- Samuel Stone
Samuel Stone (
July 18 ,1602 –20 July 1663 ) was aPuritan Minister.Stone was born in
Hertford, England . He was ordained onJuly 8 ,1626 atPeterborough and a year later became curate atSisted ,Essex . He arrived inBoston in 1633, with his friend,Thomas Hooker .In 1636, Stone and Hooker led their congregation from New Towne (now
Cambridge, 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 calledSaukiog as Hartford, after Stone's birthplace - they thus became the town's founding fathers.External links
* [http://www.hertford.net/history/samstone.asp Discover Hertford]
* [http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/chistory/section62stone.htm epitaph]
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