Person:Ebenezer Stearns (3)

Watchers
m. 12 Apr 1737
  1. Mary Stearns1738 -
  2. Ephraim Stearns1739/40 - 1808
  3. Ebenezer Stearns1741 - 1823
  4. Nathaniel Stearns1743 - 1819
  5. Simeon Stearns1745 - 1800
  6. Joanna Stearns1747 -
  7. Elizabeth Stearns1750 - 1777
  8. Lucretia Stearns1752 -
  9. William Stearns1754 -
m. 6 Apr 1769
  1. James Stearns1770 - 1838
  2. Clark Stearns1771 - 1773
  3. Martha Stearns1773 - 1862
  4. Eleanor Stearns1775 - 1865
  5. Ebenezer Stearns1777 - 1837
  6. Clark Stearns1779 - 1867
  7. Sally StearnsCal 1782 - 1823
Facts and Events
Name Ebenezer Stearns
Gender Male
Birth[1] 3 Oct 1741 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 6 Apr 1769 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Martha Holbrook
Death[2][3][4] 4 Aug 1823 Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Bond, Henry, M.D. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855): To Which Is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, 1855)
    p. 463.

    Children of Ebenezer Stearns [#90-44] and Mary Spring: 3) Ebenezer [#93], b. 3 Oct 1741, m. 6 Apr 1769 Martha Holbrook.
    [Note: birth record not found. Also found in several secondary sources, such as Source:Van Wagenen, Avis Stearns. Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, p. 60 and 125, presumably copying from Bond. The marriage record is found in Worcester in 1769 as given by Bond, and does say Ebenezer Jr.]

  2. Warwick (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1739-1900
    Vol. 2, p. 228.

    Ebenezer Stearns died August 4 1823.

  3. Find A Grave: Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, MA, in Find A Grave
    Lieut Ebenezer Stearns.

    Lt. EBENEZER STEARNS
    died Aug. 4, 1823, AE. 82.
    [Note: birth about 1741]

  4. Massachusetts. Probate Court (Franklin County). Probate dockets, records, and indexes, 1810-1971. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972, 1991)
    Case 4623: Ebenezar Stearns.

    Will of "Ebenezer Stearnes of Warwick ... yeoman", dated 28 Apr 1817, proved 4 Feb 1824, names son James Stearnes; son Clark Stearnes; daughter Martha Leonard; daughter Elinor Ball; daughter Salley Proctor; household furniture that belonged to my wife Martha divided among 6 children; son Ebenezer Stearnes. Son Ebenezer to be executor.
    3 Sep 1823: Heirs cited. Assent to proving of will, signed by James Stearns, Clark Stearns, Nathan Leonard, Martha Leonard, Samuel Ball, Eleanor Ball, Josiah Procter guardian [note: for Sally's children, see Josiah's page].