Mrs. Mary Stone

Mary was born to Captain William and Mrs. Abigail (Kendall) Reed in Lexington, MA on April 8, 1695. Both of her parents were originally from Woburn, MA and among the earliest white settlers in the town, arriving around 1685. They made their home in the northern part of the town on the road to Bedford. The Reed family was very prominent and influential in town affairs.

On April 8, 1714 she married John Stone. The Stone family came from Cambridge, and was another of Lexington's early white families. They made their home on the west side of town. John Stone was a Decon in the town church, and another prominent man in Lexington. He worked closely with Rev. John Hancock, and was one of the men chosen to give sermons to the congregation after his death and before his successor, Rev. Jonas Clarke, was installed. Deacon Stone was also one of the men chosen to oppose before the General Court the formation of a new town from parts of Lexington, Concord, and Weston. They were unsuccessful, and the town of Lincoln was incorporated in 1754.

The Stones had six children: John in 1715, Mary in 1716/17, Anna in 1718, Nathan in 1723, Ruth in 1725, and Lydia in 1729. John died in 1736 aged 20, and Nathan and Ruth died within a week of each other in 1740. The others lived, married, and had families of their own. Her son-in-law Robert Munroe, husband of her daughter Anna, was one of the eight men killed on the Lexington Green on April 19, 1775.

Deacon John Stone died in 1762, Mary survived him by a decade, passing away on October 16, 1772. The two of them rest together in Ye Olde Burying Ground in Lexington.