Isaac Stearns

Bef 1595 - 1671  (> 75 years)

• Name	Isaac Stearns  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1590	of Higham, Suffolk, England   [6]
  Birth	Bef 3 Oct 1595	Fordham, Essex, England   [7]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1597  [8]
  Death	19 Jun 1671	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Person ID	I2339	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Sterne,   b. Abt 1555, Raydon, Suffolk, England d. Bef 28 May 1599, Fordham, Essex, England (Age ~ 44 years)
  Mother	Dorothy Plampin,   b. Abt 1555   d. Feb 1618, Fordham, Essex, England (Age ~ 63 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1576  [7]
  Family ID	F2749	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Barker,   b. Abt 1600, Nayland, Suffolk, England d. 23 Apr 1677, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	20 May 1622	Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England   [6, 7, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Stearns,   b. Bef 6 Jan 1626   d. 8 Jan 1664, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 38 years) + 2. John Stearns,   b. Abt 1630, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 5 Mar 1669 (Age ~ 39 years) + 3. Isaac Stearns,   b. 6 Jan 1633, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 29 Aug 1676, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 43 years)   4. Sarah Stearns,   b. 22 Sep 1635, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 4 Oct 1700 (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F493	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was a tailor. "Isaac Stearns came to America in 1630, in the ship Arabella with Gov. Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall. He settled in Watertown, where he was admitted freeman, May 18th, 1631. He was a selectman for several years and in 1647, he and a Mr. William Biscoe or Briscoe, were appointed to arrange for the building of a bridge over the river at Watertown." [The Farwell Family] Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker were ancestors of, among others, Clara Barton, Brigham Young, Robert Goddard, Richard Nixon, Orson Scott Card, Tim Berners-Lee, Forrest J Ackerman, T. S. Eliot, Ursula K. Le Guin, former Macmillan CEO John Sargent, and Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, Queen Consort to King Zog I of Albania. He was a tailor. "Isaac Stearns came to America in 1630, in the ship Arabella with Gov. Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall. He settled in Watertown, where he was admitted freeman, May 18th, 1631. He was a selectman for several years and in 1647, he and a Mr. William Biscoe or Briscoe, were appointed to arrange for the building of a bridge over the river at Watertown." [The Farwell Family] Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker were ancestors of, among others, Clara Barton, Brigham Young, Robert Goddard, Richard Nixon, Orson Scott Card, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Forrest J Ackerman, and Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, Queen Consort to King Zog I of Albania.

  
  

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