Subject: Isaac Stearns
Part 1 of 38 Parts
Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
p. 450
Stearns (Sterne, Sternes, Sterns, Starns)
Arms.
Or, a chevron between three crosses flory sable. Crest, a cock starling
proper. A coat of arms similar to this formerly belonged to the
occupants
of the old Sterns homestead in Watertown; and there is now a similar
one
belonging to a branch of the Manning family in Cambridge (descendants of
Isaac Stearns), from which the accompanying illustrations are
taken. It
is the same as that borne by families of the name of Sterne in the
counties
of Bucks, Cambridge, Hertford, and Norfolk, England; the same also as
that
borne by Richard Sterne, Archbishop of York, who was descended from the
Sternes of Nottinghamshire.
It is probable that all the families of the name of Stearns in the
United
States are descended from three early immigrants; as, in every
instance, where
the lineage of a family has been traced back, it has been to one of the
follow-
ing, viz., Isaac Stearns or Charles Stearns who settled in Watertown; or
Nathaniel Stearns who settled in Dedham.
p.451
Isaac Stearns, in his Will calls Charles "my kinsman," probably his
nephew.
What affinity there was between Nathaniel Stearns and the other two,
has not
been ascertained; but there is reason to suppose that he was related to
them.
On May 17, 1662, Thomas Clark sold a lot of land in Boston, bounded
south east
by land of Daniel Sternes (Suffolk Deeds, IV., p. 268). This is
the only re-
cord or notice of this Daniel Sternes, that I have met with.
There are families
of the name of Starn or Stern in the middle and southern states who
are of German origin.
The orthography of the name, Stearns, now, with very few exceptions,
adopted
by the descendants of Isaac Stearns, Charles Stearns and Nathaniel
Stearns
is undoubtedly a variation, or a corruption of the name, Sterne, which
has
been effected in this country. It probably commenced in the
pronunciation,
and afterwards extended to the writing, of the name.
Sterne is a well-known name in the counties of Nottingham, Berks,
Norfolk,
Hertford, Suffolk and Cambridge in England; but the name, Stearns, has
not
occurred to me in any English work.
In Winthrop's Journal, and in the early
town and county records, the name is written Sterne. In the Will
of the first
Isaac Stearns, dated 1671, the name has the correct orthography, with
the ex-
ception or addition of a superfluous terminal "s", sometimes used in
England.
A very few now write their names Sterns and Starns.
Isaac Stearns came to America in 1630 in the same ship, as there is
reason to
believe, with Governor John Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall and
settled
in Watertown near Mount Auburn* (see below)
He was admitted freeman May 18, 1631 which is the earliest date of any
such
admission, and he was Selectman several years. In 1647, he and
Mr. Biscoe,
were appointed by the Selectmen "to consider how the bridge over the
river
shall be built, and to agre with the workmen for doing it, according to
their
best discretion." This is, says Dr. Francis in his history, "the
first mention
of a bridge over the Charles River, at Watertown."
Isaac Stearns died June 19, 1671 leaving a widow, Mary*,(see insert
below) who died April 2, 1677.
The births of only three of his children are recorded in the town
records, and
it is probable that he came from the Parish of Nayland in Suffolk,
England.
His pedigree has not been ascertained, nor is it certainly known what
town he
came from; but it is very probable that he came from the Parish of
Nayland
in Suffolk, England. Mr. Somerby obtained the following extract
from the Parish Register of Nayland, England:
"Baptized Jan 6, 1626, Mary, dau. of Isaac Sternes
Baptized Oct 5, 1628, Anna, dau. of Isaac Sterns."
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Two Tombstones at the old Watertown Mass. Cemetery:
Ezekiel STEARNS, Son of Mr. Samuel STEARNS Jun'r & Mrs. Sarah his
Wife; Died Aug'st 25th 1734, Aged 1 Year & about 8 Mo.
Here lyes Buried ye Body of Mr. Josiah STEARNS (Who was Great Grandson
to Mr. Isaac STEARNS, Grandson to Mr. Samuel STEARNS, & Son to Mr.
John STEARNS.) Who Departed this Life April the 11th, A. D. 1756, in ye
53d Year of His Age
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Insert: Identity of Isaac
Stearns wife "Mary"
*Mary Stearns, wife of Isaac Stearns was according to The Great
Migration
Begins, 1620 to 1633 - Vol III, Boston, 1995 -
p.1748
"Marriage" - By 1625, Mary Barker, daughter of John & Margaret
(Walter)
Barker of Stoke Nayland [Lechford 291-292]."
*His homestall in 1642 was bounded on the north by John Warren; west by
highway; south by John Biscoe; east by Pequusset Meadow, a part of which
meadow he owned. In the distribution of the estate of his son
Samuel, in
1724, to his eldest son, Nathaniel, was assigned this homestall, "where
his
grandfather had lived." From Nathaniel, it probably passed to his
son
Daniel.
A true Inventory of the lands, goods, chattels of Isaac Sternes, Sen'r
taken
the 28th of 4th (month), 1671, who deceased the 16th of 4th, 1671,
prized and
taken by us whose names are here underwritten.
William Bond, Sen'r
John Biscoe, Sen'r
Henry Freeman
That this is a true coppie of ye orriginall attested in Oct. 1671 and
yn put
upon record and burned in ye fireing of ye court house, is sworn by
Isaac
Sternes and Samuell Sternes, 1. 8. 72, in open Court at Cambridge [From
Vol 4, pp. 129-30.]
Inventory
House and homestall of twelve acres of
land
?100. 00. 00.
Foure acres of upland & two acres of
meadow
18.
Eight acres of
Upland
26.
Six acres of meadow
land
30.
Three acres of
marshe
15.
Fourscore acres of
upland
60.
Twelve acres of
upland
12.
Nine acres of
upland
5.
Sixty acres of
upland
15.
Fifteen acres of
upland
8.
Foure acres of meadow
land
8.
Twenty-five acres of meadow
land
60.
One hundred and ninety acres of
meadow
40.
One hundred and five acres of
upland
10.
Two
horses
10.
Foure
oxen
16.
Six
cowes
18.
Two
heffers
4.
Three
yearlings
3.
Seven sheep and five
lambs
4.
Wearing clothes, linning &
wooling
4.
Bedding and table
linning
4. 10.
New
Clothe
4. 10.
Swine to the value
of
4.
Bedding and bedstead in the
parlor
4. 10.
Cubbord, stooles and
table.
3.
Bedding & bedstead in the
hall.
3.
One moose
skin
10.
One old bed and other lumber in the old
chamber.
1.
Sheeps'
wool
08.
Two old chests, two spinning wheels, a cheese press,
and other lumber in ye low
chamber.
1.
Beame and scales, waites and
measures.
1.
One pair of quarnes and other lumber in the quarne
house 10.
Brass putter and iron and other utensils in the
chimney 6. 10.
Beer barrels, pondering tubs, other small
utensils. 1.
Corne and
meal.
1.
Malt and
pease.
2. 10.
Lumber in the parlor
chamber.
10.
Two bags of
hops.
3.
Cart, plow, chains and other husbandry
instruments. 3.
Salt, meal and cheese, other
provisions.
3.
Corne growing in the
ground.
6.
Tobacco in the rowle and
leafe.
6. 8.
Two muskets, one fowling piece, one
sword
2.
To one cart rope.
To sacks and hay in the
barns
15.
Totals:
?524. 04. 00.
To be continued Part 2 - p. 452 - Will of Isaac Sternes of Watertown.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject: Will of Isaac Stearns - Watertown, Mass.
Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston - by
Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 2
p.452
His Will, dated five days before his decease, with his autograph
signature, is extant on the files of the Probate Office of Middlesex
County and is as follows:
"I, Isack Sternes, of Watertown, in the County of Middlesex, being sick
in body, but through
the goodness of God in sound memory, do declare this to be my last Will
and Testam[ent], in
manner and form as followeth:
"Imp. - ffirst, I return my spirit into the hands of God that gave it,
and my body to the
earth, from whence it was taken.
"2dly. My will is, that Mary, my beloved wife, should enjoy my
whole estate, for her
maintenance, so long as she shall live a widow; but if my said wife
shall marry again,
then my will is that she should enjoy only what the law intended and
provided for in the
law titled dowers.
"3dly. I give and bequeth to my grand children, the children of my
sonne John Sternes,
fower score pounds [which] being added to what my son had formerly,
will be a double port-
ion with the rest of my children.
"4thly. I give unto my son Isaac Sternes, seventy pounds, which
being added to what he
have had already, will be his proportion according to the rest of my
children.
"5thly. I give to my son Samuel Sternes, seventy pounds, which
being added to what I
formerly gave him, will be his proportion with the rest of my children.
"6thly. I give to my grand children, the children of my daughter
Mary, deceased, five and
thirty pounds; my grand child, Isaac Lernot, to have ten pounds of the
said 35 pounds - the
remainder, which will be twenty-five pounds, to be equally divided to
the rest; which said
thirty-five pounds being added to what I formerly gave my daughter,
Mary Lernot, will be an
equal proportion with the rest of my children.
"7thly. I give to my daughter Sarah Stone, forty pounds, which
being added to what she
formerly had, will be her proportion.
"8thly. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Manning, twenty pounds,
which being added to what
I formerly gave her, will be her proportion; further, my will is, that
the said twenty
pounds given to my daughter Elizabeth aforesaid, be secured for the
good and benefit of the
children.
"9thly. I give and bequeath to my daughter Abigail Morss, five
acres of meadow, lying and
being at Samuel's farm, to enjoy and possess for her and her heirs
forever, and my will is,
that my daughter Abigail Morss, may take the said five acres of meadow,
either next to
Samuel's meadow, or next Capt. Mason's; and besides the meadow, I give
to my said daughter
Abigail, forty pounds, all which being added to what she have had
formerly, will be her
proportion.
"10thly. My will is, that my kinsman Charles Sternes, shall have
ten pounds of my estate.
Further, my will is, that my whole estate remain whole and unbroken for
comfort and mainten-
ance of my beloved wife, as above said, so long as she doth
remain a widow - save only the
five acres of meadow given to my daughter Abigail, which she is to
enjoy presently.
"ffurther, I nominate and appoint my beloved sons Isaac Sternes, and
Samuel Sternes,
executors, to this my last Will and Testament; and have hereunto set my
hand, this fourteenth
day of June, one thousand six hundred and seventy-one, in presence of.
"Before subscribing, my will is, that when those several legacies are
paid out according
to my Will within mentioned, then my will is, that the remainder of my
estate shall be
equally divided among my children then living, and so subscribe the day
aforesaid by
putting to my hand in presence of,
"William Bond, Sen'r.
"John Biscoe,
Sen'r.
Isack Sternes
[This signature was written five days before his decease.]
To be continued Part 3 - p.453 - Children of Isaac & Mary Stearns.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject: Stearns
Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston - by
Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 3
p.453
The Children of Isaac Stearns and Mary Stearns
1. Mary Stearns born in
England; m. in Woburn July 9, 1646, Isaac Learned,
[Learned, a fruitful branch]
2. Hannah Stearns m. in Watertown Dec 25, 1650, Henry Freeman and was
buried,
June 17, 1656. The Record says she m. Samuel Freeman but there is
good reason
to believe that it is an error.
3. John Stearns who settled in Billerica where he died March 5, 1668/9.
4. Isaac Stearns b. Jan 6, 1632/3; admitted freeman 1665; died Aug 29,
1676.
5. Sarah Stearns b. Sept 22, 1635; d. Oct 6, 1700; m. June 7, 1655,
Samuel
Stone of Cambridge; six children.
6. Samuel Stearns b. April 24, 1638; died Aug 3, 1683.
7. Elizabeth Stearns who m. April 13, 1664, Samuel Manning of Cambridge
afterwards of Billerica. She died early leaving two sons, Samuel
& John
Manning.
8. Abigail Stearns who m. April 27, 1666, Deacon John Morse; 8 children
(see also, Memorial of the Morses, p. 74.
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John Stearns was one of the first settlers of Billerica. He m.
(1) Sarah,
the only dau. of Isaac and Sarah Mixer of Watertown. She died
June 14, 1656
and he m. (2) in Barnstable December 1656, by Thomas Hinckley, Esq.,
Mary
Lothrop b. oct 4, 1640; dau of Thomas Lothrop by wife Mary. This
Thomas
Lorthrop who died 1701, aged 80 was the elest son of Rev. John Lothrop
of
Scituate and Barnstable; by his first wife Mary. John Stearns
died March 5,
1668/9 and his widow, Mary m. May 6, 1669, Capt. William French, Esq. of
Billerica, by whom she had 4 children** Capt. French died Nov 20,
1681 aged
78 and she m. (3) 1684, Isaac Mixer, Jr. of Watertown as his 3d
wife. She
was living in 1735, "very aged" Inventory March 23, 1668/9 by
William French
and Jonathan Danforth and another but name not listed. ?390. 18.
4.
Children of John Stearns & wife, Sarah Mixer:
1. John Stearns b. May 1654; the first birth recorded in Billerica; died
Oct 26, 1728.
2. Isaac Stearns b. April 17, 1658; died Oct 9, 1659.
3. Samuel Stearns b. Sept 3, 1659; disabled, died 1735, unm.
4. Isaac Stearns b. Dec 23, 1661; d. 1739; apprenticed to his
stepfather,
William French, 1675.
5. Nathaniel Stearns b. Nov 30, 1663; died young.
6. Thomas Stearns b. Dec 6, 1665; apprenticed to his stepfather,
William French
in 1675; m. June 20, 1688 Rebecca Chamberlain. He died Feb 9,
1697/7 and his
widow m. prior to March 2, 1701/2, George Farley.
Children:
1. Rebecca Stearns b. April 23, 1689.
2. Mary Stearns b. June 18, 1692 m. Benjamin Frost.
3. Sarah Stearns b. April 27, 1694.
4. Hannah Stearns b. August, 1696.
**the children of William & Mary (Lothrop) Stearns French 2nd wife
of John Stearns.
1. Mary French b. April 30, 1670 m. Nathaniel Dunkler of Watertown and
had
Silence Dunkler b. Feb 20, 1697/8. They were prob. the parents of
Hezekiah
Dunkler of Lexington who m. Oct 17, 1734, Damaris Wilson.
2. Sarah French b. oct 29, 1672; m. Joseph Crosby of Billerica.
Children:
1. David
Crosby & wife sarah moved to Shrewsbury.
2. William
Crosby.
3. Thomas
Crosby of Billerica.
4. Robert
Crosby of Northtown.
5. Sarah
Crosby who m. Ephraim Abbot of Andover.
6. Rachel
Crosby m. (1) Samuel Stearns of Billerica - 5 children.
She m. (2) Thomas Wyman of Billerica by whom she had:
1. Thomas Wyman b. 1731.
2. Lucy Wyman b. Aug 23,1733; m. Capt. Edward Stearns.
3. Sybil Wyman b. 1735.
4. Simon Wyman b. 1739.
7. Mary Crosby
who m. Eleazer Ellis of Dedham.
8. Prudence
Crosby who m. Jeremiah Fisher of Needham.
9. Deborah
Crosby who m. Peter Russell of Andover.
10. Hannah Crosby who
m. _____ Watts.
3. Abigail French b. April 14, 1673; d. April 13, 1674.
4. Hannah French b. 1676; m. Oct 5, 1693, John Child. She died
1766 aged 90.
To be continued Part 4 - p. 454 - Isaac Stearns who m. June 24, 1660,
Sarah
Beers and settled at Lexington.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston
- by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 4
p.454
Isaac Stearns m. June 24, 1660, Sarah Beers and settled in Cambridge
Farms,
(Lexington). He died Aug 2, 1676 and his widow m. July 23, 1677,
Thomas
Wheeler of Concord. A writing in the files of the Court, dated
June 19, 1677,
says he left three sons and three daughters. Inventory ?300.
Children:
1. Sarah Stearns b. Jan 14, 1662/2; m. Dec. 27, 1678, John Wheeler of
Concord.
2. Mary Stearns b. Oct 8, 1663; m. Jan 1, 1693/4, John Cutler.
3. Isaac Stearns b. Aug 26, 1665.
4. Samuel Stearns b. Jan 11, 1667/8.
5. Abigail Stearns who m. in Concord Nov. 29, 1692, Samuel Hartwell, b.
in
Concord Oct 2, 1666, son of Samuel & Ruth (Wheeler) Hartwell and
grandson of
William & Ruth. She died in childbed May 11, 1709.
Children:
1. Samuel Hartwell b. Nov 12, 1693.
2. Abigail Hartwell b. Nov 27, 1695.
3. Joseph Hartwell b. Aug 11, 1698; (was
this Deacon Joseph Hartwell of
Stoughton whose dau.
Elizabeth was the first wife of the Hon. Roger
Sherman? -
author.
Insert: Source: Prescott Memorial
p.66-67
Rebecca Prescott b. May 20, 1742, dau of Benjamin
Prescott & his wife, Rebecca Minot of Salem, Mass.
Rebecca Prescott m. May 12, 1763, Hon. Roger Sherman
signer of the Declaration of Independence, born at
Newton, Mass. April 19, 1721. He was the son of Will-
iam Sherman of Newton, Mass., the grandson of Joseph
Sherman and the great-grandson of Capt. John Sherman
who came from Dedham, England to Watertown, Mass., in
1634 or 1635. Roger Sherman married first about
1749, Elizabeth Hartwell of Stoughton, Mass. by whom
he had seven children. She died in october, 1760 &
he m. (2) Rebecca Prescott as above stated and by her
he had eight children.
4. Mary Hartwell b. Jan 13, 1700.
5. Isaac Hartwell b. Nov 22, 1702.
6. Ephraim Hartwell b. Jan 14,
1707; of Lincoln; d. 1793; m. Nov 7,
1732, Elizabeth
Heywood of Concord. She d. 1808 aged 94 yrs.
1. Ephraim Hartwell b. Oct 29, 1733; d. oct 9, 1740.
2. Samuel Hartwell b. April 17, 1735; d. Dec 11, 1740.
3. John Hartwell b. Sept 1736; d. Oct 7, 1740.
4. Elizabeth Hartwell b. Dec 2, 1737; d. Oct 27, 1740.
5. Isaac Hartwell b. Sept 5, 1739; d. Oct 5, 1740.
All died of Scarlet Fever.
6. Samuel Hartwell b. 1742; d. Aug 12, 1829 aged 87 yrs.
of Lincoln; m. 1769, Mary Flint. Children:
1. Polly Hartwell b. Nov 13, 1770; m. Sept 11, 1795,
Andrew Adams.
2. Sally Hartwell b. Jan 25, 1773; m. Jan 20, 1813,
Isaac Monroe.
3. Lucy Hartwell b. Nov 5, 1774.
4. Elizabeth Hartwell b. mar 15, 1777; m. Feb 2, 1806,
Thomas Weeks Rich, Esq., of Monkton, Vermont.
5. Ephraim Hartwell b. Nov 16, 1779.
6. Jonas Hartwell b. Aug 3, 1782.
7. Abel Hartwell b. Oct 11, 1784; a Major; m. Nov 5,
1818, Esther Flint and had:
1. Henry Fuller Hartwell b. Oct 9, 1819.
2. Mary F. Hartwell b. Nov 12, 1821.
3. Sarah Hartwell b. Sept 4, 1823.
4. Louisa Hartwell b. oct 2, 1825.
8. Samuel Hartwell b. Mar 28, 1789; m. 1818, Mary
Hagar of Weston. Children:
1. George Hartwell b. May 31, 1819.
2. Jonas Hartwell b. June 30, 1821.
3. Charles Hartwell b. Dec 19, 1825.
4. John Hartwell b. Dec 20, 1827.
7. Elizabeth Hartwell who m. Sept 3, 1764, Jonas Stratton of
Concord.
8. Abigail Hartwell who m. Sept 6, 1763, Jonas Jones of
Shrewsbury.
9. John Hartwell b. 1747; a Captain, of Lincoln; m. Dec. 18,
1783, Hepzibah Brooks b. Sept 4, 1768, dau of Ephraim &
Sarah Brooks. Children:
1. Lydia Hartwell b. April 25, 1785.
2. John Hartwell b. Jan 2, 1787.
3. Sarah Hartwell b. oct 24, 1788; m. Dec 31, 1818,
Abijah H. Peirce of Cambridge.
4. Hannah Hartwell b. Nov 8, 1790; m. June 17, 1818,
William B. Johnson of Augusta, Maine.
5. william b. Hartwell b. Mar 13, 1793; d. June 29,
1815.
10. Ephraim Hartwell who m. June 1, 1769, Mary Brown.
7. Lydia
Hartwell b. May 2, 1709.
6. John Stearns b. 1675; of Concord, afterwards of Bedford where he died
June 14, 1734, aged 59. His Will dated May 29, 1733 mentions no
wife, but
the following children:
1. Mercy Kendall Stearns to whom
he gave ?5 and a mulatto girl Mary.
2. Zachariah Stearns by his wife
Sarah had:
1. Zachariah Stearns b.Feb 11, 1729/30.
2. Daniel Stearns b. May 16, 1732.
3. Sarah Stearns b. Aug 9, 1734.
4. John Stearns b. Feb 17, 1738.
3. Eleazer Stearns
4. Abigail Stearns.
5. Benjamin Stearns (?) heir of
Josiah Wheeler of Bolton, 1738.
To be continued Part 5 - p.455 - Samuel Stearns of Watetown & wife,
Hannah
Manning of Cambridge.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early Settlers
of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston - by Henry
Bond, M.D.
Boston, 1860.
Part 5.
p.455
Samuel Stearns of Watertown m. Feb 1, 1662/3, Hannah Manning b. June
21, 1642,
eldest dau. of William & Dorothy Manning of Cambridge; a sister of
Samuel
Manning who m. Elizabeth Stearns. She died Feb 26, 1723/4.
He settled on a
farm at the northwest corner of the Cross-roads, made by the direct
road from
Cambridge to Waltham and by that going north to Lexington. This farm or
home-
stall, fell into the possession of his son, John Stearns, then to his
grand-
son, Josiah, then his great grandson, Capt. Phineas Stearns and now,
1860,
or did lately, belong to the heirs of Mr. Abijah White his great-great
grandson
Inventory Oct 9, 1683, ?481.4. Children:
1. Samuel Stearns b. (birth recorded at Cambridge) May 4, 1664; d. June
7, 1671
2. Hannah Stearns b. Dec 8, 1666; m. Dec 26, 1684, Thomas Biscoe by
whom she
had:
1. John Biscoe b. oct 22, 1685.
2. Thomas Biscoe bap. May 16, 1689
Mr. Biscoe died previous to oct 15, 1690 and his widow took letters of
admin. Jan 1, 1693/4. She m. (2) Sept 28, 1708, Samuel Gookin,
Esq., as his
2nd wife, b. April 21, 1652, son of Major General Daniel Gookin by whom
she
had no children. In 1690, Samuel Gookin, was "Attorney to Mr.
John Philips,
Esq., Treasurer of the Colony of Massachusetts." In 1691 he was
"Marshall
General" of Middlesex andin 1697 he was High Sheriff.
3. Nathaniel Stearns b. Dec 13, 1668; d. Aug 24, 1716. In the division
of his
father's estate, he received the farm, which had been the residence of
his
grandfather, Isaac Stearns.
4. Sarah Stearns b. April 23, 1671; m. oct 27, 1714, Joseph Winship of
Cambridge [Joseph Winship b. 1661, son of Lieut Edward & Elizabeth
Winship of
Cambridge, m. Nov 24, 1687 Sarah Harrington b. May 10, 1671, dau of
Robert
Harrington of Watertown. She d. Nov 28, 1710 and he m. (2) as
above, Sarah
Stearns. he died Sept 25, 1725.
5. Samuel Stearns b. mar 29, 1673. He was Town Clerk and he represented
Watertown from 1714 to 1732, 8 years; many years Selectman and Assessor.
6. Isaac Stearns b. Dec 31, 1674; d. 1737.
7. John Stearns b. june 24, 1677; died 1729. He settled on his
father's
homestead.
8. Mary Stearns b. April 5, 1679 m. Nov 2, 1699, Samuel Jennison b. oct
12,
1673; died Dec 2, 1732, son of Samuel & Judith (Macomber) Jennison.
11 children.
9. Abigail Stearns b. April 16, 1680; m. Jan 10, 1706/7, Benoni
Garfield. She
died July 11, 1710.
10. Joseph Stearns b. Dec 11, 1682; d. Feb 4, 1683/4.
To be continued Part 6 - p. 455 - Lieut John Stearns of Billerica
& wives
Elizabeth Bigelow & Joanna the widow of Jacob Parker.
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early Settlers
of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston - by Henry
Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 6
p.455
Lieut. John Stearns of Billerica m. (1) Elizabeth Bigelow b. June 18,
1657, dau
of John & Mary (Warren) Bigelow of Watertown [the 7 part Bigelow
file is available
on request] She died April 18, 1694 and he m. (2) in Malden, Joanna
the widow of Jacob Parker and dau of Thomas Call, Jr. who m. Joanna,
dau of
Daniel and Jane Shepherdson. Lieut John Stearns was much respected and
had much
influence. His widow, Joanna died Dec 4, 1737 aged 78. His
children by his
1st wife, Elizabeth Bigelow:
1. Elizabeth Stearns born in Watertown Sept 23, 1677.
2. John Stearns b. in Billerica Jan 22, 1679/80; died April 4th.
3. Sarah Stearns b. March 21, 1681/2.
4. Mary Stearns b. July 23, 1684; (?) m. May 28, 1705, Samuel Barron of
Chelmsford.
5. John Stearns b. Nov 26, 1686; died Aug 2, 1776.
6. Isaac Stearns b. May 1, 1689; shipwrecked and lost in an expedition
to
Port Royal in 1711.***
7. Abigail Stearns b. Aug 22, 1691; m. at Watertown Oct 23, 1711, Sgt.
William
Wyman of Woburn, b. 1685; d. 1753; 2nd son of William & Prudence
(Putnam)
Wyman. Children:
1. Abigail Wyman b.
Aug 31, 1713; m. Nov 12, 1735, Ezekiel, son
John
& Rebecca (Read) Wyman; had a large family in Lunenburg, MA.
2. William Wyman b.
Mar 10, 1715; prob. went to Winslow, Maine.
3. Nehemiah Wyman b.
June 25, 1722; a sergeant; 10 children; the 8th
child, Lucy Wyman m. Francis Wyman; the 10th child, Nehemiah Wyman
bap.
Feb 21, 1762, m. Susanna Stearns who died April 17, 1847 aged
85.
8. Samuel Stearns b. Jan 8, 1693/4.
9. Joanna Stearns b. June 24, 1697, child of 2nd wife, Joanna.
***Isaac Stearns shipwrecked death:
The fleet entered the St. Lawrence in August, 1711, but never reached
Quebec: through a serious blunder, for which Walker was at least
partially responsible, several transports were wrecked in the river
with a loss of several hundred soldiers.
http://www.dinsdoc.com/greene-3-10.htm
Source: See full Book Online:
Provincial
America, 1690 to 1740,by Evarts Boutell Greene, Harper
Brothers,
1905 http://www.dinsdoc.com/greene-3-0a.htm
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston
- by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 7
p.456
Isaac Stearns of Billerica, Mass. & wife, Mary Merriam.
Children:
1. Isaac Stearns b. Aug 21, 1701; died 1739.
2. Mary Stearns b. Jan 26, 1702/3.
3. Sarah Stearns b. Mar 26, 1703/4.
4. Miriam Stearns b. Aug 5, 1705.
5. Lydia Stearns b. April 21, 1707.
Isaac Stearns m. Elizabeth ____*. His first four children's births were
recorded
in Cambridge and the others in Lexington.
*Insert: Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 has:
Isaac Stearns b. 1665; m. Elizabeth Stone b. 1670 - Cambridge.
Children:
1. Isaac Stearns b. oct 19, 1697.
2. Simon Stearns b. Oct 19, 1697; died 1767.
3. Jabesh Stearns bap. Jan 27, 1699/1700.
4. Jonathan Stearns b. Nov 20, 1701; of Stoughton. Inventory, Sept 23,
1769.
He left widow and six children:
1.
Jonathan Stearns, elest son.
2. Mary
Wilber
3.
Experience Allen
4.
Elizabeth Smith
5. Rachel
Clark
Nathaniel Stearns, administrator, was probably the
6th child. Nathaniel
Stearns had wife, Eunice and he died insolvent.
Inventory Nov 17, 1788.
5. Hannah Stearns b. Jan 26, 1703/4.
6. Mary Stearns bap nov 10, 1706; m. about 1729, Dr. Edward Esty of
Stoughton
who lived to be 100 years old and they had 14 children who all died
without
families, except the two following:
1. Solomon Esty who had one
son, Solomon who married & died early,
leaving a
son Solomon Esty and a dau Mary or Mercy Esty, now in
1850, both
living in Newton.
2. Mercy Esty b. Nov 14,
1730; died Dec 25, 1824; m. Nov 21, 1776,
David
Sumner of Milton, Mass. and had one child:
1. Mercy Sumner b. Aug 10, 1777; m. 1803, Lemuel Smith.
Children:
1. Lemuel Smith b. oct 9, 1803; d. July 9, 1827.
2. Clarissa Smith b. Aug 19, 1806; m. May 7, 1833,
Israel Ham of Lisbon, Maine and had:
1. John Ham b. Feb 4, 1834.
2. Albert Ham b. Dec 11, 1837.
3. Isaac Smith b. Mar 5, 1809; a Baptist minister of
Stoughton and a Representative in the State Legis.
He m. July 31, 1832, Angelina, dau of Dr. Charles
Macomber of Mansfield, Mass. and had:
1. Alonzo Smith b.July 4, died Oct 13, 1833.
2. Charles Macomber Smith b. Mar 9, 1835.
3. Angelina Macomber Smith b. Mar 16, 1836; died
Sept 5, 1842.
4. Isaac Smith b. Dec 9, 1841.
4. Edmund Smith b. Feb 21, 1812; m. Mar 30, 1834,
Sophrona Dunbar of Dorchester and had:
1. Edmund Smith b. June 25, 1835.
2. Horace F. Smith b. June 13, 1838.
3. Isaac Smith b. July 24, 1841.
4. Walter C. Smith b. April 10, 1845.
5. Albert Smith b. July 16, 1814; now of New York; m.
May 25, 1843, Catherine, dau. Washington Gold-
thwaite of Stoughton and had:
1. Heman Smith b. and died 1846.
2. Albert Smith.
6. Luther Niles Smith b. Feb 27, 1817; m. Aug 2, 1840,
Lydia Gilpatrick. Children:
1. Clarissa Smith b.June 20, 1841.
2. George Smith b. June 3, 1842.
3. Rachel Smith b. Jan 15, 1844.
4. Angeline Smith b. Jan 7, 1846.
5. Elmira Smith b. Sept 5, 1848.
7. Francis Augustus Smith b. Feb 9, 1820; m. Jan 18,
1844, Almira Bosworth of Halifax, Mass.
7. Martha Stearns bap Feb 7, 1709/10; m. Nov 1, 1734, Daniel Talbot of
Stoughton.
8. Ebenezer Stearns bap. July 8, 1711.
9. Abigail Stearns bap. Nov. 12, 1713.
To be continued Part 8 - p. 457 - Samuel Stearns of Lexington &
wife, Phebe___
(Torrey p.704 has Samuel Stearns and wife Phebe Waite; Watertown,
Lexington &
North Brookfield.)
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston
- by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 8
p.457
Samuel Stearns of Lexington m. Phebe ____ (Torrey, p.704 has Phebe
Waite of
Watertown).
He was killed by a casualty Nov. 19, 1721 and his widow administered,
1722,
John Stearns of Concord, being her surety. She moved to
Littleton, Mass.,
1730 with some of her children. Children:
1. Sarah Stearns b. jan 15, 1696/7; m. May 21, 1729, William Wheeler of
Stoughton. Children:
1. Phebe Wheeler
who died Dec 5, 1749 aged 19 years.
2. William
Wheeler b. June 24, 1736; died in Canton, Mass., 1822;
m. Mar 30, 1759, Martha Crane of Stoughton by whom he had one
child, Samuel Wheeler b. abt 1771; m. Jan 21, 1796, Polly, dau.
of Jonas Tucker and died 1823. Wife Martha died March 10, 1773
and he m. (2) April 7, 1794, Hannah Bailey.
2. Mary Stearns b. Jan 27, 1698/9; m. John Powers of Shutesbury.
3. Abigail Stearns b. Feb 18, 1700/1; m. 1717 Joseph Temple son of
Abraham
Temple of Concord.
4. Samuel Stearns b. Mar 7, 1702/3; of Hollis, New Hampshire; died 1787.
5. Ruth Stearns b. May 25, 1704; m. Feb 5, 1723/4, Oliver Livermore of
Watertown. She died in childbed Feb 8, 1724/5
leaving a son Daniel
Livermore b. Jan 28, 1724/5; died Aug 6, 1744.
6. Phebe Stearns b. Feb 23, 1706/7; m. ____ Cummings of Uxbridge, Mass.
7. Rebecca Stearns b. April 15, 1708; m. ______Whittemore.
8. Thomas Stearns b. July 4, 1710; of Littleton, Mass.
9. John Stearns b. July23, 1712; of Dedham and Attleborough, Mass.
10. Joseph Stearns bap. April 15, 1715.
11. Benjamin Stearns b. Jan 6, 1718/19; of Rutland.
To be continued Part 9 - p. 457 - Nathaniel Stearns of Watertown &
wives,
Elizabeth Dix & Sarah Nevinson.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early Settlers
of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston - by Henry
Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 9
p.457
Nathaniel Stearns of Watertown had two wives. The first, Elizabeth Dix.
She
died June 16, 1712 and he m. (2) Oct 29, 1713, Sarah Nevinson. He
died Aug.
24, 1716 and his widow m. (2) April 24, 1718, Samuel Livermore as his
3d wife.
Children of Nathaniel Stearns:
1. Nathaniel Stearns b. Oct 8, died Dec. 1694.
2. Nathaniel Stearns (again) b. Jan 18, 1695/6; died 1749; had a son
Nathaniel,
bap. Feb. 1736.
3. Elizabeth Stearns b. Sept 26, 1697; m. (1) Jonathan Shattuck son of
William
Shattuck, Jr. by whom she had two children who both died
in infancy.
Jonathan Shattuck died July 17, 1724 and his widow m. (2)
Dec 15, 1726,
Daniel Bond as his 2nd wife by whom she had:
1. Mary Bond b. July 12, 1731.
2. Isaac Bond b bap. Nov 18, 1733.
She died prior to 1742.
4. Hannah Stearns b. 1699; d. 1716.
5. Daniel Stearns b. Mar 1, 1700/1; died 1747.
6. Lydia Stearns b. Nov 2, 1702; m. July 29, 1731, Nahum Ward of Boston.
(see Ward Family p. 44)
7. Isaac Stearns b. July 24, 1704; a tailor of Boston. He m. Mehitabel
____.
He died prior to 1732; had dau. Elizabeth Stearns b. Feb
12, 1725/6.
8. David Stearns b. Aug; died October, 1706.
9. Ebenezer Stearns b. April 22, 1708; of Worcester.
10. Mercy Stearns, twin of Ebenezer, b. April 22, 1708 - Samuel
Jennison her
guardian.
11. Deborah Stearns b. Nov 5, 1709; m. ____ Salisbury.
12. Phebe Stearns b. Feb 11, 1711/12; m. Nov. 1, 1731, Josiah
Greenwood, a
tailor, of Newton by whom she had Joshua, Isaac and
Hannah Greenwood all
bap. Dec 7, 1746. Ebenezer Greenwood b. 1753 m.
1778, Hannah Winchester.
p.457
Lieut. Samuel Stearns of Watertown m. Mar. 2, 1697/8, Mary Hawkins b.
April 30,
1677; died April 23, 1759, dau of Timothy Jr. and Mary Hawkins; a grand
dau. of
Timothy Hawkins, Sr. and Hannah Hawkins and of Nathaniel and Sufferana
Treadway
On July 8, 1700 Samuel Stearns bought of Daniel Smith and wife Ruhamah
Smith
for ?100, all their right and title in the Hawkins estate.
Children:
1. Mary Stearns b. July 20, 1699; died Jan 21, 1740/1; m. May 1, 1724,
George
Lawrence, Jr.
2. Timothy Stearns b. Oct 8, 1701; of Framingham.
3. Samuel Stearns b. Nov 30, 1703; d. 1746.
4. Joshua Stearns b. Dec 15, 1705; died 1724, unm.
p.458
5. Sarah Stearns b. May 9, 1708; m. Nov 15, 1726, Isaac Barnard of
Sutton.
6. Jonathan Stearns b. July 2, 1710; died June 26, 1738.
7. Prudence Stearns b. April 27, 1713; m. Nov 16, 1736 Francis
Harrington of
Grafton.
8. Eunice Stearns b. Dec 23, 1715; m. in Waltham, Nov 20, 1738,
Nathaniel
Adams of Grafton.
9. Anna Stearns b. Aug 2, 1718; m. May 26, 1748, Joshua Fuller of
Newton.
Isaac Stearns of Watertown who m. Oct 26, 1708, Mary Bemis. Inventory
of his
estate, April 4, 1737, ?1127. 19s. 8p. Children:
1. Isaac Stearns b. May 14, 1710; died Nov 25, 1779.
2. Mary Stearns b. Dec 4, 1712; m. May 7, 1741, Jonathan Sanderson;
died soon
afterwards.
3. Susanna Stearns b. Jan 11, 1715/16; m. Nov 18, 1736, Jonathan Smith.
4. Nathaniel Stearns b. April 23, 1718; of Holden.
5. Peleg Stearns b. Jan 2, 1720/1.
6. James Stearns.
To be continued - Part 10 - p. 458 - John Stearns of Watertown and
wife, Abigail Fiske.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 10.
p.458
John Stearns of Watertown m. Feb. 24, 1701/2, Abigail Fiske b. June 12,
1684,
dau.of John & Abigail (Parks) Fiske. Inventory of his estate,
administered by
his widow Abigail, 1735, ?952. 3s. 10p. In the settlement of the
estate,
mention is made of the heirs of Peter and James Stearns. He
resided on the
homestead of his father, (Samuel Stearns & wife, Hannah Manning) He
died 1729.
Children:
1. John Stearns b. Nov 18, 1702.
2. Josiah Stearns b. Oct 14, 1704; died April 11, 1756.
3. Joseph Stearns b.July 1706; d. April 11, 1756, unm.
4. Abigail Stearns b.June 3, 1708 m. Oct 7, 1735, at Lunenburg, Col.
Benjamin
Bellows, afterwards of Walpole, N.H. [son of Benjamin
Bellows & wife Dorcas
Bellows of Lancaster, Mass. & grandson of John Bellows
who arrived 1635 on
the Ship, Hopewell.]
Insert:
Surname: BELLOWS
Source:History of Charlestown, NH - Fort 4 - by Rev. Henry
H. Saunderson,
pub. 1876
p.284
Peter Bellows was the oldest son of Col. Benjamin Bellows,
the founder of
Walpole. He was born at Lunenburg, MA Jan 6, l739 and
removed to Walpole
with his father the year he was l4. At the age of 2l
he was apptd constable
of the place. He m. Mary Chase of Cornish, NH and
settled at Charlestown, NH
He d. Apr 5, l825. She d. Apr. l8, l830.
Rev. Dr. Bellows of NY in his account of the Bellows
family says "A good deal
has been said to me of Peter's bravery. It appears
he went to Ticonderoga, June
28, l777 just a fortnight before his father's death, as a
private in Colonel
Walker's company.
"At the close of the celebrated Kilburn fight, which ended
in the evening, the
occupants of Col. Bellow' fort were in a state of great
anxiety as to the result,
fearing that Kilburn and his family had been killed.
The anxiety of Uncle Peter was
so great that he determined to ascertain their fate if
possible, and for that purpose
he left the fort late in the evening and alone, to pass
through what was then an un-
broken wilderness, and filled, as might be supposed, with
Indians. He crept through,
using all the caution of a hunter and at length arrived
safely at Kilburn's house; and
having carefully reconnoitered and ascertained that it was
still held by Kilburn, he
asked and obtained admittance and was the lst to
congratulate him upon his successful
defence.
"He was distinguished for wit as well as for courage and
could furnish very
good company to any body disposed to a merry
time. I have heard that he was famous
for the point and readiness of his repartees which
he could even put into very
good rhyme at short notice; and among these
witticisms was his own epitaph which is
described to me as exceedingly funny and smart, but
I have not been able to
recover it" The Doctor adds to this
account. "He was left many highly
respectable descendants.
p.285 The children of Peter and Mary (Chase)
Bellows:
1. Samuel Bellows b. l776 m. Martha ___;
he d. April 5,l820. She d. Mar 8, l843
aged 77. One child, Royal Bellows who
d.June l6, l8l9 in his 28th year.
2. Benjamin Bellows m. Polly Parker dau
of Elijah and Elizabeth (Farwell)
Parker on July 24, l79l.
3. Peter Bellows, Jr. m. Mehitable
Jacobs.
4. Solomon Bellows b. Sept 9, l77_ m.
Polly Hoyt
5. John Bellows b. Aug 25, l77-
6. Polly Bellows b. Jan 9, l782 m.
Stephen Parker
7. Betsy Bellows b. Apr l2, l785 m. Dr.
___Child.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
5. David Stearns b. Dec 24, 1709; Harvard College, 1728; minister of
Lunenburg; died
March 9, 1761.
6. Thomas Stearns b. oct 8, 1711; m. Aug 9, 1744, Hannah Clarke of
Newton; and
settled in Westminster, Mass. He afterwards m. (2)
Lydia Hilton. He was a
Deacon and died about 1785 leaving the reputation of being
"a very good man."
In his Will dated Mar 29,1785 he made small bequests to
the numerous heirs
of his brothers and sisters and gave the residue of his
estate to his
nephews - Capt. Phinehas Stearns of Watertown & James
Stearns of Lunenburg.
Inventory ?628. 10s. 1p.
7. James Stearns born and died 1713.
8. Hannah Stearns b. Dec. 20, 1713; d. Aug 4, 1779; m. Jan 6, 1746,
Deacon Samuel
Johnson of Lunenburg.
9. Benjamin Stearns of Lunenburg died Nov 22, 1761.
10. Peter Stearns, left heirs.
11. William Stearns b. Mar 11, 1717/18; of Lunenburg; died July 10,
1792.
12. Lydia Stearns b. Oct 7, 1719; m. June 25, 1739, Joshua Goodrich of
Lunenburg. Children:
1. Lydia
Goodrich b. Aug 1, 1740 m. Nov 27, 1766, Joshua Peirce
of Leominster.
2. Mehitable
Goodrich b. May 9, 1742.
3. Relief
Goodrich b. Mar 25, 1744; d. Oct 8, 1746.
4. Joshua
Goodrich b. Aug 10, 1746.
5. Catherine
Goodrich b. Aug 28, 1749.
6. Ruth Goodrich
b. Sept 13, 1751; m. Dec 1, 1772, Samuel Whitney
of Lunenburg.
7. Abigail
Goodrich b. Feb 21, 1754.
8. Abigail
Goodrich (again) b. Nov 24, 1756.
9. Phinehas
Goodrich b. Oct 17, 1759; d. Dec 31, 1845; by wife Betsey
had:
1. Elizabeth Goodrich b. April 1, 1798
2. Asenath Goodrich b. Oct 29, 1800.
3. Jefferson Adams Goodrich b. Nov 7, 1803.
4. Joshua Goodrich who by wife Mary had 4 children.
10. Lois Goodrich b.
Mar 9, 1763.
13. James Stearns b. July 9, 1721; died young.
14. Lois Stearns b. Jan 18, 1722/3; d. Nov., 1796; m. May 1749, Jonas
White of
Watertown, b. Dec 18, 1724, eldest son of Andrew & Jane (Dix) White
15. Abijah Stearns b. Dec 19, 1724; a Colonel; m. Nov 12, 1751, Sarah
Heywood
of Lunenburg where he settled and to the church of which he was
dismissed,
March 24, 1750/1. She died Sept 4, 1782 and he died Nov 6,
1783. By his Will
dated Oct 3, 1783, after numerous small bequests to his relatives, he
gave his
homestead estate to Stephen Whitney who married his neice, Relief
Stearns, dau.
of Josiah Stearns.
To be continued - Part 11 - p. 459 - John Stearns of Billerica &
wife, Esther
Johnson of Woburn.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 11.
p.459
John Stearns of Billerica b. Nov 26, 1686, son of Lieut John Stearns
& his 1st
wife, Elizabeth Bigelow; m. Esther Johnson, dau of Capt. Edward Johnson
of
Woburn, b. Jan., 1691; she d. April 13, 1786 aged 95. She was the
grand dau.
of William Jo hnson, Esq., and the great grand-daughter of Capt. Edward
Johnson
of Woburn - the author of the history of New England, entitled, "Wonder
Working
Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England."
"Wonder Working
Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England."
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/history/providence/
John Stearns died Aug 2, 1776, aged 90 years. Children:
1. Esther Stearns b. Nov 9, 1716; died the next February.
2. John Stearns b. May 27, 1718 (?).
3. Esther Stearns b. June 6, 1720.
4. Isaac Stearns b. June 16, 1722; died April 23, 1808.
5. Joanna Stearns b. July 29, 1724; m. ______ Fletcher.
6. Edward Stearns b. May 9, 1726; d. June 11, 1793.
7. Benjamin Stearns b. Nov 21, 1729; died Aug 25, 1734.
8. Josiah Stearns b. Jan 20, 1731/2; died July 25, 1788.
9. William Stearns b. Dec 11, 1733; died next July.
10. Timothy Stearns b. Aug 15, 1737 (?); of Bartlett, N.H.
Samuel Stearns of Billerica, son of Lieut. John Stearns & 1st wife,
Elizabeth
Bigelow; m. Rachel Crosby dau of Joseph Crosby. After his death
his widow
m. (2) Thomas Wyman. Children of Samuel Stearns:
1. Rachel Stearns b. June 6, 1720.
2. Elizabeth Stearns b. April 3, 1722.
3. Prudence Stearns b. Mar 30, 1724.
4. Samuel Stearns b. June 1, 1726.
5. Benjamin Stearns, chose Dec. 5, 1737 Thomas Miriam to be his
guardian. One
of these daughters married Capt. Wilson who was killed in
the fight at
Concord, 1775.
Insert: Concord Battle, April 19, 1775.
Source: History of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835.
p.115 - Battle of Concord
"The Brooks tavern, on the old road north of the school-house, a severe
battle was fought. Some were killed in the woods and others in or
near
Mr. Hartwell's barn, close by. It was here that Captain Jonathan
Wilson
of Bedford, Nathaniel Wyman of Billerica and Daniel thompson of Woburn
were
killed." http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/janice.htm
To be continued Part 12 - p.459 - Isaac Stearns of Billerica &
Alice Wilson
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 12.
p.459
Isaac Stearns of Billerica m. Alice Wilson. He died 1739 and his widow
m. (2)
John Pollard. Inventory of his estate, ?1467.5s.
