“Sarah” Stone

Not the daughter of Rev. Richard Rogers & Barbara Rogers - disproved.

“Sarah”

• Birth: 1577
• parents: unknown
• Husband: John STONE (son of David Stone & Elizabeth Hewitt)

Children — baptized at All Saint's Church, Hertford, HRT

• 1. Jerymyas STONE, bapt. 18 Feb 1599
• 2. Samuel STONE, bap. 18 Jul 1602
• 3. Jerome STONE, bap. 29 Sep 1604
• 4. John STONE, bap. 6 Jul 1607
• 5. Mary STONE, bap. 13 Jan 1609
• 6. Ezechiell STONE, bap. 1 Nov 1612
• 7. Lidda STONE, bap. 17 Apr 1616
• 8. Elizabeth STONE, bap. 21 Oct 1621
• 9. Sarah STONE, bap. 3 Apr 1625

Comments

NOTE: Sarah is said to be, but is not, a proven descendant of John ROGERS, the Smithfield Martyr.

From http://dgmweb.net/Resources/GenLin/Gen-RogersJohn-bogus.html

The most prominent of bogus pedigrees is that of Rev. Richard ROGERS (1551-1618) of Weathersfield, Essex, England, supposed son of the Martyr. That the Martyr had no son, Richard, should be sufficient grounds for dismissing this pedigree without further consideration, but it is certainly relevant that in none of Rev. Richard's own writings, nor in any biography of him, contemporary or otherwise, was a claim made that he was son of the Martyr.

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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. This given name is the result of a mis-identification of John Stone of Guilford, New Haven Colony (who had a wife named Sarah), with another John Stone, one of the original proprietors of Hartford and the presumed father of Rev. Samuel Stone. The given name of the mother of Rev. Samuel Stone is unknown [SIC: Rebecca].

Misidentified as daughter

They 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.

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

• 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 < AmericanAncestors >