Rebecca Stone

Biography

Samuel Stone married, first, Rebecca Wright, the daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Rogers) Wright in Cranham, Essex on 5 June 1629,[4][5] Some genealogies call her Hope ____, but with no evidence.

Rebecca came with him to Hartford and died there in 1640. The last thing known respecting her is gathered from a letter written by Mr. Hooker in Nov. 1640, announcing her death to his son-in-law, Rev. Thomas Shepherd, in which he says: "Brother Stone's Wife smoaked out her days in the darknesse of melanchollie."

Mr. Stone m. (2) Elizabeth -.

Children of Rev. Samuel Stone by 1st wife, Rebecca Wright [1]

1. Samuell Stone, baptized 13 Sep 1632 in Towcester, Northamptonshire[6], possibly died young
2. John Stone b. say 1634 attended Harvard and Cambridge, not named in his father's will, so probably died before 1663 and without issue.
3. Rebekah Stone, born about 1636, m. Timothy Nash
4. Mary Stone, born about 1638, m. Joseph Fitch, settled in East Windsor
5. Sarah Stone, born about 1640, m. Thomas Butler of Hartford.

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"Samuel Stone" - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Stone (July 18, 1602 – 20 July 1663) was a Puritan Minister. Stone was born in Hertford, England. In 1620, he left Hertford to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 1624. He was ordained on July 8, 1626 at Peterborough and a year later became curate at Stisted, Essex. In 1633, Samuel Stone and Thomas Hooker sailed across the Atlantic on a ship named the Griffin. They arrived in Boston on the 4th of September of the same year, and a few weeks later, Samuel Stone became Teacher of Church. In 1644, he became a Freeman.
In 1636, Stone and Hooker led their congregation from New Towne (now Cambridge, Massachusetts) and established a new colony at House of Hope (a Dutch fort and trading post), making peace with the local Indians and renaming the town they called Saukiog as Hartford, after Stone's birthplace - they thus became the town's founding fathers."[3]

Misidentified as Hope Fletcher

Not the same as Hope Stowe

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wright-60398

Samuel Stone's wife is often claimed to be named Hope, but research published in 2022 (see above) has refuted this. She is sometimes identified as Hope the daughter of William Fletcher and Anne Finney, but this was a different Hope who married the Rev. Samuel StoWe (not StoNe). The origin of the error is here: "The second pastor of the church at Elizabeth Town [New Jersey] was the Rev. Seth Fletcher.... His sister, Hope Fletcher, was married, before 1650, to Rev. Samuel Stone, of Middletown, Connecticut."[6] In this quote, "Stone" appears to be a misspelling of "Stowe." The famous Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford was certainly not at Middletown around 1650, and he was married to his second wife Elizabeth Allen at the time.

Here is another quote, from the Fletcher genealogy: "There is a family tradition that Robert [Fletcher] was accompanied by a brother named William; and the town records of Middletown, Conn., give the marriage of Rev. Samuel Stowe to Hope, daughter of William Fletcher, Esq., of Chelmsford, in 1649."[7]

Misidentified as Sarah Rogers

They Rev. Richard Rogers also seem to have had a daughter (born about 1580) who married John Stone. “It is known, from the will of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, Mass., that the Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford, Connecticut was his nephew.[1] From this it is inferred that the mother of Samuel Stone was a sister of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. From other evidence it is inferred that the father of Rev. Samuel Stone was John Stone of Hertford - see the work of Robert Charles Anderson.[2]. Note on first name of ____ (Rogers) Stone: There are family trees on the internet claiming that the given name of the mother of Rev. Samuel Stone was Sarah.”

Our knowledge of Roger’s daughters allow us to form a firm conclusion with regard to the identification of Samuel Stone’s mother. Since Samuel Stone was born in 1601, and since his father was still having children after Richard Roger’s death, it is impossible for any of these four daughters to have been Samuel Stone’s mother.

The parish register of Cranham, Essex recorded the marriage on 5 June 1629 between “Samuel Stone and Rebecca Wright.”

She was the daughter of Rebecca (Rogers) Wright and the granddaughter of Rev. Richard Rogers.

He was the son of (perhaps) John Stone and his unknown wife.

Origins

Children of Rev. Richard Rogers and his wife Barbara:

1. Rebecca Rogers, “daughter Hasselder” and “daughter Hasseler” in her father’s will. She m. 1) probably in 1603, Samuel Wright, Bachelor of Divinity and founding president of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 2 daughters, Rebecca (m. Samuel Stone) and Martha; m. 2) Maldon, Essex, 16 April 1610: Edward Hastler, merchant and alderman. They had six children: Richard, Joseph, Nathaniel, Hester, Mary, and John.

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References

1. Tarbert, Jesse. “The Identity and English Ancestry of Rev. Samuel Stone's First Wife: Rebecca Wright, Granddaughter of Rev. Richard Rogers,” NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 2022) Vol. 176, WN. 704, Page 389-405 < AmericanAncestors >; Page 404-405. (document attached).
2. WikiTree contributors, "Rebecca (Wright) Stone (abt.1604-abt.1640)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wright-60398 : accessed 15 February 2024). Cites
   1. Tarbert, Jesse, "The Identity and English Ancestor of Rev. Samuel Stone's First wife: Rebecca Wright, Granddaughter of Rev. Richard Rogers" in the New England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol. 176, Fall 2022, pp. 403-404 and 391-392, citing parish registers of St. Peter, South Weald, and All Saints, Cranham, Essex
   2. Edward Hastler's Will dated 11 June 1622 and proved 4 Oct 1622, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, PROP 11//140/281, cited by Tarbert
   3. Register of All Saints, Cranham, Essex, Essex Record Office, D/P 118/1/1, image 25, viewable on ancestry.com, cited by Tarbert
   4. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III by Robert Charles Anderson, page 1771
   5. Register of Towcester, Northamptonshire Record Office 329P/255, image 172, viewable on ancestry.com: "ye sone of Mr Samuell Stone & Mrs Rebecca his wife"
   6. C. Benjamin Richardson, "Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America" (March 1868), p. 140.
   7. Edward Fletcher, Fletcher family history : the descendants of Robert Fletcher of Concord, Mass. (1881), p. 12.
   8. Find A Grave: Memorial #148033693, wrongly identified as Hope née Fletcher. Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 April 2018), memorial page for Hope Fletcher Stone (1602–22 Oct 1640), Find A Grave Memorial no. 148033693, citing Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Gerilynn M Campbell (contributor 47834227) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148033693
3. The Sedgwick Collection at the New Haven Colony Historical Society.

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