John Stone

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shepard-161

Rachel was born about 1665 in Concord, Massachusetts to John and Sarah Goble Shepard.[1] She married John Stone in Lexington on April 27, 1687[2] and they had at least six children born there.[1] Rachel died in Lexington on March 17, 1724 and is buried at the Old Burying Ground.[3]

Children

1. Rachel b 12 Mar 1687; died young
2. John b 15 Dec 1689
3. Mary b 26 Sep 1692
4. Anna b 27 Nov 1694
5. Rachel b 06 Jun 1697
6. Ruth b 27 Aug 1700

References

• Bartlett, J. Gardner. Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917. (Boston, Massachusetts: Stone Family Association, 1918) 80, . “Children of Dea. Samuel Stone and Sarah Stearns: John, b. Cambridge Farms [Lexington] 12 May 1663, d. 3 Feb 1711/12, m. Cambridge 27 Apr 1687 Rachel Shepard. Will of John Stone Jr. of Cambridge, husbandman, dated 19 Jan 1711/12, proved 10 Mar 1711/12, mentions wife Rachel; daughters Mary Stone, Anna, Rachel and Ruth [last three underage, Ruth "youngest"]; sons John [sole executor]; Joseph Watkins [apparently apprentice?]; brother Samuel Stone and Dea. John Miriam overseers.”
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Stone_%28129%29