Genealogies of the Families  and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, 
Mass. by Henry Bond, M.D.  Boston, 1860.

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                    2. William b. July 18, 1814, teacher in Galena, Ill; m. Jan 
14, 1841,
                       Clemena Owen.
                    3. John K.  b. Oct 1, 1816, of Galena Ill; m. Dec 29, 1842, 
Mary
                       Adelia Coville.
                    4. Joseph M., b. Aug 5, 1818; died Sept 12, 1835 in Ohio.
                    5. Lucy, b. July 25, 1819; d. Feb 28, 1840; m. Sept 3, 1836, 
William
                       William Dodge.
                    6. Charles b. Sept 23, 1820; of Illinois.
                    7. Daniel b. Sept 1, 1823 of Illinois.
                    8. Harriet E. b. May 7, 1826.
                    9. George E. b. May 20, 1833.
  
   4. Irene Mason b. in Walpole Feb 7, 1792; d. Feb 6, 1797.
   5. Ruth b. in Pomfret, VT Aug 26, 1793; d. Nov 12, 1804.
   6. Catherine, b. in Walpole July 18, 1795, d April 12, 1813.
   7. Martin Mason b. July 16, 1797, m. Sept. 25, 1828 Mary Stuart, b. Dec 22, 
1804, young-
      est dau of Benjamin & Sara Barker (friends).  She died in childbed Jan 22, 
1843; he
      m. (2) Dec 5, 1843 Betsey Angela Winson, widow of Sylvester Hobart and dau 
of  John
      and Betsey Winson of Homer, NY.  He studied medicine; M.D., Castleton 
Medical School,
      1826; settled first in Easton, Washington Co., and afterwards in Gaines, 
Orleans Co.
      N.Y., made Justice of the Peace 1830 and had been President of the Orleans 
Co. Medical
      Society.  In 1847 he removed to Michigan.  Children:
             1. Alexander Hamilton Mason b. in Easton, Nov. 7, 1829.
             2. Sarah Jane Mason b. May 5, 1834 in Gaines.
             3. Eugene Barker Mason b. in Gaines Sept 19, 1838.
             4. Mary Elizabeth Mason b. in Gaines Jan 16; died Aug 22, 1843.
   8. Irene Mason b. July 16, 1799, died in childbed Feb 5, 1834; m. Dec 12, 
1826,
      Leonard Everett, Esq., merchant, Canton, Mass., a widower.  Children:
             1. Joseph Mason Everett b.Jan 6, 1828.
             2. Henry Webster Everett b. Mar 29, 1829; d. Dec 12, 1832.
             3. Henry Otis Everett b. Feb 3, 1834.
   9. Holland Mason b. July 31, 1801, a teacher and a farmer; m. May 15, 1827, 
Susan 
      Veazie of Braintree. Children:
             1. Charles Holland Mason b. in Dorchester, Mass, Mar 4, 1828; d. 
Jan 1829.
             2. Thaddeus Harris Mason b. in Dorchester, Oct 10, 1830; d. April 
1833.
             3. George Henry Mason b. in Walpole, N.H. Nov 14, 1832; d. Jan, 
1833.
             4. Rufus Henry Mason b. Jan 9, 1834.
             5. Urania Crosby Mason b. July 7, 1836.
             6. Emily Jane Mason b. Dec 25, 1838.
             7. Caroline Otis Mason b. Oct 20, 1841.
             8. Harriet Ormsby Mason b. July 23, 1844.
   10. Josiah Flint Mason b. May 22, 1803; a Methodist minister.
   11. Ruth Wheeler Mason b. July 14, 1804; d. Sept 22, 1825.
   12. Emeline Mason b. July 13, 1808; m. Sept 10, 1834, Leonard Everett, Esq., 
of Canton,
       Mass., widow of her sister Irene.  Children:
             1. William Webster Everett b. May 19, 1835.
             2. Sarah Emeline Everett b. on the 20th; died May 23, 1840.
             3. Caroline Irene Everett b. July 21, 1843.
             4. Edward Everett b. Jan 28, 1846.
   13. William Bond Mason b.Sept 18, 1810, m. June 1, 1841, Mary Jane Emerson of 
Walpole,
       b. Feb. 5, 1822; died in Brookfield, VT April 30, 1846.  Children:
             1. George Henry Mason b. and d. Oct 1842.
             2. Ursula Josephine Mason b. in Brookfield Mar 31, 1844; d. Mar 16, 
1846.
             3. Charles Crosby Mason b. Feb 28 and d. Aug 9, 1846.
    14. Rufus Putnam Mason b. Oct 25, 1823; lived in Northampton, Michigan; m. 
May 25,
        1840 Caroline, dau of Isaac Otis, Esq., then of Philadelphia.

6. Mary Mason m. Josiah Biscoe and settled in Paris, Maine.

7. Elizabeth Mason b. Sept 2, 1755 m. Nov 7, 1780 Deacon Reuben Putnam, a house 
carpenter of
   Sutton, b. April 9, 1757; died June 12, 1797.  Children:
      1. Aaron Putnam b. Aug 29, 1781; m. Aug 29, 1813, Lucy Carpenter b. May 
17, 1792, dau
         of Nathaniel & Abigail Carpenter of Douglass, Mass., where he settled.  
Children:
             1. John Milton Putnam b. May 28, 1814 of Sutton; m. Aug 6, 1835, 
Harty Mason
                b. 1817 dau of William Mason of Northbridge.  Children:
                    1. Martha Ann Putnam b. April 29, 1836.
                    2. Sabrina C. Putnam b. Aug 10, 1837.
                    3. Harty C. Putnam b. Oct 29, 1843.
              2. Nathaniel Carpenter Putnam b. Aug 23, 1818; d. Feb 6, 1839.
              3. William Mason Putnam b. Nov 4, 1821.
              4. Thomas Gordon Putnam b. Dec 23, 1823; d. April 29, 1842.
              5. Elizabeth Putnam b. Feb 17, 1826 m. Nov 24, 1842, James H. 
Goodale b.
                 June 19, 1814 son of David Goodale, Jr., and settled in 
Douglass.
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       2. Jonas Putnam b. Mar 5, 1783; d. 1809, a house carpenter.
       3. Mason Putnam b. Dec 20, 1784 a bookbinder of Boston; m. in Boston May 
19, 1808 
          Alona Holbrook b. Aug 17, 1786 dau of Jonathan Holbrook, a surveyor of 
Sherburne.
          She d. in Boston Dec 21, 1827 and he m. (2) Aug 7, 1833 Sophia Wood b. 
Dec 27,
          1788 dau of Ebenezer Wood of Washington, N.H.  Children:
              1. Maria Alona Putnam b. in Mendon Nov 18, 1808; m. in Boston, 
April 2, 1832
                 Henry Holman, a printer of Roxbury b. Oct 24, 1808 son of 
Samuel Holman of
                 Salisbury, VT.  Children:
                      1. Henry Mason Holman b. in Boston Feb 6, 1833.
                      2. Warren Quincy Holman b. in Boston Aug 7, 1835.
                      3. Harriet Maria Holman b. in Roxbury Sept 14, 1842.
               2. Sarah Elizabeth Putnam b. in Holliston April 22, 1810.
               3. Hannah Holbrook Putnam b. in Medway Feb 14, 1812; m. July 2, 
1834,
                  William Quincy, Merchant of Boston.     
               4. Harriet Jane Putnam b. in Roxbury May 7, 1814.
               5. Edward Mason Putnam b. in Roxbury May 2, 1816, a bookbinder.
               6. Matilden Golden Putnam b. in Roxbury Sept 19, 1818 d. Oct 1, 
1819.
               7. George Washington Putnam b. in Roxbury Aug 21, 1820; a 
silversmith.
               8. John Prince Putnam b. in Dover, Mass., Aug 25, 1822.

       4. Manning Putnam b. April 12, 1787; died Oct 29, 1838, a saddler, went 
to Marietta
          Ohio about 1805, where he resided some time with his cousin, General 
Rufus Putnam,
          afterwards went to Putnam, Muskingum County, Ohio, where he m. April 
9, 1809,
          Nancy Harer b. Jan 16, 1796, dau of Jacob & Mary Harer.  She died June 
25, 1828
          and he m. (2) June 4, 1829, Sarah Myers b. Oct 28, 1806, dau of Jacob 
& Elizabeth
          Myers of Putnam, Ohio.   Children:
               1. & 2. twins b. and d. July, 1813.
               3. Elizabeth Putnam b. April 16, 1817; m. Nov 5, 1835 Ezer 
Dillon, Jr., M.D.,
                  of Putnam, son of Ezer and Elizabeth Dillon of Belmont, Ohio. 
Children:
                         1. Mary P. Dillon b. Aug 12, 1836
                         2. Charles M. Dillon b. Sept 1, 1840.
               4. Mary Putnam b. Sept 4, 1819; d. Feb 2, 1823.
               5. Arethusa Putnam b. Dec 6, 1835.
               6. Martha Putnam b. Nov 7, 1838.

       5. Rufus Putnam b. Aug 1, 1789; d. Aug 22, 1791.

       6. Rufus Austin Putnam b. Nov 18, 1791; grad. Harvard Univ. 1822; pastor 
of a 
          Congregational church, first in Fitchburg and now (1848) in Cornish, 
N.H.; m.
          May 12,1825 Frances Hichborn Porter b. May 8, 1796, dau of Samuel and 
Sarah
          (Patch) Porter of Worcester.  Children:
               1. Rufus Austin Putnam Jr. b. Mar 12, 1826
               2. Samuel Porter Putnam b. June 1, 1827; d. Feb 1, 1831.
               3. Sarah Elizabeth Putnam b. Dec 14, 1828; d. Sept 21, 1829.
               4. Sarah Maria Porter Putnam, b. Oct 12, 1830; d. Jan 28, 1846.
               5. Frances Harriet Putnam b. Mar 3, 1834; d. Aug 22, 1838.
               6. Charles Gutzlaff Putnam b. Sept 4, 1835 d. Aug 23, 1838.
               7. Caroline Elizabeth Putnam b. Nov 1, 1836.
               8. Samuel Porter Putnam b. July 23, 1838.
               9. Frances Ellen Putnam b. June 18, 1840.

        7. John Milton Putnam b. Feb 26, 1794, educated at Brown Univ. but on 
account
           of ill health left before graduating; now pastor of the 
Congregational church
           in Dunbarton, N.H.; m. Jan 29, 1821, Arethusa Brigham b. Oct 2, 1792, 
dau of
           David & Lucy (Harrington) Brigham of Westboro.   Children:
               1. Jane Brigham Putnam b. Nov 19, 1821; d. Sept 11, 1824.
               2. Carleton Elliot Putnam b. July 21, 1823 d. Aug 29, 1824.
               3. Milton Augustus Putnam b. June 13, 1825; d. Aug 25, 1826.
               4. Antoinette Maria Putnam, b. Oct. 12, 1827; d. Aug 7, 1828.
               5. Antoinette Brigham Putnam b. May 17, 1829.
               6. Henry Milton Putnam b. June 10, 1831.
               7. George Alanson Putnam b. Aug 7, 1833; d. Mar 1, 1834.
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		   8. George Augustus Putnam b. May 8, 1835.
 
        8. Johno Putnam b. July 26, 1796; d. Nov 26, 1797.

8. Elijah Mason son of Joseph Mason, Jr. & wife, Grace Bond (p.358) b. Oct 29, 
1757;
   was in the battle of Bunker Hill; now (1846) resides in West Woodstock, CT, 
unm.

9. Abigail Mason b. May 17, 1760; m. Feb 14, 1801; James Miles of Concord, Mass, 
s.p.
   Sutton.

10. Martha Mason b. Feb 21, 1762; m. Oct 16, 1782, Capt. Benjamin Putnam of 
Sutton.

11. Catherine Mason b. Oct 1, 1764; d. 1795; m. ___Dagget of Beverly, Mass.

12. William Mason b. Feb 9, 1769; d. Sept. 26, 1814; a pioneer of Ohio.

IV. NEHEMIAH MASON m. (1) Mar 28, 1754, Elizabeth Stone.  She d. April 2, 1755 
aged 32
    and he m. (2) Martha ____, who d. July 23, 1761 and he m. (3) April 17, 
1764, Rebecca
    Fillebrown.  Children:
        1. Daniel Mason b. Aug 15, 1757 by his wife Esther had in Watertown:
            1. Nehemiah Mason b. Aug 31, 1780
            2. Daniel Mason b. June 1, 1782.
            3. Samuel Mason b. 1783.
            4. Lewis Mason b. Feb 29, 1785.
            5. Azar Mason b. Dec 14, 1786
            6. Joel Mason b. Mar 3, 1788.
            7. Verlow Mason b. Mar 3, 179_.
        2. Hugh Mason b. Dec 23, 1758 m. June 10, 1782, Elizabeth Clarke and had 
at 
           Watertown:
             1. Martha Clarke Mason b. Dec 14, 1782.
             2. Richard Clarke Mason b. Feb 23, 1784.
             3. Joseph Mason b. April 16, 1786.
             4. Elizabeth Mason b. Nov 2, l787.
             5. Amos Mason b. Jan 3, 1789.
             6. Seth Mason b. Nov 24, 1790.
        3. Elizabeth Mason b. Dec 18, 1759; d. April 2, 1791; m. May 19, 1785, 
Col. Moses
           Coolidge of Watertown, as his 2nd wife.
        4. Joseph Mason b. July 4, 1761.
        5. Moses Mason b. July 24, 1764 of Watertown, a soldier of 10th Mass. 
Regt of 
           the Continental Army; m. Oct 9, 1786 Lucy Kingsbury.  Children:
              1. Isaac Mason b. Sept 5, 1787.
              2. Hannah Mason b. Feb 22, 1789.
              3. Moses and 4. Aaron Mason, twins, b. Jan 1, 1791.
        6. Sarah Mason b. Aug 21, 1766.
        7. Martha Mason b. Jan 5, 1768; m. April 18, 1792, Samuel Sawin.
        8. Rebecca Mason b. May 28, 1769.
        9. Aaron Mason b. April 13, 1773.

IV. Elias MASON m. May 3, 1753, Lydia BROWN and moved from Watertown to 
Woodstock, CT abt
1762.  Children:

1. Elijah b. Jan 25, 1754; m. Sally Child of Woodstock and settled in Pomfret, 
VT, after-
   wards in New Homer, N.Y.   Children:
         1. Josiah   2. Sally  3. Sophronia  4. Fanny  5. Joseph  6. Lydia  7.  
Lucy.

2. Sophia b. June 5, 1755; m. 1774 or 1775, Calvin Morse of Woodstock, and 
settled in
   Fairlie, VT and had 8 children, the youngest of whom, Sally Breese Morse m. 
her
   cousin, Leonard B. Mason; she d. before 1806. (see below)

3. Leonard b. Sept 6, 1756; d. Jan 1811; a tanner and currier and Deacon of 
Woodstock, m.
   May 4, 1781, Lucy Bond.  His widow m. 1824, Deacon Bartholomew Brown of 
Brimfield, who
   died 1829.  She died in Woodstock, June 4, 1843.  Children:
          1. William Bond Mason b. May 24, 1782.  He studied medicine, partly in 
attend-
             ance on Lectures in Dartmouth and was a member of the Mass. Medical 
Society.
             He m., Oct 1809, Mrs. Lydia Buckley of Colchester and settled in 
Dartmouth, MA
             Children:
                   1. Francis Worthington Mason b. Nov 4, 1810, unm.
                   2. Harriet Cornelia Mason b. Aug 3, 1817; m. Oct 17, 1839, 
James B.
                      Eaton - resided at Dartmouth.
          2. Lucretia Mason b. June 7, 1785, m. Jan 31, 1809 Philip Dean b. in 
Ashford,
             CT, Feb 17, 1781; d. Aug 1826 leaving 5 children:
                    1. Caroline Dean b. Dec 21, 1809; d. Sept 6, 1830.
                    2. Leonard Mason Dean b. Oct 22, 1811.
                    3. Ezra Dean b. Aug 31, 1813; m. Dec 13, 1837, Pamela Hobbs 
of
                       Sturbridge.
                    4. Lucretia Dean b. July 17, 1816; m. Sept 29, 1846, Rev. 
Darius
                       Gore, formerly of Sturbridge, Mass, then of Groveland, 
Illinois.
                    5. Hannah Allen Dean b. July 6, 1820.
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          3. Spencer Mason b. Mar 22; died April 3, 1789.
          4. Leonard Mason b. Dec 18, 1790; d. Feb 26, 1825; m. his cousin Sally 
Breese
             Morse of Fairlee, VT and had 5 children, unlisted. (see above)
          5. Elias Mason b. Jan 27, 1796; d. April 30, 1843 m. Nov 15, 1821, 
Elizabeth May
             of Woodstock.  Children:
                    1. Lucy Bond Mason b. April 16, 1824; m. Sept 25, 1844, John 
Augustine
                       Mason son of John Mason, formerly of Woodstock, then of 
Troy, NY;
                       and settled in Worcester, Mass.  She d. Sept 5, 1847 
leaving a son:
                           1. Charles Augustine Mason b. May 3, 1847.
                    2. Abby Chandler Mason b. Nov 6, 1828.  He was a tanner & 
currier and
                       was a member of the State Legislature.
          6. Lydia Brown Mason b. June and d. Oct 1798.
          7. Lucy Mason b. Janand d. March 1803.

