Joanna (Call) Stearns (1659 - 1737)

Born Mar 1659 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Parker — married about 1676 (to 31 Oct 1694) in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of John Stearns — married 22 Apr 1696 (to 26 Oct 1728) in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 4 Dec 1737 at age 78 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Joanna was born in 1659. She passed away in 1737.^[1]

About 1675, she married Jacob Parker, Jr. in Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Colony. They had the following children:

Jacob Parker III About 1677 – November 1754

Thomas Parker Sr 1681 – 31 July 1760

Sarah Parker Hill 1687 – 21 July 1743

John Parker 21 December 1689 – 2 November 1719

Benjamin Parker About 1690 – 16 November 1761

Jacob died in 1694. On 22 Apr 1696, Joanna married widower Lieutenant John Stearns in Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Colony. They had one daughter:

Joanna Stearns Paige 24 June 1697 – 27 October 1719

• Burial: Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Dawes-Gates: ancestral lines : a memorial volume .../ compiled by Mary Walton Ferris by Ferris, Mary Walton', 1943, Volume 1, pp 172, (139-140) archive.org (accessed 14 January 2023)

• Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850 (University Press, Cambridge, 1914) Page 14
• Find A Grave: Memorial #118900801

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118900801/joanna-stearns: accessed 19 December 2022), memorial page for Joanna Call Stearns (Mar 1659–4 Dec 1737), Find a Grave Memorial ID 118900801, citing Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Cheri Coe (contributor 48078662).

"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9L-VMB : 8 December 2022), Joanna Call, Jan 1659; citing Birth, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004255444.

"Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC3T-RR9 : 28 July 2021), Joanna Parker in entry for John Sterns, 1696.

"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQD1-K3L : 15 January 2020), Joanna in entry for Joanna Stearns, 1697.

"Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC92-RQ3 : 14 February 2020), Joanna Stearns, 1737.

Parker in America 1630-1910: what the historians say of them; what a large number say of themselves; geneaogical and biographical; interesting historical incidents, by Parker, Augustus G., b. 1827; Publication date 1911 https://archive.org/details/parkerinamerica100park/page/532/mode/2up