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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Gregory Stone and some of his descendants (search)
d near the spreading chestnut tree, celebrated in Longfellow's poem. He was married on June 7, 1655, to Sarah Stearns, of Watertown, and located at The Farms. He was made freeman in 1657. He became a prosperous farmer and land-holder, and his name frequently appears on the records for various services. For the first and almost the only time the name of Stone is found among those fined for felling and ftroying timb on ye comon lands, in the record of a meeting of the selectmen, held in 1660. This was not an unusual misdemeanor in those days. In 1663-4-7 he was appointed surveyor of highways. In 1669 he was one of a committee to run the bounds between Concord and Cambridge. In 1673 he was appointed constable, an office somewhat similar to that of townsman or selectman. Later he was commissioned to looke after the Common fencis for the farmes neere Concord. Upon complaint made by him and Joseph Merriam, his brother-in-law, of the low and pore Condifhon of John Johnson, t