Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 33

"In March, 1628, the Plymouth Company sold to a company of six gentlemen in England, the territory extending from a line three miles north of Merrimack River, to a line three miles south of Charles River, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The number of joint proprietors soon became much enlarged and they assumed the title of "The Massachusetts Bay Company," choosing Matthew Cradock, a wealthy merchant of London to be governor, and Thomas Goffe, also a merchant of London, to be deputy-governor. In June, 1628, a company of emigrants was sent over, who landed at Salem and commenced the settlement of that ancient town. That a large number of settlers accompanied Sir Richard Saltonstall from Salem to Watertown is evident from the following consideration, that about forty men signed the covenant on the 30th of July, while the number of female members is not stated. Others, having large families, did not then sign the covenant, not being entitled to church membership. There is no record extant of any municipal transactions of Watertown earlier, in date. Then 1634, four years after its first settlement.
An important change then took place in the government of the colony and a house of deputies or representatives became a constituent part of it. As the people, from this date, began to be represented in the government of the colony, so, the ordering of the civil affairs of the town began to be intrusted to a body of freemen, chosen, annually, for that purpose. Then originated that peculiar New England municipal body, a board of select-men.
Previous to this date, the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the town were commingled, without any distinct line between them. No one had a right to vote, unless he were a church-member; and the church was Congregational wherein its affairs were managed by the votes of the members. The church officers seem to have taken the lead both in civil and ecclesiastical affairs, and it is probable that previous to 1634, the records ere kept accordingly. Whatever those records were, they are lost." Charles Stearns was admitted freeman, May 6, 1646. On Mar. 15, 1648, he purchased of Edward Lamb, of Watertown, a house and eight acres of land, and three other lots. On the same day, he purchased of John Fiske, six acres of upland. Isaac Stearns, (First Vol. I), in his will, dated, June 14, 1861, mentioned him as my kinsman, Charles "Sternes," and bequeather him L10. Samuel Hosier also bequeathed to him L10, but refused to take stable, or tax-gatherer, of Watertown, but refused to take the oath; and the same year, he sold his land in Watertown to his son, Samuel. It is supposed that soon after this he, with his son Shubael, moved to that part of Lynn, called Lynn End, now the town of Lynnfield. His first wife, Hannah, d., June 30, 1651, in Watertown and was buried July 2, 1651. He md. (2), June 22, 1654, Rebecca Gibson, dau. of John and Rebecca Gibson, of Cambridge. The births of their first two children are recorded in Cambridge, but she was a member of the Watertown Church, Feb., 1658-9. (See Camb. Church Gathering, p. 59) The following extract from the Essex Registry of Probate shows the number and the names of his children, at least, of those who lived to maturity, or to have families: "Sept. 9, 1695, Shubael Stearns, of Lynn, petitions for letters of administration on the estate of his brother, Charles, slain in the King's service. Balance of his estate after settlement of debts (L4, 12s, 10d.), to be divided as follows:-equally between his brothers, Shubael and John; the children of brothers Samuel and Isaac: Rebecca Sternes, alias Traine, and Martha Hutchinson, his sister." "There is a tradition prevalent in Lynn, Mass., that three brother, names Daniel, Isaac (First Vol. I) and Shubael Stearns, came from England to America in 1630, and settled near Watertown, Mass.; that Daniel died, unmarried; that Shubael and Isaac each brought their families with them; that, soon after landing, Shubael and wife both died, leaving two sons, named Charles and Nathaniel, eight or ten years of age, who were reared and cared for by their Uncle Isaac; this same account was given by John Peck Stearns ; that these sons afterwards married and each, as well as their Uncle Isaac, left a large family, from whom all of the names of Stearns in America are supposed to have descended. It is noticable that Isaac (First Vol. I.), Charles and Nathaniel all named their sons John, Isaac and Samuel. There is also a traditional anecdote of the first landing of the Stearns family, as follows: "that on reaching anchorage in America, Isaac, like the spies sent into Canaan, went forward and selected a place of settlement; soon after, an emulation arose between the two boys as to which should step on land first, and as they sparang from the boat, Charles Stearns missed his footing and fell into the river which was therefore christened the Charles River." Nevertheless, the historian claims for the name a royal origin.

Source: "One Line of the Stearns Family", Press of E.L. Freeman and sons, Central Falls, RI
His English home may have been in Neyland, Suffolk Co, for it was there that his relative, Isaac Stearns, lived before he came to New England. Charles Stearns settled at Watertown, MA, where he was Freeman, May 8, 1646. He bought a house and eight acres, &c., of Edward Lamb, May 15, 1648. He was at Cambridge for a brief period, but returned to Watertown soon. He received a legacy of L10, by the will of Isaac Stearns, of Watertown, dated June 14, 1671, who calls him his "kinsman". He sold his Watertown lands in 1681 to his son Samuel, and removed to Lynn, MA.

Child of CHARLES STEARNS and HANNAH STEARNS is:
3. i. SAMUEL3 STEARNS, b. 02 Jun 1650, Watertown, Mass; d. Bef. 06 Jun 1694.

Children of CHARLES STEARNS and REBECCA GIBSON are:
4. ii. SHUBAEL3 STEARNS, b. 20 Sep 1655, Cambridge MA; d. Bef. 19 Nov 1733.
5. iii. JOHN STEARNS, b. 24 Jan 1656/57, Cambridge MA; d. 22 Feb 1721/22.
6. iv. ISAAC STEARNS, b. 1658; d. Bef. 1692.
v. CHARLES STEARNS, JR.

Notes for CHARLES STEARNS, JR:
Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II
- Slain in the king's service prior to 1695.

7. vi. REBECCA STEARNS, b. 1661; d. 23 Sep 1746.
vii. MARTHA STEARNS, m. (FNU) HUTCHINSON.

Generation No. 3

3. SAMUEL3 STEARNS (CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 02 Jun 1650 in Watertown, Mass, and died Bef. 06 Jun 1694. He married MEHITABLE (MNU) STEARNS.

Notes for SAMUEL STEARNS:

Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 37

Married Mehitable (mnu), and settled in Watertown. The inventory of his estate was made June 6 1694, by John Hastings, William Shattuck, Sr., and William Shattuck Jr., and his estate was settled by his widow, Mehitable, Joly 1696. It appears, by the town records, June 16, 1694, that he left his family so indigent as to need some temporary aid from the selectmen. It is not known what became of the widow and her two sons.

Children of SAMUEL STEARNS and MEHITABLE STEARNS are:
i. SAMUEL STEARNS4 JR, b. 27 Feb 1685/86, Watertown MA.
ii. JOSEPH STEARNS, b. Bef. 07 Aug 1698, Watertown MA.

4. SHUBAEL3 STEARNS (CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 20 Sep 1655 in Cambridge MA (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died Bef. 19 Nov 1733. He married MARY UPTON. She was born in Of Reading, Mass..

Notes for SHUBAEL STEARNS:
Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II.

- Shubael Stearns, settled in Lynn (Lynnfield) probably near the border of Reading. He belonged to the Narraganset Expedition. No record of his marriage has been discovered, or of the births of more than two or three of his children. [Nov. 23, 1749, Timothy Stearns [ c. Stearns, 31,] a grandson of Shubael Stearns, who served in the Narraganset Expedition, presents to the court a petition, praying for 125 acres of land-has 4 sons, and has moved to lands between Leominster and Narraganset No. 2 (Westminster). Testimony of Samuel Trail, aged 95 years and upwards; remembers Shubael Stearns, of Lynn, who came from Watertown, and was in the army.]

Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 37
Mary Upton, of Reading, Mass., married Shubael Stearns, of Lynn, whether this Shubael or a descendant is unknown. Testimony of Samuel Trail, aged 95 years and upwards; remembers Shubael Stearns of Lynn, who came from Watertown and was in the army. Shubael's will is dated, Nov. 19, 1733; proved, Sept. 2, 1734; nine children.

Children of SHUBAEL STEARNS and MARY UPTON are:
8. i. MARY4 STEARNS, b. 10 Apr.
9. ii. SHUBAEL STEARNS, b. 19 Aug 1683, Lynn, Mass.
10. iii. SAMUEL STEARNS, b. 12 Sep 1685.
11. iv. HANNAH STEARNS, b. 1687.
12. v. JOHN STEARNS, b. 1691; d. 10 Mar 1787.
13. vi. EBENEZER STEARNS, b. 1693.
vii. MARTHA STEARNS, b. 1695 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. Aft. 19 Nov 1733 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
viii. ELEANOR STEARNS, b. 1697 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); m. NATHANIEL BROWN, 22 Dec 1730 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); b. Of Reading, Mass..
ix. REBECCA STEARNS, b. 1699 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); m. (FNU) GREENSLIT.

5. JOHN3 STEARNS (CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 24 Jan 1656/57 in Cambridge MA (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 22 Feb 1721/22. He married (1) JUDITH LAWRENCE 1681, daughter of GEORGE LAWRENCE and ELIZABETH CRISPE. She was born 12 May 1660. He married (2) MARY NORCROSS 02 Apr 1713, daughter of RICHARD NORCROSS and MARY BROOKS. She was born 10 Jul 1663.

Notes for JOHN STEARNS:
Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 38

John Stearns; a house-wright. Thirteen children.
The birth of one child, Rebecca, probably the eldest, was recorded in Watertown, but he resided within the limits of Lexington Mass. his eldest five children were baptized, June 22, 1690, by Rev. John Bailey, of Watertown; the next seven were baptized, May 11, 1710 by Rev. Mr. Angier, of the West or Second Church of Watertown, who also baptized the thirteenth child, Feb. 28, 1703. The births of the youngest two are recorded in Lexington, Mass., where he died Feb. 22, 1722.

Children of JOHN STEARNS and JUDITH LAWRENCE are:
i. REBECCA4 STEARNS, b. 21 Mar 1682/83.
ii. JUDITH STEARNS.
iii. SARAH STEARNS.
iv. GEORGE STEARNS, b. 1688; m. HANNAH SANDERSON, 23 Oct 1712.
v. BENJAMIN STEARNS, b. 1688; m. HEPZIBAH SHATTUCK, 06 Sep 1721.
vi. JOHN STEARNS, JR, b. 1692; m. DELIVERANCE BIGLOW, 10 Aug 1715.
vii. THOMAS STEARNS, b. 1694; m. (1) SARAH (MNU) STEARNS; m. (2) MARY JENNISON, 29 Dec 1729.
viii. DANIEL STEARNS, b. 1695.
ix. ISAAC STEARNS, b. 1697; m. MEHITABLE FROST, 24 Dec 1725.
x. MARY STEARNS.
xi. ELIZABETH STEARNS.
14. xii. ABIGAIL STEARNS, b. 12 May 1700, Lexington, Mass.
xiii. CHARLES STEARNS, b. 20 Oct 1702, Lexington, Mass.

Notes for CHARLES STEARNS:
a cordwainer, of Boston 1725

6. ISAAC3 STEARNS (CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 1658 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died Bef. 1692. He married HANNAH BECKET.

Notes for ISAAC STEARNS:
Settled in Salem, and died previous to 1692. His widow Hannah, was fined at Salem, 1692, for selling drink without license. She married Dec. 1694, John Chapman

Children of ISAAC STEARNS and HANNAH BECKET are:
15. i. REBECCA 'STERNS'4 STEARNS, b. 15 Jan 1684/85.
ii. ISAAC STEARNS, JR, b. 28 Jul 1687.
iii. JOHN STEARNS, b. 20 Dec 1690.

