Samuel Stone
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Samuel Stone (July 18, 1602 – 20 July 1663) was a
Biography
Stone was born in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England. The name of the town is pronounced "Hartford".
In 1620, he left Hertford to study at
Personal life
Stone was twice married. By his second wife, Elizabeth Allyn, whom he wed in 1641, he had four surviving children—a son Samuel and four daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary and Sarah. He published “A Congregational Church, a Catholike Visible Church” in London in 1642, in answer to Samuel Hudson's "Visible Catholick Church",[4] and left two works in manuscript: a catechism and a confutation of the Antinomians. Records show that he was an active buyer and seller of land in Hartford. [5][6][7]
There is a statue of Samuel Stone in the centre of Hertford, Hertfordshire.[8]
References
- ^ "Stone, Samuel (STN620S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b "Discover Hertford Online | History | Samuel Stone". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2007.
- ^ See Calvin's Institutes for the distinctions between these two functions in Reformed thinking and practice.
- ^ Stone, Samuel (1658). "A vindication of the essence and unity of the church-catholick visible". Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ^ John Winthrop (1853). History of New England. p. i 108,109,115,142,235.
- ^ Cotten Mather (1853). Magnalia Christi Americana. p. i 434–8.
- ^ Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 1887. p. v. 703.
- ^ "Statue - Samuel Stone - Go Hertford".
External links
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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