Background
Michael was born to David and Elizabeth (Jenifer) Stone at Poynton Manor in Charles County.
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Michael Jenifer Stone
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Career
He represented Maryland in the United States House of Representatives. That home had been founded by his ancestor William Stone who had been the 3rd Governor of the colony of Maryland in the mid seventeenth century. Michael married Mary Briscoe and they had five children.
Their grandson, Frederick Stone, would later represent Maryland in the United States. Congress.
Michael and Thomas were very close. Stone represented Charles County in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1781 to 1783.
Then, in 1788 he was a delegate to the states convention that ratified the United States. Constitution. In the new Federal government, Maryland sent him as a Representative of the 1st Congressional district to the First United States Congress from 1789 to 1791.
Stone died in 1812 and was buried on his own estate of Equality near Louisiana Plata in Charles County.
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1812 (aged 65) -
Nationality
United States