Rev. Ebenezer Stearns

7/8/1711 - Baptized in Lexington, MA 9/19/1734 - Married Thankful Clapp, Walpole MA

From Genealogy and memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his descendants, by Avis Stearns Van Wagenen (Generation Four):

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174— REV. EBENEZER STEARNS (64), bapt. July 8, 1711, in Lexington, Mass., son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Stone) Stearns; a Baptist minister, of Stoughton, Mass. He md. (1), Sept. 19, 1734, Thankful Clapp, of Walpole, Mass.; md. (2), Aug. 12, 1762, Jane Phillips, of Easton. In 1734, he lived and owned real estate in Walpole. Mass. ; later he was pastor of the Baptist church in Stoughton; in 1750, he was living in Douglas, Mass.; in 1761, he removed to Easton and, in 1762, was settled over the Baptist church there; about 1769, removed to Maine and settled on Sheepscot River, afterwards, at Whitefield, Me., where he d. Record of Thankful (Clapp) Stearns's death read as follows: "My aged and honored mother deceased, May ye 22nd, 1761."

We have the names of nine chil.

• 1. 175— ELIPHALET or ELIPHAZ STEARNS (453), b., Aug. 19, 1736.
• 2. 176— ACHSAH STEARNS, b., Jan. 10, 1739; md., Feb. 3, 1757, Lieut. Ebenezer Marsh, of Douglas, Mass., b., about 1735.
• 3. 177— ELIJAH STEARNS, b., Feb. 25, 1741; d., Sept., 1760.
• 4. 178— EZEKIEL STEARNS (463), b., Feb. 20, 1743.
• 5. 179— MARY STEARNS, b., Feb. 13, 1745.
• 6. 180— SARAH STEARNS,^b., Mar. 31, 1747; md., Dec. 24, 1764, Job Hewitt, both of Easton, Mass.
  • (a) — Sarah Hewitt, b., Dec. 28, 1772; md.. Col. Southworth, of Easton.
• 7. 181— JOSHUA or JOTHAM STEARNS (465), b., Nov. 30, 1748.
• 8. 182— NATHANIEL STEARNS (474), b.. Mar. 11, 1751.
• 9. 183— ABIGAIL STEARNS, b., Mar. 20, 1753.

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(The following describes a different Ebenezer)

EBENEZER STEARNS (191), b., Dec. 25. 1744. son of Samuel and Keziah (Robbins) Stearns, of Hollis, N. H.; md.,June 29, 1773, Rachel Ames, of Hollis, N.H. In 1774 they settled at Monkton, Vt., where he d., 1816, and she d., 1841. "very aged." "At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, John Bishop, with several sons, and Ebenezer Stearns. were captured by Tories and Indians, taken to Canada, and the settlement of Monkton, Vt., broken up until after the war. Ebenezer Stearns owned and operated the first grist mill mentioned in the records of the place.