7. REBECCA3 STEARNS (CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 1661 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 23 Sep 1746 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She married THOMAS TRAIN 25 Jan 1692/93 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), son of JOHN TRAIN and MARGARET DIX. He was born 1653, and died 23 Sep 1739 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).

Notes for REBECCA STEARNS:
source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen
Admitted to full covenant 8/15/1698

Notes for THOMAS TRAIN:
source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen
Fined 10s for selling "strong water"

Children of REBECCA STEARNS and THOMAS TRAIN are:
i. BENONI4 TRAIN, b. Nov 1693 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. Nov 1693.
ii. REBECCA TRAIN, b. Apr 1696 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. May 1696.
iii. DEBORAH TRAIN, b. 16 Dec 1698 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 25 May 1718.
iv. REBECCA TRAIN, b. 01 Dec 1701 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 1736; m. DEA JOHN BRIGHT, 17 Dec 1726; d. 24 Jan 1754.

Generation No. 4

8. MARY4 STEARNS (SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 10 Apr (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She married NATHANIEL FLINT 20 Dec 1726 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).

Children of MARY STEARNS and NATHANIEL FLINT are:
i. ELIZABETH5 FLINT.
ii. MARY FLINT.

9. SHUBAEL4 STEARNS (SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 19 Aug 1683 in Lynn, Mass (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He married REBECCA LARIBY 28 Dec 1704 in Kittery, ME. She was born 04 Feb 1683/84 in Boston, Mass.

Notes for SHUBAEL STEARNS:
Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 41

In about 1714, Shubael removed to Tolland, Conn., of which he was the first Town Clerk. About 1750, with his sons and daughters and their families, he left Tolland on account of ecclesiastical difficulties, and settled near Newbern, N.C. He and his family were Baptists and some of them have exercised a great influence upon the religious sentiments of the South. Their residence in North Carolina was at a place called "Pepper Cotton, " and a pamphlet was published at the time giving an account of the troubles in Tolland, Conn.
After moving South, the broad Southern pronunciation was given to the name and it has since been generally written and pronounced Starnes; ten children.

Children of SHUBAEL STEARNS and REBECCA LARIBY are:
i. SHUBAEL5 STEARNS III, b. 28 Jan 1705/06, Boston, Mass.
ii. REBECCA STEARNS, b. 19 Nov 1707, Lynn, Mass.
iii. PETER STEARNS, b. 02 Apr 1710, Reading, Mass.
iv. ISAAC STEARNS, b. 22 Mar 1712/13, Reading, Mass.
v. ELIZABETH STEARNS, b. 30 Aug 1715, Tolland, CT.
vi. HANNAH STEARNS, b. 06 Mar 1717/18, Tolland, CT.
vii. SARAH STEARNS, b. 29 Feb 1719/20, Tolland, CT.
viii. EBENEZER STEARNS, b. 23 Apr 1722, Tolland, CT.
ix. MARY STEARNS, b. 27 Apr 1724.
x. MARTHA STEARNS, b. 18 Aug 1726, Tolland, CT; m. DANIEL MARSHALL, 23 Jun 1747; b. 1706.

Notes for DANIEL MARSHALL:
Rev. Daniel Marshall son of Abraham Marshall of Conn.

10. SAMUEL4 STEARNS (SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 12 Sep 1685 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He married (1) SARAH BURNAP 07 Apr 1711. She died 06 Aug 1724. He married (2) TABITHA BRYANT 14 Apr 1725. She died 13 Dec 1758.

Notes for SAMUEL STEARNS:
He removed to Sutton, Mass., about 1715, where his son Thomas was born; then returned to Lynn Mass., where he died suddenly, Dec. 20, 1759 aged 74 years; seven children

Notes for SARAH BURNAP:
Daughter of a Scottish minister, of Marblehead, Mass

Children of SAMUEL STEARNS and SARAH BURNAP are:
i. TIMOTHY5 STEARNS, b. 17 Jun 1712.
ii. SAMUEL STEARNS, JR, b. 21 Feb 1713/14.
iii. SARAH STEARNS, b. 02 Dec 1715; m. WILLIAM PERKINS.
iv. THOMAS STEARNS, b. 22 Dec 1717, Sutton, Mass.
v. REBECCA STEARNS, b. 02 Sep 1719; d. 19 Jan 1753, Wilmington MA (Source: Wilmington Vital Records, p. 231.); m. EBENEZER JAQUITH, 19 Jun 1739, Wilmington MA (Source: Wilmington Vital Records, p. 148.); b. of Wilmington, MA.
vi. ISAAC STEARNS, b. 10 Apr 1721; m. ABIGAIL BRYANT; b. of Reading, Mass..

Notes for ISAAC STEARNS:
Resided on the homestead, at Lynn, Mass., and d. s. p. The inventory of his estate was dated Jan. 13, 1763. He was Ensign of a Company sent to Crown Point, in 1755

vii. BENJAMIN STEARNS, b. 26 Feb 1723/24.

Notes for BENJAMIN STEARNS:
Killed in battle; s.p.

11. HANNAH4 STEARNS (SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 1687 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She married JAMES STIOMSON 21 Mar 1709/10 in Lynn MA (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He died 10 Mar 1758 in Tolland, CT.

Notes for HANNAH STEARNS:
Married in Lynn about1716 moved to Tolland, Conn. where Dr. James Stimson was the first practicing physician, and were he died Mar. 10 1758; six children

Children of HANNAH STEARNS and JAMES STIOMSON are:
i. ICHABOD5 STIMSON, b. 22 Jan 1712/13.
ii. ENEAS STIMSON, b. 25 May 1714.
iii. HANNAH STIMSON, b. 22 Mar 1715/16.
iv. JAMES STIMSON, JR, b. 20 Sep 1719.
v. NAOMI STIMSON, b. 08 Nov 1722.
vi. THOMAS STIMSON, b. 26 Jul 1725.

12. JOHN4 STEARNS (SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 1691 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 10 Mar 1787 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He married (1) ELIZABETH BARNES 02 Dec 1723 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She died 19 Apr 1737 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He married (2) ABIGAIL DIGGINS 19 Apr 1739 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She was born in of Windsor, CT, and died 13 Feb 1751/52 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He married (3) EUNICE MILLER 29 Jul 1754. She was born in Of Tolland, CT.

Notes for JOHN STEARNS:
Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II
- Of Tolland, Conn.
- It appears by the Mid. Probate Records, that in Oct., 1739, he was appointed guardian of his then living children, by his first wife. Perhaps his first wife was one of the Barnes family, of Marlboro.

He had twelve children.

Notes for ABIGAIL DIGGINS:
Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II
- of Windsor, Conn

Notes for EUNICE MILLER:
Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II
- of Tolland

Children of JOHN STEARNS and ELIZABETH BARNES are:
i. ELEANOR5 STEARNS, b. 13 Feb 1724/25 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 1737 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
ii. DAVID STEARNS, b. 14 Dec 1725 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 02 Feb 1725/26 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
16. iii. ELIZABETH STEARNS, b. 26 May 1728; d. 06 Jan 1783.
17. iv. RUTH STEARNS, b. 19 Jul 1730.
18. v. LYDIA STEARNS, b. 25 Jul 1732.
19. vi. JOHN STEARNS, b. 11 Jan 1734/35; d. 11 Sep 1788, Tolland, CT.

Children of JOHN STEARNS and EUNICE MILLER are:
vii. DAVID5 STEARNS, b. 24 Jan 1756 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 06 Apr 1756 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
viii. ELEANOR STEARNS, b. 11 Aug 1757 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen ); m. (FNU) BINGHAM; b. of Bristol, VT.
ix. EUNICE STEARNS, b. 11 Aug 1757 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
x. CHARLES STEARNS, b. 19 Oct 1758 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
xi. MARY STEARNS, b. 03 Feb 1760 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 15 Aug 1775 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
xii. SARAH STEARNS, b. 06 Nov 1761 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); m. AMARIAH HAWKINS; b. of Bristol, VT.

13. EBENEZER4 STEARNS (SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 1693 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He married MARTHA BURNAP 25 Oct 1717 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She was born in of Reading, Mass..

Children of EBENEZER STEARNS and MARTHA BURNAP are:
i. EBENEZER5 STEARNS, JR, b. 26 Feb 1719/20.
ii. ELIZABETH STEARNS, b. 14 Aug 1721.
iii. JOHN STEARNS, b. 10 Feb 1722/23.

Notes for JOHN STEARNS:
Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 46
Administrator of his father's estate; probably of Belchertown.

iv. JONATHAN STEARNS, b. 26 Jun 1725.
v. HANNAH STEARNS, b. 27 Jan 1726/27.
vi. DAVID STEARNS, b. 25 Mar 1729.
vii. MARY STEARNS, b. 27 Oct 1730.
viii. SARAH STEARNS, b. 11 May 1732.
ix. BETHIA STEARNS, b. 07 Jun 1734.
x. THOMAS STEARNS, b. 16 Feb 1735/36.
xi. REUBEN STEARNS, b. 21 Jun 1737.

14. ABIGAIL4 STEARNS (JOHN3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 12 May 1700 in Lexington, Mass. She married JONAS HARRINGTON 02 Apr 1724.

Notes for JONAS HARRINGTON:
Removed to Weston, Mass., About 1732

Children of ABIGAIL STEARNS and JONAS HARRINGTON are:
i. PATIENCE5 HARRINGTON, b. 17 Jan 1724/25; m. JOHN WARDER, 02 Apr 1749.
ii. EUNICE HARRINGTON, b. 26 Aug 1726; m. NATHANIEL PARKHURST, 06 Feb 1744/45.
iii. ABIGAIL HARRINGTON, b. 28 May 1728.
iv. MARY HARRINGTON, b. 08 Mar 1729/30; m. JOSIAH BIGELOW, 27 Jul 1749.
v. ELIZABETH HARRINGTON, b. 10 Jan 1731/32; m. JOHN FISKE, 18 Jun 1758.
vi. NOAH HARRINGTON, b. 10 Jul 1734, Weston Mass.
vii. RUTH HARRINGTON, b. 27 Mar 1736; m. JOHN PARMENTER, 17 Oct 1756.
viii. SOLOMON HARRINGTON, b. 23 Apr 1738; d. 1750.
ix. JONAS HARRINGTON, JR, b. 21 Sep 1740; m. JANE BENT, Jan 1766.
x. SARAH HARRINGTON, b. 01 May 1742; m. INCREASE LEADBEATER, 21 Jan 1762.

15. REBECCA 'STERNS'4 STEARNS (ISAAC3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 15 Jan 1684/85. She married EBENEZER GLOVER 17 Sep 1706 in Salem, Mass. He was born 13 Apr 1685 in MA.

Children of REBECCA STEARNS and EBENEZER GLOVER are:
i. MARGARET5 GLOVER, b. 20 Dec 1707.
ii. HANNAH GLOVER, b. 25 Sep 1708, Salem, Essex, MA; d. 03 Jan 1774, Stafford, Tolland CT; m. WILLIAM CROUCH, 03 Jul 1729, Woburn, Middlesex, MA; b. 02 Oct 1701, Charlestown, Suffolk, MA; d. 23 Feb 1778, Stafford, Tolland CT.
iii. EBENEZER GLOVER, JR, b. 05 Feb 1710/11; d. 12 Aug 1712.
iv. JOHN GLOVER, b. 25 Sep 1713; d. 21 Feb 1713/14.
v. EBENEZER GLOVER, JR, b. 21 Apr 1715.

