Descendants of William Learned

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  WILLIAM¹ LEARNED^1,2,3 was born 01 Jan 1589/90 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England⁴, and died 01 Mar 1645/46 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England⁵.  He married GOODITH GILMAN^6,7,8.  She was born 1594 in Bremondsey, Surrey, England⁹, and died 24 Jun 1661 in Malden, Essex, MA⁹.

 

Notes for WILLIAM LEARNED:

Selected excerpts from: The Learned Family, compiled by William Law Learned in part from the papers of the late Joseph Gay Eaton Learned, Joel Munsell's Sons, 1882.

 

"WILLIAM LEARNED1. The first admission to the present First church of Charlestown was, according to its records, as follows: "1632, 10 mo., day 6, William Learned and Goodith, his wife, were admitted." (N. E. H. & G. Reg., vol. xxxiii, page 191).

 

It has been said, but whether upon good authority is not known, that William Learned came over in Feb., 1624. But this seems improbable, since his son Isaac was born that month, and his daughter Mary was buried in England, July, 1625.

 

In 1634, May 14th, he was admitted freeman. His name appears as one of the signatures to the town order for the appointment of eleven selectmen, February 13, 1634-1635. (Frothingham's Charlestown, p. 50.) On Feb. 13, 1635-6, he was appointed a selectman. About this time he is mentioned with twenty-eight others as having "willingly surrendered for the good of the town part of their land on Mystic side."

 

In 1640 a movement was on foot to settle Woburn. The first meeting for the purpose was held at the house of Mr. Thomas Greene, December 18th; and town orders were there signed by thirty-two persons, and among them by William Learned, (spelled by the clerk Lernedt). He was one of the seven who, the 14th of August, 1642, formed the first church of Woburn, (Woburn town records; Sewall's Woburn, p. 20; Johnson's Wonder Working Prov., p 17.) On the 24th of November, it is recorded that he freely gave up his lot for the use of the town, which gave it to Thomas Richardson, and agreed to give to William Learned the like for quantity and quality. It was afterwards ordered that he should have seventy-two acres laid out to his son Isaac, in recompense for the sixty-six which he had thus given.

 

On the 13th of April, 1643, he was chosen constable and one of the selectmen; and again February 9, 1644-5. Some additional land was given him in Sept., 1645. Another order, two months later, says that he was to have six acres and a half for a house lot and farm in meadow, and the residence, being sixty acres, "the one-halfe in forest field and the other halfe in playne field."

 

He died March 1, 1646, two days before the selectmen were chosen for the third term; and thus he held the offices of selectman and constable at his death. (Qu. 1646-7; as he is named in the town rate, 22d of 10 mo. 1646.) Judging from the age of his daughter, Sarah, he must have been born as early as 1590; and would thereefor have been at least 56 at his death. He left a widow who had an annuity. On the 4th of October, 1648, his son "Isack Lerned was discharged of his accompt consarning his father, who, deseased, constable." The account had been settled in part, Sept. 26.

 

The following is from: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1855 by Henry Bond.

 

"LEARNED (Lernot, Larned, Larnit, &c.)

WILLIAM LEARNED,(*) was admitted freeman, May 14, 1634, and his name, and that of his wife GOODETH [? Judith, or good wife], are the first two on the list of members of the present First Church, of Charlestown. "1632, 10 mo., day 6, William Learned and Goodeth, his wife, were admitted." The following extract from the town records of Charlestown. is an evidence of how highly he was esteemed for his intelligence and virtue: "1638, 26, 2d month, Mr. Increase Nowell, Mr. Zachariah Sims, Mr. John Green, Mr. John Harvard, Left. Ralph Sprague, and William Learned, were desired to consider of some things tending towards a body of Lawes." Records, p. 20. He was a subscriber to the town orders for Woburn, drawn up at Charlestown, Dec. 18, 1640; was one of the seven original members of the church in Woburn, which was gathered, Aug. 14, 1642-3; was one of the first board of Selectmen, chosen Ap. 13, 1644, and was re-elected the following year. He was also elected constable (who was in those days the collector of taxes), for the years, 1644 and '45. He d. in Woburn, Mar. 1, 1645-6, two days before the third election of town officers. He left a wid., who had an annuity during her widowhood. His accounts, as collector, were in part settled by his son Isaac, Sept. 29, 1646, and finally settled, Oct. 4, 1648.

