Phineas Stearns (1735 - 1798)

Born 5 Feb 1735 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Easther (Sanderson) Stearns — married 23 Nov 1780 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 27 Mar 1798 at age 63 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Private Phineas Stearns served with Middlesex County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Phineas Stearns is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A109427.

Phineas Stearns was born in 1735. He was the son of Josiah Stearns and Susanna Ball. He passed away in 1798.

(V.) Captain PHINEHAS STEARNS (140, IV.), a farmer and blacksmith, of Watertown; was a soldier at Lake George, 1756, and was among the earliest to take up arms in the Revolution. He commanded a company on Dorchester Heights, when the British evacuated Boston. He, with Samuel Barnard (a major in the Revolutionary Army), and John Randall, all of Watertown, were of the " Boston Tea-Party," and assisted in that renowned transaction. He was offered a Colonel's commission, but the care of his young children, upon the death of his wife, and of a family of apprentices and journeymen, prevented his continuing in the public service after the British left Boston. He was distinguished for his benevolent and cheerful disposition, which was strongly marked in his open, manly countenance. This, with his good sense and strict integrity, made him a favourite of all who knew him. He m., 1767, HANNAH BEMIS, b. June 22, 1749, eldest child of Capt. Jonathan and Huldah (Livermore) Bemis, of Watertown. [Bemis, 104.] He m. (2d), Nov. 23, 1780, ESTHER SANDERSON, b. Feb.24, 1747, dr. of Jonathan and Mary (Bemis) Sanderson, a cousin of his first wife. She d. 1793. [Sanderson, 55.]

Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is appended the early history of the town.

by: Bond, Henry, 1790-1859;

by: Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893

page: 515

Sources

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-63D : 10 February 2018), Phinehas Stearns in entry for Hannah Stearns, 28 Apr 1768; citing WATERTOWN,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0874146 IT 2, 0874176 IT 2.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-8HY : 10 February 2018), Phinehas Stearns in entry for Susanna Stearns, 24 Nov 1769; citing WATERTOWN,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0874146 IT 2, 0874176 IT 2.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-XMH : 10 February 2018), Phinehas Stearnes in entry for George Washington Stearnes, 27 Oct 1781; citing WATERTOWN,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0874146 IT 2, 0874176 IT 2.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-8H9 : 10 February 2018), Phinehas Stearnes in entry for Polly Stearnes, 07 Dec 1783; citing WATERTOWN,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0874146 IT 2, 0874176 IT 2.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-8J9 : 10 February 2018), Phinehas Stearnes in entry for Lucy Stearnes, 21 Jul 1786; citing WATERTOWN,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0874146 IT 2, 0874176 IT 2.

• Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston

• Drake, Francis Samuel. Tea Leaves, Being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company (A. O. Crane, Boston, 1884) Page 164-5.