Children:
1. Thomas Stearns b. Feb 12, 1724/5.
2. Sarah Stearns b. Dec 10, 1726.
3. Jonathan Stearns b. June 16, 1729; of Lancaster.
4. John Stearns b. May 27, 1731 died Jan. 1754.
5. Oliver Stearns b. July 5, 1733; chose Feb 21, 1754, Joshua Abbott to
be his
guardian.
6. Elijah Stearns b. June 15, 1735; of Rutland.
7. Alice Stearns b. July 21, 1737.
8. William Stearns b. Jan 15, 1738/9; died April 22, 1756.
Isaac Stearns of Stoughton m. Rachel Randall born Nov. 15, 1697, dau of
thomas and Rachel Randall of Easton. Inventory May 26, 1774, Noah
Pratt
Administrator. Real Estate ?400. 14s. 3p. Personal: ?23. 13s. 8p.
Children:
1. Isaac Stearns b. July 7, 1723.
2. Nathan Stearns b. July 12, 1728; d. Jan 25, 1764.
3. Mary Stearns.
Simon Stearns of Stoughton m. in Stoughton Dec 13, 1726, Margaret
Hixon. He
died in Stoughton, 1767. Will dated Aug 20, 1774; proved May 1,
1776.
Children:
p.460
1. Mary Stearns who died April 6, 1728.
2. Margaret Stearns who m. Nov 28, 1762, Turel Allen, a farmer of
Stoughton,
where she died 1797.
3. Simon Stearns b. Nov 19, 1733.
p.460
Rev. Ebenezer Stearns bap. July 8, 1711, son of Isaac Stearns &
wife Elizabeth.
He was a Baptist minister, of Stoughton. He m. (2) Aug 12, 1762,
Jane Philips
of Bristol and abt 1770 moved to Maine and settled on Sheepscot River,
after-
wards of Whitefield, Maine. Children:
1. Eliphalet Stearns.
2. Nathaniel Stearns who m. June 29, 1769 Eunice Kenney. Children:
1.
Joseph Stearns b. Jan 31, 1770.
2.
Hannah Stearns b. Feb. 13, 1772.
3.
Eunice Sterns b. July 19, 1774.
3. Ezekiel Stearns, ? b. 1772; died in Boston of small-pox Feb. 1848.
married &
had:
1.
George N. Stearns b. in Newcastle, ME Nov 16, 1818; a painter,
of Taunton, Mass., m. Mehala Ann Bullock b. June 28, 1816, dau.
of Thomas Bullock of Rehoboth. Children:
1. Maria Melville Stearns b. Sept 12, 1842.
2. George Thomas Stearns b. May 18, 1844; d. 1846.
3. Sarah Almy Stearns b. Sept 12, 1847.
2.
Adeline Stearns who m. Francis Dodge of New Castle, Maine.
3.
Moses Stearns of Cambridge, Mass.
4.
Jane Stearns who m. John Downing; gone to California.
4. Joshua Stearns of Foxboro, Mass., m. Sept 10, 1778, Hannah Hewes of
Mansfield, Mass. Children:
1. Lewis
Stearns b. 1778 or 1779; a mason; m. Rebecca Gage of
Bradford, Mass. and settled in Boston where his first four
children were born; then moved to Middlebury, VT where he
died Jan. 1840. Children:
1. Lewis Stearns Jr. died in infancy.
2. Isaac Gage Stearns, a baker, b. Oct. 1810; m. Mary
Wilkins of Louisville, Kentucky, where he settled.
3. Lewis Payson Stearns a baker of New London, Conn., unm.
4. Mary Webster Stearns, unm.
5. Caroline Stearns b. April 3, 1814; m. 1837, Dr. Daniel
Perley born in Boxford, Mass.; grad. Dartmouth Coll., 1828
M.D., 1831; settled at Lynn, Mass.
6. Charles Safford Stearns b. May 29, 1818 m. Mary Slyter of
New York City where he was a printer and bookseller.
2. Joseph Stearns b. Nov 26, 1783; a mason, of Wrentham; m. (1)
Sally Fisher of Boston, b. 1784; d. July 1, 1836. He m. (2)
Esther Starkey, b. Sept 18, 1800, dau. of Nathan Starkey of
Troy, N.Y. Children:
1. Joseph Sheldon Stearns b. at Foxboro May 19, 1808; m.
Esther Page b. Sept 8, 1811; d. Mar 20, 1847, dau of
Oliver Page of Walpole, Mass. Children:
1. Joseph Oliver Stearns b. Jan 7, 1836.
2. Esther Emily Stearns b. oct 2, 1838.
3. Charles Warren Sterns b. Nov 29, 1843.
2. Thomas Fisher Stearns born in Boston.
3. Harriet Barnes Stearns born in Boston; m. Warren Aldrich
of Lowell, Mass.
4. Joshua Nelson Stearns who m. Mar 27, 1837, Diana Harding
b. Feb 25, 1816; dau of Rufus Harding of Mansfield, Mass.
5. Martha Maria Stearns who m. Harrison Grover, of Lowell.
6. Edwin Stearns b. in Mansfield, Mass. later of Lowell.
7. Henry Clay Stearns of Lowell.
8. Chester Stearns of Lowell.
9. Charles Edson Stearns of Lowell.
By his 2nd wife Esther Starkey, Joseph Stearns had:
10. Esther Briggs Stearns b. Aug 28, 1839.
11. Mary Stearns b. oct 29, 1841.
12. Almira Stearns b. Feb 28, 1844.
3. Edwin
Stearns
4. Hewes
Stearns
5. Nabby
Stearns who m. Joseph Bradshaw of Foxboro, then of Lowell.
6. Betsey
Stearns who m. Ezekiel Evans of Shelburne, N.H.
7. Patty
Stearns d. unmarried.
8.
Ferdinand Stearns.
5. Elijah Stearns.
6. Achsah Stearns.
7. Sarah Stearns who m. Dec 27, 1764, Job Hewitt; both of Easton, Mass.
and
had a dau. Sarah Hewitt b. Dec 28, 1772, who m. Col. Southworth of
Easton and
is now his widow.
8. Molly Stearns.
9. Abigail Stearns.
To be continued Part 13 - p. 461 - Samuel Stearns first of Littleton
then
settled in Hollis, N.H. (wife's name unknown)
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 13.
p.461
Samuel Stearns went first to Littleton, Mass. and then settled in
Hollis, N.H.
He was the son of Samuel Stearns wife, Phebe; b. March 7, 1702/3; died
1787 at
Hollis, N.H. (wife unknown)
Children:
1. Samuel Stearns who moved to Plymouth, N.H.; married ____; and had:
1. Nathan
Stearns
2. Samuel
Stearns
3. Eunice
Stearns
4. Aaron
Stearns
2. Peter Stearns.
3. Isaac Stearns of Monkton, Vermont.
4. Joseph Stearns, a farmer of Hollis, N.H. m. and had one dau. Sally
Stearns.
5. Ebenezer Stearns.
6. John Stearns b. Oct 15, 1750.
7. Ruth Stearns.
8. Kezia Stearns.
9. Phebe Stearns.
Thomas Stearns of Littleton, Mass. had three wives. He was born July 4,
1710;
son of Samuel Stearns & wife Phebe of Lexington, Mass. The
1st wife of Thomas
Stearns was Abigail, dau of Ebenezer Reed of Uxbridge, Mass. mother of
three
children. By his 2nd wife ____ he had two children. His 3d
wife was Mary
Heald of Chelmsford, mother of six children. Mary Heald died April 22,
1809,
aged 89 yrs. He was eminent for his Christian virtues.
Children:
1. Ebenezer Stearns b. Jan 28, 1744; lived some years in Uxbridge and
then
moved to the south-west part of Vermont. By his wife,
Chloe he had at
Uxbridge:
1. Thomas Stearns b. Jan 9, 1770.
2. George Stearns b. April 15, 1772.
3. Mercy Stearns b. Feb. 16, 1774.
4. Micah Stearns twin of Mercy, b. Feb 16, 1774.
5. David Stearns b. May 24, 1776.
6. Moses Stearns b. Nov 28, 1778.
7. Josiah Stearns b. May 15, 1781.
2. John Stearns b. June 2, 1745; of Petersham 1774 and of Templeton; m.
Mar.
3, 1773, Martha Cleveland of Westford; had one child,
Phebe Stearns and
moved to Vermont.
Insert: History of
Westford, Mass. by Rev. Edwin R. Hodgman, 1883.
Enoch Cleaveland Jr.
who m. Martha Butterfield, perhaps the dau.
of Joseph Cleaveland,
Jr. Children: (1) Martha Cleaveland b. 1753;
m. John Stearns of
Littleton in 1773; (2) Enoch Cleaveland b. 1754.
Children of John Stearns & Martha Cleveland
1. Phebe Stearns.
He moved to Vermont.
3. Josiah Stearns b. July 18, 1747; settled in Lunenburg, Mass., where
he died
April 6, 1822.
4. Abigail Stearns b. Oct 1, 1749; died young.
5. Mary Stearns b. Sept 8, 1751; died young.
6. Noah Stearns b. Mar 12, 1753; died in Littleton, Mass. Sept 22,
1829, unm.
He was one of the most prominent men in that town, of much
information and
ability, of a very kind and benevolent dispostion.
After the death of his
brother Levi Stearns, he took four of his children into
his family and left
most of his estate to the youngest of them, Charles
Stearns.
7. Abigail Stearns b. Mar 19, 1755; died July 1825, unm. She
lived with her
brother Noah.
8. Lydia Stearns b. April 9, 1758; m. 1778, Joshua Cheever Fowle and
settled
in Savoy, New Hampshire. She had a son, Thomas Fowle
b. in Lunenburg Jan 4,
1779.
9. Molly Stearns b. Feb 12, 1760; died a widow Oct 14, 1813; m. Silas
Smith
of Leominster, Mass. Children:
1. Molly
Smith b. Mar 24, 1781.
2. Joseph
Smith b. Mar 29, 1783.
3. Asa
Smith b. Mar 13, 1784.
4. Theresa
Smith b. Jan 7, 1786.
10. Samuel Stearns b. May 25, 1762; died Aug 2, 1838 in Cavendish, VT.
11. Levi Stearns b. Jan 12, 1765. died Dec. 25, 1811. He was a farmer of
Lunenburg. He m. Jan 7, 1794, Elizabeth Goodrich who
died Oct 11, 1810.
They had ten children; Thomas, Levi Jr., Abel,
William, Elizabeth,
Levi, again, Abigail, Theresa, Nancy and
Charles. (see p. 489 this
book - to be transcribed.
Capt. John Stearns who m. Rebecca Dean of Dedham, where he resided
until after
the birth of his fifth child, when he moved to Attleborough,
Mass. He was born
July 23, 1712, son of Samuel Stearns and his wife Phebe. By his wife,
Rebecca Dean he had ten children. After she died he m. the widow
Molly Corey
of Dedham, by whom he had two children. He was highly respected
and esteemed
in the town; was a Captain, Town Treasurer for a long time, and
Representative
to the General Court in 1775 and 1776. Children:
1. Rebecca Stearns b. Nov. 17, 1737; m. James Daggett of Rehoboth and
had
fifteen children.
2. Phebe Stearns b. Feb 25, 1739; m. John Bradford of Rehoboth and had
five
children (see Genealogy Register IV. p. 234)
3. Ruth Stearns b. Nov 13, 1740; m. Samuel Slack.
4. Hannah Stearns b. May 25, 1743; lived to advanced age, unm.
5. Mary Stearns b. July 29, 1745; m. Sabin Mann of Medfield.
6. Samuel Stearns b. Oct 17, 1747; died young.
7. Lydia Stearns b. Oct 3, 1749; lived to advanced age, unm.
8. Joseph Stearns b. Oct 7, 1751; died June 2, 1829.
9. John Stearns b. Sept 27, 1753; died while a member of Princeton
College.
10. Isaac Stearns b. Jan 7, 1756; died young.
11. Job Stearns died young.
12. Abigail Stearns who m. Lemuel Stratton of Foxboro and had two
children:
1. Lemuel Stratton
2. Mary Stratton.
To be continued Part 14 - p. 462 - Benjamin Stearns, a carpenter of
Rutland,
Mass. m. Mary, widow of Benjamin Warren of Hardwick.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 14.
p.462
Benjamin Stearns b. Jan 6, 1718/19; son of Samuel Stearns & his
wife Phebe.
Benjamin Stearns was a carpenter of Rutland, Mass. He m. Mary, the
widow of
Benjamin Warren of Hardwick. After his decease his widow m. (2)
Benjamin Hoyt
of Hubbardston, afterwards Princeton, where she died Jan. or Feb
1793. He was
of Rutland in 1746. Children:
1. Levi Stearns b. 1755. He joined the army May 1, 1775; was in the
battle of
Bunker Hill in the Company of Capt. Jedediah Waterman and
under the command
of General Putnam.
2. Eli Stearns b. 1757; died 1827. In 1775 he was apprentice of
Mr. Whittaker,
a carpenter of Princeton, who enlisted early in the
Revolutionary army. Eli
was sent to the army at Cambridge for a short time, as a
substitute for his
master, and was there at the time of the battle of Bunker
Hill, but was not
in the battle. In 1777, he enlisted and in a
scouting party commanded by
(and afterwards notorious) Capt. Daniel Shay (Shay's
Rebellion), was wounded
by a ball from an Indian, passing through his head,
entering his left cheek
and coming out under the right ear. After being
confined several months
in the hospital at Albany, he became Assistant Commissary
and continued in
the service until discharged in 1783. He was a
Justice of the Peace and a
Representative in 1806 thru 1809.
3. John Stearns b. 1760; died on board the Jersey Prison Ship; unm.
See:
List Of 8000 Men Who Were Prisoners On Board The Old
Jersey
(his name is among the 8000 prisoners)
http://www.usmm.net/revdead.html
4. Mary Stearns b. 1763; died Oct 6, 1807; m. Asa Rice of Princeton b.
Aug 6,
1757 (was still living in 1845) Children:
1.
Thomas Rice b. May 20, 1781; a house carpenter; died 1812 in
Elsworth, Maine of a casualty. He m. the widow, Sally Skelton
whose maiden name was Stearns by whom he had:
1. Thomas Rice
2. Benjamin Rice
3. Infant, name not known.
2.
Benjamin Stearns Rice b. Nov 20, 1783; in 1845 resided at
Lancaster; unm.
3.
Mary Rice b. June 9, 1786; m. April 8, 1819, Jesse Perkins and
had:
1. Charlotte Perkins b. Feb 4, 1820; m. Joshua Albert
Haynes of Princeton and had:
1. Harriet Haynes
2. Sarah Haynes.
2. Edwin Stearns Perkins b. April 4, 1822; in 1845 a
clerk in Charlestown, Mass.
3. Benjamin Warren Perkins b. April 14, 1824; a seaman.
4. Harriet Perkins b. Oct 29, 1827.
4. Jonas Rice b. oct 25, 1792; unm.
5. Jonas Stearns b. Mar 10, 1765; died Nov 8, 1805; a house carpenter of
Princeton, Mass., m. Lydia Savage b. Sept 4, 1771; dau. of Seth and
Lydia
Savage of Princeton. She died in Leicester, Mass. Jan 20, 1845.
Children:
1. Twin, died early
2. Twin, died early.
3. Mary Ann Stearns b. June 28, 1800; died Aug 15, 1805.
4. Edwin Stearns b. June 2, 1802; died Aug 6, 1814.
To be continued Part 15 - p. 462 - Daniel Stearns & wives (1) Anna
___ & (2)
Mercy Grant - of Cambridge, Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 15.
p. 462-463
Daniel Stearns b. Mar 1, 1700/1 son of Nathaniel Stearns and his first
wife,
Elizabeth Dix. Daniel Stearns, a cordwainer of Watertown m. (1)
Anne ____,
by whom he had one child. He m. (2) Mercy Grant. He probably
lived on the
homestall of the first Isaac Stearns, near the Cambridge line. He
died about
1747 and his estate was adm by his widow (?) who m. November 8, 1753,
William
Godding. Children:
1. Anna Stearns b. 1723; (?) m. May 22, 1755, Stephen Calf of Waltham.
2. Elizabeth Stearns b. Feb 22, 1724/5.
3. Stephen Stearns b. Sept 21, 1726; died about 1786; m. at Watertown
May 24,
1748, Mary Pearman (?Bordman), of Cambridge. [Moses
Boardman of Cambridge,
had children, Moses, William, Walter, Andrew, Elizabeth
Williams, Mary
Stearns, Abigail Colson, and Martha, wife of John
Williams.] In 1760 he had
a wife Ruth, and in that year moved from Cambridge to
Charlestown. Children:
1. Mary Stearns.
2. Stephen Stearns b. in
West Cambridge; was in the battle of Bunker
Hill; was
some time tent master for Gen. George Washington, and was
in the
army during the Revolutonary War. He m. May 2, 1781, Mary
Robbins
and settled in West Cambridge where he died about 1810. He
had only
one child:
1. Stephen Stearns b. Aug 24, 1781; a chair-maker; went to
Worcester where he m. Sept 8, 1806, Martha, dau. of Deacon
Samuel Stratton of Princeton, Mass. About 1812 he moved to
Shrewsbury. Wife Martha died Sept 30, 1837 and he m. (2)
1839, the widow Mary (Garland) Holmes. He died Aug 15,
1849 of a very distressing calculous affliction. He was a
Deacon of the Baptist church and much esteemed for his
exemplary, consistant Christian character. Children:
1. Elvira Stearns b. July 29, 1807; m. Philip Crosby,
a harness maker, of Skeneateles, N.Y.
2. Mary Ann Stearns b. Dec 31, 1808; m. Charles Newton,
a farmer of Shrewsbury.
3. Martha Stearns b. Mar 22, 1810; m. Fenner Sayer of
Peoria, Illinois.
4. Elizabeth Stearns b. Nov 21, 1812; m. Asa D. Whitte-
more, a housewright of Worcester.
5. Stephen Stearns b. Nov 4, 1814; died Sept 8, 1821.
6. Sophila Stearns b. June 22, 1824; m. Collins Goodyear,
a farmer of Geneva, N.Y.
3. Ruth Stearns bap.
Dec 17, 1758.
4. John Stearns bap.
Dec 13, 1761.
5. Persis Stearns bap
Dec 4, 1763.
6. Joshua Stearns bap.
Jan 19, 1766.
4. Isaiah Stearns b. Jan 22, 1727/8; of West Cambridge; m. Elizabeth
____;
He died 1768, and his estate adm. by widow, Elizabeth in
1769. Inventory,
?139. Children:
1. Isaiah
Stearns bap. July 26, 1752.
2. Peter Stearns
bap. April 28, 1754.
3. Peter Stearns
(again) bap. Jan, 1759.
4. Daniel
Stearns bap. Dec 23, 1760.
5. Joshua
Stearns bap May 8, 1763.
6. Isaac Stearns
bap. Mar 31, 1765.
7. Henry, son of
the widow, Elizabeth Stearns, bap. Aug 11, 1768.
5. Mary Stearns bap. Aug 5, 1733.
6. Danial Stearns bap. Aug 5, 1733; went to Hardwick, enlisted in the
Company
of Capt. Ebenezer Learned, went to Crown Point in 1756 -
was killed. His
brother, Stephen asked for letters of admin. March 25,
1758.
7. Ruth Stearns bap. Dec 9, 1733.
8. Nathaniel Stearns.
9. Sarah Stearns bap. 1739; m. April 20, 1761, William Godding.
10. Mary Stearsn bap. 1743; m. May 15, 1766, James Bradish of
Charlestown, Mass.
To be continued - Part 16 - p. 463-464 - Ebenezer Stearns, clothier of
Worcester & Mary Spring of Newton.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 16.
p.463-464
Ebenezer Stearns b. April 22, 1708 (a twin of Mercy who m. Samuel
Jennison)
son of Nathaniel Stearns and his first wife, Elizabeth Dix. He was a
clothier
of Worcester, Mass. & m. April 12, 1737, Mary Spring of Newton,
Mass. b. Nov.
20, 1709; died Oct, 1798 aged 88 yrs. & 11 mos. He died at
Worcester, Mass.,
September, 1777. Children:
1. Mary Stearns b. July 24 1738; m. June 13, 1757, Joseph Hastings.
2. Ephraim Stearns b. Jan 10, 1740; d. Sept 2, 1808; of Petersham.
3. Ebenezer Stearns b. Oct 3, 1741; m. April 6, 1769, Martha Holbrook of
Worcester. After the birth of three children, he
moved to Warwick, Mass.
Children:
1. James Stearns b. in
Worcester, Jan 8, 1770; m. Sally Chase &
settled in Windham, Vermont.
2. Clarke Stearns b .
in Worcester, Oct 17, 1771; d. July 24, 1773.
3. Martha Stearns b.
in Worcester, Sept 8, 1773; m. Nathan Leonard
of
Warwick.
4. Eleanor Stearns b.
July 19, 1775; m. Samuel Ball of Warwick.
5. Ebenezer Stearns b.
Aug 6, 1777; of Warwick; m. Feb 27, 1803,
Eunice Ball who d. Dec 18, 1805 and he m. (2) April 11, 1808,
Hannah Hastings. Children:
1. Mary Stearns b. Nov 15, 1803; m. Oct 12, 1846, Calvin
Woodward of Orange, Mass.
2. Samuel B. Stearns b. Nov 28, 1805; d. March 12, 1840; unm.
3. Eunice Stearns b. Mar 17, 1809; m. May 28, 1832, Noah Adams
and settled at Winchester, N.H.
4. Hannah Stearns born and died Aug 20, 1811.
5. Clark Stearns b. Aug 20, 1813; Rep. of Warwick in State
Legislature, 1850; m. Dec 5, 1839, Mary Adams. Children:
1. Samuel A. Stearns b. Feb 15, 1841.
2. David C. Stearns b. Sept 5, 1843.
6. Harriet Stearns b. Dec 27, 1819; m. April 24, 1849, Sabin
Skelton of Worcester, Mass.
7. Ebenezer Stearns b. Dec 14, 1825; died Aug 6, 1827.
p.464
6. Clark Stearns
b. Dec 21, 1779; m. Hannah Leonard and settled in
Champlain, Clinton County, N.Y.
7. Sarah Stearns
b. Jan 12, 1782; m. Josiah Proctor of Warwick.
4. Nathaniel Stearns b. Oct 26, 1743; died Feb 17, 1818.
5. Simeon Stearns b.June 10, 1745; m. (published Jan 12th) 1772,
Elizabeth
Clark; settled in Warwick, Mass. and died July 24, 1800.
6. Joanna Stearns b. April 7, 1747; m. Nov 7, 1774, William Gates.
7. Betsey Stearns b. May 7, 1750 died April, 1778; m. Samuel Duncan.
8. Lucretia Stearns b. July 7, 1752; m. Oct. 12, 1780, Joseph Ball.
9. William Stearns b. Aug. 5, 1754; m. Sept 16, 1775, Joanna Duncan and
settled in Orange, Mass.
To be continued Part 17 - p. 464 - Timothy Stearns & wife, Bethia
Adams of
Medway and Framingham, Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 17.
p.464
Timothy Stearns b. Oct 8, 1701; of Framingham; died 1757; son of Lieut
Samuel
Stearns & his wife Mary Hawkins. Timothy Stearns m. Bethia Adams of
Medway, Mass., and settled in Framingham, Mass. opposite to William
Nixon, Esq.
Children:
1. Sarah Stearns b. Dec 1, 1729; died unm., Feb 8, 1825 aged 95 years.
2. Timothy Stearns b. Aug 28, 1731; d. unm., Jan 3, 1820 aged 88 years.
3. Nathan Stearns b. Aug 22, 1733; d. unm., drowned in the Sudbury River
Feb. 28, 1778.
4. Bethia Stearns b. Oct 6, 1735; m. Colonel Thomas Nixon of Framingham
b.
April 27, 1736, son of Christopher Nixon of Framingham; by
whom she had:
1. Kate Nixon b. July 31,
1758; m. William Stowell of Worcester and
moved to
Paris, Maine where she died 1842.
2. Thomas Nixon b. Mar 19,
1762.
3. Asa Nixon b. Aug 17,
1767; d. Dec 7, 1771.
4. Hannah Nixon b. Sept. 21,
1772; m. John Nichols of Southboro.
5. Bethia Nixon who died in
Southboro, Mass., Mar 19, 1723.
5. Joshua Stearns b. Aug 8, 1737; d. July 24, 1751.
6. Jonathan Stearns b. Sept 19, 1739; d. unm., May 10, 1807 aged 68
years.
7. John Stearns b. June 5, 1741; m. ____Newton; died in Southboro.
8. Ace Stearns b. May 3, 1744; died Aug 13, 1751.
9. Hannah Stearns b. May 20, 1746; m. Benjamin Flagg of Worcester, and
died
1843 aged 97 years. April 13, 1759, her mother
Bethia was appointed her
guardian.
To be continued Part 18 - p. 464 - Lieut. Samuel Stearns of Watertown
& his
wife, Sarah Bowman.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 18
p.464
Lieut. Samuel Stearns b. Nov 30, 1703; died 1746; son of Lieut. Samuel
Stearns
of Watertown and his wife, Mary Hawkins. He m. Feb. 13, 1731/2,
Sarah Bowman,
dau. of Capt. Nathaniel and Ann (Barnard) Bowman of Cambridge, Mass. He
died
August 16, 1746. Children:
1. Ezekiel Stearns b. Dec 29, 1732; died 1734.
2. Sarah Stearns b. Oct 26, 1735.
3. Sarah Stearns (again) b. Oct 26, 1736; m. May 24, 1758, Colonel
Abijah
Brown (see p. 128 of Bond's Watertown.)
Insert
p.138
Colonel Abijah Brown m. May 24, 1758
Sarah Stearns of Waltham. He
settled in Waltham and late in life
moved to Lincoln, Mass. where he
died May 25, 1818. (?)He had a 2nd
wife, Anna, who died April 23, 1813.
For many years he held the most
important and responsible trusts in
Waltham. He was often moderator of
town meetings and Selectman; was one
of the committee, appointed March 1,
1773, to draft a reply to a letter
from Boston respecting the grievances of
the Colonies and of Massa-
chusetts in particular; also, one of the
committee appointed Sept. 30,
1774 for drafing instructions to their
Representative, requesting the
Representatives of the several towns to
form a Provincial Congress;
also one of the committee for
maintaining correspondence with other
towns. His name does not appear
among the town officers from 1774 to
1778, during which time he was engaged
in the military services of the
country. He was a lieutenant 1769;
a captain, 1773; was one of the first
to ascertain the proposed march of the
British upon Concord, and was
active in giving the alarm. He was
in the battle of Bunker Hill; was
a Deputy Commissary 1775 and in 1778 was
Lieut. Colonel under Col. Poor.
Children:
1. Abijah Brown b. Mar 21, 1759; died in
the army at Skenesboro, Sept.
12, 1776.
2. Edward Brown b. Jan 21, 1761; m. in
Lincoln, Mass., Dec 30, 1784,
Susan Garfield and
settled in Rindge, New Hampshire. Children:
1. Abijah Brown
2. Susan Brown who m. Augustus Fowle of Woburn, resided in Rindge.
3. Edward Brown
4. Polly Brown of Rindge, N.H.; unm.
3. Anna Brown b. June 26, 1763; now
(1852) living in Lincoln; m. in
Waltham Aug 23, 1781,
Lieut. Eli Jones of Lincoln, one of the
heroes of Bunker Hill,
born in Holliston; died May 9, 1811, aged
55 years. Children:
1. Betsey Jones b. Dec 24, 1781; m. Dec 20, 1807, Charles Bemis
of Weston.
2. Nancy Jones b. Mar 25, 1783; m. Enoch Garfield.
3. William Jones b. Sept 16, 1785; m. (1) May 29, 1810, Parnel
Parks and had 10 children. He m. (2) Mary Haynes. 3 daughters.
4. Polly Jones b. Sept 29, 1788; died Aug 26, 1848.
5. Sally Jones b. Oct 12, 1790 m. Jesse Byles. 3 sons & 2 drs.
p.129
6. Sukey Jones b. Oct 30, 1792 m. Schuyler Parks. 3 daughters.
7. Rebecca Jones b. Mar 23, 1795; m. William Harrington Bigelow
Children:
1. Sarah Bigelow
2. George N. Bigelow
3. Sumner Bigelow
4. Angeline Augusta Bigelow.
5. Alonzo Merrill Bigelow b. Nov 18, 1836.
8. Sophia Jones b. June 27, 1797; m. Timothy Wheeler.
9. Hannah Jones b. Sept 27, 1799; m. (1) Nathan Wheeler and m.
(2) Obed Kendall.
10.
Levina Jones b. jan 24, 1802 m. Hartwell Bigelow.
11.
Eli Jones b. May 13, 1804; a ship-owner of Woburn; m. Mary
Cornell.
12.
Almira Jones b. July 12, 1808; m. Jonas Hastings.
4. Elizabeth Brown b. 1765; died 1766.
5. Jonathan Brown b. May 1, 1767; died Oct 10,
1785.
6. Abner Brown b. Mar 1, 1769; died early, unm.
To be continued Part 19 - p. 464 - Deacon Isaac Stearns of Waltham
& wife, Elizabeth Child.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 19.
p.464
Deacon Isaac Stearns b. May 14, 1710; died Nov. 25. 1779, was the son of
Isaac Stearns and his wife, Mary Bemis of Watertown. He was of Waltham;
Selectman 13 years, 1754-1772, and Assessor, 1744 and 1753; m. July 21,
1729, Elizabeth Child b. Feb. 18, 1706/7, dau of Daniel & Beria
(Bemis)
Child. She died July 10, 1791, aged 85 years. Children:
1. Elizabeth Stearns who died May, 1832.
2. John Stearns b. Jan 2, 1731/2; died Jan 4, 1734/5.
3. Silas Stearns b. Mar 6, 1733/4; d. Dec 31, 1804.
4. Isaac Stearns b. Jan 18, 1735/6; m. November 1768, Eunice Lawrence.
She
died Feb 8, 1802.
5. Phinehas Stearns b. Feb 28, 1737/8; died of small-pox Oct 7, 1792.
6. Susanna Stearns b. April 9, 1740; m. March 26, 1765, Josiah
Wellington. She
d. May 11, 1766, aged 26 yrs.
7. Joshua Stearns b. May 26, 1742; d. Oct 27, 1746.
8. Sarah Stearns b. May 22, 1744; m. Jan 16, 1769, Joseph Hastings.
9. Joshua Stearns b. July 10, 1748.
10. Jonathan Stearns b. July 10, 1748.
11. Elizabeth Stearns b. Mar 17, 1752; m. Nov 5, 1770 Phinehas Lawrence
of
Waltham.
p. 465
Nathaniel Stearns b. April 23, 1718, of Holden, son of Isaac Stearns
and wife
Mary Bemis of Watertown. Nathaniel Stearns m. Oct 22, 1747, Grace
Hammond and
settled in Holden, Mass. His Will was dated Feb 7, 1776.
Children:
1. Nathaniel Stearns b. June 30, 1749; m. Dec 15, 1774 Lydia Cushing,
dau of
Col. Job Cushing of Shrewsbury and grandaughter of Rev.
Job Cushing of
Hingham; and settled in Paxton, Mass. where he died
January 1785 leaving
one son who died young. His widow m. (2) James Lamb
of
Paxton and moved to Newfane, Vermont.
2. Mary Stearns b. Sept 4, 1751; m. Alpheus Brown of Paxton.
3. Ruth Stearns b. April 20, 1754.
4. Phebe Stearns b. nov 17, 1755; m. John Davis and settled on her
father's
homestead.
5. Reuben Stearns b. Feb 6, 1759; of Brattleboro, Vermont.
6. Eunice Stearns b. Feb 8, 1761; m. Rev. John Foster of Paxton.
p.465
Peleg Stearns b. Jan 2, 1720/1 son of Isaac Stearns & his wife Mary
Bemis.
He m. 1763, Elizabeth the widow of Mr. Swineton, a purser in the
British Navy
and the dau. of Capt. Peter Harris of New London. He settled
first at Cambridge
on what has been known as the Vassal Farm, where his only child was
born. He spent the latter part of his life in Charlestown wher he
died March
5, 1789 and his widow died April 10, 1789. Mr. Swineton was lost
at sea and
left one child, Rachel Swineton who married in Boston, Nathaniel Child,
one
of the "Tea Boys". Child of Peleg Stearns:
1. William Stearns b. in Cambridge April 10, 1754; grad. Harvard
College 1776;
studied medicine with Dr. Joshua Brackett of Portsmouth, N.H., and
commenced
practice in connection with Dr. Hall Jackson of Marblehead. He
soon
relinquished the practice of medicine; and after qualifying himself
under the
instruction of a chemist in Boston, he commenced the business of
apothecary
and grocer in Salem, Mass. in which he was very successful. A
correspondent
says, "he never spoke ill of a person and was the most singularly
honest man I
ever knew." He represented the town repeatedly in the State
Legislature; often
held municipal offices and was most fond of that of Overseer of the
Poor, as
affording him the greatest opportunity to gratify his benevolent
feelings.
He was noted for hospitality and public spirit. He took the lead
in making the
turnpike from Salem to Boston, and at one time owned one-eighth of the
stock.
The first large block of brick buildings in Salem was his. The
night before
the battle of Bunker Hill, he was employed the whole night in throwing
up the
breastworks and during the action was taking care of his parents at
their farm
at Plowed Hill. In the yard in the rear of their house, Major
McCleary was
killed by a ball or shell from the Hill.
To be continued - Part 20 - p. 465 - John Stearns & his wife, Anna
Coolidge
of Watertown & Westminster, Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 20.
p.465
John Stearns, b. Nov. 18, 1702, son of John Stearns of Watertown and
his wife,
Abigail Fiske. He m. Feb. 15, 1725, Anna Coolidge and resided in
Watertown until
about 1741 when he moved to Westminster, Mass., where he died, 1775.
"John Stearns of Watertown had 40 acres of land assigned to him with
other
persons who also had lots assigned to them, by the order of the court,
he
having a house and occupied it three years, agreeable to the order of
the
Court in 1718." Children:
1. Moses Stearns b. May 29, 1728; died in Walpole, N.H., Sept 24, 1808.
2. Jerusha Stearns b. Nov 5, 1730; m. Feb 5, 1749, Darius Houghton of
Lunen-
burg, Mass., by whom she had:
1. Darius
Houghton b. Oct 4, 1751; died Oct 3, 1753.
2. Darius
Houghton (again) b. April 12, 1754.
3. David
Houghton b. April 8, 1756.
4. Adonijah
Houghton b. May 8, 1758.
5. Asahel
Houghton, b. Jan 11, 1760.
6. Elizabeth
Houghton b. Nov 9, 1761.
7. John Houghton
b. Nov 21, 1763.
8. Anna Houghton
b. Sept 22, 1765.
This family moved to Windsor,
Vermont.
p.466
3. Anna Stearns bap. Mar. 3, 1736.
4. Abigail Stearns bap. Oct 13, 1739; (?) m. 1757, Roger Wellington.
5. Hepzibah Stearns bap. Nov. 12, 1741; m. Feb 2, 1764, Benjamin
Stratton of
Waltham. (see p. 595, Bond's Watertown)
Insert:
p.595
Joseph Stratton of Waltham m. Aug 19, 1717,
Sarah Hagar who died Feb 8,
1771 aged 80 years. Children:
1. Elizabeth
Stratton b. June 12, 1718; m. June 16, 1736, Samuel
Harrington of Westboro.
2. Sarah
Stratton b. Mar 6, 1720/1; m. (published Feb 14) 1744,
Shubael Child of Weston.
3. Lydia
Stratton b. july 22, 1722, m. May 1, 1750, Jonathan Hammond.
4. Jemima
Stratton b. Feb 13, 1724/5; m. May 19, 1748, Joseph Gar-
field of Weston.
5. Kezia
Stratton, twin of Jemima, b. Feb 13, 1724/5, m. May 19,
1748, John Myrick of Weston.
6. Joseph
Stratton b. April 25, 1729; died Oct 17, 1750.
7. Benjamin
Stratton b. May 19, 1732; m. Feb 2, 1764 Hepzibah Stearns
Children:
1. Lois Stratton bap. Feb 16, 1772.
2. Joseph Stratton bap. May 14, 1775.
6. Aaron Stearns b. Feb. 2, 1746; died Sept. 11, 1807.
7. Elias Stearns b. Sept. 30, 1752; died April 2, 1845 in Haverhill,
N.H.
To be continued Part 21 - p. 466 - Josiah Stearns of Watertown &
wives (1)
Susanna Ball and (2) Dorothy Prentice & (3) Mary Bowman of
Cambridge.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 21.
p.466
Josiah Stearns b. Oct 14, 1704; died April 11, 1756; son of John
Stearns &
Abigail Fiske of Watertown. Josiah Stearns, a farmer and
blacksmith of
Watertown settled on his father's homestead. He m. (1) Dec 31,
1729, Susanna
Ball, b. March 16, 1708, dau of James & Elizabeth (Fiske)
Ball. He m. (2)
Dorothy Prentice about 1740 or 1741, dau of Rev. John & Mary
(Gardner) Prentice
of Lancaster and he m. (3) April 23, 1752, Mary Bowman of
Cambridge. He died
April 11, 1756. Inventory of his estate - Real: ? 3610. O.T.;
Personal,
? 1150. 19s - ? 4760. 19s. Children:
1. Josiah Stearns b. July 11, 1730.
2. Susanna Stearns b. Sept 14, 1731; died young.
3. John Stearns b. May 8, 1733; died Oct 16, 1804.
4. Phinehas Stearns b. Feb 5, 1735/6; d. March 27, 1798.
5. Jonas Stearns. b. Feb 27, 1737/8; d. Sept 13, 1782.
6. Peter Stearns b. Aug 3, 1742; enlisted in the French war and never
returned.
Estate admin. 1758 by his brother Josiah Stearns.
7. Dorothy Stearns b. June 4, 1744; d. Nov 2, 1815; m. December, 1765,
David
Coolidge, Jr. of Watertown. Eleven children - see p. 176 -
Bond's Watertown.
p. 176
David Coolidge of Watertown m. 1765, Dorothy Stearns. She
d. Nov 2, 1815.
Children:
1. Susanna Coolidge b.
July 28, 1766; died of consumption April 2,
1780.
2. William Coolidge b.
Jan 12, 1768; d. in Watertown April 27, 1820,
res.
sucessively in Boston, London, Worcester, Mass., and Water-
town. He m. Nov 28, 1790 Maria May, b. Sept 29, 1771; dau of Aaron
& Elizabeth May, of Boston. She died in London, Feb 6, 1797.
3. Peter Coolidge b.
Mar 1, 1770; d. Sept 2, 1785.
4. Dorothy Coolidge b.
Jan 30, 1772; m. Thaddeus Richards of Newton.
5. Rhode Coolidge b.
Mar 14, 1774; died of cancer Oct 19, 1823; m.
Nov
25, 1791, Eben Richardson who in 1847 was still living in
widowhood.
6. Lucy Coolidge b.
Feb 16, 1776; d. Mar 9, 1812; m. Samuel Learned
7. John Kittridge
Coolidge b. Feb 1, 1779, m. Rebecca Wellington of
Lexington and settled in Watertown. In 1811 he moved to the
neighborhood of Bangor on the Penobscot River. In 1815 he moved
to
Waterford on the Muskingum, Ohio and in 1817 to Cincinnati where
he
died April, 1836.
8. James Coolidge b.
May 25, 1781; d. May 1827; m. Sept 1, 1802,
Betsey Wild, of Boston. She d. April 10, 1823 and he m. (2)
June
20, 1824, Frances Thurston of Brighton.
9. Mary Coolidge b.
Mar 29, 1783; died in Wheeling, VA July 1842;
m.
Nov., 1802, James Richards, a farmer of Newton. In 1815 he
moved to Bridgeport, PA, and soon afterwards to Wheeling, VA.
10. Sally Coolidge b. Feb 2,
1785; d. June 4, 1815; m. Martin Stone
of
Framingham and had one son, Edwin M. Stone b. Jan 29, 1805,
a
Restorationist clergyman of Beverly, Mass.
11. Peter Coolidge b. July
2, 1787; of Framingham; m. June 28, 1813,
Mary
T. Monroe of Cambridge who d. Jan 24, 1823 and he m. (2)
July
1, 1824, Mary P. Fiske of Framingham.
p.466
8. Susanna Stearns b. April 20, 1746; died young.
9. William Stearns b. Mar 3, 1748; married and settled in Lunenburg,
Mass.
10. Relief Stearns b. April 10, 1749; died Jan 17, 1803; m. May 10,
1770,
Stephen Whitney, b. April 25, 1743, son of John
& Susan Whitney.
11. Mary Stearns b. Jan 5, 1754; d. Feb 2, 1816; m. Nov 17, 1773,
Benjamin
Hurd of Charlestown.
p.466
Rev. David Stearns b. Dec 24, 1709; Harvard Coll., 1728; minister of
Lunenburg;
died Mar. 9, 1761; son of John Stearns and Abigail Fiske of
Watertown. He was
ordained at Lunenburg April 18, 1733; m. April 7, 1736, Ruth Hubbard, a
lady
highly distinguished by the vigour of her mind and the virtues of her
heart.
After the death of Rev. Stearns (Mar. 9, 1761), she m. (2) Nov 9, 1768,
Rev.
Aaron Whitney of Petersham, a grad of Harv. Coll. 1738, son of Moses
Whitney of
Littleton. Mr. Whitney died 1779 and his widow died Nov 1, 1788
aged 72 in
Keene, N.H. where she was residing with her daughter, Mrs. Newcomb.
The following inscription is a good evidence of the respect and
affection of
his people towards him - Tombstone of Rev. David Stearns at Lunenburg,
Mass.:
"This Monument Erected by the town of Lunenburg,
Is sacred to the Memory of The Rev. David Stearns
Their much beloved and respected Pastor, Who
Departed this life in the joyful expectation of
A better, on the 9th day of March, A.D. 1761.
"In his private capacity, he
was a kind husband, a tender
parent, an
affectionate brother and a faithful friend. In
his ministerial
character, his conversation was pure, enter-
taining, and
instructive; his doctrine plain and scriptural,
and his life truly
exemplary. He was adorned with hospital-
ity, with singular
prudence, and a most endearing benevol-
ence; with a good
knowledge of men and things; with a fervent
zeal for the glory of
Christ, and the salvation of souls, and
was governed by the
united influence of these accomplishments.
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth."
Children:
1. Ruth Stearns b. Jan 3, 1736/7; m. March 24, 1757, Benjamin
Reddington of
Lunenburg by whom she had ten children. About 1797,
the family moved to
Langdon, N.H., where she died 1798 and he d. 1811 aged 82.
2. Rebecca Stearns b. Nov 4, 1738; m. July 10, 1758, Thomas Sparhawk,
Esq.,
born in Cambridge, 1737; grad. Harv. Coll. 1755; settled
first in Lunen-
burg and in 1769 moved to Walpole, N.H. They had
eight children.
p.467
3. Abigail Stearns b. July 6, 1740; m. Sept 1, 1763, Rev. Ebenezer
Sparhawk
b. June 15, 1738; son of Noah and Priscilla Sparhawk of
Cambridge; grad.
Harvard Coll. 1758 and settled in Templeton, Mass.
She d. April 21, 1772
leaving four children.
4. Elizabeth Stearns b. April 20, 1742; d. August 1800; m. June 5, 1765,
Rev. Zabdiel Adams of Quincy by whom she had 11 children.
Rev. Adams
was successor of her father in the Church of Lunenburg.
5. David Stearns b. jan 8, 1743/4.
6. Lucy Stearns b. Nov 16, 1745; d. February 21, 1750.
7. Jonathan Stearns b. Nov 2; d. Nov 12, 1747.
8. Hannah Stearns b. Nov 14, 1748; d. Feb 1, 1784; m. 1772, Aaron
Whitney, Jr.
a merchant of Northfield, Mass.
9. Mary Stearns b. Mar 9,; d. the 19th, 1749/50.
10. Jonathan Stearns b. April 19, 1751; grad. Harv. Coll. 1770; died in
Halifax, Nova Scotia May, 1798.
11. John Stearns b. April 20, 1753; died in the Revolutionary Army at
at Cambridge, August 22, 1775, where may now be seen
his gravestone.
12. Thomas Stearns b. March 8, 1756; died unm.
13. Sarah Stearns b. April 25, 1758; m. Hon. Daniel Newcomb of Keene,
N.H.
p. 467
Benjamin Stearns m. Jan 15, 1754, Anna Taylor of Salem and settled in
Lunenburg, Mass. He d. Nov 22, 1761. Children:
1. Benjamin Stearns b. Dec 3, 1754.
2. Joseph Stearns b. Aug 22, 1756.
3. Anna Stearns b. Feb 7, 1759.
To be continued - Part 22 - p. 467 - Deacon William Stearns & wife,
Elizabeth Johnson of Lunenburg, Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 22
p.467
Deacon William Stearns b. Mar 11, 1717/18, of Lunenburg; d. July 10,
1792; m.
Jan 22, 1746, Elizabeth Johnson, b. 1721, dau. of Samuel & Rebecca
Johnson of
Lunenburg, Mass., where he settled. She died Feb 25, 1784.
Children:
1. William Stearns b. April 20, 1749; grad. Harvard Coll. 1770; studied
law &
settled in Worcester, Mass., where he m. April 24, 1776,
Mary Dana and died
Oct 22, 1783 leaving two daughters. (see also Lincoln's
History of Worcester
Index). Children:
1. Polly
Stearns (Mary) b. Mar 10, 1777.
2.
Elizabeth Stearns b. Sept 17, 1779.
2. Mary Stearns b. May 7, 1751; died unm. Sept 28, 1800.
3. Joseph Stearns b. Aug 21, died Sept 25, 1754.
4. James Stearns b. Sept 1, 1758; m. Elizabeth ____, and had:
1. Thomas Stearns b. Jan 19,
1781.
2. James Stearns b. Mar 29,
1782.
3. William Stearns b. Jan
14, died Feb 8, 1784.
4. Elizabeth Stearns b. Mar
14, 1786.
5. William Stearns (again)
b. July 14, 1789.
6. Polly Stearns b. Feb 24,
1791.
p.467
Hon. Isaac Stearns of Billerica b. June 16, 1722; died April 23, 1808,
son of
John Stearns & Esther Johnson of Billerica. He was a soldier
in the French war
He was a Representative and Senator in the State Legislature and highly
re-
spected as a soldier, a civil magistrate, a legislator and a
Christian. He m.