4. Jonathan Mason son of Elias Mason & Lydia Brown b. Feb 2, 1758; m. Deborah 
Lyon of
   Woodstock and settled in Lyme, N.H.; a Justice of the Peace.  Children:
          1. Polly Mason m. Nathaniel Mann of Oxford.
          2. Jonathan Mason b. 1788 grad. Dartmouth College 1814; a counsellor 
at law,
             of Canandaigua, N.Y.
          3. Sally Mason
          4. Hannah Mason.

5. Joseph Mason son of Elias Mason & Lydia Brown, b. April 17, 1760; d. October 
1776 in the
   Revolutionary War

6. Spencer Mason b. Dec 5, 1761; d. Jan 1764.

7. Lydia Mason b. Nov 11, 1763; d. Dec 29, 1837; m. Jan 1778, Ebenezer Skinner 
of Woodstock,
   who d. June 4, 1837.   Children:
          1. Relecta Skinner b. Sept 1, 1788; unm.
          2. Lydia Skinner b. Aug 20, 1790; d. Oct 15, 1839, unm.
          3. George Skinner b. Nov 7, 1792; Justice of the Peace of Westford, 
Otsego County,
             N.Y.; m. May 1, 1822 Gracia Strong of Southampton, Mass., who d. 
1847.
          4. Ebenezer Skinner b. April 27, 1796; of Woodstock; m. April 4, 1826, 
Sophia
             Mason.
          5. Elias Mason Skinner b. Oct 28, 1798; m. Feb 6, 1834, Ann Mary 
Marvin of 
             Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he settled.
          6. Paraclete Skinner b. Aug 20, 1801; of Woodstock; m. July 14, 1828, 
Hannah
             Weaver.
          7. Sophia Skinner b. Aug 23, 1803; d. Oct 19, 1829, unm.
          8. Sabra Skinner b. Aug 3, 1805; m. June 14, 1826,  Asa Lyon of 
Woodstock.
          9. Waldo Skinner b. Octr 13, 1808,  m. May 4, 1841 Nancy S. Paine of 
Woodstock
             who d. Jan 1843 and he m. (2) April 1844, Mary Huntington and 
resided at
             Westford, Otsego Co., N.Y.


8. Marshall Mason son of Elias Mason and his wife, Lydia Brown Watertown & 
Woodstock, CT.

   Marshall Mason b. Oct 15, 1765 m. Polly Sessions of Pomfret, VT, where he 
resided several
   years; afterwards moved to Woodstock, VT, where he died. 

9. Elias Mason b. Dec 2, 1767 of Woodstock; m. June 8, 1797 Matilda Clarke of 
Woodstock
   who died April 14, 1827 and he d. Feb 13, 1836.  Children:
      1. Eliot b. Feb 25, 1798.
      2. Sophia b. Sept 3, 1799, m. April 4, 1826 her cousin, Ebenezer Skinner.
      3. Dolly b. Sept 9, 1801; m. Mar. 1825 Caleb Healey.
      4. Lucretia b. Feb 10, 1805; m. May 1832, Noah Griggs.
      5. Charles b. May 31, 1807; d. Aug 19, 1810.
      6. Clarke b. Nov 20, 1809.
      7. Mary b. Aug 8, 1812.
      8. Charles Dwight Mason b. Sept 24, 1815; m. Feb 1837, Louisa Nichols who 
d. Sept 3,
         1846 and he m. (2) Sept 2, 1847 Sarah Walker.
      9. Sarah Clarke b. July 26, 1821; m. May 27, 1847 Ira Carpenter.

10. Bradford Mason b. and d. Jan 1769.

11. Benjamin Mason b. and d. Jan. 1770.

12. Charles Mason b. Mar 15, 1772; a deacon and a farmer; m. 1793, Fanny 
Manning, who d.
    Feb. 1795 and he m. (2) 1796 her sister, Hannah Manning.  He died in 
Westford, N.Y.
    Jan 1845.  He had one son, Deacon John Mason.

IV. Ebenezer Mason m. Oct 15, 1760 Elizabeth Bright and moved to Spencer in the 
autumn of
    1764.  He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and was often employed in 
civil offices
    of responsibility.  He d. Mar 26, 1798, and his widow died Sept 18, 1812.



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Ebenezer Mason who m. Oct 15, 1760,  Elizabeth Bright and moved to Spencer in 
the autumn of 1764. He  was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and was often 
employed in civil offices  of responsibility.

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He died  Mar 26, 1798 and his widow died Sept. 18, 1812. (see also Draper's 
Hist.  of
Spencer, pp.37 and 142).    Children:
1. Ebenezer Mason b. at  Watertown Feb 18, 1761; m. at Spencer, Dec 22,  1785, 
Judith  White. He m. (2) Sept 2, 1794, Sally  Beers.
2. William Mason b. at  Watertown, Nov 30, 1762; m. July 7, 1791, Nancy White.
3. Enoch Mason b. at  Watertown, July 22, 1764; m. July 15, 1790, Elizabeth 
Biscoe.
4. Elliot Mason b. at  Spencer, Mar. 23, 1766.
5.  Elizabeth Mason b. Aug 18, 1772; m. Feb. 23, 1809, Moses  Hall.
6. Joseph Mason b. Dec 15,  1774; m. Mar 11, 1802, Elizabeth  White.
7. Susanna Mason b. Sept 9,  1777.
8. Isaac Mason b. Feb 5,  1782; m. Feb 19, 1805, Asenath Prouty.
3. Abigail Bright b. Feb 25, 1738 m.  William Soden of Cambridge.
 
Nathaniel Bright, a tanner, m. Sybil Stone b. Sept 29, 1727, dau. of Capt.  
Samuel & Abigail
(Reed) Stone of Sudbury, grandaughter of Deacon Samuel  & Dorcas (Jones) Stone 
and gr.gr.dr.
of Deacon Samuel & Sarah  (Stearns) Stone of Cambridge and gr. gr. gr. dr. of 
Deacon Gregory Stone of  Cambridge. He died Oct 21, 1754 and his widow m. (2) 
June 2, 1757, Samuel  White.
She died at Watertown May 12, 1809 aged 82 years.    Children:
 
1. Hannah Bright b. Feb 18, 1749; died Sept 15, 1807; m. April 22, 1772, Josiah 
Sanderson, of Waltham by whom she had four children.
 
2. Ann Bright b. Nov 24, 1750; d. Mar 14, 1784; m. June 17, 1773, Colonel Amos 
Bond of Watertown by whom she had six children.
 
3. Nathaniel Bright b. Aug 19, 1752; died July 16, 1785.
 
4. John Bright b. Feb 5, 1754; died Dec 31, 1840. There is a tradition in the 
family that his grand-uncle, John Bright for whom he was named, intended  to 
bequeath to him, his estate, but that he sickened and died before the Will  
could be executed, and that then the estate was divided according to law,  among 
his numerous legal heirs.


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Mary Mixer, dau. of Isaac Mixer and his first  wife, Mary Coolidge who
was the only dau. of John & Mary Coolidge. Mary  Coolidge died Mar 2, 1659-60.
Their daughter Mary Mixer b. May 18, 1656; m.  1680, George Munnings, Jr.

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p.371 [Morse]
 
[For a very copious genealogy of families of the name of Morse in this  
country
the reader is referred to that very valuable work, entitled,  "Memorial of the
Morses," by Rev. Abner Morse, published in Boston in 1850  with a large 
supple-
ment thereto published the ensuing year.  In  contains numerous biographical
and historical sketches and several portraits  of distinguished individuals. 
The
materials for the following brief genealogy  were collected several years 
previous 
to the date of that work, and the plan  of this work requires it to be
inserted here, on account of its numerous  connections with other Watertown
families. - author]
 
Joseph Morse, aged 24 years, embarked at Ipswich, England, April, 1634, in  
the
ship Elizabeth, William Andrews, Master.  His name is on the  earliest list of
proprietors of Watertown, and he was admitted freeman May 6,  1635. He was the
eldest son of Joseph & Deborah Morse, who came to  America probably a year or
two later and settled at Ipswich, Mass.
 
Joseph Morse m. Hester Peirce, dau. of John & Elizabeth Peirce of  Watertown.
The names of five of his children are found in the Watertown  records of 
births.
He had three other children, whose births are not  recorded.  He died March 4,
1690/1, and his estate was administered by  his son, John.  Children:
 
1. Joseph Morse b. April 30, 1637; m. Feb. 11, 1660, Susanna  Shattuck.  After
the birth of his 2nd child, he moved to Groton, Mass.  He died in 1677 and his
widow m. (2) at Watertown, July 5, 1678, John  Fay.  Children:
1.  Susanna Morse b. in Watertown Jan 11,  1662/3.
2. Hester Morse b.  in Watertown Sept. 11, 1664; died Aug 27,  1725;
m.  Feb 12, 1684/5, Nathaniel Josselyn of  Marlboro.
3. Joseph Morse  3d, born in Groton Nov. 11, 1667; m. in  Watertown,
Jan 20, 1690/1, Grace Warren. He moved to Marlboro, but at  what
time  has not been clearly ascertained. His children were born  in
Watertown and it is probable that it was his wife [?perhaps that  of
Joseph]  who was admitted to Mr. Angier's church.  Children:
1. Joseph Morse b. in Watertown Sept. 27, 1691; of Marlboro;  m.
Nov. 1, 1716, Abigail Barnes. Ten  children.
2. Grace Morse b. in Watertown June 7, 1694; m. 1716, Jacob  Hines
of  Marlboro.
3. Mary Morse born in Marlboro Oct 13, 1697; bap. in  Watertown,
June 12, 1698; m. Jan 6, 1718/19, James Maynard of  Marlboro.
4. Elizabeth Morse b. Jan 4th, bap. Mar 24, 1699/1700; m.  Aug.
8, 1717, Benjamin  Wood.
5. Jonas Morse b. July 25, 1703 in Marlboro, by his wife  Lucy
had six  children.
6. Patience Morse b. Oct. 30, 1705; died May 1, 1776; m.  Nov.
11, 1727, Deacon Jonathan Keyes of Boylston. Eleven  children.
4. Samuel  Morse b. Sept. 4, 1670 m. Grace ____.( she bap.  in               
Watertown Nov 20,  1698). The births & baptisms of several of  his
children are recorded in Watertown. He finally settled  in
Marlboro.  Children:
1. Joseph  Morse
2. Samuel Morse, b. in Watertown Jan 20,  1695/6.
3. Susanna Morse, b. in Watertown Dec 22,  1698.
4. Elizabeth Morse, bap. in Watertown Mar 24,  1699/70.
5. Grace Morse bap. in Watertown Aug 23,  1702.
6. Jacob Morse bap. in Watertown June 6,  1703.
7. Jonas Morse bap. in Watertown Oct 12,  1703.
8. Eunice  Morse.
9. Thankful Morse b. in Marlboro Oct 26,  1713.
5. Mary Morse b.  Feb. 11, 1671/2; m. July 23, 1694, John Barnard, Jr.  
Seven children.
6.  Hannah Morse b. April 7, 1674, m. 1701, John Newton of  Marlboro.
7. Jonathan  Morse of Marlboro, m. 1706, Mary How who died Dec  10,
1727 and he m. (2) 1729, Mary Church. She died Sept 2, 1750  and
he died 1754. Six children.
 
2. John Morse b. Feb. 28, 1639; admitted freeman May 15, 1672; died in  Water-
town July 23, 1702.  He m. (1) Anne Smith dau. of John Smith of  Lancaster,
where he first settled. He had two children by his wife Anne. He  soon 
returned
to Watertown where he m. (2) April 27, 1660, Abigail Stearns  who died Oct 16,
1690. He was elected June 30, 1697, one of the first deacons  of the second
church (Mr. Angier's Church)  Children:
 
    1. Lydia Morse b. April 6, 1660.
2. John Morse b. April 7, 1662; died soon
By his 2nd wife, Abigail Stearns,  John Morse had:
3. John Morse b.  May 10, 1667; died  soon
4. James Morse b. Nov 25, 1668; admitted to Mr.  Angier's church May 3,
1702; m. April  27, 1699, Abigail Morse. He was administrator of  his
father's estate and was guardian of  his brother Nathaniel. He died
April 26,  1718; Inventory ?242.4.
5. John Morse b. Mar 15, 1669/70  m. Jan 8, 1689/90, Elizabeth Goodin [?
Godding, 1-2.] They o.c. Oct. 3, 1697; and was admitted full  communion
June 2, 1699/1700. She died  Nov. 21, 1701 and he m. (2) Jan 1,  1701/2,
Hepzibah Stone. He was of  Needham in 1718.  Children:
1.  John Morse, bap. Oct 3,  1697.
2. Isaac  Morse bap. Oct 3,  1697.
3.  Elizabeth Morse bap. Oct 3,  1697.
4. William  Morse bap. Dec 3,  1699.
5.  Hepzibah Morse b. Feb 14,  1702/3.
6. Henry  Morse b. Sept 14, 1704; settled in Attleboro, where  he
m. Mary Follet and had eleven  children.
7.  John Morse b. 1705; d. Oct 7, 1767; of Cambridge where he  o.c.
1730. He m. (1) Tabitha Warland; he m. (2) July 29,  1736,
Sarah Bradish.  She d. Dec. 21, 1739 & he m. (3)  ____?.
1. Tabitha Morse b. Sept 7,  1730.
2. Mercy Morse b. Jan 7,  1731/2.
3. Tabitha Morse b. Sept 22, 1733; m. Sept 18, 1753,  Jonas
Learned.
4. John Morse b. Dec 25,  1734.
5. Sarah Morse b. July 31,  1737.
6. William Morse, a barber of Cambridge, died Oct 6,  1806,
unmarried.
7. Nathaniel Morse b. July 7,  1745.
8. Mary Morse b. July 5,  1746.
9. Nathaniel Morse b. Dec 21,  1752.
10. Persis Morse b. Aug 14,  1756.
11. Susanna Morse b. Oct 9, 1712; d. March  1714.
12. Mary Morse, bap. June 19, 1715.
6. Joseph  Morse b. Aug 15, 1671 at Watertown; died in Guilford, CT  (while
on a visit) June 24,  1709. Estate admin. by widow Elizabeth, Sept  5,
1709; Inventory  ?60.  He m. in Watertown Aug 25, 1691,  Elizabeth
Sawtell, perhaps a  dau. of Jonathan & Mary Sawtell of Groton)  His
widow m. (2) Feb 10,  1713/14, Benjamin Nurse, Sr. of  Framingham.
1. Elizabeth Morse who m. Oct 24, 1712, John Thatcher of  
Groton. [see Farnsworth Memorial  p.351]
2. Joseph Morse b. Aug 19, 1693; of Newton; m. Nov. 30,  1720,
Elizabeth  Park.
3. Abigail Morse b. Jan 1, 1696; d. May 25, 1739; m. Jan  1,
1718/19, Joshua Hemmenway of Framingham. Eight  children.
4. Zechariah Morse, b. Aug 12, 1699, m. in  Framingham,
Nov 16, 1724, Huldah Whitney and settled in Southboro.   
Three  children.
5. Samuel Morse b. June 7, 1702; died April 25, 1782;  of
Wrentham; m. June 7, 1732, Sarah Hill who died 1740  &
he m. (2) Sarah Puffer who died Feb 8, 1772, aged  76.
Four  children.
6. Jonathan Morse b. Feb 10, 1704/5; brought up by  his
Stepfather, Benjamin Nurse, Sr.  He was a deacon and  of
Framingham; m. May 16, 1734, Mary Cloyes b. Oct 1,  1712;
died March 27, 1785. He died Mar 1, 1801 aged 96,  
"Emphatically an honest man."  Nine children; very  numer-
ous descendants in  Framingham.
7. Elizabeth Morse, bap. Mar 6, 1708/9 m. Dec 10, 1730,  John
Cloyes of Framingham.
7. Abigail Morse  b. Dec 23, 1673; died the next March 3,  1674.
8. Abigail Morse b. Aug 6, 1677;  m. Deacon John Parkhurst.
9. Isaac Morse  b. Jan 5, 1678/9; died Nov 24 1694.
10. Samuel  Morse b. June 21, 1682; died prob. before  1702.
11. Nathaniel Morse bap. Jan 29, 1687/8  of Needham and Weston; m.  (1)
Feb. 10, 1701/2,  Grace Dyer.  He m. (2) in Weston, Feb. 10,  1717/18,
Phebe  Cook.
1. Jacob Morse of Framingham & Sudbury m. 1728/9, Abigail  Ball
of Watertown. He had a 2nd wife, Keziah. He died in  Sudbury
abt. 1761, leaving a large  family.
2. Phebe Morse b. in Weston Feb. 17,  1718/19.
3. Eunice Morse b. Jan 22,  1722.
4. Thankful Morse b. July 5 1726.
 
