Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 20:27:11 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: j-hayes@pop.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 22:31:53 -0500 To: STEARNS-L@rootsweb.com From: Jeanne Hayes Subject: Stearns, Charles Resent-From: STEARNS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/161 X-Loop: STEARNS-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: STEARNS-L-request@rootsweb.com I found the following information at Ancestry Com. Thought I'd share it with y'all. Happy holidays, Jeanne >Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England., p.173 Stearns, Charles, Watertown, freem. 1646, bot. 1648, est. of Edward Lamb, by w. Hannah had Samuel, b. 2 June 1650. His w. d. July 1651, and he m. 22 June 1654, Rebecca, d. of John Gibson of Cambridge, had Shubael, 20 Sept. 1655; John, 24 Jan. 1657; both at C. but at W. Isaac, Charles, Rebecca, and Martha; soon aft. 1681 was of Lynn, there d. bef. 1695. His s. Charles d. in the army bef. his f. Rebecca m. 25 Jan. 1693, Thomas Stearns and Martha m. a Hutchinson. ISAAC, Watertown 1630, came prob. with Sir Richard Saltonstall in the fleet, was adm. freem. 18 May of next yr. tho. he may have been drawn thither as much by regard for Winthrop, since he was not a dist. neighb. of the Gov. in their native ld. He was of Neyland, Co. Suffk. where his two eldest ch. were bapt.; Mary, 6 Jan. 1627; and Ann, 5 Oct. 1628. Here by w. Mary (tho. Dr. Cogswell in Geneal. Reg. I. 43, calls Sarah mo. of John) had John, b. perhaps the first yr.; Isaac, 6 Jan. 1633; Sarah, 22 Sept. 1635; tho. this by Pulsifer in Geneal. Reg. VII. 159 is giv. careless. as ch. of I. and M. Storie; Samuel, 24 Apr. 1638; Eliz. and Abigail. He d. 19 June 1671, and his will of 14 of that mo. provides for w. Mary, for ch. of his s. John; for the ch. of his d. Mary, dec. besides special remem. of Isaac and Mary; for the ch. of ds. Sarah, Eliz. and Abigail sever. ment. his kinsman Charles S. and makes his own s. Isaac, and Samuel excors. His wid. d. 2 Apr. 1677. Prob. he is the ancest. of near. all of his nam. sev. thousand in number, in Mass. but sure Farmer should have qualif. his universality. He was on the first jury that tr. civ. cause in N. E. when large dams. were giv. against Endicott for assault on Thomas Dexter in May 1631. His d. Mary m. 9 July 1646, Isaac Learned, and d. bef. her f. Ann m. 25 Dec. 1650, Henry Freeman; Sarah m. 7 June 1655, deac. Samuel Stone; Eliz. m. 13 Apr. 1664, Samuel Manning; and Abigail m. 27 Apr. 1666, deac. John Morse. ISAAC, Cambridge, s. of the preced. liv. in that part,[p.174] call. the Farms, now Lexington, m. 24 June 1660, Sarah, d. of Capt. Richard Beers, had Sarah, b. 14 Jan. 1662; Mary, 8 Oct. 1663; Isaac, 26 Aug. 1665; Samuel, 11 Jan. 1668; Abigail; and John, 1675; and d. 2 Aug. 1676. His wid. m. 23 July 1677, Thomas Wheeler; of ds. Sarah m. 27 Dec. 1678, John Wheeler; Mary m. 1 Jan. 1694, John Cutler; and Abigail m. 29 Nov. 1692, Samuel Hartwell. ISAAC, Salem, s. of Charles, by w. Hannah had Rebecca, b. 15 Jan. 1685; Isaac, 28 July 1687; and John, 20 Dec. 1690; and d. soon aft. His wid. m. Dec. 1694, John Chapman. JOHN, Billerica, s. of the first Isaac, one of the first sett. of B. m. Sarah, only d. of Isaac Mixer, had John, b. May 1654, first b. of the town rec. and Isaac, wh. d. young. His w. d. 18 June 1656, and he m. Dec. foll. at Barnstable, Mary, d. of Thomas Lothrop, had Isaac, again, 17 Apr. 1658, wh. d. young; Samuel, 3 Sept. 1659; Isaac, again, 23 Dec. 1661; Nathaniel, 30 Nov. 1663, d. young; and Thomas, 6 Dec. 1665. He d. 5 Mar. 