Generation No. 5

16. ELIZABETH5 STEARNS (JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 26 May 1728 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 06 Jan 1783 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She married JOHN ABBOTT 21 Jan 1746/47 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He died 17 May 1776 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).

Notes for JOHN ABBOTT:
Family Chronicle May/June 1998 "The Surname Origin List" Pg 46
Abbott (British). [O] "Worked at the house of an abbott" or "looked like an abbott."

Children of ELIZABETH STEARNS and JOHN ABBOTT are:
i. NEHEMIAH6 ABBOTT, b. 21 Dec 1748; d. 24 Aug 1751.
ii. JOHN ABBOTT, b. 30 Jul 1750.
iii. NEHEMIAH ABBOTT, b. 23 Aug 1752; d. 23 Sep 1776.
iv. JEHIEL ABBOTT, b. 02 Jun 1755; d. 13 Apr 1776.
v. SARAH ABBOTT, b. 28 Aug 1757.
vi. ABIEL ABBOTT, b. 16 Aug 1760.
vii. ELIZABETH ABBOTT, b. 12 Aug 1763.
viii. ERASTUS ABBOTT, b. 05 Apr 1768.
20. ix. ALEXANDER ABBOTT, b. 08 Apr 1771; d. 1854.

17. RUTH5 STEARNS (JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 19 Jul 1730 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She married JOSIAH BENTON 09 Nov 1747 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).

Notes for RUTH STEARNS:
Had 9 children

Children of RUTH STEARNS and JOSIAH BENTON are:
i. HANNAH6 BENTON, b. 05 Oct 1748.
ii. JOSIAH BENTON, JR, b. 16 Aug 1750.
iii. MARY BENTON, b. 22 Aug 1751.
iv. RUTH BENTON, b. 15 Apr 1756.
v. LORANA BENTON, b. 01 Aug 1758.
vi. JOEL BENTON, b. 30 Sep 1761.
vii. AARON BENTON, b. 22 Apr 1764.
viii. JERUSHA BENTON, b. 16 May 1767.
ix. REUBEN BENTON, b. 10 Aug 1769.

18. LYDIA5 STEARNS (JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 25 Jul 1732 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She married SHUBAEL DIMMOCK 10 Nov 1751 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).

Notes for LYDIA STEARNS:
Had 11 children

Children of LYDIA STEARNS and SHUBAEL DIMMOCK are:
i. LYDIA6 DIMMOCK, b. 26 Jul 1752.
ii. HANNAH DIMMOCK, b. 26 Jul 1752.
iii. EDWARD DIMMOCK, b. 06 Mar 1754.
iv. SHUBAEL DIMMOCK, JR, b. 21 Mar 1756.
v. ELIZABETH DIMMOCK, b. 12 Aug 1758.
vi. DORCAS DIMMOCK, b. 23 Sep 1760.
vii. SAMUEL DIMMOCK, b. 03 Sep 1762.
viii. JOHN DIMMOCK, b. 15 Aug 1764.
ix. DAVID DIMMOCK, b. 30 Nov 1767.
x. ADOLPHUS DIMMOCK, b. 22 Mar 1775.

19. JOHN5 STEARNS (JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 11 Jan 1734/35 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 11 Sep 1788 in Tolland, CT (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He married ELIZABETH WILLIS 26 Sep 1765 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), daughter of JOSHUA WILLIS and JEMIMA EATON. She was born 14 Aug 1740 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 01 May 1834 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).

Notes for JOHN STEARNS:
Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II
Dr. John Stearns, studied medicine in Connecticut, and commenced practice about 1764, in Wilbraham, where all his children were born.

Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 62

Of Tolland, Conn; studied medicine in Conn., and commenced practice about 1764, in Wilbraham, Mass., where all of his children were born. He married Sept. 26, 1765, Elizabeth Willis, b., Aug. 14, 1740, who died, May 1, 1834, dau. of Capt. Joshua and Jemina (Eaton) Willis, of Tolland, Conn. Dr. Stearns died Sept. 11, 1788, in tolland, Conn.; seven children

Children of JOHN STEARNS and ELIZABETH WILLIS are:
i. JOHN6 STEARNS, b. 13 Jul 1766 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 20 Mar 1769 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); Stepchild.
21. ii. ELIZABETH STEARNS, b. 27 Nov 1768; d. Jun 1846; Stepchild.
22. iii. JOHN STEARNS, JR, b. 16 May 1770; d. 18 Mar 1848.
23. iv. ANNIS (NANCY) STEARNS, b. 30 Apr 1773.
24. v. ELVIRA STEARNS, b. 07 Sep 1774; d. 1846.
vi. ELISHA STEARNS, b. 12 Jul 1776 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 1850 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
vii. STEPHEN STEARNS, b. 22 Jun 1780 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. Feb 1781 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).

Generation No. 6

20. ALEXANDER6 ABBOTT (ELIZABETH5 STEARNS, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 08 Apr 1771, and died 1854. He married BETSEY HATCH. She was born 1774, and died 1862.

Notes for ALEXANDER ABBOTT:
Had 7 children with Betsey Hatch

Child of ALEXANDER ABBOTT and BETSEY HATCH is:
i. JOHN STEARNS7 ABBOTT, b. 1814; d. 1858.

21. ELIZABETH6 STEARNS (JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 27 Nov 1768 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died Jun 1846. She married JABEZ H PERCIVAL 06 Jul 1786 in Wilbraham, Mass., (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He died 28 Jun 1841.

Notes for ELIZABETH STEARNS:
Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 62

Elizabeth married Dr. Jabez H. Percival, who lived a few years in Marlboro, Mass., thence removed to the State of New York, and in 1803, settled in Lawrenceburg, Ind. where he died, June 28, 1841, and his widow died, June, 1846. "He was a practicing physician, among the pioneer of Southern Indiana and that portion of kentucky lying along the Ohio River. Elizabeth (Stearns) Percival was a woman of great force of character and extraordinary executive ability, a true help-mate for her busy husband, and an earnest Christian. Theirs was the first brick house built in Lawrenceburge, Ind. Dr. Jabez H. Percival was a lineal descendant of Robert Percherval, who went to England from Normandy with William, Duke of Normandy, in 1066."
The foregoing records of Elizabeth (Stearns) Percival's family are taken from the "Bible of Jabez H. and Elizabeth (Stearns) Percival," now in possion of their great grand-daughter, Mrs. Elvira (Rose) Dennis, of Indianapolis, Ind., who also has an oil-portrait of Elizabeth ("Sternes") Percival, at the age of sixty-two, of which a copy has been made by her great-great-grand-son, Mark Dennis, of Indianapolis. "the oil-painting is very old and dark and the copy does not do her justice."

Notes for JABEZ H PERCIVAL:
Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II
- Lived a few years in Marlboro, Mass.; thence moved to the State of New York, and in 1800 (source below says 1803), settled in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen
- "He was a practicing physician, among the pioneer of Southern Indiana and that portion of Kentucky lying along the Ohio River. Elizabeth (Stearns) Percival was a woman of great force of character and extraordinary executive ability, a true help-mate for her busy husband, and an earnest Christian. Theirs was the first brick house built in Lawrenceburg, Ind. Dr. Jabez H Percival was a lineal descendant of Robert Percherval, who went to England from Normandy with William, Duke of Normandy, in 1066."

Children of ELIZABETH STEARNS and JABEZ PERCIVAL are:
25. i. POLLY7 PERCIVAL, b. 15 Jun 1787, Marlboro, Mass..
ii. BETSY PERCIVAL, b. 21 Nov 1788, Marlboro, Mass.; m. THOMAS LEUTY, 21 Dec 1806, Cincinnati, OH.
iii. JOHN STEARNS PERCIVAL, b. 14 Nov 1792, Marlboro, Mass.; m. (1) MATILDA GOODRICH, 22 May 1819, Boone Co., KY; m. (2) SARAH ANN KIRTLEY, 05 Apr 1822; b. of Burlington, KY.
iv. ZERA TOUSEY PERCIVAL, b. 17 Nov 1797, Freehold, NY.

Notes for ZERA TOUSEY PERCIVAL:
died unmarried

26. v. ELVIRA PERCIVAL, b. 20 Jun 1790, Marlboro, Mass.; d. Roseville, Ark..
vi. CALVIN FULLER PERCIVAL, b. 20 Dec 1794, Freehold, NY; d. 20 Oct 1810, Ohio River.

Notes for CALVIN FULLER PERCIVAL:
died unmarried

Drowned in the Ohio River in 1810

Obituary from the October 27, 1810 "Western Spy": On Saturday, 20th inst, as two young men were crossing the Ohio, opposite Lawrenceburgh, in a craft loaded with sand, it sank and they were both unfortuanately drowned. Their names were Calvin Percival, second son of Doctor Percival of that town, and Sampson Smith, an active industrious carpenter, formerly resident in this place.

22. JOHN6 STEARNS, JR (JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 16 May 1770 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 18 Mar 1848. He married SARAH KETCHUM 17 Jun 1797, daughter of HEZEKIAH KETCHUM and MARY KETCHUM.

Notes for JOHN STEARNS, JR:

Authority Stearns Family NY Public Library "Memories of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen.

Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II
- Graduated Yale College, 1789; studied medicine with Dr. Sergeant, of Stockbridge; attended lectures in the Univ. Penn, 1792 and '3; M.D., College Phys. and Surg. NY. He settled first in Waterford, NY where he remained until 1809, when, being elected to the Senate of NY, he moved to Albany, where he resided until 1819, when he moved to the city of New York. He has been Professional appointments. He was the first to make the profession acquainted with the medical properties of Secale cornutum. He was an exemplary Christian; was for many years one of the vestry of St. Georg's Church, NY; was one of the founders and most efficient managers of the American Tract Society. He died March 18, 1848, of erysipelas, resulting from a poisoned wound, received in the posecution of his proffession, which he had continued to practise to the close of his long life. He married June 17, 1797 Sally Ketchum, daughter of Col. Hezekiah and Mary Ketchum, a merchant, and one of the first settlers of Waterford, NY.

Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 145.

Dr. John Stearns Jr. (6189), b., May 16, 1770, son of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Willis) Stearns, of Wilbraham, Mass.; grad. Yale Coll., 1789, studied medicine with Dr. Sergeant, of Stockbridge; attended lectures, Univ. Penn., 1792 and 1793; M.D., Coll. of Phys. and Surg., New York City. He settled first in Waterford, NY, where he remained until 1809, when, being elected to the Senate of NY, he removed to Albany, where he remained until 1819, where he went to the City of New York. "He has been Pres. of the NY Academy of Med., and held numerous other respectable professional appointments. He was the first to make the medical profession acquainted with the medicinal properties of Secale cornutum, or Ergot. He was an ex-emplary Christian; was for many years one of the vestry of St. George's Church, New York; was one of the founders and most efficient managers of the American Tract Society. He married June 17, 1797, Sally Ketchum, dau. of Col. Hezekiah and Mary Ketchum, of Waterford, NY. Dr. John Stearns, died Mar. 18, 1848, of erysipelas, resulting from a poisoned wound received in the prosecution of his profession which he continued to practice to the close of his long life." "he died from blood-poisoning, after performing and amputation, the poison entering a cut on one of his fingers and causing his death," at the age of seventy-seven years and ten months; six children.

