1761 John Stoner, son of John Stoner and Elizabeth Herr, was born. [1]
John Stoner married Anna Kauffman. [2]
1787 John Stoner and his brother Christian purchased land, on April 23, in Air Twp, Bedford County, Pennsylvania from Daniel and Agnes McCurdy.
1789 John Stoner (and brother Christian) was listed as eligible for military duty in Air Twp, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. [3]
1790 John Stoner lived in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in a household with 1 males under age 16, 1 males age 16 and over, and 3 females. [4] Christy Stoner was listed adjacent.
1793 John Stoner received a warrant for 100 acres in Ayr Twp, Bedford County, on February 5, and 86 acres were returned [5]. On January 25, The land was on the "foot of Scrobkege joining Daniel Royers lnd on the north, Samuel Cressons land on the east, and the scrobridge on the west. The land had not been improved on January 25, 1793 or on February 5, 1793. [6]
1793 John Stoner received warrants for two tracts of 50 and 150 acres in Londonderry Twp, Bedford County, on August 9, and tracts of 50 and 159 acres were returned on October 30, 1869 and patented to Solomon Reiber. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
1800 John Stoner was listed on the septennial census for Air Twp, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. [12] John Stoner was listed on the Pennsylvania septennial census for Londonderry Twp, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. [13] Which, if either, or both?
1800 Brother Christian sold his land to John Stoner and moved to Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania.
1808 John Stoner died in Ayr Twp, Bedford (now Fulton) County, Pennsylvania. [14]
1809 "Came into court Anna Stoner and Martin Funk, administrators of the estate of John Stoner dec'd and produced their account of administration as settled by the register of this county ... balance in their hands of six hundred and forty seven dollars and thirty five cents to be distriuted according to law," on April 7, at the Bedford County Orphans' Court. [15]
1810 (Son) John Stoner lived in Air Twp, Bedford County in a household with 3 males and 2 females under age 25 and one female age 45+. Martin Funk, administrator of John Stoner's will, was listed on the same page of the census. [16]
1818 The heirs of John Stoner, late of Air Twp, Bedford County, were named in dockets of the Orphans Court, on January 6. Some heirs were not present and some were represented by guardians: John Stoner, Christian Stoner (by Wendel Ott guardian), Andrew Stoner, Christian Hershey and Nancy his wife (by David Hunter), and not appearing were Jacob Stoner, Mary Stoner, and Catharine Stoner. [17]
1819 Ann Stoner, administratrix for the estate of John Stoner, deceased, granted land to Jacob Stoner, on January 27. The deed named heirs, who had refused to take the real estate at an Orphans Court, as John stoner, Christian Stoner by guardian Wendle Ott, Andrew Stoner, and Christian Hershey and Ann his wife by David Hunter his aliened. [18]
1819 Ann Stoner, widow and administratrix, made a deed with John Stoner, on January 29. [19]
1819 Ann Stoner, administratrix for the estate of John Stoner, deceased, granted a mortgage, on April 3, to Jacob Stoner. The mortgage was for land that Jacob had inherited. The mortgage was for debts that Jacob owed to Ann Stoner. The mortgage was released in 1825. All were of Air Twp, Bedfored County. [20]
1819 Ann Stoner, administratrix for the estate of John Stoner, deceased, granted a mortgage to John Stoner, and his wife Mary, on October 30, on land that Jacob had inherited, for debts that Jacob owed to Ann Stoner. All were of Air Twp, Bedford County. [21]
1819 Ann Stoner, administratrix, made a deed with David Hunter on October 30. [22]
1820 John Stoner lived in Air Twp, Bedford County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 5 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 1 (16 thru 25), and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 1 (under 10) and 1 (26 thru 44). The adjacent listing was for Ann Stoner (perhaps widow Ann) age 45+ with female age 16-26. [23]
Research Notes:
Ayr Twp, Bedford County is now in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. The name has been spelled several different ways [24]
Two John Stoner cousins, sons of this John Stoner and his brother Abraham Stoner are not easily distinguishable in the records. Different researchers name one or the other of them as being John Stoner who married Lydia Ann Brumbaugh [25].
John Stoner reportedly died in 1808 with children Nancy, John, Andrew, Jacob, Mary, Christian?, and Catherine?. [26]
[1] Samuel S. Wenger, "An Essay on the Stoner/Steiner Families of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (January, 1988), 16-36, at 18, person S132.
[2] Samuel S. Wenger, "An Essay on the Stoner/Steiner Families of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (January, 1988), 16-36, at 18, person S132.
[3] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 3 (Muster Rolls Bedford-York) (1907), 36, right column, [GoogleBooks].
[4] United States Federal Census, 1790, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, I-510, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[6] Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] Pennsylvania Land Patent, H65-220, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[8] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D5-159, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[9] Pennsylvania Land Patent, H65-219, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[10] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D5-158, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[11] Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1800, Air Twp, Bedford County, person 141, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[13] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1800, Londonderry Twp, Somerset County, person 75, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[14] Samuel S. Wenger, "An Essay on the Stoner/Steiner Families of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (January, 1988), 16-36, at 18, person S132.
[15] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bedford County Orphans' Court docket 2-154, [FamilySearchImage].
[16] United States Federal Census, 1810, page 551, line 89, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[17] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bedford County Orphans Court docket 3-201, 201 of 200-201, [FamilySearchImage].
[18] Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Deed M-76, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[19] Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Deed M-73, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[20] Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Deed L-559, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[21] Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Deed M-76, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[22] Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Deed M-71, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[23] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[24] History of Bedford, Somerset, and Fulton counties, Pennsylvania: with illustrations and biographical sketches (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins, 1884), 633, [HathiTrust].
[25] Samuel S. Wenger, "An Essay on the Stoner/Steiner Families of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (January, 1988), 16-36, at 18, reports person S1322, son of this John as her spouse.
[26] "Steiner-Stoner," The Pennsylvania Dutchman 2 (1950).