My 7th Great Grandfather, John Stone, died 1736 ~ Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Hale Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Here Lyeth the

Body of Mr. John

Stone Who died

July ye 28 1736 in

(the rest is underground)

John Stone, the son of Nathaniel Stone and Remember Corning, was born 20 April 1661 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was married first to Hester Gaines, second to Sarah Gale, and third to Jane (Stacy) Standley.  John Stone was a weaver.  He died non compos mentis, but left a will and an appointed guardian John Cleaves.  I descend from his marriage with Sarah Gale, through his daughter Susanna Stone (1702 - 1751) who married Randall Preston.  

I also descend from John Stone's brother, Nathaniel Stone (1663 - 1741) who married Mary Balch in 1689 in Beverly. 

John Stone had ten children with his wife Sarah Gale:  Priscilla (b. 1690), Edmond (b. 1691), Edmond (b. 1692), Sarah (b. 1693), Miriam (b. 1695), Eunice (b. 1696), Ambrose (b. 1698), Susanna (b. 1702), Remember (b. 1704), and Charity (b. 1700).   He had three children with his first wife, Hester Gaines:  Esther (b. 1684), John (b. 1686), and Mary (b. 1689).   He had no children with his third wife. 

My lineage from John Stone:

Generation 1:  John Stone (about 1595 - 1677) and Elinor Cooke (immigrant ancestors)

Generation 2: Nathaniel Stone (about 1632 - 1718) and Remember Corning

Generation 3:  John Stone (see above) and Sarah Gale

Generation 4:  Susanna Stone (1702 - 1751) and Randall Preston

Generation 5:  William Presson and Abigail Sargent

Generation 6: Lucy Presson and James Andrews

Generation 7: Orpah Andrews and Joseph Allen

Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen and Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen and Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Alternative Stone lineage:

Generation 3: Nathaniel Stone, Jr. (1663 - 1741) and Mary Balch

Generation 4: Josiah Stone (1691 - after 1757) and Dorothy Fuller

Generation 5: Josiah Stone (1722 - 1807) and Martha Ashby

Generation 6: Captain Josiah Stone (1763 - 1848) and Susanna Hix

Generation 7: Eunice Stone (1807 - 1866) and Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8: Peter Hoogerzeil and Mary Etta Healey

Generation 9: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My 7th Great Grandfather, John Stone, died 1736 ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted on April 7, 2020, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-7th-great-grandfather-john-stone.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nathaniel and Rebecca Raymond, Beverly, Massachusetts

This double tombstone was photographed at the Old North Beverly (Conant Street) Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Most of the burials here were parishioners of the Second Congregational Church (Second Parish).  

Here lyes Buried                     Here lyes Buried

the Body of Mr.                     the Body of Mrs

NATHANIEL RAYMOND        REBECKAH RAYMOND

Who Departed this                Wife to NATHANIEL

Life Janry ye 8 1749               RAYMOND  Who

Aged 78 Years                         Departed this life

& 10 Months                          Decr ye 2d 1760

                                                  Aged 80 Years

                                                  & 11 Months

Nathaniel Raymond was the son of John Rayment and Judith Glover, born on 15 March 1670/ 71 in Beverly, and died 8 January 1749/50 in Beverly.  He married Rebecca, daughter of Lot Conant and Elizabeth Walton, granddaughter of founding father Roger Conant.  Rebecca was born 31 January 1671 in Beverly and died 5 December 1760 in Beverly.  They had eight children.   One of their daughters, Mary Raymond (born 1710) married my 5^th great grand uncle, William Preston (1705 – 1766) and resided in Chester, New Hampshire.  Another son, George Raymond (1707 – 1807) married Abigail Kettle (1710 – 1786), my 6^th great aunt born in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nathaniel and Rebecca Raymond, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 22, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/tombstone-tuesday-nathaniel-and-hannah.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Mary (Batchelder) Preston, buried 1758 Beverly, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Hale Burying Ground in Beverly, Massachusetts (also known as the Ancient Burying Ground or Abbott Street Cemetery)

Here lies ye Body of

Mrs MARY PRESSON

wife of Mr. STEPHEN

PRESSON who Died

Novr. 24th 1758

in ye 25th year

of her age.

