Rebecca Stearns

The latest research on this family comes from Whitney, Earnest Eugene, "Shubael and Rebecca (Larriford) Starns and Their Ten Children," Connecticut Nutmegger 46 (June 2013):12-29; (Sept. 2013):145-8

It notes that Rebecca is "perhaps the daughter of Thomas Larriford and Sarah (_____)."

It corrects a few things and adds a tremendous amount of information to the Stearns Genealogy, referenced below

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( Please note: the compiler made a few mistakes in this book- found a few, all genealogy books have mistakes, we must follow court documentation as well.) Please upload probated Wills, Vestry, Church, County records of marriage, birth records, they are available for this lineage. Although, carefully look over documents this lineage used the same names for cousins each era.

From page 41 of Stearns Genealogy and Memoirs, Volume 2 By Avis Stearns Van Wagenen

Third Generation.
6039— SHUBAEL STEARNS JR. (6012), b., Aug. 19, 1683, son of Shubael and Mary Stearns, of Lynn, Mass.; md., Dec. 28, 1704, in Kittery, Me., Rebecca Lariby, b., Feb. 4, 1684, in Boston, Mass. About 1714, he 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.

1. 6040— SHUBAEL STEARNS 3d. (6133), b., Jan. 28, 1706, in Boston. Mass.
2. 6041— REBECCA STEARNS,, b., Nov. 19, 1707, in Lynn, Mass.
3. 6042— PETER STEARNS (6135), b., Apr. 2, 1710, in Reading, Mass.
4. 6043— ISAAC STEARNS (6141), b., Mar. 22, 1713, in Reading, Mass.
5. 6044— ELIZABETH STEARNS, b., Aug. 30, 1715, in Tolland, Conn.
6. 6045— HANNAH STEARNS, b., Mar. 6, 1718, in Tolland, Conn.
7. 6046— SARAH STEARNS, b., Feb. 29, 1720, in Tolland, Conn.
8. 6047— EBENEZER STEARNS (6143), b., Apr. 23, 1722, in Tolland, Conn.
9. 6048— MARY STEARNS, b., Apr. 27, 1724.
10. 6049— MARTHA STEARNS, b., Aug. 18, 1726, in Tolland, Conn.; md., June 23, 1747, Rev. Daniel Marshall, b., 1706, son of Abraham Marshall, of Conn. He was a very distinguished and influential Baptist preacher, who left Tolland to go on a mission among the Indians. He joined his brothers-in-law, Rev. Shubael Stearns, in a newly founded Baptist Church, at Opeckoa, Berkely Co., Va.; was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church at Abbot's Creek, Guilford Co., N. C, in the fifty-second year of his age by his brothers-in-law, Rev. Henry Leadbeater and Rev. Shubael Stearns. Rev. Daniel Marshall MD. (1), Nov. 11, 1742, Hannah Drake, by whom he had one son. Daniel Marshall Jr.; MD. (2), Martha Stearns, by whom he had ten children; d., Nov. 2, 1784.

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notes

This Rebecca nee Larrabee is not the daughter of Greenfield Larrabee and Alice Parke (the latter of which is of royal descent).

Greenfield and Alice were in Connecticut, and all eight children of theirs appear in Norwich Vital Records -- none of the eight are named Rebecca. (See, Ancestry; and also Norwich, Conn. & General Society of Colonial Wars, Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, 2 (Hartford, Conn.: n.p., 1913), 1: 33; Vol 1: http://books.google.com/books?id=QPULAAAAYAAJ; Vol 2: http://books.google.com/books?id=iPELAAAAYAAJ). Indeed, on Geni here, all of them are listed as in Connecticut.

On the other hand, this Rebecca Larrabee, and her husband Shubael Stearns, were both born in Boston and were married in what is now Maine.

I should add, it's not entirely clear that her last name was Larrabee. Here (which shows her marriage to Shubael) she is listed as "Laverford" (http://interactive.ancestry.com/1034/VBMDUSACT1634_0044-0332/428138)

At Mrs. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his descendants, 2 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Courier Print Co., 1901), 2: 41; vol 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=mvAUAAAAYAAJ, (with the same dates as the ancestry link), she is listed as Libby. Further, it describes the family as living in Mass, and not moving to Tolland, Conn. until 1714, (That's why their data appears in the prior link, which was Vital Records of Conn.), and then they move to North Carolina (!) in 1750.

Biography

Rebecca Stearns was born on February 4, 1684 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Her parents were NOT Greenfield Larrabee and Alice Larrabee.

Rebecca married Shubael Stearns on December 28, 1704 in Winchester, New Hampshire. Together they had the following children:

• Rev. Shubal Stearns;
• Rebecca Ruth Paulk;
• Peter Stearns;
• Isaac Stearns;
• Elizabeth Stimson;
• Hannah Stearns;
• Sarah Hatch;
• Mary Sterns;
• Martha Marshall.

She died in 1780 in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, United States.[ https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=74300774]

References

• [https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=74300774]
• The latest research on this family comes from Whitney, Earnest Eugene, "Shubael and Rebecca (Larriford) Starns and Their Ten Children," Connecticut Nutmegger 46 (June 2013):12-29; (Sept. 2013):145-8page 41 of Stearns Genealogy and Memoirs, Volume 2 By Avis Stearns Van Wagenen
• Everton’s Pedigree Record: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10095-937678/rebecca-lar... Citation: Rebecca Lariby Document type: Pedigree Birth: 1684
• "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F753-MJL : 16 March 2020), Rebecca Lareferd in entry for Shubael Starns, 1704.
• Chapter Name: Tolland Vital Records 1715-1850 Source Information Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. link “ Name Rebeckah Laveford Birth Date 4 Feb 1684/5 Birth Place at Boston Marriage to Shubael Stearns Sr. Dec 28 1704/5 at Saco

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