Feb 11, 1747/8, Sarah Abbot, b. April 22, 1729; died Jan 9, 1815 aged
86; dau.
of Obed and Elizabeth Abbot of Bedford, Mass. (see also Reg. of Abbot
family,
p.149). Children:
1. Esther Stearns b. April 13, 1749; m. Oct 19, 1773 Abraham Andrews of
Concord
Mass. and settled in Lovell, Maine. She died Mar 11,
1799 and he d. July
13, 1823. Children:
1. Betsey Andrews who m. Jan
2, 1802 Capt. Stephen Barker of Lovell,
Maine, son
of John Barker of Fryeburg, Maine. She d. Feb 16, 1844.
Children:
1. Betsey Barker b. Nov 10, 1802; m. Daniel H. Warren. Children:
1. Stephen Barker Warren b. Mar 1, 1821.
2. Betsey Barker Warren b. Feb 13, 1823; m. Edward
Sanderson.
3. Mary Jane Warren b. Jan 13, 1825.
4. Sally Warren b. Aug 9, 1826.
5. Esther Warren b. Sept 9, 1828.
6. Maria Warren b. July 23, 1830.
7. Miranda Warren b. May 29, 1832.
8. Daniel W. Warren b. Mar 20, 1834.
p.468
9. Angelina Warren b. April 30, 1836.
10. Alvin S. Warren b. Aug 15, 1839.
2. Esther Barker b. May 25, 1804; d. June 1805.
3. Stephen Barker b. Dec 9, 1805; d. April 7, 1816.
4. John Barker b. Sept 30, 1807; m.Salina Little. Children:
1. Aretas G. Barker b. Oct 23, 1835.
2. Eugene V. Barker b. Dec 20, 1837.
3. Margaret M. Barker b. August, 1841.
5. Esther Stearns Barker b. Nov 15, 1809; m. Richard Kimball
and moved to Illinois.
6. Mary Ann Barker b. Nov 28, 1811; d. Feb 1, 1817.
7. Eliza Ann Barker b. Nov 6, 1813; m. Lieut. Obed Stearns.
8. Abraham Andrews Barker b. Mar 13, 1816; m. Orsina Little.
1. Valentine S. Barker b. July, 1843.
9. Mary Ann A. Barker b. July 19, 1819; m. Warren J. Remick
1. Emma A. Remick b. Aug 22, 1841.
2. Clark H. Remick b. 1843.
10. Sally Barker b. Oct 21, 1821.
11. Stephen Barker b. June 12, 1824; died Feb 19, 1844.
2. Abraham Andrews of Lovell, m. (1) Hannah
Barker. She died in
childbed,
Oct 17, 1804 & he m. (2)
Sally Frye. She died and he m. (3) about
1840, Abigail
Colby. Children:
1. Abraham Andrews b. Nov
21, 1798; a Justice of the Peace of Lovell,
ME., m.
Nov 17, 1829 Lydia P. Webber. Children:
1. Abraham D. Andrews b. Sept 21, 1830.
2. Dean Andrews b. Jan 14, 1832.
3. Lydia P. Andrews b. Oct 5, 1833.
4. Charles Andrews b. Nov 1, 1835.
6. Aurelia Andrews b. Mar 31, 1839.
7. Henry Andrews b. Sept 16, 1842.
2. Stephen Andrews b.
Nov 23, 1800 m. Martha Woodbury.
1. Martha Andrews b. November 1838.
3. Solomon Andrews b.
Nov 2, 1802; a Colonel and Justice of the Peace
in
St. Johnsbury, Vermont; m. Sybell Ann Farnsworth. Children
1. Henry Andrews b. and died early.
2. Elizabeth Ann Andrews b. Sept, 1840.
3. George F. Andrews.
Insert:
Source: Farnsworth Memorial p.365
Sybell Ann
Farnsworth b. ca. 1807 dau of Jonathan & Martha (Cottle)
Farnsworth
of South Woodstock, Vermont. She m. Solomon Barker of
St.
Johnsbury, VT b. Nov 2, 1802; they had: Henry who died in
infancy.
Elizabeth Ann b. Sept. 1840 and George b. 1843. There
is
obviously an error here and the book says, "lineage not
ascertained". Perhaps he was Solomon Barker Andrews
4. Infant b. and died
October, 1804.
5. Hannah Andrews b. nov 3,
1806; m. Jan. 1830 Edward Shirley.
6. Dean Andrews b. Feb 15,
1808; a clergyman.
7. Susan F. Andrews who m.
George Bullard.
8. Mary Andrews who m.
William H. Powers.
9. George W. Andrews who m.
Lucy How and res.in Meyerstown, PA.
10. Sarah F. Andrews.
11. Simon F. Andrews, a teacher in
Meyerstown, PA.
12. John Andrews.
13. Caroline Andrews.
14. Joseph Stearns; died.
15. Abigail A. Stearns b. 1841.
16. Joseph Stearns b. 1843.
3.Esther Andrews who m. May 24, 1803, Stephen Heald
of Lovell, Maine. She
died Oct 29, 1826. Children:
1. Esther Stearns Heald b. July 20,
1804; m. James Shirley. 4 children.
2. Sophia Heald b. Feb 24, 1806; m.
Jonathan Warren of Limerick, Maine.
3. Dorcas Heald b. oct 14, 1807; m.
Nathaniel Dresser. Children:
1.
Caroline Dresser
2.
Maria Dresser
3.
Francis Dresser
4.
Lincoln Dresser
5.
Augustus Dresser
6.
Anna A. Dresser
and others.
4.Stephen C. Heald b. May 6, 1809; m.
Lydia Parker.
1. Albion Heald.
He m. (20 Susan Wiley.
2. Lydia Heald.
5. Enos Heald b. April 4, 1811; m.
Betsey Farrington.
1. Albion Heald b. April 8, 1833.
2. Seth F. Heald b.May 22, 1837; died Jan. 1843.
3. Abigail Heald b. Nov 24, 1844.
6. Mary S. Heald b. May 22, 1813; m. (1)
Horace Dresser and had:
1. Albarona Dresser b. Aug 21, 1835.
Horace Dresser died
& his widow m. (2) Smith Pride and had:
2. Orlando Pride b. Nov 5, 1838.
7. Abigail S. Heald b. Dec 31, 1814; m.
Caleb Swan.
8. Hannah Heald b. Jan 6, 1823.
p.469
4. Sally Andrews b. Sept 18, 1785; m. May 29, 1805, David
Stearns
and
settled in Lovell, Maine. Children:
1. Caleb Stearns b. April 5; died
Aug 18, 1806.
2. Stephen Stearns b. Jan 11,
1808; m. Mary Russell. Children:
1.
Charles R. Stearns b. Dec 29, 1834.
2.
George Stearns b. Sept 29, 1836.
3.
Caroline Stearns b. Dec 25, 1838.
3. Caleb Stearns (again) b. nov
18, 1809; m. Eliza Russell. Children:
1.
Marcellus Stearns b. April 20, 1839.
2.
Augustus Stearns
3.
Timothy Stearns.
4. Mary A. Stearns b. April 1,
1812; m. Abel Heald. Children:
1. Henry F. Heald b. July 26, 1835.
2. Georgiana Heald b. Dec 8, 1836.
3. Mary E. J. Heald b. April 20, 1838.
4. Martha C. Heald b. Dec 11, 1839; died.
5. Selwin Heald b. and died early.
5. Harriet Stearns b. Jan 18,
1816; d. Jan. 1825.
6. Timothy Stearns b. May 26,
1818; d. June 1819.
7. Mehitabel K. Stearns b. July 8,
1823.
8. Henrietta Stearns b. Mar 8,
1826.
9. Harriet Stearns, twin to
Henrietta, b. Mar 8, 1826.
10. Horatio Stearns b. July 25, 1828.
5. Isaac Andrews b. Aug 13, 1788; m. October, 1815,
Sally
Kimball.
Children:
1. William G. Andrews b. Sept 29,
1816; m. Mary Woodman.
2. Jacob Andrews b. Feb 24, 1820;
m. Martha Hamlin.
3. Sally Kimball Andrews b. Nov.
2, 1824.
4. Esther Andrews b. Feb 10, 1832.
5. Elizabeth Andrews, twin of
Esther, b. Feb. 10, 1832; d. Feb 22, 1832.
6. Isaac Andrews.
6. Jacob Abbot Andrews b. Aug 22, 1790; died June
1815.
7. Polly Andrews b. Oct 14, 1792; d. Jan. 1809.
2. Isaac Stearns b. June 13, 1750; died April 29, 1807; m. Dec 18, 1777
Mary
Crosby and settled in Ashburnham. Children:
1. Betsey Stearns b. Aug 31, 1778.
2. Isaac Stearns b. Mar 12, 1780; died June
1781.
3. Isaac Stearns (again) b. oct 28, 1781; of
Ashburnham; m. Nov 7, 1822,
Belinda Bedlow.
Children:
1. Sarah Stearns b. Sept 27, 1823. d. Feb, 1824.
2. Isaac Stearns b. Sept 24, 1825.
3. Sarah Stearns b. Dec 24, 1827.
4. Albert Stearns b. Dec 20, 1833.
4. Mary Stearns b. Feb 19, 1783.
5. Jesse Stearns b. Aug 29, 1784; m. June 6,
1811; Lucinda Davis and
settled in New Ipswich,
N.H. Children:
1. Jesse George Davis Stearns b. Feb 24, 1812; grad. Amherst
Coll. 1836; a tutor, 1839; grad. Andover Theol. Seminary
1842; Pastor of the Orthodox Congregational Church of
Billerica; m. June 27, 1843, Lucy Murdock of Rutland.
2. Eveline Lucinda Stearns b. Feb 16, 1814; m. Nov 4, 1835,
Rev. S. S. Tappan.
3. Josiah M. Stearns b. June 17, 1818.
4. Isaac C. Stearns b. Feb 28, 1820.
5. Abigail Stearns b. July 24, 1822.
6. Lucy E. Stearns b. April 13, 1824.
7. John Newton Stearns b. May 24, 1829.
6. Sarah Stearns b. Feb 4, 1786.
7. Martha Stearns b. oct 19, 1787; m.
April 8, 1818, Capt. Sewall Fiske
of Weston.
8. Orpah Stearns b. May 19, 1789; m.
Joel Davis.
9. John Stearns b. Mar 11, 1791; grad.
Union Coll. 1821; was a teacher
in Washington city
where he died Sept 10, 1824, unm. He had been
licensed to preach.
10. Abigail Stearns b. Jan 31, 1793; m. 1818,
Chauncey Perry.
3. William Stearns b. Aug 4, 1752; d. Aug 13, 1826; m. Sept 25, 1777,
Lydia
Davis and settled in Ashburnham. Children:
1. William Stearns b. June 19, 1778;
died 1823; of Ashburnham; m.
Feb 12, 1801, Betsey
Davis. Children:
1. Horatio D. Stearns b. Jan 19, 1802; d. 1803.
2. Selinda Stearns b. Sept 1, 1804.
3. Matilda E. Stearns b. May 9, 1806; d. 1808.
p.470 4.
William Albert Stearns b. Oct 12, 1809; m. April 12, 1835,
Clarissa Talbot. Children:
1. Henry A. Stearns b. Feb 6, 1836.
2. Emily Ann Stearns b. Oct 28, 1838.
3. Samuel Stearns b. Sept. 28, 1841.
5. Elizabeth E. Stearns b. Dec 9, 1811.
6. Charles B. Stearns b. Aug 16, 1814; m. April 5, 1835 Mary
S. Brackett.
2. Lydia Stearns b. March 24, 1780.
3. Solomon Stearns b. June 18,
1782, a merchant in New Orleans where he
died Feb 9,,
1815, unm.
4. Asa Stearns b. Oct 14, 1784;
grad. Harvard Univ. 1807; d. Dec. 20,
1809, while a
student of Divinity.
5. Timothy Stearns b. Sept 1,
1786; d. 1843; a Captain, of Ashburnham;
m. Jan 26, 1820,
Eliza Adams. Children:
1. Eliza B. Stearns b. Jan 2, 1821.
2. Mary A. Stearns b. July 21, 1822.
3. Timothy W. Stearns b. Sept. died Oct., 1824.
4. Timothy W. Stearns (again) b. Mar 16, 1827.
5. William D. Stearns b. Feb 7, 1829.
6. Edwin J. Stearns b. Jan 17, 1831.
7. Emma L. Stearns b. Jan 30, 1833.
8. Eurania A. Stearns b. Oct 23, 1835.
9. Joseph H. Stearns b. Feb 12, 1838.
6. Calle Stearns b. Mar 24,
1789; m. ____ Farrar; d. March, 1843.
7. Charles Stearns b. Mar
21, 1791; d. Mar 6, 1838; m. 1831, Rebecca
Converse
of New Ipswich, N.H.
8. Roxana Stearns b. May 7,
1793; m. ____Jones, a missionary to the
Little
Osage Indians.
9. Charlotte Stearns b. Sept
8, 1795; m. ____ Reid.
4. Benjamin Stearns b. May 10, 1754; died 1756.
5. Sarah Stearns b. April 1, 1756; died the next November.
6. Benjamin Stearns b. Sept 12, 1757; died May 24, 1836; m. Feb 15,
1792,
Susanna Frye of Fryeburg, Maine and settled in New Suncook
(Lovell) Maine.
She was born June 16, 1765 and d. Sept 27, 1829. He
was for a long time
a Justice of the Peace. Children:
1. Isaac Stearns b.
Dec. 30, 1792; studied medicine in Fryeburg;
attended lectures at Dartmouth Coll and settled, a physician, in
Dunbarton, N.H., where he was a Postmaster. He m. May 25, 1826,
Eunice P. Marshall, b. July 6, 1804, dau of Benjamin Marshall, Esq.
of
Dunbarton. Two children. She d. Oct 1, 1830 and he m. (2) April
25,
1833 Elizabeth Lund Page, b. July 30, 1798 dau of Jeremiah Page
Esq., of Dunbarton. Children:
1. Susan Frye Stearns b. Feb 8, 1828.
2. Elizabeth Stearns b. Oct 11, 1829.
3. Sarah Page Stearns b. and d. July, 1834.
4. Isaac H. Stearns b. May 3, 1837.
2. Benjamin Stearns b.
Sept 1, 1794; a Deacon of Lovell, ME., m. Dec.
13,
1819, Mehitable Frye Swan dau of Joseph T. Swan, Esq., of
Fryeburg. Children:
1. John F. Stearns
2. Olive Stearns
3. Benjamin F. Stearns
4. Rowland H. Stearns.
5. Eliza Ann Stearns
6. Edward Payson Stearns
and others.
3. John F. Stearns b.
Aug 1, 1796; died oct 15, 1819, unm.
4. Solomon Stearns b.
July 21, 1798; died 1849; a Brigadier General
of
Lovell, Maine; m. Jan 11, 1824, Sally Heald; numerous children.
5. Nathan Stearns b.
and d. 1800.
6. Susanna Stearns b.
oct 28, 1801; died 1802.
7. Obed Stearns b. Feb
4, 1804 at Lovell, ME., m. June 3, 1835,
Eliza Barker dau of Capt. Stephen & Betsey (Andrews) Barker.
1. Irene Emeline Stearns
2. Elizabeth Susanna Stearns
3. Arthur Tappan Stearns
4. Joseph Fessenden Stearns
5. Stephen Stearns
6. Austin Stearns.
8. Sarah F.
Stearns b. July 24, 1806; m. June 3, 1842, Le Roy
Rensselaer Mills, a farmer of Dunbarton, N.H.
7. Sarah Stearns b. Aug 3, 1759; d. May 26, 1807; m. Sept 28, 1779,
Thaddeus
David of Bedford.
8. Mary Stearns b. oct 25, 1761; d. Sept 13, 1834; m. Nathan Fiske of
Weston.
9. Timothy Stearns b. Sept 25, 1763; d. Aug 18, 1816; m. Nov 1, 1787,
Sarah
Low of Bedford and settled in Billerica. Children:
1. Timothy
Stearns b. Sept 8, 1788; d. Nov 22, 1791.
2. Calle
Stearns b. Sept 21, 1790; d. Feb 23, 1793.
3. Timothy
Stearns (again) b. Nov 12, 1792; d. April 1795.
4. John
Stearns b. Sept 15, 1794; d. Mar 3, 1809.
p.471 5. Sewall Stearns b. Sept 2, 1796;
d. 1849; a Justice of the Peace,
of Billerica; m. May 27, 1820 Lucretia Hill.
6. Sarah
Stearns b. July 8, 1798; died June, 1800.
7. Obed
Stearns b. Mar 21, 1801; m. May 27, 1827 Mehitable Carlton.
1. Obed Josiah Stearns b. Oct 17, 1830.
2. Amos Carlton Stearns b. Oct 31, 1831.
3. Eckley Stearns.
4. Washington Stearns b. oct 9, 1838.
8. Sarah
Abbot Stearns b. Feb 27, 1803; m. Dec 19, 1842, Aaron
Lawrence of Amherst, N.H.
9. Eckley
Stearns b. June 12, 1805.
10. Timothy
Stearns b. Jan 23, 1810; grad. Amherst Coll. 1837; the
Pastor of a church in Kingston, Ohio.
10. John Stearns b. Sept 18, 1765; died Mar 8, 1836; m. Mary Low and
settled in
Billerica. She died Nov 25, 1818. Children:
1.
Franklin Stearns b. Jan 25, 1802.
2. Mary
Stearns b. Dec 28, 1803; m. ____ Whitefield.
3. John O.
Stearns b. Aug 3, 1805; m. April 1, 1842, Margaret
Walker.
4. Winslow
Stearns b. Feb 21, 1807; d. Feb. 1809.
5. Eliza
Stearns b. Aug 30, 1809; m. _____ Billings.
6. Winslow
Stearns b. Aug 30, 1811; Superintendent of the Nashua
Railroad.
7. Lorenzo
Stearns b. May 13, 1813; died May 13, 1836.
8. Barnard
Stearns b. Mar 23, 1818; of Somerville, N.J.
p.471
11. Elizabeth Stearns b. Sept 1767; d. 1778.
12. Abiel Stearns b. Oct 2, 1770.
To be continued - Part 23 - Capt. Edward Stearns of Billerica &
Lucy Wyman.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 23
p.471
Capt. Edward Stearns of Billerica & Bedford, was born May 9, 1726;
died June 11, 1793, son of John Stearns of Billerica and his wife,
Esther Johnson, dau of Capt. Edward Johnson of Woburn, Mass.
Capt. Edward Stearns m. 1755, Lucy Wyman, dau of Thomas & Rachel
(Stearns)
Wyman. She died Nov 28, 1802 and he died in Bedford, Mass. June 11,
1793.
He was in the fight at Concord, 1775, and upon the death of Capt.
Wilson*,
his brother-in-law (who m. a daughter of Samuel Stearns), and who was
shot
by the British in their retreat, the command of the Bedford militia
devolved
on him. The command was confirmed but he declined to continue in
it.
Insert:"In this action the regulars have
lost in all, sixty-five killed, one hundred and eighty wounded, and
twenty-eight made prisoners. Of the provincials, fifty have been
killed, thirty-four wounded, and four are missing. The following
officers and gentlemen are of the number: ?Justice Isaac Gardner, of
Brookline; Capt. Isaac Davis, of Acton; Captain Jonathan Wilson, of
Bedford; Lieut. John Brown, and Sergt. Elisha Mills, of Needham; and
Deacon Josiah Haynes, of Sudbury, killed; Capt. Eleazer Kingsbury, of
Needham; Captain Samuel Williams, of Cambridge; Captains Charles Mills,
Nathaniel Barrett, and George Minot, of Concord; Capt. Oliver Barnes,
and Deacon Aaron Chamberlain, of Chelmsford, wounded.
"Captains John Ford and Oliver Barrow, and Deacon Davis, all of
Chelmsford, distinguished themselves in the course of the day. It can
be fully proved that Captain Ford killed five regulars. James Howard, a
private in the Acton company, and a regular, coming out of a house,
caught sight of each other, and discharged their pieces at the same
instant; both shots taking effect, the last dropped down dead, and the
first expired a few hours after. A big boy joined in the chase of the
retreating troops and was very expert in firing at them; at length a
ball from the enemy grazed his head, and produced a flesh wound; he
soon recovered the shock, bound up his head with a handkerchief, and
renewed his pursuit.
"?Gordon's American Revolution, vol. i., p. 326
http://www.historycarper.com/resources/battles/lexington.htm
Children of Capt. Edward Stearns and his wife, Lucy Wyman:
1. Lucy Stearns b. May 24, 1756; died May 20, 1768.
2. Solomon Stearns b. May 12, 1757. He enlisted in the Revolutionary
army;
soon returned sick and died May 8, 1775.
3. Rachel Stearns b. nov 3, 1758; d. May 23, 1817; m. Nov. 14, 1782,
Deacon
Moses Fitch of Bedford who died oct 12, 1825 aged 71
yrs Children:
1. Solomon Fitch b. Nov. 8, 1783; m. Jan 7,
1808, Susan Fuller & res.
in Littleton, N.H.
Children:
1. Elijah Fitch b. June 30, d. Nov 2, 1809.
2. Elijah Fitch (again) b. Dec 19, 1810; m. Dec 8, 1840,
Linda Quimby.
3. a twin b. May; died June, 1813.
4. a twin b. May; died June, 1813.
5. Leonard Fitch b. May 10, 1815; m. Feb. 16, 1839 Hannah
Gilchrist; res. Charlestown, N.Y.
6. Susan Fitch b. June 13, 1817; m. Dec 22, 1842, C. R.
Morrison, Esq., of Haverhill, N.H.
7. Louisa Fitch b. July 18, 1820; d. May 15, 1839.
8. Elvira B. Fitch b. Aug 30, 1822; m. May 12, 1843,
Luther T. Dow, of Littleton, N.H.
9. Amanda M. Fitch b. Jan 14, 1825; m. June 2, 1847, Peter
Stephens of Charlestown, N.Y.
10. Austin T. Fitch b. Aug 8, 1827.
11. Charles H. Fitch b. Sept 11, 1829.
12. Joseph S. Fitch b. Mar 11, 1832; d. Feb. 1834.
2. Lucy Fitch b. July 17, 1785; m. John Page
of Bedford, res. Woburn.
3. Moses Fitch Jr.b. Mar 28, 1787; a Captain;
m. Polly, dau. of
Bowman
Brown of Plymouth, VT and settled in Bedford,
Mass. He d. Aug 1, 1824,
leaving one child, John
Moses Fitch who m. Catherine, dau of Benjamin
Bacon of Bedford, and
settled in Michigan. His mother m. (2) ____
Brown and he having died,
lived with this son, Moses, Jr.
4. Elijah Fitch b. Jan 10, 1790; m. Mary Morse
of Boston, where he
settled and died May 7, 1840.
5. Rachel Fitch b. Nov. 30, 1791; m. Feb 18,
1819, Joseph Brown of
Bedford, b. in Plymouth,
Vermont. Children: (p.472)
1. Joseph Brown b. April 27, 1820; m. Nov 22, 1843, Sarah Ingals
and res. in Boston.
2. Moses Brown b. April 15, 1823; m. Elizabeth, dau of John
Smith of Bedford, b. in Duxbury, res. in Bedford.
p.472 6. Joel Fitch b. June 12, 1794; m. Feb. 18, 1819, Susanna Hill
dau of
Josiah Hill of
Bedford. He d. Aug 4, 1845. He was a Captain, a
Justice of the Peace
and a deacon of the church. Children:
1. Susanna Fitch b. mar 5, 1820; d. Jan 17, 1824.
2. Nathan Fitch b. May 24, 1822; d. Oct 6, 1825.
3. Susanna Fitch b. & d. August 1825.
4. Susanna Fitch (again) b. Feb 28, 1827.
5. Rachel Ann Fitch b. Aug 14, 1829.
6. Moses Josiah Fitch b. Aug 24, 1834.
7. Delia Adelaide Fitch b. May 17, 1840; died.
7. Nathan Fitch b. Oct 22, 1797;
died Feb 9, 1800.
4. Edward Stearns b. Jan 10, 1761; d. May 24, 1768.
5. Susanna Stearns b. Dec 19, 1762; m. Nehemiah Wyman of Medford,
afterwards of
Charlestown, Mass. Children;
1. Nehemiah Wyman
2. Edward Stearns Wyman
3. Francis Wyman
4. Susan Wyman
5. Lucy Stearns Wyman
6. Eliza Wyman
7. Nancy Wyman
8. William Wyman
9. George Wyman
10. Isaac Stearns Wyman
6. Alice Stearns b. Aug 13, 1764; m. Dec 7, 1786, Moses Abbott, Jr. of
Bedford
(see Register of Abbot Family, p. 149), He died Feb. 19,
1802 and she m. (2)
May 1, 1806 Stephen Lane of Bedford who died May 7, 1827.
Children:
1. Hervey Abbott b. Mar 24,
1787; d. Mar 26, 1789.
2. Alice Abbott b. Sept 22,
1788; d. May 27, 1827; m. Simon Davis of
New
Hampshire & settled in Bedford, Mass., where he died leaving
children
& grandchildren.
3. Betsy Abbott b. Feb 25,
1790; d. November 1792.
4. Lucy Stearns Abbott b.
Feb 11, 1792 m. Timothy Kinsman of Vermont,
and
settled in Bedford, Mass. Children:
1. Lucy Angelina Kinsman m. Alfred Mudge of Boston
2. George Shattuck Kinsman.
3. Alice Eliza Kinsman m. Benjamin Bradley of Boston.
4. Martha Maria Kinsman m. Benjamin Bradley as his 2nd wife.
5. Moses Abbott Kinsman died at sea.
5. Benjamin Abbott b. Jan
11, 1791; d. April 29, 1795.
6. Moses Abbott b. Aug 16,
1795; was a Captain; m. 1820, Susan, dau.
of Joseph
Jaquith of Billerica; res. at Bedford where he d. July 7,
1836.
Children:
1. Susan Caroline Abbott b. oct 8, 1820 m. Seth H. Austin from
Hookset, N.H.; res. in Lawrence, Mass.
2. Moses Gorden Abbott b. June 5, 1822.
3. Charles Edwin Abbott b. Feb 24, 1824.
4. John Henry Abbott b. Aug 16, 1825.
5. Sylvester Kinsman Abbott b. Dec 9, 1831.
6. Ann Lexera Abbott b. May 24, 1834.
7. Edward Stearns Abbott b.
Feb 5, 1797; d. Dec 18, 1798.
8. Oliver Reed Abbott b. mar
26, 1800; a Captain; m. (1) Mary Ann, dau.
of James
Wilson of Bedford. She d. Dec 26, 1825 aged 19 and he m.
(2) June
24, 1827 Mary Ann, dau of william Buttrick of Bedford. He
d. June
23, 1842. Children:
1. Olive Davis Abbott b. April 10, 1828.
2. Maria Alice Abbott b. Dec 14, 1829.
3. Harriet Ann Abbott b. July 28, 1832.
4. Eliza Abbott b. Sept 9, 1837.
5. Benjamin Franklin Abbott b. july 3, 1841; d. Aug 31, 1828.
9. Eliza Abbott b. Dec 10, 1801;
d. Jan 5, 1802.
10. Lydia Harriet Lane (child of 2nd
husband, Stephen Lane) b. Mar.
26, 1808; m.
April 26, 1827, Capt. John White Haywood of Bedford.
1. John Augustus Haywood b. Mar 14, died Aug 31, 1828.
2. Stephen Lane Haywood b. oct 26, 1829.
3. Harriet Frances Haywood b. May 12, 1831.
7. Abner Stearns b. July 9, 1766; d. Dec 11, 1838; a Captain, and
machinist;
res. many years in West Cambridge, Mass. He m. May
1, 1796 Anna Hill b.
May 11, 1777, dau of Jonathan Hill of Billerica. She
died Oct 22, 1807 &
he m. (2) June 30, 1808, the widow, Mrs. Anne Estabrook b.
Jan 27, 1780,
widow of John Estabrook and the dau of Thomas Russell,
Esq., of West
Cambridge. She died Nov 29, 1839. Children:
1. Abner Stearns b. April 1, 1797;
a machinist, in Winchester, N.H.
m. 1824, Mary
Dresser of Chesterfield, N.H. b. Feb 2, 1800.
Children:
p.473 1. Pheseria Ann Stearns b.
April 1, 1825; m. Jan 18, 1848, Levi
Duell Hopkins of West Rupert, VT.
Abner Stearns
died Dec. 17, 1835 and his widow Mary m. (2) James G.
Nesson of West
Rupert.
2. Mary Ann Hill Stearns b. May
23, 1809; m. May 1, 1834, Jonas
Munroe, Esq., a
merchant of Bedford, Mass. She was his 2nd wife.
1. George Henry Munroe b. Nov 15, 1835.
2. Jonas Edward Munroe b. May 4, 1837.
3. Caroline French Munroe a twin
4. Catherine Frances Munroe, twin to Caroline b. April 21, 1839.
3. Edward Harrison Stearns
b. Dec 16, 1814; a machinist in Covington,
Kentucky;
m. Oct 1837, Harriet Cutter, dau of William Raymond of
Charlestown, Mass.
4. George Sullivan Stearns
b. May 17, 1816; at first a stereotyper,
then a
manufacturer of printing ink in Cincinnati; m. May 30, 1844,
Amelia,
dau. of William Stephenson Esq., of Cincinnati.
5. Albert Thomas Stearns b.
April 23, 1821; a lumber merchant in
Waltham,
Mass. m. June 11, 1843, Salome, dau of Samuel Maynard of
Sudbury,
Mass.
6. Henry Augustus Stearns b.
Oct 23, 1825; a manufacturer of
Cincinnati.
8. Edward Stearns b. June 25, 1768; a Lieutenant; m. Polly, dau of Col.
Timothy
Jones, Esq., of Bradford. One child, Edward Stearns who
died Feb. 1796 aged
18 months. She died June 28, 1796 and he m. (2) Jan
1, 1798, Nabby Jones
sister of his first wife. He died May 1798 and
his widow married Rev.
Hill of Mason, N.H.
9. Elijah Stearns b. May 2, 1770; d. April 10, 1831; for many years a
merchant
of Bedford, Mass.; a Justice of the Peace from 1805 until
his decease;
Postmaster of Bedford from the establishment of the office
until his decease
He m. Dec 30, 1802, Elizabeth Stearns his cousin, dau of
Rev. Josiah Stearns
of Epping, N.H. Children:
1. Edward Stearns b. and d.
December 1804.
2. Edward Josiah Stearns b.
Feb., d. Dec. 1806.
3. Mary Elizabeth Stearns b.
oct 31, 1807; d. July 12, 1818.
4. Edward Josiah Stearns
(again) b. Feb 24, 1810; grad. Harvard Univ.
1833;
Rector of Grace Church at Elkton Ridge Landing, Maryland &
teacher of
a classical school in Baltimore.
5. Elijah Wyman Stearns b.
Jan 8, 1813; grad. Harv. Univ. 1838;
res. in
Bedford, Mass.
6. George Stearns b. Aug 30,
1815; a Surgeon Dentist in Pittsburg, PA.
7. Samuel French Stearns b.
April 25, 1818; a Surgeon Dentist in
Boston,
Mass. m. Nov 20, 1848, Catherine Elizabeth dau of William
R. Frost
of Boston.
10. Simeon Stearns b. April 17, 1772; m. Sally, dau of Onesimus Cobb of
Sherburne, Mass. and settled in Bedford, Mass. Children:
1. Elizabeth Wyman Stearns b. April 22, 1803; m. Dec 17,
1826 R. Tidd Wright
and res. in Bedford.
2. Lucy Minerva Stearns b. Sept. 6, 1805; m. May 1, 1823,
Ezekiel Warren
Weston of Bedford and had:
1. Elbridge Warren
Weston b. Nov 8, 1824; d. July, 1827.
2. Lucy Maria Weston
b. Dec 10, 1826; d. July, 1827.
3. Sherman
Stearns Weston b. Feb 28, 1828.
They are divorced.
3. Sally Miranda Stearns b. May 12, 1808; died 1848; m.
Oct 12, 1829,
Stephen Norman Nichols of Westford, Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
To be continued - Part 24 - p. 473 - Rev. Josiah Stearns & wife,
Sarah Abbot
and 2nd wife, Sarah Ruggles.
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 24
p.473
Rev. Josiah Stearns b. Jan 20, 1731/2; d. July 25, 1788; son of John
Stearns
of Billerica & his wife, Esther Johnson. Rev. Josiah Stearns
grad. Harvard
Coll. 1751; ordained at Epping, N.H. March 8, 1758 where he died of
cancer of
the lip, July 25, 1788. He was a close and thorough
student. He studied the
Scriptures in their original languages with unremitting diligence. His
limited
means would not allow him to possess much of a library; but he was
favored with
the use of books by friends, who were better able to own them. He
was accustomed
to borrow one volume at a time, and when he had read it through, its
contents were his own. The late Rev. Dr. Thayer of Kingston,
mentioning this
fact added, "the Bible especially was his library." So intimate
was his know-
ledge of the Scriptures that he could readily recite the chapter and
verse,
where almost any verse was to be found. "Mr. Stearns was an
ardent friend of
liberty. Some of his sons were in the field during a great part
of the
Revolutionary contest, and he sacrificed most of his worldly interest in
support of the American cause.
He was a member of a State Convention in Exeter
in which he regarded himself as fully committed to the risk of his
personal
safety. Returning from the Convention, he called his children around
him, told
them of the stand he had taken and added, "If the cause shall prevail,
it will
be a great benefit to the country; but if it shall fail, your poor old
father's
head will soon be a button for a halter."
Mr. Stearns was tall in person and interesting in his pulpit
performances. He
held the untiring attention of his audience, which not infrequently
filled
the seats and aisles of his meeting-house; while in pleasant weather, a
number
stood abroad, around the doors and windows. The following
anecdote illustrates
the dignity and influence of his character. He happended to pass
through a
room where a party of military officers were engaged in very free and
profane
conversation. The individual who was speaking at the time,
suddenly stopped
and seemed abashed. His comrades rallied him on timidity, as soon
as Mr.
Stearns disappeared. "Rev. Stearns would awe the devil," was the
officer's
immediate reply.
GOD IS LOVE.
Of Mr. Stearns' printed sermons two were on 1 John. 4,8, "God is Love."
These were preached in Exeter and printed after his death at the request
made to him in his last sickness, of Hon John Philips, for the use of
the
members of the Academy. Another was on Early Piety, with a brief
memoir of
Samuel Lawrence, preached Sept 19, 1779. Another was a Fast
Sermon. [N.H.
Repository for January 1847, pp. 107-10.]
In the Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet, of August 27, 1788, is
the
following short biographical notice of Mr. Stearns, written, it is
said, by
Rev. Dr. Tappan of Newbury, afterwards Professor of Divinity in Harvard
University:
"Mr. Hoyt, - The Rev. Mr. Stearns, whose death was announced in your
last
sustained a character too great and too good to be passed over in
silence.
The God of Nature had endued him with singular abilities, which, by the
aid
of erudition, fitted him for extensive usefulness. His assiduous
application
to the work of the ministry was truly worthy of imitation. In him
shone an
assemblage of virtues and graces, which rarely meet in the same
person. He
had a lively fancy, a penetrating judgment, a correct taste and a mind
as ex-
panded as the heavens. His conversation was ever seasonable,
grave, pathetic
and instructive. His public discourses were replete with good
sense, with
important truths in a clear and instructive light and received the
approbation
of the best judges. He despised pageantry, without the appearance
of affectation.
He trusted to nothing mortal; pitied but envied not such as had
their portion in this life. His advice in council was often
sought, and ever
approved. He had a constitutional firmness and was capable of the
most dis-
passionate reasoning. He repudiated errors, ancient and modern
and rejoiced
to the last in his faithful adherence to the doctrines of grace.
Elevated by
the purer sentiments he ever possessed a mind calm and serene.
God, who is
all-wise in council, was pleased to try his faith and patience in the
furnace
of affliction. After a lingering and painful sickness, he died of
cancer in
the 57th year of his age. In him died a friend to justice,
liberty and
energetic government. A vigorous watchman, a patient guide, an
affectionate
pastor, a prudent, kind husband and an indulgent but truly faithful
parent.
"More joyful than a conqueror with his spoils, he retired from the
present
scene of action. We trust that he is gone to a state of immortal
bliss, and
will be an associate of those who have come out of great tribulation."
He m. (1) Sarah Abbot, b. Dec 4, 1726, dau. of uriah and
Elizabeth (Mitchell)
Abbot of Andover. (see Reg. of Abbot Family, p. 148). She died
Nov 5, 1766
aged 40 and he m. (2) Sarah Ruggles b. Nov 25, 1731; d. April 2, 1808,
dau of
Rev. Samuel Ruggles of Billerica. Children:
1. Sarah Stearns born in Billerica Sept 12, 1756; d. Aug 13, 1825; m.
May 29
1781, Solomon Lane of Bedford. Children:
1. Anna Lane b. Aug
19, 1782; m. (1) Nov 28, 1805 Samuel Dutton of
New
Ipswich, N.H. by whom she had.
1. Samuel Stearns Dutton b. Sept 14, 1806.
2. Solomon Lane Dutton b. Nov 21, 1808; m. April 24, 1834, Olive
Charlotte Hutchinson of Carlisle, Mass. & settled in Ashton,
Mass. Children:
p.475
1. Samuel Lane Dutton b. July 15, 1835.
2. Charles Evander Dutton b. Nov. 1837; d. Oct. 1838.
3. Charles Dutton b. june 29, 1839.
4. Laura Ann Dutton b. May, 1841.
5. Charlotte Augusta Dutton b. April 1, 1843.
3. Laura Ann Dutton b. June 20, 1812; m. Dec 15, 1831 Varnum
Spaulding of Chelmsford. She died Feb 26, 1839 leaving:
1. Samuel Varnum Spaulding b. April 25, 1832.
2. John Franklin Spaulding b. Jan 10, 1834.
4. Sarah Abigail Dutton b. and d. July 1815.
Samuel Dutton died Oct 21, 1815 and Anna (Lane) Dutton m. (2)
Samuel Parkhurst of Chelmsford by whom she had:
5. Susan Elizabeth Parkhurst b. Nov 14, 1818; m. July 13, 1843,
Jeremiah C. Mansfield of Chelmsford.
2. Josiah Lane b. July
9, 1785; d. April 18, 1787.
3. Josiah Stearns Lane
b. Nov 11, 1787 m. Feb 11, 1813, Amelia Gregg
of
Groton, Mass., by whom he had:
1. Josiah Stearns Lane b. Dec 29, 1813; d. Sept 22, 1815.
He
died Sept 21, 1815 and his widow m. Aaron Bancroft of Boston.
4. Sarah Lane b. April
30, 1789; unm.
5. Enoch Lane b. Feb
7, 1793; d. oct. 1799.
6. Oliver Wellington
Lane b. June 16, 1794; m. July 23, 1818,
Catherine Watson of Bedford; she d. July 30, 1841 and he m. (2)
the
widow, Mrs. Harriet Blinn dau of Jacob Gregg of Bedford.
Children:
1. Sarah Elizabeth Lane b. Nov. 27, 1818; m. Sept 20, 1838
Henry Goodwin of Bedford.
2. Mary Whiting Lane b. Mar 31, 1820; m. Sept 26, 1841, George D.
Briggs of Northfield, Vt.
3. William Augustus Lane b. Mar 12, 1822; m. Sept 30, 1844 Mary
P. Wright of Pepperell.
4. Catherine Amelia Lane b. Dec 4, 1823.
5. Abigail Rebecca Lane b. June 3, 1826.
6. Oliver Josiah Lane b. Jan 29, 1828.
7. Laura Ann Lane b. July 21, 1830; d. April, 1834.
8. Laura Ann Lane (again) b. May 1, 1834.
9. Samuel Leavitt Lane b. Feb 24, 1838.
10. Henry Francis Lane b. Sept 4, 1839; died May, 1841.
7. Abigail French Lane
b. Mar. 23, 1799.
8. Daniel Lane b. Nov
5, 1800; died October, 1803.
2. Betsey Stearns b. July, 1758; died aged 21, unm.
3. Dudley Stearns b. April 8, 1760; went to Saco & afterwards to
Fryeburg, ME
where he m. April 6, 1784 Lydia Burbank b. 1760, dau of
Benjamin & Jane S.
Burbank of Kennebunk, Maine. The next year (1785) he
settled in Hiram,
ME.,as a schoolmaster. He left home Dec 20, 1793 on
the pretense of
visiting his kindred and never returned. It was reported
that he was
drowned in Canada in 1812. His widow died Nov. 23, 1830.
Children:
1. Josiah Stearns b. oct 24, 1785; a merchant,
moved to Portland and m.
1812, Hannah Newell of
Lisbon, ME. He d. July 24, 1824.
2. William Stearns b. Sept 1788; of
Passadumkeag, Maine.
3. Betsey Stearns b. Mar 7, 1790; m. John
Buttrick Brown b. in Baldwin,
Maine, Dec 8, 1790 and
settled in Sebago, Maine. Children:
1. William
Stearns Brown b. in Baldwin, Aug 26, 1813; a mill-man
of Sebago. m. Nov 29, 1840 Adah Storer b. Mar 5, 1820, dau of
Capt. Amos and Sybil P. Storer, of Sebago. Children;
1. Sidney J. Brown b. Aug 19, 1841.
2. Harley G. Brown, twin to Sidney, b. Aug 19, 1841.
3. Silas Brown b. Dec. 7, 1845.
2. Betsey
Stearns Brown b. in Sebago May 7, 1816; resided at
Lynn, Mass.
3. Silas
Buttrick Brown b. June 11, 1818, a seaman, unm. of
Greenville, Maine.
4. David
Brown b. April 19, 1820; a farmer of Sebago.
5. Thomas
Munroe Brown b. Feb 7, 1824, of Greenville, ME.
6. Hannah
Brown b. Mar 10, 1827; of Lynn, Mass.
7. James
Lawrence Brown b. Feb 21, 1832.
4. Dudley Stearns b. Sept 9, 1792; entered
U.S. Naval service and it is
not known what became of him.
5. Jane S. Stearns b. Feb 16, 1794; m. April
12, 1812, Charles C. C.
Carlton, a merchant
p.476 of Portland b. in Exeter, N.H. Aug 25, 1784; d. Nov
9, 1824. Children:
1. Mary Jane Carlton b. Feb 3, 1813; d. March 28, 1830.
2. Theodore Carlton b. Feb, died March, 1815.
3. Frances Ann Carlton b. Feb 28, 1816; m. Nov 27, 1837
Albion Prince b. Jan 2, 1816; a tailor of Portland.
4. Harriet P. Carlton b. July 17, 1818; m. Oct 24, 1836,
Benjamin f. Rounds b. July 18, 1812; a cooper of Portland.
5. Eliza O. Carlton b. April 15, 1821; m. Nov 14, 1841, Thomas
Springer b. Feb 18, 1820, a hatter of Portland.
6. Samuel H. Carlton b. April 11, 1824; a shoe manufacturer of
Lynn, Mass. m. in Portland Sept 27, 1846 Rebecca E. Rand.
4. John Stearns b. Jan 13, 1762; entered the Revolutionary army at the
age of
16 years. He was a long-time Justice of the Peace and was
a very prosperous
farmer. He lived several years in Pittsfield, N.H. and
afterwards moved to
Deerfield, N.H. where he died Jan 23, 1843. He m.
1783 Sarah Lane of
Poplin, N.H. b. May 16, 1759; died April 25, 1845.
Children:
To be continued - Rev. Josian Stearns and wives Sarah Abbot & Sarah
Ruggles.
Part 25 - p.476.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 25
p.476
4. John Stearns b. Jan 13, 1762; son of Rev. Josiah Stearns & his
1st wife,
Sarah Abbott; John entered the Revolutionary army at the
age of
16 years. He was a long-time Justice of the Peace and was
a very prosperous
farmer. He lived several years in Pittsfield, N.H. and
afterwards moved to
Deerfield, N.H. where he died Jan 23, 1843. He m.
1783 Sarah Lane of
Poplin, N.H. b. May 16, 1759; died April 25, 1845.
Children:
1. Sally Stearns b. May 21, 1784; d. Dec
17, 1802.
2. Betsey Stearns b. June 29, 1786; d.
Dec 29, 1826; m. Sept., 1807 the Hon.
John Chadwick, Esq. b.
in Deerfield Jan 7, 1786; moved to Dover, N.H.,
where he received
several important public trusts, as High Sheriff of the
County, etc., and
after her decease moved into Maine. Children:
1. Nathaniel G. Chadwick b. April 21, 1808; a carpenter, died Aug 12,
1831.
2. John Stearns Chadwick b. May 27, 1810; a merchant of Bangor, a
Justice
of the Peace and County Treasurer; m. Nov 26, 1834, Sarah Clark of
Dover.
3. Edmund Chadwick b. Jan 12, 1812; grad. Bowdoin Coll., 1840; studied
Theology in the Bangor Seminary.
4. Peter Chadwick b. Mar 31, 1814; a Justice of the Peace of Bangor; m.
Nov. 15, 1839, Nancy T. Jenkins.
5. Elizabeth A. Chadwick b. Oct 26, 1816; m. 1840, Col. Reuben Hayes b.
1806;
an Innkeeper in Farmington, N.H. Since his marriage he moved to
Madbury,
N.H.; a farmer and Justice of the Peace.
3. Josiah Stearns b. Mar 10, 1788; m.
Aug 22, 1811 Jane Thompson of Deerfield and
moved to Wilmot,
N.H. She d. June 11, 1822 in childbed and he m. (2) Sept 4,
1822, Mrs. Susan
(Sawyer) Cross b. june 19, 1791. She d. May 14, 1828 and he m.
(3) July 8,
1828, Nancy Brown of Andover, N.H. b. Mar 23, 1795. Children:
1. Hannah Stearns b. April; died Oct, 1812.
2. Infant Stearns b. and d. May 1813.
3. Infant Stearns b. and d. Feb., 1814.
4. Abigail Stearns b. Dec 17, 1814; m. Jan 23, 1839, Jeremiah E. Hurd
b. 1806; a farmer of Lower Canada.
5. William Stearns b. Jan 16, 1816; a machinist of Dedham, Mass.
6. John Stearns b. April 10, 1817; d. Dec 18, 1843.
7. Infant Stearns b. and d. June, 1818.
8. Hannah Stearns b. May 5, 1818; m. Oct 4, 1841; Charles Sanborn, a
farmer of Sutton, N.H.
