; died on 2 Jul 1761. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John Kenrick of Newton

Ebenezer married Margaret TROWBRIDGE on 18 Mar 1686. Margaret (daughter of Deacon James TROWBRIDGE and Margaret ATHERTON) was born on 20 Apr 1666; died on 04 May 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Hannah JACKSON. Hannah was born in 1631 in England; died on 24 Apr 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Between 1678 and 1679, Representative

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Dea. Simon Stone, born in Boxted, co. Essex, England, about 1630, was brought to New England by his parents in 1635. He was brought up as a farmer on the paternal homestead at Mount Auburn in Watertown, Mass., to which he succeeded on his father's death in 1665. In 1662 he became a proprietor of lands in Groton, Mass., totaling eighty-eight acres which were recorded 17 Feb. 1670/1; these lands he eventually settled on his two eldest sons, Simon and JohnStone who located there. But Dea. Simon Stone always resided on the homestead in Watertown and became more prominent in local public affairs than his father had been. From 1672 to 1679 (inclusive) and 1681 to 1686 (inclusive) he was elected a selectman; in 1672, 1673, 1676, 1677, 1679, 1681, 1682, 1684, 1687 and 1690 he was chosen town clerk, and from 1678 to 1684 (inclusive) and in 1686, 1689 and 1690 he was deputy for Watertown to the Massachusetts General Court. In his later yeas he was a deacon of the Watertown Church.

On 3 Feb. 1668/9, Simon Stone, farmer, and wife Mary, convey to Simon Coolidge a farm in Watertown (now Weston), late of the widow and heirs of Henry Greene, clerk, deceased containing fifty-five acres, bounded east by Benjamin Wellington, south by Nathaniel Coolidge, west by Robert Jennison, and north by Samuel Hyde, Sen. (Middlesex County Deeds, vol. 3, fl. 336).

During his lifetime, Dea. Simon Stone divided all his property, both real and personal, among his large family of children, giving the homestead at Mount Auburn to his youngest child Ens. Jonathan Stone and a hundred acre farm adjoining on the west to another son David Stone; so at his death he left no will and no administration was taken out on his estate. He died in Watertown, 27 Feb. 177/8 and was buried in the Old Watertown Cemetery where his gravestone remains with the following inscription:

HERE LYES YE
BODY OF SIMON
STONE, DIED FEBRY
YE 27TH 1708
AETALIS SUAE 77
THE MEMORY OF
THE JUST IS BLESSED

Dea. Simon Stone married about 1655 Mary Whipple, born in Bocking, co. Essex, England, about 1634, daughter of Elder John and Susanna Whipple, and when a child brought to New England by her parents.

Simon married Mary WHIPPLE. Mary was born about 1634 in Bocking, co. Essex, England; died on 02 Jun 1720 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Elder John and Susanna Whipple

James married Margaret ATHERTON on 30 Dec 1659 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Margaret died on 17 Aug 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Humphrey Atherton and Mary Wales