Mary Batchelder, daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder and Anna Meacham, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1733.  She married Stephen Preston (AKA PRESSON) on 25 March 1755 in Beverly, the son of Nehemiah Preston and Abigail Allen.  Mary died on 24 November 1758 and Stephen died a month later on 23 December 1758.  He was about 28 years old and Mary was only about 25 years old.  They had two children, Mary (born 1756) and Stephen (born 1758).  Stephen died in 1759 as an infant.  I don't know what happened to little Mary.

Stephen Preston was my 6th great grand uncle, and I descend from his sister Hannah Preston (1722 - 1812) who married Robert Woodbury.   I'm also related to Stephen Preston through our common ALLEN, WILLIAMS, TUCK, and BROWNING ancestors.  I'm related to Mary Batchelder through our common WOODBURY, WINDOW, HERRICK, and HUNTER ancestors.  Mary is descended from John Batchelder (1604 - 1675), and early Salem settler, not from my ancestor Rev. Stephen Batchelder of Hampton, New Hampshire.  These two early New England settlers are probably not related.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Mary (Batchelder) Preston, buried 1758 Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 29, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/12/tombstone-tuesday-mary-batchelder.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ IRONS of Boston, Massachusetts

IRONS / INES / IANS / IYANS / JYANS / IANSE

Matthew Irons’ origins are unknown.  It is difficult to trace him in the records because of the many inventive spellings of his surname.  However, when I pronounce IRONS with my Yankee New England accent, it becomes easy to figure out why his name was spelled so many ways.  Just drop the “R”.  

Matthew arrived as a servant to William Colbron, and  was made a freeman in Boston in 1636 as “IVES”.   He was an innkeeper in Boston, and granted eight acres at Muddy River (what is now the Fenway and Brookline).  He left a will on 30 January 1661/2 that named some of his children, and an inventory was taken on 16 April 1661.  He had eleven children in the Boston vital records and church records (baptisms) with his wife, Anne, who was probably the sister to Watertown settlers Edmund and Abraham Browne.  [Great Migration Begins, volume II, page 1059].

I descend from the eldest daughter, Elizabeth who married Richard Randall.  They settled on Cape Porpoise in what is now Saco, Maine.  One of her daughters, Sarah also married a Saco settler, Joseph Cole. Sarah Cole and her three daughters were captured by Indians on 20 August 1703 and taken to Montreal.  The children remained in Canada and were baptized by the Catholic Church. Sarah returned to Beverly, Massachusetts with her sister, Priscilla and they lived together as widows. 

  

I descend from Priscilla Randall, sister to the captive Sarah Randall Cole, who married William Preston. They had nine children, and I descend from two sons, Nehemiah and Randall Preston.  Both lived in Beverly, Massachusetts, the town where I was born on this date (Yes, today is my birthday!) 

For more information:

Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to the New World 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume II, pages 1057 - 1059.

My Surname Saturday blog post on RANDALL  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/03/surname-saturday-randall-of-saco-maine.html

My Surname Saturday blog post on PRESTON

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/11/surname-saturday-presburypresbyterpresb.html

My Surname Saturday blog post on ALLEN

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/09/surname-saturday-allen-of-manchester.html

My Irons genealogy:

Generation 1:   Matthew Irons, born about 1613 probably in England, died before 16 April 1661 (the date of the inventory of his estate); married by about 1638 to Anne (probably Anne Browne, sister to Edmund and Abraham Browne, brothers who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts).  Eleven children.

Generation 2: Elizabeth Irons, born 15 April 1641 in Boston, baptized 18 April 1641 in Boston, died 1701 in Saco, Maine;  married to Richard Randall.  He was born about 1633 in England and died after 1713 in Saco.  Three children.