9. Samuel Stearns b. Dec 8, 1820; a carpenter in Manchester, N.H.
10. Infant Stearns b. and d. June 1822.
11. Infant Stearns b. and d. June, 1823.
12. Infant Stearns b. and d. Nov, 1824.
13. Lydia J. Stearns b. Nov 3, 1825.
14. James Stearns b. Jan 23, 1827.
15. Susan Stearns b. Nov 1, 1829.
16. Josiah L. Stearns b. Mar 9, 1831.
17. Nancy Stearns b. Feb 18, 1832; d. Jan. 1833.
18. Minot Stearns b. Feb 7, 1833.
19. Sarah E. Stearns b. April 11, 1834; died soon.
20. Tims Stearns b. June 19, 1835.
21. Pluma Stearns b. Aug 15, 1836.
4. Ruth Stearns b. Nov 6, 1789; m.
Dec 13, 1810, Hon. Dudley Freese of Deerfield
b. Oct 16,
1787. In early life he was a teacher, afterwards a farmer, a
miller,
and land
surveyor; was a Representative in the State Legislature, and a Judge
of the
C.C.P. He died April 5, 1843 in the house in which he was born.
Children:
1. Sally S. Freese b. Aug 7, 1812; m. Nov 10, 1835, William Norris of
Lowell. Children:
1. William F. Norris b. Nov 13, 1836; d. Feb. 1838.
p.477
2. William Norris b. Sept 27, 1838.
3. Joseph D. Norris b. Mar, died Dec, 1841.
William Norris, Sr. died Oct 17, 1841 and his widow m. August, 1843,
George W. Norris of Lowell, brother of her first husband.
2. Dudley Freese b. Mar 29, 1814; a trader in Deerfield, N.H.; d. June
14,
1838.
3. Mary E. Freese b. Sept 9, 1817; m. Nov 17, 1836, Enoch F. Stevens,
Jr.
of Deerfield, b. oct 30, 1808; a trader, Deputy Sheriff and Postmaster.
1. Horace H. C. Stevens b. May 27, 1837
2. Mary E. Stevens b. and d. Sept. 1838.
3. Robert W. Stevens b. Oct 16, 1839.
4. Dudley F. Stevens b. July 14, 1841.
5. Enoch W. Stevens b. Mar 27, 1843.
6. George N. Stevens b. Oct 8, 1845.
4. Abigail S. Freese, b. July 22, 1819; m. Dec 31, 1840, Capt. Jeremiah
D. Tilton, a farmer and shoemaker of Deerfield b. March 1816. Children:
1. Austin V. Tilton b. July 28, 1841.
2. Abba R. Tilton b. Nov 22, 1842.
3. Sarah T. Tilton.
4. Sarah Tilton.
5. Sally F. Tilton (triplets, b. Feb 10, 1844)
6. Martha F. Tilton b. Oct 7, 1845.
5. Caroline S. Freese b.June 19, 1821; m. Jan 15, 1843 Nathan Griffin b.
July 3, 1817; a teacher, land surveyor and farmer.
6. William G. Freese b. June 24, 1823, a farmer and miller.
7. Martha W. Freese b. May 10, 1827.
5. John Stearns b. Oct
23, 1791; died 1793.
6. John Stearns
(again) b. Oct 28, 1793; a joiner and cabinet-maker of Deerfield;
m.
May 4, 1817; Margaret M. Wallace of Deerfield, b. May 3, 1792. She d.
Aug.
11,
1841 and he m. (2) Feb 22, 1842 Abba Tarlton of Epsom, b. Sept 16, 1798.
1. Samuel Stearns b. Dec 6, 1817; a Free-Will Baptist preacher of Nashua
N.H.
2. Sally F. Stearns b. Jan 25, 1819; d. Nov 16, 1825.
3. Abigail Stearns b. Jan 6, 1821; d. Nov 4, 1825.
4. Mary J. Stearns b. Dec 1, 1822.
5. Susan C. Stearns b. oct 16, 1824.
6. George W. Stearns b. July 14, 1826; d. Jan. 1828.
7. Sarah H. Stearns b. Dec 7, 1828.
8. Margaret A. Stearns b. Dec. 15, 1830.
9. John G. Stearns b. June 19, 1837.
7. Samuel
Stearns b. April 10, 1795; a deacon, a farmer, and cabinet-maker; m.
Mar. 4, 1828 Mary French of Deerfield b. Nov 5, 1799. He settled first
in
Wilmot, N.H. and in 1828 returned to Deerfield and settled on his
father's
homestead. Children:
1. Richard J. Stearns b. May 25, 1819; a Captain; m. Feb 29, 1844,
Harriet Betton of Danbury, N.H. and res. in Wilmot.
2. William B. Stearns b. Mar 23, 1821; m.Sept 9, 1845 Caroline
Thompson of Concord, N.H.; res.on his father's former homestead in
Wilmot.
3. Sarah E. Stearns b. April 17, 1823.
4. Abigail J. Stearns b. Oct 2, 1825.
5. Horace B. Stearns b. July 17, 1827.
6. Mary Ann Stearns b. Aug 16, 1829.
7. John Stearns b. July 25, 1832.
8. DeWitt Clinton Stearns b. Sept 14, 1835; d. March 1838.
9. Caroline Clinton Stearns b. Sept 23, 1838.
8. Mary
Stearns b. Jan 1, 1797 m. Dec 1818, Jonathan Goodhue, a farmer of
Deerfield b. June 27, 1790. In 1836 he moved to Amesbury, Mass.
Children:
1. Sally S. Goodhue b. Mar 12, 1820 m. May 19, 1842 Joseph Irewell,
partner and operative in a small factory in Southampton, N.h.
2. Abigail J. Goodhue b. April 28, 1822; m. Nov 21, 1842, Samuel
Stevens a blacksmith and carriage-builder in Amesbury, Mass.
3. Caroline A. Goodhue b. Aug 3, 1824.
4. Elizabeth C. Goodhue b. Dec 27, 1825.
5. Amanda M. Goodhue b. May 24, 1830.
9.
Abigail Stearns b. Nov 20, 1798; d. Dec. 1814.
10. Joshua
Stearns b. Jan 3, 1801; a farmer of Deerfield; m. Jan 10, 1826,
Betsey Page, of Deerfield b. Aug 5, 1805. Children:
1. Ann Elizabeth Stearns b. Jan 25, 1827.
2. Joshua B. Stearns b. Dec 27, 1828.
3. Gilman Stearns b. Aug 12, 1830.
4. Martha J. Stearns b. June 27, 1832.
5. Sally Stearns b. Nov 24, 1835; d. Dec 31, 1840.
6. William R. Stearns b. Sept 20, 1839.
7. Sally Stearns (again) b. Aug 22, 1841.
11.
William Stearns b. Aug 5, 1803; a Colonel and machinist of Dover, N.H.
p.478 m.
Dec 12, 1826, Martha Winkley of Barrington, N.H. b. Mar 6, 1803.
He was a representative in the State Legislature. Children:
1. John W. Stearn b. Nov 22, 1828.
2. Martha E. Stearns b. May 27, 1831; d. Nov 4, 1835.
3. william B. Stearns b. Jan 25, 1838.
4. Isabella Stearns b. Dec 11, 1839.
12.
Sally Stearns b. mar 21, 1805 m. April 5, 1825 David Lamprey, a farmer
of Northampton, N.H. (now Deerfield), b. Oct 18, 1801. Children:
1. Nancy C. Lamprey b. may 11, 1826.
2. Morris J. Lamprey b. Dec 9, 1827.
3. Salley Stearns Lamprey b. Mar 20, 1829.
4. John Stearns Lamprey b. May 23, 1830.
5. Martha f. Lamprey b. Oct 8, 1832.
6. Malvina C. Lamprey b. Nov 10, 1834.
7. william B. Lamprey b. Nov 30, 1836.
8. Daniel C. Lamprey b. April 6, 1839.
9. Uri L. Lamprey b. April 5, 1842.
10. Almond S. Lamprey b. May 15, 1843; d. Sept. 1844.
13. Bryant Stearns b. jan 22, 1807; a Justice of the Peace, machinist,
and
farmer of Deerfield; m. Jan 1, 1834, Sally G. Vesey of Deerfield b. Feb.
2, 1810. Children:
1. Sarah E. Stearns b. Aug 23; d. Sept 26, 1834.
Mrs. Stearns died Sept 11, 1834 and he died Dec 31, 1838.
5. Josiah Stearns b. Jan 23, 1764; d. Feb., 1824; a carpenter and
farmer, m. 1791, Sarah
whittier and settled in Mount Vernon, Maine, where he went
went about 1788. Children
1. Betsey Stearns b. Dec 13, 1793;
m. Elder Ward Locke. Children:
1. Hiram Ward Locke b. 1819 was in 1849 a teacher in Mississippi.
Elder Ward Locke
died Nov. 1828 and in 1829, she m. (2) Samuel Cushman of New
Gloucester,
Maine. Children:
1. Polly Cushman
2. Frances Cushman
2. Sarah Stearns b. Sept 9, 1795;
m. Oct 15, 1815, Varnum Cram of New Sharon, ME.
1. Varnum Howard Cram b. Aug 19, 1817.
2. Mary Elizabeth Cram b. June 23, 1823.
3. Emily Kelly Cram b. Mar 19, 1826.
4. Warren Augustus Cram b. April 29, 1829.
5. Laura Ann Cram b. Sept 4, 1832.
6. Sarah Josephine Cram b. July 17, 1834.
7. Hiram Loren Cram b. April 29, 1837.
3. Hannah Stearns b. April 7,
1798; d. June, 1840; m. 1817, Jesse Lovejoy of
Fayette, Maine.
Children:
1. David Porter Lovejoy b. April 1819.
2. Maria Fuller Lovejoy b. August, 1821.
3. Perley Ray Lovejoy b. July, 1823.
4. Sarah Whittier Lovejoy b. August, 1825.
5. Lee Augustus Lovejoy b. 1827.
6. John Rodney Lovejoy b. 1829.
4. Sophia Stearns b. Aug 31,
1800; m. April 22, 1824, Cyrus Whitney of Chester-
ville,
Maine. Children:
1. Hervey Stearns Whitney b. March, 1825.
2. Martha Warren Whitney b. 1827.
Mr.
Whitney died 1829 and his widow m. (2) James M. Manson of Farmington,
Maine. Children:
3. George Frederic Manson b. 1832.
4. Sarah Maria Manson b. 1834.
5. Rosamond Cushman Manson b. 1837.
6. Esther Jane Manson b. 1841.
Mr. Manson
died 1841.
5. John R. Stearns b. Sept
2, 1805; a silversmith; m. 1844 and res. in Boston.
6. Samuel Stearns b. July 4,
1811; a house carpenter of Boston, unm.
6. Esther Stearns b. and died in infancy.
7. Esther Stearns (again) b. July 14, 1768; d. Dec 18, 1843; m. Abraham
Tilton of Epping
N.H. Children;
1. William Frederick Tilton
b. oct 16, 1795; m. Mary the dau of Deacon william
Osgood of
Epping. Children:
1. George William Frederick Tilton b. 1829.
2. Arthur Edwin Tilton b. 1840.
2. Mary B. Tilton.
8. Samuel Stearns b. April 8, 1770; grad. Harvard Coll. 1794; pastor of
the Congregational
Church in Bedford, Mass. where he died Dec 26, 1834. He m.
Abigail, dau of Rev. Jonathan
French of Andover, Mass. Children:
1. Infant
Stearns b. and d. 1798.
2. Abigail
French Stearns b. Jan 7, 1800; m. Jonas Munroe of Bedord and d. Jan.
1833 leaving one child, Ellen Maria Munroe.
3. Samuel
Horatio Stearns b. Sept 12, 1801; grad. Harvard Univ. 1823; d. April
16, 1834, unm.
4. Sarah
Caroline Stearns b. April 15, 1803 m. Rev. Forest Jefferds of Epping,
N.H. who afterwards settled in Middleton, Mass. Children:
1. Abigail Jane Jefferds.
2. Sarah Caroline Jefferds.
3. Samuel Stearns Jefferds.
4. Olive Maria Jefferds.
5. william
Augustus Stearns b. Mar 17, 1805; grad. Harv. Univ. 1827; was pastor
of the orthodox Congregational Church in Cambridgeport, Mass.; m. Jan
10,
1832, Rebecca Alden Frazer. Children:
1. Eliza C. Stearns b. May 20, 1833.
2. William French Stearns b. Nov 9, 1834.
3. Frazer Augustus Stearns b. June 21, 1840.
4. Abigail Eloisa Stearns b. Nov 30, 1844.
6. Mary Holyoke
Stearns b. Nov 14, 1806; unm.
7. Jonathan
French Stearns b. Sept 4, 1807; grad. Harv. Univ., 1830; D.D.,
Nassau Hall, 1850; Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Newburyport and
in
1851 of Newark, New Jersey.
8. Elizabeth W.
Stearns b. July 29, 1810; m. Deacon Charles James of Medford,
Mass.
9. Josiah
Atherton Stearns b. Sept 1, 1812; Principal of a grammar school in
Boston, unm.
10. George Washington
Stearns twin of Josian, above, b. Sept 1; d. Oct 12, 1812.
11. Charlotte Esther
Stearns b. Sept 17, 1814; m. Rev. Jonathan Levitt of
Providence, R. I. and died Feb. 27, 1850 leaving two children.
12. Ann Catherine
Stearns b. Oct 10, 1816; unm.
13. Eben Sperry
Stearns b. Dec 23, 1819; grad. Harv. Univ. 1841; for several years
Principal of the Female High School in Newburyport and in 1850,
Principal of
the Normal School in Newton, Mass.
9. Timothy Stearns b. May 9, 1772; died in Virginia, unm.
10. William Stearns b. Nov 23, 1773; Deacon of the church and Justice
of the Peace in
Epping, N.h.; m. May 6, 1800, Mary, dau of Walter
Bryant Esq., of New Market, N.H.
She d. oct 16, 1806 and he m. (2) Jan 3, 1809,
Abigail Richards dau of Samue Howe
of Templeton, Mass., b. May 29, 1774. Children:
1. William
R. Stearns b. Nov 1, 1809.
2. Josiah
Howe Stearns b. Oct 1, 1812; grad. Dartmouth Coll. 1840; m.Sept.
1844, Eliza Kilby b. April, 1820; dau of John Kilby, Esq., of
Dennisville,
Maine, where he was ordained and installed as pastor Nov. 6, 1844.
3. Mary E.
Stearns b. Mar 6, 1815.
4.
Samuel R. Stearns b. Aug 1817; d. oct 1820.
11. Mary Stearns b. July 2, 1776; d. Nov 21, 1825, unm.
12. Elizabeth Stearns b. Mar 9, 1779; m. her cousin, Elijah Stearns,
Esq. of Bedford.
To be continued Part 26 - p. 479 - Samuel Stearns & his 1st wife,
Elizabeth Hutchinson
and 2nd wife, Hannah ____.
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Subject:
Stearns
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Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 26.
p.479
Samuel Stearns b. June 1, 1726, son of Samuel Stearns & wife,
Rachel Crosby of Billerica.
He m. Oct 3, 1749, Elizabeth Hutchinson. She died March 12,
1749/50 and he m. (2),
Hannah ____. Children:
1. Elizabeth Stearns b. June 20, 1751; m. Feb. 24, 1774 Henry Jefts, Jr.
2. Hannah Stearns b. Oct 3, 1752; m. Mar 4, 1779, Joseph Spaulding of
Chelmsford.
3. Nathaniel Stearns b. Mar 29, 1754; m. 1784 Sarah Carlton and in
1791, m. (2) Lydia
Wilson.
3-1/2. (?) Samuel Stearns, birth not recorded.
4. Jonathan Stearns b. May 9, 1758; m. July 1, 1784 Molly Wright and
afterwards m. (2)
Betsey ____.
5. Josiah Stearns b. May 16, 1760.
6. Joseph Stearns b. June 27, 1763; m. Dec 5, 1787, Zilphah Crosby.
7. Molly Stearns b. April 12, 1765.
8. Issachar Stearns b. April 5, 1767; m. Sept 16, 1790, Dolly Page of
Bedford.
9. Alice Stearns b. Mar 9, 1770.
10. Elijah Stearns b. Mar 23, 1774.
p.480
Thomas Stearns b. Feb 12, 1724/5; son of Isaac Stearns & wife Alice
Wilson of Billerica;
m. March 14, 1750/1, Bette Manning. Children:
1. Bette Stearns b. Dec 2, 1751.
2. Isaac Stearns b. Dec 31, 1753; m. Mar 12, 1778, Mary Crosby.
3. Rhoda Stearns b. Mar 17, 1756.
4. John Stearns b. Nov 21, 1759 d. June 9, 1782.
5. Alice Stearns b. April 30, 1762; m. June 2, 1785 Samuel Stearns, Jr.
6. Abel Stearns b. April 9, 1765; d. in Ashby, Mass., 1848; a
Revolutionary War soldier.
His wife, Susanna, died July 4, 1841 aged 77 years.
7. Sarah Stearns b. Nov 11, 1767.
Jonathan Stearns b. June 16, 1729, son of Isaac Stearns & wife,
Alice Wilson of Billerica;
m. Abigail Moore of Sudbury and settled in Rutland. Children:
1. Ruth Stearns b. Sept 3, 1763; m. Nov 26, 1789, Jonas Davies of
Holden.
2. Sarah Stearns b. May 18, 1768.
3. Jonathan Stearns b. May 2, 1771; m. 1803 Tabitha Newton of Princeton.
To be continued Part 27 - p. 480 - Capt. Elijah Stearns of Rutland,
Mass. & wife, Lucy
Lane.
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Subject:
Stearns
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Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 27
p.480
Capt. Elijah Stearns of Rutland, Mass. was b. June 15, 1735 son of
Isaac Stearns & wife
Alice Wilson of Billerica. He m. Feb 20, 1760, Lucy Lane of Bedford,
Mass. She died
Aug 4, 1793, aged 62 and he died Oct 3, 1801. Children:
1. Elijah Stearns b. Oct 14, 1760; d. Aug 10, 1761.
2. Lucy Stearns b. June 26, 1762; m. Feb 16, 1783, Luther Stevens. See
Reed's History of
Rutland, pp 101-105.
3. Mary Stearns b. March 28, 1765; m. Sept 27, 1797, Bezaleel Hale of
Stow, Mass.
4. Elijah Stearns (again) b. May 1, 1767; m. June 25, 1795, Jane Boyes,
dau of John &
Martha (Dickee) Boyes of Rutland where he settled.
He m. (2) Dec 22, 1801, Sally
Harrington and he m. (3) April 1815, Sarah the widow of
Tombs Sawyer of Bolton, Mass.
About 1806 he moved to Alstead, N.H. and a few years after
to Fairlee, VT where he
died March 15, 1841, "an hones, industrious man, a sincere
humble Christian, full ot
the faith of the life to come." Children:
1. John Stearns married & settled in Illinois
2. Martha Stearns m. Amos Reed, a farmer, of Acworth, N.H.
3. Infant Stearns - died.
by his 2nd wife, Sally Harrington:
4. Asa Stearns a house carpenter of Boston, m. Catherine Brickett.
5. Elijah Stearns married & settled in Illinois.
6. Francis Stearns, of Boston, unm.
7. Infant - died.
by his 3d wife Sarah:
8. Cyrus Stearns b. Feb 1, 1816; a farmer of Fairlee, VT m. June 9,
1840,
Charlotte Clough. Children:
1. Henry Stearns b. April 29, 1841.
2. Emeline Stearns b. Mar 11, 1843.
9. Adeline Stearns b. June 17, 1817; m. April 1841, David Hancock, a
farmer
of Worcester, VT.
5. Josiah Stearns b. June 18, 1769; a Captain; m. Jan 28, 1795, Ruth
Hunt of Milton, who
died Jan 10, 1848 aged 78. He settled in Leominster,
Mass. Children:
1. Eliza Stearns b. May 24,1795; d. Aug 3, 1799.
2. Charles Stearns b. Aug 23, 1796; Town Clerk of Ashburnham and Deputy
Sheriff; m. Jan 1, 1824, Rebecca Green Robbins of Sterling, Mass.
Children:
1. Emma Hobart Stearns b. Dec 18, 1824.
2. Charles Lorenzo Stearns b. Aug 31, 1826; d. Aug 14, 1839.
3. Rebecca Hill Stearns b. Sept 3, 1828 m. Oct 21, 1847, Addison A.
Walker.
4. Josephine Peirce Stearns b. Sept 3, 1830; m. July 18, 1850, Hartwell
Tenney.
5. Frances Barrett Stearns b. July 20, died Sept., 1833.
6. George Henry Stearns b. Sept 28, 1834.
7. Cassius Clement Stearns b. Aug 23, 1838.
3. Nancy Stearns b. April 24, 1798; m. April 19, 1821, Martin Wilder of
Leominster. Children:
1. Anne E. Wilder b. Mar 23, 1823; d. July 14, 1850; m. Jan. 14,
1847 Francis S. Cutting of Worcester.
2. Cassius E. Wilder b. Nov 24, 1824; d. Oct 31, 1840.
3. Charles E. Wilder b. Aug. 17, 1826.
p.481
4. Henry S. Wilder b. Oct 18, 1828; d. April 24, 1835.
5. Maria A. Wilder b. Nov 13, 1830; d. April 14, 1831.
6. Francis M. Wilder b. June 23, 1832.
7. George H. Wilder b. Nov 30, 1835; d. Aug 29, 1836.
8. Abby C. Wilder b. Oct 3, 1837.
9. Helen A. Wilder b. Sept. 13, 1841.
4. Eliza Stearns b.Feb 13, 1800; m. June 21, 1818, Artemas Richardson of
Leominster and moved to Worcester, VT. Children:
1. Henry A. Richardson b. May 15, 1819; m. 1845, Harriet Bliss of
Northampton, Mass. and had children, Henry and Josephine.
2. Eliza Ann Richardson b. June 3, 1822; m. about 1845, Edwin Holmes
of West Boylston.
3. Emily A. Richardson b. Mar 11, 1830.
4. Ellen A. Richardson b. Oct 6, 1835.
5. Charles Torrey Richardson b.Mar 25, 1846.
5. Emily Stearns b. Dec 9, 1802; d. Feb 21, 1849; m. Nov 1, 1826,
Phinehas
Burditt of Leominster. Children:
1. Horatio N. Burditt, b.Sept 6, 1827.
2. Harriet A. Burditt b. May 17, 1829.
3. Ellen F. Burditt b. Sept 6, 1833.
6. Elmira Stearns b. April 3, 1804; d. July 17, 1838; m. May, 1834,
Stephen
Metcalf of Worcester, who died May 19, 1836 leaving a son, John S.
Metcalf
b. March, 1836, died July, 1838.
7. William Stearns b.Nov 18, 1812; a harness maker and a deacon of the
church
in Lancaster, Mass. He m. July 12, 1838 in Sterling, Mass., Mary
Ann
Brown. Children:
1. Mary Frances Stearns b. Oct 5, 1839.
2. Martha Ann Stearns b. Feb 28, 1842.
3. Elizabeth Carter Stearns b. Aug 22, 1843.
4. Helen Maria Stearns b. Mar 27, 1846.
6. Martha Stearns b. Aug 15, 1771; m. April 3, 1798, Joseph Wood.
To be continued - Part 28 - p. 481 - Isaac Stearns of Stoughton, Mass.
& wife, Hannah Waters.
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Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 28
p.481
Isaac Stearns, b. July 7, 1723, son of Isaac Stearns and his wife,
Rachel Randall of
Stoughton, Mass. He m. Nov 20, 1744, Hannah Waters. Soon after
the birth of his only
child, he went away clandestinely and was never heard of
afterwards. Child:
1. Hannah Stearns b. Aug 3, 1746; m. May 3, 1770, Capt. Noah Pratt; had
7 children.
About 1790, the family moved to Winchester, N.H.
Nathan Stearns b. July 12, 1728; died Jan 25, 1764, son of Isaac
Stearns of Stoughton &
his wife, Rachel Randall. He m. Mar 25, 1762, Mercy, dau of
Jonathan White, and settled
in Wrentham where he d. Jan 25, 1764 aged 24 yrs. 6 mos., 13 days.,
leaving one child and
his widow m. (2) Feb 13, 1766, Ichabod Ware by whom she had 3 children,
Ebenezer, Sally &
Cyrus Ware. Child:
1. Isaac Stearns b. in Wrentham, Feb 21, 1763; m. Nov 4, 1788, Susanna
Smith b. Dec 31,
1765; d. April 30, 1840; dau. of Nicholas & Hannah
Smith of Mansfield, Mass., where he
settled. Children:
1. Isaac Stearns
b. Jan 18, 1790; a magistrate and Rep. of Mansfield, Mass.; m.
July 26, 1818, Sarah Fillebrown b. in Easton, April 2, 1798, dau. of
Bethuel
and Elizabeth Fillebrown. He resided some time in Providence,
publisher and
proprietor of a newspaper. He was a frequent contributor to newspapers,
chiefly
articles relating to agriculture. Children:
1. Sarah Stearns b. April 27, 1819; d. Mar. 19, 1822.
2. Elizabeth Stearns b. June 12, 1823; m. June 6, 1844, Nathaniel
Jackson
Wheeler, a house and carriage painter & glazier, of Mansfield, son
of
Wheaton Wheeler of Norton, Mass. Children:
1. Isabella Wheeler b. Oct 11, 1846.
2. Arthur Wheeler b. Oct 1, 1848.
3. Isaac Holden Stearns b. June 14, 1825; of Canton, Mass.; m. in
Braintree
Mass., Mar 3, 1846, Catherine Miller Guild, dau. of Lewis Guild of
Strong, Maine. Children:
1. Frederic Waldrow Stearns b. Jan 18, 1847.
4. George Frederic Stearns b. Oct 1, 1826; a portrait & landscape
painter.
5. Susanna Cheever Stearns b. June 7, 1830.
6. Hepzibah Fillebrown Stearns b. Mar 21, 1833.
7. Orange Scott Stearns b. Feb 26, 1835.
8. Marion Stearns b. Feb 8, 1837.
9. Ellen Stearns b. in Norton, Sept 9, 1839.
2. Lovice Stearns b. Sept 22, 1792; m. Mar 22, 1822 Bezaleel Hall, a
farmer, b.
p.482 Sept.
6, 1787, son of James Hall of Middleboro, Maine and later a resident
of Mansfield, Mass. Had one daughter born and died Sept. 1825, in
Barnard,
Vermont
3. Susanna Stearns b. Nov 3, 1794; unm.
4. Asenath Stearns b. Dec 27, 1796; unm.
5. Rachel Randall Stearns b. Dec 2, 1801; m. April 5, 1837, James
Sullivan
Randall b. August, 1805, son of Job Randall of Easton. Had one child,
Asenath Jane Randall b. Jan 19, 1839.
6. Sally Stearns, a twin, b. Aug 14, 1804; unm.
7. Polly Stearns, twin to Sally, b. Aug 14, 1804; unm.
8. William Stearns b. Aug 2, 1808; m. Nov 17, 1831, Nancy Hicks Walker,
b.
Sept 21, 1807, dau. of Nehemiah & Elizabeth Walker of Dighton, Mass.
Children:
1. William Lowell Stearns b. in Mansfield, Nov 6, 1833.
2. Le Roy Vernon Stearns b. Oct 23, 1835.
3. Nancy Augusta Stearns b. Jan. 24th; died Oct 21, 1837.
4. Nancy Josephine Stearns b. Oct 11, 1839; d. Jan 30, 1841.
5. Elijah Walker Stearns b. Jan 27, 1842.
6. Joseph Elizabeth Stearns b. April 9, 1845.
7. Williamina Stearns b. Oct 17, 1848.
To be continued, Part 29 - p.482 - Simon Stearns & wife, Mary
Johnston of East Bridgewater,
Stoughton, Easton, Mass and Wilton, Maine.
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Subject:
Stearns
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Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 29.
p.482
Simon Stearns, b. Nov 19, 1733, son of Simon Stearns of Stoughton &
wife, Margaret Hixon.
simon m. Jan 23, 1764, Mary Johnston of East Bridgewater, and lived in
Stoughton until 1780
then in Easton, Mass. until 1804; then in Wilton, Maine until 1813,
when he went back to
Stoughton where he died Feb 1, 1816 and his widow d. 1819 aged
80. Children:
1. Oliver Stearns b. Oct 14, 1765. In 1780 he went to Vermont and
was never heard of after-
wards.
2. Rhoda Stearns b. May 16, 1770; m. Daniel Streeter of New Pollard,
Maine. She died 1841.
Children:
1.
Vinton Streeter b. 1794; keeper of a boarding house in Lowell; m. Susan
Parker, nine children.
2.
Johnson Streeter b. 1797; m. 1822 Sophia Spaulding. Three children.
3.
Stebbins Streeter b. 1799; a farmer, of New Portland, Maine; m. 1822,
Mary Lane; five children.
3. Susan Stearns b. Oct 10, 1771; m. John Allen and in 1849 was living
in Stetson, Maine.
4. Mary Stearns b. July 16, 1778; m. ____ Moland, who died in 1810
leaving a daughter with
whom his widow lived.
5. Bethuel Stearns b. in Easton, Mass., July 4, 1780; a farmer of
Wilton, Maine, m. 1830,
Sarah Butterfield of Wilton b. in Wilton, N.H. Nov 29,
1782; he died in Stoughton April
7. 1834. Children:
1. Bethuel
Melvira Stearns b. Sept 21, 1804.
2. Sarah W.
Stearns b. Feb 23, 1806; died soon.
3. Lewis Ellison
Stearns b. Aug 6, 1807, m. Aug 27, 1835, Hannah Walker b. Dec.
1, 1820; res. at Bower Brook, Maine. Children:
1. Arabella Stearns b. Aug 12, 1836.
2. Bruscilla Stearns b. Mar 3, 1839.
3. Clarabella Stearns b. May 3, 1841.
4. Ambrose Stearns b. April 4, 1843.
5. Leonard Stearns b. June 5, 1846.
4. Albert Irvin
Stearns b. Jan 19, 1809; m. and settled in Rockford, Illinois.
5. Sarah
Butterfield Stearns b. May 18, 1812.
6. William H.
Stearns b. and died August, 1813.
7. George
Pickering Stearns b. Oct 30, 1814; a farmer of Gardner, Maine; m. July
25, 1842, Martha Bennet.
8. Charles
Wesley Stearns b. in Boston, Nov 27, 1816; a farmer of Monson, Maine;
m. 1839, Hannah Brown, b. March 23, 1823. Children:
1. Araminta Stearns b. Nov 20, 1841.
2. Bethuel Stearns b. June 18, 1844.
3. Charles Stearns b. Dec 9, 1846.
9. Salome Davis
Stearns b. in Wilton, July 28, 1819.
10. Climela Raney
Stearns b. Feb 10, 1821; m. May 7, 1848, Samuel Morse of
Fairfield, Maine.
11. Clarissa Hillman
Whitney Stearns b. Feb 10, 1821, twin to Climela Raney Stearns
b. Feb 10, 1821 - of Lubec, Maine.
12. Thaddeus
Constantine Stearns b. April 4, 1823.
13. Pembroke Beaufort
Stearns, b. May 22, 1824 in Hampden, Maine.
14. Ruth Auril Stearns
b. at Bower Brook, July 11, 1828.
To be continued - Part 30 - p.483 - Peter Stearns,whose first wife is
unknown. He m. (2)
Judith Bartlett. He lived in Plymouth, N.H. and Hinesboro, VT.
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Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 30.
p.483
Peter Stearns, son of Samuel Stearns who was first of Littleton and
then settled in Hollis,
N.H. Peter Stearns was a farmer and settled first in Plymouth,
N.H an afterwards in Hines-
boro, Vermont, where he died. He had two wives, the 2nd of whom
was Judith Bartlett.
Children:
1. Peter Stearns, a carpenter, of Peru, New York.
2. Nathaniel Wheat Stearns, a Methodist minister.
3. Hanna Stearns.
4. Judith Stearns b. Oct 6, 1791; m. Oct 4, 1809, Caleb Harding b. Nov.
18, 1778; resided
in Charlotte, Vermont until 1840; then migrated to Peru,
Clinton County, N.Y. Children:
1. Doran
Bartlette Harding b. Mar. 2, 1812; a minister of the M. E. Church; a
young man of much promise; died Feb. 19, 1836.
2. Miranda
Harding b. May 29, 1814; m. March 29, 1838, Peter V. Higbee of
Charlotte, VT.
3. Alvin Milton
Harding b. july 14, 1816; m. July 12, 1840, Violet Otis Chase;
joined the Mormons and resided at Salt Lake City.
4. Laurett M.
Harding b. April 23, 1819; d. May 28, 1841.
5. Edwin Harding
b. May 17, 1821.
6. Evan Bartlett
Harding b. Aug 12, 1823.
7. William Reed
Harding b. Oct 6, 1825; d. Oct 23, 1837.
8. Eleazer
Harding b. Feb 11, 1828.
9. William Fiske
Harding b. May 26, 1830.
10. Hannah Simons
Harding b. Sept. 24, 1832.
11. Helen M. Harding
b. Mar 27, 1835.
12. Mary Frances
Harding b. Aug 14, 1838; d. July 25, 1845.
5. Abigail Stearns.
6. Betsey Stearns.
7. Kezia Stearns.
8. Rebecca Stearns.
9. Sally Stearns.
To be continued Part 31 - p.483 - Isaac Stearns & wife, Rebecca
Jewett of Monkton, Vt.
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Subject:
Stearns
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Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 31.
p.483
Isaac Stearns, son of Samuel Stearns of Littleton, Mass and Hollis, N.H.
He m. Rebecca Jewett and settled in Monkton, Vermont where he died aged
82 yrs.
Children:
1. Rebecca Stearns b. 1768; m. ____ Pomancy of Ferresburg, VT; had four
sons & 6 daughters.
2. Sally Stearns b. ____; m. (1) ____Tibbetts; m. (2) ____Gaige; had
five sons and 2 dau's.
She died in Adams, Jefferson Co., N.Y.
3. Phebe Stearns died of a casualty.
4. Lois Stearns who m. _____ Williams; had four sons and 2 dau's. She
died Oct 1, 1846.
5. Susan Stearns who went to Ohio.
6. Isaac Stearns had two wives; died in Monkton, VT 1823.
7. Nathaniel Stearns m. and had three children. He d. 1840; was blind
40 yrs before he died.
8. Amos Stearns, a Baptist minister, moved to Argyle, Washington Co.,
N.Y.
Ebenezer Stearns son of Samuel Stearns of Littleton, Mass. and Hollis,
N.H., m. 1773,
Rachel Ames of Hollis, N.H. She b. Dec 25, 1744; d. April 6, 1841;
moved to Monkton, VT.,
where he died 1816. Children:
1. Ebenezer Stearns - in 1817 he moved to Sardinia, Brown County, Ohio,
and in 1844 moved to
Illinois; had a numerous family.
2. John Stearns b. April, 1778; a Baptist clergyman; ordained in
Whitney, VT. Sept 18, 1817
In 1849 was of Tyler, Winnebago Co., Illinois; m. July 22,
1804 Aseneth Campbell b. Oct
18, 1785, dau. of David Campbell of St. Albans, VT.
Children:
1. Harry Franklin Stearns b.
in Monkton, VT Oct 18, 1805; m. 1828; d. April 14,
1840; left
four daughters and one son, Harry Franklin Stearns who resided in
Sardinia
Village, Ohio.
2. David Ebenezer Stearns b.
in Monkton, VT Feb 11, 1808; m. Sept 19, 1840 Fidelia
S. Canon
b.Sept 30, 1829 and res. in Tyler, Illinois. Children:
1. Oscar Levy Stearns
2. Orson Avery Stearns
3. Nuel Doskey Stearns
4. Amands Melissa Stearns.
3. Orrin Orlando Stearns b.
in Monkton, VT., Feb 27, 1810; grad. Brown Univ. 1837;
m. Sept
14, 1837, Nancy C. Valentine, dau of Elijah F. Valentine of Camridge,
Mass. She died in Manchester, N.H. Mar 28, 1849. He was ordained
at Sturbridge,
Mass. Sept
26, 1837. In 1850 was Pastor of the Baptist Church of Manchester,N.H.
Children:
1. John William Stearns b. Aug 10, 1839.
2. James Henry Stearns b. Jan 9, 1841.
3. George Albert Stearns b. Mar 30, 1843.
4. Charles Arthur Stearns b. Aug 1, 1844.
5. Edward Francis Stearns b. Aug 16, 1846.
4. Meyron Newell Stearns b. in
Monkton, VT., Jan 1, 1812; grad. Granville Coll.,Ohio.
p.484 In 1850 was Pastor of the Baptist Church
in West Plattsburg, N.Y.; m. April 12,
1838, Carolina
Sophia Mead b. Mar. 18, 1816, dau. of James & Sarah (Howard) Mead
of Monkton, Vt.;
she died Dec 29, 1844 and he m. (2) Nov 12, 1845, Dorcas Rebecca
Ray b. Feb 4,
1822 dau., of Calvin and Dorcas Howard Ray of Hinesboro, VT.
Children:
1. Theresa Maria Stearns b. Jan 29, 1839.
2. Leonora Asenath Stearns b. July 12, 1841.
3. Myron James Stearns b. Oct 4, 1844.
4. John Ray Stearns b. Dec 18, 1848.
5. Samuel Eastman Stearns
b.in Monkton, VT., Mar 22, 1814; m. Nov 12, 1844, Susan
Terry
Whitaker b. May 5, 1826, dau. of Israel and Lucinda Whitaker; res. in
Almeria,
Hamilton Co., Ohio. Children:
1. Louisa Olivia Stearns b. Sept 26, 1845.
2. Emily Viola Stearns b. Aug 10, 1847.
3. Frances Juliette Stearns b. July, 1849.
6. Annis Maria Stearns b. in
Monkton, VT., Feb 5, 1816; m. Robert Kern Jordan,
educated
at Granville Coll., Ohio, res. 1850, in Fulton, Ohio.
7. Avery Perry Stearns b. in
West Haven, VT Sept 25, 1818; a lawyer in Brantsville,
Kentucky;
unm. He was at one time, President of Grundy College.
8. William Orson Stearns b.
in West Haven, VT Nov 13, 1820, m. Dec 25, 1845,
Maria A.
Campbell dau of Numan Campbell and res. in Tyler, Illinois.
9. Velina Asenath Stearns b.
in Panton, VT., Jan 13, 1824, m. 1844 Rev. Benjamin
F.
Leavitt; res. in Fulton, Ohio.
10. Louisa Melissa Stearns b. in
Panton, VT., July 2, 1825; m. 1846 Rev. Charles
Button of
Illinois.
11. Charlotte Emily Stearns b. in
Panton, VT May 1, 1827.
12. Harriet Jane Stearns b. in
Elizabethtown, N.Y., April 7, 1829; d. June, 1830.
3. Stephen Stearns b. about 1820; was res. in West Plattsburg with wife
and 3 children.
4. Rollins Stearns who died in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, 1838,
unm.
5. Samuel Stearns who died in childhood.
Nathan Stearns b. Mar 19, 1788; m. July 16, 1809, Mary Monkton of Grand
Isle, VT. b. Jan 28,
1791; moved in 1817 to Perryville, Ashland Co., Ohio, where he resided.
Children:
1. Lucius Sawyer Stearns b. June 15, 1810; left home
aged 18 or 20 and not since heard
of.
2. Warren Lewis Stearns b. Jan 19, 1814; died in
Cincinnati June 20, 1846; m. Dec 31,
1838, Jane McCraden. Child:
1.
Martha Eliza Stearns b. Aug 23, 1839.
3. Charlotte Matilda Stearns b. July 22, 1817; m.
April 12, 1835, Philemon Holland
Plummer, Esq., b. April 27, 1800;
Postmaster of Perryville, Ohio.
4. Horace Loomis Stearns b. July 31, 1821; m. Jan
14, 1844, Barbara Ann Charrow b.
Aug 17, 1822; who d. June 25,
1845, leaving one child, Barbara Ann b. Dec 24, 1844.
5. Norman Lanson Stearns b. May 27, 1824; m. June
27, 1844, Rebecca Smith.
6. Alonzo Merrill Stearns b. Dec 14, 1827.
7. Milo Eloftus Stearns b. Oct 4, 1830.
To be continued Part 32 - p. 484 - John Stearns of Monkton, VT &
wife, Sarah Hamlin.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 32.
p.484
John Stearns, b. Oct. 15, 1750, son of Samuel Stearns (wife unknown) of
Littlton, Mass.
and Hollis, N.H; m. March, 1782, Sarah Hamlin b. Sept 22, 1760 (was
living in 1850) He
died July 1, 1823; was of Monkton, VT. Children:
1. Polly Stearns b. Sept 21, 1782.
2. Sarah Stearns b. July 13, 1784; d. Jan 1, 1827, unm.
3. Calvin Stearns b. Aug 2, 1786; m. (1) Hannah Cogswell by whom he had
3 chil.; & m. (2)
Margaret Carlton, b. Sept 23, 1803, by whom he had 8
chil.; lived in Moores, Clinton Co.,
N.Y. Children:
1. Orrin Stearns b.
Dec 26, 1814.
2. Mary Ann Stearns b.
Dec 19, 1816.
3. Joseph Hamlin
Stearns b. May 17, 1819.
4. Mandana Dorcas
Stearns b. Mar 20, 1826.
5. John Carlton
Stearns b. Aug 30, 1827.
6. Sarah Ann Stearns
b. Oct 22, 1829.
7. Catherine Delia
Stearns b. June 8, 1833.
8. Leonard Asa Stearns
b. Dec 31, 1837.
9. Electa Ann Stearns
b. April 12, 1840.
10. Alonzo Bateman Stearns
b. Feb 10, 1844.
11. Melvin Julius Stearns b.
Mar 29, 1846.
4. Luther Stearns b. July 13, 1788; m. Hannah Ames who died; he res. in
Ellenburg,
Clinton Co., N.Y. without family.
5. Bateman Stearns b. May 2, 1790; of Hinesburg, VT.
6. Susannah Stearns b. Feb 2, 1793; m. Dec 7, 1809, Warren Parch; res:
on the border
of Monkton and Ferrisburg, VT. Children:
p.485 1. Polly Parch b. Feb 23,
1812; m. Oct 15, 1826, Seth Bateman b. Jan 17, 1806.
Children:
1. Susanna Bateman b. July 3, 1828.
2. Tamar Bateman b. Nov 30, 1829.
3. Elihu S. Bateman b. Aug 26, 1831.
4. Warren Bateman b. April; died June, 1833.
5. Warren Parch Bateman b. Dec 17, 1834.
6. Celinda Bateman b. Aug 2, 1837.
7. Sarah Bateman b. May 15, 1839.
8. Luther Bateman b. May 25, 1841.
9. John Bateman b. Jan 13, 1843
10. Alvira Bateman b. Sept 1, 1848.
2. John Warren Parch b. Mar 15, 1814; m. Dec 1836, Sally Washburn.
Children:
1. Almira Parch
2. Harriet Parch
3. Warren Parch
4. Amanda Parch
5. Clarissa Parch.
3. Sarah Parch b. Nov 26, 1815; m. Dec. 7, 1840, John Douglas. Children:
1. Alvria Douglas b. March 26, 1841.
4. Almira Parch b. May 4, 1818; d. Mar 28, 1826.
5. Clarissa Parch b. Mar 3, 1820; d. Sept 7, 1822.
6. Amanda Parch b. April 11, 1822.
7. Lorette Parch b. June 3, 1824; d. Mar 11, 1825.
8. Alvira Parch b. May 20, 1828; m. Sept 23, 1849, Harris Phinney.
9. Eliza Parch b. Dec 11, 1829; m. Oct 15, 1845, Henry Palmer and had:
1. Ellen Palmer b. Nov 6, 1846.
Henry Palmer died and his widow m. (2) November, 1848 Andrew Austin.
1. a child b. Mar 1, 1850.
10.
Benjamin Franklin Parch b. Oct 30, 1832.
11.
Homer Parch b. Sept 26, 1834.
7. Samuel Stearns b. Mar. 10, 1795; a tanner of Jackson, Michigan.
8. Parsons Stearns b. 1797; died young.
9. Hamilton Joseph Stearns b. Jan 26, 1799; a tailor of Beekmantown,
Clinton Co., N.Y.
m. (1) Sophronia Wheeler b. Mar 10, 1802; she d. Oct 19,
1843; he m. (2) Rebecca Mix
b. Jan 29, 1815.
1. Winslow
Stearns b. Dec 6, 1825.
2. Sheldon
Wheeler Stearns b. Jan 3, 1827.
3. Charles
Franklin Stearns b. Dec 9, 1831.
4. Francis
Stearns b. Jan 1, 1836; died young.
5. Mary
Steaarns, twin of Francis, b. Jan 1, 1836; died young.
6. Mary
Emeline Stearns b. Feb 9, 1845.
10. Orrin Stearns b. April 1801; died in infancy.
11. Clarissa Stearns b. April 10, 1804.
To be continued - Part 33 - Honorable Josiah Stearns of Lunenburg &
wife Mary Corey
- p.485
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 33.
p.485
The Honorable Josiah Stearns b. July 18, 1747, son of Thomas Stearns of
Littleton & his
1st wife, Abigail Read dau. of Ebenezer Read of Uxbridge. He settled in
Lunenburg, Mass.
He m. March 6, 1769, Mary Corey b. Mar. 28, 1750; died Dec 28, 1828. He
was much employed
in public life. In 1775, he commanded a company of 50 men from
Lunenburg. In 1776, he was
one of the "Committee of Correspondence," with Abijah Stearns, William
Stearns, George
Kimball, Benjamin Redington, Joseph Hartwell and Daniel Gardner. He was
often Assessor
and Selectman from 1780 to 1805; Town Treasurer 8 years: 1781, 1815,
1817, 1819, 1820,
1821 and 1822; Town Clerk, 1817 to 1822; Representative 1796, 1797 and
1798; Justice
throughout the Commonwealth; Senator from Worcester Co. 1791 and 1802;
Member of the
Governor's Council, 1797 to 1799. He died April 6, 1822.
Epitaph on his tombstone:
"The Mortal Remains
of the
Hon. Josiah Stearns
Are deposited here.
"Having discharged the obligations of a citizen and magistrate with
integrity, prudence,
and fidelity and personified the duties of a husband, parent,
counsellor and friend with
faithfulness, kindness, and affection; and humbly endeavoured to live
in the exercise of
piety, faith, hope and charity, he calmly closed his mortal existence,
in the hope of a
happy immortality, through the mercy of God, by Jesus Christ, April 7,
1822 at the age of
75."
Children:
1. Luther Stearns b. Feb 17, 1770; died April 30, 1820; entered
Dartmouth Coll., and spent
some time there, and grad. Harvard Coll. 1791; A.M. Harvard and
Dartmouth; and some time
master of a celebrated school in Medford, where he settled; M.B., 1791;
M.D., Harvard Univ.,
1811; M.M.S.S.; distinguished as an obstetrician; he m. Dec. 29, 1799,
Mary Hall of Brattle-
boro, VT, b. Sept 28, 1773 and had:
p.486
1. Elizabeth Hall Stearns b. Feb 14, 1808; died Oct
28, 1828, unm.
