Nicholas Stoner

During his childhood the family moved to New York City, where his uncle, John Binkus,[note 1] paid for his schooling.

[3] In 1777 Stoner enlisted as a fifer in the Patriot forces in Colonel James Livingston's battalion of the New York Line under Captain Timothy Hughes.

[3] In 1781 Nicholas' father was released from the army and settled on a farm formerly belonging to Loyalist Col. John Butler at Tribes Hill, New York.

After the war Stoner returned to Johnstown and married his old flame, Anna Mason, now a young widow with a baby daughter.

Later that year Scarborough was killed by Captain James McDonald in a British raiding party led by Major John Ross, in what is known as the Battle of Johnstown.

[6] The family first lived near Johnson Hall, and then moved to Scotch Bush, now in the town of Florida in Montgomery County.

One time he engaged in a drunken brawl in De Fonclaire's Tavern in Johnstown, which was frequented by both Canadian and American trappers.

(Nicholas' father) Hearing this Stoner grabbed a red-hot andiron and threw it at the Indian, yelling "You never will scalp another one!"

After Polly's death, Stoner married a much younger widow, Hannah (Houghtaling) Frank, in 1840,[7] and resided in Caroga, New York.