Anne (Rogers) Stone (bef. 1615 - aft. 1683)

Anne (Rogers) Stone migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Anne Rogers was baptized on 14 May 1615 at Boxted, Essex, England,^[1] 2nd daughter of Barnaby Rogers and evidently his wife Mary (Wells) Rogers (making her a niece of the wife of the immigrant Edward Howe).

She is believed on circumstantial grounds to be identical with Anne the wife of John Stone, whose maiden name and origins are otherwise unknown. If so, the couple came from adjacent villages and presumably married in England, but the Boxted register for the timeframe is lost.

Others say they married in 1638 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.^[2]

She died in 1719 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]}

A previous version of this profile, citing a broken link to FindAGrave, claimed she is buried at the Old Burying Place in Watertown.

Research Notes

Disputed Parents / Origins:
Anne's maiden name has been listed variously as Treadway, Rogers, or Howe. That she may have some been a Treadway or Howe was initially put forward for these reasons:

• She and Nathaniel Treadway (her next-door neighbor in Sudbury) were the principal and residuary legatees (with no named relationship) of the 1644 will of Edward Howe of Watertown, Massachusetts.
• Researchers Dean Crawford Smith, C.G. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, F.A.S.G., initially concluded: "We believe that Nathaniel Treadway and his sister Anne Treadway were children of Edward Howe's sister, Mary, who married Nathaniel Treadway in 1614." Edward Howe remembered both Nathaniel Treadway (the son) and Anne Stone the wife of John Stonne of Sudbury in his will. This and other information given in the TAG article support that conclusion.^[3]
• Anne's husband, John Stone, and Nathaniel Treadway are mentioned in the 1747 will of Margaret Howe alias Bunker. Margaret mentions her sister Mary Rogers and her children, John and Elizabeth, separately from John Stone, but doesn't mention John Stone's wife.^[4]

But subsequent research published by the same researchers uncovered additional information that led them to a new conclusion-- that John Stone's wife was probably Anne Rogers, baptized 14 May 1615 at Boxted, Co. Essex, daughter of Barnaby Rogers and Mary Wells Rogers of Boxted.^[5]

• "Although many Treadway wills have been read and many Treadway baptisms found, no additional information beyond the marriage record at Colchester has been added to the immigrant Nathaniel Treadway's family. We cannot demonstrate the existence of an Anne Treadway who might have married John Stone, but we can demonstrate the baptism of an Anne Rogers, niece of Margaret (Wells) Howe. Given this evidence, we believe that it is more likely that Anne, the wife of John Stone, was a niece of Margaret (Wells) Howe, than the alternate theory presented by us in The American Genealogist 70:171."^[6]

Robert Charles Anderson also goes with Ann, daughter of Barnaby Rogers and Mary Wells.^[7]

The origins of Anne are discussed extensively in Elder John Stone (WeRelate.org), John Stone I (Geni.com) and HOWE,HAYNES,STONE,TREADWAY--CONFUSION CLEARED UP (GenForum)

Sources

1. ↑ FreeReg
2. ↑ William R Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Publication, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co. (1908), pg 2131
3. ↑ "The English Origins of The Howe And Treadway Families of Watertown, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, 70:171-180
4. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1654-1673”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9D5-BW4M  : 8 May 2023) or (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99D5-BRRD : Transcription), FHL microfilm 007554513, image 132-134, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Vol 1, 1654-1661, Page 249-253.
5. ↑ See NEHGS (which article?) and The American Genealogist, 71:86 (1996)
6. ↑ Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908," Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008, I:451-52.
7. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins," Addenda and Corrections, p. 2093, referring to profile of Edward Howe, op cit., p 1016: "In 1996 Smith and Sanborn expanded on their account of the Howe and Treadway families [Kempton Anc 336-42, 450-61]. They now believe that it is more likely that Anne, wife of John Stone of Sudbury, was daughter of Barnaby and Mary (Wells) Rogers (and therefore niece of Edward Howe's wife) than that she was a sister of Nathaniel Treadway [Kempton Anc 451: TAG 71:86]."

See also:

• Ancestors and Cousins including Rice, Schueths, Schindler & Conger Families
• Andrew Henshaw Ward, DWS: A Genealogical History of the Rice Family Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, 1858.
• By the Name of Rice: An Historical Sketch of DEACON EDMUND RICE The Pilgrim (1594-1663) Founder of the English Family of Rice
• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908). Access online at GoogleBooks, Vol. 2, page 806-7.

• U S and International Marriage Records 1560-1900: 1639, Massachusetts