Children of JOHN STEARNS and SARAH KETCHUM are:
i. JOHN7 STEARNS, b. Dec 1798 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. Jan 1799 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
27. ii. JANE MARIA STEARNS, b. 25 Sep 1800, Waterford, Saratoga Co., NY; d. 23 Jan 1874.
28. iii. HENRY KETCHUM STEARNS, b. 31 Jul 1803; d. Nov 1836.
29. iv. JOHN STEARNS, b. 14 Oct 1812; d. 11 Nov 1864.
v. JOSEPH STEARNS, b. 05 Apr 1816, Albany NY (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 18 Sep 1816, Albany NY (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
30. vi. JOSEPH K. STEARNS, b. 22 Jul 1818.

23. ANNIS (NANCY)6 STEARNS (JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 30 Apr 1773 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She married JOSHUA GRIGGS 1792 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He was born in of Stephentown, NY, and died 1813 in Stephentown, NY (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).

Notes for JOSHUA GRIGGS:
Doctor Joshua Griggs

Children of ANNIS STEARNS and JOSHUA GRIGGS are:
i. LAURA7 GRIGGS.
ii. SOPHRONIA GRIGGS.
iii. HARRIET GRIGGS.
iv. EDWIN GRIGGS.

24. ELVIRA6 STEARNS (JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 07 Sep 1774, and died 1846. She married WILLIAM COBB 30 Oct 1792. He was born 20 Jan 1768 in Tolland, CT, and died 25 Feb 1812.

Notes for WILLIAM COBB:
Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 64

Grad. Yale Coll., 1788, Counsellor-at law. They resided successively in Tolland, Wilbraham, Ellington and Tolland again, where he died, Feb. 12, 1812

Children of ELVIRA STEARNS and WILLIAM COBB are:
i. HANNAH A7 COBB, b. 20 Feb 1794, Tolland, CT; d. 09 Dec 1818; m. HAMLET SPARKS; b. of Lawrenceburg, Ind..
ii. ALMA COBB, b. 22 Sep 1795, Tolland, CT; m. ABIJAH LADD, 20 Jan 1814; b. of Tolland, CT.
iii. ELIZA WILLIS COBB, b. 27 Aug 1797, Tolland, CT; m. JOHN MCCRAY; b. of Strafford, CT.
iv. ELVIRA STEARNS COBB, b. 15 Sep 1799, Wilbraham, Mass.,; m. HEZEKIAH CADY; b. of Strafford, CT.
v. RACHEL COBB, b. 31 Dec 1800, Wilbraham, Mass.,; d. 12 Jun 1836, Hartford, CT.
vi. WILLIAM B COBB, b. 02 Mar 1802, Wilbraham, Mass.,; d. 02 Nov 1804.
vii. MARY ANN COBB, b. 02 Apr 1805, Ellington, CT; m. ANDREW BROWN; b. of Hartford, CT.
viii. WILLIAM B COBB, b. 16 Jul 1807, Ellington, CT; d. 13 Aug 1827, Hartford, CT.
ix. CALVIN P COBB, b. 26 Sep 1810; m. ELIZA GILCHRIST, 07 Jan 1835; b. of Waterford, NY.

Generation No. 7

25. POLLY7 PERCIVAL (ELIZABETH6 STEARNS, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 15 Jun 1787 in Marlboro, Mass.. She married PHILIP HAWKINS CRAIG. He was born in of Boone Co., Ky..

Notes for POLLY PERCIVAL:
Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 62

Married Col. Philip Hawkins Craig, of Boone Co., Ky. Their dau., Eliza Ann Craig, md. Edmund Z. Crooker, whose dau., Mrs. Mary (Crooker) Lloyd, of Austin, TX, has in her possession an old Bible which traces her ancestry to Dr. John Stearns. Mrs. Lloyd's brother, L.M. Crooker, is alumber merchant of Austin, TX., who has served two terms as Mayor of the city.

Another dau. of Philip H. and Polly (Percival) Craig, named Louisa Craig, Md. Capt. Alexander Louis Mason, of Kentucky, who was killed on the battle-field of Wilson's Creek, Mo., with a Colonel's commission in his pocket. Their grandson, Fred Waldo Williams, glove manufacturer of Napa, Calbears a strong personal resemblance to E.E. Stearns, bicycle manufacturer, of Syracuse, NY, as shown by a picture of the latter in Munsey's Magazine.

Children of POLLY PERCIVAL and PHILIP CRAIG are:
31. i. ELIZA ANN8 CRAIG.
ii. LOUISA CRAIG, m. ALEZANDER LOUIS MASON; b. of Kentucky; d. on the battle-field of Wilson's Creek, Mo.

26. ELVIRA7 PERCIVAL (ELIZABETH6 STEARNS, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 20 Jun 1790 in Marlboro, Mass., and died in Roseville, Ark.. She married HORACE B ROSE 16 Dec 1807 in Lawrenceburg, Ind.. He was born in of Roseville, Ark., and died in Roseville, Ark..

Child of ELVIRA PERCIVAL and HORACE ROSE is:
32. i. EUDORA E.8 ROSE, b. 25 Mar 1816, New Orleans, LA.

27. JANE MARIA7 STEARNS (JOHN6, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 25 Sep 1800 in Waterford, Saratoga Co., NY (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 23 Jan 1874 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). She married ADOLPHUS LANE 18 Aug 1824 in New York (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), son of JONATHAN LANE.

Notes for ADOLPHUS LANE:
A merchant, of New York

Children of JANE STEARNS and ADOLPHUS LANE are:
i. JOHN STEARNS8 LANE, b. 1847.

Notes for JOHN STEARNS LANE:
Graduate Columbia Coll.

ii. EDWARD LANE, d. died young.
iii. LOUISA CAROLINE LANE, b. Jun 1833.

28. HENRY KETCHUM7 STEARNS (JOHN6, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 31 Jul 1803 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died Nov 1836. He married SARAH C SHERMERHORN, daughter of CORNELIUS SHERMERHORN.

Notes for HENRY KETCHUM STEARNS:
A Merchant

Children of HENRY STEARNS and SARAH SHERMERHORN are:
i. SARAH8 STEARNS, b. 1829.
ii. JOHN NOBLE STEARNS, b. 1831.
iii. HENRY KETCHUM STEARNS, b. 1833.
iv. JAMES SHERMERHORN STEARNS, b. 1835.

29. JOHN7 STEARNS (JOHN6, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 14 Oct 1812 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 11 Nov 1864. He married ANN HARRIOTTE LLOYD 19 Jul 1848, daughter of JOHN LLOYD and ANNE LEE. She was born 07 Jan 1826, and died 23 Jun 1888.

Notes for JOHN STEARNS:
Was a M.D. before he went into ministry. He resigned and went to a church in Spotswood, CT - died 6 months later leaving his wife with 5 babies.

Ref: Book "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of this Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended the Early History of the Town.", by Henry Bon, MD, Vol II.

Obtained an academical education at Dr. Muhlenburg's School, Flushing; M.D., Jeff Med. Coll., 1837. After practicing medicine a short time in NY, he turned his attention to theology; graduated at the Epis. Theol. Seminary, near Alexandria, in 1846, and is now (1848) rector of a church in Syosset, Queen's Co., NY.

Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 145.

Rev. John Stearns, M.D. (6430), b., Oct. 14, 1812, son of Dr. John and Sarah (Ketchum) Stearns, of New York City; obtained and academic education at Dr. Muhlenburg's School, Flushing, NY; M.D. Jef. Med. Coll., 1837; after practicing medicine a short time in Philadelphia, PA., he entered the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, VA., and studied for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was a skillful physician and would have achieved eminence in that profession, but felt called to the ministry, and for many years, occupied a foremost place in the councils of the church. He entered the ministry as assistant to Dr. Stephen H. Ty6ng, D.D., Rector of St. George's Church, New York City, and was the intimate friend of Bishop Paddock, of Washington, and Bishop Williams, of Conn. He took charge of St. Peter's Church, Brooklyn, NY; of Christ Church, Stratford, Conn.; of St. Stephen's Church, Pittsfield, Mass; St. Peter's Church, Spotswood, NJ., where he died Nov. 11, 1864. "He was an elpquent preacher and a faithful minister of God." He married July 19, 1848, Anne Harriotte Lloyd, of Alexandria, VA, born Jan. 7, 1826, who died, June 23, 1888. Her great-grandfather was Richard Henry Lee, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and Gen. Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Southern Army during the Civil War, was her first cousin on her mother's side. Her son, John Lloyd Stearns, has in his possession, the Cincinnati Plate, which Richard Henry Lee took as a souvenir of the entertainment given by George Washington, when the 'Order of the Cincinnati' was formed." They had five children.

Children of JOHN STEARNS and ANN LLOYD are:
i. HARRIOTTE LEE8 STEARNS, b. 01 May 1849, Alexandria, VA (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen); d. 16 Jul 1851, Brooklyn, NY (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen).
33. ii. MARY BARLOW STEARNS, b. 27 Nov 1850, Brooklyn NY; d. 12 Jan 1925, Elizabeth NJ.
34. iii. JOHN LLOYD STEARNS, b. 20 Dec 1852, Brooklyn, NY; d. 1911.
35. iv. REBECCA LLOYD STEARNS, b. 07 Jun 1856, Stratford, Conn.
v. ROBERT LAWRENCE STEARNS, b. 24 Dec 1857, Alexandria, VA; d. 11 Jun 1888, Elizabeth NJ.

Notes for ROBERT LAWRENCE STEARNS:
died unmarried

30. JOSEPH K.7 STEARNS (JOHN6, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 22 Jul 1818 (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen). He married ELIZA CORDELIA HARMAR 27 Mar 1845 in Brooklyn. She was born 19 Jan 1825.

Notes for JOSEPH K. STEARNS:
A merchant of NY

Child of JOSEPH STEARNS and ELIZA HARMAR is:
36. i. JOSEPH HENRY8 STEARNS, b. 30 Mar 1846.

Generation No. 8

31. ELIZA ANN8 CRAIG (POLLY7 PERCIVAL, ELIZABETH6 STEARNS, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) She married EDMUND Z CROOKER.

Child of ELIZA CRAIG and EDMUND CROOKER is:
i. MARY9 CROOKER, m. (FNU) LLOYD; b. of Austin Tx.

32. EUDORA E.8 ROSE (ELVIRA7 PERCIVAL, ELIZABETH6 STEARNS, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 25 Mar 1816 in New Orleans, LA. She married GEORGE WASHINGTON KNOX 12 May 1842. He was born 05 Mar 1812 in Louisville, KY.

Child of EUDORA ROSE and GEORGE KNOX is:
i. MARTHA WASHINGTON9 KNOX, m. (FNU) HAYMAN.

Notes for MARTHA WASHINGTON KNOX:
Ref: Book: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, p. 63

Mrs. Martha Washington (Knox) Hayman, of Van Buren, Ark., has sent us a very complete record of her mother's family

33. MARY BARLOW8 STEARNS (JOHN7, JOHN6, JOHN5, JOHN4, SHUBAEL3, CHARLES2, (FNU)1) was born 27 Nov 1850 in Brooklyn NY (Source: "Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants, " by Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen), and died 12 Jan 1925 in Elizabeth NJ. She married WILLIAM SCOFIELD HOGE 28 Jan 1874 in Lincoln M.H. VA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), son of ISAAC HOGE and RACHEL SCOFIELD. He was born 18 Feb 1847 in Pleasent Valley Farm, near Hamilton VA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969), and died 15 Aug 1920 in Buck Hill Falls PA.