3. Jonathan Morse buried May 12, 1643.
 
4. Jonathan Morse b. Nov 7, 1643; of Watertown; m. Oct 17, 1678,  Abigail
Shattuck. Note: Mr. Morse, Morse Memorial, supposes him to be the  Jonathan
Morse who died in Groton, July 31, 1686.   Children:
1. Abigail Morse b. Dec 5,  1679; m. April 27, 1699, her  cousin,
James  Morse.
2. Hannah Morse b. Sept. 3, 1682,  m. May 19, 1699, John  Wellington.
8  children.
3. Ruth Morse b. April 15,  1684 m. June 19, 1706, Jonathan  Robinson.
4. Jonathan Morse b. Jan 23,  1686/7 born posthumously.
5. ?Abraham  Morse bap. Nov 2, 1702.
5. Hester Morse b. Mar 7, 1645/6; m. Dec 9, 1669,  Jonathan Bullard of 
Watertown.
 
6. Sarah Morse who m. June 2, 1669 Timothy Cooper of Groton. 4  children.
 
7. Jeremiah Morse of Watertown, afterwards of Newton m. at Watertown Jan  13,
1681/2, Abigail Woodward.  She died April 13,  1683 and he m. (2) Sarah
____.  Inventory by Benjamin  Child & Ephraim Williams Nov 16, 1719,  ?29.    
    
Children:
1. John Morse b.  March 23, died June 3, 1863.
2. James Morse bap. in Watertown, April 24, 1689.
 
8.Isaac Morse of Newton where his wife died in  1714.

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Daniel Morse, originally a member of the Watertown church, was received  
thence at Dedham church, April 30, 1643.
 
John Morse and wife Dinah, moved from Groton to Watertown about 1690 where  he
died 1695/6, and his estate was administered by his widow, Dinah, May 4,  
1696; sureties, John Knight of Charlestown and John Knight of Woburn.   "Young 
John
Morse, formerly of Woburn," had children:
 
1. Elizabeth Morse
2. David Morse
3. John Morse bap. in Watertown May  31, 1691 (see Mem. of Morses pp. 74, 89 
and
Appendix I, xxiii.)
 

Joseph Morse b. May 25, 1671, son of Joseph & Priscilla (Colburne)  Morse of
Medfield, grad. Harvard College, 1695; m. Amity Harris of  Providence, where 
he
taught a school.  He afterwards (about 1701), went  to Watertown Farms 
(Weston)
where he taught a school, preached a few years,  gathered a congregation, and 
had a call to settle, but 
 
difficulties occurred which were not accomodated,
and he was not  settled.  His son Joseph Morse, Jr., was born at Watertown
June 21,  1706.  About 1707 he moved to Dorchester Village (afterwards  
Stoughton
and now Canton, Mass.) where he died 1732 and his widow died July  7, 1749 
aged
71 years. (for the record of his family, and the rest of his  history, see the
Mem. of Morses, p.3 and seq., and Appendix  IX.)

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p.374 [Munning]

George Munning (Munnings), aged 37 yrs., wife Elizabeth,  aged 41, daughter, 
Elizabeth,
aged 12 yrs. and dau. Abigail, aged 7 yrs,  embarked at Ipswich, England, for 
New England,
April, 1634.  He was  admitted freeman March 14, 1634 and 1635 and his name 
is on the
earliest list  of proprietors.  October, 1636, the General Court granted ?5 
to  "George
Munnings, in regard of the loss of his eye in the voyage to Block  Island."  
October 19,
1651, George Munning, cordwainer, of Boston and  wife Elizabeth sold to 
Edward Garfield
three parcels of land at  Watertown.  April 20, 1652, he sold to John 
Sherman,  20 acres
of  land, with the house now occupied by John Sawin and William Parks; also 
meadow  land.
April 1, 1653, John Sherman, and wife Martha, conveyed back to George  
Munnings of Boston, in behalf and for use of John Sawin, Sr., his son-in-law,  
house 
and 14 acres
of land and several other parcels of land, granted to  Bryan Pendleton, and 
by him sold
Peter Noyes and by Noyes sold to George  Munnings, and by him, sold 
to John Sherman, and by John Sherman and wife,  sold to John Sawin, Sr, and 
John Sawin,
Jr.  George Munnings died at  Boston, August 24, 1658. As his son, George 
Munnings, Jr. was born in 1655, it  is very probable he had a 2nd and younger 
wife.  George Munnings, Jr., m.  1680, Mary Mixer.

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p.376 [Page]

Jeremiah Norcross settled at Watertown as early as 1642, where he  was a 
large proprietor,
owning a homestall bought of John Page, Robert Tuck  and Richard Ambler and 
Jacob Logan and
12 other lots of land.


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p.376 [Jerehiah Norcross]

 
Jeremiah Norcross settled in Watertown as early as 1642, where he was a  large 
proprietor, 
owning a homestall bought of John Page, Robert Tuck,  Richard Ambler and Jacob 
Logan, and 
12 other lots of land.
 
His homestall was bounded south by the Charles River, east and west by land of 
Henry ?Cuttris, 
north by John Smith.  March 22, 1646/7, he bought 16  acres of Abigail Benjamin, 
and Joshua Stubbs, 
executors of John Benjamin,  Sr.
 
He was admitted freeman, February 1652/3 and was Selectman, 1649.  He  is often 
mentioned as 
"Mr. Norcross."  He died 1657 and in his Will, he  mentions wife, Adrean; son 
Nathaniel, and 
his wife Sarah; son Richard and his  wife Mary; Mary wife of my wife's son John 
Smith; brother's 
daughter Anna,  wife of Samuel Davis, and her eldest daughter Hannah Davis; his 
brother,  Charles 
Chadwick; Sarah, wife of Francis Merry (?Massey).  Inventory,  dated Sept. 16, 
1657.
 
      Insert: Torrey - New England Marriages Prior  to 1700.

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p.377 [Page]

Jeremiah Norcross b. July 2, 1703, son of Richard Norcross, Jr.  & his 2nd 
wife, Hannah
Sanders. Jeremiah Norcross settled at Lunenburg,  Mass. and m. at Groton, 
Mass., Jan 28,
1730-1, Faith Page b. Nov. 6, 1707,  dau. of Jonathan & Mary Page. (seven 
children)

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p.378 [NORCROSS]
 
Nathaniel Norcross of Watertown, m. in Watertown Dec 12, 1717, Jemima  Abbot, b. 
Oct 10, 1699, dau. 
of John & Jemima Abbot (at one time of  Watertown, afterwards of Sudbury (see 
also Register of Abbot Family, p.  149).
Children:
1. Jemima Norcross b. May 24, 1720; m. 1741, Eliphalet  Robbins of Newton.
2. Nathaniel Norcross b. Mar 6, 1721/2.
3. Susanna  Norcross bap. April 19, 1724; died soon.
4. Uriah Norcross b. Oct 20, 1726;  died soon.
5. Mary Norcross bap. Aug 29, 1730. (not date of birth) 6.  Josiah Norcross bap. 
Oct 13, 1728; died soon.
7. Mary Norcross bap. Aug 29,  1730. (not date of birth) 8. Uriah Norcross bap. 
July 23, 1732.
9. Josiah  Norcross 2nd, bap. June, 1734.
10. Asa Norcross bap. Mar 9, 1739/40.
11.  Nehemiah Norcross bap. Feb. 1741/2.
12. Susannah Norcross bap. July 27, 1746;  m. Oct 10, 1765, Jonathan Whitney.
 
Philip Norcross of Newton, m. Oct 26, 1721, Sarah Jackson, (?) dau.  of Edward & 
Mary Jackson of Newton.  
May 20, 1754, his minor  children, Susanna, Seth, Nathaniel and Sarah were put 
under the guardianship  of 
Isaac Johnson of Newton and his son, Jonathan Norcross under the  guardianship 
of Sebas Jackson. 
Children:
 
1. Grace Norcross b. May 27, 1724.
2. Thankful Norcross b. Aug. 23,  1726; m. Feb 5, 1745, Samuel Spring 3. Samuel 
Norcross b. Oct 18, 1729; a  
brickmaker of Cambridge, in 1770; he had a son, Daniel Norcross bap. Mar. 8,  
1761.
4. Relief Norcross b. July 23, 1732.
5. Jonathan Norcross b. Feb 7,  1734/5. A soldier at Lake George, 1758.
6. Sarah Norcross b. Nov 21, 1739; m.  Dec. 9, 1760, (?) Daniel Spring.
(author's note: Was she the  Mrs. Sarah Spring who m. Jan 1, 1767 Jonathan 
Williams?) 7.  Susanna Norcross b. 
Mar 31, 1742 m. Amariah Learned of Watertown.
8. Seth  Norcross b. May 21, 1744.
9. Nathaniel Norcross b. June 30, 1746; of Newton;  m. 1782/3 Anna Ward b.
Feb. 11, 1765, dau of George & Abigail (Myrick)  Ward. She died Sept 14, 1805 
and he m. (2) Ann Winchester.
Children, all  by his first wife:
1. Mary Norcross b. April 11, 1784; m. Edward  Fisher.  She resides in Sudbury; 
a widow.
2. Nathaniel Norcross b.  Dec 5, 1785; d. Oct 27, 1817; m. Mary Elkins.
3. Anna Norcross b. July 13,  1788; d. Feb 14, 1813; m. Isaac Gale of Roxbury.
4. Jemima Norcross b. Aug  17, 1790; d. Nov 8, 1807.
5. James Norcross b. Aug 27, 1792; m. Esther  Clark.
6. Amy Norcross b. Nov 14, 1795; unm.
7. Abigail Norcross b. Nov  28, 1797; m. Harvey James.
8. Martha Norcross b. Dec 11, 1799 died unm. Jan  27, 1818.
9. Caroline Norcross b. Dec 18, 1802; m. James Whittemore of  Roxbury.
 
Philip Norcross b. Mar 16, 175_. 
 
Josiah Norcross of Watertown m. Jan 6, 1757, Elizabeth Child; he died 1801 and 
she died 1801.
Children:
1. Nathaniel Norcross b. June 30, 1757;  died soon.
2. Elizabeth Norcross b. Jan 16, 1760; died soon.
3. Josiah  Norcross b. April 22, 1762; m. Elizabeth____. He probably left 
Watertown some  time subsequent to 
1802 and settled in Shrewsbury.  He m. (2) in 1809,  Sarah Rand of Princeton who 
died Mar 25, 1825 aged 34.  
He m.  (3) Elizabeth, the dau. of Zenas  Stone.
Children:
1. Josiah Norcross b. at  Watertown Nov 25, 1798; m. in Shrewsbury,  1820, m. 
Sarah  Wakefield.
2. John Norcross who m. 1818 Mary  Bigelow of Boylston.
3. Fanny Norcross m.  Simon Allen of Princeton.
4. Sarah Norcross b.  in Watertown Oct 11, 1800; m. in Shrewsbury  1826 Jarvis  
Smith.
5. Mary Norcross b. in Watertown, May  28, 1802.
By his 2nd wife:
6. Elvira  Norcross b. Jan 6, 1821 d. aged 11 years.
7.  Abigail Norcross.
8. Thomas R. Edwin Norcross  (name changed to William Henry Norcross)  who m. 
Eunice the dau of  
Abner Snow of Grafton.

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p.379
 
4. Nathaniel Norcross b. April 22, 1764.
5. Jemima Norcross b. May 11,  1766; m. Dec 11, 1783 Joshua Coolidge.
6. Elizabeth Norcross b. April 10,  1768.
7. John Norcross bap. May 27, 1770.
8. Abigail Norcross  bap.  June 28, 1772.
9. Moses Norcross bap. Aug 14, 1774.
 
Seth Norcross of Watertown m. June 24, 1766, Jerusha Learned.  He was  drowned 
in the Charles River about 
1795 and she died in Boston, Feb 25,  1830.
Children:
1. Bezaleel Norcross who died Feb 19, 1769 aged three  weeks.
2. Jerusha Norcross died Jan 7, 1768 aged 17 mos.
3. Seth Norcross  died young.
4. Hannah Norcross died young.
5. Catharine Norcross died  young.
6. Elijah Norcross b. Oct 27, 1772; d. May 8, 1819; a chairmaker and  painter of 
Watertown; m. Oct 20, 
1797, Elizabeth Blackburne born in Boston,  Feb 22, 1780, dau of Timothy & 
Hannah Blackburne.  She died 
May 13,  1834.  Children:
1. Mary Ann  Norcross b. Jan 24, 1798; m. Dec 4, 1819, David Bushee,  b.
Jan 10, 1796, son  of Jesse & Martha (Jenks) Bushee of Newport,  R.I.
and the grandson  of James Bushee who came over as an officer in  the
French force, sent  to this country in the Revolution.   Children:
1. David Augustus Bushee b. in Glastonbury, CT., d. Sept 17,  1820.
2. Mary Ann Bushee, b. in Watertown, Mass., Nov 23,  1821.
3. Lyman David Bushee b. in Watertown, Sept 30,  1823.
4. Stillman Bushee b. in Newton, Mass. Feb 17,  1826.
5. Abner Bushee b. in Newton Aug 7,  1828.
6. Charles Langdon Gibson Bushee b. Aug 2,  1830.
7. Mary Ann Bushee b. at Saccarappee, Maine, April 2,  1833.
8. Allin Buckland Bushee b. April 16, 1835; d.  1836.
9. Ellen Frances Bushee b. at Springfield, Mass. Feb 23,  1837; died Aug.  1838.
10.  Francis Allin Bushee b. at Springfield, Aug 7,  1840.
11.  Marshall Bushee b. in S. June 13, 1842; died  1846.
2. Hannah Norcross b. Dec  19, 1800; m. March 1828, Deacon Abner  Ballou Jr., a  
farmer in Cumberland, 
R.I. where he was born Feb 18,  1802.
Children:
1. Charlotte Lovell Gibson Ballou b.  1829.
2. Allen Norcross Ballou b. 1833.
3. Abner Norcross b. Feb 28, 1802; of Springfield, New Jersey; a paper-maker; m.  
Dec 14, 1825, 
Mary Clark, b. Mar 20, 1805,  dau.
of John  Clark of Springfield, New Jersey.   Children:
1. Mary Ann Norcross b. July 26,  1827.
2. Charlotte Norcross b. July 29,  1829.
3. Harriet Norcross b. Oct 16,  1831.
4. Luzetta Norcross b. Dec 10, 1833; d.  1834.
5. Hannah Norcross b. June 27,  1835.
6. Allen Norcross b. Aug 7,  1838.
7. William Norcross b. Sept 18,  1840.
8. Phebe Norcross b. July 10,  1842.
9. James Norcross b. Sept 2, 1844.
4. Seth Norcross b. June 22, 1804; a painter & glazier;  died Dec. 13,  1832, 
unm.
5. William Norcross b.  June 18, 1806; a cordwainer; m. May 13,  1834,
Lucretia  Hodgkins of New Salem, Mass.   Children:
1. George Norcross b. Nov 2,  1836.
2. Maria Norcross b. Oct 29, 1837; d.  1844.
3. William Norcross b. Aug 7,  1839.
4. Hannah Norcross b. July 17,  1841.
5. Harriet Norcross b. June 12, 1843; d.  1845.
6. Harriet Norcross 2nd b. Aug 25,  1845.
7. Charles Norcross b. April; died Sept.,  1847.
6. Elijah Norcross b. May  30, 1808; of Watertown; m. May 1,  1830, Eliza  
Crowell, born in Medford 
Feb 20, 1812 dau of Aaron  Crowell.
Children:
1. Lydia Norcross b. Feb. 4,  1831.
2. Eliza Norcross b. July 12,  1833.
3. Sarah Norcross b. Aug 30,  1835.
4. Elijah Norcross b. Oct 25,  1837.
5. Allen Norcross b. June 26,  1841.
6. Mary Norcross b. Aug 25,  1844.
7. Abner Norcross b. Jan 10, 1847.
 