Generation 3: Priscilla Randall m. William Preston

Lineage A:

Generation 4: Nehemiah Preston m. Abigail Allen

Generation 5: Hannah Preston m. Robert Woodbury

Generation 6: Molly Woodbury m. Westley Burnham

Generation 7: Henry Burnham m. Sally Poland

Generation 8:  Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears

Generation 9: Sarah Burnham Mears m. Joseph Gilman Allen

Generation 10: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 4: Randall Preston m. Susanna Stone

Generation 5: William Preston m. Abigail Sargent

Generation 6: Lucy Presson m. James Andrews

Generation 7: Orpha Andrews m. Joseph Allen

Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ IRONS  of Boston, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 24, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/surname-saturday-irons-of-boston.html : accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ RANDALL of Saco, Maine

1872 Map of Cape Porpoise, Maine

RANDALL

My 8^th great grandfather, Richard Randall (about 1633 – 1713) is a mystery to me.  There are no new articles about him listed in Martin Hollick’s New Englanders in the 1600s, nor are there any Randall family articles in the journals in the NEHGS database collections.   He arrived too late to have a sketch in The Great Migration series.  He has brief mentions in local histories of Saco and York County, Maine.   There are brief mentions in books like The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (page 576).

I’ve had to piece together the life of Richard Randall from vital records, court records and the local histories.  My line daughters out right away, since I descend from his daughter Priscilla, but it was a struggle to learn anything about the Randall family.

Richard Randall settled in Cape Porpoise by 1658.  He was in the town records for serving as constable in 1688 and selectman in 1688 – 1689.  He married Elizabeth Irons and had three children.  His daughter Sarah was married with children when she was captured by Indians and taken to Montreal. She became a Catholic, and her daughters took the names Madeleine and Therese and married two French Catholics and stayed in Montreal.  Sarah returned, and remarried.  Later, when Sarah was widowed, she lived with her widowed sister Priscilla, my 7^th great grandmother, in Beverly, Massachusetts.  

In 1727 these two widowed sisters went to court as the only heirs of Richard Randall.  The record states they were “…the Children & only Heirs of Mr. Richard Rundal late of Cape Porpus Mariner…”.   [From York Deeds, by the Maine Genealogical Society, Book 12, Part 1, page 177.   They inherited his land.  This is interesting, because it also means that their brother was dead and left no heirs.

Priscilla Randall (about 1661 – 1752) married William Preston of Beverly and had nine children.  I descend from two sons, Nehemiah and Randall Preston. 

My RANDALL genealogy:

Generation 1: Richard Randall, born about 1633 probably in England, died after 1713 in Saco, Maine; married to Elizabeth Irons, daughter of Matthew Irons and Anna Brown.  She was born 15 April 1641 in Boston, Massachusetts, and died about 1701 in Saco, Maine.  Three children.

Generation 2:  Priscilla Randall, born about 1661 in Saco, Maine, died 23 April 1752 in Beverly, Massachusetts;  married to William Preston/Presson/Presbury, son of John Presbury and Dorcas Besse.  He was born about 1664 and died about 1718 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Nine children.

Lineage A:

Generation 3:  Nehemiah Preston married Abigail Allen

Generation 4:  Hannah Preston married Robert Woodbury

Generation 5:  Molly Woodbury married Westley Burnham        

Lineage A1:

Generation 6:  Asa Burnham married Polly Bray

Generation 7:  Lydia W. Burnham married Samuel Mears

Generation 8:  Samuel Mears married Sarah Ann Burnham

Generation 9:  Sarah Burnham Mears married Joseph Gilman Allen

Generation 10: Joseph Elmer Allen married Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen married Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandmother)

Lineage A2:

Generation 6: Henry Burnham married Sally Poland

Generation 7:  Sarah Ann Burnham married Samuel Mears (see above)

Lineage B:

Generation 3: Randall Preston married Susanna Stone

Generation 4:  William Presson married Abigail Sargent

Generation 5:  Lucy Presson married James Andrews

Generation 6:   Orpha Andrews married Joseph Allen

Generation 7: Joseph Gilman Allen married Sarah Burnham Mears (see above)

