Michael Jenifer Stone

Michael Jenifer Stone (1747 – 1812) was an American planter and statesman from Charles County, Maryland.

That home had been founded by his ancestor William Stone who had been the third Governor of the colony of Maryland in the mid-seventeenth century.

When Thomas died in 1787, his will gave Michael the lifetime use of Haberdeventure, and asked that he raise his young son.

In the new Federal government, Stone represented Maryland's 1st congressional district in the First United States Congress from 1789 to 1791.Stone died in 1812 and was buried on his own estate of Equality near La Plata in Charles County.

His son, Michael Jenifer Stone (II), built the historic home Sunnyside at Aquasco, in Prince George's County, Maryland.