   7. Warren Norcross b. Jan 10, 1810; a gunsmith, in Evansville,  Indiana.
 
   8. Allen Norcross b. April 20, 1814; a gunsmith, in  Evansville, Indiana
 
7. Helen Norcross b. July 22, 1780 m. in Boston, Sept 15, 1803,  Russell Sturgis 
Lovell, b. Aug 15, 
1781 son of Christopher and Abigail  (Sturgis) Lovell of Barnstable, Mass.  He 
was formerly a shipmaster and  about 1814,
settled on a farm in Amesville, Ohio where he died 1830.   Children:
1. Josiah Lovell b. june 12,  1804; a lawyer in Dayton, Ohio;  m.
Oct. 4, 1832,  Elizabeth Pitcher, 3 children.
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2. Helen Lovell b. May 22, 1806, m. Nov 14, 1832 Lowell Harris, a farmer who 
settled in  Michigan.
 
       3. Charles R. Lovell b. Aug 11, 1808;  a Methodist preacher, m.  April 
23, 1833,  Harriet Pitcher.

4. Henry Lovell b. Dec 29, 1813; a  lawyer in Somerset, Perry  County, O.; m. 
Aug 10,  1842 Maria Moonis.
 
       5. Christopher Lovell b. July 1, 1816;  a farmer, in Morgan County  O., 
m. Jan 10, 1843,  Nancy Swart.

6. Jerusha  Lovell b. April 19, 1821.
 
       7. Sarah Lovell b. Aug 28, 1823.
 
8. Susan Norcross b. Oct 24, 1783; d. April 6, 1829; m. (1) Feb. 7,  1796, 
Francis Gray Spurr of Watertown 
and had 3 children.  He d. Sept.  15, 1802 and she m. (2) 1805 Abraham Gibson, 
an ironmonger of Boston, 
born in Fitchburg Mass.; died in Boston, July 10, 1816, aged 46 yrs. (nine  
children)
 
9. Charlotte Norcross b. Aug 12, 1785; m. in Boston, Aug 15, 1806,  Thomas 
Sturgis Lovell, brother of 
Russell Sturgis Lovell, formerly a  shipmaster,
and since 1814, a farmer in Amesville, Athens Co., Ohio.   Seven children.
 
10. Mary Norcross born June 21, 1795; died young.


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p.383 [Paige]
 
John Page, with wife Phebe, came from Dedham, England, 
in 1630, was the  first Constable of Watertown, being made
so by the Court, September, 1630,  and was admitted free-
man, May 18, 1631.  He died in Watertown,  December 18,
1676 aged about 90, and his widow, Phebe died Sept. 25,
1677  aged 87.  His house was burnt, April 21, 1631.
[Torrey, New  England Marriages Prior to 1700 has:
p.550 - John Page b. 1586,  d. 1676, & wife, Phebe
Payen b. 1594; d. 1677; m. in England  June 5, 1621;
married at Lavenham, England - to  Watertown.]
 
Children:
 
1. William Page (?son of John*) m. (Anna) Hannah ____,
and he d. Dec 9,  1664, s.p.   His Will dated Dec. 16, 
1664, proved April 4, 1665,  mentions his wife; made small
bequests to all his kinsmen in New England;  mentions his
kinsman, Thomas Leason; to his kinsman, William Leason,
then  living with him, £10 at the age of 22 years. 
Inventory Jan 18, 1664/5  £137.12.  His widow m. previous
to June 22, 1669, Nicholas Wood of  Boggestow*, near Mead-
field.  She afterwards m. Edward Winn of  Woburn.

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p.388 [Page]

Mary Lewis of Lynn, Mass. widow of Edmund Lewis of Watertown,  lately 
deceased, sold to
William Page of Watertown for £10 all her parcels of  land at Watertown 
November 26, 1652.

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p.389 [Page]

George Parkhurst Mar. 5, 1648-9 sold to William Page 10 acres near  the Great 
Pond.

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p.401

Ephraim Peirce of Groton, Mass., afterwards of Lunenburg, Mass. m.  at Groton, 
Oct 30, 1721, Esther Shedd b. Mar 24, 1704, dau. of Samuel &  Elizabeth Shedd.

Their 5th child, Sarah Peirce b. Nov 27, 1731; m. at Lunenburg, Jan 25, 1749, 
John Lovejoy.

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p.402 
Herbert Pelham, Esq., of Cambridge; a proprietor of Watertown, 1642 but no 
homestall. He was the first
Treasurer of Harvard College.

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p.407 [Prescott]
 
John Prescott, proprietor, 1642; by wife Mary, had:
Lydia Prescott,  born in Watertown Aug 15, 1641.  He was one of those first  
settlers of Lancaster 
who went from Water- town.



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p.408 [Priest]

William Priest of Watertown, (? Price) executor and residuary legatee of his 
kinsman, John Wetherill, 1672.
(see below - John Wetherell p.637)
 
p.408 cont'd.
Joseph Priest of the West Precinct (Waltham), m. Dec. 25, 1701, Margaret Child.  
February 12, 1700, 
Joseph Priest had leave to set a smith's shop on the town's common land, between 
Zachariah Cutting's 
and Jonathan Tainter's.   He died April 28, 1756; aged about 80 years.  
Children:
 
1. Margaret Priest b. Oct 3, 1702.
2. Joseph Priest b. Sept 4, 1704; by his wife Hannah had:
      1. Hannah Priest born and died January, 1731-2.
      2. Joseph Priest b. Jan 29, 1732-3.
3. Hannah Priest, b. Mar 20, 1706-7.
4. Job Priest b. Aug 8, 1709.
5. John Priest, b. Dec 9, 1711; by his wife, Bethia, had children at Waltham:
      1. Hannah Priest bap. Feb 7, 1733-4.
      2. Bethia Priest b. Nov 24, 1739; died 1740.
      3. Sarah Priest b. July 20, 1742. Died.
      4. Sarah Priest, again, b. Feb 10, 1744-5.
6. Joshua Priest.
7. James Priest, by his wife Hannah, had:
      1. James Priest bap. Sept 7, 1755.
8. Mehitabel Priest b. May 18, 1719.
9. Jonas Priest, bap. Nov 20, 1726; by his wife Anna, had:
     1. Mary Priest bap. Jan. 29, 1744.
     2. Jonas Priest bap. Jan 12, 1746.
     3. Job Priest bap. June 5, 1748; by his wife, Elizabeth, had:
              1. Patty Priest, bap. May 2, 1773.
              2. William Priest, bap. Feb. 19, 1775.
     4. Martha Priest, bap. Mar. 18, 1753; died Dec 16, 1772.
     5. Margaret Priest, bap. Jan 19, 1755.
     6. Amos Priest, bap. July 31, 1757; died March 5, 1768.
 
James Priest who died at Weston, March 4, 1756, aged 81 years; by his wife, 
Sarah, had in the West Precinct 
(Waltham) children: [author Bond's note: The ages of this James Priest and 
Joseph Priest, correspond with 
the ages of James and Joseph Priest, sons of William Priest.]
 
  1. Josiah Priest b. Mar 30, 1706; m. Sept 18, 1727, Mary Bemis and he m. (2) 
Jan. 16, 1738-9, Mary Brown 
of Concord, Mass.  Children:
          1. Mary Priest, bap. Mar 12, 1732. Died.
          2. Mary Priest (again) bap. Oct 7, 1733.
          3. Elizabeth Priest, bap. June 23, 1734.
          4. Josiah Priest bap. June 4, 1749 - of Groton, Mass.
          5. Anna Priest bap. June 4, 1749.
          6. Timothy Priest, b. Oct 19, 1742; bap. June 4, 1749; married and 
settled at Groton, 
              Mass.[Author's note: See Caleb Butler, History of Groton, p. 430]

             Insert: History of Groton by Caleb Butler, 1848.
             p.430
             Timothy Priest and wife, Sarah Butterfield. Married August 22, 
1764.  Children:
              1. Molly Priest b. Feb 13, 1766.
              2. Sarah Priest b. April 25, 1767.
              3. Rebekah Priest b. Oct 4, 1768.
              4. Lydia Priest b. Sept 21, 1770.
              5. Susanna Priest b. Mar 24, 1773.
              6. Jane Priest b. Feb 14, 1775.
                Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

           7. Lydia Priest b. Oct 18, 1744.
           8. Jonas Priest b. April 8, 1746.
           9. Lucy Priest b. Feb 18, 1749.
          10. Joel Priest b. Feb 19, 1751.
          11. Jonathan Priest b. June 12, 1754.
          12. William Priest b. June 12, 1756.
          13. Sybil Priest b. Sept 19, 1758.
          14. Sarah Priest b. Feb 8, 1761.

   2. Mindwell Priest b. June 27, 1708; m. Sept 19, 1734, David Stone of 
Stoughton.
   3. Abigail Priest b. July 3, 1719; m. April 2, 1739, Isaac Corey.
 
James Priest of Waltham (perhaps a son of James Priest).  He died May 21, 1790 
aged 40 years. He married 
Dec 27, 1772, Abigail Lawrence, who died October 2, 1805, aged 52 yrs. 

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p.409 [Priest]

Hannah Priest who m. at Watertown Dec. 24, 1702, Thomas Sanderson.
Anna Priest of Waltham, who m. Mar 7, 1744-5, Phillip Gage of Weston.
Susanna Priest who m. Mar 19, 1752, Simeon Hagar of Weston.
Mary Priest who m. Jan 4, 1761, Zebediah Cooke of Stockbridge.
Eunice Priest, who m. May 29, 1751, John Barnard - both of Waltham.
Hannah Priest, of Weston, who m. (published June 17, 1758), Elijah Ross, of 
Sudbury.
Martha Priest, who m. Jan 17, 1811, Amos Whitney of Watertown.
Louisa Priest who m. Jan 21, 1811, Samuel Crooks.
 
It would be interesting to know the parents of Amos Whitney of Watertown, who m. 
Martha Priest in 1811.
It is not listed in the Whitney families in Bond's Watertown. Janice Farnsworth


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p.415

Richard Sawtel son of Enoch m. Mar. 18, 1716/17, Abigail
Whitney and had:

1. John b. and d. 1717/18.
2. Abigail b. April 12, 1719; m. May 12, 1743, Benjamin
   Hastings.

Henry Sawtel of Waltham, prob. son of Richard, m. June
6, 1744, Sarah Harrington of Watertown and had:

1. Henry b. Sept 14, 1745.
2. Joseph b. Mar 12, 1746/7.

Enoch Sawtel of Waltham, prob. son of Richard, m. April
13, 1747, Bethia Bond.

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p.415 [Saltonstall]

Sir Richard Saltonstall, son of Samuel Saltonstall and grandson of Gilbert 
Saltonstall,
Esq. of Halifax, in Yorkshire, England, was the first named Associate of the six 
original
patentees of Massachusetts, and one of the first Assistants, and was present at 
their
court August 23, 1630.  He came over in the same ship with Governor Winthrop in 
the
Winthrop Fleet in 1630, and was the leader among the first permanent settlers of 
Water-
town, Massachusetts. It appears, by Winthrop's Journal (I.,p.29), that he 
brought over
with him three sons and two daughters.  He returned to England the next spring 
(1631)
taking with him his two daughters and his yougest son. He did not return to 
America.

His Will was made in 1658, and it is not known how long he lived afterwards. He 
had five
sons: Richard, Henry, Samuel, Robert and Peter, and he had a least two daughters 
who, in
1644, resided in the family of the Earl of Warwick and Lady Manchester.  
Children:

1. Richard Saltonstall b. 1610; came over in 1630 in the Winthrop Fleet. He was 
admitted
freeman May 18, 1631, and settled at Ipswich, Mass.  It is probable that he went 
to Water-
town, Mass. with his father, and remained there for a few years, as his name 
does not appear
in the Ipswich records until 1635.  He returned to England finally in 1683, and 
died at Hulme,
April 29, 1694, aged 84 yrs. He was the father of Colonel Nathaniel Saltonstall 
of Haverhille,
and the ancestor of most of those bearing that name in New England.

2. Henry Saltonstall, was a member of the Artillery Company, 1639 and was 
proprietor of a farm
of 300 acres, and 88 acres of meadow at Watertown in 1642; he grad. Harvard 
College, 1642. He
returned to England - went to Holland, 1644; M.D., at the University of Padua, 
October 1649 and
at Oxford, June 24, 1652.

3. Samuel Saltonstall, in 1642 was a proprietor of a homestall at Watertown and 
7 other lots, and

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p.416

probably had the land of his brother Henry Saltonstall, after his return to 
England.  Watertown was
his permanent residence, where he died January 21, 1696, and administration was 
granted, October 7,
1696, to his nephew, Colonel Nathaniel Saltonstall. It is supposed that he was 
the "Mr. Samuel Salton-
stall" sometimes mentioned in the records, omitting the family name. Although he 
lived so long in
Watertown, there is no record of wife or children, and he appears to have had 
little or nothing to
do with the municipal affairs of the town.

4. Robert Saltonstall, a member of the Artillery Company, 1638. In Suffolk 
Deeds, Volume I, p.29,
about 1642 (no date) Robert Saltonstall "late of Watertown," sold to Nicholas 
Davidson, 13-1/2
acres of land bought of Daniel Shattuck.

5. Peter Saltonstall, a member of the Artillery Company 1644.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

Subject: Sir Richard Saltonstall
Source: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers
of Watertown, Massachusetts by Henry Bond, M.D., Boston, 1860.

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p.417

Deacon Jonathan Sanderson who m.  at Cambridge, Oct 24, 1669, Abia Bartlett, b. 
May 28,  1651, youngest daughter of Ensign Thomas  & Hannah Bartlett of 
Watertown. She died Sept 13, 1723.  Their graves are in the old, or lower  grave 
yard of Waltham, Mass.  His Will was dated April 2,  1728, and he appointed his 
sons, John  & Jonathan as executors. His children were all born at  Cambridge, 
and he probably moved to  Watertown in 1689 and he, or his son Jonathan 
Sanderson settled  at
"Piety Corner," now in Waltham.   He was Constable, 1695; a Selectman ten 
years, 1703 to  1719.
Children:
1. Thomas Sanderson b. Mar 10, 1674-5; m. Dec 24, 1702, Hannah  Priest.
2. Abia Sanderson b. at Cambridge, Oct 28, 1673; died about 1739,  unmarried.
3. Jonathan Sanderson, twin of Abia, b. Oct 28, 1673 died Oct 4,  1743.
4. John Sanderson b. Mar 25,  1677.
5. Benjamin Sanderson b. May 28,  1679.
6. Samuel Sanderson b. May 28,  1681.
7. Edward Sanderson b. Mar 3, 1683-4; m. May 1, 1707, Mary Parkhurst. (see
p.417  for  their
children.
8. Hannah Sanderson, b. at Cambridge, May 31; bap. at Watertown, July 14, 1689;  
m.  Oct.
23, 1712, George Stearns of Cambridge Farms (Lexington) and settled in the West  
Precinct (Waltham).
 
