# Samuel Stone

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{{Short description|American puritan minister (1602–1663)}}
{{Other people|Samuel Stone}}
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| name               = Samuel Stone
| image              = Quaker Sculpture - geograph.org.uk - 129737.jpg
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| caption            = The statue of Samuel Stone in [Hertford, England](/source/Hertford%2C_England).
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| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1602|7|18}}
| birth_place        = [Hertford](/source/Hertford), [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire), England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1663|7|20|1602|7|18}}
| death_place        = [Hartford](/source/Hartford%2C_Connecticut), [Connecticut](/source/Connecticut), English America
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| occupation         = 
| known_for          = Co-founder of [Hartford](/source/Hartford), [Connecticut](/source/Connecticut)
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'''Samuel Stone''' (July 18, 1602 – 20 July 1663) was an English [Puritan](/source/Puritan) minister and co-founder of [Hartford](/source/Hartford%2C_Connecticut), [Connecticut](/source/Connecticut).

==Biography==
Stone was born in [Hertford](/source/Hertford), the [county town](/source/county_town) of [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire), [England](/source/England). The name of the town is pronounced "Hartford".

In 1620, he left Hertford to study at [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_Cambridge), from where he graduated in 1624.<ref>{{acad|id=STN620S|name=Stone, Samuel}}</ref> He was ordained on July 8, 1626, at [Peterborough](/source/Peterborough) and a year later became curate at [Stisted](/source/Stisted), [Essex](/source/Essex).<ref name="Hertford Museum">{{cite web|url=http://www.hertford.net/history/samstone.asp |title=Discover Hertford Online &#124; History &#124; Samuel Stone |access-date=2007-06-29 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023405/http://www.hertford.net/history/samstone.asp |archive-date=2007-09-27 }}</ref>  In 1633, Samuel Stone and [Thomas Hooker](/source/Thomas_Hooker) sailed across the Atlantic on a ship named the [Griffin](/source/Griffin_(ship)). They arrived in [Boston](/source/Boston) on 4 September of the same year, and a few weeks later, Samuel Stone became a Teacher of the Cambridge Church under Hooker, who was the preacher.<ref>See Calvin's ''Institutes'' for the distinctions between these two functions in Reformed thinking and practice.</ref> In 1644, he became a [Freeman](/source/freeman_(colonial)).<ref name= "Hertford Museum"/>
In 1636, Stone and Hooker led their congregation from New Towne (now [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts)) and established a new colony at House of Hope (a Dutch fort and trading post), making peace with the local Indians and renaming the town they called [Saukiog](/source/Saukiog) as [Hartford](/source/Hartford%2C_Connecticut), after Stone's birthplace - they thus became the town's founding fathers.

==Personal life==
Stone was twice married. By his second wife, Elizabeth Allyn, whom he wed in 1641, he had four surviving children—a son Samuel and four daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary and Sarah. He published [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A61677.0001.001 "A Congregational Church, a Catholike Visible Church"] in London in 1642, in answer to Samuel Hudson's "Visible Catholick Church",<ref>{{cite web|last1=Stone|first1=Samuel|title=A vindication of the essence and unity of the church-catholick visible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lkk3AAAAMAAJ&q=Samuel+Hudson%E2%80%99s+%22Visible+Catholic+Church&pg=PA60|access-date=19 April 2017|year=1658}}</ref> and left two works in manuscript: a catechism and a confutation of the [Antinomians](/source/Antinomianism). Records show that he was an active buyer and seller of land in Hartford.
<ref>{{cite book|last1=John Winthrop|title=History of New England|url=https://archive.org/details/winthropsjournal00wint|date=1853|page=i 108,109,115,142,235}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Cotten Mather|title=Magnalia Christi Americana|url= https://archive.org/details/magnaliachristia00math|date=1853|page=i 434–8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography|url=https://archive.org/stream/appletonscyclopa05wils/appletonscyclopa05wils_djvu.txt|date=1887|page=v. 703 |publisher=New York, D. Appleton }}</ref>

There is a statue of Samuel Stone in the centre of Hertford, Hertfordshire.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gohertford.co.uk/directory/statue-samuel-stone/|title=Statue - Samuel Stone - Go Hertford}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Stone, Samuel}}

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Category:1602 births
Category:1663 deaths
Category:People from Hertford
Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Category:English emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies
Category:Founders of Hartford, Connecticut
Category:17th-century New England Puritan ministers

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