[1] He was ordained on July 8, 1626, at Peterborough and a year later became curate at Stisted, Essex.

[2] In 1633, Samuel Stone and Thomas Hooker sailed across the Atlantic on a ship named the Griffin.

They arrived in Boston on 4 September of the same year, and a few weeks later, Samuel Stone became a Teacher of the Cambridge Church under Hooker, who was the preacher.

[2] In 1636, Stone and Hooker led their congregation from New Towne (now Cambridge, Massachusetts) and established a new colony at House of Hope (a Dutch fort and trading post), making peace with the local Indians and renaming the town they called Saukiog as Hartford, after Stone's birthplace - they thus became the town's founding fathers.

Records show that he was an active buyer and seller of land in Hartford.