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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stone , William 1603 -1695 (search)
Stone, William 1603-1695
Colonial governor; born in Northamptonshire, England, about 1603; settled in Virginia.
Later he arranged with the second Lord Baltimore, Cecil Calvert, to place in Maryland 500 Puritan colonists who claimed to have been ill-treated by the Episcopalians in Virginia.
He was governor of Lord Baltimore's province in 1648-53.
In recognition of his services to the proprietary he was given as much land as he could ride around in a day. He died in Charles county, Md., about 1695.