 

The name (Learned), has been varied much by the bad orthography of early times, as Lerned, Lernot, Larned, Larnit, &c., and many of his descendants now write it, Larned."

 

More About WILLIAM LEARNED:

Burial: Mar 1645/46, Watertown, Middlesex, Ma⁹

 

Notes for GOODITH GILMAN:

From: The Learned Family, compiled by William Law Learned in part from the papers of the late Joseph Gay Eaton Learned, Joel Munsell's Sons, 1882.

 

"The first admission to the present First church of Charlestown was, according to its records, as follows: "1632, 10 mo., day 6, William Learned and Goodith, his wife, were admitted." (N. E. H. & G. Reg., vol. xxxiii, page 191). This name Goodith, is said by Rev. Samuel Sewall to be, not a corrupt spelling of Judith, but an old English name, from the Saxon, Goditha. It was common at that time. In one instance, at least, about this period a child, baptised Goodith, was, however, always called Judith. (Col. Joseph L. Chester.)"

 

More About GOODITH GILMAN:

Burial: MA⁹

       

Children of WILLIAM LEARNED and GOODITH GILMAN are:

2.                i.    SARAH² LEARNED, b. Abt. 1608; d. 24 Jan 1660/61, Malden, MA.

                  ii.    BETHIA LEARNED¹⁰, b. Abt. 29 Oct 1612¹¹.

 

More About BETHIA LEARNED:

Baptism: 29 Oct 1612

 

                 iii.    MARY LEARNED¹², b. Abt. 15 Sep 1615¹².

 

More About MARY LEARNED:

Baptism: 15 Sep 1615¹²

Burial: 26 Jul 1625, England¹²

 

                 iv.    ABIGAIL LEARNED¹², b. Abt. 30 Sep 1618¹³.

 

More About ABIGAIL LEARNED:

Baptism: 30 Sep 1618

 

3.               v.    CAPTAIN ISAAC LEARNED, b. Abt. 25 Feb 1623/24, Bermondsey, Surry, London, England; d. 27 Nov 1657, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.

                 vi.    ELIZABETH LEARNED¹⁴, b. Abt. 25 Mar 1621¹⁴.

 

More About ELIZABETH LEARNED:

Baptism: 25 Mar 1621, Bermondsey, Surry, England ¹⁴

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  SARAH² LEARNED (WILLIAM¹)^15,16,17 was born Abt. 1608¹⁸, and died 24 Jan 1660/61 in Malden, MA¹⁹.  She married (1) THOMAS EWER^20,21 13 Jan 1623/24 in England²¹.  He was born Abt. 1595^22,23, and died 1638 in Charleston^24,25.  She married (2) THOMAS LOTHROP²⁵ 11 Dec 1639 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England^26,27. 

 

Notes for SARAH LEARNED:

It is reported in "One Hundred and Sixty Families" that the date of Sarah's marriage is recorded at Bermondsey, however the name of her husband is not listed.

 

More About THOMAS EWER and SARAH LEARNED:

Marriage: 13 Jan 1623/24, England²⁷

 

More About THOMAS LOTHROP and SARAH LEARNED:

Marriage: 11 Dec 1639, Bermondsey, Surrey, England^28,29

       

Children of SARAH LEARNED and THOMAS EWER are:

                   i.    SARAH³ EWER^29,30, b. Apr 1627³⁰; m. THOMAS BLOSSOM³⁰, 18 Jun 1645³⁰.

 

More About THOMAS BLOSSOM and SARAH EWER:

Marriage: 18 Jun 1645³⁰

 

                  ii.    HENRY EWER^31,32, b. Apr 1629³²; d. 1652³²; m. MARY ?³².

                 iii.    ELIZABETH EWER^33,34, b. 1631; d. Barnstable³⁴.

 

More About ELIZABETH EWER:

Burial: 09 Apr 1641³⁴

 

                 iv.    THOMAS EWER^35,36, b. 1633³⁶; d. 1667, Barnstable³⁶; m. HANNAH ?³⁶.

 

       

Children of SARAH LEARNED and THOMAS LOTHROP are:

4.               v.    MARY³ LOTHROP, b. 04 Oct 1640, Barnstable; d. 1735.

                 vi.    HANNAH LOTHROP³⁶, b. 18 Oct 1642, Barnstable³⁶.

                vii.    THOMAS LOTHROP³⁶, b. 07 Jul 1644, Barnstable³⁶.

