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1 James LEARNED1 (1712-1712) [2284]. Born 1712.1 Died 9 Feb 1711/12.1
2 Benjamin LEARNED1 (1686-1712) [2282]. Born 15 Aug 1686.1 Marr Hannah BADCOCK 13 Feb 1709/10. Died 22 Apr 1712.
4 Benoni LEARNED1,2 (1657-1738) [1367]. Born 27 Nov 1657, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.1,2,3 Christened 29 Nov 1657, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.2 Marr Mary FANNING 16 Jun 1680, Sherbourn, Middlesex, MA.1,4 Marr Sarah WRIGHT c. 1689, Sherborn, Middlesex County, MA.1 Died 10 Apr 1738, Sherbourn, Middlesex, 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.
"BENONI3 (Isaac2, William1), probably so named because he was born on the day of his father's death or within a day or two of that event; m., at Sherborn, June 18, 1680, Mary Fanning, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Daniel) Fanning, b. Oct. 27, 1662, who d. Oct. 14, 1688, in childbirth, and he m. second Sarah Wright, of Sudbury, who was received to the church (1690.) She d. Jan'y 25, 1736-7. He was the second deacon of the church, and was constable 1682; selectman, 1690, 1693, 1695, 1697, 1700, 1710. He was early in Sherborn and resided where the late Dr. Wythe resided. He is one of the signers to a petition for the settlement of difficulties in regard to the meeting house, to enable the people to settle Mr. Daniel Gookin, Oct. 13, 1680. (Minutes Gen. Court, vol. 112, p. 317.)
In 1699, he was on a committee for laying out lots, and had lots assigned to him; was rated 1686 for the Indian title, and drew 138 acres of land in Douglas; twelve years, selectman, one year, representative. One of the signers of agreement for government of Sherborn 1679, on committee for repairing meeting house 1706, with Corp. Isaac Learned and others.
In Judge Sewall's Journal under date of Wednesday, Apr. 14, 1703, Deacon Learned is mentioned as with him while he "renewed the bounds of the farm Moses Adams lives on." His name is signed to an agreement relative to lands in Bogestow, occurring in Sherborn records of births, 1688-9.
"The excellent Deacon Benoni Learned," says Rev. Mr. Morse, "served Sherborn as treasurer, selectman, representative in the general court, and for a long period in his early history his name is conspicuous, and it is evident that he was a man of sound and consistent piety." He died April 10th, 1738. His will, written Jan'y 12, 1736-7, proved April, 1738, mentions his wife Sarah; son Edward, heirs of son Thomas; grandson Benjamin Bond, son of daughter Mary; daughter Hannah, wife of James Leland; daughter Sarah, wife of Isaac Kendall; daughter Elizabeth, wife of Timothy Leland; daughter Tabitha Dewing's heirs; daughter Abigail; daughter Thankful; daughter Bathsheba, wife of Josiah Hendee. Edward was executor. No mention is made of a widow in the administration papers. His wife seems to have died a few days after the will was executed. Dr. Bond says she survived her husband; perhaps his reason for this statement is because she is named in the will. His second wife was a dau. of Capt. Edward Wright of Sudbury, and with others released her rights in her father's estate to her brother Samuel. June 15, 1708 Rec. of Deeds Midd. XVI. 491."
From: SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Publication -- No. 8 - COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN MASSACHUSETTS
"LEARNED, BENONI, 1657-1738, Sherborn, Mass. Soldier from Watertown in King Philip's War, 1676. Deputy to the General Court, 1701.".
8 Isaac LEARNED2 (c. 1624-1657) [1369]. Born c. 25 Feb 1623/24, Bermondsey, Surry, London, England.2 Bap 25 Feb 1623/24, Bermondsey, Surry, London, England. Marr Mary STEARNS 9 Jul 1646.3 Died 27 Nov 1657, Chelmsford, Middlesex, 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.
"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.".
9 Mary STEARNS2 (1626-1663) [1370]. Born 26 Jan 1625/26, Watertown, Middlesex, Mass, England.2 Christened 26 Jan 1625/26, Stoke, Wayland, Suff., Eng.2 Marr John BURGE 7 Jun 1662.1,3 Died 21 Dec 1663, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.2
5 Mary FANNING1 (1662-1688) [2278]. Born 27 Oct 1662.1 Died 14 Oct 1688.1 Cause: In childbirth of her third child, Mary.
10 Thomas FANNING1 ( - ) [2279].
11 Elizabeth DANIEL1 ( - ) [2280].
3 Hannah BADCOCK5 ( - ) [2283].
| 1 | 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". |
| 2 | "Ancestry.com World Family Tree". |
| 3 | Compiled by Ruth Ellsworth Richardson, 1974, "Samuel Richardson and Josiah Ellsworth; Some Descendents". |
| 4 | William Barry, 1847, "A History of Framington, Massachusetts". |
| 5 | Nathaniel Goodwin, 1849, "The Foote Family: Or the Descendents of Nathaniel Foote, one of the First Settlers of Wethersfield, Conn". |