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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