Tone D.A.R. Manuscript
My archives include a copy of a Tone family genealogical manuscript which was mailed from Frank Jerome Tone (1868-1945) to Katharine Spofford Tone (1904-1983) in 1935.
The manuscript is described as having been originally prepared in 1931, the work of Frank Jerome Tone (1868-1945), and having been presented to the Des Moines, Iowa chapter of the D.A.R., where the wife of Isaac Tone (1839-1916) was a member. I don't have a copy of the original 1931 manuscript, and it's not clear why F.J. Tone would include this abridged version but not his own original. The 1931 manuscript is not "The Tone Book", since it seems to have been prepared later (as it includes birth dates later than 1931.
The copy I have is apparently abridged from that document. The introduction, prepared by Prentiss Glazier, notes that although
...replete with errors concerning the remoter branches of the family, the manuscript has merit in the completeness with which it traces the descendants of the sonds Andrew and John Jr. and of the daughters.
This abridged manuscript contains a page or so of the history of John Tone (1719-1791) and Margaret Harvey (1722-1817) followed by several pages of lists of their descendants.
See further notes from this manuscript at the entries for John Tone (1719-1791), Margaret Harvey (1722-1817), and Mary Tone (1759-1822).
The envelope also contains notes on the location of John Tone (1719-1791)'s farm in New Jersey.
Margaret Harvey Tone and Mary Tone George
The 📄 Tone D.A.R. Manuscript, which in turn quotes "History of Old Tennent", reads in part:
it is a current story in the present Bills' family, descendants of the George and Tone families, that their great-grandmother and her mother nursed the wounded in the (Tennent) church; ...and that their great-grandmother, aided by her mother, entered the British lines, having the password from her father, an American soldier of the most loyal type, and by means of a few biscuits and two or three chickens bought silk for a gown and broadcloth for a cloak, bringing them home secretly and keeping them without her father's knowledge for her wedding apparel, some five years after".
In the above, "their great-grandmother and her mother" appear to refer to Mary Tone (1759-1822) (later Mary Tone George) and her mother Margaret Harvey (1722-1817), and "her father" appears to refer to John Tone (1719-1791).
However, the manuscript also notes that it's not clear whether all of John Tone (1719-1791)'s children were also Margaret Harvey (1722-1817)'s children. John seems to have married again during Margaret's lifetime, so Mary Tone (1759-1822)'s mother may actually be Abigail Worden (1725-unknown)