Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Stone was born on 21 June 1761, in Vermont, United States, his father, Peleg Selah Stone, was 32 and his mother, Mindwell Baker, was 26. He married Sarah Ann Hawley on 15 January 1789. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He died on 14 November 1805, in Peru, Clinton, New York, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Carroll Hill Cemetery, Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont, United States.
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- Samuel Stone, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Samuel Stone, "Find A Grave Index"
- Samuel Stone, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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World Events (6)
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English ston(e) ‘stone, rock’ (Old English stān). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on stony ground, by a notable outcrop of rock, or by a stone boundary-marker or monument, or habitational, from a place called Stone, such as those in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.
Irish (Kilkenny): adopted for Irish Ó Clochartaigh (see Clougherty ) and/or Ó Clochasaigh (see Clohessy ), and possibly several other names containing or thought to contain the element cloch ‘stone’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various surnames in other languages, meaning ‘stone’, including Jewish Stein , Norwegian Steine, French Lapierre .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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