William Stone was an English-born merchant, planter and colonial administrator who served as the proprietary governor of Maryland from 1649 to 1655.
A posthumous depiction of Stone
The Maryland Toleration Act, passed in 1649
Catholic noble, Cecil Calvert, presenting the official document, of the 1649 Acts of Toleration, to the first Protestant, Maryland colonial governor, William Stone, who proclaimed religious protection, to Puritans, in the Province of Maryland
The Battle of the Severn, where Stone was injured and captured
Thomas Stone
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Thomas Stone was an American Founding Father, planter, politician, and lawyer who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He later worked on the committee that
William Stone (Maryland governor)
…returned the family to prominence. William Stone's great-great-grandsons made major contributions to the foundation of Maryland as an American state: Thomas Stone signed the Declaration of Independence, Michael Jenifer Stone represented Maryland in the First United States Congress, John Hoskins Stone was Governor…
Thomas Stone by Robert Edge Pine, c. 1785
Margaret Brown Stone
Grave of Thomas Stone, September 2009