American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Partially printed doc., Albany, 15 Feb. 1823. Quit Rent ($1.87) paid by Squire Stone on 50 Acres of land. The location is unclear (“69 subdivision”). 

Manuscript liquor license, Milford, NY, 5 May 1829 for Squire Stone to serve intoxicating liquors at his dwelling house/tavern. 5 May 1829. 6 x 7-1/2 in.

Manuscript liquor license, Milford, NY, 5 May 1830. 8 x 12-1/4 in.

Manuscript liquor license, Milford, NY, 7 May 1832. 7-3/4 x 8-1/2 in.

Receipt dated 27 Jan. 1830 for one barrel of beer. Signed by Robert Edmeston.

Receipt for three sales of beer (1/2 bbl., 1 bbl., other), 30 Oct. 1830, signed by Robert Edmeston.

Receipt dated 27 March 1833, signed L.R. Goodsell.

Partially printed DS by Joseph Mumford, Lieut. Col. of a Regiment of Militia, appointing Squire Stone to be fourth corporal of a company of Infantry. Otsego County, 5 June 1815. 7-5/8 x 12-1/2 in.

Partially printed DS by Erastus Craft, Colonel of a regiment of Militia, appointing Squire Stone as sergeant of a company of Infantry. Otsego County, 23 August 1818. 7-3/4 x 12-1/2 in.

(all with separated folds, cellophane tape on verso, much of it falling off)

Squire Stone was born in 1791 in Otsego County, New York. In 1815 he married Lucinda Fuller Goodrich (1797-1868). He had three sons (Calvin, Carder and George) and one daughter (Almira married William Doud, who came to Otsego County about 1815). Stone moved to Hume (still Otsego County) about 1834. In the 1830 census he lived in Milford, although we have not been able to locate any more information on his tavern there. In subsequent censuses (1850, 1860, 1870, 1880) he lived in Hume. Stone died in June 1884 and is buried in Hume Cemetery.