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in the southwest, he left his home and large prac- tice and travelled about from one stricken village or town to aimi her. giving his services gratuitously. hi-. Stone became a member of the American public health association in 1880.

STONE, William, colonial governor, b. in Northamptonshire, England, about 1003; d. in Charles county. Mil., about 1061. He emigrated to the eastern' shore of Virginia, where he settled Northampton county. There was a settlement of Puritans in Nansemond county, and, their condi- tion becoming uncomfortable from the attitude and treatment of the Episcopalians of Virginia, Stone arranged with Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, to remove 500 settlers to Mary- land. On 8 Aug., 1648. Baltimore appointed Stone governor of his province, and he arrived there as early as 1049. His 1'uritan emigrants from Vir- ginia settled at a place on Severn river, which they called Providence and which is now Annapolis. In 1658 Stum- was removed from the governorship I iy William Claiborne and Richard Bennet. parlia- mentary commissioners. But on 25 March. Hi.Vi. at the head of the Cavalier forces of the province, he attacked the Roundhead forces under Capt. William Fuller at Severn, where he was routed, taken prisoner, and condemned to death by court- martial. His life was spared at the entreaty of the men of the victorious party. After this he does not appear to have taken part in public affairs, but lived and died on his manor of Avon on Nan- jemoy river, in Charles county, Md. In con-id- eration of his faithful services to the proprietary, he was granted as much land as he could ride around in a day. His great-grandson, Thomas. signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. in Charles county. Mil., in 1743; d. in Alexandria. Va., 5 Oct., 1787. daily rode ten miles to school in order to acquire a classical education, borrowed money to enable him to study law in An- napolis, began prac- tice in Frederick about 1770, and two years later removed to Charles county, purchasing a farm near Port Tobacco. He early espoused the cause of his coun- try in the disputes with the British gov- ernment, and was elected to the Conti- nental congress, when two members were added to the M.-n - land delegation, 8 Dec., 1774, taking his

S eat on 15 May, 1775.

In July he was re-elected for a year longer, and again on 21 May, 1776, till the end of the next session of the convention. The Maryland delegates, notwithstanding their in- structions in favor of reconciliation, voted for the resolution of 15 May. 1770. del-laving that the au- thovity of the crown had ceased. Late in June the instructions were recalled, leaving them free to vote for the Declavation of Independence on 4 July. On the same day Stone and his colleague* en- re-elected without restrictions on theiv action. Although he bove no active part in the debates of congress, he served on committees that were in- trusted with important matters, such as the aug- mentation of the flying camp, the failure of the Canada expedition, the consideration of some of Gen. Washington's letters, and the elaboration nf a scheme of a confederacy, (.if the i-mumittee on confederation, which was appointed on 12 June, 177'i. he was the only member from his province. Being re-elected to congress in February, he labored in this committee till the articles of confederation were finally settled on and agreed to by the vote of lo Nov.. 1777. The Maryland convention re- fused to enter the confederacy, and expressed a hope that the "unhappy difference" with the mother country might yet be accommodated. Stone declined a re-election to congress, and en- tered the Maryland senate, where he could be more useful to the patriotic cause. In 1783 he was again eld-ted 1 1 ' ei >!]'_: ress. and in the session of 17M In- served on most of the important committees. Toward its close he acted as president pro fern- pore. He declined re-election, and devoted himself thenceforth to his profession and to his duties as a member of the state senate, in which he opposed in 1785 a proposition to establish a paper currency. After the death of his wife in June, 1787, he aban- doned his large legal practice in Annapolis, sank into a settled melancholy, and died when he was about to embark on a sea-voyage. Another great- grandson. John Hoskin>. gou-nior of Maryland, b. in Charles county. Md.. in 1745: d. in Annapo- lis, Md.. 5 Oct.. 1804. On 2 Jan., 1776, the con- vention of Maryland elected him captain in Col. Smallwood's battalion, and in December of the same year he was promoted to the rank of colonel. He served with credit in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Princeton, and Germantown, ve- ceived in the last-mentioned battle a wound that maimed him for life, and on 1 Aug., 1779. resign. -d his commission. In 1781 he was clerk in the office of Robert R. Livingston, secretary of state, and afterward was one of the executive council of Maryland. He was governor from 1794 till 1797. Another great-grandson, William Murray, P. E. bishop, b. in Somerset county, Md., 1 June, 177H: d. in Salisbury. Md.. 20 Feb.. 1838. He entered Washington college, Md., was graduated in 1799, and studied theology, preparatory to taking orders in the Episcopal church. He was ordained deaci ui in St. Paul's church. Prince George co., Md., 17 May, 1802, by Bishop Claggett, and priest in the same church, 27 Dec., 1803. by the same bishop. In 1803 he became rector of Stepney parish, Somerset (now Wieomico) county. This position he held for twenty-three yeavs, and he was very diligent and suc- cessful in his pastoral work. In 1829 he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's church. Chestertown, Kent co., Md. The following year, at the conven- tion in May, after a failure to elect either of two prominent clergymen, he was nominated and elected bishop by a nearly unanimous vote. He was n >HM- crated in St. Paul's church, Baltimore. Md.. 21 ( let.. 1830. The same year he received the degree of D. D. from Columbia. Bishop Stone's publications were " A Charge to the Clergy and Laity of Maryland " (1831); "A Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of Maryland " (1835) : and "The Sermon before the General Convention of the P. E. Church "< 1*:;5>. Thomas's brother, Michael Jenifer, jnri-i. l>. in Charles county. Md., about 1750; d. there in 1812, received a classical education. He wa- a mi -inlier ot the Maryland convention that ratified tin- Federal constitution, and was elected to the 1st congress, serving from 8 June. 1789, till 3 March. 1791. Under the state government he as a judge of the geneva! court, and continued on the bench till the judicial system was reorganized in 1806. Michael Jenifer's grandson, Frederick,