Notes for MARY BARLOW STEARNS:
- May have been born Nov. 27, 1850
- Descendant of Richard Henry Lee of VA
- Member D.A.R. Chapter 202 "Mary Washington"
Ref. Lee of VA by E.J. Lee
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It is from Mary Stearns that the connection to the Lee's of Virginia comes. Therefore the following are added here.

Copied from Richard Henry Lee's Family Bible.

Richard Henry Lee and Ann Aylett were married December 3, 1757.

Thomas Lee, the son of Richard Henry Lee and Anne, his wife, was born on Sunday the 20th day of October 1757 at 11 o'clock at night and was christened by the Rev. Mr. Charks Rose the 26th day of November 1738. His sponsore were Alkinton, the honorable Col. Philip Ludwell Lee, Ganin Covborn, Esq. Miss Alice Lee, Mrs. Alkenton and Miss Mary Aylett.

Ludwell Lee, son of R.H. Lee and Anne, his wife, was born on Monday the 13th of October 176? at 12 o'clock in the night and was christened by the Rev. M.C. Rose on Sunday the 26th of October 1760. His proxies - Miss Richard Lee Esq., Doctor Arthur Lee and Miss Elizasbeth Steptor.

Mary Lee, daughter of Richard Henry Lee and Anne, his wife, was born Saturday the 28th of July 1764 in the night. She was christened by the Rev. Mr. Archibald Cambell March 11th, 1765 and her proxies were Frances Lightfoot Lee Esq., Mr. Joseph Lane and James Davenport with Mrs Elizabeth Steptor, Miss Betty Washington and Miss Booth.

Anne Lee, daughter of Richard Henry Lee and Anne, his wife, was born the 1st day of December 1770 and was christened the 6th of January 1771. Her sponsors were Frances Lightfoot Lee Esq., Dr. Steqtor, Mrs. Richard Lee and Miss Sarah Gaskins. She was christened by Rev. Mr. Thomas Smith.

Henrietta Lee, daughter of R. H. Lee and Anne, his wife, was born the 10th day of December 1773 and was christened the ?? day of January 1774. Her sponsors were Capt. John Lee, Richard Lee, George Lee, Frances Steptor Esqr., Miss Elizabeth Gaskins, Miss ??? Lee and Miss Mary Lee.

Sarah Lee, daughter of Richard Henry Lee and Anne, his wife, was born the 27th of November 1775 and was christened by the Rev. Mr. Thomas Smith. Her proxies were Thomas Ludwell Lee, Henry Lee Esqrs., MIss Elizabeth Lee, Miss Mary Lee, Miss Nancy Lee, Miss Hannah Lee.

Cassius Lee, son of Richard Henry Lee and Anne, his wife, was born at 3 o'clock at night the 18 day of August 1779. Christened October 10, 1779. Proxies the Rev. Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Armstead, Miss Alice Lee of Maryland, Miss Nancy Lee of Chantilly and Miss Furann.
"May every Ceasar feel the keen deep searching of a Patriots Steel."

Frances Lightfoot Lee, son of R. H. Lee and Anne, his wife, was born at 2 o'clock in the morning 1782. Was Christened by the Rev. Mr. Wilson. His sponsors were Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Ludwell Lee, Mrs. Aylett Lee, Miss Mary Lee, Miss Hannah Lee, Miss Flora Lee, Miss Lucinda Lee.

Page is so bad that nothing further could be read.

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SOURCE: This letter was sent by Nan Hoge Savage to Philip B. Hoge (her brother) in about 1965.

Our Grandmother and Your Great Grandmother was the third Daughter of Richard Henry Lee and Anne his second wife -- she was a widow Pinkard, a Miss Ann Gaskins her name number 1.

Sarah Lee, her child, born the 27th of November 1773 in Westmorland County. She married Edmund J. Lee, son of Henry Lee and Lucy Greymer. Edmund J. Lee was the brother of Lighthorse "Harry Lee" of Revolutionary War, who was the Father of General Robert E. Lee.

Anne Harriotte Lee, daughter of Edmund J. Lee and Sarah, his wife, was born on Wednesday March 6th, 1799--Married John Lloyd November 2nd, 1822.

Two of Richard Henry Lee's daughters our Grandmothers.
Sisters married Washington's, Gen. Washington's, Nephews -- your Great Uncles and Aunts.

Edmund Jennings Lee William Fitzbugh Lee
Anne Harrotte Lee Hannah Lee
Tallee Lee Charles Henry Lee
Capens Lee Richard Henry Lee

Ancestor: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, ref: Lee of VA, by E.J. Lee. Member D.A.R Chap 202, Mary Washington, Washington D.C.

Notes for WILLIAM SCOFIELD HOGE:
A wealthy merchant. Built an apartment house at 1402 15th Street Wash DC . "Could see DuPont Circle from it".

On 18 May 1874 was condemned at Hopewell for marrying out of unity; requested to be retained and allowed to remain. [Hinshaw, Quaker Gen. v. 6:401,402]

He married Mary Barlow Stearns and died in 1920 (family genalogy)

The Janney Family came to Bucks Co. PA in 1683, same year as William Hoge, Sr. Thomas Janney (bp 1634 d. 1697) bought 250 acres from Wm. Penn. (Janneys and Hoges intermarried, and James Janey was a partner of Wm. S. Hoge in D.C. in 1873 - see below) Ref: History of Bucks Co. PA 1975, pp 54-60, at Library of Congress.
Peabody Roon, Georgetown Public Library, R & Wisconsin Sts., D.C., Boyd's Directories, D.C.
1870 - no entry for Hoge
1872 - no entry
1873 - William S. Hoge of Janney & Hoge, commission merchants and dealers in flour, feed, and hay. James W. Janney is his partner. Place of business is 460 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
1874 - Same as above. Hoge boards at Continental Hotel
1890 - no entry
1897 - William S. Hoge and James M. Hoge of Hoge & McDowell, produce & commission merchants, feed, hay, grain, and all kinds of country produce. Wm. S. Hoge, student. No listing for Philip
1906 - Wm. S. Hoge, Pres., James M. Hoge, manager, Hoge & McDowell co. 945 S. St. NW Hoge's residence: 1402 15th Street, NW
1910 W. S. Hoge, Pres., James M. Hoge of Hoge & McDowell, millers, wholesale feed dealers & commission merchants. Philip B Hoge, civil engineer at 141 Q Street, house at 1402 15th Street.
1915 - Wm. S. Hoge, Pres. W. S. Hoge & Bro., commission merchants and wholesale feed dealers at 915 Louisiana Ave., warehouse at 80 L Street. NE. Wm S Hoge, Jr., secretary-treasurer Hoge Co. Barbara Hoge. Philip Hoge, civil engineer at 1402 15th Street. live Wm. S. Hoge, Sr., and Philip.
1922 - James M. Hoge, Pres. WM S Hoge & Brothers, wholesale grain and feed at 233 6th Street. SW, also at Alexandria.
1923 - same

The residence of Wm. Hoge Sr. was due west of Opeckah Memorial Church, south of Winchester. House now gone, but site was that of pritchard house, built 1850, extant 1863. Wm. Hoge's son Alexander, besides being a member of the first U.S. Congress, was at the Virginia Convention which adopted the first constitution. (Ref: "Shenandoah Valley Pioneers", A History of Frederick Co. VA. by T.K. Cartnell, 1963, chesapeake Book co. Berryville VA, pp. 411-412).

In 1744 William Hoge obtained a license to keep an ordinary. (Ref: "History of Lower Shenandoah Valley," counties Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Clarke, ed. J.E. Norris, 1890, Virginia Book co. Berryville VA p. 73.)

Owned grain & feed business in Washington DC from 1873-1920. [Boyd's City Directories]. On May 18, 1874 he was condemned at Hopewell MH for marrying out of unity, request to remain was allowed. (source: Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, wm Wade Hinshaw, 1950, Ann Arbor MI, v.6:401.653-4.] Removed to Washington and established successful grain & feed business. Lived 1402-15th Street NW. Son Philip related that William and bro. James hitchhiked to Providence RI in order to attend Brown University. Source: Family notes, otherwise not referenced.

Children of MARY STEARNS and WILLIAM HOGE are:
i. ANNE STEARNS9 HOGE, b. 18 Sep 1875 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); d. 01 Jul 1957; m. FREDERICK ADAMS SAVAGE; b. 1870.
ii. RACHEL SCOFIELD HOGE, b. 27 Dec 1876 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); d. 02 Sep 1948, St. Paul MN; m. FRANCIS JOSEPH SAVAGE, 16 Feb 1904 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); b. 1875 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); d. 16 Jan 1959.

Notes for FRANCIS JOSEPH SAVAGE:
Doctor

iii. WILLIAM SCOFIELD HOGE,JR, b. 27 Mar 1879 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); d. 13 Sep 1954; m. ELIZABETH HIDEN, 18 Oct 1904 (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); b. 22 May 1878, Orange Co Va (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); d. 30 Jan 1966, Tacoma Park, MD.

Notes for WILLIAM SCOFIELD HOGE,JR:
Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969
William Scofield Hoge, Jr., was a pioneer developer of Arlington Co. real estate, a native of Washington, Mr. Hoge for a number of years prior to his association with the real estate business that bears his name, operated a grain and feed business begun in Washington by his father and uncle, James Mahlon Hoge. At the time of his death, he was associated with his son W. S. Hoge III, president of the Arlington Real Estate Board, in a real estate office at 2206 Wilson Blvd. A deeply religious man, Mr. Hoge was closely identified with Baptist Church activities throughout VA. He was a trustee of Arlington Columbia Baptist Church, the Baptist Home for the Aged in Culpepper, Va. and a director of the Arlington branch of the Salvation Army. His business and social connections included membership on the board of directors of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce and in the Society of the Lees of Virginia.

iv. PHILIP BARLOW HOGE, b. 10 Nov 1883, Washington DC (Source: 1900 Dist of Columbia Census.); d. 23 Jun 1964, South Kingston RI, - buried Jamestown RI (Source: Death Cert #4557 State of RI.); m. DOROTHY MORGAN ANDERSON, 16 Apr 1918, Washington DC (Source: Marriage Cert..); b. 02 May 1887, New Brighton/Castleton NY (Source: Birth Cert..); d. 16 Jul 1979, Bristol RI - buried Jamestown RI (Source: Death Cert. #138-79-004660 State of RI.).

Notes for PHILIP BARLOW HOGE:
Born at 1402 15TH St NW Wash DC Attending Physician Dr Johnson
1908 - Graduate of Cornell
1913-1914 Pres Hoge & Leubkert (Sidewalk Contractors) Wash DC

US Army IST LT Corps of Engineers 1917,Captain, Major, Construction Div QM Corps 1918

The following is a letter written by Dorthy Anderson Hoge, wife of Philip Barlow Hoge, between 1965-1970.

Hoge
Spencer (Dickinson) has the Hoge family tree rolled up somewhere but it's hard to discipher and doesn't go as far as our generation anyway. The original Hoge came to this county on one of the early pioneer ships landing at Perth Amboy. On the ship was a Barbara Hume (ship's romance). They married and started the long line of sturdy progressive Quakers. One descendent went to Seattle, one to middle west, one was the Presbyterian minister who "flourished" in NY (xx son) met in Coconut Grove(FL) Doctor, ( I think) Peyton, evidently wealthy and children married abroad. Phil's family among others settled as land owning farmers in Virginia, the famous Loudoun County, Quakers. Phil's father had brothers; Isaac, remained a farmer; Lewis, married cousin Rachel - she the business woman, he the intellectual. James, the eldest, he and Phil's father Willy finally left Virginia, went into business in Washington, grain elevator, & supply. James was Clark's (Norris of Chicago) father, also Julia's.