2. George Luther Stearns b. Jan 8, 1809; a ship
chandler of Boston; m. Mary ____.
1. George
Lawrence Stearns b. at Medford, Nov. 29, 1844.
3. Henry Lawrens Stearns b. Mar 30, 1812; of
Medford, unm.
2. Susanna Stearns b. April 6, 1772; died Sept 30, 1784.
3. Asahel Stearns b. June 17, 1774; grad. Harvard Coll. 1797; LL.D.,
1825; A.A.S.; studied
law and settled in Chelmsford (now Lowell) 1800; moved to Charlestown
1815 and to Cambridge,
1818. In 1817 he was elected Professor of Law in Harvard Univ.,
which office he held until
his death, Feb 5, 1839. He was one of the Committee for revising
the statutes of Mass., in
1836, which laborious duty is said to have hastened his death. In
1833, he was made
Treasurer of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians
of North America. He
m. in 1800, Frances Wentworth, the widow of ___Shepherd of Amherst,
N.H. and the dau. of
Benjamin Whitney, Esq., of Hollis, High Sheriff of Hillsboro County,
N.H. Children:
1. Mary Hall Stearns b. Dec 25, 1802; d. Aug 30,
1836, unm.
2. William Gordon Stearns b. Nov 22, 1804; grad.
Harvard Coll., 1824; LL.B. 1827; and
in 1847, Steward of Harvard
Univesity; unm.
4. Mary Stearns b. Oct 25, 1776; m. Nov 20, 1800 the Hon. Edmund
Cushing, Esq., of Lunen-
burg, b. Dec 2, 1772; died March 22, 1851, the son of the Hon. Charles
Cushing of Hingham
(who moved to Lunenburg, 1797). He held some municipal offices of
the town, as Selectman,
Assessor, Treasurer and Town Clerk, nearly all of the time for 40
years; had been Rep. in
the State Legislature, 1804, 1806, 1807, 1810, 1811 and 1820; a Justice
of the Peace from
1811; was Elector of President, and Vice Pres. 1824; Senator of
Worcester County, 1825 to
1828; Member of the Govenor's Council, 1826 and 1828; was the first
Postmaster of Lunen-
burg for 12 years. He was commissioned as Captain, 1799; as Majr,
1801 and as Lieutenant
Colonel 1808. Children:
1. Luther Stearns Cushing b. June 22, 1803; LL.B. Harvard
Univ., 1826; Clerk of
Mass. House
of
Rep's, 1832 to 1834; Judge of the Court
of C.P. 1844; Reporter of the Supreme Court
of Mass., 1848; Author of Cushing's
Manual of Parliamentary Rules; Secretary of the
Boston Academy of Music. He m. May
19, 1840 Mary Otis Lincoln who died May 21, 1851,
dau. of James O. and Elizabeth
Lincoln. After the death of her father, her mother
m. Hon. James Savage of Boston).
Children:
1.
Mary Otis Cushing born in Boston, March 30, 1841.
2.
Elizabeth Stillman Cushing b. Feb 25, 1845.
2. Mary Croade Cushing b. May 6, 1805; m. Jan 6, 1829,
Zabdiel Adams Cunningham, son of
N. F. Cunningham, Sr., of Lunenburg. He
d. May 1830, leaving a daughter, Mary Caroline
Adams Cunningham b. Oct. 6, 1829; and in
1848 was the assistant teacher at Westford
Academy, Westford, Mass.
3. Edmund Lambert Cushing b. May 3, 1807; grad. Harvard
Univ., 1827; tutor, 1828; LL.B.,
1834; in 1848 a lawyer of Charlestown,
New Hampshire and Rep. in the State Leg. He
m. April 1, 1835, Laura E. Lovell,
dau of Vryling and Laura (Hubbard) Lovell of
Charlestown, N.H. Children:
1. Catherine
Cushing b. July 29, 1836.
2. Edmund Henry
Cushing b. june 21 1838.
3. Rebecca Dean
Cushing b. September 1843.
4. Mary Stearns
Cushing b. Nov 14, 1851.
Insert: Vryling Lovell
Source: History of Charlestown, N.H. by
Henry H. Saunderson, 1876.
p.471
Vryling Lovell, son of John Lovell, Esq.
and his wife, Martha (Corey) Lovell of
Rockingham, b. Feb 24, 1781; m. Jan 7,
1804, Laura Hubbard, dau of the Hon. John
Hubbard, b. Feb 22, 1781. Children:
1.
Hubbard N. Lovell b. oct 1804; d. May 7, 1805.
2.
Catherine Lovell b. Oct 9, 1807; d. in Boston, Nov 23, 1824.
3.
Laura E. Lovell b. March 25, 1810; m. April 1, 1835, *Edmund L.
Cushing
(see Chief Justice Cushing).
Vryling Lovell grad. at Dartmouth Coll.
1803 and soon after came to Charlestown, N.H.
as a teacher, in which employment
however he did not long remain before engaging in
mercantile pursuits which became the
business of his life. His store was at the
lower end of the street, and he built
the house where Chief Justice Cushing now
resides (1876). He represented the
town in the Legislature in 1828. He was
successful in business. He died June,
1858. Mrs. Lovell died June 26, 1846.
p.329 - 321
Chief Justice Edmund L. Cushing was born
in Lunenburg, Mass., 1807 & m. (1) April
1, 1835, Laura Elizabeth Lovell, dau. of
Vryling & Laura (Hubbard) Lovell; b. in
Charlestown, N.H., March 25, 1810.
Children:
1. Catherine Lovell
Cushing b. July 27, 1836; m. March 5, 1864, Francis
Mathews Green, son of Mathews & Margaret Augusta (Gilchrist)
Green.
One
child, Catherine Laura Green b. Feb 2, 1865. Mrs. Green died May
4,
1866. Mr. Green was a lieutenant in command in the U.S. Navy -
headquarters,
Washington, D.C.
2. Edmund Henry
Cushing b. July 22, 1838; died March 11, 1869. He was in the U.S.
service in the War of the Rebellion & rec'd the apptmt. of
Secretary to
Admiral Foote, which position he continued to hold till the death of
that
distinguished commander, after which he was made full paymaster in the
Navy,
which office he held at the time of his death. He was a young man
very much
beloved by those who knew him best, and what he accomplished gave
promise
of a
brilliant career, but he did not live to reap the reward of his love of
country; but like thousands of others who entered that fatal war, was
swept
by
disease to an early grave. A stone was erected to his memory in our
village
cemetery.
3. Rebecca Salisbury
Cushing b. Sept 27, 1843; m. Livingston Stone, April 8, 1875.
4. Mary Stearns
Cushing b. Nov 11, 1851.
Chief Justice Cushing m. (2) Nov 24,
1858, Martha Robbins Gilchrist dau of Capt.
James Gilchrist b. Oct 27, 1818.
4. Henry Albert Cushing b. May 4, 1809; d. June 21, 1810.
5. William Cushing b. May 15, 1811, grad. Harvard Univ. 1832;
teacher successively
in Lowell, Fitchburg, and Cambridge; studied
Divinity in Harvard Univ., preached
temporarily in Sterling and Lunenburg; was
settled in Milwaukie, Wisconsin; and in
1848 was Principal of the Westord Academy,
Westford, Mass. He m. July 25, 1843,
Margaret Louisa, dau. of Thomas Wiley, Esq.,
Treasurer of the Fitchburg R.R. Co.
1.
Margaret W. Cushing b. in Milwaukee June 1, 1844.
2. Charles
Chauncey Cushing b. in Cambridge, Dec. 22, 1845.
3. Henry
Prescott Cushing b. in Lunenburg March 20, 1847.
4. John
Eliot Cushing b. June 15, 1849.
5. Mary
Louisa Cushing b. Dec 14, 1850.
6. George Augustus Cushing, b. Aug 8, 1813; a lawyer, and
Justice of the Peace, in
Cambridge, Mass. and in 1848 a Civil
Engineer on the Portland & Augusta R.R.; m.
Nov 21, 1850, Lucy Whitman Mitchell b.
Sept 2, 1824. Children:
1. Julia Welles
Cushman b. Aug 9, 1851.
p.487
7. Caroline Augusta Cushing b. Nov 1, 1815, unm.
8. Martha Ann Stearns Cushing b. Oct 9, 1818; m. Sept 5,
1837 Franklin Forbes, son
of Eli and Clarissa Forbes of Cambridge;
grad. Amherst Coll., 1833; was some time
the Principal of Lowell High School; and
in 1848 Civil Engineer in Lowell. Children
1.
Caroline C. Forbes b. in Boston, June 19, 1838.
2.
Clarissa N. Forbes b. in Boston, April 8, 1841.
3.
James C. Forbes b. in Lowell, July 10, 1844.
4.
Frank C. Forbes b. in Lowell, Oct 15, 1846; d. Jan 29, 1849.
5.
Eli Forbes b. Feb 1849.
6.
Edmund Cushing Forbes b. Aug 14, 1851.
5. Thomas Stearns b. Sept. 8, 1778. In 1813, a Major; in 1818, Justice
of the Peace and a
farmer of Lunenburg; m. Feb 26, 1806, Priscilla Cushing,
dau. of Hon. Charles Cushing of
Hingham, b.July 6, 1779. He died Nov 23, 1826; and his
widow resided in Hingham.
1. Oliver Stearns b. June 3,
1807; grad. Harvard Univ. 1826; pastor of the
Unitarian
Church in Hingham; m. May 14, 1832 Mary Blood, dau. of General
Thomas
Blood of Sterling, Mass. Children:
1. Charles Chauncey Stearns b. Feb 23, died Sept. 1833.
2. Oliver Stearns b. July 23, 1834; d. July 1836.
3. Mary Ellen Stearns b. Nov 14, 1836.
4. Thomas Heywood Stearns b. Oct 5, 1838.
2. Hannah Stearns b. Jan 7,
1810; a teacher in Worcester; unm.
3. Thomas Stearns b. Oct 17,
1811; formerly a commission merchant in Baltimore;
then a
trader of the firm of Stearns & Bailey of Boston. He m.
Charlotte
Blood,
dau. of General Thomas Blood of Sterling, Mass.
4. Martha Laurens Stearns
b.Mar 12, 1814; m. Aug 1843, Joseph S. Cabot, Esq.
the Mayor
of Salem, Mass. and died May 1844.
6. Elizabeth Stearns b. March 28, 1781; d. Dec 27, 1828; m. Jan 13,
1803, Major Levi
Houghton of Lunenburg, b. in Worcester mar 8, 1774. Major
Houghton in 1848 lived in
Lunenburg with his 2nd wife (unnamed) Children all
born in Lunenburg:
1. Josiah Stearns Houghton b. Nov.
22, 1804; m. at Leominster Mar 1, 1827,
Catherine White
born in Lancaster Oct 26, 1807. Children:
1. Mary Jane Houghton b. at Bennington, Vt., May 27, 1831.
2. George Stearns Houghton b. in Lexington, Mass. Feb 3, 1833.
The family later
resided in Chelsea, Mass.
2. Samuel Andre Houghton b. Jan 4,
1807; m. in Townsend, Mass., Sept 3, 1834,
Martha Warren
Haywood, b. May 6, 1810. children:
1. Elizabeth Stearns Houghton b. in Boston, June 14, 1835.
2. Malinda Warren Houghton b. in Lexington, Aug 31, 1840.
3. Henry Merriam Houghton b. in Lexington, Sept 22, 1843.
4. Clara Goodnow Houghton b. in Lexington, Dec 27, 1845.
3. Elizabeth Ann Houghton, b. Mar
1, 1809; m. in Sterling, Dec 26, 1839, Joel
Proctor b. in
Littleton, Mass. March 1, 1805. Children:
1. George Francis Proctor b. in Littleton, Mass. Oct 29, 1840.
2. Sarah Elizabeth Proctor b. Mar 30, 1844.
3. Matilda Proctor b. Nov 20, 1845.
4. William Stearns Proctor b. June 18, 1848.
4. Henry Albert Houghton b. July
21; died Dec, 1811.
5. George Albert Houghton b. Sept
9, 1812; m. in Concord, Mass., Nov 2, 1843,
Hepzibah Collins
Brigham b. in Marlboro, Mass. Oct 21, 1822.
1. Georgiana Augusta Houghton b. in Quincy, July 10, 1844.
2. Elizabeth Lucy Houghton b. July 15, 1846; d. Oct., 1848.
3. Matilda Ann Houghton b. Nov 20, 1845.
4. William Stearns Houghton b. June 18, 1848.
6. Levi Richardson Houghton b. Feb
10, 1815; m. in Lunenburg Sept 28, 1837,
Harriet Newell
Hadley, b. in Lunenburg Mar 26, 1816.
1. Levi Albert Houghton b. in Lexington, Sept 9, 1838.
2. Harriet Anne Houghton b. in Quincy Feb 21, 1840.
3. Mary Elizabeth Houghton b. April 4, 1842; d. September, 1843.
4. George Augustus Houghton b. in Chelsea, Jan 20, 1845.
p.488 5.
Josiah Stearns Houghton b. in North Chelsea, Dec 20, 1847.
7. William Augustus Houghton
b. July 16, 1819; m. in Leominster, Oct 14, 1842,
Mary Jones
Houghton b. April 2, 1817.
1. Augustus Jones Houghton b. on Deer Island, Boston Harbour, July 20,
1843.
2. Charles Stearns Houghton b. on Deer Island, Boston Harbour, Dec 20.
1844.
3. Abby Ann Houghton b. on Deer Island, Boston Harbour, Jan 20, 1847.
4. Eunice Maria Houghton b. in No. Chelsea, Nov 6, 1848.
8. Mary Corey Houghton b.
Oct. 24, 1821; m. in Sterling, Oct 13, 1842 John Howe,
b. in
Boylston, July 10, 1814.
1. Mary Frances Howe b. in Boylston, Nov 13, 1843.
2. John Williams Howe b. in Boylston, July 8, 1845.
3. Elizabeth Stearns Howe, b. in Boylston Feb 27, 1848.
9. Francis Houghton b. Dec
1, 1826.
Sarah Stearns b. Feb 6, 1784; died in Lunenburg Nov 17, 1843; m. 1850,
Capt. James
Patterson, afterwards Deacon, son of James & Merriam (Hovey)
Patterson of Fitchburg; a
bookbinder and stationer in Amherst, N.H. in 1802; in Nashua in 1804.
In 1824, purchased
a large farm in Dunbarton, N.H., and in 1831 returned to Nashua and
engaged in manufacturing
then moved to Lunenburg, 1839 thence to Lancaster where he was a
manufacturer. Children:
1. James H. Patterson, b. in Nashua, Nov 8, 1807; m.
Nov 24, 1834, Isabella Graham
Gates dau. of Barnabas Gates,
Esq., of New York, where he was in business some time.
then res. 5 or 6 yrs in London and
Havre, and in 1848, res. in Boston. He was the
orginator and proprietor of the
"Boston Parcel Post" and was the inventor of the
patent water-proof
cartridge. He and Mr. Keller were the inventors of a new wheel
for steamers.
2. Susan Patterson b. and died in Nashua.
3. Mary Stearns Patterson b. in Nashua, Mar 3, 1811;
educated at the Female Seminary
in New Hampton, N.H., and at the
Troy Female Seminary. She was Principal in the
female department of the Waterloo
Academy and afterwards in the Cortland Academy
in Homer, N.Y.; unm.
4. Stearns Patterson, b. in Nashua Jan 2, 1813;
entered Yale Coll., and at the end of
two years was obliged to leave on
account of ill health. He afterwards studied
Divinity. He resided at
Phoenixville, Penn., was a private teacher and preached
occasionally as his health
permitted.
5. Lucius Patterson b. in Nashua, May 11, 1815; m.
oct, 1844, Hannah Jane Marshall,
of Nashua and was later an officer
in the Mass. State Prison.
1. Sarah Margaret Patterson b. Sept 23, 1845.
2. Susan Lincoln Patterson b. Dec 17, 1848.
6. Oliver Stearns Patterson b. in Nashua Sept 22,
1818; studied medicine with Thomas
Spencer, M.D., Professor in Geneva
College where he grad. and was practicing in
Waterloo, N.Y.; m. Sept 26, 1843,
Caroline Fatzinger b. in Romulus, N.Y., Aug. 16,
1821, dau. of Jacob and Ann
Catherine (Steinberger) Fatzinger.
1. Sarah Stearns Patterson b. oct. 9, 1844.
2. Thomas Fatzinger Patterson b. Feb 8, 1847.
7. Sarah Stearns Patterson b. in Nashua, March 15,
1821; m. Nov 20, 1844, John R.
Rollins of Newbury, Mass., grad.
Dartmouth Coll. 1836; A.M. 1840; Principal of the
Academy and Town Clerk of
Lunenburg; Member of the N.E.H.G. Society and in 1852,
a Clerk of the Fitchburg R.R. Co.
1. Elizabeth Stearns Rollins b. in Lunenburg, Nov 19, 1848.
2. John James Rollins b. in Charlestown, Mar 14; died July 28, 1851.
3. Herbert William Rollins b. in Charlestown, June 19, 1852.
8. Oliver Stearns b. Mar 4, 1786; grad. Harvard Coll., 1808; studied
law, and settled in
Amesbury, Mass., of which he was Representative, 1819 and died in
Dracut July 1826. He m.
1810, Dorcas, dau. of the Hon. J. B. Varnum, Esq. of Dracut, Mass.
Children:
1. Anne Dorcas Stearns b. in Dracut, Aug 2,
1811; m. Sept 15, 1832, Freeman Huggins
of Saco, Maine; a machinist,
son of Eben & Charlotte Huggins, of Cornish, N.H.
He d. Aug 28, 1833 and she
d. Jan 2, 1838 leaving one child, Frances Anne Huggings
b. July 19, 1833.
2. Charles Oliver Stearns b. Nov 8, 1813; a
leather-dresser; m. Sept 10, 1833,
Adeline Eastman, dau. of
Jonathan & Elizabeth Eastman of Salisbury, Mass.
p.489
1. Sarah Elizabeth Stearns b. Oct. 1834.
2. Susan Adeline Stearns b. July, 1836.
3. Joseph Oliver Stearns b. June 14, 1838.
4. Harriet Ann Stearns b. Feb 2, 1841.
5. Mary Augusta Stearns b. Aug 18, 1843.
6. Ellen Dorcas Stearns b. Oct. 30, 1845.
3. Susan Maria Corey Stearns b.
Dec. 29, 1815; m. July 6, 1845 Joseph Chandler, a
farmer of
Winthrop, Maine, son of noah and Lucy Chandler.
4. George Parker Stearns b. Sept
22, 1817; a printer; d. April 20, 1845, unm.
5. Luther Stearns b. Aug 19, 1820;
an engineer of Springfield, Mass.
6. William Henry Stearns b. Mar
22, 1822; an engineer, of Springfield; m. Dec 7,
1847 Mary Ann,
dau. of John and Dolly Durant of Northampton, Mass.
7. Laurens Stearns b. Jan 7, 1825;
a manchinist; d. May 21, 1846; unm.
8. Mary Elizabeth Stearns b. jan
7, 1825; of Dracut.
9. Susanna Stearns b. Dec 15, 1790; m. January, 1811, Joseph Bicknel,
and died Aug. 22,
1813.
10. Ann Stearns b. April 29, 1794; m. oct 7, 1839, Benjamin Snow, b.
Jan 7, 1782; as his
2nd wife; a retired merchant of Fitchburg.
To be continued Part 34 - p. 489 - Samuel Stearns of Cavendish, VT
& his wife, Phebe
Whittemore.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 34
p.489
Samuel Stearns b. May 25, 1762, son of Thomas Stearns of Littleton,
Mass., & his 3d wife,
Mary Heald of Chelmsford, Mass. Samuel Stearns was of Cavendish,
VT. He served three years
and three months in the Revolutionary War army. He m. at Keene,
N.H., Phebe Whittemore b.
at Winchester, N.H. in 1773; moved to Cavendish in 1802. His death was
caused by the fall
of a tree and he died August 2, 1828. Children:
1. Noah Stearns b. April 19, 1793; m. in Cavendish, 1816, Betsey Brown
and settled in
Parishville, N.Y. Children:
1. Elliot
N. Stearns b. Dec, 1816; m. 1841, Emeline Tupper and settled in
Middlebury, VT.
2. Eliza
Stearns b. Sept., 1819; d. June, 1836.
3. Lauria
Stearns b. June, 1823; d. Dec. 1835.
4.
Henrietta Stearns b. May, 1831.
2. Esther Stearns b. Feb 14, 1799; lived in New Haven, Vt.
3. Samuel Stearns b. Mar. 19, 1801; a farmer, of Cavendish, VT.
4. Levira Stearns b. Sept 9, 1804; m. Davied Odel and settled in the
west.
5. Lorenzo Stearns b. April 16, 1806; a carpenter and joiner; went to
East Middlebury, VT.,
in 1824; m. Oct 7, 1830, Rachel Farwell b. Oct 8, 1811,
dau. of Jesse and Rebecca Farwell.
6. Chephas Stearns b. Dec 21, 1808; m. 1840, Orpha Turner and res. at
Waltham, VT.
7. Emily Stearns b. Sept 9, 1810; lived in Waltham, VT.
To be continued - Part 35 - p.489 - Levi Stearns of Lunenburg &
wife Elizabeth Goodrich.
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Subject:
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Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 35.
p.489
Levi Stearns, b. Jan 12, 1765; died Dec 25, 1811, son of Thomas Stearns
of Littleton & his
3d wife Mary Heald of Chemsford, mother of his last six children.
Levi Stearns m. Jan 7,
1794, Elizabeth Goodrich who died Oct 11, 1810. Children:
1. Thomas Stearns b. April 1, 1794; a Captain, and a tanner and
currier, of Leominster; m.
June 1, 1817, Thirza Burrage, dau. of Deacon William
Burrage of Leominster. She died
May 24, 1819 and he m. (2) Nov. 2, 1820, Polly, dau. of
Joel & Elizabeth (Maynard)
Brigham of Leominster, b. Dec 29, 1792. Children:
1. William Alonzo Stearns b. Aug
14, 1821; of Boston; unm.
2. Oliver Stearns b. Mar 1, 1823;
m. Oct 27, 1847, Charlotte Alice Whitcomb, dau.
of Alonzo Josiah
Whitcomb & wife, Emily (Johnson) Whitcomb; they resided in
Worcester.
3. George Stearns b. Mar. 16; died
April 19, 1826.
4. Thirza Stearns b. Sept 28,
1827; d. Sept 20, 1846.
5. Henry Stearns b. Aug 19, 1829.
6. Caroline Matilda Stearns b.
June 27, 1831.
7. Mary Ann Stearns b. Feb 22,
1833.
2. Levi Stearns b. March 19, 1796; died Nov 11, 1800.
3. Abel Stearns b. Feb 9, 1798; m. 1840; Donna Maria Francisca Arcadia
Paula Bandini aged
14 years. He settled in California about 1822;
purchased several thousand acres of land,
and previous to the acquisition by the U.S., owned
thousands of cattle. He had been en-
gaged in trade at Angelos de las Palos, in Upper
California. He was a member of the late
Convention for forming a Constitution for the State.
4. William Stearns b. Nov 17, 1799; a trader in Boston, m. Oct 11,
1831, Dorinda Joslin of
Leominster, who died Oct 17, 1850 aged 43 yrs. Children:
1. Anne Maria
Stearns b. Sept 12, 1834.
2. William
Lincoln Stearns b. July 7, 1836.
3. Ellen Dorinda
Stearns b. April 19, 1843.
5. Elizabeth Stearns b. Nov. 17, 1799; m. April 11, 1819, Elias Joslin,
Jr., a farmer, of
Leominster, Mass., b. Nov 10, 1795. Children:
p.490
1. William
Stearns Joslin b.Jan 22, 1820; of Leominster; m. Oct 6, 1841, Elizabeth
G. Morse, dau. of Daniel and Abigail Morse of Cambridge; res. in
Leominster.
1. Arminda Elizabeth Joslin.
2. Charles
Loring Joslin b. Jan 12, 1823; of Leominster; m. Oct 28, 1846, Martha
Jane Adams, dau. of Joseph and Martha Adams of Townsend. Children:
1. Martha Dorinda Joslin b. Feb 5, 1848.
3. John Elias
Joslin, b. Aug 1, 1825; m. Jan 14, 1846, Eliza Ann Dorrison, dau. of
Samuel & Nancy Dorrison of Lancaster; res. at Leominster. Children:
1. Amiroux Albertine Joslin b. July 1, 1847.
4. Francis
Lincoln Joslin b. Jan 9, 1828.
5. Mary
Elizabeth Joslin b. May 16, 1830.
6. George Warren
Joslin b. Mar 9, 1832. d. Oct. 1835.
7. James Thomas
Joslin b. June 23, 1834.
8. Martha Ann
Joslin b. Feb 13, 1837.
9. George
Clesson Joslin b. Aug 19, 1839.
10. Ellen Louisa
Joslin b. July 16, 1842.
6. Levi Stearns b. Dec 15, 1802; a farmer of Townsend; m. Oct 5, 1826
Direxa Jewett of
Townsend. Children:
1. Phebe Jewett
Stearns b. Jan 28, 1828.
2. Noah Elihu
Stearns b. Feb 20, 1831.
3. Solomon
Jewett Stearns b. May 19, 1833.
4. Direxa
Elizabeth Stearns b. July 15, 1835.
5. Abel Goodrich
Stearns b. Oct 15, 1838.
6. Charles
Joslin Stearns b. Sept 30, 1841.
7. Levi Warren
Stearns b. July 30, 1844.
8. Thirza
Malinda Stearns b. April 26, 1847.
7. Abigail Stearns died young.
8. Theresa Stearns b. Jan. 11, 1806; m. April 11, 1832, James Warren of
Littleton who died
Feb 13, 1838. Children:
1. Theresa Maria
Warren b. Jan 27, 1833.
2. Elizabeth
Goodrich Warren b. Dec 2, 1834.
3. George
Washington Warren b. Mar 2, 1838.
9. Nancy Stearns b. June 30, 1807; m. Dec 5, 1833, Dr. Peter Manning,
M.D.; M.M.S.S.; son
of Peter and Rebecca (Carter) Manning of Townsend; many
years a physician at Lowell; then
of Lunenburg. Nancy Stearns was his 2nd wife.
Children:
1. William
Stearns Manning b. in Lowell, Jan 6, 1836.
2. Jerome
Fenelon Manning b. in Lowell, Dec 18, 1838.
3. Lyman Bigelow
Manning b. in Lowell, Oct 3, 1844.
10. Charles Stearns b. June 16, 1809; a trader, in Littleton, Mass.,
unm. He inherited
the estate of his grand uncle, Noah Stearns (son of
Thomas Stearns & 3d wife Mary Heald)
To be continued, Part 36 - p.490 - Joseph Stearns & his wife, Rhoda
Tingley. Lived at
Attleboro, Mass, to Tolland, CT; thence to Mount Pleasant, Wayne Co.,
Penn.
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Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 36.
p.490
Joseph Stearns b. October 7, 1751; died June 2, 1829; son of Capt. John
Stearns and and his
first wife, Rebecca Dean of Dedham & Attleboro, Mass. Joseph
Stearns m. Dec. 1, 1774, Rhoda
Tingley b. Aug 17, 1755, dau of Thomas and Martha Tingley. She
died Dec 21, 1837. He died
June 2, 1829. In 1783 he moved from Attleboro, Mass. to Tolland, CT and
in 1793 moved to
Mount Pleasant, Wayne County, Penn. Children:
1. Lucy Stearns b. Oct 21, 1775; m. abt. 1797, Benjamin Dix, son of
Elijah & Margaret Dix,
who moved from Williamstown, Mass. to Susquehanna Co.,
Penn., 1793) and settled in Mount
Pleasant. He died Mar 22, 1805 and his widow m. (2)
1815, Latham Williams, a farmer of
Brooklyn, Susquehanna Co., Penn., by whom she had one son,
John Williams. She died Mar 14,
1826. Children:
1. Lucy Dix b. June 1, 1798, m. Elisha
Williams of Gibson, Penn.
2. Margaret Dix b. Ap. 19, 1800; m. Abraham
Craton & moved to Illinois.
3. Benjamin Dix b. June 17, 1801; m. Betsey
Blanchard; res. Oswego, N.Y.
4. Rhoda Dix b. Feb 19, 1803; m. Philip Craton.
5. Elijah Dix b. Feb 17, 1805; d. Aug 8, 1838.
6. John Williams - a child by her 2nd husband,
Latham Williams.
2. John Stearns b. Mar 18, 1777; m. Sept 8, 1801, Polly Thompson, b.
Jan 3, 1780; died
Jan 23, 1843; dau. of Esaphras & Margaret Thompson of
CT; settled in Preston, Penn.,
where he died Sept 3, 1849. Children:
1. Orrinda
Stearns b. Aug 8, 1802; m. Mar 24, 1825 Isaac Theal. Children:
1. Eliza Theal b. May 13, 1827, m. Mar 6, 1845, Oscar Stearns.
2. Charles E. Theal b. Nov 8, 1832; d. Mar 3, 1850.
Isaac Theal died and his widow, Orrinda (Stearns) Theal m. (2) Rodman H.
Barrows and had:
3. Ella O. Barrows b. Feb. 5, 1840 (twin)
4. Edwin H. Barrows b. Feb. 5, 1840, twin to Ella O. Barrows.
5. William Barrows b. Aug. 14, 1842 (twin)
6. Rodman Henry Barrows b. Aug 14, 1842, twin to William Barrows.
2. Lucinda A.
Stearns b. Mar 8, 1804; m. Jan. 3, 1847 John Simpson of Gibson,
Penn.
p.491 3. Manna Stearns b. Nov 14, 1806; a
carpenter; m. Nov. 1830, Angelina Comstock,
dau. of David & Margaret Comstock and settled in Galena, Delaware
Co., Ohio.
1. Elizabeth Stearns b. Jan 12, 1832.
2. William Stearns b. Dec. 18, 1833.
3. Margaret Stearns b. Feb 9, 1836.
4. Julian Stearns b. June 18, 1836.
4. Otis T.
Stearns b. Mar 8, 1809.
5. Jabez D.
Stearns b. May 6, 1811; d. May 20, 1828.
6. John Stearns
b. May 10, 1813; of Preston, Penn., m. Dec 24, 1841, Maria, dau.
of William & Hannah Coleman. Children:
1. Julia M. Stearns b. Feb 1, 1844.
2. William E. Stearns b. May 23, 1846.
His wife Maria died July 17, 1846.
7. Mary A.
Stearns b. April 20, 1819; m. Feb 6, 1838, Curtis F. Sherwood, son of
Jabez M. & Amoretta Sherwood. Children:
1. Henry W. Sherwood b. Nov 20, 1838.
2. Helen Sherwood b. Nov 23, 1840.
3. Harriet A. Sherwood b. Mar 22, 1842.
4. George F. Sherwood b. Feb 29, 1844.
8. Shelden U.
Stearns b. April 10, 1822; a Captain; m. Jan 1, 1849, Mary Jane, the
dau. of Eleazer J. & Catherine (Roberts) Munroe. Child:
1. Ellen Orrinda Stearns b. Feb 9, 1850.
3. James Stearns b. Aug 5, 1779; d. May, 1835; m. 1802, Abelina
Harding, dau. of Amos &
Wetha Harding and moved to Bloomfield, Richland County,
Ohio.
4. Phebe Stearns b. oct 10, 1781; m. August, 1803, Benjamin Newton b.
Feb 3, 1777; res.
at Susquehanna Co., Penn., until Oct 1835 then moved to
Wyoming, Putnam County, Illinois.
1. Phebe Newton b.
April 15, 1804; m. Feb 7, 1821, Hiram Miller and had:
1. Icybenda Miller b. Dec 14, 1821; m. Feb 27, 1842 Samuel Ridgeway.
2. S. S. Miller b. Jan 30, 1824.
Hiram Miller died and she m. (2) July 25, 1830, Robert Sharer by whom
she had
3. Martha Sharer b. Mar 13, d. April7, 1831.
4. Rhoda Sharer b. Feb 22, 1832.
5. Flora Ann Sharer b. May 13, 1834.
6. Thomas N. Sharer b. May 20, 1842; died Feb. 1845.
7. Ellen Sharer b. Mar 26, 1846.
2. Nelson Newton b.
Nov 22, 1805; m. Dec 5, 1830, Hannah Burdick b. Mar 25,
1814. Children:
1. David Newton b. Sept 20, 1831; died next March.
2. Nelson Newton b. Feb 1, 1833.
3. Lewis G. Newton b. Feb 8, 1835.
4. Mary Augusta Newton b. Feb 9, 1837.
5. Flora Annette Newton b. Sept 27, 1839.
3. Sarah Newton b.
April 18, 1809; m. Mar 20, 1828, Peter Sharer b. Mar. 29,
1801. Children:
1. Nelson C. Sharer b. July 12, 1830.
2. Catherine M. Sharer b. Mar 26, 1833.
3. Felicia M. Sharer b. May 6, 1835.
4. Martha Ann Sharer b. Sept 22, 1837.
5. John N. sharer b. May 22, 1840.
6. a son b. Mar 29, 1842.
7. Joseph Bruce Sharer b.Mar 14, 1843.
8. Alvira Sharer b. Mar 29, died April 9, 1848.
9. Almira Sharer, twin to Alvira, b. March 29th; d. April 10, 1848.
4. David Newton b.
Sept 6, 1811; m. Sept 4, 1834, Sarah A. Brondage, b. July 5,
1814. She died in childbed, Feb 11, 1838 and he m. (2) Adah Delamater
b. Dec
6,
1816. Children:
1. Benjamin Newton b. oct 12, 1835.
2. Sarah Ann Newton b. Jan 25, 1838.
3. Ruth D. Newton b. July 21, 1841.
4. Phebe Newton b. Sept 26, 1842.
5. James Polk Newton b. Aug 7, 1844.
6. West Newton, b. Mar 4, 1847.
5. Joseph Newton b.
April 12, 1813; a farmer; m. Jan 3, 1841, Jane White, b. Jan.
4,
1822. Children:
1. Zarah Newton b. Nov 22, 1841.
2. Delphine Newton b. Nov 17, 1844.
3. Paul Newton b. Dec 15, 1845.
6. Benjamin Newton b.
May 4, 1817; a farmer.
7. Newman Newton b.
April 19, 1819; a farmer & carpenter.
8. Flora Newton b. Aug
29, 1821, m. May 3, 1845, H. S. Gregory.
9. Naomi Newton b. Nov
16, 1847; m. Mar 24, 1844, C. A. Mount. Children:
1. Ida Mount b. Jan 10, 1845.
2. Helen Mount b. July 14, 1846.
10. Rhoda Newton b. May 14;
died Nov 16, 1827.
5. Otis Stearns b. Oct. 14, 1783; a Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of
the Baptist Church,
m. Nov. 30, 1809, Lois Potter and res. at Gibson,
Penn. Children:
1. Louisa Stearns b.
Dec 5, 1811; m. Dec 26, 1837, Reuben Harris of Jackson,
p.492 Susquehann Co., Penn. b. Mar
19, 1805, son of Joshua and Clarissa Harris of
Vermont. Children:
1. Warren Mason Harris.
2. Louisa Scammel Harris.
3. Eunice Harris.
2. Marvelles Stearns
b. July 7, 1816; for many years in bad health.
3. Soissina Stearns b.
Nov 5, 1818, m. Mar 5, 1838, Eli Barns b. Aug 31, 1818, son
of
Joel and Dolly Barns of Gibson.
4. Almon Otis Stearns
b. July 19, 1821, m. Sept. 30, 1841 Lydia Philips b. July 6,
1819, dau of Austin & Elizabeth Philips of Gibson.
5. William Warren
Stearns b. Mar 15, 1824; m. Almira Rogers, b. Mar 9, 1823, dau.
of
John & Esther Rogers of Harmony, susquehanna County, Penn.
6. Horace Wheeler
Stearns b. Feb 12, 1832.
6. Rhoda Stearns b. Jan 22, 1785; d. Mar 21, 1833; m. Feb 22, 1806,
David Kennedy Jr. son of
David and Eunice Kennedy of Mount Pleasant. Children:
1. Nancy Kennedy
b. April 2, 1807; m. Sept 5, 1832, Kenneth Ansel Johnson, a
clothier of New Milford, Penn., son of Andrew & Elizabeth Johnson.
2. Alvira
Kennedy b. Sept 20, 1809.
3. Eunice
Kennedy b. Aug 22, 1811.
4. Harvey
Kennedy b.Nov 8, 1813; a merchant of Honesdale; m. Sept 3, 1841,
Catherine Thayer.
5. Rhoda Minerva
Kennedy b. Feb 26, 1816; m. Sept 5, 1835, Rev. Marcus K.
Cushman, a Presbyterian minister.
6. Harriet
Kennedy b.Nov 26, 1817; m. Oct 17, 1844 William Bonner, son of
Charles Bonner.
7. David Kennedy
b. Jan 15, 1820.
8. Athalinda
Kennedy b. April 23, 1822.
7. Joseph Stearns b. Aug 25, 1788; m. Feb 1, 1820, Melissa Gaylord,
dau. of Amasa and
Mindwell Gaylord and settled in Bloomfield, Richland Co.,
Ohio. Children:
1. Samuel Austin
Stearns
2. Caroline
Amelia Stearns
3. Syvester
Corydon Stearns
4. Rhoda
Mindwell Stearns
5. Harriet
Arvila Stearns.
8. Ira Stearns b. Mar 5, 1791; m. April 28, 1814, Maria Plumb, dau. of
Jacob & Rhoda
Plumb, & res. at Hartford, Susquehanna Co., Penn.
Children:
1. Ira Edwin Stearns
b. May 12, 1815; of Ohio.
2. Charles P. Stearns
b. Dec 22, 1817; of Ohio.
3. Alvan Stearns b.
Jan 18, 1819; of Promotion, Wayne Co., Penn.
4. Oscar Stearns b.
April 17, 1821; of Promotion, Wayne Co., Penn; m. March 6,
1845, Eliza Theal, dau. of Isaac & Orinda (Stearns) Theal.
5. George W. Stearns
b. Feb 8, 1824.
6. Joseph Ansel
Stearns b. June 6, 1829.
7. Amanda Stearns
8. Mary Stearns.
9. Alonzo Stearns.
10. Henry Melvin Stearns.
9. Jabez Stearns b. June 18, 1794; m. Feb 1, 1821, Roena Worcester,
dau. of David and
Polly Worcester; res. at Demascus, Penn. Children:
1. Harriet Emily
Stearns b. Nov 9, 1822.
2. David Worcester
Stearns b. Mar 21, 1826.
3. Polly Stearns b.
Aug 21, 1828.
4. Lucretia Stearns
b. Nov 25, 1830.
5. Irene Stearns b.
Dec 8, 1833.
6. Francis R. Stearns
b. May 9, 1836.
10. Ashbel Stearns b. Sept 24, 1796; m. Feb 21, 1819; Sophia Hare b. in
Ellington, Conn.
April 17, 1799, dau. of Stephen & Elizabeth
Hare; settled 1st in Mount Pleasant & about
1830 in Clinton, Penn. Children;
1. Semantha Elizabeth
Stearns b. June 5, 1821; m. Sept 5, 1847 George Fulkerson
of
Mount Pleasant b. Dec 27, 1819.
2. Stephen Warner
Stearns b. Jan 27, 1824.
3. Sylva Charlotte
Stearns b. Mar 3, 1827.
4. Nancy Eloisa
Stearns b. Nov 1, 1828.
5. Seymour Augustus
Stearns b. Feb. 6, 1833.
6. Ruth Almira Stearns
b. Aug 3, 1834.
7. Mary Eliza Stearns
b. June 27, 1838.
To be continued Part 37 - p. 492 - Levi Stearns, Pomfret & Enfield,
CT & Charlmont, Mass.
& wife, (1) Lois Stoddard of Pomfret, CT & (2) widow Sarah
(Joslin) Butler of Leominster.
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Subject:
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Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 37.
p.492
Levi Stearns,b. 1755, son of Benjamine Stearns of Rutland, Mass., &
his wife, the Mary, the
widow of Benjamin Warren, of Hardwick. Levi joined the army May 1,
1775; was in the battle
of Bunker Hill, in the company of Capt Jedediah Waterman and under the
command of General
Putnam. He went to Pomfret, Conn. in 1771, and lived there except
when in the public service, until 1781, when he moved to Enfield, Conn.
where he lived until 1799; when he
moved to Claremont, Mass. where he died August 5, 1839. He m. (1)
Lois Stoddard of Pomfret,
Conn. b. Oct. 10, 1759 & died Oct. 13, 1830. He m. (2) Mrs.
Sarah Butler (a Joslin, of
Leominster) who died Mar. 12, 1830 aged 73 yrs. Children:
1. Horatio Stearns b. Dec 21, 178_; died Dec 12, 1833; a farmer of
Charlmont; m. June 20,
1801 Vashti Wilder, b. Mar 2, 1788, dau. of Abel &
Dorothy Wilder of Charlmont. Children:
1. Levi Wilder Stearns b. Nov. 24, 1805;
a saddler; m. Oct 27, 1830, Cordelia Maria
Belding, b. Sept 10,
1806, dau. of Augustus & Kata Belding of Whately, Mass.
1. Alfred Augustus Stearns b. Jan 8, 1832.
2. Sarah Maria Stearns b. June 12, 1835; died September, 1838.
3. Catherine Maria Stearns b. Aug 26, 1839.
4. James Belding Stearns, b. Oct 30, 1841.
2. Louisa Stearns b. Nov. 7, 1807.
3. Nancy Emily Stearns b. Oct 23, 1810;
died Aug 24, 1814.
4. Charles Stoddard Stearns, b. April 3,
1813; a trunk-maker in New York City; m.
Sept 20, 1834, Sarah
Bovie, b. Feb 22, 1815, dau. of John & Tabitha Bovie of
Pownal, VT.
Children:
1. Augustus Stearns b. Aug 4, 1837; died Jan 1, 1845.
2. Elvira Stearns b. Nov 29, 1839; d. Mar 20, 1845.
5. Emily Stearns b. Jan 11, 1815; m. Nov
14, 1833, Jonathan Hartwell, Jr. son of
Jonathan & Hannah
Hartwell of Charlmont, where he resided, a stone-cutter.
1. Mercy Maria Hartwell b. Aug 6, 1835.
2. Olive Louisa Hartwell b. Oct 19, 1838.
3. Henry Stearns Hartwell b. Aug 16, 1843.
6. Dorothy Stearns b. April 2, 1817; m.
Oct 3, 1843, Pliny Dewey Walbridge, b. Feb.
9, 1820, son of
Charles & Sarah Walbridge of Bennington, VT; he was a saddle and
harness maker of
Adams, Mass.
7. Vashti Stearns b. Aug 3, 1819; m.
April 8, 1838, David Ingraham b. April 4, 1813,
son of Obadiah &
Juba Ingraham of Savoy, Mass. where he resided, a farmer.
1. Julia Ann Ingraham b. Sept. 2, 1840.
2. Mary Emma Ingraham b. Nov 23, 1844.
8. Mary Stearns b. Nov 26, 1821; m. in
Savoy, Mass., Nov 27, 1850, Daniel D. White.
9. Edwin Horatio Stearns b. June 12,
1826; died August 17, 1829.
10. Henry Otis Stearns, b.Oct 30, 1828.
11. Elizabeth Stearns b. Nov 24, 1831.
2. Eli Stearns b. Feb 10, 1784, m. Dec 28, 1808, Maria Webb, dau. of
Colonel Ebenezer
Webb of Palmer, Mass. and settled in South Hadley,
Mass. She died April 20, 1841 and
he died Nov 19, 1841.
1. an infant born and died 1809.
2. Charles Rollin Stearns b. Aug
25, 1810; m. Nov 4, 1834, Elizabeth Strong of
Northampton,
Mass.; res. at New Haven, Conn.
3. Ebenezer Stearns b.May 8, 1814;
m. Dec 20, 1837, Caroline Bush of West Springfield
Mass. and res.
in New Haven.
4. William Stearns b. Mar 13,
1816; m. June 8, 1843, Elizabeth F. Hawks, of Buckland,
Mass.; res. in
Williamsburg, Mass.
5. George Stearns b. Feb 13, 1818;
d. July 4, 1840.
6. Alonzo Stearns b. July 4, 1820;
m. July 31, 1844, Sarah A. Torrey of Cabotville,
(Springfield)
Mass.; res. at Chester, Mass.
7. Eli Stearns b. Oct 2, 1822.
8. Henry Stearns b. June 2, 1825.
9. Martha Stearns, b. Aug 21,
1827; d. Oct 7, 1841.
10. Levi Stearns b. Mar 4, 1830.
11. Cynthia Sophia Stearns b. Jan 21,
1833; died Aug 31, 1840.
3. Roxana Stearns b. Aug 9, 1787; d. Nov 10, 1824 in childbed; m. May
16, 1815, Nicholas
Groves, a farmer, of Charlmont. Children:
1.
Louisa Groves b. Sept 14, 1817; m. 1841, ____Burbans.
2.
William P. Groves b. 1819.
3.
Martha Groves b. Nov 23, 1822; d. May, 1838.
4.
Roxa Groves, b. Nov 1, 1824.
4. Mary Stearns b. Sept 1791; unm.
5. Cynthia Stearns b. Mar 12, 1798, unm.
To be continued, Part 38 - p. 493 - Eli Stearns, Esq. of Lancaster who
m. Mary Whitney
dau of Jonathan Whitney of Lancaster.
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Subject:
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Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 38.
p.493
Eli Stearns, Esq., b. 1757; d. 1825, son of Benjamin Stearns of
Rutland, Mass. & his wife, Mary
Warren. In 1775 he was an apprentice to a Mr. Whittaker, a carpenter of
Princeton, who
enlisted early in the Revolutionary army. Eli was sent to the army at
Cambridge for a
short time, as a substitute for his master, Mr. Whittaker and was there
at the time of
the battle of Bunker Hill, but was not in the battle. In 1777, he
enlisted and, in a
scouting party commanded by Capt. Daniel Shays, was wounded by a ball
from an Indian,
passing through his head, entering his left cheek, and coming out under
the right ear.
After being confined several months in the hospital at Albany, he
became assistant-
commissary and continued in the service until discharged in 1783.
He was a justice of
the peace and a representative in 1806, 1807, 1808 and 1809.
He m. Mary Whitney, dau. of Jonathan Whitney of Lancaster, Mass. He
died Mar 7, 1825 and she died May, 1828.