5.            viii.    MELETIAH LOTHROP, b. 02 Nov 1646, Barnstable; d. 06 Feb 1711/12.

6.              ix.    BETHIA LOTHROP, b. 23 Jul 1649; d. 10 Jul 1697.

 

 

3.  CAPTAIN ISAAC² LEARNED (WILLIAM¹)³⁷ was born Abt. 25 Feb 1623/24 in Bermondsey, Surry, London, England³⁷, and died 27 Nov 1657 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA³⁸.  He married MARY STEARNS³⁹ 09 Jul 1646⁴⁰, daughter of ISAAC STEARNS and MARY BARKER.  She was born 26 Jan 1625/26 in Watertown, Middlesex, Mass, England⁴¹, and died 21 Dec 1663 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA⁴¹.

 

Notes for CAPTAIN ISAAC LEARNED:

From: The Learned Family, compiled by William Law Learned in part from the papers of the late Joseph Gay Eaton Learned, Joel Munsell's Sons, 1882.

 

"ISAAC3 (William1), was born Feb. 25, 1623, in Bermondsey parish, county Surrey, England, and probably came with his father to this country, when about seven or eight years old. He probably went with his father, when about seventeen or eighteen years old, from Charlestown to Woburn. He married, at Woburn, July 9, 1646, Mary, daughter of Isaac Sternes, of Watertown, who was born in England and bapt. Jan. 26, 1626, in the parish of Nayland, Suffolk. April 2, 1652, he sold his house and lands in Woburn to Bartholomew Pierson, of Watertown, and removed to Chelmsford, where he died, Nov. 27, 1657. (County records say Dec. 4.) His inventory, dated Dec. 7, 1657, amounted to œ187 18s. 6d. April 6, 1658, administration was granted to widow Mary and her father, Isaac Sterne. Estate was indebted to Widow Learnett œ3 per annum during widowhood.  The record of his marriage is in the Woburn records, although his wife came from Watertown.

Lands were repeatedly laid out for him in Woburn, both before and after his father's death. The last time his name appears in the records is when he was appointed, Jan. 4, 1651-2, on a committee to lay out a drift way for cattle, etc., through Henry Brock's lot, near Horn pond.

 

He was chosen one of the selectmen of Chelmsford, Dec. 22, 1654; sergeant of the (train) band March 24, 1656; a committee to lay out certain meadow lands, Jan. 11, 1656. App. Comm to decide small cases at Chelmsford.

 

In the office of the Secretary of State, Boston, vol. 112, p. 80, is a petition signed by him for a grant of additional land to Chelmsford, dated May 7, 1656. A petition from Woburn, signed by him, "Isaac Larnitt," and by others, is printed in Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. i, p. 38 to 45; in which the petitioners remonstrate against an order forbidding any person to undertake a constant course of preaching, or prophesying, without the approbation of the elders of the four next churches or of the County Court.

 

The Chelmsford records contain several grants of land to him. At page 162 is a record of such land, including house lot, upland and meadow, purporting to have been originally granted January 26, 1659, and attested as follows: "A true copy of the original in Town Book, page 58, and here entered this 20th of June, 1705;" also on the same page a copy of a similar grant of thirty acres, originally made Oct, 24, 1664. Feb. 9, 1708, thirty acres of land, of the heirs of Isaac Larned, apparently the same last mentioned, laid out at further Tadmuck, were exchanged for another tract (page 147). At page 164 aer given the bounds of the meadow of Isaac Larnard lying at Great Tadmuck. At page 165 the renewal of the bounds between lot of Isaac Larned and Joseph Parker, lying in the pine plain near the Crain meadow, dated January 29, 1711, recorded Feb. 1, 1711. Under date of Nov. 24, 1665, John Parker, Isaac Learned and Thomas Chamberline, "sometime inhabitants of Woburn," planters, sell to George Farley, of Billerica, sundry parcels of land in Billerica, which they bought of Thomas Dudley, Esq., dec'd. But this deed is not executed by Isaac Learned. (Register of Deeds, Middlesex, vol. iii, p. 181.) His widow, Mary, was married to John Burg, late of Weymouth, June 7, 1662, by Capt. Johnson, of Woburn. (Records of Chelmsford.) The proposed division of Isaac Learned's estate, April 1, 1662, signed by Mary Learned and Isaac Sterne, had been witnessed by John Burg. (Middlesex Court Files, p. 141 1/2.) April 7, 1664, the court allowed the division of the estate between John Burg and the children of Isaac Learned. (id. vol. 2,p. 5), and following this is an "inventory of the estate belonging to Mary Lernet, widow, now in the hands of John Burg, of Chelmsford," her surviving husband, dated Dec. 21, 1663, and amounting to œ222. She must, therefore, have died within eighteen months after her second marriage. 1673, Sept. 23, there was a division of the estate of Isaac Learned."

