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Subject: [MDCHARLE-L] Stone-Cotton-Graves (Who is right?)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:59:03 -0800
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http://papayne.rootsweb.com/surnames.html
Author:
PFHS- Patrick A. Payne
5332 Lanford Springs Court, Lilburn, Georgia 30047,
(770) 925-0073ia 30047
William STONE / Elizabeth SPRIGG

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Husband: William STONE

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Born: 1603 at: Northampton County, England
Married: at:
Died: 1660 at: Charles County, Maryland
Father: John STONE
Mother: Dorothy ?
Spouses: Elizabeth SPRIGG , ? FOWKE , Verlinda GRAVES (SPRIGG COTTON?)

Wife: Elizabeth SPRIGG
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Charles H. Stone's "The Stones of Surry" (1951) "
Jester & Hiden's "Adventurers of Purse and Person"
and the second volume of Papenfuse's Biographical Dictionary of Maryland's
Colonial Legislators (that's not the right title, but I can send you the
complete [and correct] citation later if you want it. All but "The Stone's
of Surry" agree that
Verlinda was Capt. Thomas Grave's daughter, but the older tradition
apparently was that she was his granddaughter and that her parents were Rev.
William Cotton and Ann Graves--I believe that this has long been put to
rest, but thought I should
mention it in case you look up Charles H. Stone's book and wonder about the
confusion
According to "Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives" by Norma
TUCKER:
] William STONE left Accomack County, Virginia in 1633 to become high
sheriff of Northumberland County, Virginia. In 1648 Lord BALTIMORE
commissioned him to become Governor of Maryland, the first Protestant
governor of the state. When he move
from Virginia to Maryland, he took with him about 500 non-conformists from
Norfolk County, Virginia. He was the nephew of Thomas STONE, merchant
haberdasher of London. When William STONE came to America he brought with
him his brothers John,
Mathew, Andrew and Robert to Accomack County, Virginia- none of whom left
children.
Maryland Calendar of Wills:
Volume 1 page 12
Stone, William, Capt.,Chas. Co., 3d Dec., 1659;21st Dec., 1660.
To wife Verlinda, house and lands at St. Mary's, and to remain in home at
Nangemy during widowhood. To eld. dau. Eliza Stone and hrs., 900 A. at
Bustard's Island, Patuxent R., and 600 A. at Nangemy; that which testator
formerly gave her in
trust by his brother Sprigg not to be in force. To son Richard and hrs., 500
A. of Nangemy Manor, and cattle in consideration of that formerly given him
by his uncle, Richard Stone. To son John and hrs., 500 A. of Nangemy. To son
Mathew and
hrs, 500 A. of Nangemy.To daus. Mary and Katharine, personalty. Eld. son
Thomas and hrs., exs. and residuary legatees. Overseers and guardians of
minor child: Gov. Josias Fendall, brother-in-law Francis Doughty, and
brother Matthew Stone. Test:
Francis Doughty, Stephen Montague, Stephen Clifton. 1. 89.

CONTACT
Mail: page: Gates to Genealogy
Capt William Stone
Born: 1603 Northamptonshire, Eng
Died: 21 Dec 1660 Charles Co, Maryland
Buried:
Descendants

PARENTS Father: John Stone Capt Of Hungers
Mother: Dorothy

SPOUSE Verlinda Cotton Graves
Born: abt 1616 Ireland
Died: 13 Jul 1675 Charles Co, Maryland
Buried:
Father: Thomas Graves Capt
Mother: Katheryne Crosher
Marriage abt 1635 VA

CHILDREN Thomas Stone (descendants)
Catherine Stone b 1654 Nanjemoy, Charles, Maryland
Mathew Stone b 1657 Nanjemoy, Charles, Maryland d abt 1673 m Margery
John Stone
Richard Stone b abt 1642 Hungars Parish, Accomac, VA d 1667
Mary Stone
Elizabeth Stone (descendants)

