ALMANAC MEMORANDA OF THE STONE FAMILY OF

WATERTOWN, &c.

Old Almanac of Rev. Nathan Stone, in which he kept a Family Register, running back his ancestral line on both sides, the paternal to Simon Stone, who came from London, April, 1635, the maternal to Thomas Hinckley, the last Plymouth Governor. Lineage traced on the outside blank leaves of the Almanac; the rest scattered through it according to dates. W. F. STONE.

My Grandfather Stone was Simon My Grandfather Hinckley was Stone of Watertown, who came out Thomas Hinckley Esq. of Barnstaof England when 4 years old with ble. He had 2 Brothers, Sam" who my Great Grandfather Simon Stone, had 5 sons, Benjamin, Joseph, Thowhose wife was Joana daugt of Mr. mas, Ebent & Isaac; and John, who William Clark. He had one Brother, had 4 sons, Iccabod, Sam", Job & whose name was John, & three Sis- Jonathan. ters, which married Mr. Sterns, Green My Grandfather Hinckley's first & Orne-this last died young. wife was Richards, by whom he

My Grandmother Stone was Mary had 2 sons, Sam" & Thomas, and 7 Whipple. She had 1 Bror: who had Daughters, who married Mr. Bacon, 3 sons, John, Mathew & Joseph; & Wyburn, Hall, Worden & Avery, 3 sisters, who mar'd Mr. Potter, Crocker, Glover, & Whipple. His Worth & Goodhue. My Grandfather second wife was ye widow of Capt. & Grandmother had 7 sons, Simon & Glover (I suppose her maiden name John, who lived at Groton; Mathew was Mary Smith) by whom she had at Sudbury, Ebenezer at Newton, Nath" & John & Aunt Rawson. Nathaniel, my father, at Harwich, By my Grandfather she had 2 David & Jonathan at Watertown; and sons, John & Ebenezer, and 4 daugh" 3 daugh" Mary who mard Mr. Starr Aunt Mercy Prince, Abigail Lord, & lived at Dedham, Elizabeth marr'd Thankful Mayhew, & my mother, Deacon Sterns, & Susannah who Reliance Stone. married Edw Goddard Esq. of Fra- My Uncle John mard Thankfull mingham. They were all together Trott of Dorchester about April or at my Uncle Jonathan's July 1724. May 1691, and died about Feb: or March 1706.

My Grandmother Mary Hinckley died July 29th 1703 ÆT 73.

PARENTS.

My Father born some time in April 1667-Died Feb. 8. 1755, æ 87 yrs. and 10 mos.

My Mother born 15th Decr. 1675, mard same day 1698, and died May 24, 1759, æ. 83 yrs. & 5 mos.

My Father Ordained the 16th of Novemer 1700.

GRANDPARENTS.

My Grandmother Mary Hinckley died July 29, 1703, Æt 73.

Grandfather Stone died Feb. 27, 1708, Æt 77.

Grandmother Stone died the 2a of June, 1720, Æt 86.

UNCLES & AUNTS.

My Uncle Simon Stone died Deer 20, 1741.

My Uncle Mathew Stone died 12 Augt 1743.

My Uncle David Stone died 7 Oct. 1750.

My Uncle Jonathan Stone died 7 Jan" 1754, (N. S.)

My Uncle Ebenezer Stone died 4 Oct. 1754.

My Aunt Goddard died 4 Feb. (N. S.) & Uncle Goddard 9th Feb. 1754, N. S.

MOTHERS-IN-LAW.

Mother Fox* died 5th of Feb. 1764-Mother Thachert 1" Oct. 1771.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

Sister Mary born 16th Sept. 1669. She died Dec 22. 1778.

Sister Kezia born 8. Apr1. 1701-mard Apr. 10. 1729—and d. Nov. 2, 1763, æ. 62 y11 & 7 mo".

Brother Lincoln died April 19, 1760.

Sister Reliance born 26th April, 1703, and died March 26, 1735, æ. 31 y". & 11 mos.

Brother Heman born 4th Sept. 1705, & died April 26, 1779, æ. 75.

I was b. 18 Feb. 1707-8-mard ye 1st time Oct 21, 1734, mard ye 2a time May 16, 1751.