Phil's father married Mary Stearns, whose mother was the Lee connection, I think her name was Harriet. Another sister Josie married Johns Hopkin's brother. Phyllis (Hoge) has her picture. One was married to Uncle Will Hastings. Stearns was an Episcopal minister from upper New York. This was during the civil war and they were very poor, but certainly had great taste and education of the sort acquired from books, not schooling. I don't know where she and Willy Hoge met but I think at the Hopkin's in Baltimore. We had mutual cousins there.

The Hoge children were Nan, Rachel, Will, Phil, Mary, Margaret, Barbara. Nan's children are Fred Savage Jr., Dorothy Oudin, Nan & Rachel married brothers - Fred, and Frank (Savage). Rachel's only child - Anne Pettit. Will's - are Bill, Mary Gleysteen, and Betsy, now Diamond. Mary married Murdock Norris. Mary's children are Anne Poole, Alan, and Polly - Polly married John Rulon-Miller. Margaret married J. Nicholas Brewster, had daughter Peggy. Barbara married Laurence Stickney whom she met visiting Rachel Savage in St. Paul. He died and she married Hugh Blair Grigsby Galt (no children from either marriage).

Janet Bangs' mother was a Hoge from Loudoun Co, first cousin of the Willy Hoges. She married Charles Norris (no relation to Murdock Norris) from the wide farm land in Illinois, raised horses and cattle. The miniature that Eleanor Dickinson has is Janet Bangs' mother. She kept a fascinating diary which I read to Janet the last time I was there, covered her engagement, wedding and early married life in the big household she went to. It was hard to read, I'm afraid it's lost. There are a great many legends of the Hoge connection in the middle west who used to come and visit the Washington Hoges. They were always welcome. One was Aunt Fred, married a one time mayor of Chicago - a more or less no-good and detereriorated, but Aunt Fred was something. On the spread out prairie she decided it was lovely for people so posted a notice in the store post office of a 4th of July picnic, for everybody to come with family and food in wagons to certain grove. Everybody came. There were over a hundred families. She never got enough ice cream so on one visit Mr. Hoge ordered two gallons and she ate through it on her visit. Another odd one was cousin Debbie whose mission in life was to visit, preach to, and convert prisoners, so wouldn't do anything else on her visit but visit Washington prisoners. On his mother's side,(the Lee side), were Aunt Minnie and Aunt Jinny in the old house in Alexandria, the ones whose servants sold off the downstairs furniture. They let down the front door key on a string so Mrs H and Phil could come in. Senator Smoot bought the house. It's now government owned.

As to Phil and me, I had a friend at Miss Dorsey's school where I went for a year after I came back to Washington from Paris having spent a year out of school with nervous headaches. She was Grace Allen.(Years later around 1975 when Grace, who never married, was living in a nursing home in Ridgewood, N. J. having been put there by a nephew, she was visited by Dorothy Hoge and her daughter, Langley Hoge Kenzie. By this time they were both very old, and Grace's memory had partly gone. Grace asked Dorothy whatever happened to Phil Hoge? And Dorothy answered, " I married him", They were both crying.) She knew other Army girls and some Navy who all went to Miss Haxall's dancing class at Rauscher's. The Hoges had sent Mary and Phil. They went to public high school. Phil got to know the young group and stuck with them. The girls drifted off and went to boarding school, but I wouldn't go to the dancing class (like the fortnightlys in Elizabeth) but I got to know the group through Grace. I went with her and a group to the High School Cadet Training Corps Graduation contest where Phil's company (he was captain) won the flag. Great occasion. He had worked it all out on paper first. Grace thought he was a "rough diamond" preferred some others who seemed to me the walking disaster types. Of course I had had an awful lot of experience of people by the time I was fifteen. Phil was eighteen then, just plain himself. We went on long walks (whole group) though Rock Creek Park, on lots of Sundays, played ping pong at various houses, tennis on somebodys fixed up lot on P Street and went to matinees, very good stock companies during the summer. Mostly Phil and I did that alone, got seats in the last row and sat on the back, with our feet in the seats. The theater served paper cups of sherbet between the acts, 25 cents an afternoon. They all went off to college in the fall but we continued more or less though the next few years holidays and Phil and I kept up a correspondence always. He never talked about his family. We were of different groups. It was years before I knew he had a brother or sister besides Mary and Margaret.

Later as I grew to know Phil's people and background better there were things almost legendary that fascinated me, being so different from anything that had ever touched my life. The idea of his father and uncle the two oldest of a Quaker farm family after the civil war, walking from Lynchburg or Warrenton all the way to Providence to go to Brown, picking up rides along the way. Their mother and aunt and other children ran the farm. Somehow they were never stuck, they were all educated and managed to visit relatives as far as Illinois. A tradition. The middle westerners all visited the Hoges in Washington and there were always extras in the house. Phil's father did the marketing. He'd go out, pick up a little colored boy somewhere to carry the basket, and go to the old P St. market and load up. A great plenty of the best plain food which Mrs Hoge doled out each day from locked store room. They had a smoke house in the back yard. When Phil worked for his father after leaving college he'd go out about 6:00 to get things started, return to an assembled enormous hot breakfast. During their childhood when Mr Hoge and Uncle James made money, they bought land outside of Washington called Washington View where they could take all the children in the summers, orchard, fresh vegetables, horse & buggy, preserving. Probably they all got interested in land development there. Rachel & Phil were the only ones who wanted to go to college. Rachel afterwards taught a few years in the public school. I gathered not too successfully, but always enthusiastically. An arranger whose plans didn't always work out. Nan was the social one and Washington being small and they being what used to be called "cave Dwellers", long time settlers not congress or diplomats - or service, all knew each other. One of Nan's best friends was Lucy Bayne Theall.

POEMS BY P. B. HOGE:

"THE ROOSTER BIRD"

The silliest sound I've ever heard
Is that made by the rooster bird.
The song that's sung by Mister Cock
of Leghorn breed or Plymouth Rock,
Rhode Island Red or Dominick,
Or any other brand of chick
Though oft called a "cock a doodle do",
The appelation is not true.
The voice that's raised by Chantieler,
That rends the early morning air
Sounds most absurd you will ever hear,
For what he says is "Urk uh urr".

"GEESE"

Geese sure do make an awful squawk
When they just talk and talk and talk.
But warm and gentle rain in spring
Will make them sing and sing and sing.
They lift their beaks, their necks they crane,
The silly creatures love the rain.
They seem to reach the heights of bliss
That lovers reach when lovers kiss.
I love to watch them in the Spring,
To hear them sing and sing and sing.

CORRECTED VERSION & NEW TITLE

"GOOSES"

When goose to goose essays to talk
The sound you hear is just a squawk
But sometimes when it rains in Spring
Just listen and you'll hear them sing
With beaks upraised and neck a craning
They make sweet music when it's raining
And seem to reach the heights of bliss
That lovers reach when lovers kiss
When falls the gentle rain in spring
O' then's the time the gooses sing

"THE SKUNK"

Oft have I thunk and thunk and thunk,
What kind of noise is made by skunk?
I never yet have heard his voice,
As I keep far from him by choice.
No doubt he'd sound verbose enough,
Did I dare listen close enough.
His fur is nice with lovely marking,
But I have never heard him barking.
He looks a handsome little creature,
But looks are not his leading feature.
The skunk is just an awful smeller,
Tho' noiseless he's a noisome feller.
He may be silent, but I think
Instead of voice he's got a stink.

This was a talk given to the Monday Evening Club, in Elizabeth, NJ at the house of P. B. Hoge, about 1940 - after which Hoge asked lawyer friend in the audience group - (Mr. Bart Woodruff) to come up and present him with award for Liars Club - "Liar of the Year" or some such.

In the summer of 1906 - during school vacation, I got a job as roadman in a surveying part on the Northern Pacific Railroad in western Montana. As I had to pay my own way as far as Livingston, Montana, where I joined the party, I rode in a coach. From there on, we were carried free, but as we were not very high-priced workers we all rode in coaches the rest of the way. My pay was the magnificent sum of $50.00 a month - board and lodging free. This is twice the amount I had gotten as axeman 4 years previously in another survey party.

Our first location was Bonver, Montana a small village at the foot of a mountain. The village itself was dwarfed by a huge sawmill plant of the Big Blackfoot Milling Company. I never saw as much lumber in one place in my life - before or since - and I suspect the forests in that location were being rapidly denuded as this was before the days of serious forest conservation.

For the first week or ten days we lived in style, sleeping and getting our meals in the hotel in Bonver, until some thrifty soul in the home office must have decided that such treatment was too fancy for a field party. So two much-used and rather drafty box cars (of the type familiarly known as side-door Pullmans) were rolled in on a side track and fitted with wooden bunks, and arrangements made with a local boarding house to feed us.

We were given blankets, but anything else we had to get for ourselves. A box car properly fitted up is not an uncomfortable place to live - and as there were only 6 or 8 men in our car - a double decker bunk in each corner - it wasn't too bad. The only trouble was during the first night. What the car had been used for previously I do not know, but it looked as though some cattle might have been in there for a while. At any rate, one of the boys was given the job of cleaning it out - and he did - with a vengeance. He used a shovel and broom and then to make sure all was sanitary he sprinkled chloride of lime around generously - and then water to lay the dust. I am not sure of my chemistry, as it has been a long time since I have had anything to do with the subjuct, but I think when you mix chloride of lime and water you get chlorine gas. At any rate, whatever it was, I was in a lower bunk in one corner - with a blanket and no mattress and I breathed the awful stuff all night long - and shivered - and I even shivered the next day in the warm sunshine, so the party chief sent me to the Company hospital in Missonla - just a few miles down the railroad. I will never forget the perfectly delightful feeling of setting into the hospital cot in a warm room after a good hot bath. I must have picked up a bug along with the chlorine, as I was off the job for about 2 weeks with the flu - except we called it the grippe then.

I would like to say something here - parenthetically - a few side remarks. Remember, these were the days before employee insurance of any kind - when men were sick or injured on the job and had to get along as best they could until they could work again and get back on the payroll. The N.P.R.R. must have had this hospital in operation for some years. The buildings were not new, there was a staff of doctors and nurses and 30 or 40 beds - 20 or 25 were occupied by patients while I was there. The company gave complete medical and hospital care and paid wages, too - not from any paternalistic or philanthropical idea, but purely from intelligent self interest. They had probably learned by experience that it was cheaper and more satisfactory to get experienced men back on the job quickly than to hire new untried men. The towns were quite far apart and the country thinly settled. So far as I know they ran the only hospital in Missonla. Other railroads there must have done the same thing, because a brother-in-law of mine - a doctor living in St. Paul, Minnesota was a railroad doctor for some years as a young man.

I bought a mattress in Missonla to take back with me. The other boys had done the same. No use not being comfortable. We settled down to the routine of surveying.

