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Samuel Stone (July 18, 1602 – 20 July 1663) was a Puritan minister and co-founder of Hartford, Connecticut.
Cover of Samuel Stone’s 1684 Catechism used throughout New England. It is one of only two known extant originals: “Short Catechism drawn out of the Word of God by Samuel Stone, Minister of the Word at Hartford, on Connecticut, 1684.”
But did you know that the good minister Samuel Stone founded a major city in America, one that is named after his home town of Hertford?
Samuel Stone matriculated at Cambridge, (England) from Emmanuel College, Easter 1620; B. A. 1623–4; M. A. 1627. Beginning in 1628 he was a minister at Sistedt, Essex, England, but by the middle of 1630 he had been replaced.
Officers arrested Samuel Brannigan Stone, 20, and charged him with homicide; investigators say they later learned that Stone and the victim had been dating. Santa Cruz Police Deputy Chief Jon Bush told Lookout that Stone himself was the one who called police.
A history of the classic hymn by Samuel J. Stone, based on the Apostles’ Creed, and set to AURELIA, with modern versions by Indelible Grace and Cardiphonia.
SAMUEL JOHN STONE was born April 25, 1839, at Whitmore, Staffordshire, England. He was graduated at Pembroke College in Oxford, 1862, and in September of the same year was ordained to the curacy of Windsor, in which he abode eight years, winning the esteem and confidence of all with whom he came in contact.
