STONE
STONE
Sodus, N.Y., in 1808, where he worked on the
farm and studied Latin and Greek evenings under
his father. In 1809 he was apprenticed as a
printer in Cooperstown, N.Y., in connection with
the Federalist. He was proprietor and editor of
the American, Herkimer, N.Y., 1813-14; editor of
the Hudson Northern Whig, Spirit of the Forum
and TJie Lounger, 1814-16; of the Albany Daily
Advertiser, 1816-18, and of the Mirror, Hartford,
Conn., 1819-31, where he was also associate editor
of The Knights of the Round Table. He was
editor and proprietor of the New York Commer-
cial Advertiser, 1821-44, through the medium of
whose columns he promulgated his antislavery
principles; was actively interested, in 1824, in the
revolution of the Greek patriots, accompanying
Dr. Samuel G. Howe on a tour up the Hudson
river on "a crusade for the relief of Greece;"
was a member of the antislavery convention at
Baltimore, Md., 1825, where he drafted a plan for
emancipation to be submitted to congress, and
during the same year traveled through the states
with General Lafayette. For his championship
of the Erie canal he received a silver medal and
box from the common council. New York city, to-
gether with the thanks of that body in 1825. He
served as colonel on the staff of Gov. De Witt
Clinton, 1824-26, whose reputation he subse-
quently did much to free from calumny by the
able yet unprejudiced contributions of his pen.
In 1838 he presented to the New York Historical
society a course of lectures which resulted in
1841 in the appointment by Gov. Williain H.
Seward of John Romeyn Brodhead (q.v.) as col-
lector of European historical data pertaining to
the state, which data became known as the
" New York Colonial Documents." He was ap-
pointed U.S. minister to the Hague by President
William Henry Harrison in 1841, but recalled by
President Tyler. He was the first superintendent
of schools in New York city, 1843-44; school
commissioner for many years; director of the
Institution for Deaf and Dumb in 1833; member
of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile
Delinquents, and projector of the New York State
Historical agency. He was also an honorary
member of the Royal Society of Northern Anti-
quities of Copenhagen, and elected a cliief of the
Senecas. He received the honorary degree of
A.M. from Brown university in 1825. He was
married, Jan. 31, 1817, to Susannah Pritchard,
daughter of the Rev. Francis and Susannah
(Pritchard) Wayland of Guilford, England, and
a sister of Francis Wayland (q.v.), president of
Brown university. They had one son, William
Leete Stone, Jr. (q.v.). William Leete Stone is
the author of: Narrative of the Grand Erie Canai
Celebration (1825); Letter's on Masonry and Anti-
Masonry (1832); Matthias and His Lnjjostures
(1833); Tales and Sketches (1834); Maria Monk
and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieii (1836); Ups
and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
(1836); Border Wars of the American Revolution
(1837); Letters on Animal Magnetism (1838); Life
of Joseph Brant (1838); Poetry and History of
Wyoming (1841); Lives of Red Jacket and Corn-
planter (1843, new ed. with memoir of the
author by his son, 1866); Life of Uncas and
Miantonomoh (1842); Life and Times of Sir
William Johnson, Bart, (completed by his son,
1865). He died at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Aug.
15, 1844.
STONE, William Leete, Jr., historian, was born in New York, N.Y., April 4, 1835; son of William Leete (q.v.) and Susannah (Wayland) Stone. He was graduated from Brown university, A.B., 1858, having meanwhile studied in Germany, and from the Albany Law school, LL.B., 1859, in which year he was admitted to the bar, and jiractised in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 1860-63. He was married, June 1, 1859, to Harriet Douglas, daughter of Jonathan and Susan Gillette of Fair- field, Conn. He was city editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, 1864-67; editor and pro- prietor of the College Review, 1870-74; charter trustee and an incorporator of the Saratoga Monument association, of which he served as secretary from 1871, and was made centennial historian for the state of New York in 1876, de- livering an address at Independence Hall, Phila- delphia, Pa., May 10, 1876, and at the laying of the corner-stone of the monument upon the centennial of Burgoyne's surrender, Oct. 17, 1877. He was also orator at Saratoga Springs in 1806, upon the 100th celebration of Sir William John- son's visit to High Rock Spring. He was elected an honorary member of various learned and historical societies in America and Europe, in- cluding the American Numismatic and Archaeo- logical society of New York city and the Royal Society of Copenhagen. He completed: "The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart.," begun by his father (1865); translated and edited: "Letters and Journals of Mrs. General Riedesel " (1866); " Life and Military Journals of Major General Riedesel " (1868); edited "Orderly Book of Sir John Johnson" (1882); translated "Journal of Captain Pausch " (1886), and is the author of: Life and Writings of Col. William L. Stone (1866); Guide-Book to Saratoga Springs and Vicinity (1866); History of New York City (1872); Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston (1875); Campaign of General Burgoyne and St. Leger's Expedition (1877); Tliird Supplement to Doiding's History of Romanism (1881): Genealogy of the Stone Family; (1887); Genealogy of the Starin Family; Revolutionary Letters (1891); Ballads of the Burgoyne Campaign (1893); Visits to the