The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad (better known simply as the Milwaukee) had decided to extend its rail to the Pacific Coast and had surveying parties in to locate a line. The Northern Pacific didn't like that idea much and had put our party in the field in what they claimed was a desire to shorten their line and eliminate steep grades - no doubt true - but it was also on attempt to put a crimp in the Milwaukee plans and get in ahead of them using up the best locations whereever posible. Our chief of party always pulled up whatever Milwaukee stakes he found and threw them away - a nice friendly gesture. However, it didn't stop the Milwaukee at any rate. As far as I know they not only reached the coast, but they electrified their lines - if not all the way - at least over the mountains. Maybe somebody here knows better about that than I do as I haven't been that far west again for over 50 years.

I don't know what is the best kind of job for a young man to have, but that summer was a pleasant and healthful experience. A great deal of walking, some trees to cut down, some brambles to slash through, swamps to muck through and a swift river to ford occasionally.

The river - called the Hellgate then - but now according to the map by the much more dignified and proper name of Clark River - was not large nor very deep - but very swift and with many rapids. In many places it was possible to wade it in perfect safety - in fact it was a relief to get in the water, as the days were clear, hot and dry - so dry in fact that I have been wet and dried off completely 3 times in one day - that means clothes, shoes and all - as you had to ford the river as you were.

There was one place we wanted to cross and started ont confidently enough but as the water got deeper and we saw the rapids not far down the river - each one of us would turn back - and someone else watching from the shore - from which point it looked so easy - would try it a bit farther and then turn back again. I made several false starts losing my nerve each time and finally getting to where the water started getting shallow again beyond the middle of the river and had just started up the slope when the current got me. I swam back for the shore I had feft and was grabbed as I swept by. I learned one thing from that experience. I was scared to death wading that river and remembering the rapids below but once I was off my feet I was so busy swimming back to the shore it never occured to me to be frightened. Anticipation is often worse than actuality.

Our party consisted of the chief - named Heckman - and about 10 men. Heckman, as I remember, was a cynical man, but probably a good man on location surveys. I guess he knew his business. Woody, the transit man was a morose individual. Ernie was a good man who did his job - I have forgotten what his duties were - and minded his own business. Ed was the level man - my boss - a moody individual. The thing that I remember best about him was when I was slowly plowing knee deep in the muck of a drying up swamp and Ed at the surveying level on dry ground in the shade of a tree and cursing me for being so slow - and with each sloggy step I was getting madder and madder.

Cupid was a gay pleasant little man about 35 years old - I don't remember what his duties were, but it was pleasant to have him around. Murphy the axeman was a nice young Irish lad almost 18. Slim was a big pleasant young man named Claude Averill - but who was always addressed as "you big Swede you." He was head chairman or tapeman - and M.J. Harrison was rear tapeman.

M.J. Harrison - the last on the list - was a - well it wouldn't be polite to say what he was - but that is what he was. He was a red haired tough little runt. I do not know what kind of work he was best fitted for but he had been many things during his checkered career. He had been a bar tender, a hack driver, a jockey (disqualified for some kind of crooked work, though he always claimed he was railroaded out of the job.) He had an unlimited found of experiences if one believed what he said. "did I ever tell you about the time I joined the Salvation Army." or "That reminds me of the time." No matter what anybody else had done, Harrison could go him one better. The chief of the party said, "I don't know what his birth record shows, but if Harrison is telling the truth he is at least 70 years old. Nobody could have done all of the things he claimed to have done in 30 years of life. There wouldn't have been time.

He told us once that he had a girl in a small town, but had left the town. he went back to the town about 3 years later and went to see his girl friend. "She had a small red headed brat she was trying to teach to call me "Papa". I left that town again, and I ain't going thru anymore."

We asked him often what "M.J." stood for but he would never tell. "Don't nobody know but me and my mother. A police judge asked me that once, and that's what I told him - and I ain't told nobody - then or since".

He had a scar on his leg where somebody had knifed him. He was quite peeved about that. "I shot at the so-and-so," he said. "Wish I had killed him."

After one payday he spent the night in the back room of the bar gambling - and got cleaned out, but he wasn't mad at the man who got his money. He was mad at the Northern Pacific Railroad because he had worked for a whole month getting tired and wet and had nothing to show for it.

Generally every Saturday night the whole gang would take the train free ride for employees - and go to Missonla or Butte for a big night - and they usually had one - according to their stories when they got back. No, I never went along, maybe I was just unsociable. I do not pretend to be any saint, but to tell the truth raising that particular kind of hell never appealed to me. It would bore me to death. I could never see any percentage in getting drunk. Just never wanted to.

On one of these trips Harrison went with the gang but was missing on the return trip. The others guessed he was in jail. Two days later he was back. Hopped a freight train for transportation. The very first thing he went up to Slim "the big Swede" - and said "I licked a man a heap bigger than you. I socked him with a billard cue, and the blankity blank cops put me in jail.

One Saturday night the whole gang pulled out as usual - Harrison with them. This time instead of being late he was back early. He walked in early Sunday morning - quite mad. It seems he had gotten into an argument and a fight on the train and the conductor put him off at some small station. He beat his way back on a freight but he didn't know what to do with himself in camp - and as usual he was a pest.

Sometime during the morning he discovered fishing gear belonging to one of the other men and suggested fishing. That looked like a good idea as the stream about two miles away was loaded with fish and very little skill was needed to catch them. So we went and caught some and built a fire, cooked and ate them.

There was still a lot of the day left - and it was warm. We took off our clothes and washed them in the stream as we often did and hung them up on tree branches a short distance away on the hillside on the edge of the woods to dry and then went back for a swim. We often did this if we got a chance. The hot sun dried everything in half and hour.

Harrison, who couldn't swim much anyway and was never satisfied to stay at anything very long, decided he had had enough of the water and went up to get dressed.

A little later I came out to do the same but he started throwing rocks at me to keep me from getting my clothes. His idea was to keep me naked for a while. I suppose if he had thought of it sooner he would have grabbed my clothes before I could get them and make me walk the 2 miles back to camp naked. It would have been a good joke at that - I am bound to admit now - though I wouldn't have thought so then.

At any rate Mr. Harrison was going to have his fun for awhile. I had to duck behind a tree to escape his barrage of stones and every attempt to reach my clothes brought more stones. There were no rocks near my tree and I was getting pretty well fed up with the nonsence - when I saw a short chunky stick nearby. I make a quick dash and got it fighting on some sort of delaying action so I could reach my clothes.

Realizing that there were no stones where I was he got a little bolder and nearer - and then I fired the stick at him. It never touched him but it disconcerted him and he dodged and ran back - and I heard him yell. I make a break and dashed out got my clothes and moved out of his neighborhood and got dressed - expecting him to appear any minute.

I couldn't see him anywhere or hear him either and I looked around expecting him from another quarter, as I was sure he was cooking up some sort of devilment. Finally, I called him to come along and go back to camp. No response. Then I got curious and circled around and approached the place where he had been. There was a slight depression in the ground, loose stones lying around, and a mound of dirt beside it which had not been visible from where I had been. When I got closer I discovered that the depression was the edge of a hole. It looked like an abandoned mine shaft. We occasionally ran across them - where a prospector had made a try for one and given up when the hole showed no promise.

Up until then I hadn't worried much about Harrison. I had thought he had just gone back in the woods - or even back to camp. But when I saw that hole I got scared - real scared. I couldn't see very far down the hole. Too dark, so I threw a lighted match down but of course it went out right away. I was getting a bit frantic. I wanted to see the bottom of that hole. Finally I found a dried pine branch, lighted it and tossed it down. I never saw the bottom - but I saw water about 25 feet down - and I saw something else. I saw a foot and part of a leg sticking out of the water at an angle and it was not moving.

I rushed around to see if I couldn't find some way of getting down. I found a small tree blown over, but it was much too short. I didn't have an axe - only a pocket knife. there just wasn't anyway of getting down with any assurance of being able to get out again. I started to leave several times, to get help. I was afraid not to go and then afraid to go. I was much confused.

Time was passing. Harrison had been in there at least half an hour before I discovered him and by the time I had to abandon any idea of reaching him over two hours had gone by. I didn't know what to do. I just quit then and did some tall thinking.
The normal thing is to try to find help and somebody to report the accident to and explain what happened. There was no doubt that Harrison was gone. He had probably struck his head and been stunned and drowned. I tried to compose myself the best I could and think what was best to do - and I thought the thing through for a long time. I did some tall thinking pro and con.

As I saw it Harrison had left with the rest of the crowd for Butte, and when he was put off the train the rest had gone on. Nobody had seen him on the freight he took back to camp as he had just been chased off one before that and made sure he would not be chased off again so kept well out of sight.

Nobody had been around when he got back to camp. Except for the 2 of us the place was utterly deserted. The country was rather wild and we had not seen anyone when we left camp or on the walk to the river.

I figured when the rest of the croud came back they would tell about his being put off the train - and wonder when he would be back. If he didn't come back they might talk about it for a few days and decide he had just quit. The month had just ended and everybody had been paid to date - so if he didn't come back he would be taken off the payroll - and they wouldn't expect him to come to collect any more money because none would be due to him.

He had threatened to quit plenty of times and they would probably decide he had finally done so - and he would pass out of mind except for the tall tales about him. That is the way I reasoned it out. The rest of the outfit would easily explain Harrison's disappearance to their own satisfaction.

What about my side of it. Harrison was gone. There wasn't any doubt about it. If I reported exactly what had happened would I be believed? Would any of our ??? camp ??? be made much of by the local authorities? Of course I had some responsiblity but he had really brought it on himself and much as I regretted the outcome there was nothing I could do now.

I was due back in college in less than a month. Any investigation would cause untold delay regardless of the outcome. It would certainly upset my parents who were getting along in years - especially my mother.

They say an honest confession is good for the soul. Is it? Would it have done any good now?

I finally decided the best thing to do was to keep quiet so I did.

I tossed as many dead pine branches as I could collect down the hole and pushed a few large rocks in on top, and left - and got back to camp and tried to get myself composed. The boys got back that night. I didn't sleep too well and wasn't too cheerful, but the rest of the crowd said what a fool I was to go swimming and get so badly sunburned. No wonder I was out of sorts.

However, they all figured that Harrison had quit the job and gone somewhere else - and nobody gave it a thought. I got back to college in time and I haven't been back to Montana since.

I know it is customary to ask if there any questions. I want to reverse that procedure and first ask a question myself. What would you have done?

Notes for DOROTHY MORGAN ANDERSON:
The following is a letter written by Dorothy Anderson Hoge sometime between 1965 and 1970..

ANDERSON FAMILY
Unfortunately, I don't know too much. Eleanor Fay and Reg Henry had as much as they could get from the family cousins in old letters in Halifax, N.S. Canada, but one of the early immigrant decendants, a son, became a doctor and established the first medical school in Vermont. Another one had three daughters, Harriet, Ann, and Dorothy. He was a lieutenant in the British army named Langley. That's where the Langleys came in. Harriet married William Astley Cooper Anderson who had studied medicine in Edinburgh as all good doctors did in those days, and also as had his father who named him after a famous doctor professor there. W.A.C Anderson was my great grandfather. He and Harriet migrated to Staten Island. His son, same name, married Louisa Morgan, whose father was a N.Y. banker. Her brother was the Uncle Charles whose portrait we have. My father and Lulie (the Henry's mother) and Willie, the only survivors of a number of children. Willie was crippled in some way, a recluse, moved back to Halifax. Ann Langley, great grandmother of the Creighton family in Halifax. Their mother, the cousin Helen we knew.

