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1 Anna LEARNED1 (1648-1656) [1376]. Born 11 Aug 1648, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA.1 Died 1 Feb 1655/56, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA.1
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.
2 Isaac LEARNED1 (c. 1624-1657) [1369]. Born c. 25 Feb 1623/24, Bermondsey, Surry, London, England.1 Bap 25 Feb 1623/24, Bermondsey, Surry, London, England. Marr Mary STEARNS 9 Jul 1646.2 Died 27 Nov 1657, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.3
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.".
4 William LEARNED1,4,5 (1590-1646) [1373]. Born 1 Jan 1589/90, Bermondsey, Surrey, England.1 Died 1 Mar 1645/46, Bermondsey, Surrey, England.3 Buried Mar 1645/46, Watertown, Middlesex, Ma.1
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.".
5 Goodith GILMAN1,3,4 (1594-1661) [1374]. Born 1594, Bremondsey, Surrey, England.1 Died 24 Jun 1661, Malden, Essex, MA.1 Buried MA.1
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.)".
3 Mary STEARNS1 (1626-1663) [1370]. Born 26 Jan 1625/26, Watertown, Middlesex, Mass, England.1 Christened 26 Jan 1625/26, Stoke, Wayland, Suff., Eng.1 Marr John BURGE 7 Jun 1662.2,3 Died 21 Dec 1663, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.1
6 Isaac STEARNS3 (1626-1671) [1372]. Born 26 Jan 1625/26, Nayland, Suffolk, England.3 Died 19 Jun 1671.
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.
"Isaac Sternes, the father of Mary, wife of Isaac Learned, came to America in 1630, probably from the parish of Nayland, in Suffolk, and settled in Watertown. He was admitted a freeman May 18, 1631, the earliest date of any such admission. He was selectman in 1659. 1670 and 1671. In 1647, with Mr. William Biscoe, he had charge of the first bridge of which any mention is made, over the Charles river, at Watertown. He died June 19, 1671, leaving a widow, Mary, who died April 2, 1677. The inventory of his estate shows him to have been, for those days, in comparative affluence. It included forty-seven parcels of land, amounting to four hundred and sixty-seven acres, with a proportionate quantity of stock, farming utensils, and household goods; the whole value amounting to œ524 4s. 0d. He had, before his death, given portions to each of his children. He made a will five days previous to his death, giving, among other items, to his grandchildren, "the children of my oldest son, John Sternes, fower score pounds," making, with what he had previously given, a double portion; to his grandchildren, "the children of my daughter, Mary, deceased, five and thirty pounds; my grandchild Isaac Lernet, to have ten pounds of the said 35 pounds." All of the descendants of Isaac2 Learned are also descendants of Isaac Sternes through his daughter, Mary. There were also numerous other intermarriages. His son John, one of the first settlers of Billerica, m., 2d, at Barnstable, Dec., 1656, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Sarah2 (Learned) Lathrop.".
7 Mary BARKER1 (1604-1677) [1371]. Born 1 Jan 1603/04, Stoke By Nayland, Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng.1 Died 23 Apr 1677, Watertown, Middlesex, MA.1 Buried Apr 1677.1
| 1 | "Ancestry.com World Family Tree". |
| 2 | Compiled by Ruth Ellsworth Richardson, 1974, "Samuel Richardson and Josiah Ellsworth; Some Descendents". |
| 3 | Joel Munsell's Sons, 1882, "The Learned Family, compiled by William Law Learened in part from the papers of the late Joseph Gay Eaton Larned". |
| 4 | John Osborne Austin, 1893, "One Hundred and Sixty Families". |
| 5 | "Genealogies of the Familes and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts". |