Judith my first wife was b. Aug. 10, 1712—she d. Feb. 1748–9, about 2 P. M., aged 36 years.‡

Sister Thankful born 2a March 1709-mar". June 11, 1756.

Sister Eunice born 23a June 1711.

Brother Nathaniel b. 29th Nov. 1713, and died Jan 7, 1777.
Sister Achsah b. 1" Sept. 1715.

Sister Hannah b. 30th of June 1718, & d. 30th of July 1718, æ. 1 month. Sister Hannah ye 2d b. 26th March, 1720, & d. 7th of June 1720, æ. 2 mo. 12 days.

Sister Huldah born 6th of July, 1722, & d. 24th of Jan' 1727, æ. 4 yrs. & 18 days.

Sister Freeman's son Nathaniel died 224 of Nov. 1743.

Sister Freeman's Mary born 18th Aug. 1744.

MARLBOROUGH.

"On Monday last, the 16th Currant, Thirteen Indians on the Frontiers, surprized two men at their labour in the Meadows at Marlborough about four miles distant from the body of the Town, took them both alive; and as they parted out of the Town took a woman also in their marching off, whom they killed. How one of the Prisoners broke away in a scuffle, and brought home the Indians Gun and Hatchet, and acquainted the Garrison and Inhabitants, who speedily followed them, and were joyned by 20 from Lancaster, being in all 40 odd, came up with the Enemy, who were also encreased to 36, and on Tuesday at ten of the clock found them, and in two hours exchanged ten shot a man, in which skirmish we lost two men, and had two slightly wounded; and no doubt we killed several of the Enemy, whose Tracts of being dragg'd away we saw, but recovered but one of them, tho' tis probably conjectured, that we kill'd 10 or 12 at least; we took 24 of their Packs and drove them off their ground, and are yet pursued by two Parties of the Forces from Lancaster and Groton, at our Forces overtaking and attacking the Enemy they barbarously murdered the Captive." News Letter, 25 Aug.,

1707.

*Wife of Rev. John Fox, of Woburn.

† Wife of Thacher, of Attleboro, where Mary was mara.

His 2d wife, Mary Thacher, survived him, don't know how long; child" by each, all noted in the Almanac, but here omitted.

Rev. Nathan Stowe died May 31, 1781. Gravestone, Southbr. His son, Rev. Nathan, of Dennis, died Ap1 26, 1804. This entered in Almanac by another hand as were some other facts which ought to have been extracted before I returned the precious old thing to its keepers on Cape Cod, the great-great-grandchild" of Rev. Nathan' Stone, of Brewster.-W. F. S.

ARMS OF CRADOCK.

NOTE ON THE CRADOCK FAMILY.

S. G. DRAKE, ESQ.,

Boston, March 8, 1856.

Dear Sir:-As the name of Cradock must always interest the antiquarians of this section of New England, I beg leave to hand you, with this, some extracts from a rare county history, relating to the family of Gov. Mathew Cradock, with a pedigree of a junior branch copied from Burke's "Commoners." In this latter work, however, the compiler has failed to mark the connection.

I remain your friend and servant,

W. H. WHITMORE.

Extracts from Erdeswick's History of Staffordshire, edited by Rev. Thomas Harcourt; Westminster, 1820. "Of Caverswall, was Lord in Richard the First's time, as I take it, one Thomas de Carswall; from whom it descended to Sir William de Carswall, Knt., who had issue, Sir Richard Carswall, Knt., who had issue, William de Carswell, (temp. Ed. 11,) who builded there a goodly castle, and pools, the dams being of masonry, and all his houses of office likewise. He had issue, Richard de Carswall, who lived 19 Edw. 111. From the Carswalls it came by descent to the Montgomerys, and from them to the Giffords, and from them to the Ports, and from Port to my lord Huntington, now (1596) owner thereof in right of the countess his wife. [1820. From lord Huntington, it came by purchase to Mathew Cradock, in whose family it remained in 1655; from Cradock it passed to Sir William Joliffe, Knt., and from him, by marriage with his daughter, to William, viscount Vane, if Ireland."] page 187.

