Thomas Stone National Historic Site

Michael Jenifer Stone (1747-1812)

Michael Jenifer Stone married Mary Briscoe; together they had five children:

Frederick Daniel Stone married Elizabeth Patton

William Briscoe Stone married Sarah Brown and later owned Haberdeventure

Michael Jenifer Stone married Susan Ann Somervell

Elizabeth Jenifer Stone died 1875

Eleanor Stone married George Robertson

Michael Jenifer and Thomas were very close as evidenced by Thomas Stone's Will naming him as guardian of Thomas' son and giving Michael lifetime rights to live at Haberdeventure. Michael later ventured into politics, and was eventually elected to the First United States Congress in 1789. Later he was appointed Judge of the First Judicial District of Maryland.

Information from the Harry Wright Newman Collection housed at the College of Southern Maryland in La Plata, MD.

For more information on Michael Jenifer Stone, see "Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America volume XIV Debates in the House of Representatives: Biographies of Members." William Charles DiGiacomantonia, Ken Bowling, Charlene Bangs Bickford, and Helen Veit editors.

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