Isaac Stearns

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Isaac Stearns (c. 1590–1671)

Mary Barker (say 1600–1677)

Ancestry Table for Mary Barker:

The information is an abstract of Trelfall [1].

2. John Barker was baptised on 30 April 1563 at Stoke by Nayland. He was buried on 10 March 1616/7 in Nayland. He married Margaret Walter on 8 September 1564 at Nayland.

3. Margaret Walter was baptised on 8 September 1564 in Nayland. married second Unknown Munnings of Gaines Colne (now Colne Engaine), Essex.

4. John Barker of Nayland was born about 1540. He was buried on 22 October 1588 in Nayland. He married Margaret Mawle of Nayland on 26 May 1562. John was a cloth maker.

5. Margaret Mawle was buried on 11 January 1589/60 at Nayland.

6. Richard Walter was probably born between 1520 and 1535. He was buried on 4 June 1569 at Nayland. He apparently first married Elizabeth Unknown. She was buried on 13 December 1562 at Nayland. He married second Margaret Unknown in 1563. Richard was a beer brewer.

7. Margaret Unknown was probably born between 1530 and 1540.

8. Richard Barker was probably born between 1505 and 1510. He was buried on 27 July 1561. Richard was a prosperous property owner.

9. Alice Unknown was buried on 27 December 1560 at Nayland.

10. John Mawle was probably born between 1510 and 1515. He died in late 1579. John was a prosperous clothier and property owner.

11. Margaret Unknown died in 1586.

20. John Mawle is probably the father of John, Jr. He was probably born about 1489. He was buried on 5 February 1560/61, age 72.

Isaac Stearns of Higham, Suffolk was born about 1590. [1] He died on 19 June 1671. [2] He married Mary Barker on 20 May 1622 at Stoke Nayland, the adjacent parish. [2]

Mary was the daughter of John and Margaret (Walter) Barker of Stoke Nayland. [1] She was born say 1600. She died on 23 April 1677. [2]

Isaac and Mary came to New Enbland in 1630 and settled in Watertown. Isaac was a tailor. [2]

Isaac was a freeman on 18 May 1631. He was a selectman in Watertown on 8 November 1647 and 7 November 1670. He was on a committee to design a bridge on 28 December 1647. He was a fence viewer on 13 June 1648. He was a rater in 1652. He was a viewer of land on 3 January 1658/9. The town meeting was held at his house on 8 December 1659. He was constable from 1659 to 1661. He was a surveyor of highways on 12 January 1662/3. [2]

On 23 May 1665 Goodwife Stearns, Sr. and several others were warned for not "attending their seats in the meeting house appointed them by the town." [2]

Isaac made his will on 14 June 1671. He mentioned his wife Mary; the children of his son John; his sons Isaac and Samuel; the children of his deceased daughter Mary; his grandchild Isaac Learned; his daughters Sarah Stone, Elizabeth Manning, Abigail Moarse; his kinsman Charles Stearns. Inventory on his estate amounted to £524 4s. [2]

Children of Isaac Stearns:

i. John Stearns was baptised on 20 April 1623 at Higham. [1]

ii. Mary Stearns was baptised on 6 January 1625/6 in Nayland-with-Wissington. She died on 8 January 1663. [3] She married first Isaac Learned. She married second John Burge as his second wife on 9 June 1662. [3] John married first Rebecca ___. [3] He married second Grissell Fletcher. [3] He married fourth Jane, the widow of John Gornell, on 6 September 1677. [3]

iii. Anna (Hannah) Stearns was baptised on 5 October 1628 in Nayland-with-Wissington. She was buried on 17 June 1656. She married Henry, the son of Samuel Freeman, on 25 December 1650 in Watertown. [2] Henry was the son of Samuel and Appiah Freeman. [1] He died on 12 November 1672. He married second Mary Sherman on 27 November 1656. [1]

iv. John Stearns was born say 1630 in Watertown. He died on 5 March 1668/9 in Billerica. He married first Sarah Mixer. He married second Mary Lothrop.

v. Isaac Stearns was born on 6 January 1632/3 in Watertown. He died on 29 August 1676. [1] He married Sarah Beers on 28 June 1660 in Cambridge. [2] Sarah was the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Beers. [1] She died on 21 January 1723/4. [1] She married second Sergeant Thomas Wheeler of Concord. [1]

vi. Sarah Stearns was born on 28 October 1653 in Watertown. [1] She died on 4 October 1700. [1] She married Deacon Samuel Stone of Cambridge on 7 June 1655. [1] Samuel was the son of Gregory and Lydia Stone. [1] He died on 27 September 1715, age about 80. He married second Abigail (Carter) (Fowle) Walker, the widow of Samuel Walker. [1]

vii. Samuel Stearns was born on 24 April 1638. [1] He died 3 August 1683. [1] He married Hannah Manning on 1 February 1662/3. [1] Hannah, the daughter of William and Dorothy Manning, was born on 21 June 1642. [1] She died on 26 February 1723/4

vii. Elizabeth Stearns was born say 1641. She died on 24 June 1671 at Billerica. [1] She married Samuel Manning on 13 April 1664 at Watertown. [2] Samuel was the brother of Elizabeth's brother Samuel's wife. [1] He died on 22 February 1710/1. [1] He married second Abiah Wright. [1]

vii. Abigail Stearns was born say 1643. She died on 16 October 1690. She married John Morse on 27 April 1666 in Watertown. [2] John, the son of Joseph and Esther (Pierce) Morse, was born on 28 February 1638/9. He died on 23 July 1702.

References

1. John Brooks Trelfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2008), 435–50.

2. "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), 1747–50.

3. Mary Lovering Holman, "Grissell of the Many Marriages," The American Genealogist 10 (1933): 70–73.

Revised 17-Oct-2023