Robert Bartlett was drowned at Samuel Saltonstall's, July 5, 1663.

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p.421 [Page]

Joseph Sanderson b. Aug 28, 1680, son of William Sanderson &  wife, Sarah 
____.
Joseph Sanderson m. July 30, 1714, Sarah Page in Groton,  Mass., where he 
settled. His estate
was admin. 1736 by his widow Sarah (Page)  Sanderson. Children:
1. David Sanderson b. Sept 5, 1715 m. Eunice ____. 3  children.
2. Sarah Sanderson b. Jan 19, 1716-17.
3. William Sanderson b.  July 17, 1718.
4. Hannah Sanderson b. Apr 5, 1720.
5. Joseph Sanderson b.  Mar 17, 1721-2 died soon.
6. Susanna Sanderson b. May 18, 1723.
7. Gideon  Sanderson b. Feb 19, 1724-5.
9. Sarah Sanderson b. Oct 15, 1729.
10. John  Sanderson b. Dec 13, 1731.

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p.421 [Sanger]

Richard Sanger, a blacksmith, son of Richard Sanger of Hingham, settled first at 
Sudbury, where he took the
Oath of Fidelity.  Sudbury records say that he "removed his habitation to 
Watertown, the 8th of the ninth
month, anno 1649." He had eight children born at Watertown, all by his wife, 
Mary, whose maiden name,
according to Mr. Morse, was Rannals. [Torrey, New England Marriages, p.650 has: 
Richard Sanger, died 1691;
& wife Mary Rannels/Reynolds (-1611+); ?ca. 1648, b. 1652; Watertown] 
 
Mr. Morse also says he had a 2nd wife, Sarah; but I (Dr. Bond) have found no 
notice of her in the town records.
 
Insert: Savage Dictionary
 
RICHARD SANGER, Sudbury, said to have embarked at Southampton, 
Apr. 1638, in the Ship, Confidence, of London, as servant of
Edmund Goodenow of Dunhead, Co. Wilts; was a blacksmith, removed to
Watertown, in the autumn of 1649. There, by w. Mary Reynolds, dau. of Robert
Reynolds, the first, of Boston, had Mary, b. 26 Sept. 1650; Nathaniel,
14 Feb. 1652; John, 6 Sept. 1657. By his second wife, Sarah, had Sarah, 19
Jan. 1662, d. soon; Sarah, again, 31 Mar. Richard, 22 Feb.1667; Elizabeth, 
23 July 1668; and David, 21 Dec. 1670, wh. d. aged 24 yrs.
prob. unm. and d. 20 Aug. 1691. His dau. Mary m. 20 Sept. 1670, John
Harris.
 
p.421 cont'd
Richard Sanger died August 20, 1691. "To him and his two adult sons, with three 
others, was entrusted
during King Philips' War, the charge of guarding the mill at Watertown."  
Richard Sanger, aged 18, embarked
at Southampton, April 1638, in the ship, Confidence, of London, John Jobson, 
Master, as the servant of
John Roaff [See Geneal. Register II., p. 109].  Children:
 
1. Mary Sanger b.  Sept 26, 1650; m. Sept 20, 1670, John Harris.
2. Nathaniel Sanger, b. Feb 14, 1651-2; died 1735; a blacksmith; resided 
successively at Sherburne, Roxbury,
and Woodstock, Conn.  He had two wives, first, Mary Cutter and 2nd, Ruth. [see 
also, Barry, p.387, and
Morse's Sanger, p.2] Goodee Sanger was buried in Woodstock, CT., Nov 20, 1711.
3. John Sanger, b. Sept 6, 1657.
4. Sarah Sanger, b. and d. 1661-2.
5. Sarah Sanger, again, b. Mar 31, 1663.
6. Richard Sanger, b. Feb 22, 1666-7; died April 1, 1731; a blacksmith; settled 
at Sherburne, 1688, where
he m. Elizabeth Morse, dau of Daniel Morse, Jr., and had nine children. For a 
record of his numerous and
respectable descendants, see Morse's Genealogy of the descendants of Richard 
Sanger, and see Barry, pp.
387-8.
 
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p.422

7. Elizabeth Sanger b. July 23, 1669.
8. David Sanger, b. Dec 21, 1671; died 1695.
 
John Sanger, a blacksmith of Watertown, m. 1684-5, Rebecca Parks. Administration 
on his estate was granted
Jan. 22, 1704-5, to his widow, Rebecca, and her brother, Joseph Park of Newton.  
Children:
 
1. John Sanger b. Dec 19, 1685; died October, 1711; and his estate administered 
by his mother.
2. Rebecca Sanger b. Mar 7, 1688-9; m. Sept. 11, 1711, Thomas Flagg.
3. Mary Sanger b. Mar. 1, 1693-4.
4. David Sanger b. Mar 21, 1696-7.
5. Isaac Sanger b. Nov 9, 1699.
6. Elizabeth Sanger b. June 21, 1703; m.  June 21, 1733, Josiah Allen, of 
Weston.
 
David Sanger of Watertown, m. Mar 24, 1719-20, Patience Benjamin. Children:
 
1. Patience Sanger born and died 1721.
2. Lydia Sanger b. Nov 14, 1723.
3. John Sanger b. Jan 14, 1724-5; died at Deerfield, Oct 9, 1755.
4. David Sanger b. May 23, 1727; m. Feb 20, 1755, Lucy Learned.  Children:
        1. David Sanger b. Feb 15, 1756; m. 1788, Grace Sanger.
        2. Thomas Sanger b. Jan 8, 1756 (?8).
        3. Nathaniel Sanger b. May 15, 1760.
        4. Benjamin Sanger b. Feb 23, 1762.
        5. Lucy Sanger b. April 15, 1764; m. Dec 7, 1783, Ebenezer Kent.
        6. Seth Sanger b. Dec 29, 1765.
        7. Jesse Sanger b. Feb 4, 1768.
        8. Joseph Sanger b. June 16, 1770.
5. William Sanger born and died 1729.
6. William Sanger, again, b. Jan 20, 1730-1; died April 21, 1798; m. July 24, 
1755, Abigail Jennison.
She died Aug 22, 1813. Children:
        1. John Sanger b. May 6, 1756; m. Amy Trask. Children:
               1. John Sanger who died unmarried.
               2. Mary Sanger.
               3. Catherine Sanger.
             Both sisters of Boston, unmarried.
        2. Abigail Sanger b. Feb 2, 1758; m. Oct 19, 1777, Cornelius Park of 
Boston.
        3. Lydia Sanger b. Sept 21, 1760; died aged 86 yrs.
        4. William Sanger b. April 11, 1763; died soon.
        5. Mary Sanger who m. Oct 29, 1783, David E. Morton.
        6. William Sanger (again) bap. June 22, 1766; m. and settled in 
Templeton and had:
              1. Joshua Sanger who married and settled at Warwick.
              2. Abel Sanger. Unmarried.
              3. William B. Sanger died unmarried.
        7. Richard Sanger b. Nov 17th and bap. Nov 27, 1768; of Watertown; m. 
Oct 12, 1791,
        Elizabeth Sanger. Children:
             1. Grace Sanger.
             2. Joseph Sanger. Died.
             3. Betsey Sanger. Died.
             4. Elizabeth Sanger b. Dec 20, 1793.
             5. William Sanger b. Feb 3, 1801; was of Waltham; m. Eliza B. 
Knowlton.
             6. Richard Elliot Sanger of  Danvers; m. Susan Southwick.
             7. Anna Sanger b. Jan 14, 1806.
             8. Edward Sanger born and died.
             9. George W. Sanger b. July 12, 1811; died Dec. 25, 1840; was of 
Danvers; m. Lucy
             Gould and had a daughter, Lucy Ann Sanger.
            10. Samuel E. Sanger, b. Aug 9, 1813; m. Martha E. Ober, and had 
children:
                    1. Martha E. Sanger.
                    2. Mary F. Sanger.
                    3. George E. Sanger.
                    4. Charles E. Sanger.
                    5. Sarah L. Sanger.
         8. Abraham Sanger b. Mar 31; bap. April 5, 1772; m. Catherine Goodnow.
         9. Aaron Sanger bap. Nov 26, 1774; died 1847; was of Boston; m. July 
12, 1801, Abigail Jackson.
         Children:
               1. Adaline Sanger b. Mar 11, 1810; m. Calvin W. Haven, a merchant 
of Boston.
               2. Albert G. Sanger b. Aug 6, 1803; was of Boston.
               3. Abner W. Sanger b. Jan 23, 1806; a merchant of Boston.
               4. Alexander H. Sanger, b. Sept 22, 1807; a merchant of Boston, 
died July 14, 1836.
               5. Isaac P. Sanger, b. April 6, 1812; was of Natick.
               6. Elizabeth Sanger b. May 28, 1814.
 
7. Nathaniel Sanger b. Nov 1, 1733; m. 1761, Anna Russell and had children:
         1. Catherine Sanger b. April, 1762.
         2. Spencer Sanger b. Mar 19, 1764.
 
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p.423
 
8. Samuel Sanger b. June 1, 1736; was of Watertown; m. Aug 24, 1758, Grace 
Harrington. He died Oct 27, 1775.
Children:
      1. Lydia Sanger b. Jan 8, 1759; died young.
      2. Samuel Sanger b. Feb 11, 1761; died young.
      3. Grace Sanger b. Jan 20, 1763; m. Aug 17, 1783, Josiah Learned.
      4. Anna Sanger b. Feb 12, 1769; m. Oct 16, 1785, Paul Learned.
      5. Elizabeth Sanger b. Apr. 13, 1771; m. Oct 2, 1791, Richard Sangar.
      6. Daniel Sanger b. Mar 12, 1773; was of Watertown; m. 1790 Sally Jones. 
He m. (2) the widow Fuller,
      He m. (3) Emma Carter.  Children:
           1. Joseph Sanger who died Jan 14, 1803.
           2. David (or Daniel) Sanger b. Oct 17, 1796.
           3. Sally (Sarah) Sanger b. July 23, 1798; m. (1) C. Whitney. She m. 
(2) J. Crosby.
           4. Samuel Sanger b. June 10, 1800; was of Brighton; m. Sally Upham 
and had  children:
                  1. Samuel J. Sanger b. Nov 3, 1826; was a clerk in Boston.
                  2. Sarah U. Sanger m. Oct 9, 1850, David B. Shillaber.
                  3. Warren Sanger.
                  4. Lucy C. Sanger.
                  5. Daniel O. Sanger.
                  6. Mary L. Sanger.
                  7. Bertha Sanger.
           5. Joseph Sanger b. Oct 30, 1803; was of Watertown; m. (1) Mary 
Stone. Married (2) Mary Stow.
           6. Lucy Sanger b. Mar 16, 1806.
           7. Charles D. Sanger of Roxbury; m. Maria Stearns.
           8. George Sanger was of New York.
           9. Edward H. Sanger was of Salem.
9. Solomon Sanger b. July 28, 1740; died at Worcester, Sept 3, 1765.
 

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p.424
Richard Sawtel, a proprietor of Watertown, 1636/7; was one of the first 
proprietors 
and settlers of Groton, Mass., and was the town clerk thereof the 1st three yrs 
after its organization in 1662, 1663, & 1664.  His children were probably all 
born in Watertown although only a few
of their births are recorded.  He died in Groton, Aug.
2nd and his Inventory, £147.11, was taken Sept. 14, 1694.  In his will, dated 
May 16, 1692, he mentions wife
Elizabeth, who died Oct 18, 1694; son Obadiah of Groton;
son Enoch of Watertown; dau. Bethia; son John; dau. Hannah Winn; dau. Hannah 
Ruth Hewes; child of son Jonathan, dec'd by wife Mary; children of son 
Zechariah; dau. Sterling's child.   His brother Thomas Sawtel, was
admitted freeman May 2, 1649, by the name of  Thomas
Saretell who died in Boston 1651. See his Will in Geneal. Register, IV, 286. He 
had a brother and sister Kenrick of Muddy River.

Children:
1. Obadiah Sawtel one of the 1st settlers of Groton; by
   wife Hannah had Abigail b. March 13, 1665/5 and 
   probably Obadiah Jr.

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p.425

2. Elizabeth Sawtel b. May 1, 1638; not mentioned in her
   father's Will.

3. Jonathan Sawtel b. Aug 24, 1639; d. Jan 6, 1690/1;
   an original proprietor of Groton; m. in Groton, July
   3, 1665, Mary - and had:

       1. Mary b. Oct 16, 1667.
       2. Elizabeth b. Feb 3, 1668/9; m. at Watertown,
          Joseph Moss [Morse]
       3. Hannah b. Oct 6, 1670.
       4. Abigail b. Mar 5, 1671/2.
       5. Sarah b. Feb 24, 1673/4.
       6. Jonathan b. at Watertown, April 6, 1676.
   His wife Mary died in childbed at Watertown April 26,
   1676.

4. Mary b. Nov 19, 1640; m. ____Sterling.

5. Hannah b. Dec 10, 1642; m. ____Winn.

6. Zachariah b. July 26, 1643 (4?) an original proprietor
   of Groton, by wife Mary, had Anna b. at Groton Mar.
   14, 1672/3; and prob. a son Nathaniel.

7. Enoch, a weaver, of Watertown, by wife Susanna, who
   o.c. Oct 2, 1687; had:

        1. Susanna bap. Oct 2, 1687.
        2. Richard  bap. April 21, 1689.
        3. Mary died April 13, 1696.
        4. Elizabeth bap. Oct 8, 1699.
        5. Mary bap. Oct 6, 1700.

8. John, mentioned in his father's Will.

9. Ruth, m. Mar 9, 1676/7, John Hewes of Watertown.

10. Bethia, m. at Watertown, Jan 27, 1701/2, John Green.
    She was adm. f.c. January 8, 1687/8 and d. Oct 12,
    1714 aged 68. [f.c.= full communion]

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p.425

June 16, 1691, Jonathan Sawtel of Groton, aged 15 years chose his uncle Abraham
Holman to be his guardian.

[5.] Hannah Sawtel m. July 13, 1665, Increase Winn son of Edward Winn of Woburn
His birth is the first recorded in Woburn, Dec 5, 1641.

[7.] Enoch Sawtel m. Susanna Randall.

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p.442

Henry Spring who m. Jan 7, 1657-8,  Mehitabel Bartlett. He m. (2) Sept 12, 1691, 
Susanna, widow of Gregory Cook. His children by Mehitable Bartlett  were:
1. Elizabeth Spring b. Oct 13, 1659; m. Sept 27, 1677, John Gale. He died & she 
m.  (2) John  Mellen.
2. Henry Spring b. Mar 1, 1662; admitted freeman April 18,  1690.
3. Ann Spring b. Sept 21, 1671; m. at Watertown Mar 18, 1690-1, Jonathan Park of  
Newton.
Six  children.
Three other children by his 2nd marriage to Susanna (Cook) Spring: Mehitable,  
Thomas  & Abiah Spring.
3. Hannah Bartlett, (again) b. Aug 6, 1643; m. Jan. 19, 1667-8,  John Kemball.

Subject: Stearns                  Part 1.
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. 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."
                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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 Grandƒon to Mr. 
Isaac STEARNS, Grandƒon 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 
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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.
                                   ---
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


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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 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.

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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.usgwarchives.net/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.

