In an earlier message kathie james wrote:

> Thomas Graves, b. ca 1585, came in 1607 on the Mary and Margrett (2nd
> supply) d. Nov 1635 in Northampton, VA m. (date unk) Katherine Croshaw
> (sp?), b. ca 1586, d. 20 May 1636
> dau. Verlinda b. ca 1618, d.  13 Jul, 1675 in MD, m. bef. 1640 William
> Stone, b. 1 May 1604, d. 1661
> g-son John Stone, b. 1642, d. 1698 m. (date unk) Elizabeth Warren, (dates
> unk)
> gg-son Thomas Stone, b. 1677, d. 1727 m. (date unk) Katherine Broughton, b.
> ?, d. 1750
> ggg-son Thomas Stone, m. Mary Butler (all dates unk)
> gggg-son Benjamin Stone, (dates unk) m. abt. 1770 in Culpeper Co, Anna
> Asbury, b. 6 Oct 1747 in Stafford, VA, d. 1833. (I know there is a DAR
> chapter named after Anna).

I think there's an error here. MD Governor William Stone married
Verlinda Cotton of Bunbury, Cheshire, not Verlinda Graves. Where did
this information come from?

William & Mary Quarterly, series 2, vol. 19, no. 1 (Jan 1939), p. 35:
"Wm. Cotton [minister of Hungar's parish, Northampton Co, by 1633/4]
was the son of Andrew and Joane Cotton of Bunbury, Cheshire, and
brother of the Virlinda Cotton (d. 1675) who married
Wm. Stone. Wm. Stone (b. in Northamptonshire, Eng., 1603, d. in
Md. 1660) was the son of Capt. John Stone who had interests both in
Mass. and on the Eastern Shore of Va. and who 'was killed by the
Pequods on the Connecticut River while returning to his home in Va.'
William Stone came to the Eastern Shore about 1632, was a justice in
1633, member of the first recorded Vestry of Hungar's Parish in 1635,
and in 1648 was commissioned Governor of Maryland, to which colony he
then removed. (Wise, pp. 106-7), Md. Hist. Mag., vol. 16,
p. 191). Mr. Wise (p. 258) states that Wm. Cotton died 1640.
"So far as the writer knows, Wm. Cotton left only one child, a daughter
Verlinda, who on Sept. 1, 1658, entered into a marriage contract with
Thos Burdett (Northampton Rec. Book 9, p. 19)."

There's an interesting anecdote about William Stone's temper:
Vol. 1, no. 3 (Jan 1893), p. 155: "Northampton Co., 20 Sept.,
1644. This depon^t saith that Cap^t William Stone being at the
dwelling house of M^r Peter Walker about his occasions concerning the
estate of Mr. William Burdette [note: Will of William Burdett, gent.,
dated 22d July 1643, Rec. 7 Aug. 1643]  decd and discoursing thereupon
the said M^r Walker undervalued the s^d estate saying it is not worth
a pinn or words to that effect whereupon Cap^t Stone replyed saying
such an estate would become as good a man as yo^u or words to that
effect whereupon the said Walker rising upp from the table sayde
'God's Wounds I am as good a man as thee and better to better borne
and better bredd' whereupon the s^d Cap^t Stone stept upp to him
haveing his Rapier in his hands and put the hilt of the Rapier towards
the brest of the sayde Walker and the s^d Walker sayde 'God's Wounds
doe y^e strick mee in myne own house' and thereupon Struck the s^d
Cap^t Stone in the face with his fist. And Capt. Stone in his own
defence put his hands into the haire of the sayde Peter Walker and
keept him out Imed: the company then p^rsent pted them And further
deposes not.
"Luke Stubbins."

Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Gov. Wm Stone and Verlinda Cotton,
married the Hon Wm. Calvert, son of the earlier MD governor Leonard
Calvert.

It's always helpful to cite your sources when you make genealogical
claims.

Kathleen Much
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