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Elizabeth Smart

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Simon Stone III

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Elizabeth Smart — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3914 
  • Father:
  • Simon Stone Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Whipple   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Sep 1656 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Dec 1741 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Farnsworth
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1683 
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  Sarah Stone (Ahnentafel No:1957 )

  Abigail Stone

  • Notes: 

  • Simon Stone was a soldier in King Philip's War. He was in Exeter, New Hampshire, when that place was assaulted by the Indians on July 4, 1690. He was severely wounded. Cotton Mather later wrote the following account:

    “There happened at this time a remarkable thing * * * one Simon Stone being wounded with shot in nine several places lay for dead among the dead. The Indians coming to strip him attempted with two several blows of a hatchet, at his neck to cut off his head, which blows added, you may be sure, more enormous wounds into those port-hoes of death at which the life of the poor man was already running out as fast as it could. * * The English now coming to bury the dead, one of the soldiers perceived this poor man to fetch a gasp * * * [and] lifted up the wounded man and poured a little fair water into his mouth at which he coughed; then they poured a little strong water after it at which he opened his eyes * * * * But Simon Stone was thoroughly cured and is at this day a very lusty man * * * that nothing may be dispaired of remember Simon Stone.”

• Sources for Simon Stone III

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1899, Vol. 53, pp. 346-347.
  • ² Bartlett, J. Gardner, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926, Boston: Stone Family Association (1926), 53, 59-62.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 2101.
  • ⁴ Putnam, Eben, The Holden Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Richard and Justinian Holden and of Randall Holden, Volume 1, Cambridge: Press of The Murray Printing Company (1923), 117.

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