                                
_____________________________________________ 
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:


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p.460 [Page]

Joseph Sheldon Stearns b. at Foxboro, Mass., May 19, 1808, son of  Joseph 
Stearns and his 1st
wife Sally Fisher of Boston.   Joseph  Sheldon Stearns m. Esther Page b. Sept 
8, 1811, dau of
Oliver Page of  Walpole, Mass. She d. Mar 20, 1847.  Children:
1. Joseph  Oliver Stearns b. Jan 7,  1836.
2. Esther Emily  Stearns b. Oct 2,  1838.
3. Henry Willard  Stearns b. Apr 23,  1841
4. Charles Warren  Stearns b. Nov 29, 1843.


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.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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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.


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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.
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          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.


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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.

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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.
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             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.


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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.
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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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   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.

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Isaac Stearns b. Dec 30, 1792, son of Benjamin Stears & wife,  Susanna Frye 
of New Suncook
(now Lovell, Maine.
Isaac Stearns m. (1) May  25, 1826, Eunice P. Marshall b. July 6, 1804. She 
d. Oct 1, 1830
and he m.  (2) Apr 25, 1833, Elizabeth Lund Page b. July 30, 1798 dau of 
Jeremiah Page,  Esq.
of Dunbarton. First 2 children by his 1st wife Eunice. and children by  2nd 
wife, Elizabeth
Lund Page were  3. Sarah Page Stearns b. & d.  July, 1834.  4. Isaac H. 
Stearns b. May 3, 1837.



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.
           
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11. Elizabeth Stearns b. Sept 1767; d. 1778.

12. Abiel Stearns b. Oct 2, 1770.

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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.

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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.

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:

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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 
Chesterville, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:
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    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.
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   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.
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              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.
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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.

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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:
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          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)

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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.

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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.

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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:

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          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.


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Lucy Fitch b. July 17, 1785, dau of Deacon Moses Fitch & his  wife, Rachel 
Stearns of Bedford.
Lucy Fitch m. John Page of Bedford and res.  at Woburn, Mass.
 

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p.477 [Page]
Joshua Stearns b. Jan 2, 1801, a farmer of Deerfield, Mass., m.  Jan 10, 
1826, Betsey Page of
Deerfield, b. Aug 5, 1805. (seven  children)

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Hannah Stearns b. April 7, 1798, dau. of Josiah Stearns & his  wife, Sarah 
Whittier (he born 1764, a carpenter & farmer who settled at  Mount Vernon, Maine 
where he went about 1788.
Harrah Stearns who died 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.

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Isachar Stearns b. Apr 5, 1767, son of Samuel Stearns & his  wife Elizabeth 
Hutchinson, 
m. Sept. 16, 1720, Dolly Page of Bedford,  Mass.


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George Bumstead Stearns b. Jan 20, 1806 son of Col. Jacob Stearns  & wife, 
Sally Call of
Boston, Mass.   George Bumstead Stearns  m. Oct. 27, 1828, Louisa Page b. Apr 
6, 1809, dau.
of John Odlin Page &  his wife, Sarah of Halowell. Ten children.

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Benjamin Stearns b. Oct 11, 1768 son of Moses Stearns & Ruth  Houghton of 
Westminster, Mass. & Walpole, N.H.
Benjamin Stearns was a  physician at Hillsboro, N.H. where he m. Nov 15, 
1798, Mehitable
Symonds.  Their 1st child, Abigail Stearns b. Aug 12, 1799 m. 1818, John Page 
and had 3  children, note listed.

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p.506
Abigail Stearns b. Aug 12, 1799, dau of Benjamin Stearns &  wife, Mehitable 
Symonds.
Abigail Stearns m, 1818, John Page and had 3  children (unlisted)

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Mighil Davis of Lunenburg, Mass., m. June 30, 1768, Mary Johnson.  He died at 
Lunenburg, July 13, 1770 and his widow died at Wethersfield,  Vermont.  
Children:
1. Samuel Davis b. Jan 12, 1769; m. Aug 16, 1790, Mary Sears, dau. of  
William & Elizabeth Sears of 
Beverly, Mass. and settled at Bridgeton, Maine where he now (1848)  resides.  
Children:
1. died in  infancy.
2. died in  infancy.
3. Mary Davis b. July 9, 1794; m. R.  T. Smith of Bridgeton, where she now 
resides, a  widow.
4. Hannah Davis b. July 9, 1796; m.  1820, Benjamin Dorman and now (1848) 
resides in  Winthrop,
Maine.
5. Samuel Davis, Jr. b. July 4, 1798;  married 1828 ____ and resides at 
Bridgeton.
6.  Mial Davia b. June 15, 1800; m. 1827; resides at  Bridgeton.
7. William Sears Davis, b. July 29,  1802; married and resides at Portland, 
Maine.
8. Betsey Davis, b. July 23, 1804; resides at  Bridgeton.
9. Louisa Davis b. Sept 13, 1807;  died Sept 14, 1818.
10. George Washington Davis, b.  Jan 10, 1810; married and resides at 
Windham, Maine.
11. Nathan Johnson Davis, b. Sept 11, 1812; married and resides at Portland,  
Maine.
12. Leander Davis, b. Sept 25, 1815; died  April 25, 1823.
2. Hannah Davis, b. Oct 21, 1770; m. Oct 27, 1791, Oliver  Peirce, Jr. and 
settled first at New Ipswich and
afterward at  Wethersfield, Vermont where they are both (1848) living.  
Children:
1. Hannah Peirce b. at New  Ipswich, Nov. 13, 1794; of Wethersfield,  
unmarried.
2. Samuel Peirce b. at New  Ipswich, Aug 10, 1796; m. Mar 16, 1822, Esther, 
dau. of Rufus & Ann  
Ranstead of  Westmoreland, N.H.  Children:
1. Charles R. Peirce b. at Wethersfield, VT., Feb 4, 1823; resides in  Boston.
2. Emily I. Peirce b. at Wethersfield, VT., July 24,  1825.
3. Mary A. Peirce b. at Claremont, N.H., July 21, 1827.
 
          Samuel Peirce's wife  Esther (Ranstead) Peirce died at Wethersfield 
Oct 14, 1830 and he m.  (2)
Almira E. the dau.  of Willard & Lydia Witt of Chesterfield, N.H. and they 
now reside at  Drews-
ville,  N.H.
3. Artemas M. Peirce b. at  New Ipswich Dec 25, 1797; m. at Lunenburg, Mass., 
Jan 1, 1826,  Hannah,
dau. of  Jonathan & Sarah Burrage of Lunenburg.  Children:
1. Joseph B. Peirce b. at Wethersfield June 17,  1831.
2. James B. Peirce b. at Springfield, Vermont, Mar 4, 1834; died  1835.
3. Frances J. Peirce b. at Springfield, Vermont, June 5,  1835.
4. Syliva J. Peirce b. at Ackworth, N.H. Feb. 24,  1838.
Artemas M. Peirce wife, Hannah died at Ware, N.H. June 26, 1846 and he m. (2) 
 Lydia G.,  dau.
of  Samuel & Anne Hanson of Ware, where he  resides.
4. Dexter Peirce,  b. Nov 10, 1799, at Rockingham, Vermont; lives in 
Wethersfield,  unmarried.
5. Mary E.  Peirce, b. at Springfield, Vermont, Sept 21, 1801; died April 14, 
 1831.
6. Louisa P. Peirce,  b. at Wethersfield, May 5, 1806;  unmarried.
7. William R.  Peirce, b. at Wethersfield, May 28, 1809; m. at Springfield, 
VT., Nov. 27,  1831,
Adaline, dau. of Philander and Sally Johnson of Rockingham, Vermont - resides 
at  Springfield,
Vermont.



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Betsey Johnson, dau. of Samuel Johnson & Elizabeth Sanderson  (dau of Jacob 
Sanderson of
Lunenburg, Mass.)  Betsey Johnson m. Apr. 14,  1808, Bartholomew Stearns of 
Winchendon, who died.
She m. (2) June 16, 1811,  Levi Page of Rindge, N.H.

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Rev. Ebenezer Sparhawk, b. June 15, 1738, son of Noah & Priscilla  Sparhawk 
of Cambridge, Mass.
grad. Harvard Coll. 1756; a teacher 4 yrs., and  began to preach at 
Charlestown, Mass., January,
1760. The next November he  went to Templeton, Mass., and Nov 18, 1761, was 
ordained pastor of
the church  in that town. He m. Sept. 1, 1763, Abigail Stearns, the 3rd dau. 
of Rev.  David
Stearns by whom he had 4 children. She d. April 21, 1772. He m. (2) Dec  2, 
1773, Naomi Hill,
b. Aug 17, 1749, dau. of Rev. Abraham Hill of  Shutesbury, Mass., by whom he 
had 8 children. 
She died Mar 21,  1829.   Children:
 
1. Ebenezer Sparhawk b. May 28, 1764; died October, 1836; m. Azubah  
Jepherson, dau. of Joseph
& Ruth Jepherson of Rochester, VT where he  settled. He had a very good town 
school education
and several winters of his  early life were employed teaching. He is 
described as possessing a
strong  mind and those moral traits which make a most estimable and 
trustworthy  character. It
was a great consolation to him towards the close of his life,  to have good 
reason to hope that
all his children were Christians.   Children:
1. George Sparhawk who died  1822.
2. Samuel Sparhawk b. 1802; was ordained and  installed at a church in 
Pittsfield, VT in
March  1839; dismissed in 1841. Married Nov. 16, 1824, Laura Fitts, dau. of 
Israel  & Sarah
Fitts of Leicester, VT.  Children:
1. Mary Priscilla  Sparhawk.
2. George Enos  Sparhawk.
3. Luther Tucker  Sparhawk.
4. Sarah Cook  Sparhawk.
5. Martha Alling  Sparhawk.
6. Mary Adelaide  Sparhawk.
7. Samuel Henry  Sparhawk.
8. Sarah Ellen Sparhawk.
3. Priscilla Sparhawk b.  1804; m. 1826, Rev. Daniel Warren of Waterbury, 
then of  
Essex, VT., son of David & Anna Warren of  Rochester, VT; educated at the 
Classical
&  Theological Seminary of Bangor.     Children:
1. Anna Elizabeth Warren b.  1826.
2. Joseph Warren b.  1829.
3. Daniel Henry Warren b.  1832.
4. Evarts Warren b.  1835.
5. Ellen Priscilla Warren b. 1838.
4. Mary Sparkhawk  b. 1806; died 1844; m. 1833, Luther Tucker, wid. of her 
sister,  Naomi.
Children:
1. Luther Tucker b.  1836.
2. Mary Tucker b.  1838.
3. Martha Louisa Tucker b.  1841.
4. Frances Laura Tucker b. 1844.
5. Naomi Sparhawk  b. 1807; m. 1827, Luther Tucker of Rochester, N.Y.; 
publisher of  the
Genesee Farmer and of the  Rochester Republican. Mr. Tucker moved to Albany 
where  his
first wife Naomi died of  cholera 1832 leaving two  children:
1. Charles Henry Tucker b. 1828; died  1832.
2. Julia Naomi Tucker b. 1832.
6. Ebenezer Sparhawk  b. 1809; d. 1833, while he was preparing to enter 
college, with  the
intention of devoting himself to the gospel  ministry.
7. Joseph Sparhawk b. 1811; died  1813.
8. Martha Sparhawk b. 1814; m. 1836, William  Alling, a bookseller of 
Rochester,  N.Y.
1. William Alling b.  1836.
2. Jane Louisa Alling b.  1838.
3. Charles Henry Alling who died aged 2  yrs.
4. Frederick Alling b. 1843.
p.547
9. Louisa  Sparhawk b. 1816; m. 1839, Edward Terry, son of Loren & Polly 
Terry of  
Stockbridge, VT. He was connected in business with  his brother-in-law, Mr. 
Alling at
Rochester, N.Y. 
 
2. Henry Sparhawk b. April 26, 1766; m. Lucinda Lamb of Kingston, VT and  
settled at Rochester
where he was a Deacon. He d. 1813 and his widow m. (2)  ____ Jones, now of 
Norton, Midina Co.,
Ohio.  Children:
1. Abigail  Sparhawk b. 1796; a deaf  mute.
2. Rebecca Sparhawk b.  1799; a deaf mute.
3.  Ebenezer Sparhawk b. 1801; a farmer of Norton,  Ohio.
4. Stearns Sparhawk b.  1806; a leather dresser of Baltimore who m. Sept 19,  
1831,
_____?   Children:
1. Samuel Sparhawk b. Apr 7,  1835.
2. John Sparhawk b. Aug 22, 1837.
3. Benjamin Franklin Sparhawk b. Apr 4,  1840.
4. Edward Sparhawk b. Aug 22,  1842.
5. Henry Clay Sparhawk b. Sept. 2,  1844.
5. Henry Sparhawk b.  1811; a farmer of Norton,  Ohio.
6. Noah Sparhawk b.  1813; a farmer of Norton, Ohio.
 
3. Thomas Stearns Sparhawk b. June 1768; d. July 1769.
 
4. Thomas Stearns Sparhawk (again) b. May 18, 1770; grad. Dartmouth Coll.  
1791; studied law
with Silas Lee, Esq., of Wiscasset, Maine and settled at  Bucksport, Maine 
where he died June
1807. He m. 1795, Mary Kinsman, dau of  Colonel Aaron Kinsman of Hanover, 
N.H.   Children:
1. Mary Louisa  Sparhawk who m. 1814, Charles Fox b. at Roxbury, Mass.,  1794;
a grad. of Dartmouth  Coll., 1813; studied medicine; became the Principal of  
the
Boylston School, Boston,  many years.
2. William  Sparhawk who died at sea.
3.  Edward Vernon Sparhawk who died 1838 at Richmond, VA.,  unmarried.
4. Arthur George  Sparhawk, a printer at  Cincinnati.
5. Lucia  Sparhawk, unmarried.
 
5. Abraham Sparkawk b. Jan 20, 1774; died April 7, 1819 of epilepsy.  
Unmarried.
 
6. Abigail Sparhawk b. Dec 26, 1775; m. 1801, Joshua Richardson, a farmer,  
of Templeton, Mass.
 
7. Priscilla Sparhawk b. May 13, 1777; m. Sept 15, 1800, Colonel Joseph  Lee.
 
8. Naomi Sparhawk b. May 13, 1777 (twin to Priscilla) m. Sept 15, 1819,  
Oliver Stearns
Sparhawk, Esq., of Walpole, N.H.
 
9. Noah Sparhawk b. Aug 20, 1780.
 
10. Elizabeth Sparhawk b. July 9, 1782; m. June, 1804, Samuel Lee, son of  
Rev. Joseph Lee of
Royalston, Mass.  He was in trade several years at  Bucksport, Maine; 
afterwards went to sea
and had good success and in 1838  retired from business and settled at 
Templeton, Mass.
 
11. George Sparhawk b. Oct 8, 1784; went into trade at Frankfort, Maine;  
afterwards became
a shipmaster and died at Mobile, 1820 of yellow  fever.
 
12. Samuel Sparhawk b. July 23, 1786; died 1835. Was a farmer at Norton,  
Summit County, Ohio
where he married Mary Hudson.   Children:
1.  George Sparhawk b.  1821.
2. Naomi  Sparhawk b. May 2,  1824.
3. Elvira  Sparhawk b. Apr 1,  1826.
4.  Elizabeth Abigail Sparhawk b. Mar 7, 1829.
 
 
 
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p.588 [Page]

Elizabeth Stone b. Dec 5, 1778 dau of Moses Stone & Elizabeth  Stone. 
Elizabeth Stone m.
Sept 30, 1806, Increase Wilson Page of  Hallowell.

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p.589 [Stone]

There was a Deacon Simon Stone who settled at Groton as early as 1694 where he 
had
numerous descendants.  His parentage has not been ascertained; but there is not 
much
doubt but that he was  of the Watertown stock, and that he was a son either of 
Simon Stone
Jr., or of Deacon John Stone; probably of the latter.  On this presumption, the 
following
genealogy of his descendants is inserted.  A more thorough investigation may 
lead to many
corrections and additions, as too much of the following is conjectural.  He 
married Sarah
____.  It is probable that he had at least three children born before he went to 
Groton, or
whose births are not recorded here.

