John Stone

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2. John 2 Stone (John1) was born about the year 1622. He married Abigail Dixey, daughter of Capt. William and Anna Dixey, about 1652, and lived in Beverly, where he kept an inn from 1673 to 1682. He is called a seaman in 1677, and it is probable that the business of the inn was the principal care of his wife. It is recorded that a rally of the militia, under Capt. Dixey, took place at the Stone inn at eight o'clock on the morning of January 14, 1676. §

Stone was an overseer of Robert Morgan's will in 1672. He took the oath of fidelity in 1677. He died before September 25, 1691, when his widow and administratrix presented an inventory, taken by Paul Thorndike, Zachariah Herrick and Nehemiah Grover, amounting to £228:10. Abigail Stone, whose bondsmen were Joseph Morgan and Sergeant Balch, died before completing her trust and administration was granted to Samuel Stone "now eldest son," July 12, 1703. He presented an account
and a division of the estate on March 13, 1703/4, the heirs being sons Samuel (double portion), Jonathan and Nehemiah, daughters Abigail Briscoe and Anna Stone, and grandchildren Hannah, Abigail and William Stone, children of William Stone, deceased.

Abigail (Dixey) Stone's age was estimated as forty-three in 1678 and about forty in 1679, in legal cases in which she testified, from the evidence in which we learn that she employed two maids, Sarah Riggs and Mary Barrett, and that included in her finery were "a great handkerchief with spots in it, a lace cap with running strings, and a long neck-cloth laced at both ends."

She died between 1691 and 1703.

Children : —

i. John, b. 25: 9: 1654, in Salem; d. before 1703/4, s. p.

4. ii. Samuel, b. 15: 9: 1658, in Salem.

5. iii. William.

iv. Jonathan, bapt. 10: 3: 1668, in Beverly; m. Hannah Herrick June 21, 1706; probably d. s. p.; she d. Feb. 9, 1746, aged seventy-nine, his widow.

6. v. Nehemiah, bapt. May 29, 1670, in Beverly.

vi. Abjgail, b. about 1672; m. Capt. Robert Briscoe of Beverly before 1692 ;j d. June 1, 1724, aged fifty-two. Capt. Briscoe was a man of large wealth and of prominence in the community, serving the
town as selectman, assessor, treasurer and representative to the General Court. He presented the town with a bell in 1712 and the church with a silver communion cup in 1718, and the elegance of his house was still remembered a century after his death. A street and a school (Briscoe Hall) in Beverly bore his name in the middle of the nineteenth century. His second wife was Elizabeth (Leavitt) Dudley of Exeter, to which town Capt. Briscoe moved his residence. He died in 1729, and remembered by will Zachariah, Samuel and Robert Stone, Abigail Stevens and Elizabeth Ober, nephews and nieces of his first wife, and also left £20 to the poor of Beverly. His widow m. Rev. John Odlin.

vii. Israel, bapt. 27: 4: 1675; d. before 1703/4, s. p.

viii. Anna, bapt. Dec. 21, 1679; living, unmarried, in Beverly in 1703/4.

Bibliographic information:

• The ancestry of Sarah Stone, wife of James Patten of Arundel (Kennebunkport) Maine
• by Davis, Walter Goodwin, 1885-1966
• Publication date 1930
• Publisher Portland, Me. : The Southworth Press
• Contributor Boston Public Library
• Pages 172
• https://archive.org/details/ancestryofsarahs00davi/page/4/mode/1up

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https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aBirthsS.shtml "(Stone) John, s. John and Abigaile, 25: 9m: 1654. CTR" (Note - 9m: 1654 is November 1654.)

https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2015/346/59561652_1450031067.jpg has that a different John Stone of Salem - John Stone - is the husband of Hester Gaines.

There are no marriages or deaths in Salem VR that would work for this John Stone.

The ancestry of Sarah Stone, wife of James Patten of Arundel (Kennebunkport) Maine, pages 4-5 discusses his father's estate and settlement. Stone book Because his next younger brother, Samuel, was granted administration of the estate as "now eldest son" on July 21, 1703, it can be inferred that John died before then.