Person:Isaac Stearns (1)

Isaac Stearns
b.Abt 1600 England
  1. Isaac StearnsAbt 1600 - 1671
  • HIsaac StearnsAbt 1600 - 1671
  • WMary Barker - 1677
m. 20 May 1622
  1. John Stearns1623 - 1668/69
  2. Mary Stearns1626/27 - 1662/63
  3. Hannah Stearns1628 - 1656
  4. Isaac Stearns1632/33 - 1676
  5. Sarah Stearns1635 - 1700
  6. Samuel Stearns1638 - 1683
  7. Elizabeth Stearns1640 - 1671
  8. Abigail StearnesAbt 1642 - 1690
Facts and Events
Name Isaac Stearns
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1600 England
Marriage 20 May 1622 Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, Englandto Mary Barker
Immigration? 1630 Winthroop Fleet
Will? 14 Jun 1671 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2] 19 Jun 1671 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1.   File 21239, in Rodgers, Robert H. (Robert Howard), and Massachusetts. County Court (Middlesex County). Middlesex County in the colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: records of probate and administration. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1999-c2001)
    1670-1676, p. 44.

    WILL of "isack Sternes of Watertowne":
    Dated June 14, 1671. Proved Oct. 1671. Names wife Mary; sons: John (deceased), Isaac & Samuel; daughters: Mary "Lernot" (deceased), Sarah Stone, Elizabeth Manning & Abigail Morss; grandchildren Isaac Lernot. Kinsman Charles Sternes. Exors: sons Isaac & Samuel. Witnesses: William Bond Sr. & John Biscoe Sr. [History of Watertown by Henry Bond, 1860]

  2. Historical Society of Watertown (Massachusetts). Watertown Records. (Watertown, Mass.: Press of Fred Barker, 1894-1939)
    1:33.

    [p. 70] 1671. Isaack Stearnes Se deceased the 19 of June.


The Winthrop Fleet (1630)
The Winthrop Fleet brought over 700 colonists to establish a new colony at Massachusetts Bay. The fleet consisted of eleven ships: the Arbella flagship with Capt Peter Milburne, the Ambrose, the Charles, the Mayflower, the Jewel, the Hopewell, The Success, the Trial, the Whale, the Talbot and the William and Francis.
  Sailed: April and May 1630 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England
  Arrived: June and July 1630 at Salem, Massachusetts
  Previous Settlers: The Higginson Fleet (1629)

  Passengers: Winthrop wrote to his wife just before they set sail that there were seven hundred passengers. Six months after their arrival, Thomas Dudley wrote to Bridget Fiennes, Countess of Lincoln and mother of Lady Arbella and Charles Fiennes, that over two hundred passengers had died between their landing April 30 and the following December, 1630.
  Selected leaders and prominent settlers: Gov. John Winthrop - Richard Saltonstall - Isaac Johnson - Gov. Thomas Dudley - Gov. William Coddington - William Pynchon - William Vassall - John Revell - Robert Seely - Edward Convers - Gov. Simon Bradstreet - John Underhill - William Phelps

  Resources: The Winthrop Society - The Winthrop Fleet (Wikipedia) - Anderson's Winthrop Fleet