Friday, March 30, 2018

52 Ancestors - Week 220: #299 Mary (Farwell) Stone (1709-1804) of Groton, Massachusetts

Mary (Farwell Stone (1709-1804) is #299 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #298 James Stone (1702-1783) in 1726 in Groton, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter #149 Abigail Stone (1737-about 1800) married #148 Ephraim Sawtell (1735-1800) in 1757.
*  their son, #74 Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847) married #75 Hannah Smith (1768-1827) in 1789.
*  their daughter, #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) married  #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857)in 1810.
*  their son, #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Name:                      Mary Farwell[1–3]    
*  Alternate Name:      Mary Stone[4-7]

*  Sex:                         Female    

*  Father:                    Joseph Farwell (1670-1740)    
*  Mother:                  Hannah Colburn (1673-1741)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                      5 February 1709, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]
*  Baptism:                 10 June 1711 (age 2), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]    

*  Distribution:          15 April 1783 (age 74), husband's will proved, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]    

*  Death:                   29 March 1804 (age 95), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]    
*  Burial:                   after 29 March 1804 (after age 95), Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6–7]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:           James Stone (1702-1783)    
*  Marriage 1:        28 December 1726 (age 24), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]    
*  Child 1:              James Stone (1727-1788)    
*  Child 2:              Mary Stone (1728-    )    
*  Child 3:              Jonathan Stone (1731-1799)    
*  Child 4:              William Stone (1734-1757)    
*  Child 5:              Abigail Stone (1736-1800)    
*  Child 6:              Sarah Stone (1739-1789)    
*  Child 7:              Joel Stone (1742-1806)    
*  Child 8:              Salmon Stone (1744-1831)    
*  Child 9:              Hannah Stone (1747-1839)    
*  Child 10:            Levi Stone (1750-1830)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    
Mary Farwell was born 5 February 1709 in Groton, Massachusetts, the 3rd daughter and 6th child of ten born to Joseph and Hannah (Colburn) Farwell of Groton[1].  Mary was baptized in the Groton church on 10 June 1711[2].

On 28 January 1726, Mary Farwell married James Stone in Groton[3].  James was the son of John and Sarah (Nutting) Stone of Groton.  James and Mary (Farwell) Stone had ten children, all recorded in Groton town records between 1727 and 1750.

James Stone wrote his will on 21 December 1778, died on 27 February 1783 in Groton, and the will was proved on 15 April 1783[4].  He bequeathed to his wife, Mary Stone:

"I Give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Stone the Improvement of all the Estate, real and personal which I Shall die seized and possessed off during her Life..."

Mary Stone, widow of James Stone, died 29 March 1804 in Groton, Massachusetts at age 95[5].  She was buried in the Old Burying Ground in Groton[6-7].  The inscription on the gravestone says:

In Memory of 
Mrs. Mary Stone
Relict of
Dea. James Stone
who died
March 29^th, 1804
AEt 95.

No probate records for Mary (Farwell) Stone were found in the Middlesex County Probate Court records.
 
5)  SOURCES

1. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1926-1927), Two volumes, Volume 1, Births, page 82, Marey Farwell birth entry.

2. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 1, Births, page 82, Mary Farwell baptism entry.

3. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 2, Marriages, page 166, James Stone and Mary Farwell entry.

4. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, 27 November 2016), Case 21,617, 8 images, will of James Stone, 1778, proved 1783.

5. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 2, Deaths, page 272, Mary Stone, "widow of Deacon James," entry.

6. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Old Burying Ground, Groton, Mass., Mary Farwell Stone memorial #112277016.

7. Samuel A. Green, M.D., Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, & Company, 1878), page 121, Mrs. Mary Stone epitaph.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 
 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.


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