Insert:
Their tombstone at the Middle Cemetery, Lancaster, Mass. as follows:
"Ely Stearns Born Nov 12, 1757, Died March 7, 1825."
Mary Whitney, His Wife, born Jan 14, 1767, Died May 24, 1828.
Augustus Stearns Died Sept 27, 1811, AE. 4 Yrs."
1. a son died in infancy.
2. a son died in infancy.
3. Charles Stearns b. Nov. 15, 1788; was bred a mason, and had been
extensively engaged
as a builder; settled in Springfield, Mass., in 1812,
where he resided. Besides
numerous municipal appointments, he was a Representative
and Senator in the State
Legislature. He was the proprietor of the
water-works of that town. He m., Dec 30,
1816, Julia Ann Woodward, dau. of Rev. Aaron Woodward of
Wilbraham, and the grand-
dau. of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Trumbell of New Haven, the
Historian. She died Jan 28, 1833
and he m. (2) May 6, 1834, Amanda, dau. of Abner Brown,
Esq., of Monson, Mass. and the
widow of Hiram Norcross. She died April 7, 1836 and
he m. (3) Jan 10, 1838, Mary, dau.
of Festus Stebbins of Springfield. Children:
p.494
1. Charles
Woodward Stearns b. Sept 24, 1817; grad. Yale Coll., 1837; studied
medicine with Dr. W. J. Walker of Charlestown, Mass., M.D., Penn. Univ.
1840; admitted to the Medical Staff of the U.S. Army in 1842 and served
one
campaign in Florida. At the end of the war he was discharged and
in 1845 and
1846, he made the tour of Europe. In 1852 he was of Springfield.
2. William
Stearns b. Feb 7, 1844; died Oct 3, 1845.
4. Mary Stearns b. Jan 26, 1791; unm.
5. Eliza Stearns b. Nov 18, 1793; m. June 10, 1818, Francis Faulkner,
son of Francis
Faulkner of Billerica and settled in Keene, N.H., a
flannel manufacturer, where he died
December, 1842. Children:
1. Charles
Stearns Faulkner b. May 17, 1818; was married.
2. Elizabeth
Jones Faulkner b. May 25, 1822.
3. Francis
Augustus Faulkner b. Feb 12, 1825; grad. Harvard Univ., 1846; a
lawyer of Keene, N.H., and Member of the State Legislature; was married.
4. William
Emerson Faulkner b. April 16, 1828; d. Aug 11, 1840.
5. Frederick
Whitney Faulkner b. Dec 29, 1829; died the next August.
6. William
Frederic Faulkner b. July 7, 1831.
7. Marshall
Whitney Faulkner b. Aug 19, 1834; d. January, 1835.
6. Sophia Stearns b. Sept., 1795; unm.
7. Harriet Stearns b. Nov 21, 1797; unm.
8. William Stearns b. Nov 2, 1799; a mason, of Boston; m. April 30,
1826, Elizabeth
Sawyer Wilder, dau. of Joseph Wilder, formerly of
Lancaster, Mass., afterwards of
Boston. Children:
1. William Henry
Stearns b. Feb 18, 1827.
2. Augustus
Wilder Stearns b. Aug 22, 1828.
3. Charles
Alfred Stearns b. May 18, 1830.
4. Norman
Whitney Stearns b. Aug 23, 1831.
9. Catherine Stearns b. Feb 18, 1802; unm.
10. Sarah Whitney Stearns b. May 13, 1804; died Jan 11, 1837; m.
September, 1833, Amos
Chase of Groton, Mass. Children:
1. Sarah Augusta Chase
b. June 30, 1834.
2. Mary Catherine
Chase b. July 1, 1836.
11. Nancy Stearns b. April 13, 1806; m. May 17, 1832, Otis Haskell, b.
at Harvard, Mass.,
May 25, 1806; a cabinet-maker; of Claremont,
N.H. Children:
1. Mary Haskell b.
June 24, 1835.
2. Charles Haskell b.
July 7, 1839.
3. Sarah Sophia
Haskell b. Mar 10, 1844.
12. Augustus Stearns b. Oct 4, 1807; d. Sept 12, 1811.
To be continued Part 39 - p.494 - Colonel Ephraim Stearns of Petersham
& wife, Prudence
Wilder.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Part 39 to Part 56 of 56 Parts
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
p.494
Col. Ephraim Stearns, b. Jan 10, 1740; d. Sept 2, 1808, son of Ebenezer
Stearns of
Worcester and his wife, Mary Spring. Col. Ephraim Stearns settled
in Petersham, of
which he was Treasurer twenty years and was Selectman and Assessor for
a very long
time. He commanded a company of militia during most of the
Revolutionary War and was
afterwards a Colonel. He m. Prudence Wilder, b. Sept 16, 1746,
who died March 29, 1825
and he died Sept 2, 1808. Children:
1. Cornelius Stearns b. Jan 12, 1765; died April 10, 1769.
2. Samuel Stearns b. Oct 3, 1766; died Dec 3, 1817; m. Lydia Clement b.
May 8, 1777.
1. Ephraim Stearns b. July 19,
1799; m. Feb 1w1, 1824, Luc (Lucy?) Willard of
Ashburnham. Children:
1. Ephraim Lincoln Stearns, b. Feb 23, 1825.
2. Samuel Clinton Stearns b. April 11, 1827.
3. Lucy Jane Stearns b. Jan 10, 1830.
4. Helen Augusta Stearns bb. Sept 24, 1832.
5. Henry Augustus Stearns (twin to Helen Augusta,) b. Sept 24, 1832.
6. Herman Dwight Stearns b. Jan. 9, 1836.
7. Albert Clement Stearns b. Aug 23, 1840.
2. Samuel Stearns b. July 6, 1801;
d. Sept 26, 1826 in Hillsboro, Jasper Co., GA.
3. Prosper Stearns b. Nov 11,
1804; d. Oct 17, 1823.
4. Mary Ann Stearns b. Oct 19,
1807; m. Jan 13, 1836; George Stevens of Charlestown,
N.H.
(the old Fort
No. 4 - see Stevens family:
stevens.txt
Stevens Family
from Saunderson's History of Charlestown, NH (1876)
Capt. Phineas
Stevens Official Correspondence, Part 1
Capt. Phineas
Stevens Official Correspondence, Part 2
Capt. Phineas
Stevens Official Correspondence, Part 3
Information on
Capt. Phineas Stevens from The History Of Sudbury
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nh/sullivan/charlestown.htm
See also: Long
Index of History of Fort No. 4:
http://www.usroots.com/~usgwnhus/sullivan/chrstwn1.htm
and settled in
Rochester, N.H. Children:
1. George Stearns Stevens b. Aug 22, 1840; d. April 1, 1842.
2. Mary Amelia Stevens b. Jan 3, 1843.
3. Martha Manda Stevens b. June 1, 1845.
5. Lydia Amanda
Stearns b. Jan 20, 1809; died July 10, 1817.
p.495
6. George Mason Stearns b.
Nov 20, 1812.
7. Addison Wilder Stearns b.
Mar 30, 1815; d. Aug 15, 1818.
8. James Clement Stearns b.
July 10, 1817; m. April 16, 1839, Mary Partridge of
Gardner,
Mass., where he settled. Children:
1. Melpha Euphelia Stearns b. Feb 2, 1842.
2. James Bardwell Stearns b. March 2, 1846.
3. Abel Stearns, a twin, b. Oct 6, 1768; d. Oct 19, 1768.
4. Arethusa Stearns, twin to Abel, b. Oct 6, 1768; m. Mar 23, 1786,
Newhall Mason and
settled in Petersham - where he died Sept 18, 1803.
Children:
1. George Mason b. Nov 6, 1787; d. Feb 22, 1830.
2. Edyph Mason b. nov 2, 1789; d. Mar 17, 1827; m. Nov 21, 1811,
Joseph Ward b. july 19, 1783 and settled in Petersham. Children:
1. Lucy A. Ward b. Mar 29, 1813; was married.
2. Lysander M. Ward b. Feb. 26, 1816; m. Mar 22, 1842 (name
unknown) & settled in Heath, Mass.
3. Damarsis S. Mason b. Nov. 16, 1818; d. April 1820.
4. Daniel S. Mason b. Mar 31, 1820; m. June 22, 1842, Abby Rogers,
and settled in Petersham.
3. Amanda Mason b. Jan 13, 1792 d. Nov 18, 1808.
4. Lysander Mason b. Oct 12, 1795; d. June 5, 1823.
5. Asenath Mason b. Jan 22, 1804; d. Nov 4, 1808.
5. Polly Stearns b. Nov. 18, 1770; d. Jan 15, 1824; m. 1795, Elijah
Hildreth of Petersham.
1. Arethusa
Hildreth b. Jan 3, & died May 17, 1796.
2. Clarissa
Hildreth b. Oct 22, 1797; d. Mar 3, 1830, unm.
3. a son b. and
d. May, 1800.
4. Luna Hildreth
b. April 29, 1803; d. April 1, 1825, unm.
5. Elijah
Hildreth b. july 8, 1807; m. April 7, 1830 Melinda Williams.
1. Mary Hildreth b. May 27, 1832.
2. Elijah Merrick Hildreth b. Aug 1, 1840.
6. Ebenezer Stearns b. Mar 21, 1773; d. Dec 10, 1787.
7. John Stearns b. Jan 28, 1775; d. Oct 9, 1825; of Petersham; m. Lydia
____. Children:
1. a son b.
Jan., died May, 1809.
2. Leander Stone
Stearns b. April 20; d. Dec 10, 1810.
3. Lurinda
Stearns b. May 10, 1812; d. March, 1813.
4. Martha
Stearns b. Jan 16, 1814.
5. Prudence
Stearns b. Jan 2, 1817.
6. John Franklin
Stearns b. Mar 6, 1819.
7. Adelphica
Wilder Stearns b. Nov. 9, 1822.
8. Joel Stearns b. June 23, 1777; m. April 28, 1804, Lucy Carter.
1. Dolly D.
Stearns b. Jan 21, 1807; m. April 11, 1828, Henry Patch and settled
in Lowell.
2. George
Stearns b. June 3, 1817; m. 1842, Elmira Laribee & settled in
Baltimore.
9. Betsey Stearns b. May 29, 1780; m. Oct 9, 1804 Daniel Goddard and
settled in Reading, VT
He d. June 29, 1840 and she m. (2) April 23, 1843, William
Clark of Petersham where she
d. Sept. 11, 1846.
10. Sally Stearns b. May 9, 1789; m. July 29, 1832, John Carter of
Petersham.
To be continued - Part 40 - p. 495 - Nathaniel Stearns of Worcester,
& wife Mary Rice.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 40
p.495
Nathaniel Stearns b. Oct 26, 1743; d. Feb 17, 1819, son of Ebenezer
Stearns of Worcester &
his wife Mary Spring. He m. in Worcester, October 13, 1768, Mary Rice
and settled in Warwick, Mass. Children:
1. Mary Stearns
2. Eunice Stearns
3. Nathaniel Stearns.
4. John Stearns b. Aug 20, 1780; m. Feb 6, 1806, Sarah Gale b. Oct 20,
1784. Children:
1. Edward Stearns b. 14th;
died May 29, 1805.
2. Edward A. Stearns b. June
30, 1806; a machanic in Brattleboro.
3. Jonathan G. Stearns b.
Sept 30, 1808; a cabinet-maker in Amsterdam, N.Y. where
he d. Oct
10, 1835.
4. Priscilla E. Stearns b.
May 27, 1811; m. Sullivan Hodge of Warwick; in 1847 of
Northfield, Mass.
5. Lucretia B. Stearns b.
Feb 19, 1814; m. Abijah Eddy, a merchant of Warwick, In
1847 of
Winchester, N.H.
6. Nathaniel Stearns b. July
25, 1816; m. Clarissa Horton of Hinsdale, N.H.; res.
at
Brattleboro, VT.
7. John Stearns b. Sept 25,
1819; a merchant of Winchester, N.H.; m. Mary
Hastings
of Warwick.
8. Augustus A. Stearns b.
July 4, 1822; married & lived in Gardner, Mass.
p.496
9. Andrew Jackson Stearns b.
May 19, 1826.
10. Dwight C. Stearns b. and died
May, 1829.
5. Tamar Stearns
6. Calvin Stearns b. Nov 5, 1778; a carpenter of Northfield, Mass.; m.
Nov 24, 1807,
Stratira Richardson of Cambridge, b. Mar 20, 1789; sister
of George P. Richardson,
Esq., of Duxbury. Children:
1. Elizabeth Stratton
Stearns b. Mar 7, 1808; m. Aug 1, 1850 Martin Maynard.
2. Martha Richardson
Stearns b. Nov 20, 1810.
3. Eunice Wilson
Stearns b. Dec 20, 1812; d. Dec. 7, 1837.
4. George Augustus
Stearns b. Nov 15, 1815; a carpenter of Northfield; m. July
9,
1845, Charity Bush Richardson, dau. of George P. Richardson, Esq. of
Duxbury.
5. Charles Harrison
Stearns b. Nov 22, 1817; a carpenter of Northfield.
6. Calvin Stratton
Stearns b. Aug 5, 1820.
7. Charlotte Oakes
Stearns b. Aug 19, 1822; m. Sept 21, 1845, Capt. Samuel
Lane, of Northfield.
8. Marshall Spring
Stearns b. Nov 5, 1824; a tanner & currier.
9. Albert Dinsmore
Stearns, b. Jan 24, 1826.
10. Edward Bartholomew
Stearns b. Mar 13, 1830.
7. Samuel Spring Stearns who m. Olive Ball of Athens, VT.
Children:
1. Ebenezer Stearns.
2. Nathaniel Stearns.
3. Hannah Stearns.
To be continued Part 41 - p.496 - Capt. Samuel Stearns of Waltham &
wife, Mary Bigelow.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 41.
p.496
Capt. Samuel Stearns, b. Nov. 14, 1739; d. Jan 18, 1817, son of Lieut.
Samuel Stearns & his
wife, Sarah Bowman of Watertown. Capt. Samuel Stearns of Waltham,
Mass. m. May 15, 1760,
Mary Bigelow, dau. of Jacob Bigelow of Waltham and his wife, Susannah
Mead (see p. 35 of
this book). Children:
1. Samuel Stearns b. Oct 23, 1761; d. June 13, 1805; a farmer &
miller; at first of Waltham,
afterwards of Lexington; m. 1799, Elizabeth Brown, b. Dec
30, 1770, dau. of Capt. Francis
Brown of Lexington; who died April 16, 1833.
Children:
1. Samuel Stearns b. in
Waltham Aug 20, 1800, a merchant & manufacturer, of
Middletown, CT; m. June 13, 1824, Esther P. Oliver, b. 1803, dau. of
Eben
Oliver of
Boston. She d. July 19, 1832 and he m. (2) Oct 10, 1833, Sarah
Cook b.
Mar 22, 1811 of Middletown. Children:
1. Samuel Stearns b. Mar 26, 1825; d. April 9, 1826.
2. Mary Elizabeth Stearns b. June 9, 1827.
3. Ellen Maria Stearns b. Aug 23, 1829; d. Dec 12, 1833.
4. Harriet Stearns b. Oct 12; d. Oct 24, 1831.
5. Samuel Stearns (again) b. Nov 16, 1834; d. Mar 25, 1836.
6. Samuel Stearns (again) b. Oct 31, 1836; d. Mar 27, 1837.
7. Harriet Stearns b. Mar 2, 1839.
8. Augustus Cook Stearns b. Feb 23, 1841.
9. Henry Oliver Stearns b. Nov 2, 1843.
10. Sarah Stearns b. Jan 2, 1848.
11. Ellen Stearns, twin of Sarah, b. Jan 2, 1848.
2. Charles Stearns b. in
Lexington, May 22, 1804; died in Boston, May 28, 1830, unm.
3. Edwin Stearns, a twin of
Charles, b. May 22, 1804; a merchant & manufacturer in
Middletown, CT in 1825. He held various apptmts from the Governor &
Legislature
of CT; as
Bank Commissioner, Director of the State Prison, Aid of the Governor
in 1848;
was a Representative of Middletown, a State Senator and in 1852 State
Treasurer.
He m. April 17, 1828, Mary Brewer, b. June 27, 1809, dau. of Charles
Brewer, of
Middletown. Children:
1. William Edwin Stearns b. 13th; d. Sept 29, 1829.
2. Charles Edwin Stearns b. April 19, 1831.
3. William Samuel Stearns b. June 9, 1833.
4. George Frederick Stearns b. Oct 9, 1838.
5. Mary Jane Stearns b. July 8, 1842; d. May 25, 1843.
2. Mary Stearns b. Mar 6, 1763; m. Sept 22, 1781, Capt. Jonathan Bemis.
3. William Stearns b. July 28, 1765; m. Mar 27, 1788 Mary Stearns, b.
Mar 6, 1764, dau of
Phinehas Stearns of Waltham & his wife, Mary
Wellington (see p. 499 of this book); and
settled in Paris, Maine, where she died, Dec. 9,
1814. Children:
1. Mary Stearns b. Aug 8, 1788; m. July
7, 1807, Jacob Daniels, a farmer of Paris, ME.
She d. Mar 24, 1813
leaving one child, Sally Daniels b. April 10, 1808; m. May 24,
1838, Samuel Foster of
Norway, Maine b. Jan 27, 1809. Children:
1. George Samuel Foster b. July 29, 1839.
2. Mary Stearns Foster b. Nov 28, 1841.
3. Amos Foster b. June 17, 1844; d. August, 1845.
4. Amos Foster (again) b. Mar 16, 1848.
p.497
2. William Stearns b. Nov 8, 1790; a
farmer; m. June 30, 1817, Joanna Porter of
North Yarmouth.
children:
1. William Porter Stearns b. Aug 20, 1819; a mason, of Paris, Maine; m.
Dec. 11, 1843, Ellen B. Hamlin, b. Dec 27, 1820. Children:
1. Isidore E. Stearns b. Dec 20, 1844.
2. George Waldo Stearns b. Feb. 23, 1847.
2. Charles Henry Stearns b. Oct. 28, 1820; Postmaster of So. Reading,
Mass.,
m. May 30, 1844, Henrietta Cowdray of So. Reading, b. July 1, 1821.
1. Charles Alfred Stearns b. May 15, 1846; d. July, 1848.
3. James Stearns b. Aug 9, 1822 of Cambridge, Mass.
4. George Francis Stearns b. Sept. 26, 1825.
5. Lucy Ann Stearns b. April 12, 1828.
6. Sylvanus Porter Stearns b. Mar 20, 1831.
7. Lydia Herrick Stearns b. June 2, 1835.
8. Mary Susan Stearns b. Feb. 11, 1839.
3. Phinehas Stearns b. Nov 8,
1792; a farmer of Paris, Maine; m. Feb 23, 1825,
Sally Durgain.
Children:
1. Benjamin Kendall Stearns b. Dec 15, 1825.
2. Alfred Wellington Stearns b. Aug 17, 1827.
3. Levi Durgain Stearns b. July 30, 1829.
4. Thomas Stearns b. Nov. 26, 1831.
5. Sarah Janes Stearns b. Dec 31, 1833.
6. Abigail Helen Stearns b. Dec 14, 1835; d. Sept 18, 1841.
7. Edwin Benton Stearns b. Mar 8, 1837.
8. Marshall N. Stearns b.July 26, 1840.
4. Abigail Stearns b. Mar. 28,
1795; died Feb 27, 1822.
5. Samuel Stearns b. Oct 26, 1797;
a farmer of Minot, Maine; m. Jan. 1, 1821,
Eliza Greenwood,
b. Dec 20, 1800. Children:
1. Samuel Stearns b. Sept 26, 1821.
2. Eliza J. Stearns b. Dec 10, 1822; m. Mar 3, 1844, Lorenzo Brigham, b.
Jan 11, 1819.
3. Mary A. Stearns b. April 25, 1824; m. Mar 3, 1844 Simeon Whitehouse,
b.
Sept 7, 1820.
4. Helen R. Stearns b. Aug 21, 1835; d. April 20, 1839.
6. Thomas Stearns b. Jan 12, 1800;
d. Sept 6, 1803.
7. Marshall Stearns b. Feb 11,
1802; a farmer of Paris, Maine; m. April 16, 1828,
Ann Chase of
Portland, b. Sept 21, 1809. Children:
1. Louisa Stearns b. Aug 21, 1829.
2. Lucy Chase Stearns b. Nov 12, 1831.
3. Mary Ellen Stearns b. June 1, 1834.
4. Nancy Stearns b. April 25, 1836.
5. Frances Ann Stearns b. April 24, 1838.
6. Amanda A. Stearns b. July 30, 1840.
7. Emily Stearns b. April 25, 1842.
8. Jennette Kittridge Stearns b. Mar 5, 1844.
9. Marshall Stearns b. April 18, 1848.
8. Nancy Stearns b. April 13,
1805; m. Mar 24, 1835, Samuel W. Doe, b. in Sumner,
Maine, March 19,
1813; d. Aug 19, 1843; his widow m. Sept 23, 1844 William Russ,
Esq., of Paris,
Maine, b. in Farmington, ME Feb 10, 1815, son of Daniel & Louisa
Russ.
1. Abigail Stearns Doe, b. Dec 31, 1835.
2. Rhoda Ann Doe b. Sept 23, 1837.
3. Samuel W. Doe b. Dec 26, 1841.
9. Thomas Stearns b. Dec 9, 1808;
proprietor of a line of hourlies between Boston,
and Cambridge;
m. Dec 20, 1831, Eunice Cilley b. Feb 20, 1810 - Res. at Cambridge.
1. George Hambleton Stearns b. Feb 17, 1833.
2. Susan Mariah Stearns b. May 9, 1835; d. Mar 30, 1837.
3. Charles Emery Stearns b. Sept 21, 1837.
4. Mary Ann Stearns b. Nov 3, 1839.
5. Marshall Edwards Stearns b. Oct 6, 1841.
6. Horace Binney Stearns b. Nov 23, 1843.
7. Hannah Kendall Stearns b. Dec 9, 1847; d. Sept. 1848.
4. Susanna Stearns b. Oct 2, 1766; d. Sept 1, 1820; m. Silas Wright b.
in Plympton, Mass.,
a merchant of Boston where he died and left only one child:
1. Thomas Jefferson Wright of Waltham.
5. Abigail Stearns b. June 24, 1768; m. (1) June 13, 1795, Samuel
Hastings, a farmer of
Waltham, Mass. Children:
1. Samuel Hastings b. Sept 26, 1795.
2. Marshall Hastings b. Aug 10, 1797; d. 1802.
3. Mary Stearns Hastings b. July 18, 1799; d. 1802.
4. Lydia Hastings b. Dec. 24, 1800; d. 1802.
5. Josiah Marshall Hastings b. and died 1803.
Abigail (Stearns) Hastings m. (2) September 9, 1839,
Deacon Thomas Bigelow of Weston,
Mass.
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6. Thomas Stearns b. Feb 6, 1770; d. Mar 19, 1836; a furrier and
merchant of Boston; m. Nov.
5, 1798, Sarah Buckman Brown b. Aug 23, 1775, dau of Capt.
Francis & Mary Brown of Lex-
ington. Children:
1. Horace Stearns b.
Oct 23, 1800; of Chelsea, Mass., m. May 23, 1829, Sophia M.
Magoun b. April 11, 1806, dau. of S. Magoun of Maine. Children:
1. Ellen Maria Stearns b. April 8, 1831.
2. Horace Thomas Stearns b. Oct 5, 1834.
2. Eleanor Georgiana
Stearns b. June 24, 1804; m. Sept 21, 1835, Albert Thorndike
Smith; M.D., Harvard Univ. 1835 son of Ebenezer Smith of Beverly,
Mass. She d.
June
14, 1844, leaving one son,
1. Frederick Albert Smith b. Aug 7, 1837.
7. Sarah Stearns b. April 20, 1772; d. Mar 11, 1822; m. Jan 1, 1799,
Nathaniel Brown of
Waltham, Mass.
8. Jacob Stearns b. Feb 15, 1774; a Colonel and a merchant of Boston;
m. July 7, 1803,
Sally Call b. Sept 20, 1784, dau of Nathaniel and
Elizabeth Call of Boston. She died
Mar 20, 1820 aged 35 yrs and he m. (2) Dec 14, 1820 the
widow, Mrs. Hannah Davis b. Nov.
7, 1799, sister of his first wife. Children:
1. Nathaniel
Call Stearns b. June 10, 1804; d. May 5, 1821.
2. George
Bumstead Stearns b. Jan 20, 1806; now of Hallowell, Maine; m. Oct 27,
1828, Louisa Page b. April 6, 1809, dau. of John Odlin Page & wife,
Sarah Page
of Hallowell. Children:
1. George Trott Stearns b. Mar 14, 1830.
2. John Odlin Stearns b. July 22, 1831.
3. Francis Eugene Stearns b. Feb 21, 1833.
4. Louisa Sarah Stearns b. Nov 3, 1834; d. Jan 17, 1838.
5. Adelaide Howard Stearns b. Aug 16, 1836.
6. Frank Shailer Stearns b. April 2, 1838.
7. Louisa Sarah Stearns b. Mar 28, 1840.
8. Benjamin Horatio Stearns b. Dec 26, 1842.
9. Frederic Clarence Stearns b. Jan 3, died Sept. 6, 1844.
10. Henry Clarence Stearns b. Jan 10, 1847.
3. Elizabeth
Call Stearns b. May 30, 1808; m. April 30, 1846; Thomas Tolman, Esq.,
Counsellor-at-Law, of Boston; grad. Brown Univ. 1811; also, Harvard,
1822;
son of Samuel & Elizabeth Tolman of Stoughton.
4. Oliver
Stearns b. June 28, 1810; m. Louisa Denton of New Hampshire.
1. Edward Henry Stearns b. 1839.
2. Emily Sophia Stearns b. 1841.
3. Anna Francis Stearns b. 1843.
4. Albert Howard Stearns b. July, 1848.
5. Charles Jacob
Stearns b. July 14, 1812; merchant of Boston.
7. John Bumstead
Stearns b. Nov 1817; d. Feb 9, 1820.
8. Nathaniel
Call Stearns b. Sept 24, 1822; a merchant of Boston.
9. Jesse Stearns b. Feb 20, 1776; of Boston; married; no issue.
10. Lois Stearns b. Feb 12, 1778; d. May 1818, unm.
11. Nancy Stearns b. Sept 18, 1780 m. May 7, 1801, John Brown, a
joiner, of Lexington,
afterwards of Boston; b. April 15, 1779, son of
Capt. Francis Brown & wife, Mary Brown
of Lexington. Children:
1.
Caroline Brown b. June 5, 1802; d. April 11, 1846; m. Aug 23, 1834,
William
Cooper of Bedford, Mass.
2. Mary S.
Brown b. Mar 9, 1804; m. July 28, 1825, John Beals, b.Jan 20, 1801.
1. George Beals b. May 13, 1827; d. 1828.
3. John
Sullivan Brown b. Sept 14, 1806; m. (1) Sarah Claugh & (2) m. Dec.
26,
1834, Mary French.
4. Susan
W. Brown b. May 24, 1808; m. April 23, 1831 William Proctor of Derry,
N.H.
5. Horatio
Brown b. July 24, 1809; m. April 22, 183_, Susan Johnson.
6. Lydia
Ann Brown b. Oct 16, 1811; m. Nov 28, 1831, Edwin G. Watkins, of
Boston.
7. Louisa
A. Brown b. Sept 14, 1813 m. Feb 16, 1837, James L. Bates.
8. Hannah
Elizabeth Brown b. Nov 10, 1815 m. Sept. 23, 1833 Augustus R. Fuller,
She died Aug 24, 1846.
9. Jane
Isabel Brown b. Nov 23, 1822 m. Nov 29, 1841, Henry Walker of Boston.
12. Hannah Stearns b. Nov 30, 1782; m. Benjamin Kendall, a farmer, of
West Cambridge who
died July 12, 1832 and his widow removed to Weston,
Mass.
13. James Stearns b. July 31, 1785; formerly a merchant of Boston,
lived on the family
homested in Waltham, Mass., unm.
To be continued Part 42 - p. 499 - Silas Stearns of Waltham & wife,
Elizabeth Wellington.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 42
p.499
Silas Stearns of Waltham was b. Mar 6, 1733/4; d. Dec 31, 1804; son of
Deacon Isaac Stearns
of Waltham and his wife, Elizabeth Child. He m. 1765, Elizabeth
Wellington, of Lincoln, bap.
Oct 19, 1740, dau. of Jonathan Wellington of Weston & wife, Lydia
Gove (see p. 634 this book). Children:
1. Lucy Stearns b. April 25, 1766; m. Oct 21, 1790, Isaac Lee of
Concord, Mass. (he was listed (p.235) as a Selectman of Concord
1816-1821 - Lemuel Shattuck's Hist. of Concord)
2. William Stearns b. May 8, 1768.
3. Elizabeth Stearns b. May 4, 1770; m. Sept 21, 1794, Joel Smith of
Lexington.
4. Phinehas Stearns b. April 7, 1772; m. Feb 14, 1812, Abigial Stearns
b. Sept 18, 1781, dau
of Jonathan Stearns & wife Mary Bigelow of Waltham
(see p. 503 this book) Children:
1. Mary E.
Stearns b. Oct 8, 1819; m. FEb 8, 1844, Benjamin Wellington b. June
13, 1816, son of Richard & Hannah Wellington. Children:
1. Mary Elizabeth Wellington b. Feb 20, 1845.
2. Ellen Frances Wellington b. June 8, 1847.
5. Eunice Stearns b. April 15, 1774; m. Nov 2, 1795, William Hyde of
Newton.
6. Isaac Stearns b. March, 1777; died January, 1787.
7. Kezia Stearns b. May 18, 1779.
8. Elijah Stearns b. Nov 23, 1781.
9. Silas Stearns b. July 26, 1784.
To be continued Part 43 - p.499 - Phinehas Stearns of Waltham & his
wife, Mary Wellington.
He was in the battle of Lexington.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 43.
p.499
Phinehas Stearns b. Feb 28, 1737/8; son of Deacon Isaac Stearns of
Waltham & wife, Elizabeth
Child. He died of small-pox, Oct 7, 1792 - (p.464 this book). He
was of Waltham, Mass. He
m. July 9, 1761, Mary Wellington, who d. Feb 13, 1790. He lived
in Lexington as early as
1768. He was in the battle of Lexington.
See Lexington Minute-Men Roster:
Captain Parker's Company had a roster of 144 men.
http://users.rcn.com/waynemccarthy/LMM2002/roster.html
Children:
1. Sarah Stearns b. Dec 29, 1761; m. Isaac Hastings of Lexington, b.
Dec 29, 1761 and died
March 1, 1833. Children:
1. Sophia
Hastings b. Oct 17, 1781; d. November, 1841; m. Isaac S. Spring.
2. Isaac
Hastings b. Nov 3, 1783; lost at sea.
3. Thomas
Hastings b. Feb 12, 1786; d. July, 1835 at Montreal, C.E.
4. Abigail
Hastings b. May 20, 1788; m. John Cary of New York.
5. John
Hastings b. July 12, 1790; was married.
6.
Phinehas Stearns Hastings b. Oct 13, 1792; was married.
7. Leonard
Hastings, b. Sept 6, 1794; d. Nov 10, 1802.
8. Samuel
Hastings, b. Sept 24, 1798; was married.
9. Maria
Hastings b. Mar 1, 1801; m. W. H. Cary of New York, son of John Cary.
2. Mary Stearns b. Mar 6, 1764; m. William Stearns, b. July 28, 1765;
settled in Paris, ME.
He was the son of Capt. Samuel Stearns of Waltham &
his wife, Mary Bigelow. (p.496) died
in Paris, Maine, Dec 9, 1814; nine children.
3. Peleg Stearns b. April 25, 1766; m. May 22, 1794, Susan Phinney of
Lexington, b. July 8,
1775, dau. of Benjamin & Chloe Phinney of
Lexington. Children:
1. Phinehas Stearns b.
Feb 11, 1795; m. May 24, 1824, Miriam Armstrong, b. Mar 1,
1798; res. Arcade, Wyoming County, N.Y. Children:
1. Susan M. Stearns b. May 18, 1825.
2. George W. Stearns b. Nov 23, 1826.
3. Elias Stearns b. Mar 10, 1831.
4. Rollin A. Stearns b. July 15, 1835.
5. Martin Stearns b. Aug 5, 1839.
2. Henry Stearns b.
Aug 14, 1797; m. Oct 20, 1831, Phebe Sabin, who died Jan. 20,
1837
and he m. (2) Jan 7, 1838, Phebe Page. Children:
1. Maria Stearns b. Jan 17, 1833.
2. Eliza Stearns b. Aug 27, 1836.
3. Tyler Stearns b. Oct 19, 1840.
4. Caroline Stearns b. Sept 12, 1842.
5. Cornelia Stearns b. Aug 18, 1846.
3. Junius B. Stearns
b. July 30, 1799; m. Sept 25, 1828, Ann M. Hunt, b. in Lincoln
Mass, Sept 25, 1808. Children:
1. Theodore P. Stearns b. Aug 22, 1829.
2. Mary A. Stearns b. Feb 11, 1831.
3. Martha N. Stearns b. Aug 12, 1833.
4. Newell H. Stearns b. Sept 14, 1835.
5. S. Elizabeth Stearns b. Nov 27, 1837.
6. Benjamin F. Stearns b. Mar 10, 1839; d. Feb, 1840.
7. Susan R. Stearns b. Mar 3, 1841.
8. Francis G. Stearns b. Dec 22, 1843; d. April, 1844.
9. Franklin S. Stearns b. Mar 10, 1845.
4. John Stearns b.
Aug. 16, 1802; m. Feb 19, 1834, Abby Avery, b. in
Cambridge, VT., Aug 16, 1802 (!). Children:
1. Stephen W. Avery Stearns b. Jan 31, 1835.
2. Mary W. Stearns b. Oct 28, 1836.
3. John William Stearns b. Feb 22, 1838.
John
Stearns wife Abby (Avery) Stearns died Aug 13, 1839 and he m. (2),
Nancy E. Clark of La Harp, Illinois.
4. Edward Peleg Stearns b. Sept 13, 1848.
5. Elias P. Stearns b.
July 24, 1804; a trader in Peoria, Illinois, unm.
p.500 6. Susanna Stearns b. Feb 1, 1806; d. Feb 5,
1819.
7. Mary W. Stearns b.
Oct 20, 1808; m. Aug 18, 1830, in Cambridge, VT.,
John
A. Wiley, who died in Henderson, Knox Co., Illinois, Mar. 14, 1845.
1. Mary Wiley b. Sept 24, 1831.
2. Susan Phinney Wiley b. July 9, 1835.
3. Deborah D. Wiley b. Feb 25, 1837.
4. John A. Wiley b. Aug 25, 1843.
5. Henry Wiley, b. Sept 25, 1845.
6. Herbert Wiley, twin to Henry, b. Sept 25, 1845.
8. Benjamin Stearns b.
July 15, 1813; m. in Cambridge, VT., Oct 1, 1842, Sarah
H.
Whipple, b. in Southboro, Mass., May 12, 1822, one child:
1. Mary E. Stearns b. July 17, 1843 in South Andover, Illinois.
4. John Stearns, bap. april 24, 1768; m. May 22, 1794, Chloe Phinney,
b. in Falmouth, 1770;
eldest dau. of Benjamin Phinney of Lexington. She d.
Oct 19, 1833. All their children
except the youngest were born in Waltham, whence they
moved to Jaffrey, N.H. in 1810.
1. Mary Morse Stearns
b. Feb 9, 1795; m. Sept 30, 1818, William Ainsworth, Esq.,
son
of Rev. Laban Ainsworth of Jaffrey, N.H., b. Aug 24, 1792; grad.
Dartmouth
Coll. 1811; he resided the latter part of his life in New-Ipswich,
N.H., a
counsellor-at-law, and President of Manufacturer's Bank. He died in
Concord,
N.H.
June 14, 1842, while a Representative in the State Legislature. "He was
an
intelligent, wise, discreet man, of irreproachable integrity." Children:
1. Frederick Smith Ainsworth, b. April 14, 1820; grad. Dartmouth Coll.
1840; M.D., Harvard Univ., 1844; spent two years in professional studies
in Paris and settled in Boston.
2. Mary Minot Ainsworth, b. Feb 24, 1822.
3. William Parker Ainsworth b. Dec 22, 1825.
4. Josiah Stearns Ainsworth b. Aug 14, 1832; d. October, 1833.
2. Caroline Stearns b.
Nov 23, 1797; m. Feb. 10, 1825, Moses Thurston Runnels,
a
merchant of Cambridge, VT, born in Vershire, VT., 1791; died of
consumption
on
Oct. 5, 1831. Children:
1. Moses Thurston Runnels, Jr. b. Jan 5, 1830.
3. Fidelia Stearns b.
Oct 25, 1799; m. Feb. 26, 1828, Albert Smith, b. June 18,
1801; son of the late Hon. Samuel Smith of Peterboro, N.H., grad.
Dartmouth
College 1825; M.D., 1833; was a medical practitioner in Peterboro.
Children:
1. Frederick Augustus Smith b. June 18, 1830.
2. Susan Smith b. Feb 4, 1832; died of pneumonia April 20, 1836.
3. Catherine Smith b. Dec 5, 1837.
4. Josiah Phinney
Stearns b. May 22, 1801; of Rochester, N.Y.; unm.
5. Chloe Frances
Stearns b. Mar 16, 1803; d. Oct 4, 1825.
6. Margaret Stearns b.
Mar 18, 1805; m. Nov 18, 1834, William Sydney Smith,
a
paper-manufacturer, in Belville, Upper Canada, b. Dec 14, 1803, son of
the
late
Hon. Samuel Smith of Peterboro, N.H. Children:
1. William Ainsworth Smith b. Feb 9, 1836.
2. Samuel Garfield Smith b. April 20, 1838.
3. Josiah Phinney Smith b. Oct 20, 1840.
4. Sidney Stearns Smith b. Feb 8, 1842.
5. Elizabeth Ellen Smith b. May 18, 1845.
7. Deidamia Stearns b.
Aug 17, 1807; m. Nov 11, 1832, Martin Wiers, a merchant
in
Cambridge, VT. b. 1804, son of General S. Wiers of that
town. She died
in
childbed, July 2, 1834.
8. Susan Stearns b.
May 30, 1809; m. Sept 2, 1834, John Smith, a farmer, of Peter-
boro. Children:
1. Mary Frances Smith b. Jan 7, 1836.
2. John Stearns Smith b. Nov 27, 1837.
3. Jonathan Smith b. May 26, 1840; died of scarlet fever July 31, 1841.
4. Jonathan Smith (again) b. Oct 21, 1842.
5. Susan Phinney Smith b. Oct 13, 1844.
6. Caroline Smith b. Mar 3, 1847.
9. Elizabeth Stearns
b. Mar 14, 1813; m. Oct 8, 1838, William Smith, a merchant,
of
La Harpe, Illinois; b. July 8, 1801; son of the late Deacon Jonathan
Smith,
of
Peterboro, N.H. Children:
1. William Henry Smith b. Nov 1, 1839.
2. Jonathan Smith b. July 30, 1842; died in Peterboro, Mar 9, 1843.
3. Mary Elizabeth Smith b. May 18th, died Sept 14, 1844.
4. Albert Smith b. Dec 30, 1846; d. Dec 17, 1847.
5. Phineas Stearns bap. June 1, 1770; died in infancy.
6. Susanna Stearns b. Aug 8, 1774; m. Nov 29, 1800, Jonas Wyeth of
Cambridge. Children:
1. Augustus Wyeth b. Dec 15, 1801;
d. July 15, 1831, unm.
2. Jonas Wyeth b. Dec 14, 1806.
p.501 3. Emily Wyeth b. Sept 12, 1809.
4. Susanna Stearns Wyeth b. Oct 3,
1816; d. August, 1817.
7. Isaac Stearns bap. Nov. 3, 1776; died in infancy.
8. Rebecca Stearns bap. Aug 20, 1778; m. April 11, 1805 Capt. David
Wellington, a farmer,
of Lexington.
9. Dorcas Stearns bap. Aug 8, 1780; m. Dec 1, 1808, Luke Chase, Esq., a
Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the Church in Paris, Maine.
Children:
1. Bradford Chase b. Sept 14,
1809; m. 1835, Mary Kimball of Rindge, N.H. and
settled in
Grafton, Mass. Children:
1. Mary Angelina Chase b. July 4, 1839.
2. Sarah Adeline Chase.
2. Austin Chase b. May 3, 1813; a
farmer and shoemaker, living on the homestead
of his father;
m. Sept 21, 1837, Lucy Batchelor, b. June 8, 1812, dau. of
Deacon Mark and
Mehitabel Batchelor of Grafton, Mass. Children:
1. Lucinda Chase b. July 27, 1838.
2. Lucy Jane Chase b. May 27, 1842.
3. Nathan Chase b. Feb 5, 1815; a
farmer and shoemaker of Paris, Maine; m. Feb.
14, 1844, Mary
Ann Thayer, dau. of Ebenezer & Polly Thayer of Paris, ME.
1. Charles Freeman Chase b. June 11, 1845.
4. Elias Chase b. April 19, 1818;
m. May 6, 1840 Laura Clifford b. May 19, 1817,
dau. of David
& Mary Clifford. Children:
1. Mariette Chase b. Aug 25, 1841.
2. Claremons Clifford Chase b. Feb 5, 1843.
5. Luke Chase b. Jan 25, 1827; of
Lowell.
To be continued - Part 44 - p. 501 - Joshua Stearns of Waltham &
wife, Lois Pierce.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 44.
p.501
Joshua Sterns of Waltham b. July 10, 1748, son of Deacon Isaac Stearns
& his wife, Elizabeth
Child of Waltham. (p.464) He m. Oct 8, 1772, Lois Pierce b. Feb 2,
1754; d. Jan 13, 1818.
1. Lois Stearns b. Feb 18, 1773; d. 1795.
2. Elizabeth Stearns b. April 13, 1776; m. Sept 22, 1794, Joel Smith,
b. June 1, 1771,
son of Eben Smith; of Lexington. Children:
1. Lois
Smith b. Feb 18, 1795; m. June 9, 1822, Jonathan Sanderson, Jr. of
Waltham. Children:
1. Elizabeth Stearns Sanderson b. Oct 29, 1823.
2. James Sanderson b. April 27, 1824.
3. Emma A. Sanderson b. Oct 20, 1825; m. Sept 8, 1847 ____.
4. Eliza A. Sanderson b. Feb 25, 1826.
5. Mary J. Sanderson b. April 3, 1827.
6. Angelina Sanderson b. July 4, 1829.
Lois (Smith) Sanderson m. (2) Jan 19, 1832, Patrick Sullivan. Children:
7. Lucy A. Sullivan b. Feb 21, 1835.
8. Converse W. Sullivan b. Dec 17, 1837.
9. Claretta Sullivan b. June 29, 1840.
2. Joshua
Stearns Smith b. May 8, 1796; m. April 23, 1822, Maria, dau. of
Phinehas Lawrence of Lexington. Children:
1. Levi J. Smith b. May 15, 1823.
2. Charles L. Smith b. Nov 15, 1824.
3. Alden B. Smith b. Aug 15, 1827.
4. Adaline A. Smith b. Jan 28, 1830.
5. Maria L. Smith b. Dec 6, 1832.
6. Windsor Smith b. April 19, 1836.
7. Anna A. Smith b. Oct 25, 1843.
8. Marshall B. Smith b. Mar 8, 184_.
3. Levi
Smith b. Aug 10, 1798; d. February, 1799.
4. Levi
Smith (again) b. Aug 5th, died Nov 5, 1801.
5. Isaac
Smith b. Aug 32, 1804; m. April 11, 1833, Adaline Thompson of
Sterling, Mass. who died April 30, 1843 aged 34 yrs.
6. Eli
Francis Smith, b. Nov 24, 1805; m. Feb 8, 1843, Mrs. Sarah Livermore
of Waltham.
7.
Priscilla Smith b. Oct 14, 1808; m. Dec 7, 1837, Darius Wellington, son
of
William Wellington of Waltham. Children:
1. Elizabeth Mary Wellington b. Jan 23, 1839.
8. James
Smith, b. Dec 2, 1813; d. Oct 3, 1823.
3. Lydia Stearns b. April 19, 1778; m. April 17, 1800, Elijah Smith b.
May 28, 1769, son of
Josiah Smith of Lexington; moved to Chelsea 1809, and then
to Medford 1810; where he d.
February 1830. Children:
1. Francis
Augustus Smith b. Dec. 1800 & died.
2. Horatio
Austin Smith b. June 12, 1802; m. Nov 27, 1828, Elizabeth Learoyd, b.
Sept 11, 1806; d. April 26, 1846; dau. of John & Ann Learoyd of
Boston, who
came from England in 1801. Children:
1. Francis Augustus Smith b. Oct 20, 1829.
2. Ellen Elizabeth Smith b. Sept 3, 1831.
3. Horatio Austin Smith b. Dec 3, 1833.
p.502
4. Charles Albert Smith b. Mar 16, 1836; d. June 1, 1837.
5. Mary Brooks Smith b. Nov. 20, 1838.
6. Caroline Smith b. Nov 12, 1840.
7. Isabel Smith b. Sept 22, 1843.
8. Evelyn Smith b. Dec 14, 1846.
3.
Elizabeth Ann Smith b. Nov 27, 1803 m. Nov 15, 1821, Edmund Symmes, b.
Aug.
14, 1795, son of John Symmes of Medford. Children:
1. Edmund Augustus Symmes b. Mar 2, 1822.
2. Elizabeth Ann Symmes b. May 12, 1824; m. Jan 3, 1847 Hosea Dunbar of
Scituate, b. 1817.
3. Lorenzo Symmes b. Aug 28, 1827, & died.
4. Lydia Maria Symmes b. April 15, 1831.
5. Theodore Symmes b. Aug 11, 1835.
6. Samuel Smith Symmes b. May 11, 1840.
4. Susan
Smith b. Sept 25, 1805; m. July 19, 1826, Nathan W. Wait, b. June
19,
1799, son of Nathan Wait of Medford. Children:
1. Nathaniel Williams Wait, b. Aug 21, 1827 & died.
2. Francis Augustus Wait, b. july 28, 1829.
3. Elijah Smith Wait b. April 1, 1831.
4. Susan Maria Wait b. Feb 13, 1833.
5. Mehitabel Fulton Wait b. Jan 28, 1835.
6. Sarah Howe Wait b. May 3, 1837.
7. Nathan Williams Wait, b. Sept 25, 1841.
5. Albert
Smith b. July 13, 1807.
6. Sarah
Bemis Smith b. Oct 4, 1809.
7. Elijah
Brown Smith b. April 4, 1813.
