Mary Stearns

Mary Stearns

Female 1663 - 1734  (70 years)


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  • Name Mary Stearns  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Birth 8 Oct 1663  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Gender Female 
    FSID LRB4-PSP  [7, 8, 9
    Death 24 Feb 1734  Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I8624  footsteps
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2025 

    Father Isaac Stearns, II,   b. 6 Jan 1633, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Aug 1676, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Sarah Beers,   b. 5 Oct 1639, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1724, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 28 Jun 1660  Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage Isaac was 27 years and 5 months - Sarah was 20 years and 8 months. 
    Married 28 Jun 1660  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6739  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Cutler,   b. 19 Mar 1663, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Sep 1714, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Marriage 19 Jul 1693  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage Mary was 29 years and 9 months - John was 30 years and 4 months. 
    Married 19 Jul 1693  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Captain Ebenezer Cutler,   b. 24 Jul 1700, Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jan 1777, Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F383  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Heston-Genealogy-Reeder-Furman
      2nd cousin nine times removed

      info from US Geneological Dictionary of
      info from US Geneological Dictionary of 1st Settlers of New England

      !Cutler Memorial by Nahum S. Cutler p.24
      !Cutler Memorial by Nahum S. Cutler p.24

      Sources: 1. Van Wagenen, Mrs. Avis Stear
      Sources: 1. Van Wagenen, Mrs. Avis Stearns. Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his descendants; 2. Submission records to LDS church, needs verification;

      !SOURCE: Memoranda of the Stearns Family
      !SOURCE: Memoranda of the Stearns Family Including Records of Many of the Descendants, by Willard E. Stearns, Sentinel Printing Co., Fitchburg, 1901. p.98. (had 5 children)

  • Sources 
    1. [S556] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, American Ancestors https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-records-1620-1850/transcript?volumeId=13776&pageName=171&rId=245576329. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
      death "Cutler, Mary, Feb. 24, 1733-34" Double dating makes it 1734

    2. [S290] Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, "Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28L-9RQZ : Fri Jul 25 18:44:48 UTC 2025), Entry for Ebenezer Cutler and Anna Whitney, 3 March 1724.
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    3. [S290] Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, "Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28L-9RCD : Fri Jul 25 04:43:52 UTC 2025), Entry for Samuel Bond and Mary Cutler, 7 February 1724.
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    4. [S290] Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, "Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28L-9RM4 : Sat Jul 26 11:08:01 UTC 2025), Entry for John Cutler and Mary Stearns, 1 January 1694.
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    5. [S747] FamilySearch.org, Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQXX-J8S : 15 January 2020), Mary Sternes, 1663.
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    6. [S556] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, American Ancestors N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2016. .
      birth "Sternes, Mary, d. of Isacke and Sarah, Oct. 8, 1663."

    7. [S556] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Online in the public domain.
      The first genealogy of the Stearns family, published originally in 1855 by Henry Bond, M.D., the only son of Henry Bond (1st) and Hannah Stearns Bond.

    8. [S556] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, It can be purchased on Amazon and the full text is in "The Internet Archive," a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library, under the ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY GENEALOGY COLLECTION. , 3 1833 01393 6080.
      A published volume which contains the Stearns Family genealogies based upon "Genealogies of
      the Families and Descendants of the early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts."" by Henry Bond, Jr., son of Henry and Hannah (Stearns) Bond of Watertown, MA. This volume shows on p. 26 that Isaac Stearns, Jr., son of Isaac and Mary (Barker) Stearns, had only one wife, Sarah Beers, who was the mother of his six children.

    9. [S556] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Volume published by Courier Prtg. Co., Syracuse, NY, 1901.
      p. 23 of cited work shows Isaac Stearns, Jr., as 5th child of Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker, who emigrated to America in 1630. Isaac, Jr. was b. 6 Jan. 1633, Massachusetts Bay Colony; admitted freeman 1665; d. 29 Aug. 1676.
      p. 26 details more about Isaac Stearns, Jr. as follows in pertinent part: " b. 6 Jan. 1633, son of Isaac and Mary (Barker) Stearns of Watertown, Mass.; admitted freeman 1665; d. 29 Aug. 1676. He md. 24 June 1660. Sarah Beers, dau. of Capt. Richard and Elizabeth Beers of Watertown, Mass. ... six children" (who are thereafter listed in birth order).