1. (?) John Stone of Groton.
2. (?) Sarah Stone m. Sept 28, 1708, Stephen Farr of Stow.
3. (?) Simon Stone m. Sarah.  Children:
             1. Simon Stone b. Sept 10, 1714
             2. Ephraim Stone b. Jan 2, 1715/16.
             3. Oliver Stone b. Jan 20, 1719/20
             4. Sarah Stone b. Jan 27, 1721/2
             5. Isaac Stone b. Feb 17, 1723/4
             6. Hannah Stone b. April 18, 1726.
             7. Elias Stone b. April 2, 1728
             8. Amos Stone b. Sept 9, 1729.
                This family probably left Groton early.
4. (?) Abigail Stone m. Dec 11, 1718, Nathaniel Holden.
5.  Susanna Stone b. in Groton Oct 23, 1694.
6. Isaac Stone b. May 4, 1697; d. Sept 30, 1723
7. Hannah Stone died Sept 27, 1723
8. Lydia Stone died Sept 30, 1723.
9. Benjamin Stone b. Aug 12, 1706.


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p.590 [Page]
Salmon Stone b. Apr 17, 1744, son of Deacon James Stone & Mary  Farwell of 
Groton, Mass.
Salmon Stone m. Nov 11, 1767, Susanna Page b. June  29, 1747, dau of Joseph & 
Abigail (Shed) Page of Groton, Mass.


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p.533 [Paige]

Abigail Bellows dau. of Peter Bellows & wife, Mary Chase of  Cornish, N.H.
Abigail Bellows m. 1782, Samuel Willard, a farmer of  Charlestown b. Nov. 28, 
1763, son of
Joseph and Huldah Willard of  Charlestown, N.H. (the old Fort No. 4) She died 
in childbed
October, 1785. He  m. (2) May 24, 1791 the widow Susan Hardy, dau. of Obadiah 
& Lucy  Jenkins
of Charlestown.  He went into the Revolutionary army at the age  of 15 as a 
waiter for Capt.
Peter Paige.
 
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p.535-536

Gen. Benjamin Bellows of Walpole, Register of Deeds 30 years, a Representative, 
Senator,
and Counseller in the State Legislature, a Judge of the County Court & 4 times 
State Elector
of Pres. of U.S., he was an officer in the army at the capture of Burgoyne, and 
was celebrated for his 
skill in Indian Warfare.  He m. Phebe Strong, a sister of Gov. Caleb
Strong of Northampton.

His son, Caleb Bellows b. 1769; a colonel m. Mar 6, 1791, Mary Hartwell of New 
Ipswich, N.H.
and settled at Walpole.  Their 11th & 12th children were twins:

11. Caroline Pinckey Bellows b. May 6, 1813; m. (1) Aug 24, 1837, Joshua Baron 
Davis, Esq.
    and afterwards m. (2) Judge Woolcot and res. in Maumee, Ohio.

12. Charles Cotesworth Bellows b. May 3, 1813 twin of Caroline (above) m. Abby 
P. Champney
    of Toledo.


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p.538 [Norcross]
Jeremiah Norcross (1595-1657) (in  England) (Uncle of Stephen Paine) & 1st  wife 
____? before 1618; Watertown.
Jeremiah  Norcross (1595-1657) (called Charles Chadwick "brother") & 2nd wife, 
Adrean/?Adrian/?Andria Smith,  
widow; before 1640; Watertown.
 
Nathaniel Norcross, son of Jeremiah, A.B. Catherine Hall, Cambridge,  1636; 
admitted freeman May 10, 1643; 
was called as a minister to Nashua  (Lancaster) upon the first attempt to 
organize a church there.  He  
remained there only a
short time and probably soon returned to England.   He had a wife Sarah. (see
also Worcester Mag. II, p.274).
 
John Norcross of Cambridge, 1642; was probably the brother of Jeremuah Norcross 
referred to in the Will 
of the latter.
 
Richard Norcross b. 1621; son of Jeremiah (1); was admitted freeman May  26, 
1653; the first schoolmaster 
mentioned in the town records, being chosen  Jan.
11, 1650/1; and is said to have been the only one for 20 years, and was  a 
teacher as late as November, 
1687.  He taught Latin, English and  writing, all the year for ?30.  He m. (1) 
June 24, 1650, Mary  Brooks.  
She died Feb. 24, 1671/2; and he m. (2) Nov 18, 1673, Susanna,  the widow of 
William Shattuck.
She died Dec 11, 1686.  His Will, dated  April 8, 1708, proved Dec. 1709.
Children: (p.377)
1. Mary Norcross b. Aug  27, 1652; died Oct 19, 1661.
2. Jeremiah Norcross b. Mar 3, 1655; d. Nov 30,  1717.
3. Sarah Norcross b. Dec 28, 1657; m. Sept. 23, 1680, Joseph Child,  Jr.
4. Richard Norcross b. Aug 4, 1660.
5. Mary Norcross b. July 10, 1663;  m. April 2, 1713, John Stearns as his 2nd 
wife.
6. Nathaniel  Norcross b. Dec 18, 1665; d. Dec 1, 1717.
7. Samuel Norcross b. May 4,  1671.
 
Richard Norcross Jr., a schoolmaster, m. (1), August 10, 1686, Rose  Woodward.
He m. (2) August 6, 1695, Hannah Sanders who died in Weston, where  he had 
settled, May 14, 1743.  
They had a grandchild, Edmund Mason under  their care, baptized at Weston, Dec 
16, 1739.
Children:
 
1. Richard Norcross b. Dec 30, 1687.
2. Samuel Norcross b. Oct 14, 1689,  a soldier in an expedition to Canada, and 
died in Durham,  
Connecticut, 1724, where he had resided six years.
3. Abigail Norcross b.  July 11, 1692.
4. John Norcross b. Dec 28, 1696.
5. Hannah Norcross b. Feb  16, 1698/9.
6. Joseph Norcross b. July 1, 1701.
7. Jeremiah Norcross b.  July 2, 1703; settled in Lunenburg; married in Groton, 
Jan 28,  1730/1, 
Faith Page b. Nov 6, 1707, daughter of Jonathan & Mary  Page.
Children:
1. Jabez Norcross b. Mar 10, 1731/2; m. Mar 27, 1771,  Hannah                 
       
Bailey.
2. Mary Norcross b. Jan 24,  1733/4.
3. Sarah Norcross b. Feb 25,  1735/6.
4. Page Norcross b. April 9, 1738; m. Feb. 15, 1763,  Elizabeth Bailey.
5. Hannah Norcross b. Nov 10,  1741.
6. Jeremiah Norcross b. Feb 15,  1743/4.
7. Elijah Norcross b. Mar 7, 1749/50.
 
8. George Norcross b. Aug 22, 1705;
9. Rose Norcross b. Mar 20, 1707/8  "to be called Ruth."
10. Peter Norcross b. Sept 28, 1710; m. (published March  27th) 1742, Elizabeth 
Benjamin.
11. William Norcross b.  Mar 14, 1714/15; m. at Shrewsbury, Nov 6, 1741, Lydia  
Wheeler.  Children born in  Shrewsbury:
1. William Norcross b. Mar 18, 1742; died  young.
2. Daniel Norcross b. March 9,  1745.
3. Sarah Norcross b. Oct 1, 1746; died  young.
4. William Norcross 2nd, b. Sept. 20,  1748.
5. Sarah Norcross b. June 3, 1759; m. 1779, George Filmore.
 
Nathaniel Norcross of Watertown, m. (1) June 20, 1687, Mehitable  Hagar.
She died April 5, 1691 and he m. (2) Susanna  ____.
Insert: Torrey -  New England Marriages Prior to  1700.

p.  538 [possib 539]
Nathaniel Norcross  (-1717) & 1st wife, Mehitable Hagar  (-1691) m. June 20,  
1687, Watertown.
Nathaniel Norcross (-1717) & 2nd wife, Susannah Shattuck  (1675-); ca 1693;  
before 1695; Watertown.
Children of Nathaniel Norcross:
 
1. Mehitable Norcross b. Feb 4, 1690/1.
2. Nathaniel Norcross b. Dec 20,  1695.
3. Philip Norcross b. Mar 5, 1697/8.
4. Susanna Norcross b. Feb 26,  1700/1; died 1735; m. Feb 1, 1719/10, Jonathan 
Benjamin.
 
Joseph Norcross of Weston; m. (published Nov 23, 1729) 1730, Hannah  Shepherd of 
Newton.  Children:
 
1. Elizabeth Norcross b. Dec 11, 1730; m. June 7, 1750, John Clark of Hopkinton.
2. Hannah Norcross b. May 11, 1733; m. 1750, Gideon Whitney of  Hopkinton.
3. Noah Norcross b. Jan 8, 1735/6; m. April 1, 1762, Ruth  Upham.
4. Joseph Norcross b. May 10, 1737; declared non comp., 1761 and his  father 
appointed his guardian.
5. Isaac Norcross b. May 23, 1739.
6.  Mehitable Norcross b. June 29, 1741; d. Dec 9, 1743 of Scarlet Fever.
7.  Samuel Norcross b. Nov 12, 1745.
8. Mary Norcross b. Sept 3, 1747.
9.  Jacob Norcross b. Oct 19, 1751.


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p.596 [TAINTER (Taynter, Taintor,  Tayntor)]
Joseph Taynter, aged 25, embarked at Southampton, England, April 24,  1638 in 
the ship, Confidence of 
London, John Jobson, Master, as a servant for  Nicholas Guy. He had a share in 
the first division of 
land at Sudbury in  1639, and in the third division in November, 1640. If he 
ever resided at Sudbury, 
it could have been only a short time, as appears by the births of  his children 
at Watertown.
 
He married Mary, dau. of Deacon N. Guy. There is some perplexity respecting the 
wives of Joseph Tainter 
and Henry Cuttriss. It is probable that Jane was  the 2nd wife of Deacon Guy and 
one of those wives of 
Joseph Tainter and Henry  Cuttris may have been his daughter by his first wife, 
and the other, either his  
daughter by his 2nd wife, or a daughter of his second wife by a former  husband.  
His Will  [Vol.XVII., p.55], 
dated Feb. 18, 1689-90,  mentions wife Mary; sons Joseph, Benjamin, Jonathan and 
Simon; also
 

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p.597

daughter Mary Pollard; sons-in-law Elnathan Beers and John Taylor;  "my 
loving friends, Simon Stone and John
Stone," overseers and son Simon,  executor. In his Will, he mentions "my lot 
near the meeting-house, which
was  my father Guy's"  He died Feb. 20, 1689-90. Inventory of real estate  
(several lots amounting to 317
acres), ?444.  Children:
 
1. Mary Tainter who m. ____ Pollard.
2. Ann Tainter b. Sept 2, 1644;  probably died young.
3. Joseph Tainter b. Sept 2, 1645; d. Aug 7, 1728;  probably unmarried.
4. Rebecca Tainter b. Aug 18, 1647; not mentioned in her  father's Will.
5. Benjamin Tainter b. Jan 22, 1650-1; of Sudbury; m. Mary  ____.
6. Jonathan Tainter b. Sept 10, 1654.
7. Sarah Tainter b. Nov 20,  1657; m. about 1681, Elnathan Beers.
8. Simon Tainter b. Sept 30, 1660; died  Jan 19, 1738-9, "an old man."
9. Dorothy Tainter b.  Aug 13, 1663; m.  John Taylor, probably a son of 
William Taylor of Concord.
 
Jonathan Tainter, m. Dec 6, 1681, Elizabeth Warren. She died June 14, 1692.  
This family probably all moved
early from Watertown - perhaps to  Marlboro.  Children:
1. Jonathan Tainter b. July 12,  1682; m. Mar 5, 1701-2, Mary Randall.  
Children:
1. Randall Tainter b. Jan 21, 1703-4; died July 15,  1705.
2. Susanna Tainter b. May 30, 1706. It is probable that soon after this date, 
 the  family
migrated to another town.
2. Benjamin Tainter b. June 20,  1685.
3. Joseph Tainter b. May 25, 1688. Probably he was  the Joseph Tainter of 
Marlboro, who, by wife,
Thankful had  sons, John Tainter b. 1716 and Benjamin Tainter (see Ward, 
p.452 and Ward  Family, p.39.)
 
Simon Tainter who m. May 9, 1693, Joanna Stone. She died Dec. 3, 1731.  
Children:
1. Simon Tainter b. Feb 28, 1693-4; m. May  25, 1714, Rebecca Harrington.   
Children:
1. Simon Tainter b. Apr 8,  1715.
2. Rebecca Tainter b. Jan 1,  1716-17.
3. Joanna Tainter b. Feb 16,  1717-18.
4. Susanna Tainter b. Dec 18,  1720.
5. Jonathan Tainter b. Aug 5,  1723.
6. Sarah Tainter bap. Aug 1, 1725.
2. Mary  Tainter b. Jan 24, 1695-6; died Jan 13,  1697-8.
3. John Tainter b. Mar 13,  1698-9.
4. Rebecca Tainter b. May 26, 1701; d.  Dec 14, 1715.
5. Mary Tainter b. Nov 27, 1703;  m. Apr. 14, 1726, Benjamin Hastings.
6.  Dorothy Tainter b. May 20, 1706.
 
To be continued - Vol. I - Part 2 - p.597. Capt. John Tainter & wife,  Joanna 
Harrington.

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p.597 [Part 2]
Capt. John Tainter m. May 25,  1720, Joanna Harrington.  Children:
 
1. Mary Tainter b. June 12, 1721; died young.
2. Hannah Tainter b. Feb  14, 1723; m. Nov. 25, 1746, Moses Stone.
3. Rebecca Tainter b. Aug 14,  1725.
4. Susanna Tainter b. July 29, 1727; m. May 31, 1753, Abraham Hill of  
Cambridge.
5. Joanna Tainter b. Dec 10, 1730; m. Nov 1, 1750, Ebenezer Shedd,  Jr., of 
Charlestown.
6. John Tainter b. Aug 12, 1732; a soldier at Lake  George, 1758; wife's name 
not recorded. Children,
baptized at  Watertown:
1. Mary Tainter bap. Jan 4, 1756;  m. Sept 20, 1784, William Poppenbury of  
Lexington.
2. Susanna Tainter bap. Jan 1,  1758; m. Aug 20, 1776, Henry Gibson.
3. Sarah  Tainter bap. Mar 9, 1760; m. Oct 5, 1777, Matthew  Peirce.
4. Joanna Tainter bap. April 4,  1762.
5. Samuel Tainter bap. June 2,  1765.
6. Lucy Tainter bap. Oct 12,  1766.
7. Hannah Tainter bap. Dec 13, 1767; m.  Oct. 19, 1789, Ezra Wyman of Pelham, 
N.H.
8.  John Tainter bap. April 20, 1770.
9. Nathaniel  Tainter bap. Aug 14, 1774.
10. Dolly Tainter bap.  Nov 2, 1785.

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p.598

7. Ann Tainter b. Aug 12, 1734; m. Nov 24, 1757, David  Watson of Cambridge.
8. Samuel Tainter b. Mar 25, 1737; a soldier at Lake  George, 1758; died Jan 
4, 1759.
9. Eire (or Eyres) Tainter b. July 20, 1741;  m. Dec 15, 1767, Elizabeth 
Coolidge.  She died May 15,  1786.
Children:
1. Elizabeth Tainter  bap. Dec 4, 1768; m. _____Follansbee of  Leominster.
2. Lucy Tainter bap. Sept 2,  1770; m. Elijah Fairbanks of Leominster.
3. William Tainter bap. July 19, 1772; married and settled at  Leominster.
4. Rebecca Tainter bap. Nov  26, 1774; m. ____ Jenkins of Townsend.
5. Sally Tainter bap. July 11, 1784; died unmarried.
10. Mary Tainter b. Feb  20, 174_.
11. William Tainter b. June 1, 1746; died Mar 6, 1759.
12.  Elizabeth Tainter bap. Jan 16, 1747-8; m. Dec 18, 1766, Nathaniel Jarvis 
of  Cambridge.
 
Deborah Tainter bap. at Watertown, Aug 16, 1702.
Elisha Livermore  Tainter of Watertown, m. at Weston, Feb 223, 1821, Sally 
Pierpont Smith.