1669, and his wid. m. 6 May foll. Capt. William French, and in 1684 bec. third w. of Isaac Mixer, and long outliv. him. JOHN, Malden, a capt. m. Joanna, wid. of Jacob Parker, and she d. 4 Dec. 1737, aged 78. JOHN, Watertown, s. of Charles, m. a. 1681, Judith d. of George Lawrence, of the same, had Rebecca, b. 21 Mar. 1683; Judith; Sarah; George; and Benjamin, wh. were all bapt. 22 June 1690; John; Thomas; Daniel; Isaac; Mary; Eliz.; and Abigail; this last b. 12 May 1700; all bapt. 11 May 1701; and Charles, 20 Oct. 1702, bapt. 28 Feb. foll. He was freem. 1690, unless it be that this adm. is of the foll. John, as seems more prob. This Watertown man m. sec. w. 2 Apr. 1713, Mary, d. of Richard Norcross, and d. 22 Feb. 1722. JOHN, Billerica, s. of John the first wh. d. 26 Oct. 1728, aged 74, was, I think, the freem. of 1690, and the found. of a very num. line much diffus. *NATHANIEL, Dedham 1647, freem. 2 May 1649, had Samuel, bapt. 25 Nov. 1666; Nathaniel, 6 Dec. 1668; and James, 28 May 1671. Yet I doubt, from the lateness of these dates, that not the freem. of 1649, but ano. Nathaniel of D. perhaps his s. was f.; was a lieut. rep. 1684, 9, 90, and 1. SAMUEL, Watertown, s. of Isaac the first, m. 1 Feb. 1663, Hannah, eldest d. of William Manning, had Samuel, b. 4 May 1664, wh. d. at 7 yrs.; Hannah, 8 Dec. 1666; Nathaniel, 13 Dec. 1668; Sarah, 23 Apr. 1671; Samuel, again, 29 Mar. 1673; Isaac, 31 Dec. 1674; John, 24 June 1677; Mary, 5 Apr. 1679; Abigail, 16 Apr. 1680; and Joseph, 11 Dec. 1682, d. in few mos. He d. 1683, and his wid. d. 16 Feb. 1724, aged near 82 yrs. SAMUEL, Watertown, s. of Charles, by w. Mehitable had Joseph, bapt. 7 Aug. 1698, more than four yrs. after d. of his f. and Samuel, b. 27 Feb. 1686, bapt. 21 Aug. 1698. He d. bef. 6 June 1694, the date of his inv. SHUBAEL, Lynn, eldest s. of Charles, [p.175] serv. in Philip's war, had Shubael, b. 19 Aug. 1683; Samuel; Hannah; John, 1691; Mary; and perhaps one or two others. In 1834 Farmer notes, that of this name eighteen had been gr. at Harv. two at Yale, and three at other N. E. coll. ************ Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:31:35 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: j-hayes@pop.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 22:42:26 -0500 To: STEARNS-L@rootsweb.com From: Jeanne Hayes Subject: Stearns & Story, from Ancestry Com Resent-From: STEARNS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/159 X-Loop: STEARNS-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: STEARNS-L-request@rootsweb.com This also came from Ancestry Com and mentions Stearns in relationship to the Story family. Jeanne >Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England., p.211
>Story, Andrew, Ipswich 1639, may be the youth sentenc. to be whip. Sept. Court, 1635, for run. from his master, and aft. had serv. in the expedit. against the Pequots two yrs. later. AUGUSTUS, or AUGUSTINE, Exeter 1639, had the yr. bef. been of Boston, and join. with John Wheelwright of Exeter (wh. was banish. 1637, from Mass.), in purchase, 3 Apr. 1638, from the sagamore of Piscataqua, of a large tract, thirty miles square, of wh. authentic copy may be seen in N. H. Hist. Coll. I. He is call. of Boston, as well as Samuel Hutchinson, ano. grantee, br.