8. Lydia
Maria Smith b. Feb 3, 1817; m. June 6, 1839, John Symmes, Jr., of
Medford, b. Nov 3, 1812. Child:
1. Maria Amelia Symmes b. Mar 24, 1841.
4. Nancy Ann Stearns, b. May 13, 1780; m. May 16, 1805, Nehemiah
Wellington.
5. Sarah Stearns b. Sept 16, 1782; (?) m. July 8, 1804, Converse Bemis.
6. Priscilla Stearns b. Mar 12, 1784; m. 1803, Moses Holden of Shirley,
Mass.
7. Susanna Stearns b. Mar 24, 1786; m. Nov 25, 1809, Capt. Francis
Wheeler, a farmer,
b. Mar 24, 1787, son of Noah Wheeler of Concord,
Mass. Children:
1. William
Henry Wheeler b. Mar 30, 1811; a farmer.
2. Susan
Elvira Wheeler, b. Mar 8, 1813; m. Sept 17, 1846, Henry Bemis Stone,
a chaise & harness-maker of Stow, Mass., b. Dec 25, 1808, son of
John Stone
of Newton.
3. Francis
Augustus Wheeler b. April 2, 1815.
4. Joshua
Stearns Wheeler b. Mar 12, 1817; a shoe dealer of Charlestown, Mass.
m. Jan 7, 1840 Ann B. Johnson, b. Jan 7, 1821 dau. of Deacon Peter
Johnson,
of Waltham. Children;
1. Ellen Maria Wheeler b. Nov 5, 1842.
2. George Abbott Wheeler b. Mar 22, 1845.
5. Avis
Moore Wheeler b. July 8, 1819.
6. Lois
Jane Wheeler, b. Feb. 19, 1823; m. May 20, 1847, Capt. Richard Barrett,
a farmer, b. Aug 30, 1818, son of Joseph Barrett, Esq. of Concord. He
was
State Treasurer.
7. Noah
Jefferson Wheeler, b. Aug 16, 1826; died May, 1833.
8. Hersey
Bradford Goodwin Wheeler, b. Jan 22, 1830.
9. Everett
Austin Wheeler b. Dec 21, 1832.
8. Avis Stearns b. August, 1788.
9. Lucy Stearns b. Jan 1, 1792; m. Feb 5, 1817, William Bemis, a trader
in Waltham.
10. Cylinda Stearns b.May 2, 1794; m. May 14, 1826, Elijah Sanderson of
Waltham.
11. Ephraim Stearns b. June 15, 1797; of Waltham, m. Jan. 15, 1822,
Rachel Learoyd, born
in Bradford, England, Dec 9, 1799; dau of John &
Ann Learoyd, of Boston. Children:
1. Lois Ann Stearns b.
Oct 18, 1822.
2. Sarah Bemis Stearns
b. Mar 21, 1825.
3. George Andrew
Stearns b. Sept 2, 1827.
4. Frederic Augustus
Stearns b. April 2, 1830.
5. Ann Eliza Stearns
b. Oct 29, 1832.
6. Rachel Maria
Stearns b. May 23, 1836.
7. Ephraim Stearns b.
Mar 8, 1839.
To be continued - Part 45 - p. 502 - Jonathan Stearns of Waltham &
his wife, Mary Bigelow of
Weston, Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 45
p.502
Jonathan Stearns of Waltham, b. Mar. 22, 1750, son of Deacon Isaac
Stearns and his wife,
Elizabeth Child (p.464). Jonathan Stearns m. April 29, 1779, Mary
Bigelow, bap. May 14, 1758, dau. of Moses Bigelow of Weston & his
wife, Mary Hammond. (p.38 -[189]). Children:
1. Polly (Mary) Stearns b. Oct. 19, 1779; m. Nov 15, 1804, Amos Carter
of Lincoln.
p.503
2. Abigail Stearns b. Sept 18, 1781; m. Feb 14, 1812; Phinehas Stearns
(p.499) b. April 7,
1772. Children:
1.
Mary E. Stearns b. oct 8, 1819; m. Feb 8, 1844, Benjamin Wellington b.
June
13, 1816, son of Richard & Hannah Wellington b. June 13, 1816 son
of Richard
& Hannah Wellington.
1. Mary Elizabeth Wellington b. Feb 20, 1845
2. Ellen Frances Wellington.
3. Louisa Stearns b. Nov 19, 1783; m. Feb 16, 1809, Jonas Livermore b.
Aug 16, 1783, son of
Abijah & Mary (Dix) Livermore of Waltham. by whom she
had 9 children.
4. Isaac Stearns b. Jan 19, 1785; m. Aug 15, 1810, Narcissa Morse, dau.
of Joseph & Martha
Morse of Waltham. She died in Waltham, July 15,
1816; and he m.(2) April 15, 1817 the
widow, Hannah French, dau of Charles & Lydia Wheeler
of Concord She died in Spencer,
Mass., Jan 3, 1828, aged 41 yrs; he m. (3) the widow,
Betsey Stone, dau. of Jonathan &
Experience Bent of Sudbury. He died in Spencer, Mass. May
2, 1837. Children:
1. Narcissa M. Stearns b. Mar 8,
1811; m. April 21, 1831, Edward Hall, gunpowder
manufacturer, of
Spencer, son of Capt. Edward and Susan Hall of Prov., R.I.
1. Edward Henry Hall b. Dec. 4, 1832.
2. Abby S. Hall b. Sept 7, 1835.
3. James E. Hall b. april 20, 1838.
4. Mary N. Hall b. Mar. 19, 1841.
5. Julia A. Hall b. Mar 27, 1843; died April, 1846.
6. Jane F. Hall, b. Mar 9, 1848.
2. Abigail Stearns b. Mar 25,
1812; m. Sept 30, 1838, William R. Perkins, shoe
manufacturer of
Reading, Mass., son of Elliot and Ann Perkins, of Reading, Mass.
1. William Henry Perkins b. Jan 17, 1840.
2. Waldo Elliot Perkins b. Sept 9, 1842.
3. Walter Hamilton Perkins b. Dec 18, 1845.
3. Isaac Newton Stearns b. Sept
12, 1814; of Spencer, Mass., m. Sept 12, 1835, Ann
Hall, dau of
Capt. Edward & Susan Hall of Prov., R.I. She died June 2,
1843, and
he m. (2) Ruth
Anna Hall, dau. of Elias & Mehitable Hall. Children:
1. Helen M. Stearns b. Sept 12, 1836.
2. Eugene A. Stearns b. July 3, 1839.
3. Henry Eustis Stearns b. Nov 13, 1841.
4. Jonathan Prentiss Stearns b.
July 11, 1816; of Spencer, m.Sept 24, 1836, Fanny
Hamilton b.
June23, 1811, dau. of Squire & Rhoda Hamilton of Brookfield, Mass.
1. Charles P. Stearns b. Nov 3, 1848.
5. Almira Stearns b. June 28,
1818; m. Oct 14, 1846, Austin Adams, b. Dec 22, 1820
son of Dr.
Charles & Sally Adams of Oakham. Children:
1. Edward Austin Adams b. in Lawrence, Mass. May 5, 1848.
6. Mary Maria Stearns b. Nov 19,
1819; m. April 15, 1846, William Mason, a wheel-
wright, son of
Joseph & Melinda Mason of Princeton, Mass.
7. Hannah Eliza Stearns b. Dec 30,
1821; m. Oct 7, 1846, Calvin Grovenor of Foxboro,
then of
Charlestown, a cabinet-maker.
8. Lydia Ann Stearns b. March 5,
1824.
9. Adeline Wheeler Stearns b. Dec
27, 1827; m. April 15, 1847, William Spear, son of
Luther &
Hannah Spear of Oakham.
10. Lauretta Stearns b. Mar 25, 1830.
11. George Stearns b. Aug 12, 1831.
12. Melinda Stearns b. Jan 7, 1833.
13. Susan J. Stearns b. and d. April,
1834.
14. Charles Haynes Stearns b. Mar 28,
1836.
5. Nathaniel Stearns b. Mar 15, 1787; d. Sept 10, 1849; m. April 10,
1817, Sophia Hammond,
dau. of Jonathan & Elizabeth Hammond of Waltham.
He m. (2) May 17, 1837, Sally, dau. of
Converse & Betsey Bigelow of Sherburne. Children:
1. Horatio Stearns b. April
1, 1818.
2. Lowell Stearns b. Mar 14,
1820.
3. Mary Elizabeth Stearns b.
Nov 5, 1824; m. June 6, 1846, Moses Taylor b. April 16,
1822, son
of Silas & Sophia Taylor of Acton, Mass.
4. William E. Stearns b. Feb
9, 1846.
5. Silas Hammond Taylor
Stearns b. Mar 25, 1847.
6. Moses Emery Stearns b.
Mar 15, 1849.
6. Grace Stearns b. Jan. 19, 1790; m. May 28, 1815, Jacob Barnard b.
Jan 4, 1789; an inn-
keeper of Boston; he died Aug 7, 1830 and she m. (2) Dec
5, 1835, Dr. Nathan Richardson,
of South Reading who died Sept 17, 1837 aged 57 yrs.
Children:
1. Prentiss S. Barnard b.
April 4, 1816; m. Nov 26, 1841, Lucy Ann Hinckley.
2. Susan Barnard b. Sept 28, 1818;
m. April 3, 1837, Dr. Solon O. Richardson of So.
Reading son of
Dr. N. Richardson. Children:
1. Solon Osmond Richardson b. Sept 9, 1841.
p.504 2. Jacob Barnard
Wiley Richardson b. oct 13, 1843.
3. Susan Ella Richardson b. Aug 1, 1849.
3. Henry Barnard b. b. April; died
July, 1820.
4. william H. Barnard b. Sept 10,
1821; d. April 27, 1834.
5. Mary Jane Barnard b. Jan 20,
1823; m. May 15, 1842, Eben Wiley,son of
Benjamin B.
Wiley of So. Reading.
6. Benjamin F. Barnard b. July 10,
1824; of Boston.
7. James Barnard b. Nov 28, 1825;
d. July, 1, 1826.
7. Jonathan Stearns b. April 1, 1792; died Feb 6, 1803.
8. Prentice Stearns b. and died Mar, 1795.
9. Uriah Bigelow Stearns b. Feb. 25, 1800; died Sept 15, 1848; m. Dec
23, 1824, Alice
Smith. Children;
1. Alice Stearns b. Feb 12,
1826; m. April 19, 1849 Nathan Underwood of Lexington,
son of
John & Sarah Underwood.
2. Sarah Stearns b. May 30,
1827.
3. Amos Stearns b. Nov 29,
1828.
4. Phinehas Stearns b. Feb
21, 1830.
5. Jonathan Stearns b. Feb
16, 1832.
6. Rhoda Ann Stearns b. May
28, died Aug 16, 1834.
7. Rhoda Ann Stearns (again)
b. June 16, 1836.
8. Mary Jane Stearns b.
April 18, 1838.
9. George Henry Stearns b.
Jan 7, 1841.
10. Lucy Francena Stearns b. Jan
18, 1843.
To be Continued - Part 46 - p. 504 - Reuben Stearns & wife Anna
Stewart - to Brattleboro, VT
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 46.
p.504
Reuben Stearns, b. Feb 6, 1759, of Brattleboro, Vermont, son of
Nathaniel Stearns & his wife, Grace Hammond of Holden, Mass.
(p.465). Reuben Stearns m. Mar 10, 1779, Anna Stewart,
b. Mar. 4, 1760, dau. of Deacon Daniel Stewart of Holden, Mass. In Feb.
1787, he moved to
Brattleboro, VT where he died Jan 29, 1845 and his wife Anna, died Sept
4, 1839. Children:
1. Ezra Stearns b. June 20, 1780; m. November, 1802, Polly Frazier b.
1783, dau. of Daniel
Frazier of Brattleboro, VT. and settled in
Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., N.Y., where he was
Town Clerk some 19 years; Supervisor several years and
Coroner of the County. Children:
1. Lucinda Stearns b.
Nov 22, 1803; m. Jan., 1824, Capt. Chester McLane. Children:
1. William McLane.
2. Electa Maria McLane.
3. Charles Henry McLane.
2. Mary Stearns b. Nov
23, 1805; m. July 18, 1830, Dr. William H. Fisk, son of
Dr.
W. H. & Mary Fisk.
3. Reuben Sidney
Stearns b. Nov 25, 1807; m. Elizabeth Didrick and died April 13,
1847.
4. Charles Stearns b.
Nov 23, 1809; mineralogist; m. Nov 20, 1837, Mary, dau. of
John
& Mary Mackie of N.Y. city. She d. August, 1838 and he m. (2)
Nov 2, 1845,
Amelia La Grave, dau. of Paul Machias La Grave & his wife, Sarah.
Children:
1. Mary Lucille Alphonsine Stearns b. Aug 2, 1846; died Sept. 1847.
2. Charles Hudrick Stearns b. Feb 26, 1847.
5. Adeline Stearns b.
May 30, 1812; m. Lucien Fisk Hudson, a machinist and a
Colonel in the infantry; son of Amos and Mary Hudson. Children:
1. George Washington Hudson
2. Mary Fisk Hudson
3. Ezra Hamilton Hudson
4. Alice Sophia Hudson.
5. Lucien Fisk Hudson.
6. Melicinire Stearns
b. Dec 15, 1815; a Major of infantry; Town Clerk, m. Mary
Delia Williams dau. of Pardon Williams and Huldah Williams.
Children:
1. William Alfred Stearns b. Oct 20, 1845.
7. Samuel Eugene
Stearns b. Sept 19, 1817; m. Huldah A., dau. of Pardon & Huldah
Williams. Children:
1. Alonzo Williams Stearns b. June 12, 1841.
2. Lockanoor La Rue Stearns b. Jan 28, 1843.
3. Mary Isadore Stearns b. July 10, 1844.
4. Abby Lorilla Stearns b. July 12, 1849.
8. Ezra Kasor Stearns
b. July 11, 1820; d. Jan 10, 1840.
9. Clarissa Ann
Stearns b. and died October, 1822.
10. Benjamin Franklin
Stearns b. Nov 21, 1825.
2. Samuel Stearns b. June 16, 1782; a physician at Dunham, L. Canada,
where he m. Elsey
Austin. Children:
1. Samuel Eugene Stearns who
m. Emma Bullock.
2. Anna Stearns.
Samuel died June 25, 1817.
3. Clarissa Stearns b. April 3, 1784; died April 15, 1813; m. John
Estabrook of Brattleboro.
1. Emery Estabrook.
2. Clausa Estabrook
3. Lucinda Estabrook.
p.505
4. Ruth Stearns b. Mar. 20, 1786; m. Sept., 1808, Charles Lamb of
Newfane, Vermont. She
m. (2) Moses Sabin.
5. Phebe Stearns b. Mar 15, 1788, m. Dr. Simpson Ellis of Brattleboro,
VT., moved to Bath,
N.Y..
6. John Foster Stearns b. June 9, 1790; m. the widow, Catherine (Knapp)
Alexander of
Dummerston, VT where he resided.
7. Betsey Stearns b. April 27, 1792; m. Nov 23, 1815, Isaiah Richardson
of Brattleboro.
8. George Stearns b. April 21, 1794; m. Sophia Baker of Bath, N.Y.
Children:
1. John Stearns
2. George Stearns
3. Daniel Stearns
4. Alfred Stearns.
9. Henry Stearns b. Nov 13, 1796; m. Emily Church of Brattleboro.
10. Daniel Stearns b. June 9, 1799.
11. Emery Stearns b. Oct 9, 1801; m. Olive Mixer of Brattleboro;
resided on the homestead of
his father.
12. Alfred Stearns b. Sept 11, 1804; m. Mary Bullock, of Ellisburg,
N.Y. where he died Oct.,
1836.
To be continued - Part 47 - p. 505 - Dr. William Stearns & his
wife, Sarah White Sprague,
a descendant in the 6th generation from Ralph Sprague, who with his
brothers, William &
Richard Sprague came over in the same vessel with Gov. Endicott in 1628
and settled in
Charlestown. She was also a direct descendant of William White, the
first settler of Haver-
hill, Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 47.
p.505
Dr. William Stearns, of Salem, b. in Cambridge, Mass., April 10, 1754,
son of Peleg Stearns
and his wife, Elizabeth Harris, widow of Mr. Swineton., purser in the
British Navy., dau of
Capt. Peter Harris of New London.
Dr. William Stearns grad. Harvard Coll., 1776; studied medicine with
Dr. Joshua Brackett,
of Portsmouth, N.H. and commenced practice in connection with Dr. Hall
Jackson of Marblehead. He soon relinquished the practice and after
qualifying himself, under the instruction of a chemish in Boston, he
commenced the business of apothecary and grocer in
Salem, Mass., in which he was very successful. He took the lead
in making the turnpike from
Salem to Boston and at one time owned one-eighth of the stock. The
first block of buildings
in Salem was his. The night before the battle of Bunker Hill, he
was employed the whole
night in throwing up the breastworks, and during the action was taking
care of his parents
at their farm at Plowed Hill. In the yard in the rear of their
house, Major McCleary was
killed by a ball or shell from the hill. (p.465)
Dr. William Stearns m. Dec 9, 1781, Sarah White Sprague, dau. of Major
Joseph Sprague of
Salem and great grandaughter of Col. James White of Atkinson, N.H. at
whose residence she was born Nov 26, 1764. She was of the sixth
generation, a descendant of Ralph Sprague, who,
with his brothers, William and Richard Sprague came over in the same
vessel with Governor
Endicott in 1628 and the same year settled in Charlestown. She
was also a direct descendant
of William White, the first settler of Haverhill, Mass. Also of
Rev. James Bailey, the 1st
minister of Danvers, then called Salem Village and of John Johnson and
his wife who were both killed by the Indians and their house burned,
when Haverhill was sacked by the Indians
in 1708. She died Janiary 29, 1844. Children:
1. Joseph E. Sprague Stearns b. Sept 9, 1782; grad. Harvard Coll. 1804;
High Sheriff of
Essex County. His name was changed from Stearns to Sprague
by a legal enactment.
2. James White Stearns b. April 9, 1784; formerly an apothecary and
grocer, but went into
the brewing business. Besides six children who died
in infancy, he had the following:
1. Lydia Stearns b. Oct 6, 1812;
m. Albert G. Bradstreet, a descendant of Gov.
Bradstreet; they
res. at his country seat in Danvers. Four children not listed.
2. William Stearns b. Dec 29,
1814; of Somerville, Mass.
3. James W. Stearns b. Sept 27,
1818; of Boston.
4. J. Edwin S. Stearns b. Jan 27,
1822; of Boston.
5. Ruth E. B. Stearns b. Nov 6,
1826; m. Samuel B. Willis, a trader of Boston.
6. Thomas H. E. Stearns b. Aug 1,
1830; of Somerville.
7. S. Alathea Stearns b. July,
1832.
3. Elizabeth Stearns b. July 24th, died Sept 2, 1787.
4. William Stearns b. Dec 16, 1788, a Major, formerly a druggist and
grocer. Retired from
business, he was involved with horticulture and politics;
unm.
5. Eliza Stearns b. June 23, 1791; m. Jan 26, 1834, Capt. James Silver,
a shipmaster &
merchant, who died April 18, 1837.
6. Sarah White Stearns b. July 13, 1792; unm.
7. Joshua Brackett Stearns b. Dec 21, 1794; was several years a
midshipman, and afterwards
engaged in trade. He m. in Baltimore, 1822, Louisa
Hutchinson King aged 14 years and had
one son, William Barckett L. Stearns b. Sept 1826; who
became an engineer. The separated
and were divorced and he m. (2) Sept 4, 1829, Sarah
Churchill of Boston. She died leaving
a son, Francis F. Stearns b. July 13, 1830 and a dau.
Sarah Elizabeth Stearns b. Jan 15,
1833. He m. (3) July, 1846, Anne Wilson and had a
dau., Marianne Stearns b. Aug 9, 1847.
8. Caroline Stearns b. Mar 20, 1798; unm.
9. Harriet Stearns b. July 4, 1800; unm.
10. Richard Sprague Stearns, a trader who m. Marianne Theresa St.
Agnan, aged 15 years, a
native of the Island of Grenada. Children:
1. William St. Agnan
Stearns b. Sept 27, 1822; grad. Harvard Coll. 1841; a
Counsellor-at-Law in Malden, Mass.
2. Lucy Theodore
Gillineau Stearns b. Sept 27, 1824; m. Henry Barrett of Malden.
3. Sarah White Sprague
Stearns b. July 11, 1828; of Malden, Mass.
To be continued Part 48 - p.506 - Moses Stearns & his wife, Ruth
Houghton of Westminster,
Mass.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 48.
p.506
Moses Stearns, b. May 29, 1728; son of John Stearns & his wife,
Anna Coolidge of Watertown &
Westminster, Mass. (p.465)
See History of Westminster, Mass.
http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/westminster/
Moses Stearns m. June 13, 1754, Ruth Houghton and resided in
Westminster, Mass until 1763
when they moved to Walpole, N.H., where he died Sept 24, 1808 aged 80
years. (see Moses
Stearns & Ruth Houghton at:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/cheshire/bios/stearns.txt
Children:
1. Ephraim Stearns b. April 6, 1755; a Deacon & a farmer of
Walpole, N.H.; m. Dec 13, 1781,
Molly Gilman. Children:
1. Simon Stearns b. Feb 26,
1783, a merchant of Boston; res. at Watertown; m. May
26, 1811,
Sarah Noyes, dau of Joseph Noyes of Boston. Children:
1. George A. Stearns b. Oct 24, 1823, was in his father's Company.
2. Sarah Noyes Stearns b. July 21, 1827.
2. Calvin Stearns b June 24,
1784; m. Deborah Allen who died in a short time. He
was a
merchant of Boston and died in Walpole, N.H., April 27, 1840.
3. Stephen Stearns b. April
27, 1786; m. Mar 11, 1819, Harriet Hosmer, dau. of
Jonas
Hosmer, formerly of Acton, Mass., by whom he had one child, Josiah W.
Stearns b.
Aug 15, 1823, who res. on his father's homestead. He m. (2) the
widow Lora
Burroughs, dau. of James Martin of Williamstown, VT.
4. Ephraim Stearns b. June
2, 1788; died July, 1806.
5. Molly Stearns, twin of
Ephraim, b. June 2, 1788.
6. Mary (Polly) Stearns, b.
Aug, 1790; m. July 7, 1823, Zephamiah Kidder of
Walpole.
1. Harriet Kidder b. 1826.
7. Liman Stearns b. Aug 13,
1792; died Mar 27, 1803.
8. Curtis Stearns b. June
23, 1794; formerly a trader of Boston, then a farmer in
Walpole;
m. Mar 18, 1827, Rebecca D. Barron, dau of Jonathan Barron of Chelms-
ford. Children:
1. Mary G. Stearns b. Mar. 21, 1831.
2. Frances Stearns b. Mar 25, 1839.
9. Willard Stearns b. June
6, 1796; a trader of Boston; m. 1827, Harriet Pettingill
of
Charlestown, Mass., & died 1828.
10. Wilder Stearns a twin of
Willard, b. June 6, 1796; m. Feb 5, 1823, Hannah Wier,
and res.
in Herkimer, New York. Children:
1. Mary A. Stearns b. April 17, 1824.
2. Sarah E. Stearns b. April 15, 1825.
3. Curtis Stearns b. Jan 6, 1827.
4. Fanny A. Stearns b. Nov 20, 1828.
5. George W. Stearns b. April 4, 1832.
6. Corson G. Stearns b. Oct 15, 1834.
7. Ephraim M. Stearns b. May 29, 1836.
11. Elijah Stearns b. July 27,
1798; a merchant of Boston; m. 1832, Sarah Blanchard
of
Billerica. Had 3 children, only one of whom, Sarah Stearns, survived.
12. Harvey Stearns b. June 3,
1800; of Walpole, N.H., m. Jan., 1829, Rebecca Brown,
of
Leominster, Mass.
13. George Stearns b. Aug 10,
1802; M.D., Harvard Univ., 1827; resided in Groton,
Mass., unm.
2. Esther Stearns b. April 11, 1757.
3. Reuben Stearns b. Sept. 4, 1759; a farmer of Walpole where he died
1791, unm.
4. Relief Stearns b. Mar 8, 1762.
5. Elizabeth Stearns b. Sept 4, 1764.
6. Lois Stearns b. Aug 7, 1766.
7. Benjamin Stearns b. Oct 11, 1768; studied medicine with Dr. Johnson
of Walpole; settled
as a physician in Hillsboro, N.H. where he m. Nov 15,
1798, Mehitabel Symonds and in 1804
moved to Antigonish, Nova Scotia and in 1846 resided at
Pictou. His wife, b. Oct 30,
1775, died Mar. 13, 1826. This family and that of Jonathan
Stearns, after their removal
to Nova Scotia, wrote their name as Sterns. Children:
1. Abigail Sterns b. Aug 12, 1799; m.
John Page and had 3 children.
2. Nancy Sterns b. Mar 17, 1801; m.
1825, Kimble Coffin. Res.: St. Peters, Prince
Edward Island - eight
children.
3. Benjamin Sterns b. Jan 25, 1803; a
farmer, in Antigonish; m. 1832, Rebecca Bishop.
had seven children.
4. Henry Sterns b. Mar 30, 1805; a
carriage-builder; m. 1833, Rebecca Ann Miner -
six children.
p.507 5. Edwin Sterns b. Feb 21, 1807; a dry-goods dealer in Halifax,
Nova Scotia; m. 1831,
Elizabeth Wilner.
6. Franklin Sterns b. Feb 23, 1809; a
carpenter of St. Peters, Prince Edward Island;
m. (1) Elizabeth
Davidson & had 2 children; She died 1842 and he m. (2) 1843, Mary
Ann Anderson.
7. Maria Sterns b. Jan 25, 1812; m.
1836, Duncan McLain; res. in the state of Missouri.
8. Caroline Sterns b. Nov 9, 1814.
9. William Sterns b. Oct 12, 1819; a
carriage-builder, Prince Edward Island; unm.
10. Luther Sterns b. Jan 8, 1822; a dry-goods
dealer in Halifax.
8. Lucy Stearns b. Jan 14, 1771.
9. Abigail Stearns b. Feb 27, 1775.
To be continued Part 49 - p. 507 - Aaron Stearns & wife, Esther
Glazier of Langdon, N.H.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 49.
p.507
Aaron Stearns b. Feb 2, 1746; died Sept 11, 1807, son of John Stearns
& Anna Coolidge of
Watertown & Westminster, Mass. (p.465). Aaron Stearns m. 1766,
Esther Glazier and settled
late in life at Langdon, N.H. where he died Sept 11, 1807. His
first four children were
born in Westminster, Mass., the others in Walpole, N.H. Children:
1. Jesse Stearns b. Aug 3, 1766; of Walpole, N.H., m. Oct 6, 1791,
Betsey Gibson. Children:
1. Joseph G. Stearns
b. Sept 16, 1792; of Corinth, Saratoga Co., N.Y., m. Jan 2,
1814, Prudence Houghton.
2. Aaron Stearns b.
July 3, 1794; m. Sept 25, 1820, Sarah Symons.
3. Alva Stearns b. Aug
10, 1796; m. June 2, 1825, Mary Darling.
4. Betsey Stearns b.
Dec 15, 1799; m. April 29, 1835, Noah Spafford.
5. John C. Stearns b.
June 30, 1802; m. June 6, 1827, Orphia M. Clarke.
6. David Stearns b.
Aug 3, 1804; died Nov 23, 1839; m. Dec 26, 1836, Philenda
Gleason.
7. Lyman Stearns b.
Mar 11, 1808, m.Sept 8, 1834, Rhoda Ann Graves.
8. Frederick W.
Stearns b. July 3, 1810; died Sept 11, 1819.
9. Zenas H. Stearns b.
Jan 2, 1813.
10. Harriet Stearns b. April
10, 1815; died October, 1819.
2. Levi Stearns b. Dec 29, 1767; m. (1) Eunice Hill of Ackworth,
N.H. She died about 1798
leaving one child. He m. (2) Kezia Wetherbee b. Sept
27, 1774 dau. of Ephraim & Kezia
Wetherbee of Lunenburg, Mass. Children:
1. John G. Stearns b.
1795; in 1852 was a Baptist pastor of Clymer, N.Y.; he m. (1)
June
9, 1822, Rebecca Smith of Sangerfield, N.Y. she d. April3, 1824,
aged 26,
leaving one child. He m. (2) Mar 9, 1826 Silence Post of Paris,
N.Y. Children:
1. Julia Rebecca Stearns b. April 19, 1823; m. June 7, 1846, Erastus R.
McConnell, a farmer of Marshall, N.Y. Children:
1. Alburtis Stearns McConnell b. July 3, 1848.
2. a son.
2. Judson Wade Stearns b. Nov 25, 1829; a trader of Clarkston,
Michigan,
unm.
By his 2nd wife, Levi Stearns had:
2. Eunice
Stearns.
3. Lucretia
Stearns.
4. Ephraim
Stearns who died
5. Rhoda Stearns
who m. Jacob Shearman, a hatter of N.Y. They later resided at
Paris, N.Y. Children:
1. Frederick Shearman.
2. Theodore Shearman.
3. Elinor Shearman.
4. Jane Shearman.
5. John G. Shearman.
6. Mary Shearman.
7. ____ Shearman.
6. Nancy Stearns
m. ____Henry, a farmer of Savoy, N.Y. They moved to Ohio where
he died, leaving children.
7. Polly Stearns
who m. Joseph Bannister, a farmer of Alexander. Had children.
8. Lucy Stearns
who m. Alanson Cheesman, a farmer of Alexander. Had children.
9. Betsey
Stearns m. and died childless.
10. Lyman Stearns, a
farmer, of Alexander, N.Y.
11. Curtis Stearns who
married and settled in Ohio.
3. Lydia Stearns b. Feb 29, 1770; m. Jonathan Martin of Bradford, VT
and died 1844.
4. Zenas Stearns b. June 3, 1772; in 1852 of Newbury, VT.; a clothier;
m. Mar. 9, 1796,
betsey Heath; had nine children. He now (1846) lives with
son, Isaac in Corinth, VT.
Children:
1. Phineas
Stearns.
2. Betsey
Stearns.
3.
Sophronia Stearns.
4. Isaac
Stearns - with whom his father lived in Corinth, Vt.
There were five others who died in childhood.
p.508
5. Esther Stearns b. June 24, 1775; m. Simon Mead and settled in
Walpole.
6. John Stearns b. July 16, 1777; m. in 1800, in Otsego, Otsego County,
N.Y., Abigail
Olds, b. July 8, 1779, dau. of Daniel Olds, of Woodbury,
Conn. who married Abigail
Granger of Westford, Mass. He left Walpole in the
winter of 1798 and lived in several
towns in N.Y. State until 1845, when he moved to Utica
where he was residing in 1852.
1. Clarissa Stearns b.
June 14, 1801; m. July 10, 1838, willis Sperry, a black-
smith of Sumer Hill, Cayuga County, N.Y.
2. Sophronia Stearns
b. Jan 29, 1803; m. Jan 23, 1825, Isaac Farrell, b. Oct.
1804, son of Isaac Farrell, a native of Nova Scotia and his wife Anna
Parmenter. He was a piano-forte manufacturer in Norwich, Chenango
Co., N.Y.
1. John Dwight Farrell b. Jan 20, 1826; a blacksmith.
2. william Theodore Farrell b. Oct 10, 1835; a piano-forte finisher.
3. Catherine Cemanthe Farrell b. June 13, 1837.
4. Sarah Helen Farrell b. May 18, 1839.
3. almira Cemanthe
Stearns b. May 30, 1804.
4. Almira Cemanthe
Stearns (again) b. Nov 18, 1806; unm.
5. Hubbard Church
Stearns b. Feb. 22, 1809; by trade a joiner; later a boarding-
house keeper of Utica, N.Y. m. Jan 5, 1831, Eunice Larissa Curtiss, b.
May
16,
1809, dau. of Abel Curtiss of Southbury, Conn. who m. Hannah Atwater of
Middlebury, Conn.
6. Betsey Stearns b.
April 7, 1812; m. July 15, 1846, Peter Hatfield b. 1823, a
farmer of Summer Hill, Cayuga Co., N.Y. (he had two children by a
former wife)
7. Abigail Catherine
Stearns b. Sept. 15, 1814; of Homer, Cayuga Co., N.Y.
8. John Glazier
Stearns b. March 15, 1818; died soon.
9. Zenas Daniel
Stearns b. Feb 14, 1820; a cabinet-maker of Utica; m. May 3, 1845,
Maria Catherine Rich b. Dec. 28, 1827.
1. Ellen Martha Ophelia Stearns b. Feb 19, 1846.
7. Aaron Stearns b. Feb 11, 1780.
8. Rhoda Stearns b. Feb 11, 1780 twin to Aaron; m. Joseph Brockway and
lived in Kingston,
U. Canada.
To be continued Part 50 - p.508 - Elias Stearns & Sarah Keyes, 1st
of Westminster, Mass.
then of Walpole, N.H, Hartland, VT, Bradford, VT and Haverhill, N.H.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 50.
p.508
Elias Stearns b. Sept. 30, 1753; died April 2, 1845 in Haverhill, N.H.,
son of John Stearns
and his wife Anna Coolidge of Watertown & Westminster, Mass.
(p.465). Elias Stearns m. in
Westminster, Mass., Dec 12, 1776, Sarah Keyes, b. in Shrewsbury, Mass.,
Dec. 21, 1756. She
died May 21,1842 aged 85-1/2 yrs. He was a clothier and resided
sucessively in Walpole, NH,
Hartland, Vt., Bradford, Vt. and Haverhill, N.H. He died in
Haverhill, April 2, 1845 aged
91-1/2 yrs. Children:
1. Sally Stearns b. in Walpole, Jan 28, 1778; m. 1800, John S. Little,
a farmer, of Corinth,
VT., b. in Goffstown, N.H. Nov 25, 1776. Children:
1. Sarah Little b. Feb
21, 1801; m. Mar 17, 1822, Michael B. Taplin, a farmer, of
Morristown, VT., b. in Corinth, VT. 1791. Children:
1. Erdix Taplin b. Mar 28, 1823.
2. Hartwell L. Taplin b. November, 1825.
3. Martha Taplin, b. Nov. 1827.
4. Sarah Taplin, b. June 6, 1829.
5. Julia Taplin, b. Nov., 1830.
6. Caroline Taplin b. Dec 9, 1834.
2. Moses Little b. July 23,
1802; m. Jan., 1830, Harriet Sanborn, b. in Andover,NH,
Aug 25,
1808. Children:
1. Matilda Little b. Oct 2, 1830; died Sept., 1835.
2. John Stearns Little, b. May 14, 1832.
3. Mary Little, b. Nov 6, 1838; d. Sept. 1843.
3. George W. Little, b. July
10, 1804; a farmer; m. Mar 7, 1843, Susan G. Bearce,
b. Oct 5,
1820. Children:
1. Mary Elizabeth Little, b. July 6, 1845.
4. Amos S. Little, b. May
15, 1806; a lawyer, m. Mar 21, 1833, Mahala Parker, b. in
Fairlee,
VT., July 12, 1813.
5. Mary S. Little, b. Dec
27, 1809; m. June 29, 1838, William H. Burdick, a house
carpenter
of Hanover, N.H., b. in Campton, N.H., May 16, 1808l She d. Sept. 3,
1843,
leaving 3 children.
6. Hiram Little b. Feb 28,
1812; a farmer.
7. Roxana Stearns Little, b.
aug 24, 1814.
2. Billy Sterns, b. in Walpole, Mar. 11, 1780; a farmer; died Dec 3,
1836, unm.
3. Asa Stearns b. in Walpole, Feb 3, 1782; m. in the autumn of 1807,
Sophia Higby, b. in
Conn.
p.509
Asa Stearns went to Rutland, Meigs Co., Ohio in 1806; to
Alexander, Athens Co., Ohio in
1815 and to St. Mary's, Mercer Co., Ohio in 1835.
Children:
1. Rufus Wilson Stearns, b.
June 21, 1809; M.D., Medical Coll. of Ohio, 1832. In
1834,
settled in St. Mary's and m. Nov 3, 1835, Sarah Ann Carpenter of Athens,
Ohio.
Children:
1. Eliza Sophronia Stearns b. Nov 25, 1836.
2. Sophia Cordelia Stearns b. Nov 10, 1838.
3. Charles Newton Stearns b. Feb 24, 1841.
4. Frances Harriet Stearns b. Aug 24, 1843.
5. Rufus Warren Stearns b. Dec 1, 1845.
2. Horace S. Stearns, b.
July 22, 1811; d. Dec 6, 1813.
3. Amos Keyes Stearns b. Mar
5, 1813; a physician, at Exeter, Green Co., Wisconsin;
m. Dec.
16, 1846, Charlotte E. Durgin of Exeter.
4. Louisa Abiah Stearns b.
Jan 16, 1815; m. Jan 8, 1834, Robert Linzee. She died
April 19,
1841, leaving 3 children.
5. Joel Austin Stearns b.
Dec 28, 1817; d. April 18, 1835.
6. Elmer A. Stearns b. Oct
28, 1819; d. Oct 21, 182_.
4. Ezra Stearns, b. in Hartland, VT, April 8, 1784; a house carpenter;
m. 1808, Desire
Holmes of Dedham, Mass., 1781. She died Mar. 20, 1809 and
he m. (2) Oct. 21, 1810,
Susanna Belcher b. in Chelsea, Mass. Jan 18, 1792.
His first eight children were born
in Boston and the other two in Charlestown. Children:
1. Charles H. Stearns, b.
Aug 21, 1808; a merchant of Boston; m. Dec. 25, 1831,
Sarah P.
Pulsiver, b. in Boston Feb 7, 1805. Children:
1. Sarah Elizabeth Stearns b. Dec. 17, 1832.
2. Emeline Desire Stearns b. Dec. 1834.
3. Charles H. Stearns, Jr., b. Feb 3, died Sept 3, 1837.
4. Abba Augusta Stearns b. July 29, 1838; d. Feb 6, 1840.
5. Charles Edward Stearns b. Sept 28, 1840.
6. Isaac R. Stearns b. Aug 19, 1842.
7. Abba Augusta Stearns (again) b. Sept 26, 1844.
2. Elizabeth R. Stearns b.
Aug 14, 1811; died June 18, 1838.
3. Ezra Stearns b. Dec 21,
1812; a shoe & boot manufacturer in Malden; m. April
12, 1834,
Avis Jones. She d. 1841, leaving one child, Susan J. Stearns b.
Mar.
1839.
4. Abigail B. Stearns, b.
April 9, 1814; m. 1833, Thomas P. Pulsiver, a trader of
Boston. Children:
1. Edward King Pulsiver.
2. Abigail Pulsiver.
3. Maria Pulsiver.
5. John B. Stearns b. May 6,
1816.
6. Amos R. Stearns b. May
11, 1818; a physician in Wisconsin.
7. Susan M. Stearns b. Oct
10, 1820; d. Dec 1, 1843.
8. David B. Stearns b. Oct
6, 1822.
9. Augusta F. Stearns b. Feb
24, 1825; m. Jan 15, 1846, Capt. Edward Barricot, a
shipmaster
of Boston.
10. William Henry Stearns b. July
24, 1829.
5. Amos Stearns b. in Hartland, April 26, 1786; a merchant of Marietta,
Ohio. Died Dec 6,
1812.
6. Mary Stearns b. in Hartland, May 21, 1788; m. June 10, 1811, Elisha
Travy, a miller,
b. in Whateley, Mass. Feb 13, 1790. Their children
wee all born in Haverhill, N.H.,
but later resided in Bradford, VT. Children:
1. Nathaniel Travy b. Mar.
14, 1813; m. Mar 1, 1837 Harriet Wells, born in Putney,
VT.
Children:
1. Francis Henry Travy b. in Bath, N.H. Aug 14, 1839.
2. Leroy S. Travy b. in Bath, April 14, 1844.
2. Mary Ann Travy b. July
23, 1814; m. July 7, 1839, Lorenzo Hills, a house
carpenter,
b. in Martinsburg, N.Y. - later (1846) a resident of Middletown, CT.
1. Lorenzo R. Hills b. Aug 5, 1840.
2. Francis E. Hills b. Oct 20, 1842.
3. Sarah E. Hills b. Nov 6, 1843.
3. Lucy S. Travy b. April 14,
1816; m. Feb 20, 1838, William C. Martin, b. in
Benton, N.H.,
June 25, 1815; a shoe manufacturer; in 1846 a resident of Warren,
N.H.
Children:
1. Ellen Martin b. in Haverhill, N.H. Oct 5, 1839.
2. Moody C. Martin b. in Bath, N.H., June 1, 1842.
3. William S. Martin b. July 6, 1843.
4. Mary Rosetta Martin b. in Warren, June 11, 1845.
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4. Harriet N. Travy b. Nov 29, 1817; m.
Ward E. Wright, a physician of Cambridgeport,
Mass., b. in
Washington, N.H. Mar 29, 1818.
5. Susan b. Travy b. Nov 19, 1819, m.
May 13, 1841, Nathaniel F. Tewksbury, a farmer
of Bath, N.H., b. Jan
31, 1801. Children:
1. Susan B. Tewksbury b. April 27, 1842.
2. More Russell Tewksbury b. Aug 3, 1844.
3. Mary Stearns Tewksbury b. July 24, 1845.
6. John S. Travy, b. Oct 26, 1821, a
farmer & joiner; m. Aug 7, 1843, Rhoda B.
Martin, b. in Bath,
N.H., 1822, then of Wisconsin. Children:
1. Alice Travy b. in Cambridgeport, May 12, 1844.
7. Jedediah Travy b. Mar 5, 1824; res.
at Hookset, N.H.
8. Sarah P. Travy, b. Feb 15, 1826.
9. Elisha H. Travy b. Oct 25, 1828.
10. Eliza H. Travy b. Aug 29, 1831.
11. Albert L. Travy b. April 25, 1834.
7. Rufus Stearns b. in Bradford, VT., Mar 19, 1719; a farmer of
Haverhill, N.H.; m.
Feb 22, 1815, Sarah P. Davis b. Nov. 18, 1794.
Children:
1. James A. Stearns b. Jan 21, 1816; a
merchant in Manchester, N.H. m. Sept.
11, 1838, Betsey
Taylor who died Aug 28, 1843, aged 28 yrs. He m. (2)
March 10, 1844,
Caroline Griffin. Children:
1. Amaryllis T. Stearns b. Nov. 3, 1839.
2. Susanna T. Stearns b. Oct and died December, 1841.
2. Maria Stearns b. Aug 16, 1817; d.
April, 1841.
3. Horace Stearns b. Nov 28, 1818; a
merchant in Manchester, N.H. m. March 10, 1841,
Eliza P. Dow b. in
Amoskeag Oct 31, 1818. Children:
1. Charles H. Stearns b. July 12, 1844.
2. William Henry Stearns b. Dec 26, 1845.
3. Harriet Elizabeth Stearns b. Dec 26, 1845, twin to William Henry.
4. Ezra B. Stearns b.Jan 28, 1820; a
trader in Manchester, N.H.
5. Hiram Stearns b. Mar 5, 1821; a
merchant in Manchester; m. Dec. 1, 1844 Susan
Glines.
6. Warren Stearns b. oct 9, 1822; a
house-joiner, in Manchester, N.H.
7. George W. Stearns b. Feb 16, 1824; a
farmer, in Manchester, N.H.
8. Damon Y. Stearns b. Aug 24, 1825.
9. Elizabeth D.Stearns b. April 16, 1827.
10. Mary L. Stearns b. Dec 8, 1828.
11. Amos Stearns b. Nov 17, 1830.
12. John Stearns b. July 12, 1834.
13. Sarah Stearns b. May 13, 1837
See also, History of Manchester, N.H. online, hosted by our
Kathy Leigh.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nh/county/hillsborough/manchester/book/index.html
8. Roxana Stearns b. in Bradford, Jan 28, 1794; of Haverhill, N.H., unm.
9. Lucy Stearns b. in Bradford, Sept 19, 1797; m. Aug 9, 1842, Chester
Farnam, a farmer of
Haverhill, N.H. b. in Strafford, Conn., Feb 12, 1773.
To be continued - Part 51 - p. 510 - Josiah Stearns & his wife,
Abigail Emerson
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth.
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 51.
p.510
Josiah Stearns, b. July 11, 1730, son of Josiah Stearns & his 1st
wife, Susanna Ball of
Watertown. (p.466) Josiah Stearns Jr. m. 1765, Abigail Emerson, b. on
Plum Island 1732.
Plum
Island, Massachusetts:
Discover Sandy Point on Plum Island, Mass.(great illustrations) a
"saver"
http://www.necc.mass.edu/MRVIS/MR2_2/start.htm
They settled first in Lunenburg, Mass., and about 1700, moved to
Westminster, Mass. They
spent the latter years of their lives in Wilmington, VT., where he died
Jan 31, 1802 and
she died in Westminster, September, 1802. Children:
1. Abigail Stearns b. in Lunenburg, Mass., Feb 6, 1766; m. abt.
1790, James Miller of
Westminster and moved to Wilmington, VT where he
died 1818. Children:
1. Abigail Miller who m. Reuben
Sawin and moved to Westminster, where she died.
2. Lucy Miller who m. Jonathan
Harris and moved to Marlboro, VT where she died,
leaving seven
children:
1. Gilbert Harris
2. Francis Harris
3. Brenda Harris
4. Mandana Harris
5. Victory Harris
6. Melinda Harris.
3. Elizabeth (Betsey) Miller m.
Silas Richardson of Wilmington, where she was living
in 1849, with
her mother.
4. John Miller who m. Elizabeth
Polley of Athol, Mass. and moved to Poland, Chatauqee
County, N.Y. and
had children.
5. Asa Miller who m. Polly Oliver
and moved to Poland, Chataugee Co., N.Y., and had
children.
6. James Miller died in childhood.
7. Joseph Miller who m. and
settled in Poland, N.Y. - had children.
2. Susanna Stearns b. in Lunenburg, Feb 18, 1768.
3. Elizabeth Stearns b. in Westminster Aug 1, 1770; died in
Hubbardston, 1838; m. 1790,
John Whitney of Westminster. Children:
1. John Whitney
2. John Whitney (again) who m.
____Allen.
3. Elizabeth Whitney who m. Asa
Merriam.
4. Melinda Whitney who m.
___Raymond.
John Whitney husband of Elizabeth Stearns, died 1800 and
his widow m. (2) James Walker,
who died the next year,leaving no children. She m. (3)
Luke Warren. Children:
5. Mary Stearns.
6. Aaron Stearns.
4. Josiah Stearns b. in Westminster, May 25, 1773; m. May 15, 1800,
Lucy Allen, b. 1776,
eldest dau. of Simeon and Candace (How) Allen, of
Hubbardston (now Princeton, Mass.) &
settled in Wilmington, VT where in 1849 he resided, a
Deacon of the Baptist Church.