http://cotton.homeip.net/home/
NI05183] Southern Relatives, Volume III by Dixie Hammonds, published 1965,
Page 64
"The Cotton Family - Virginia
Hungar's Parish, Northampton Co., Virginia - Year 1642".
"There were two Parishes, the Upper and Lower. Ministers and the People were
responsible to the Civil Courts."
"Rev. William Cotton was the first Minister on records of the Court. He was
granted 350 acres in the main branches of Hungar's Creek, now Northampton
County, adjacent land of Capt. William Stone, James City, Virginia. He was
granted 100 acres for himself and wife, and 250 acres for transporting five
persons."
"The first Vestry meeting was ordered to be held on Sept. 29, 1635. The
Vestrymen were: William Cotton, the Minister; Thomas Graves; Obedience
Robins; John How; William Stone; William Burdett; William Andrews; Alex.
Mountney; Edward Drew; William Bedriman; and Stephen Charlton."
"Rev William Cotton died 1640 and left a will in Accomac Co., Va dated
8-20-1640. It was recorded by the clerk in 1646. The name of Cotton's
plantation was recorded as BANBURY, after Bunbury, Cheshire, England, where
his mother Joane resided."
"Rev. William Cotton married Ann Graves. His daughter, Verlinda Cotton
married Thoms Burdett, who settled in Charles County, Maryland. In 1658 she
was a widow living at Nanjamie."
"William Cotton, son of Reverend Cotton is listed as a mariner."
"Verlinda Cotton, the sister of Rev. William Cotton, married Capt. William
Stone, who later became Governor of Maryland."
[NI05189] Southern Relatives, Volume III by Dixie Hammonds, published 1965
Page 7
DAWSONS OF MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA
As previously stated in Volume I and Volume II of "Southern Relatives",
Nicholas Dawson was living in 1688 in Maryland with a family. He married
Mary Doyne, daughter of Robert Doyne, Gentleman, and his wife, Mary Stone,
daughter of Governor Stone of Maryland and his wife, Verlinda Cotton, the
sister of Rev. William Cotton.
[NI05190] Southern Relatives, Volume III by Dixie Hammonds, published 1965
The STONE FAMILY
"Captain William Stone of Hunger's Creek on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
was born in Northamptonshire, England in 1603. He came to Virginia in or
before 1633. He was a nephew of Thomas Stone, a haberdasher of London. In
1633 he was commissioned Justice of Accomac, as the whole Eastern Shore was
then called; in 1635 Vestryman; and in 1640 Sheriff of Northampton County.
In 1648 he conducted the negotiations for the removal of a party of
non-conformist from Virginia to Maryland; and on August 8th of that year,
Lord Baltimore commissioned him Governor of that colony. He was removed from
that office in 1653 by the Parliamentary Commissioners Clairborne and
Bennett, but in 1655 lead a rising of the Royalist element of the Colony,
which on March 25, was defeated at Severn by the adherents of Parliament,
under command of Capt. William Fuller. Stone was captured and sentenced to
death, but was pardoned. He died in 1660 at his manor of Avon in Charles
Co., Md. Gov. William Stone married Verlinda Cotton, the sister of Rev.
William Cotton, Minister of Accomac. Gov. Stone and Verlinda left many
descendants among whom was Thomas Stone, a Signer of the Declaration of
Independence. In the will of Gov. Stone, the following persons are named:
Brothers: Richard, Matthew, Sprigg, and brother Capt. John, killed by
Indians. Children #1; Thomas, Richard, John, Matthew, Elizabeth, Catherine,
Mary (married Robert Doyne). Their daughter Mary, born 16--? (M) Nicholas
Dawson. She died 1734 in Pa. Sister, Bridget - married Rev. Francis
Doughty."
"Son #1 Thomas Stone, married Mary -- in 1676 and had issue, Richard and
William. William married Theodosia Wade. He left a will in 1730 in Charles
Co., Md."
[NI05191] According to Whitlaw's "Virginia's Eastern Shore", Vol. I, p. 140
" It was not Verlinda Cotton who married Gov. Stone, but her aunt, Verlinda
Graves. Ann Graves m. Wm. Cotton. They had one child, Verlinda, b. after her
father's death in 1640. Verlinda Cotton m. twice, 1st to Thomas Burdette,
then m. 2nd Richard Broughton. She moved with her husband Thomas Burdette to
Maryland soon after their marriage. In 1665 she and Thomas sold her VA land.
Capt. Thomas Graves, father of Ann and Verlinda Graves, came to VA in the
"Mary & Margaret" in 1707, but when he came to the Eastern Shore is not
known. He followed Capt. Wm. Eppes as the second in command of the
Plantation of Accomack previous to the appointment of the 1st commission in
1632, on which he served for the 1st three years. He was also a Burgess from
Eastern Shore for two terms."