I'm not sure how the New Orleans property came into the family, but it was there in my Grandfather Anderson's day, through his wife Louisa Morgan who had inherited her shares. My father gradually bought up the Henry boys' divided inheritance as they came of age so that he owned all his mother's share, which set him somewhat ahead financially (eventually) of most U.S. Navy doctors.

HENRY
They don't know much of anything about the Henry antecedents, but their father's mother was a sister of President Buchanan. That's how he came to be President Buchanan's private secretary and special emissary to the court of St. James. He had two sons by his first wife who was a Magruder. So he was an older widower when Lulie Anderson was married to him. No doubt, he was supposed to be something, but my father, though I don't remember his ever actually saying anything, never liked him much and resented the way he took over her money (lost it), and used to go off to Europe with his older son, Joe, and leave his "sainted Lulie" with all those little boys and one servant. She died of pneumonia, taking care of baby Frank, and pregnant with the seventh. My father stuck around whenever possible and took care of the little boys who had everything. Jim nearly died of Diptheria. My father put a tube in his throat and sucked out the infection, Uncle Henry away. He didn't marry until after Lulie Died. Wanted to take Frank who was named for him, but Uncle Henry thought my mother too young and flighty. Frank and Reg, then one year and three years, were given to Aunt Hattie Irving to take care of, niece of Washington Irving, a nice old maid, reputed to have been engaged to marry my Grandfather Anderson after my grandmother died. She was nice, and always kept Frank, which was not too good for him. Aunt Belle Robson from Halifax came and took care of the other four boys for a few years, also Aunt Sidnay Morgan, Spinster, my grandmother's sister. Reg's records have most of this. I Told Sid about my father. He was surprised.

As the Henry boys grew older they were put into various not too expensive schools, except Frank, who went to a good school in Staten Island. My memory picks up where Aunt Hattie Irving (my Godmother) used to bring Frank to visit us in the 19th Street house in Washington. She dressed in black silk with a triangle of lace on her head topped with a lavender bow. I thought she was a hundred, but she was probably sixty. Frank was a sort of stilted, highly literary, anxious for playmates little boy, quizzical sense of humor which he always had, but blind in one eye which made him "different". He had several operations, which made it less obvious. I first remember Reg when he was about fourteen, came to George Washington Catholic Boarding School, spent his holidays with us. He thought he'd be a Bishop, it was a good job. Sid came too, and went to day school. He was sixteen. Still in short pants. Lived with us for a while, especially when my father was at sea, and my mother in the house alone with us, two servants. My grandparents Coffin had lived on R street until my grandmother died when I was six, and my grandfather applied for sea duty. He came back and lived with us in 1895-96. As the boys grew up, their father "placed" them, no special regard to what they wanted. Will, the eldest, at fifteen, went into railroad shops, (he wanted to be a doctor, but Uncle Henry said he couldn't afford anything and had Cassatt cousins) Jim into the Naval Academy, he wanted West Point. Rob into West Point, he wanted that, but failed in math for lack of any preparation, and his father said he disgraced the family and wouldn't do anything more for him. So Rob said, "Give me a dollar to go to New York, and you'll be free of me." So he did. Rob got a job sweeping out an office, and as you know, got his own banking and investing business, Sid wanted the navy, and "retrieved" the Henry reputation by graduating second in his class and becoming National Fencing Champion. He went on to M.I.T. and then retired and went into business as maritime finance consultant, at one time president of Matson Lines. Reg, not prepared for anything, but crazy for one of the services, worked for Rob for a while but was then to old for an appointment so only opening was a line. He chose medicine and the older boys clubbed together and put him through U. of Virginia then medical school, and he got into the Navy, served with marine corps. not too hot as a practising doctor, but good on public health. Laid out San Juan System. They all married their own kind of people and never any question about their tastes or how they behaved. They had the advantage while young of visiting us in vacations and going for a while in the summers to Lake George where their father was commodore of Lake George Yachting Club where they met nice girls and were a part in the regattas. Will married May Du Bignon of Atlanta. He became Supt of Eastern Lines of Penn. R.R. Jim married Mary McLaughry from Leavenworth. Her father was a prison authority and introduced thumb printing to U.S. Rob married Jean Tolar, Bay Ridge, they lived at St. John's Place Brooklyn, where I used to visit them. I was bridesmaid at their wedding while I was at Oldfields. The "Mister" announced his engagement at Rob's wedding to Margaret, 50 years younger the he. They were married nine years. My father's only remark was she got more out of him than his sister ever did. But he left nearly nothing and the boys took care of her until she died. You know about Reg and Frank.

COFFIN

The Coffin geneology is pretty complete and is on record for us with the Colonial Dames. Reg also had it where it interlocked with us. He also had what was known of the Anderson connection. My mother was Eleanor Calder Coffin, her mother Mary Calder Cartwright. (I think her mother was Starbuck, my grandmother). She married George William Coffin, Nantucket, who was brought up by aunt and uncle, his parents dead. He was the first of the sea-going Coffins who went into the U.S. Navy, graduated early (from Naval Academy) because of Civil War held Fort Fisher (at age 21) until Fort Sumter was taken, wounded in leg, promoted to Lt. Cmdr. went to Russia and Admiral Farragut - that's why my mother was called Lena. Volunteered for Greely Relief Expedition and had command of the "Alert" - one of the three ships commanded by Admiral Schley. He stood in the crow's nest 72 hours and got his leg frozen where it had been wounded. After return was offered head of navigation but turned it down and took the Lighthouse Service because, I think, it kept him near home, and my grandmother was ill. The Lighthouse Service was then under the Navy. After her death, he went to sea, on U.S.S. Charleston to the Far East. plotted Manila Bay (then Spanish) then sent plans to Admiral Dewey (his roommate at Annapolis) who had never been there, and who used them in battle of Manilla Bay. He retired in 1896, went to Yokohama with us, went back to active duty during war 1899, but it was too much for him, died in Yokohama in 1900. Until his death I knew him better than I knew my father, and was with him a great deal. He was wonderful.

WHERE WE WERE AND PROBABLE DATES - PROBABLY ACCURATE FROM THE SAME LETTER
(see above)

I was born May 2, 1887, in New Brighton Staten Island. My father was at sea at the time and probably my grandfather also because I have never found any allusion to him at the time. Evidently my grandmother and mother went to Staten Island because of my father's connections, though by that time his immediate family was all dead. Aunt Hattie Irving was there however, taking care of Frank who was three and Reg, six. Reg was the one able to testify as to my birth and christening when I applied for a passport since he remimbered being at the christening and its being in a house with the bishop in charge which it made is difficult to find a record in a parish church. The local minister of the community where the house was, was not New Brighton. Aunt Hattie was my godmother. I don't know when my grandparents moved to Washington to 2023 R St. but that's where we all were until I was about four years old whn the 19th St. house was built. Eleanor was born in the R St. house Aug. 3rd, 1890. My grandfather was then head of the Light House Service, then under the Navy Dept.
My parents built the 19th St. house when Eleanor was about 18 months old. My grandmother must have given them most of the money from a small legacy because she stipulated that the house should never be sold unless it was replaced by another. The idea in those days being a house was the only safeguard for a widow who could always take boarders. They had seen to many destitute Navy widows. My grandparents were young themselves, my grandmother scarcely 40, Nana. My father was seventeen years older than my mother.
We lived at 1628 19th St. until my father was ordered to Yokohama in 1897. He was attached to the Naval Dispensary for part of the time but had a quite extensive private practice which they could at that time, and a reputation as a diagnosticion. The latter part of the time was his sea duty, attached to U.S.S. (unable to fully decipher the name of the ship appears like Archlintrite), I think a gunboat, at the disposal of the president because on one cruise the Chinese ammbassador was aboard with the President - the famous Li Huong Chang (not sure of this spelling). So the ship was often at the navy yard. I remember going there to see the ship once, but I don't remember the ship, just going. My father while ashore on Dispensary duty had a horse and a closed sort of vehicle, not a buggy, and a colored driver named Spencer.
My grandmother died in 1893. My grandfather immediately applied fo sea duty and went to Japan and the Philippines on U.S.S. Charleston as Captain It was there he mapped Manila Bay which afterwards served Admiral Dewey when he took Manila in the Spanish American War. My grandfather never made admiral. He had been ordered to South America right after having had his leg frozen on the Arctic Expedition to rescue General Greely and developed Bright's disease which it affected his heart, and he retired in 1895 or 6 and lived with us at 1628 19th Street while my father was at sea, when we all went to Yokohama on October 7, 1897. My father preceded us in August and was there to meet us. We were in Yokohama at the Naval Hospital from Nov. 1897 (it took us a month to get there from Washington, 5 days train, a stop in San Francisco, 18 days by P & O Steamer ) to Oct. 1900. It looked like a split in the family then. My grandfather had died 10 months previously and had evidently left money to my mother to take me to Europe to school, ( I was always his "pearl of pride" and had spent much of my childhood with them, and in Yokohama in his separate little house on the Bluff where he had a "boy", a victoria to ride in, and two fox terriers, Chubbie and Gus.) Anyway my mother and I took the N.G. Lloyd Sachsen steamer for Europe and my father took Eleanor to U.S. and left her with Aunt Hattie and Frank in New Brighton until my mother had found the Paris school for me, and rejoined them.
Polly Condis Smith, sister of Mrs. Albert Key. Key was in the Embassy at Tokyo. Another sister was Mrs. Leonard Wood, Governor of Philippines after Spanish American War. Polly had just survived the Boxer Rebellion in Peking and was quite famous for her maintenance work during the siege. She travelled with mother and me to Paris and I shared a stateroom with her on N. G. Lloyd Oldenburg in the Mediterranean after our two weeks in Cairo. She was only 23. She left us in Paris to get married to Richard Hooker, Marine Corps. Needless to say I gleamed an awful lot about her experience in Peking. Most of the people I knew anyway as they had passed through Yokohama on their way.
I was in the Paris school from December 1900 until August 1901 when mother came over to see me and spend a month at St Marguerite in Brittany with some friends she had known in Japan-the Wilders from Honolulu. We were in Hotel de la Plage, they in a cottage. Eleanor had been left with Mrs Knox and Marguerite to go to Lake George. But I was ill- headache, sort of a nervous breakdown and she brought me home instead. My father was again at sea and the 19th Street house rented, so we had an appartment at the Portner,15th and U Street. I was in bed most of the year, until I was 15. Eleanor went to the Miss Dorsey's School where I went after a while. It was then I got to know Grace Allen and Alice Goodwin and Constance Hoyt,sister of Elinor Hoyt Wylie who afterwards married William Rose Benet. Also Mary Howry who now lives in Jamestown, and other native Washington young and Army and Navy girls. This was a few years before the rival school of Holton-Arms. I only went spasmodically until I went to Oldfields in 1905.
My father still at sea, Eleanor and I went to Oldfields in October 1905. Rob Henry was married late October and we went to Bayridge, Brooklyn for the wedding. I was bridesmaid. The winter of 1905-6 Eleanor and I were at Oldfields and my father back, a house was rented for the summer on DeSales Street opposite the convent which was later torn down to make the Mayflower Hotel. Blanche Brune (VanDusen) stayed with us,also Frank Henry. In October, my father was ordered to the Mare Island Navy Yard, and we left for California. It was a lovely overland train trip. I rembered it from the one we had taken in 1897. Not very different. We had drawing rooms