Thomas Stedman

Notes

In the tenth report of the Record Commissioners of Boston, Thomas Stedman was assessed in 1693 a tax of £1 3 shillings for the relief of the poor and to defray other town charges. He was also assess a tax £3 for house and farm and £15 for estate.

In 1704 he (Thomas Stedman, Sr.) was one of the authors of a petition to the Gouvernor Council and Assembly asking to separate Muddy River as a separate village, and no longer part of Boston. The petition was signed by his sons Thomas and Joshua in addition to himself (claiming 2 adult men in household - himself and son Joseph?)

Origins

https://scituatehistoricalsociety.org/early-families-of-scituate/

Isack Stedman was in Scituate by 1636 when he built the twenty-sixth house; he owned land in the vicinity of First Herring Brook next to that of Edward Foster’s, later George Russell’s. Stedman and his wife were covenanted members of the church who remained in Scituate after the Lothropp group left; they later removed to Boston.

References

1. GEDCOM Note. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50049804/thomas-stedman
3. http://johnlisle.us/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I556&tree=sted... cites
   1. [S115] Personal Communication - Ruth Steadman, (1999).
   2. [S57] Massachusetts Vital Records, Brookline, p. 229 (Reliability: 3). As Ens. Thomas Stedman, duplicate entry listed as husband of Anna (Seaver)
   3. [S57] Massachusetts Vital Records, Brookline, p. 157 (Reliability: 3).
   4. [S57] Massachusetts Vital Records, Roxbury, p. 379 (Reliability: 3).