Capt John of Bretherton, Lancashire immigrant Stone Sr

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    "William COTTON [minister of Hungar's parish, Northampton County, by 1633/4] was the son of Andrew and Joane COTTON of Bunbury, Cheshire, and brother of the Virlinda COTTON (died 1675) who married William STONE. William STONE (born in Northamptonshire, England, 1603, died in Maryland 1660) was the son of Capt. John STONE who had interests both in Massachusetts and on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and who 'was killed by the Pequods on the Connecticut River while returning to his home in Virginia.' 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, Early History of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, pp. 106-7); Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 16, p. 191). Mr. Wise (p. 258) states that William COTTON died 1640. "So far as the writer knows, William COTTON left only one child, a daughter Verlinda, who on September 1, 1658, entered into a marriage contract with Thos BURDETT (Northampton Record Book 9, p. 19)." [Mrs. P. W. Hiden, "Three Rectors of Hungar's Parish and Their Wife," William & Mary Quarterly, series 2, vol. 19, no. 1 (Jan 1939), pp. 34 - 41. (p. 35)]