Isaac Learned

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Isaac Learned (bp. 1624–1657), son of William Learned and Goodith Gilman

Mary Stearns (bp. 1626–1663), daughter of Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker

Isaac Learned was baptized on 25 February 1623/4 in Bermondsey, county Surrey. [1] He died on 8 (10) 1657 in Chelmsford. [2, 11] He married Mary Stearns on 9 July 1646 in Woburn. [3]

Mary was baptized on 6 January 1625/6 in Nayland-with-Wissington, county Suffolk. [4] She died on 8 January 1663. [A] Mary married second John Burge of Weymouth on 9 June 1662. [5][6] John married next the widow Grisell Gurney, as her fourth hasband, she having previously been married to Thomas Jewell, Humphrey Griggs, and ___ Gurney. [6] She died on 9 July 1669 in Chelmsford. [6] John married Jane, the widow of John Gornell of Dorchester in June 1676. [6] She died on 4 April 1678; he died on 22 October 1678. [6]

Isaac came to New England with his parents in 1630.

Isaac's wife Mary was the sister of John Stearns. [7]

One thousand and five hundred acres lying north of Concord in present-day Billerica was conveyed to Deputy Governor Thomas Dudley, and on 28 February 1651/2 he sold this land to Thomas Chamberlain, James Parker, and Isaac Learned of Woburn for 110 pounds. These three men became citizens of adjoining Chelmsford. [7]

In 1652 Isaac sold his house and land in Woburn to Bartholomew Pierson of Watertown and moved to Chelmsford. [A]

Isaac Learned was one of the petitioners for a grant of land for the town of Chelmsford on 19 May 1653. [2, 2–3] He was a trustee of the town in 1654. [2, 754] At the second town meeting on 21 (1) 1655 he was chosen sergeant of the trainband. [2, 13] He was an original church member in 1655. [2, 11]

Isaac Learned's wife was an early member of the church in Chelmsford in 1655. [2, 12] Mary owned the covenant at the church on 11 (4) 1656. [2, 26]

Inventory was taken on Isaac's estate on 18 (10) 1657. It amounted to £187-18-06. [8]

Inventory was taken on Mary's estate on 21 December 1663. [A]

On 2 (12) 1667 Samuel Stearns posted a bond and Isaac Stearns was a surety concerning the children of Isaac Learned. [9]

In his will of 1 June 1671 John left bequests each to the six children of Isaac Learned: Mary Barron, Hannah Farwell, William Learned, Sarah Learned, Isaac Learned, and Benoni Learned. [A]

Children of Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns: [10]

i. Mary Learned was born on 15: 5m: 1646. She was baptized on 1: 12m: 1656 in Chelmsford. She married Moses Barron.

ii. Hannah (Anna) Learned was born on 11: 6m: 1648. She was baptized on 1: 12m: 1656 in Chelmsford. She married Ensign Joseph Farwell on 15 December 1666 in Chelmsford. [10, 26]

iii. William Learned was born on 1: 8m: 1650. He was baptized on 1: 12m: 1656 in Chelmsford. He was living on 1 June 1671.

iv. Sarah Learned was born on 15: 9m: 1652. She was baptized on 28 October 1653 in Chelmsford. She was living and unmarried on 1 June 1671.

v. Lieutenant Isaac Learned was born on 16 September 1655 in Chelmsford. He was baptized [?] on 5 October 1655 in Chelmsford. He died on 15 September 1737 in Framingham. [11] He married Sarah Bigelow on 23 July 1679. [11]

vi. Benoni Learned was born on 29 November 1657 in Chelmsford. He was baptized [?] on 4 December 1657 in Chelmsford. He was living on 1 June 1671.

References

1. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1164–5.

2. Wilson Waters, History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts (Lowell, MA: Courier-Citizen, 1917).

3. Edward Francis Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Part 1 (births), Part 2, (deaths) Part 3 (marriages) (Woburn: Andrew Cutlery & Co., 1890). Isaac and Mary's marriage, vol. 3, p. 161.

4. "The Great Migration Begins," 1747–50.

5. John Brooks Trelfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2008), 438.

6. William Blake Trask, "Early Matters Relating to Dorchester and First Church of Dorchester: John Burge," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 40 (1886): 260–1.

7. Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1883).

8. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648–1871," database with images, AmericanAncestors > 13855, images 1–2.

9. "Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files, 1649–1675," database with images, AmericanAncestors, vol. 2, p. 38.

10. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1914). Baptism records for Mary, Anna and William (as ch. Isaac) and birth and baptism records for Sarah, Isaac and Benoni (as ch. Isaac and Mary), p. 92.

11. Alicia Crane Williams, "Early New England Families, 1641–1700," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > John Bigelow (m. 1642, 1694).

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