 

More About CAPTAIN ISAAC LEARNED:

Baptism: 25 Feb 1623/24, Bermondsey, Surry, London, England

 

More About MARY STEARNS:

Christening: 26 Jan 1625/26, Stoke, Wayland, Suff., Eng. ⁴¹

 

More About ISAAC LEARNED and MARY STEARNS:

Marriage: 09 Jul 1646⁴²

       

Children of ISAAC LEARNED and MARY STEARNS are:

                   i.    MARY³ LEARNED^43,44, b. 07 Aug 1647, Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA⁴⁵; d. Aft. 1688⁴⁵.

                  ii.    ANNA LEARNED⁴⁵, b. 11 Aug 1648, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA⁴⁵; d. 01 Feb 1655/56, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA⁴⁵.

 

Notes for ANNA LEARNED:

Anna Learned is not listed as a child of Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns in:  The Learned Family, compiled by William Law Learned in part from the papers of the late Joseph Gay Eaton Learned, Joel Munsell's Sons, 1882. However, she is shown on the World Family Tree.

 

                 iii.    HANNA ANNA LEARNED⁴⁵, b. 24 Aug 1649, Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA⁴⁵; d. 31 Dec 1685, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA⁴⁵.

                 iv.    WILLIAM LEARNED^45,46, b. 01 Oct 1650, Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA⁴⁶; d. 23 Apr 1684, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA⁴⁷.

                  v.    SARAH LEARNED^47,48, b. 18 Oct 1653, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Co., MA⁴⁸; d. 11 Jan 1694/95, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Co., MA⁴⁹.

 

More About SARAH LEARNED:

Christening: 15 Nov 1653, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA

 

7.              vi.    ISAAC LEARNED, b. 16 Sep 1655, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Co., MA; d. 15 Sep 1737, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA.

8.             vii.    DEACON BENONI LEARNED, b. 27 Nov 1657, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA; d. 10 Apr 1738, Sherbourn, Middlesex, MA.

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

4.  MARY³ LOTHROP (SARAH² LEARNED, WILLIAM¹)^50,51 was born 04 Oct 1640 in Barnstable^52,53, and died 1735⁵⁴.  She married (1) JOHN STEARNS^55,56 20 Nov 1656⁵⁷.  He died 05 Mar 1668/69⁵⁸.  She married (2) CAPT. WILLIAM FRENCH^59,60 06 May 1659⁶¹.  He was born Abt. 1603⁶², and died 20 Nov 1681⁶².  She married (3) ISAAC MIXER, JR.^63,64 1684⁶⁵. 

 

More About JOHN STEARNS and MARY LOTHROP:

Marriage: 20 Nov 1656⁶⁵

 

More About WILLIAM FRENCH and MARY LOTHROP:

Marriage: 06 May 1659⁶⁵

 

More About ISAAC MIXER and MARY LOTHROP:

Marriage: 1684⁶⁵

       

Children of MARY LOTHROP and JOHN STEARNS are:

                   i.    ISAAC⁴ STEARNS⁶⁶, b. 17 Apr 1658⁶⁶; d. 09 Oct 1659⁶⁶.

                  ii.    SAMUEL STEARNS⁶⁶, b. 03 Sep 1659⁶⁶.

                 iii.    ISAAC STEARNS⁶⁶, b. 21 Dec 1661⁶⁶.

                 iv.    NATHANIEL STEARNS⁶⁶, b. 30 Nov 1663⁶⁶.

                  v.    THOMAS STEARNS⁶⁶, b. 06 Dec 1665⁶⁶.

 

       

Children of MARY LOTHROP and WILLIAM FRENCH are:

9.              vi.    MARY⁴ FRENCH, b. 30 Apr 1670.

10.           vii.    SARAH FRENCH, b. 29 Oct 1671.

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