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Collection: STONE, DAVID, Papers
■; Bertie and Wake Counties
1793-1942
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Physical Description: ?6 items: letters, will, marriage license, legal
papers, memorandum and account books, pamphlet, genealogical material»
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Acquisition: Biennial Report: 1914-1916 . 72 pieces, gift of Alfred
Williams of Raleigh. November 29. 1966. 15. items, photocopies of the
original documents given to the Historic Hope Foundation, Windsor,
North Carolina, by Mrs. Eliza Symmes of Wilmington, a descendant of'
David Stone through his daughter Sarah who married Robert H. Cowan of
Wilmington.
Description: David Stone, born 1770 at Hope Plantation near Windsor,
Bertie County, was educated at Princeton University, studied law
under William R. Davie, and began practice in Halifax in 1790. This
scholar, lawyer, planter, and businessman held the following elective
offices: member, N. C. House of Commons, 1790-1794} Superior Court
Judge, 1795-1798} member, U. S. House of Representatives, 1799-1801}
U. S. Senator, 1801-1806} Superior Court. Judge, 1807-1818} Governor,
1808-1810} member, N. C. House of Commons, 1811-1812} U. S. Senator,
1801-1806} Superior Court Judge, 1807-1808} Governor, 1808-1810}
member, N. C. House of Commons, 1811-1812} U. S. Senator, 1813-1814. <
He was a promoter of education, of native industries, and of roads
and waterways necessary to procure markets. During his term as
governor, the heirs of the Lord Proprietor Earl of Granville brought
their celebrated suit against North Carolina, claiming much of the
Northeastern portion of the state. Elected U. S. Senator in 1812 as
as Republican and Madison supporter, Stone voted, consistently with the
Federalists against the administration's war. measures. Censured in ■ .
1813 by the state legislature for his voting record in the U. S.
Senate, he resigned in 1814. Married first to Hannah Turner in 1793
and then 'to Sarah Dashiell in 1817,. he died in 1818 and was buried
at Rest Dale, his plantation in Wake County. For further biographical
information see Samuel A, Ashe, Biographical History of North Carolina»
I:! < • IV , 422-429} and. Dictionary of American Biograph
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XVIII . 72-73.
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