-in-law of Wheelwright, therein nam. of Piscataqua. But how this person spell. his name is very uncert. varying from Star, thro. Storr, to Storre and Story; yet with no fortuitous combina. of letters can I found prob. ground for placing him at Boston for any long resid. He was not a [p.212] mem. of the ch. he was not a landholder, nor indecd is any thing more certain. kn. of him aft. the gr. authentic purchase. If he were m. and cont. in our country, he may have been ancest. of that Charles, wh. bec. Secr. of the Prov. of N. H. 1696, and was acting in the same place 1714, beside being judge of the admiralty, and indeed may have been counsel in the gr. cause, 1707, to support the forged deed of the whole province of N. H. to Wheelwright, Story, and others, print. as Appendix in the first vol. of Belkn. orig. Ed. with date of 17 May 1629, seven yrs. bef. Wheelwright was on this side of the ocean. Wrestling Brewster (the mythical) m. his d. Emila, says Ashbel Stecle in his fictitious portion of that interesting work. See Brewster. GEORGE, Boston 1642, a young merch. wh. by tak. up the cause (trover for a pig) brot. against Capt. Kcayne by the w. of one Richard Sherman, with wh. he liv. perhaps in a suspicious way, during the abs. of her h. brot. on the gr. quarrel betw. rep. and Assist. that shook the colony that yr. and the next to its foundat. but no more is kn. of him, unless he were, in 1643, of Maine. ISAAC, Watertown 1635, only come in by mistake of surname for Stearns in Geneal. Reg. VII. 159. ROWLAND, Boston, shipwright, bot. est. 1673, by w. Bethia had Bethia, b. 15 July 1677; Abigail, 3 Apr. 1679; and by sec. w. Ann d. of the first Joseph Belcher, had Rowland, 3 Sept. 1683; Joseph, 31 Mar. 1685; Ann, 28 Oct. 1686; John, 20 Mar. 1689; Ann, 14 Mar. 1691; Abigail, again, 11 Mar. 1693; Samuel, 20 Aug. 1694; Rebecca, 2 May 1696, d. soon; William, 30 Mar. 1698; Rebecca, again, 1 Feb. 1700, d. soon; Rebecca, again, 28 Aug. 1701; Jeremiah, 2 July 1702; Zechariah, 27 June 1706; and Benjamin, 15 Nov. 1707; yet in the rec. of one of these (I think it is John), the name of the f. is giv. Richard, wh. whoso will may believe. He d. prob. July 1709, for his inv. dat. 9 of that mo. was by the admor. wid. Ann, produc. 14 Sept. foll. SAMUEL, Ipswich, by w. Eliz. had Ann, b. 31 Mar. 1691; Ephraim, 22 Oct. 1692; John, 19 June 1694; Solomon, 13 Mar. 1696; and Stephen, 7 Oct. 1697. SETH, d. 1669, leav. w. Sarah, and ch. Seth, aged 21, William, 19; and Abigail, 15; may be gather. from Mr. Coffin in Geneal. Reg. VIII. 53; but of what town we are left to ask, and my informat. yields no ans. SETH, Ipswich, s. of William of the same, had. w. Eliz. and ch. Zechariah, b. 14 Mar. 1685; Martha, 28 Sept. 1691; Seth, 4 Apr. 1694; and Damaris, 24 Jan. 1697; and he d. 9 Oct. 1732. WILLIAM, Ipswich, came 1637, from Norwich, Co. Norf'k. as serv. of Samuel Dix, emb. 8 Apr. and call. then 23 yrs. old, as seen in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 97. He was a carpenter of I. 1648, and beside d. Hannah, b. 19 Aug. 1662, and others perhaps, had Seth and William, to wh. in 1693 he gave his prop. WILLIAM, Dover 1656, was there tax. 1657, had four ch. [p.213] by a former w. and m. a. 1658, Sarah, d. of Edward, and sis. of Nathaniel Starbuck, and d. not long aft. for his wid. m. a. 1659 or 60, Joseph Austin, wh. was appoint. admor. 27 June 1661, d. early in 1663, and her third h. was Humphrey Varney. WILLIAM, Ipswich, s. prob. of first William, freem. 1671, m. 25 Oct. of that yr. Susanna Fuller, had Eliz. b. 14 Oct. 1672. Six of this name had in 1845 been gr. at Harv. But of the disting. jurisconsult, late of the Supreme Ct. of the U. S. Joseph Story, hardly more celebr. for his uprightness and learn. as a judge, than for his amenity as a man of letters, I have not been able to find progenit. bef. Elisha in the third generat. preced. wh. prob. came from Eng. in the last yr. of King William III. *****************