Various Soldiers with the Surname Stone from A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. (1904) Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by MLM, Volunteer 0000130. For the current email address, please go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000130 Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************ Full copyright notice - http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Surname: STONE Source: A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, Columbus, Ohio, 1901, page 16 SILAS STONE is named in Dublin's Return of 1777, and was then 48 years old; he was in Capt. Samuel Blodgett's company, Col. Enoch Poor's regiment. Oct. 6, 1775, he was in Capt. Ben. Bullard's company, Col. Jona. Brewer's regiment at Prospect Hill. His later history is unknown. Page 30, Listed under Captains: SALMON STONE of Rindge, b. Groton, Mass., April 17, 1744; d. Rindge, Oct. 4, 1831; was an early settler in Rindge and prominent in its affairs. Salmon Stone was corporal in Capt. Nathan Hale's company, April, 1775. He was captain in Col. Enoch Hale's regiment July, 1777, and held the same rank in the regiment commanded by Col. Moses Nichols which fought at Bennington and Saratoga, in the autumn of 1777. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, OCTOBER, 1904. John Stone, b. June 30, 1761, Natick, Mass., d. in the army later than 1781. He was a son of Silas Stone, Sr., and was unmarried. Silas Stone, Sr., b. Apr. 29, 1728, Framingham, Mass., m. Jan. 25, 1750, Elizabeth, dau. of Dea. Jona. and Mary (Coolidge) Russell, of Sherborn. She was the "Widow Stone" mentioned, Hist. of Dublin, p. 22, and d. about 1820, at an advanced age, in Orwell, Vt. They removed to Dublin between 1763 and 1765. He enlisted, 1777, in Capt. Samuel Blodgett's co., Col. Nathan Hale's regt. (earlier Poor's), and died in the Service at Lansingburg, N. Y., later than October 17, 1777. Silas Stone, Jr., should be added to the number of Dublin's soldiers in the Revolution. As soon as the news of the battle of Lexington was received at Dublin, he went to his former home in Mass. and enlisted for eight months in the co. of Capt. Benjamin Bullard, of Sherborn, Col. Jona. Brewer's regt., and was at Bunker Hill where the regiment suffered severely. In 1776 he served in Col. Brook's regt., and was badly wounded at White Plains. He did further service in 1779 and 1780. Jan. 9, 1790, he married Jennette Twitchell and settled on the "Dea. Twitchell" homestead in Sherborn, where he died July 12, 1820.