The site is open in limited seasons, on limited days of the week, for limited hours, with limited staff, with limited tours. Despite the sign on the visitor center door saying that someone should be there and that there was another tour scheduled, the place was locked and nobody showed up. The house is off limits without a tour, so, the placard above is all I have. Thomas Stone voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence. He typically owned around two dozen slaves, and his Uncle was a slave trader who owned the ship that brought Kunta Kinte to Maryland. After the death of Stone’s wife, he became ill in 1787 and declined to participate in the Constitutional Convention, dying shortly thereafter. His house burned in 1977, and the earliest photo for restoration was 1902. “Haber de venture” means ‘dwelling of the winds’.