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p.609

Abigail Trowbridge b. Nov. 30, 1740, m. Oct 9, 1764, the Hon. Eben Champney.  
She was the
dau of Caleb Trowbridge b. Nov. 7, 1692 the 11th child of James Trowbridge of 
Dorchester
son of Thomas Trowbridge.  James Trowbridge m. Dec 30, 1659, Margaret, dau of 
Major General
Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester.  James Trowbridge settled first in Dorchester 
then moved
to Newton abt 1664 when his wife was dismissed from Dorchester church to a 
church formed in
Nonantum (Newton) of which he was afterwards a deacon.  His wife died 1672 & he 
m. (2)
Margaret ___?.  James Trowbridge died May 22, 1717 and his widow d. Sept 16, 
1727.

Caleb Trowbridge was born Nov 7, 1692, son of his father's 2nd wife, Margaret 
___
He grad. Harvard College 1710; ordained at Groton, Mass., Mar 2, 1714/15; m. (1)
Sarah Oliver who d. Jan 16, 1716/17 and he m. (2) 1718, Hannah dau of Rev. 
Nehemia Walter
of Roxbury.  He d. Sept 19, 1760 [see Butler - History of Groton - 1848 - pp 171 
& 441]
Abigail (Trowbridge) Champney's mother was Hannay (Walter) Trowbridge.


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p.627 

The Will of Dr. John Alcock of Roxbury (who died in Boston, March 27, 1667, and 
was buried
in Roxbury), dated May 10, 1666, proved (?) at Plymouth May 2, 1667, mentions 
his wife,
not named and eight children, viz: Anna who m. Feb 24, 1669 John Williams (See 
Will of
George Alcock of Roxbury (father of Dr. John Alcock) dated Dec 22, 1640 in 
Geneal. Reg.
II., p. 104.)

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p.629 [Page]

Margaret Wellington b. Aug 22, 1745, dau of Joseph Wellington  & wife, Dorcas 
Stone of
Lexington, Mass. Margaret Wellington m. Timothy  Page who was killed in the 
battle of
White Plains. (record ends)
 

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p.637 [Price]

John Wetherill was admitted freeman May 18, 1642; by his wife Grace, had 
daughter, Mary Wetherill, 
buried April 20, 1655, aged 20 yrs. Wife Grace died Dec 16, 1671; aged 75 yrs. 
and he died June 23, 
1672 aged 78  yrs.  His Will, dated Jan 9, 1671-2, gives to Rev. Mr. Sherman, 40 
shillings; to Ralph 
Day, a kinsman, of Dedham; James Thorpe, a kinsman of Dedham; the balance to 
William Priest of Watertown, 
a kinsman and executor. Inventory £110. In a petition to the Court, March, 1663-
4, he mentions his loving 
brother, Stephen Fosdick of Charlestown, who died leaving wife, aged 75, to whom 
he was m. 40 yrs ago, 
when she was single and he had six children [?William Price.]

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p.642 [Whitney]

Families of the name of Whitney are very numerous, not only in every State in 
New England, but in many 
other parts of the United States. There
is scarcely a single large town where they may not be found, and it is
probable that most if not all of them are descendants of John and Elinor
Whitney of Watertown.  A concert of action among the many intelligent,
well educated persons of this name, might produce a very copious and
interesting family memorial. The following is offered as a contribution
towards such an undertaking.

Embarked at Ipswich, England, April 1635 for New England in the ship,
Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper, Master.

                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Insert:

The Elizabeth & Ann, 1635

Ship and Passenger Information:

Roger Cooper, Master

April 13, 1635

     From Evesham in Worc'r
Washborn, Margerie . . . . . 49

 (son) Washborne, Jo:  . . . 14
 (son) Washborne, Phillipp . 11

Alsopp, Joseph . . . . . . . 14
Broomer, Marie . . . . . . . 10
Cartrack, Mildred  . . . . .  2
Cartrack, Sara . . . . . . . 24
Dammand, Jane  . . . . . . .  9 
Eaton, Abigall . . . . . . . 35
Eaton, Mary  . . . . . . . .  4
Eaton, Thomas  . . . . . . .  1
Hawkynns, Marie  . . . . . . 24
Hawkynns, Robert . . . . . . 25
Hubbard, Thomas  . . . . . . 10
Hubbard, William . . . . . . 35
Jackson, Henry . . . . . . . 29
Martin, Richard  . . . . . . 12
Palmerley, Jo: . . . . . . . 35
Sension, Nicholas  . . . . . 13
Whitney, Ellin . . . . . . . 30
Whitney, Jo: . . . . . . . . 35
Whitney, Jo: . . . . . . . . 11
Whitney, Jonathan  . . . . .  1
Whitney, Nathaniell  . . . .  8
Whitney, Richard . . . . . .  9
Whitney, Thomas  . . . . . .  6

Source:
John Langford's "English - America" Ships' Passenger Lists
http://english-america.com/
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John Whitney, aged 35; wife Ellin (or Elinor) aged 30; sons John, aged
11; Richard, aged 9; Nathaniel, aged 8; Thomas, aged 6 and Jonathan aged
1 yr.

John Whitney was admitted freeman, March 3, 1635-6; was Selectman several
years between 1638 and 1655 inclusive and was Town Clerk, 1655.  In 1642
his homestall lot of 16 acres where he continued to reside, was bounded
east and south by William Jennison; west by Martin Underwood; north by
Isaac Mixer.  He at the same time owned 8 other lots, amounting to 212
acres. His early admission as a freeman, and his early election as
Selectman, show that he held a respectable social position.

His wife, Elinor, died May 11, 1659 and he m. (2) Sept 29, 1659, Judah
(Judith) Clement.  He died a widower June 1, 1673 aged 74 yrs.  His Will
dated April 3, 1673, attested by William Bond, Sr. and Sarah Bond, Sr.,
mentions sons John, Richard, Thomas, Jonathan, Joshua, and Benjamin.
Inventory dated June 4, 1673, 50 acres dividend land £25; 3 acres of 
Beaver Brook meadow, and 1-1/2 acre upland, £60; one acre plain meadow
£10.  He had probably previously distributed much of his estate in the
settlement of his sons.  (see his son Benjamin.)

Children of John and Elinor Whitney:

1. John Whitney born in England, 1624.
2. Richard Whitney born in England, 1626.
3. Nathaniel Whitney born in England, 1627; not mentioned in his father's
Will - probably died young.
4. Thomas Whitney born in England, 1629.


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5. Jonathan Whitney born in England, 1634.
6. Joshua Whitney born in Watertown, Mass. Feb 15, 1635-6.
7. Caleb Whitney born in Watertown, July 12, 1640; not mentioned in his
father's Will; prob. died young.
8. Benjamin Whitney, born in Watertown, June 6, 1643.

John Whitney, Jr. was admitted freeman May 26, 1647; then aged 23 yrs.;
was Selectman 1673, 74, 75, 76, 78 and 1679.  He married Ruth, the dau.
of Robert Reynolds of Boston.  The Will of Robert Reynolds of Boston,
dated April 20, 1658, mentions his dau. Ruth Whitney and her eldest son;
his dau. Sarah Mason, and her son Robert.  He died October 12, 1692 and
administration granted to widow Ruth, and sons John and Benjamin. Inventory 
dated October 26, 1692, 
taken by Elnathan Beers and Thomas
Hammond. It embraced 18 lots or parcels of land, amounting to about 210
acres and prized at £197.15.  It embraced one lot of 17 acres "purchased
of father Arnold."   Children:

1. John Whitney b. Sept 17, 1642 (?) of Rox.; adm freeman May 7, 1684.
Was he the one who married Sarah, the dau. of Richard Haven, of Lynn?

2. Ruth Whitney b. April 15, 1645; m. (1) June 20, 1664, John Shattuck.
(four children)  She m. (2) at Watertown, Mar 6, 1676-7, Enoch Lawrence
son of John Lawrence, q.v.; four children. Her descendants are very numerous.

3. Nathaniel Whitney b. Feb 1, 1646-7; died at Weston Jan 7, 1732-3.

4. Samuel Whitney b. July 28, 1648; m. Feb 16, 1683-4 Mary Bemis.
   1. Mary Whitney b. Sept 30, 1689 m. July 13, 1715, John Knapp of
   Newton.

5. Mary Whitney b. April 29, 1650; unmarried in 1693.

6. Joseph Whitney b. Jan 15, 1651-2; died Nov 4, 1702.

7. Sarah Whitney b. Mar 17, 1653-4; m. Oct 18, 1681, Daniel Harrington.

8. Elizabeth Whitney b. June 9, 1656; m. Dec 19, 1678, Daniel Warren.

9. Hannah Whitney - unmarried 1693.

10. Benjamin Whitney b. June 28, 1660.

Richard Whitney admitted freeman May 7, 1651; m. Mar 19, 1650-1, Martha
Coldam.  He was a proprietor of Stow, 1681 and prob. moved there when it 
was a part of or belonged to Concord.  His children were all (at least
eight) born in Watertown.

1. Sarah Whitney b. Mar 17, 1652-3.
2. Moses Whitney b. Aug 1, 1655; m. at Stow, Sept 30, 1686, Sarah Knight.
3. Johanah Whitney b. Jan 16, 1656-7.
4. Deborah Whitney b. Oct 12, 1658.
5. Rebecca Whitney b. Dec 15, 1659; died the next February.
6. Richard Whitney b. Jan 13, 1660-1; of Stow. His Will dated Dec 22,
1723, mentions son Richard (executor), son Jonathan (executor), son 
Joshua; daughters Hannah Farr, Elizabeth Wetherby, Sarah, Ruhamah and
Hepzibah.
7. Elisha Whitney b. Aug 26, 1662.
8. Ebenezer Whitney b. June 30, 1672.

                                         

      Insert -  p.44 - History of Concord, Mass. by Lemuel Shattuck
      "Among those named as having been granted lands at Stow, Mass.
      (once a part of Concord) was Richard Whitney.   His lands at Stow
      were granted June 3,  1680."   [the son of Richard Whitney (born England) 
      & wife, Martha Coldam  - p.643 - Bond's Watertown.]                       

                                                   
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p.643

Thomas Whitney b. in England, son of John & Elinor Whitney.
Thomas Whitney, m. Jan 11, 1654-5, Mary Kedall (?Kettle.) 
He was admitted freeman on April 18, 1690.
Jan 16, 1682, Thomas Whitney (?father or son)
purchased of John Hayward of Boston, scrivener, and his wife Mary, 45
acres of land at Pompasitticut (Stow, Mass).  Children:

1. Thomas Whitney b. Aug 24, 1656; died Sept 20, 1719; m. Oct 18, 1681,
Elizabeth Lawrence.   Possibly he was the father of :

        Thomas Whitney who married July 1, 1720, Hannah Smith and had:
        1. Eleazer Whitney b. Nov 30, 1720; d. 1738.
        2. Thomas Whitney b. Sept 2, 1722.
        3. Hannah Whitney b. July 17, 1724.
        4. Nathan Whitney bap. Mar 3, 1727(?).
        5. Joshua Whitney b. May 14, 1728
        6. Susanna Whitney b. May 17, 1729.

2. John Whitney b. May 19, 1659.
3. John Whitney (again)  b. 22nd & died 26th, August, 1661.
4. Eleazer Whitney (twin) b. April 7, 1662.
5. Elnathan Whitney (twin to Eleazer) b. April 7, 1662.

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p.644

6. Mary Whitney b. Dec 22, 1663; died young.
7. Bezaleel Whitney b. Sept 16, 1665.
8. Sarah Whitney b. Mar 23, 1666-7; m. April 11, 1697, Charles Chadwick.
9. Mary Whitney (again) b. Aug 6, 1668; died Sept 6, 1669.
10. Isaiah Whitney b. Sept 16, 1671. By his wife, Sarah, had at 
Cambridge:
    1. John Whitney.  2. Isaiah Whitney.  3. John Whitney (again)
    4. Nathaniel Whitney. 5. Sarah Whitney. 6. Elijah Whitney. 7. Jonas
    Whitney.
11. Martha Whitney b. Jan 30, 1673-4.

Jonathan Whitney who m. at Watertown, Oct 30, 1656, Lydia Jones. He d. at
Sherburne about 1702, where he was as early as 1679. About 1659 his father
gave him 39 acres of land, which he had purchased of Richard Woodward.
Nov. 7, 1664, Jonathan Whitney and wife, Lydia, sold for £40, this land,
situated in the little plain in Watertown, to Thomas Flagg.      Nov. 7, 1664,
he sold to Richard Child, 5 acres of meadow, situated on a branch of
Stony Brook.  Children:

1. Lydia Whitney b. July 3, 1657; died 1719; m. at Sherburne, Mass., April
15, 1681, Moses Adams.

2. Jonathan Whitney b. Oct. 20, 1658.

3. Anna Whitney b. April 28, 1660; (?) m. Cornelius Fisher.

4. John Whitney b. June 27, 1662.

5. Josiah Whitney b. May 19, 1664. Perhaps he was the Josiah Whitney
who moved from Groton about 1707. [Butler, Caleb - p.99]
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        Insert: Groton - Caleb Butler 1848 - p.98-99:
p.98
"Groton, July 9, 1707
"May it please your Excellency. 
According to your Excellency's commands, we have sent an account of 
those, that are either actually removed, or are meditating of it.
Our people are reduced to that degree that they find themselves unable
to subsist any longer - would pray your Excellency either to grant
liberty for their remove, or that they may be reduced here entirely to
garrison of the town militia for the preserving the frontiers.  We

p.99
thankfully acknowledge your Excellency's great care of us hitherto, and
would pray the continuance of your regards, without which we are an 
undone people.   We take leave to subscribe, (may it pleas your Excel-
lency,)

   "Your Excellency's most obedient servants,
             John Farnsworth, Selectman
             Jonathan Boyden, Selectman
             Joseph Lakin, Selectman
             Joseph Lakin, Town Clerk."

"John Stone
Jonathan Page
Nathaniel Woods
Daniel Lawrence
John Shattuck
Nathaniel Parker
Benjamin Lakin
Jonathan Boyden
John Hutchins
Zachariah Lawrence
Edmund Chamberlain
John Hall

Samuel Shattuck
Zerubbabel Kemp
Zachariah Sawtell
John Gilson
Abraham Lakin
Josiah Lakin
William Lakin
William Shattuck
John Farnsworth
Of the persons that are a considering of going.

"Joseph Perham
Samuel Davis
Daniel Cady
John Cady
Samuel Farnsworth
Joseph Boyden


Josiah Whitney  <<<<<<<<<<<
Cornelius Whitney
Joseph Lawrence
Ebenezer Nutting
Of Persons Gone."
       

                 "Joseph Lakin, Selectman
                  John Farnsworth, Selectman
                  Jonathan Boyden, Selectman
              Joseph Lakin, Town Clerk for Groton."

end - Caleb Butler's Groton insert.
(I find no other record for Josiah Whitney (above) in any of Dr. Samuel A. 
Green's
books on Groton) 

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back to p. 644 - Watertown:

Dr. Bond says:
[There was a Josiah Whitney "formerly of Dedham, now of Weston," which,
at Weston, he m. Feb 28, 1725-6, Elizabeth Grant of Concord and had
children: 1. Elizabeth Whitney bap. July 13, 1735. 2. Phinehas Whitney
bap. May 11, 1740.]

6. Elinor Whitney (dau of Jonathan Whitney & Lydia Jones) b. Oct 12, 1666.
She died Nov 23, 1678.

7. James Whitney b. Nov 25, 1668; died at Sherburne Nov 30, 1690.

8. Isaac Whitney b. Jan. 12, 1670-1; died Dec. 2. 1690.

9. Joseph Whitney b. Mar 10, 1672-3; probably father, by wife Rebecca at
Sherburne of children:
      1. Jonas Whitney b. 1708.
      2. Joseph Whitney b. 1710.
      3. Sylvanus Whitney b. 1712.
      4. James Whitney b. 1714.
      5. Ephraim Whitney b. 1716.

10. Abigail Whitney b. Aug 18, 1675.

11. Benjamin Whitney b. Jan 6, 1678-9; m. at Sherburne Oct 24, 1700,
Mercy Travis an died 1718 probably s.p.