STONE GENEALOGY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gohrpage/stone.html
Compiled by Glenn Gohr, e-mail:
My earliest Stone connection comes from either New Jersey, Virginia, or
Maryland in the early 1700s. For many years I have been trying to locate the
parentage and siblings of my Sarah Ann (Stone) Woolverton, but so far
without any luck. There is a Sarah Stone of about the right age who was a
close relative of Rev. Barton Warren Stone who helped to establish the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). His Stone family lived in
Pittsylvania County, Virginia and many others of the same counties where my
Woolvertons, Dodsons, Hankses, and related families lived, so I think there
is still a possibility that he could be related somehow.
One source of Stone information from all over the U.S. is the book Stone
Connections by Robert H. Stone. Springfield, MO: Largent Printing, 1995. The
author lives in Springfield, Missouri, which is the same town where I live.
A Sarah Stone is found on page 38 and living in Stafford County, Virginia.
Mr. Stone does not list a husband for Sarah, but I wonder if this couldn't
have been the same Sarah Stone who married Andrew Woolverton. This Sarah
Stone, was the daughter of Barton Stone and Sarah Speake and a granddaughter
of Matthew Stone and Rachel Smoot. (I am interested in this Smoot connection
also, because Smoots intermarried with the Hanks and Durham families that I
descend from. See my Smoot Family Lineage for further information on the
Smoots.)
This Sarah Stone was a first cousin of Rev. Barton Warren Stone whose family
lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA, Somerset County, MD, and Williamson Co., TN,
among other places. These Stones were descended from the "Stones of Poynton
Manor" in Maryland of which much has been written. William Stone, b. 1603
Northampton, England, was the Third Proprietary Governor of Maryland,
serving from 1648 to 1655.
Rev. Barton Warren Stone is also mentioned in the book The Stones of Poynton
Manor by Harry Wright Newman. Privately published, 1937. This is a good
source on the Stones of Charles County, Maryland and their descendants.
Here is the lineage of Rev. Barton Warren Stone for those who are
interested:
William STONE de Twiste, b. ca. 1490 England, d. ?; md. Elizabeth BRADLEY of
County Lancashire, England (He was issued a coat of arms.)
Richard STONE, b. ca. 1540 England, d. 1605 England (was knighted by Charles
I of England); md. Isabel GIRDLER on 12 Jan. 1572
John STONE, b. ca. 1575 England, d. 8 Aug. 1706 England; md. 1st, Dorothy
____; md. 2nd, _______
William STONE, b. 1603 Northampton, England, d. ca. 1660 MD (Third
Proprietary Governor of Maryland); md. 1st, Verlinda COTTON; md. 2nd, Joan
_____
John STONE, b. 1642, d. 1698 (was a sheriff & Burgess of Charles Co., MD);
md. 1st, Elizabeth ____; md. 2nd, Eleanor BAYNE
Matthew STONE, b. 1679, d. 1750; md. Rachel SMOOT
John STONE, b. 1714, d. 1775 Pittsylvania Co., VA; md. 2nd, Mary ____ (a
widow)
Rev. Barton Warren STONE, b. 1772. d. 1844 Hannibal, MO; md. 1st, Eliza
CAMPBELL in 1801; md. 2nd, Celia BOWEN in 1811.

and another site:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/eleanorcol/GravesGen1.html


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http://user.txcyber.com/~smkoestl/cottenjn.htm
William Cotton [ca 1600 - ca 1640] was minister of Hungar Parish in Accomac
County, VA [ca 1632-1640]. His mother Joane Cotton was from Cheshire,
England.

The Rev. William Cotton of Northampton Co., VA. married ca 1636 Ann Graves
(1620 - ca 1682) daughter of the ancient planter Thomas Graves, who held
land on the same tract as the glebe land. Cotton patented his first land
across a creek from that of William Stone who had married Verlinda Graves,
the sister of Ann Graves Cotton.

Cotton made his will 20 Aug 1640, "weake in body" and died shortly
thereafter. He desires to be buried by his two little children; to his
child yet unborn he gives his plantation at Bunbury and his negroes; in
default of issue to his mother Joane Cotton and the other one-third to his
wife Ann Cotton; brother-in-law Capt. Wm. Stone and Capt. Wm. Roper to be
overseers of his will. On January 13, 1659, "William Cotton, of Virginia,
marriner," son and heir of William Cotton, for 25£ of English money sold to
William Kendall, of Accomac Co, VA one house with two tenements at
Bedminster, near Bristol, formerly belonging to his father, Wm. Cotton,
deceased.
(William and Mary College Quarterly 5 (1) 123-4)

Ann married next Rev. Nathaniel Eaton who was fleeing debt and an unsavory
reputation in New England. She later married in 1657 Francis Doughty,
another Eastern Shore minister.

Child of William Cotton & Ann Graves:
1. Verlinda Cotton 1638 VA. -
married Thomas Burdett

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