Saturday, August 3, 2019

Surname Saturday -- STEARNS (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.

I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2335 who is Mary STEARNS (1627-1664). [Note: the more recent ancestral families have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through two generations in this STEARNS family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

36.  Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
37.  Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)

72.  Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829)
73.  Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793)

144.  Zachariah Hildreth (1724-1784)
145.  Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812)


290.  Jonas Prescott (1704-1784)
291.  Elizabeth Harwood (1701-1739)

582.  Nathaniel Harwood (1669-1751)
583.  Mary Barron (1673-1758)

1166.  Moses Barron (1643-1699)
1167.  Mary Learned (1647-????)


2334.  Isaac Learned, born before 25 February 1624 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England; died 29 November 1657 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4668. William Learned and 4669. Goodith Gilman.  He married 09 July 1646 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
2335.  Mary Stearns, born before 06 January 1627 in Nayland, Suffolk, England; died 08 January 1664 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns are:
Mary Learned (1647-????), married 1669 Moses Barron (1643-1699).
*  Hannah Learned (1649-1711), married 1666 Joseph Farwell (1641-1722).
*  William Learned (1650-1684).
*  Sarah Learned (1653-1695), married 1683 Jonathan Barrett (1654-1743).
*  Isaac Learned (1655-1737), married 1679 Sarah Bigelow (1659-1694).
*  Benoni Learned (1657-1738), married (1) 1680 Mary Fanning (1657-1688); (2) 1688 Sarah Wright (1655-1737).

4670.  Isaac Stearns, born before 03 October 1595 in Fordham, Essex, England; died 19 June 1671 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 9340. Thomas Sterne and 9341. Dorothy Plampin.  He married 20 May 1622 in Stoke By Nayland, Suffolk, England.
4671.  Mary Barker, born about 1600 in Nayland, Suffolk, England; died 23 April 1677 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 9342. John Barker and 9343. Margaret Walter.

Children of Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker are:
Mary Stearns (1627-1664), married (1) 1646 Isaac Learned (1624-1657); (2) 1662 John Burge (1615-1678)
*  Hannah Stearns (1628-1656), married 1650 Henry Freeman (1625-1672).
*  John Stearns (1630-1669), married (1) 1654 Sarah Mixer (1632-1656); (2) 1656 Mary Lothrop (1640-1735).
*  Isaac Stearns (1633-1676), married 1660 Sarah Beers (1639-1723).
*  Sarah Stearns (1635-1700), married 1655 Samuel Stone (1631-1715).
*  Samuel Stearns (1638-1683), married 1663 Hannah Manning (1642-1724).
*  Elizabeth Stearns (1644-1671), married 1664 Samuel Manning (1644-1711).
*  Abigail Stearns (1646-1690), married 1666 John Morse (1639-????).


Information about the Isaac Stearns family migrating to colonial New England was obtained from:

*  John Brooks Threlfall, 50 Great Migration Colonists to New England (Madison, Wis.: published by author, 1990), pages 433-450.

*  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volume III (Boston, NEHGS, 1995), pages 1747-1750.

*  Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his Descendants (1901).

*  Henry Bond, M.D., Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown & Co., 1860).

I have done no original research on the Isaac Stearns family.

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