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George Cradock died seized of Pelsall Hall, and of lands in Pelsall, Wolverhampton, Wirley, Essington, Bloxwich, Hammerwich, Goscote, Houndhill, Handbury, Marchington, Acton-Trussel, Bedenhall, Broctonhall, and the Castle of Caverswall. Matthew Cradock, his son, bought Ipstones, and built a new house at Caverswall, which he made his seat." -p. 296.

John Cradock

Jane, dau. of Richard Needham, Esq.

"Trent being past Barleston and Tittensor enters between Cubleston and Darlaston, leaving the one on the east and the other on the west. Cubleston is a goodly large manor containing these hamlets, viz.: Mayford, Oldinton, Berryhill, Cotwaldeston, Mathershall, the Spot-Grange, Snellhall, and Woodhouses."-(Erdeswick, p. 28.) Caverswall, the above mentioned seat of the Cradocks, is upon the river Blyth, a tributary of the Trent. Mayford in Cubleston is thus very near to Caverswell, and was formerly spelled Metford.

The deeds of Gov. Cradock's widow and daughter, relating to lands in Medford, Mass., describe the property as being "in our manor of Metford in New England."

It is then no very hazardous conjecture to say that our town of Medford received its name from this place in England, and to hold until a better surmise is made, that the Governor gave it this name from a place near his ancestral possessions, in which moreover he may have had lands.

Edward Mainwaring, of Whitmore, married a Cradock, as shown in the pedigree printed in this journal for April, 1855.

As Burke's "Commoners" does not show properly the method in which that manor came to the Mainwarings, (see article Biddulph, of Biddulph, in vol. iii. p. 280,) I copy the record from Erdeswick :

Ricardus Forestarius held temp. Conq, several manors in Staffordshire, among others Biddulph, Annesley, Buckenhall, and Whitmore. He had a son, Ormus le Guidon, who married the daughter of Nicholas, vicecomes, and had issue Robert, Edward, Thomas and Alured. Of these, Robert married Amabilia de Perpant, and had Ralph, who d. s. p., and Alina who m. Ingenulfus, son of William de Gresley. She had Robert de Gresley, who d. s. p., and three daughters, Avisia, Dionisia, and Petronella. Avisia m. Henry de Verdon and had Petronella and Henry de Verdon, which latter married his cousin Felicia, daughter of Stephen de Wiverston and Dionisia. The issue of Henry and Felicia was Henry, who inherited the possessions of these three daughters of Alina and Ingenulfus de Gresley, which were the manors of Annesley, Biddulph, and Buckenhall. He had a son Henry, who had an only daughter, Emme, wife of John de Whitmore, (probably a descendant of Ormus, though untraced,) and they had an only daughter, Elizabeth, wife of James Boghey, who carried with her the four estates of her parents. James Boghey had issue John, who had issue James, who had issue Robert, father of Humphrey; who was father of Robert, whose sole daughter married Edward Mainwaring, whose déscendants are still in the possession of these manors.

NOTE ON THE SARGENT FAMILY.

"Jonathan Sargent" was one of those who about 1643, at New Haven, with Theophilus Eaton, took the oath of fidelity to the government then and there established. We find him there, in court, in 1647, testifying concerning the bad quality of the leather of his shoes. "The insoales and outsoales and all fell from the upper leather." From the Branford records we learn that "goodwife Sargent" died Dec. 17, 1651, and Jonathan Sargent, Dec. 9, 1652. Jonathan, Hannah, Thomas, and John, children of Jonathan Sargent, "a member of ye church at Branford," were baptized at New Haven, 10th 6th mo., 1651. Of these, Jonathan, being a young man, was among the first settlers of Newark, N. J., where John Sergeant, the missionary, his grandson, was born in 1710. The father of the missionary, who was also named Jonathan, died about 1732, leaving a widow, subsequently second wife of Col. John Cooper, and four sons, Thomas, John, Jonathan, and Daniel. The late Hon. John Sergeant, of Philadelphia, was the son of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, and grandson of Abigail the daughter of Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, she having married Jonathan Sergeant, the brother of the missionary. These facts, though gathered from documents fragmentary and in localities wide apart, may be relied on.

S. H. C.

EARLY RECORDS OF MALDEN.

[Communicated by Aaron SargENT, Jr.]

Thomas Skinner, born in Chichester, July 25, 1645

Thomas Skinner, born in Chichester, Sept. 29, 1649