The 1872 map of Cape Porpoise, Maine is from the website http://www.mykennebunks.com/revolution.htm   

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Surname Saturday ~ PRESBURY/PRESBYTER/PRESBITERY/PRESTON/PRESSON of Sandwich, Martha's Vineyard, Beverly, Massachusetts and of Saco, Maine

PRESBURY   PRESBYTER   PRESBITERY   PRESTON  PRESSON

John Presbury’s (about 1610 - 1648) first appearance in a New England record is on the Sandwich, Massachusetts 1643 list of men “able to bear arms”.  His widow, Catherine,  remarried to Richard Chadwell on 22 July 1648 in Sandwich.

John Presbury, Jr. (about 1640 - before 1679) married Dorcas Besse in 1664 went to Martha’s Vineyard, Salisbury, and to Saco, Maine in 1670.  He was a shoemaker.  In the third generation, William Preston (about 1664 - about 1718) married Priscilla Randall of Saco,  and lived there until about 1690.  King William's War with the Indians and French created many hostilities in the Maine settlements, which drove many settlers back to Massachusetts.  William and Priscilla removed to Beverly, Massachusetts. 

Randall Preston (1702 – 1744) was in the fourth generation in New England.  He was a tailor in Beverly.  He married Susannah Stone, a descendant of Nathaniel Stone (1632 - 1718) from whom I also descend in another Stone lineage.  In some records he was known as Randal Presson.  He was baptized as an adult in 1727, which was unusual in Puritan Massachusetts.

William Presson (1737 – 1814) settled at Gloucester, Massachusetts and married Abigail Sargent.  He was also a tailor.  His death was recorded in the Salem Gazette on 27 December 1814 with the words “Died – At Gloucester, Mr. William Preston, aged 78 – an honest man.”   My Preston line daughters out with William’s daughter, Lucy (1763 – 1852), who married James Andrews of Essex, the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, in 1788. 

For more information on the Presbury/Preston family:

The History of Martha’s Vineyard  by Dr. Charles Banks, Volume III Family Genealogies, pages 410 – 411.

“Memoirs of Alfred Presson (1838 – 1913) of Gloucester, Massachusetts”, New England Historic Genealogical Register, 18:3

This family is not recorded in the Great Migration series nor in Martin Hollick’s book New Englanders in the 1600s.  My sources were town records, church records, vital records and town histories. 

My Presbury/Preston genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Presbury, born about 1610 in England, died in 1648 in Sandwich, Massachusetts; married about 1637 to Catherine Unknown.  Two children.

Generation 2:  John Presbury, born about 1640 in Sandwich,  died before April 1679 in Saco, Maine; married about 1664 to Dorcas Besse, daughter of Anthony Besse and Jane Unknown,  in Sandwich.  Three children.

Generation 3:  William Preston, born about 1664 in Saco, died about 1718 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married in Maine to Priscilla Randall, daughter of Richard Randall and Elizabeth Irons.  She was born about 1661 in Saco and died 23 April 1752 in Beverly. Nine children.  William married second to Sarah Crocker.

Generation 4:  Randall Preston, born 3 April 1702 in Beverly, died 27 March 1744 in Beverly; married on 2 July 1723 in Beverly to Susanna Stone, daughter of John Stone and Sarah Gale.  She was born 20 August 1702 in Beverly, and died 17 May 1751 in Beverly.  Twelve children.

Generation 5:  William Presson was baptized on 24 April 1737 in Beverly, and died 20 December 1814 in Gloucester, Massachusetts; he married Abigail Sargent, the daughter of John Sargent and Mary Unknown, on 6 August 1761 in Gloucester.  Nine children.

Generation 6:  Lucy Presson, born May 1763 in Gloucester, died 5 September in 1852 in Essex, Massachusetts; married on 15 July 1788 in Ipswich to James Andrews, son of John Andrews and Martha Cogswell.  Ten children.

Generation 7:   Orpha Andrews m. Joseph Allen

Generation 8:  Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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