Rev. Nathan STONE

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Rev. Nathan Stone born in Harwich (now Brewster) Mass., 18 Feb. 1707/8 graduated at Harvard College, A.B. 1726, socially ranking ninth in a class of thirty-one graduates. He then studied theology and on 21 Oct. 1730 was ordained the first pastor of Southborough, Mass. a town then recently set off from Marlborough, Mass. Here for fifty years he filled with acceptance the sacred desk until his death, 31 May 1781, in his seventy-fourth year.

Mr. Stone was the earliest known genealogist of the Stone family, and prepared a record of the family, the original of which in 1856 was in possession of his descendants on Cape Cod....

Nathan married Judith FOX on 21 Oct 1734 in Woburn, Massachusetts. Judith was born on 10 Aug 1712 in Woburn, Massachusetts; died on 9 Feb 1748/9 in Southborough, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary STONE was born on 23 Jul 1742 in Southborough, Massachusetts; died on 27 Mar 1777 in Marlboro, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.

Nathan married Mary THACHER on 16 May 1751. Mary (daughter of Rev. Peter THACHER and Mary PRINCE) was born in 1711 in Middleborough, Massachusetts; died on 26 Nov 1795 in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rev. Nathaniel Stone born on the old tone homestead at Mount Auburn in Watertown, Mass., in Apr. 1667, was the first Stone born in America to acquire a liberal education. In 1690 he graduated at Harvard College with the degree of A.B.' until 1773, the graduates in each class were place according to family social rank, and in a class of twenty-two members, Nathaniel Stone was ninth, being preceded only by sons either of political leaders of the Colony or of ministers, a fact which shows his father's good position in the community. After a few years of theological study and preaching, on 16 Oct. 1700, he was ordained pastor of a new church that day organized in the part of harwich, Mass., which over a century later (1803), was established as the present town of Brewster, Mass. Mr. Stone continued pastor of this church for over fifty-four years until his death in his eighty-eight years, and was the sole minister, except during the last six years when Rev. Isaiah Dunster, (Harvard College, A.B. 1741), served as his assistant.

"Mr. Stone was a man of piety, talents and firmness, much revered and beloved by the people of his charge. He held a prominent position among the clergymen of his day and published (1731) a volume entitled "The Wretched State of Man by the Fall"; he also published a sermon preached by him before the first Supreme Judicial Court holden in the county. He as tenacious, of high literary and other qualifications for the ministry and rigidly opposed to the introduction of an itineracy." (Freeman's "History of Cape Cod," vol. 1, p.392) His name appears as a subscriber in 1728 for two copies of rev. Thomas Prince's "Chronological History of New England." He died in harwich (now Brewster) 8 Feb. 1755, in his eighty-eighty year.

Nathaniel married Reliance HINCKLEY on 15 Dec 1698 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Reliance (daughter of Gov. Thomas HINCKLEY and Mary SMITH) was born on 15 Dec 1675 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts; died on 24 May 1759 in Harwich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Gov. Thomas Hinckley and Mary Smith