1. Elmira Stearns b. Oct 23, 1800;
died Feb 15, 1820.
2. William Stearns b. Aug 29,
1802; a carpenter and farmer, clerk and deacon of the
Baptist church;
m. Dec 3, 1829, Virtue Bills b. July 17, 1808, the only dau. of
Hiram &
Virtue Bills of Wilmington. He d. May 6, 1848.
3. Rufus Stearns b. Sept 3, 1804;
a house carpenter and joiner and Justice of the
Peace; m. Mar 6,
1825, Jane R. Ross, b. Feb 3, 1802, dau. of Dr. Samuel Ros of
Coleraine, Mass.
Children:
1. a child born and died February, 1828.
2. Catherine R. Stearns b. Oct 9, 1830.
3. Charlotte E. Stearns b. Mar 29, 1832.
4. Joseph M. Stearns b. Dec 18, 1833; died July 19, 1837.
5. Rufus Henry Stearns b. July 7, 1835.
6. Sarah Jane Stearns b. Sept 10, 1843.
4. Lucy Stearns b. May 27, 1806;
m. Nov 4, 1824, Moses Dix and in 1838 moved to
Perkins Grove,
Illinois. Ten children.
5. Jairus Stearns b. Mar 4, 1809;
a carpenter; m. Jan 10, 1834, Mary Battis.
6. Horace Stearns b. Feb 23, 1811;
a carpenter; m. Dec 3, 1834, Lucretia A. Tanner.
1. Elmer Stearns
2. Albert Stearns
3. Harriet Stearns
4. Francis W. Stearns
5. Horace Stearns.
7. Eleanor Stearns b. Feb 1, 1813;
m. Feb 15, 1831, Jason R. Liscom, a wheelwright.
1. Horace Liscom.
2. Martin Liscom.
3. John Henry Liscom.
8. Caroline Stearns b. June 24,
1815; died Nov 15, 1846; m. Nov 19, 1833, Henry
Holliday, a
farmer and tanner.
1. Horatio Holliday
2. an infant who died.
3. Lucius W. Holliday.
4. William Stearns Holliday.
9. Corintha Stearns b. June 1,
1818; m. Oct 14, 1838, Henry Bridge, a farmer and
teamster.
Children:
1. Pearly Bridge.
2. Lorin Bridge.
3. Cornelia Bridge.
5. Daniel Stearns b. in Westminster, May 18, 1776 m. Aug 7, 1800,
Elizabeth Heywood, b.
Feb 4, 1780, dau. of Timothy & Patience (Stebbins) Heywood of
Westminster. In 1804 he
moved from Westminster to Wilmington, VT., afterwards to Brattleboro
and in 1818 to Gerry,
Chatauque Co., N.Y. and in May, 1846 to Freeport, Stephenson Co.,
Illinois. Children:
1. Louisa Stearns b. Nov 14, 1800.
2. Phinehas Stearns b. Aug 1,1802;
d. Sept. 1803.
3. Mary Stearns b. May 25, 1804;
d. August, 1806.
4. Phinehas Stearns b. Mar 20,
1806; m. Sept, 1830, Lovica Fisher, dau. of Sylvanus
and Zerviah
Fisher of Gerry, N.Y., where he settled. Children:
1. Freeman Stearns b. April 1, 1832.
2. Polly Stearns b. Feb 10, 1836.
3. Charles Stearns b. Oct, 1838.
5. Daniel Merrill Stearns b. Sept
23, 1807. In 1833 he became an itinerant minister
of the Pitsburg
Annual Conference of the M. E. Church and in 1848 he belonged
to the Erie
Annual Conference. He m. mar 10, 1837, Delia Prior, dau of Elijah
Prior of
Northampton, Porage Co., Ohio. Children:
1. William W. Stearns b. in Northampton, April 1838.
2. Laura E. Stearns b. August, 1840.
3. Harriet A. Stearns b. in Franklin, Portage Co., Ohio, in 1842.
6. Isaac Newton Stearns b. May 24,
1810; m. in Gerry, Chatauque Co., N.Y., Lucy
Hatch, dau. of
Dexter and Sally Hatch and in 1845 moved to Freeport, Stephenson
Co.,
Illinois. Children:
1. Oliver Stearns b. Feb 15, 1841.
2. George Stearns b. August, 1842; d. July, 1844.
3. Mandron Mason Stearns b. January, 1844.
4. Janet Stearns b. Jan. 19, 1847.
7. Horatio Nelson Stearns, twin to
Isaac Newton Stearns, b. May 24, 1810. In 1834 he
entered the
Christian ministry; in 1837, became an intinerent minister of the
Pittsburgh
Conference of the M. E. Church, and in 1848, the Presiding Elder of the
p.512
Erie Annual
Conference. He. m. Aug 1, 1838, Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Jacob and
Jane Bear of
Beaver, Beaver Co., Penn.
8. Mary Stearns b. July 10, 1812;
m. Mar 4, 1830, Robert Scofield, son of James
and Margaret
Scofield of Gerry, Chatauque Co., N.Y. Children:
1. Margaret Scofield b. Sept 29, 1831.
2. Aurelia Ann Scofield b. July 19, 1833; died May, 1835.
3. Mary Ann Scofield b. Aug. 16, 1835.
4. Silas Charles Scofield b. Nov 6, 1837.
5. Catherine Elizabeth Scofield b. May 8, 1842.
6. Milton Edson Scofield b. Aug 20, 1846.
9. Charles Stearns b. in
Brattleboro, VT., Mar 15, 1814; m. March, 1845, in Jamestown
Chatauque Co.,
N.Y., Elvira Statira Jones, dau of Ellic and Louisa Jones of that
place. Children:
1. Ellic Emerson Stearns b. Feb. 1846.
2. Charles Clarence Stearns b. Jan., 1848.
10. Elizabeth Stearns b. in Brattleboro,
July 11, 1816; m. in Chicago, Illinois,
August, 1840,
William B. Platt, Esq. of Aurora, Keene Co., Illinois, a counsellor
at-law, and in
1848, a member of the State Senate. Children:
1. Helen Platt b. June 19, 1841; d. April, 1842.
2. John Platt b. Sept 16, 1842.
3. Laura Platt b. March; died December, 1844.
4. Helen Platt b. Oct 2, 1845.
11. Alvalina Stearns b. in Gerry, N.Y.,
Sept 12, 1819; m. in Gerry, Jan 31, 1836,
Hiram Scofield,
brother of her sister Mary's husband. Children:
1. Eugene Phebe Scofield b. Mar 13, 1837; died February, 1838.
2. Almeda Scofield b. May 19, 1839.
3. Corintha Eliza Scofield b. April 26, 1846.
In 1837 this
family moved to Crawford County, Penn. and in 1844, to Stephenson
County, Illinois.
12. Elmira Stearns b. in Gerry, October
30, 1822.
13. William Stearns b. in Gerry, October
10, 1824 where he resided.
To be continued Part 52 - p.512 - John Stearns and wives (1) Martha
Harrington & (2)
Mary Parks; Watertown and Bethel, Maine.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 52.
p.512
John Stearns b. May 8, 1733; d. Oct. 16, 1804, son of Josiah Stearns
& his 1st wife, Susanna
Ball of Watertown. He m. (1) May 15, 1760, Martha Harrington.
This marriage was recorded
at Hampton Falls, N.H. He m. (2) 1779, Mary Parks, dau of Ephraim
Parks of Lincoln, Mass.
He settled in Watertown at the south-west corner of Lexington and
Belmont streets, directly
south of the residence of his brother Phinehas. Afterwards he
resided a few years in West
Cambridge and about 1798 moved to Bethel, Maine where he died Oct 16,
1804. His widow died
1818. In 1757, he was appointed guardian of his uncle, Joseph Stearns
and in 1776, he was
also put in guardianship for the same illness as his uncle.
Children:
1. Katherine Stearns b. Dec 16, 1759; m. 1786, Nathan Johnson b. in
Lunenburg and settled in
Rindge, N.H. where he d. Sept 5, 1838 and she d. Nov 5,
1833.
2. John Stearns, bapt. Aug 22, 1762; a farmer, of Bethel, Maine; m. May
23, 1791 Priscilla
Hall of Bethel, b. June 2, 1768. He d. Sept 14, 1826 and
she d. Jan 4, 1848. Children:
1. John Stearns b.
July 25, 1792; d. June 13, 1820, unm.
2. Calvin Stearns b.
Aug 24, 1793; a schoolmaster and Deputy Sheriff; m. Feb 8,
1825, Susan Brown of Bethel. He died Feb. 23, fifteen days after his
marriage
and
his widow became the wife of his brother, James Stearns.
3. Henry Stearns b.
Aug 7, 1795; a farmer on the paternal homestead, unm.
4. Joseph Stearns b.
April 2, 1797; a farmer, m. Jan 30, 1827, Mary Dustin of
Bethel. Children:
1. Cordelia Stearns b. May 8, 1827.
2. Frances Caroline Stearns b. June 12, 1829.
3. John H. Stearns b. May 22, 1831.
4. Joseph Henry Stearns b. May 29, 1833.
5. Charles Jefferson Stearns b. Oct 10, 1835.
6. Albert L. Stearns b. April 28, 1838.
7. Edward Payson Stearns b. June 10, 1840.
8. a daughter b. Feb 14, 1844.
5. Hannah Stearns b.
Nov 11, 1799; m. 1827, Capt. William White of Gilead, Maine.
6. James Stearns b.
July 8, 1802; died June 17, 1844; m. Mar 22, 1827, Susan, widow
of
his brother, Calvin Stearns. Children:
1. John Calvin Stearns b. Sept 23, 1827.
2. Nancy Stearns b. April 16; d. October, 1829.
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3. Nancy Stearns b. June 28th; died July 4, 1830.
4. Mary Augusta Stearns b. Aug 8, 1831.
5. James C. Stearns b. Jan 25, 1836.
7. Priscilla Stearns
b. May 14, 180_; d. April 8, 1847, unm.
8. Abigail Stearns, b.
Sept 3, 1811; m. Alonzo Holt of Rumford, Maine. Children:
1. John Newton Holt b. Aug 8, 1842.
2. Emily Holt b. Jan 15, 1844.
3. Thomas Stearns bap. Jan 22, 1764; a farmer, of Bethel, ME., m. Sept.
1792, Lois Colby of
Fryeburg, Maine, b. September 1771. Children:
1. Patty (Martha)
Stearns b. April 12, 1794; d. 1848; m. 1815, Nathan A. Foster of
Newry, Maine. Children:
1. Asa Foster b. Oct 15, d. Dec. 1816.
2. a son b. and d. 1817.
3. Asa Foster (again) b. July 1, 1818.
4. Thomas J. Foster b. May 1, 1820; d. Mar, 1843.
5. Louis Foster b. June 11, 1822.
6. Thomas J. Foster (again) b. Oct 8, 1824.
7. Reuben B. Foster, b. July 25, 1826.
8. Caroline Foster b. June 25, 1828.
9. Martha Foster b. April 28, 1831.
10. Mary F. Foster b. Mar 11, 1834; d. Sept. 1836.
11. Nathan Foster b. May 12, 1839.
2. Mary Stearns b.
April 18, 1795; m. May 4, 1814; William Holt of Bethel, Maine.
1. Mary Ann Holt b. April 16, 1815.
2. Hiram Holt b. May 27, 1818.
3. Galen C. Holt b. Feb 2, 1821.
4. Nathan Ward Holt b. April, 1827.
5. William Ormando Holt b. Mar. 23, 1830.
6. Maria Eliza Holt b. Sept 29, 1832.
3. Sukey (Susan)
Stearns b. Dec 30, 1797; m. Dec 4, 1817; Capt. Joseph Holt of
Bethel, Maine.
1. Lydia Maria Holt b. Nov 20, 1819.
2. Joseph Holt b. Sept 10, 1823.
3. Sarah M. Holt b. Aug 30, 1825.
4. Lois Stearns b. Mar
20, 1799; m. Jacob B. Littlefield of Newry and had eleven
children.
5. Sumner Stearns b.
June 21, 1802; m. Mar 2, 1824, Mahala Bass, of Paris, Maine;
lives on the homestead. Children:
1. Samuel Fessenden Stearns b. April; died July, 1830.
2. Samuel Fessenden Stearns (again) b. July 19, 1831.
3. Matilda Stearns b. June 16, 1833.
4. Frances Stearns b. May 16, 1836.
5. Lydia Stearns b. Jan 4, 1839; d. May, 1842.
6. Edwin H. S. Stearns b. Nov 14, 1840.
7. A. Jones Stearns b. June 26, 1842.
6. Harriet
Stearns b. Mar 6, 1804; m. ____Robins. Three children.
7. Sally Stearns
b. Aug 11, 1806; m. Peter Bowers of Bethel; four children.
8. Thomas
Stearns b. Jan 18, 1807; m. April 4, 1833; Ann Bowers of Bethel; she
died 1842 and he m. (2) Emily Rowe of Newry. Children:
1. Lyman Johnson Stearns b. Oct 13, 1836; died.
2. Prescott Stearns b. Nov 12, 1839.
9. Rufus Stearns
b. Mar 8, 1811; m. Lavinia Eames of Newry, Maine. Children:
1. Asa Stearns.
2. Eli F. Stearns.
10. Mahala Stearns b.
Feb 11, 1821; m. 1844 Josiah Smith of Cambridge, Mass.
4. Joseph Stearns bap. Sept 22, 1765; m. July 12, 1807 in Waltham,
Mass., Betsey the widow
of Daniel Stearns and the dau. of Benjamin & Esther
Hagar of Waltham, Mass., b. Jan 8,
1776 and d. Oct 9, 1843. He served an apprenticeship as a
blacksmith with his uncle,
Capt. Phinehas Stearns and settled in Waltham, Mass. In
1812, relinquishing his trade to
engage in agriculture, he moved to Weybridge, VT., and in
1816, to Middlebury, VT where
he was living in 1847. Children:
1. John Stearns b. Nov 19, 1812; m. Harriet Tower of Addison, VT b. Nov
19,
1820.
2. Eliza Stearns b. June 1, 1813; d. Mar 6, 1834, unm.
3. Sylvia Stearns b. June 11, 1814; d. Dec 24, 1833; unm.
4. Catherine Stearns b. Feb 11, 1816; m. Aug, 1844 George Peck, a
machinist,
of Granville, N.Y., b. in Milton, Saratoga Co., N.Y. son of Benjamin
Peck
formerly of Smithfield, R.I.
5. Josiah Stearns, bap. May 31, 1767; d. aged 3 years.
6. Charles Stearns bap. Jan. 8, 1769; a farmer of Bethel, ME., m. Oct
8, 1791; Thankful
Bartlett of Bethel, b. May 17, 1776. Children:
1. Theodore Stearns b. Mar 4, 1793; a farmer of Bethel, m. Oct 30, 1818,
Mary Besse (Bass) of Paris, Maine. Children:
1. Mary Ann Stearns b. Sept 25, 1819.
2. Sarah Jane Stearns b. July 3, 1821.
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3. Phinehas Stearns b. Feb 22, 1823.
4. Levi Stearns b. Feb 22, 1825.
5. Mark Emery Stearns b. Dec 8, 1826.
6. Louisa Amanda Stearns b. Aug 23, 1828; d. Sept. 1829.
7. Martha Louisa Stearns b. Oct 1, 1830.
8. Nancy Stearns b. July 16, 1832.
9. Melvina Elizabeth Stearns b. and d. November 1835.
10. Nathan Stearns b. April 16, died June 16, 1837.
11. theodore M. Van Buren Stearns b. Dec 7, 1840.
2. Charles Stearns b. Mar 10, 1795; a physician and Justice of the
Peace; m.
May 22, 1819, Betsey (Elizabeth) Fuller b. Feb 20, 1792; d. May 20,
1851.
dau of Deacon Thomas and Elizabeth (Bond) Fuller of Jay. He settled
first
in Sangerville and in 1826 in St. George, Maine. Children:
1. Elizabeth Bond Stearns b. oct 6, 1820; m. Capt. Ranlitt, a ship-
master of Thomaston, Maine
2. Thomas Bartlett Stearns b. May 6, 1822.
3. Elias Bond Stearns b. and d. 1824.
4. Sarah Fuller Stearns b. Feb 22, 1826.
5. Harriet Farnham Stearns b. Jan 16, 1828.
6. Charles Henry Stearns b. May 6, 1830.
3. Thankful Stearns b. oct 17, 1798; d. March, 1801.
4. Thankful Stearns (again) b. April 9, 1801; m. April 29, 1820,
Anthony
Besse of Paris, Maine. Nine children.
5. Phinehas Stearns b. Dec. 17, 1803, a saddle & harness maker, of
Bethel;
m. Jan 22, 1835 Betsey Martin. Children:
1. Nathan Kimball Stearns, b. Oct 29, 1835.
2. Martha Antoinette Stearns b. Nov 1, 1837.
3. Daniel Martin Sterns b. Nov 24, 1839.
4. Phinehas Stearns b. Mar 7, 1841.
5. Henry Bond Stearns b. July 12, 1846.
6. Jonathan Stearns b. Aug 4, 1806; lived on the homestead; m. Mar 27,
1836
Mary Chapman of Bethel. Children:
1. Ellmayrand Judson Stearns b. Dec 5, 1836.
2. Helen S. Stearns b. Feb 25, 1838.
3. Mary C. Stearns b. Aug 12, 1839.
4. Elizabeth Stearns b. Feb 1, 1842.
5. Jane D. Stearns b. Oct 17, 1843.
7. Nathan Stearns b. April 1, 1809; m. April 1, 1832, Mary Ann Frost, of
Bethel. Children:
1. Mary Ann Stearns b. April, 1833.
He died Aug 25, 1833 and his widow m. (2) Perley R. Pratt, a Mormon
preacher and editor and went west.
8. Salome Stearns b. July 14, 1812; m. Sept 2, 1832, Jonas Barbour
Willis of
Hanover, Maine. Children:
1. Charles S. Willis b. Feb 12, 1834.
2. Nathan J. Willis b. Jan 24, 1836; died September, 1838.
3. Octavius N. Willis b. Aug 7, 1839.
4. Salome B. Willis b. Jan 24, 1841.
5. Francis H. Willis b. Nov 19, 1844.
9. Betsey E. Stearns b. Sept., 1814; m. Dec 4, 1843, Isaac Adams of
Gilead,
Maine.
10. Martha Stearns b. Aug 31, 1816; m. Jan 5. 1840, Stephen Bartlett of
Hanover, Maine. Children:
1. Sarah M. Bartlett, b. Dec. 16, 1841.
2. Charles P. Bartlett, b. Aug 18, 1843.
11. Benjamin Franklin Stearns b. April 11, 1821; m. Dec 17, 1842, Julia
Andres,
of Bethel. Children:
1. Julia Stearns b. Sept 10, 1843.
2. Phidellas F. Stearns b. Jan 23, 1845.
7. Martha Stearns bap. Sept 16, 1770; m. 1799, Deacon Thomas Fuller of
Jay, as his 2nd wife.
who d. June 24, 1844 aged 80. Children:
1. Salome
Fuller who m. ____ Carlton and had one son, with whom she lived in
Dixfield, Maine.
2. Myra
Fuller, who died 1842, unm.
3. John
Fuller, who died 1831, unm.
4. Martha
Fuller who m. Joseph Webster of Wilton, Maine.
5. Maria
Fuller who died June 1846, unm.
6.
Catherine Fuller who died, 1816.
7. George
Washington Fuller who m. Martha Noyes of Jay and lived on
the
homestead.
8. Isaac
Fuller who married and res. in Wilton, Maine.
8. Mary Stearns bap. March 14, 1773; died aged 11 years.
9. Sally Stearns b. 1779; m. April 9, 1801, Amos Twitchell, a stone
cutter of Bethel; had
two children - both died.
10. Josiah Stearns b. Jan 17, 1781; a farmer of Gilead, Maine; m. Nov
28, 1805, Elizabeth
Wight of Gilead. b. Jan 17, 1782. Children:
1. Eri Stearns
b. June 19, 1806.
2. Joel Stearns
b. Dec 6, 1807; died Sept 9, 1831.
3. Eliza Stearns
b. Mar 23, 1809; m. Sept 23, 1833, Aaron Conner of Gilead.
Children:
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1. Frances Mahala Connor b. April 7, 1834; d. August, 1836.
2. Ophila Connor, b. June 6, 1835.
3. Joel Connor b. May 20, 1835; d. October, 1842.
4. Frances Mahala Connor (again) b. Aug 4, 1839.
5. Madison Connor b. Jan 18, 1842.
6. Nathan Connor b. April 12, 1844.
4. Rufus Stearns
b. April 19, 1811; a farmer of Gilead; m. Ann Connor. Children:
1. Ann Eliza Stearns b. Aug 6, 1837.
2. Joseph Stearns b. May 6, 1839; died November, 1842.
3. Joseph Stearns b. July 27, 1842.
5. Olive Stearns
b. April 7, 1813; m. Oct 28, 1834, Daniel Connor of Gilead.
1. Elizabeth Connor b. Sept 2, 1836; died October 1842.
2. Josiah Connor b. Mar 8, 1838.
3. Sarah Connor b. Mar 18, 1840.
4. Albalinah Connor b. May 4, 1842.
11. Mary Stearns b. January, 1784; m. 1805, Winchester Macomber of Jay;
ten children.
12. Isaac Stearns b. Jan 12, 1786; m. Feb 11, 1812, Ann Wight of Newry,
Maine. In 1834
he moved to Elmira, New York where his wife, Ann
died 1837. He m. again, and settled
on Rock River, Illinois where he died August 1845.
Children:
1. Daniel
Stearns b. Sept. 5, 1812 - died.
2. Anna Stearns
b. Aug 6, 1814 - died.
3. Isaac Stearns
b. Nov 12, 1816.
4. Dorcas
Stearns b. Dec 18, 1818; died on Rock River, August, 1845.
5. Mary Stearns.
6. John Stearns.
7. Harriet
Stearns.
To be continued - Part 53 - Capt. Phinehas Stearns of Watertown &
1st wife, Hannah Bemis &
2nd wife Esther Sanderson.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 53.
p.515 Capt. Phinehas Stearns of Watertown, a participant in
the Boston Tea Party.
Captain Phinehas Stearns, b. Feb 5, 1735/6; d. Mar 27, 1798, son of
Josiah Stearns of
Watertown and his 1st wife, Susanna Ball dau of James & Elizabeth
(Fiske) Ball. Captain
Phinehas Stearns, a farmer and blacksmith of Watertown, was a soldier
at Lake George, 1756,
and was among the earliest to take up arms in the Revolution. He
commanded a company on
Dorchester Heights, when the British evacuated Boston.
He, with Samuel Barnard, (a Major in the Revolutionary Army), and John
Randall, all of
Watertown, were of the "Boston Tea Party" and assisted in that renowned
transaction.
All three listed:
Boston Tea Party Participants
http://members.aol.com/massdar/Massachusetts_DAR/tp_hist.htm
He was offered a Colonel's commission but the care of his young
children, upon the death of
his wife, and of a family of apprentices and journeymen, prevented his
continuing in the
public service after the British left Boston. He was
distinguished for his benevolent and
cheerful disposition which was strong marked in his open & manly
countenance. This, with
his good sense and strict integrity, made him a favourite of all who
knew him. He m. 1767,
Hannah Bemis, b. June 22, 1749, eldest daughter of Capt. Jonathan &
Huldah (Livermore)
Bemis of Watetown. He m. (2) Nov 23, 1780, Esther Sanderson b.
Feb 24, 1747, dau of
Jonathan & Mary (Bemis) Sanderson - a cousin of his first
wife. She died 1793. Children:
1. Hannah Stearns b. April 28, 1768; m. May 21, 1789, Henry Bond.
He died Mar 27, 1796,
leaving two children. His widow m. (2) May, 1798,
Zebedee Rose, a farmer and carpenter,
of Livermore by whom she had two children. She died
August 12, 1803. Children;
1. Henry Bond.
2. Hannah Bond.
3. Zebedee Rose b. Nov 30, 1799, a millwright & farmer, of
Livermore; m.
April 23, 1827, Harriet Gardner Gibbs, dau. of Capt. Jacob & Sarah
(Hathaway) Gibbs. Children:
1. Joseph Palmer Rose b. Feb 4, 1828; lost at sea, 1846.
2. Frances Floretta Rose, b. May 6, 1832.
3. Corilla Rose b. April 21, 1834.
4. Martha Gibbs Rose, b. Dec 13, 1836.
5. Sarah Delany Rose b. July 1, 1837.
6. Henry Bond Rose b. April 24, 1842.
4.
George Stearns Rose b. Feb 2, 1802; a farmer of Livermore; m. Oct. 1827,
Mary Francis b. in Weld, Maine July 22, 1804. children:
1. Hannah Bond Rose b. Dec 18, 1830.
2. Mary Elizabeth Rose b. Sept 22, 1836.
3. Ann Matilda Rose b. April 26, 1838.
4. George Volney Rose b. Jan 9, 1840.
2. Susanna Stearns b. Nov 24, 1769; died in Brookline, Mass. June 17,
1831; m. 1792, Capt.
Charles Bond; had eight children.
3. William Stearns bap. Jan. 6, 1771.
4. William Stearns (again) bap. February 26, 1773; died young.
5. George Washington Stearns b. Oct 27, 1781; d. Sept. 1836; was a
Captain and a trader of
Brookline, Mass.; m. March 23, 1808, Hannah Goddard, b.
Sept. 8, 1786; died 1829, dau of
Joseph & Mary (Aspinwall) Goddard of Brookline.
Children:
p.516
1. George Washington Stearns, Jr.
b. Dec 23, 1808; a farmer of Brookline; m. Mar 9,
1837, Harriet
Green Parker, b. Oct 26, 1814, dau of John Brooks Parker & wife,
Hannah Maria
Parker of Brighton, Mass. She d. Oct 28, 1838 and he m. (2), June
17, 1840
Caroline Eliza Parker, sister of his first wife, she b. Oct 6, 1819.
1. Harriet Augusta Stearns b. April 2, 1838.
2. George Theodore Stearns b. April 16, 1841.
3. Eliza Goddard Stearns b. Sept 17, 1842.
4. Francis Gilbert Stearns b. Dec 27, 1843.
5. William Henry Stearns b. June 1, 1846.
2. John Goddard Stearns b. June
27, 1810; a manufacturer in New York City; m. May
1836, Eliza
Stearns, b. Oct 17, 1807; dau. of Charles and Nancy (Flagg) Stearns
of
Brookline. Children:
1. John Goddard Stearns, Jr., b. May 18, 1843.
2. George Marshall Stearns b. Dec. 24, 1845.
3. Benjamin Stearns b. 1813; died
1814.
4. Hannah Goddard Stearns b. Mar
18, 1815; unm.
5. Joseph Goddard Stearns b. May
24, 1819; a clerk in Boston; died Feb 6, 1849; m.
July 28, 1844,
Mary Eliza Twitchell Payne of Boston.
1. Joseph Goddard Stearns b. June 4, 1846.
6. Benjamin Stearns (again), b.
Jan 2nd; died July, 1821.
7. Mary May Stearns b. May 8,
1822; died 1827.
8. Lucy Elizabeth Stearns b. Sept
3, 1825; m. Sept 2, 1847, Francis Henry Corey, a
farmer of
Brookline, b.Jan 27, 1827, son of Elijah Corey, Jr. of Brookline.
6. Polly (Mary) Stearns, b. Dec 9, 1783; m. February, 1803, John Gibbs,
a farmer of Liver-
more, Maine, the eldest son of Deacon Pelatiah Gibbs of
Livermore. Children:
1. Pelatiah Gibbs b. Jan. 7, 1804; m. Dec 7, 1837, Anna Norton, b. Oct.
23,
1809, dau. of Rev. Ransom Norton of Livermore. Children:
1. Emma N. Gibbs b. April 29, 1839.
2. Charles Gibbs b. Feb 28, 1841.
3. Abby L. Gibbs b. Nov 16, 1844.
4. Ransom Norton Gibbs b. January; died April, 1847.
2. Lucy Stearns Gibbs, b. Oct. 12, 1805; m. May 3, 1849, Thomas
Seaverns,
widower of her sister, Sarah (below).
3. Sarah Gibbs b. Mar 27, 1808; d. Nov 11, 1847; m. Mar 7, 1834,
Thomas
Seaverns of Brookline. Children:
1. Charles T. Seaverns b. Mar 22, 1836.
2. Henry Gibbs Seaverns b. July 22, 1839.
3. Sarah E. Seaverns b. Aug 6, 1843.
4. Mary Seaverns b. Sept 19, 1847.
4. Mary Gibbs b. Jan 3, 1810; died in Quincy, Illinois, Oct. 21, 1848,
unm.
5. Susan Gibbs b. April 9, 1811; unm.
6. Henry Bond Gibbs, b. Nov 18, 1813; a farmer of Quincy, Illinois, m.
Mar.
12, 1840, Abby Ann Green, of New York; who died Mar 27, 1848. Children:
1. Martha Gibbs, b. May 29, 1842.
2. Rhoda E. Gibbs b. Oct 5, 1843.
3. Mary L. Gibbs, b. Feb 1; died July, 1846.
4. John H. Gibbs, b. Aug. 7, 1847; died February, 1848.
7. John Gibbs, b. Sept 29, 1815; of Brookline, Mass., m. May 11, 1845,
Hannah Richardson, b. April 15, 1810, dau. of Thomas & Elizabeth
(Hall)
Richardson of Newton.
1. Mary E. Gibbs, b. January, died August, 1847.
8. Nancy Parker Gibbs b. April 20, 1817, unm.
9. Franklin Gibbs, b. April 13, 1819; of Boston; m. Oct 24, 1847,
Minerva J.
Marston, b. Feb 15, 1827; dau of David & Clarissa Marston of North
Hampton,
N.H.
10. George Stearns Gibbs, b. Nov 23, 1820; a farmer of Quincy,
Illinois, m.
May 26, 1849, Hannah Carver b. in Livermore, March 22, 1819.
11. Charles Gibbs, b. August 9, 1823; died of scarlet fever, April 22,
1833.
12. Phinehas Stearns Gibbs, b. oct 1,1825 on his father's homestead.
13. Hannah Bond Gibbs, b. July 15, 1827; m. June 17, 1846, Isaac Noyes,
a
farmer of Augusta, Maine, born in Liston, Maine, June 28, 1810.
7. Lucy Stearns, b. July 21, 1786; m. 1808, Capt. Robert Sharpe Davis,
a farmer of Brookline
Mass. b. May 5, 1785; d.Aug 27, 1821; son of Ebenezer and
Lucy (Sharpe) Davis of Brook-
line.
footnote:
Ebenezer Davis of Brookline, Mass. the son or grandson of
Deacon Ebenezer Davis of Boston
who m. Sarah White about 1730, m. (1) 1782, Lucy Sharpe,
b.June 10, 1757, dau. of Major
Robert Sharpe, and grand daughter of Capt. Robert Sharpe
of Brookline. Two children. He
m. (2) Oct 13, 1791, Lucy Aspinwall b. Mar 27, 1767, dau
of Thomas & Lucy Aspinwall & a
niece of Dr. William Aspinwall. He died July 8, 1806
and his widow m. (2) James Holden.
Children:
1. Sarah Davis who died May 18, 1808, unm.
2. Robert Sharpe Davis b.May 9, 1785; a
Captain, of Brookline, m. Jan. 1808, Lucy
Stearns (above) He succeeded
to the farm of his father, which was covered with
beautiful mansions and
gardens, and know as Linden Place. He also inherited valu-
able land from Mr. Samuel
Craft who m. Susanna Sharpe, a sister of his mother and
who died.
By his 2nd wife, Lucy Aspinwall he had:
3. Lucy Davis b. Aug 21, 1792; m. April 13,
1814, Henry Gardner of Charlestown.
4. Elizabeth Aspinwall Davis b. Dec 16, 1793;
died 1798.
5. Ebenezer Davis b. July 21, 1794; died 1802.
6. Increase Sumner Davis b. May 6, 1796; a
clergyman in Wentworth, N.H.
7. Thomas Aspinwall Davis, b. Dec 11, 1798; of
Boston, a dealer in plate and jewelry,
and Mayor of Boston, who m.
Sarh the eldest dau. of William Jackson, Esq., of Newton
8. Elizabeth Aspinwall Davis b. April 5, 1801;
d. 1816.
9. Ebenezer Davis b. July 19, 1804; res. in
Maine.
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Lucy Stearns who m. Capt. Robert Sharpe Davis, b. May 6,
1785; died Aug 27, 1821, son of
Ebenezer and Lucy (Sharpe) Davis of Brookline. She
m. (2) Jan 19, 1829, Deacon Elijah
Corey of Brookline. Children:
1. Samuel Craft
Davis b. Feb 18, 1809; a merchant of St. Louis, of the firm of
Davis, Richardson & Tilden; m. Aug 30, 1840, Caroline Tilden of
Brookline.
2. Robert Sharpe
Davis Jr. b. jan 1, 1811; a publisher and bookseller of Boston;
m. Sept 13, 1837, Mary H. Shannon, dau of John & Sarah (Blunt)
Shannon of
Portsmouth, N.H.; resided in Brookline.
3. Sarah Davis
b. Sept 24, 1812; m. June 24, 1834, Rev. Grover Smith Constock,
son the the Hon. and Rev. Oliver C. Comstock, M.D. of Rochester,
N.Y. They
sailed, June 2, 1834, to join the Baptist Mission in the Birman empire.
She
died April 28, 1843 at Ramtree, Arrican, of dysentery and he died April
27,
1844 at Abyud, Arrican of cholera, leaving a son and a daughter.
4. Lucy Stearns
Davis b.jan 26, 1816; m. Sept. 21, 1843, Daniel Rogers b. in
Alton, N.H.; a merchan of Boston and a resident of Brookline.
5. Phinehas
Stearns Davis, b. June 23, 1818; m. April 26, 1847, Elizabeth Lambert
of Boston. He was a partner in business with his brother, Robert
S. Davis of
the firm, R. S. Davis & Company.
To be continued - Part 54 - David Stearns, Jr. of Lunenburg & his
wife Mary Low (who m. (2)
Jedediah Easterbrook.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 54.
p.517
David Stearns, Jr. b. Jan 8, 1743/4, son of Rev. David Stearns of
Lunenburg, Mass. and wife,
Ruth Hubbard (who m. (2) Rev. Aaron Whitney). David Stearns, Jr. of
Lunenburg, m. Oct 20,
1763, Mary Low. He died July 14, 1773 and his widow m. (2) 1776,
Jedediah Easterbrook.
Children:
1. David Stearns b. April 14, 1765; died June 1766.
2. Davis Stearns (again) b. 1766; a clerk, and afterwards a partner of
Mr. Soley, a merchant
of Charlestown, Mass. - the firm of Soley and
Stearns. He m. Oct 30, 1796, Catherine
Cochran b. October, 1775, dau of William & Mary
Cochran of Watertown and he d. a few
years after of a fever. Children:
1. Mary Morris Stearns
b. 1799.
2. Catherine Cochran
Stearns b. 1801; m. 1826, John Eichbaum of Nashville, Tenn.
3. Mary Stearns b. May 9, 1768; died April 5, 1776 of scarlet fever.
4. Thomas Stearns b. June, 1769; died April 11, 1776 of scarlet fever.
To be continued Part 55 - Jonathan Stearns, Esq., Salem &
wife, Mehitable Robie.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 55.
p.517
Jonathan Stearns, Esq., b. April 19, 1751, son of Rev. David Stearns of
Lunenburg, Mass. &
his wife, Ruth Hubbard (p.466). He grad. Harvard Coll. 1770; died in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
May, 1798 - was a Loyalist. He studied law with Colonel
Worthington of Springfield, Mass.,
a gentleman of much distinction in his day, and a Royalist. Mr.
Stearns imbibed the principles of his preceptor, and at the beginning
of the Revolution, was obliged to leave
town. He went to Westminster, Vermont, where he rendered himself
obnoxious by the stand he
took, when the people undertook to stop Tory courts. After being
secreted several days in
the house of his brother-in-law, Judge Sparhawk of Walpole, N.H., he
went to New York and
became a Judge Advocate in the British army. From New York he
went to Halifax, Nova Scotia
where he became eminent in his profession. At the time of his
decease, May 23, 1798 he held
the office of Solicitor-General, for the Province of Nova Scotia.
The following account is
taken from an obituary notice of him, published at the time:
"Possessed of a firm and inde-
pendent mind, enriched by a liberal education, and a thorough
acquaintance with the laws of
the country, his political course was marked with an unacommodating
integrity. As a prof-
essional man, he pursued the interests of his clients with the most
indefatigable persever-
ance;
p.518
and, in his legislative capacity, he rendered th most important
services to this Province,
by his uniform endeavour to promote its interests and
prosperity." He m. Mehitable Robie,
dau. of Thomas and Mary Robie, who had been compelled to flee Salem,
Mass. to Halifax, on
account of their political sentiments. Mr. Robie had been a
merchant of Salem, whither he
returned and lived to a very advanced age. Mehitabel (Robie)
Stearns died in 1801 or 1802,
after which the children of Mr. Stearns resided with their grandparents
in Salem, Mass.
1. Harriet Stearns b. June 27, 1786; died in Boston,
Mass., November 1818, unm.
2. Mary Stearns b. Sept 4, 1787; died in Boston, Mar 30,
1814; unm.
3. William Stearns b. & died in infancy.
4. Charlotte Stearns, died in infancy.
5. William Stearns, b. Mar 13, 1792; obtained an
academical education at Exeter Academy,
N.H., returned to Halifax about 1807 and
soon after entered the British Navy on board
H. B. M. ship, Bellone, 74 guns, and
after a cruise of several months, part of the
time in Chesapeake Bay, he quit the
naval service, commenced the study of law with his
uncle, Robie, of Halifax until 1820,
when he settled in Liverpool, Nova Scotia where
he remained till he died. He m. in
Liverpool, July 20, 1824, Margaret J. Power who d.
August 28, 1826 and he m. (2) June 28,
1828, Amelia Caroline Calkins. Children:
1.
Harriet Stearns b. Nov. 11, 1825; d. 1831.
2.
Margaret Stearns b. April 22, 1829.
3.
Eliza Stearns b. Aug 13, 1830.
4.
Robie Sewall Stearns b. Feb 8, 1832.
5.
william Henry Stearns b. Aug 15, 1833.
6.
Edward Stearns b. Dec 20, 1834.
7.
Anne Stearns b. Jan 5, 1837.
8.
Henry Stearns b. Nov 20, 1838.
9.
Thomas Calkins Stearns b. August; died September, 1840.
10. Amelia
Caroline Stearns b. Aug 25, 1841.
11. a twin
12. a
twin; daughters, born and died April, 1843.
6. Eliza Stearns b. April 25, 1793; d. Feb 2, 1813;
unm.
7. Henry Stearns b. May 11, 1794; bred a merchant at
Salem, Mass., res. at Springfield
Mass., an agent for insurance
companies. He m. Feb 28, 1826, Sophia, the 3rd dau.
of James S. Dwight, Esq., of
Springfield. Children:
1.
Mary Sewall Stearns b. Mar 15, 1827; d. Feb 26, 1829.
2.
Mary Sewall Stearns (again) b. Feb 12, 1829.
3.
Elizabeth Robie Stearns b. Dec 16, 1830.
4.
Henry Robie Stearns b. Mar 29, 1834, d. June 10, 1838.
5.
Joseph Sewall Dwight Stearns b. Feb 11, 1837; d. Mar 3, 1838.
6.
Sophia Dwight Stearns b. May 2, 1840.
7.
Henry Stearns b. January 2, died April 5, 1843.
8. Anne Stearns b. May 30, 1795; died Dec 24, 1835,
unm.
9. Caroline Stearns b. Sept 3, 1797; d. Oct 15,
1820, unm.
10. Jonathan Stearns b. Sept 3, 1798; died 1804.
To be continued Part 56 - p.519 - Jonas Stearns & wife, Submit
Davis of Lunenburg, Mass. &
and Chesterfield, N.H.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
Subject:
Stearns
Source: Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early
Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Includes Waltham and Weston -
by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860.
Part 56 of 56 Parts.
p.519
Jonas Stearns b. Feb 27, 1737/8, son of Josiah Stearns of Watertown
& his 1st wife, Susanna
Ball. Jonas Stearns m. in Lunenburg, May 14, 1758, submit Davis
b. 1742. About 1763, he
moved to Chesterfield, N.H., where he died, Sept 13, 1782. She
died in Marlboro, VT. Feb.
24, 1815. He was a cabinet-maker, and a deacon of the Congregational
Church. Children:
1. Samuel Stearns b. in Lunenburg, Mass., May 14, 1759; m. Aug 16,
1782, Sarah Davis of
Chesterfield, N.H. b. Nov 16, 1764. She died in childbed,
June 22, 1805. He m. (2),
Mar 25, 1806 Lydia Preston. She d. Feb 28, 1820. He m.
(3), in 1820, Hannah Hildreth.
She d. Nov 1841 and he died Jan. 15, 1844. Children:
p.520 1. Samuel Stearns b. Oct 2, 1784.
2. Sally
Stearns b. Aug 30, 1787.
3. Sophia
Stearns b. April 10, 1793.
4. Squire
Sewall Stearns b. Feb 9, 1794; died 1795.
5. Squire
Sewall Stearns (again) b. Dec 1, 1795.
6.
Stephanus Stearns b. Sept 18, 1799; d. 1800.
7. Celesta
Stearns b. Dec 29, 1800.
8. Seraph
Stearns b. Feb 5, 1803.
9. Serena
Stearns b. June 13, died July 4, 1805.
By his 2nd wife, Lydia Preston, Samuel Stearns had:
10. Laman
Stearns b. Feb 18, 1807; d. June, 1830.
11. Abiathar
Stearns b. Nov 27, 1809.
12. Preston
Stearns b. Mar 20, 1811.
13. Lydia
Stearns b. Oct 23, 1815.
14. Jeremiah D.
Stearns b. May 15, 1818; d. March, 1819.
2. Jonas Stearns b. in Shirley, Mass., Sept 9, 1761; d. Oct. 19, 1773.
3. Susanna Stearns b. in Chesterfield, May 6, 1764; m. May 30, 1794,
Guy Hills, tanner,
currier and cordwainer of Argyle, Washington Co.,
N.Y. children:
1. Alva S.
Hills, b. Mar 8, 1795; married & had children:
1. Hyatt G. of Ava. N.Y.
2. Mary S. of Pottstown, N.Y.
3. Alva S.
2. Samuel
D. Hills b. Mar 11, 1797; m. June 7, 1820, Elizabeth ____. He died
Jan. 31, 1842, leaving widow Elizabeth and 7 children in Pottstown, N.Y.
3. Susan
M. Hills, b. Aug 1, 1799, m. October, 1822, Edward S. Eddy of Rome,
N.Y.
4.
Arethusa M. Hills, b. July 15, 1802; m. Aug 9, 1828, Jacob Moiser of
LaGrange,
Indiana.
5. Polly
S. Hills, b. Aug 26, 1804; m. Dec 1, 1824, Charles A. Oaks of Rose,
Wayne Co., N.Y.
6. Minerva
Hills b. Aug 25, 1807 m. Mar 15, 1831, Daniel Higby; lived as widow
of Hoosick Falls, N.Y.
7. Eliza
R. Hills, b. May 18, 1810; m. Aug 21, 1828, Daniel M. Green of Rome,
N.Y., later of Verona Mills.
4. Amos Stearns b. in Chesterfield, July 10, 1766; of Marlboro, VT., m.
Aug 19, 1790,
Lucy Fletcher of Chesterfield, N.H. He died May 15,
1829 and his wife Lucy died
Dec 11, 1809. Children:
1.
Nancy Stearns b. Dec 14, 1791; a widow, Berrons of Marlboro, VT.
2.
Lucy Stearns b. April 21, 1802; a widow, Ball, of Marlboro, VT.
5. Abijah Stearns b. in C., Jan 22, 1769; m. Lydia Davis and moved to
Windsor, Vt; left
the country and not heard of since. His widow and son
Loren Stearns then lived in
Windsor.
6. Submit Stearns b. in C. Sept. 2, 1771; m. July 14, 1793, Jeremiah
Day of Elizabethtown,
U.C. Children:
1. Betsey Day.
2. Luke Day.
3. John Russell Day.
4. David W. Day.
5. Jonathan B. Day.
6. Polly R. Day.
7. Sally Day.
8. Samuel S. Day.
9. Laura S. Day.
10.
Nancy s. Day.
7. Sarah Stearns b. in C., Feb 6, 1774; m. ____ Lawrence. She, a
widow, res. at Day, N.Y.,
with her sons, Steward Lawrence and Franklin Lawrence.
8. Relief Stearns b. in C. Jan 29, 1777; m. Feb 11, 1800, Judah Higby
b. July 1777; She d.
Nov 16, 1849 and he d. April 12, 1851. Children:
1.
Relief Higby b. Jan 21, 1801; m. Mar 8, 1825, Asaph Knapp of Dover, VT.
then
of Marlboro, VT.
2.
Lovina Higby b. May 6, 1803.
3.
Selah Higby b. May 4, 1805; m. Jan 28, 1832, Eliza Wenzell.
4.
Daniel Higby b. April 5, 1807; d. June 27, 1839; m. Mar 15, 1831
Minerva
Hills.
5.
Elijah Higby b. April 1, 1809; m. Dec 20, 1833, Roxana Adams of
Wilmington,
VT.
6.
Polly Higby b. May 16, 1811.
7.
Warren Higby b. June 6, 1813; m. Sept 24, 1835, Roxelany Yaw of Dover,
Vt.
8.
Betsey Higby b. Nov 20, 1815; d. Aug 29, 1817.
9. Polly Stearns b. in C., Sept 22, 1780; m. Daniel Miller, settled 1st
in Guilford, Vt.,
thence to Concord, N.Y., thence to Yorkville, Kalamazoo
County, Michigan, where she then
lived as a widow with her sons. One of her
daughters, Mary, m. ____ Lawrence and became
a widow.
10. Jonas Boardman Stearns b. Jan 25, 1783; of Chesterfield, N.H. m.,
July 1, 1803, Polly
Page of C. He moved to Somerset, VT., April 1840 and
d. Feb 6, 1846. Children:
1. Elvira
Stearns b. Sept 10, 1804; m. Oct 22, 1828, Hiram Knapp of Dover, Vt.
later of Stratton, VT.
2. Mary A.
Stearns b. July 7, 1806; d. Feb 6, 1846; m. April 29, 1840, Erastus
Estabrook of Dover, then of Somerset, VT.
End
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
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