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Isaac Stearns

Male Bef 1595 - 1671  (> 75 years)


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  • Name Isaac Stearns  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Alternate birth Abt 1590  of Higham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Birth Bef 3 Oct 1595  Fordham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth Abt 1597  [8
    Death 19 Jun 1671  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 28 May 1599, Fordham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 44 years) 
    Mother Dorothy Plampin,   b. Abt 1555   d. Feb 1618, Fordham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1576  [7
    Family ID F2749  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Barker,   b. Abt 1600, Nayland, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Apr 1677, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Marriage 20 May 1622  Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8
    Children 
    +1. Mary Stearns,   b. Bef 6 Jan 1626   d. 8 Jan 1664, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 38 years)
    +2. John Stearns,   b. Abt 1630, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Mar 1669 (Age ~ 39 years)
    +3. Isaac Stearns,   b. 6 Jan 1633, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Aug 1676, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
     4. Sarah Stearns,   b. 22 Sep 1635, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S93] American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), compiled by the Godfrey Memorial Library, on ancestry.com.

    2. [S628] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000.

    3. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    4. [S1809] Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston: Stone Family Association, 1918.

    5. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024.

    6. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990.

    7. [S212] The Slovak Yankee, by Martin Hollick.

    8. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.

    9. [S5479] The Learned Family in America 1630-1967 by Eugenia Learned James. 1967., place only.