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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Gregory Stone and some of his descendants (search)
husband, became a prominent citizen of Cambridge. He was selectman thirty-eight years, town clerk thirteen years, and deacon of the church twenty-three years. His sister, Lydia, married David Fiske, and resided part of the time on Linnaean Street, Cambridge, and afterwards at The Farms, where he was one of the most prominent men. He was a wheelwright, but much employed in public service, especially as a surveyor of lands. He was selectman in 1688, Representative in the critical period of 1689. At The Farms he was precinct clerk and assessor; the first subscriber for a meeting-house there, and the first named member of the church. In tracing the career of Gregory Stone, as found in the records, one comes upon the same names again and again. Comparison with the list of those who, it was presumed, came in the ship Defence at the same time as he, shows that they were fellow-workers in the upbuilding of the infant settlement. In 1647, on the death of one of these, Nathaniel Spar