Deacon Simon STONE

1656 - 1741  (85 years)

• Name	Simon STONE  [1]
  	Dea. Simon Stone was born on the Stone homestead at Mount Auburn in Watertown, Mass., 8 Sep. 1656 and lived in that town until after he became of age. When he was nineteen years old, the sanguinary contest with the New England Indians, known as King Philip's War, broke out, in which Simon stone rendered active service. During the autumn of 1675 and the winter of 1675/6, he was in the garrison houses at Mendon and Groton, Mass., on 20 Dec. 1675, being credited with 10s. for service in the former and on 25 Jan. 1675/6, being credited with L3-18-0 for service in the latter. He also served in the spring and summer of 1676 in Capt. Joseph Scyll's company on an expedition against the Indians in central and western Massachusetts; credits for same L3-11-0. He was one of the claimants for rights in the Narragansett Townships granted by the Province of Massachusetts in 1735 to the soldiers (or their heirs) in King Philip's War; and on 24 June 1735 drew Lot 15 in Narragansett Township No. 6, which became Templeton, Massachusetts (Bodge's "Soldiers in King Philip's War," pp. 363, 360, 273 and 436). A few years after King Philip's War, Simon Stone, settled in Groton, Mass., on land given to him by his father, who was one of the early proprietors of that town. Here he became a prosperous farmer, held various town offices, was representative to the Massachusetts General Court in 1706, and like his father and grandfather, was also a deacon in the church, being elected such at Groton, 22 Apr. 1715, an office indicating that he was held in esteem by the community. During his lifetime he settled his estate upon his children, so at his death he left no will and no administration was taken out on his estate. Surviving to the ripe old age of eighty-five years he died in Groton, 19 Dec. 1741. His gravestone in the old Groton Cemetery bears the following inscription: HERE LIES BURIED YE BODY OF DEAC SIMON STONE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMB YE 19TH A.D. 1741 AGE 85 YEARS 3 M.& 11D. [1]
  Prefix	Deacon
  Birth	8 Sep 1656	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Dec 1741	Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I101245	Main Tree
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2022

  
  

  Father	Simon STONE,   b. Abt 1630, Boxted, England d. 27 Feb 1707, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary WHIPPLE,   b. Abt 1634, Bocking, co. Essex, England d. 02 Jun 1720, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 86 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F10734	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah FARNSWORTH,   b. Abt 1663, Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts d. 16 Sep 1731, Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1685  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Capt. and Dea. Simon STONE,   b. 1 Aug 1686, Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts d. 22 Oct 1746, Harvard, Massachusetts (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F42082	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 19 Dec 1741 - Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S2562] J. Gardner Bartlett, Simon Stone Genealogy Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass. 1320-1926.