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1667 when he selected his brother-in-law, William
Calvert (ca. 1642/43-1682), as his guardian, but
was of age in 1670. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: In-
dian interpreter, 1679; planter; merchant. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House,
Charles County, 1678-1682 (elected to the 2nd
session of the 1676-1682 Assembly), 1686-1688;
Associators' Convention, Charles County, 1689-
1692. OTHER PROVINCIAL OFFICES: justice, PrO-
vincial Court, 1696 (may never have sat). LOCAL
OFFICES: justice, Charles County, 1670-1694, 1697
(quorum, 1670-1694, 1697); coroner, Charles
County, 1678, 1687-1689; Nanjemoy Parish Ves-
try, Charles County, 1693-1696; sheriff, Charles
County, 1694-1697. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE
ISSUES: reluctant to support Protestant Associa-
tors' Revolution in 1689. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. LAND: at least 500 acres. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED between September 17 and December 15,
1697; inventory taken December 16, 1697, in
Charles County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, at
least £274.6.7 (including 3 servants and 1 slave).
LAND: 1,384 acres.
STONE, JOHN HOSKINS (1750-1804). BORN:
in 1750, probably at "Poynton Manor," Durham
Parish, Charles County. NATIVE: fourth genera-
tion, fifth generation in America. RESIDED: in
Charles County until at least 1779; Annapolis,
Anne Arundel County, by 1781 until 1798. In
1798 Stone put his home in Annapolis up for sale,
and by 1800 he was a resident of Baltimore City.
In 1803 he moved back to Annapolis where he
lived until his death. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER:
David Stone (1709-1773), a Charles County
landowner who was the son of Thomas Stone (1677-
1727), and who married first, Sarah (1714-by
1741) or Mary Hanson, both daughters of Samuel
Hanson (ca. 1685-1740). MOTHER: Elizabeth (?-
by 1778), daughter of Dr. Daniel Jenifer (?-ca.
1729) and wife Elizabeth Mason Rogers Jenifer
Theobalds Whythill. UNCLES: Daniel of St. Thomas
Jenifer( 1723- 1790); Daniel Jenifer (by 1729-1795).
BROTHERS: Thomas Stone (1743-1787); Michael
Jenifer Stone (1747-1812); Frederick (?-1773),
who died without progeny; Daniel Jenifer; and
Walter (?-1791), a merchant who died without
progeny. HALF BROTHERS: David; Samuel (?-
1778), who married Anne, widow of Hugh Mitch-
ell, daughter of Walter Hanson and wife Eliza-
beth Hoskins. SISTERS: Grace (?-1809), who never
"named; Elizabeth Anne (called Betty Anne or
Betsey), who maried Townshend Eden; and
Catherine (?-1801), who married Robert Scott,
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son of James Scott and wife Sarah Brown of Staf-
ford County, Virginia, grandson of Dr. Gustavus
Brown (1689-1762). HALF SISTERS: Mary; Anne.
OTHER KINSHIP, great-grandfather, John Stone (ca.
1648-1697); great-great-grandfather, William Stone
(ca. 1603-ca. 1659/60). MARRIED ca. February 1781
Mary (1760-1792), daughter of Robert Couden
(?- by 1792), of Annapolis. CHILDREN. SONS.
Robert Couden, who married on July 27, 1805,
Mary Mann of Annapolis; Couden, who died
young. DAUGHTERS: Anne, who married John
Turner; Elizabeth (1732-1808), who married on
February 8, 1808, Dr. Nathaniel Pope Causin of
Port Tobacco, Charles County. PRIVATE CAREER.
EDUCATION: educated in a private school in Charles
County; later studied law. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Anglican. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES:
charter member of the Society of Cincinnati, 1783;
member of the Maryland Jockey Club at Annap-
olis, ca. 1783. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE. Before
the Revolution, Stone was already a well-known
lawyer in Charles County and in Annapolis. He
was also referred to as a merchant in Charles
County in 1774. Between 1785 and 1793, Stone
is frequently mentioned as a merchant both in
Annapolis and Charles County, and in 1787 slaves
were sold to "J.H. Stone and Company," mer-
chants of Port Tobacco. In 1785 he was also clerk
in the office of Robert Livingston, the secretary
of Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confed-
eration. In 1800 he was called a merchant from
Baltimore City. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: 5th Convention, Charles County, 1775;
Lower House, Charles County, 1785, 1786-1787,
1790. OTHER STATE OFFICES: Executive Council,
1779-1780, 1780-1781, 1781-1782, 1782-1783,
1783-1784, 1784-1785, 1791-1792; governor,
1794-1797. ADDITIONAL COMMENT: Stone is often
credited with broadening the scope and strength-
ening the powers of the governor's office, thereby
elevating it above a mere chief clerkship of the
legislature, as it was conceived by some prior to
his term of office. LOCAL OFFICES: Committee of
Correspondence, Charles County, elected 1774;
auditor general, appointed April 7, 1778, re-
signed April 11, 1778; elected visitor of St. John's
College, 1786; common councilman, Annapolis,
qualified 1792, resigned 1795; manager of a lot-
tery for an orphans' school, April 1791. MILITARY
SERVICE: commissioned a captain in General
Smallwood's Maryland Regiment; promoted to
major on January 14, 1776, to lt. colonel on De-
cember 10, 1776, and to colonel on February 18,
1777. He helped form the Flying Camp, and fought
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