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Samuel Stebbins (1658 - 1732)

Samuel Stebbins
Born in Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Husband of — married 14 Mar 1677 in Northampton, MAmap
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Father of , and
Died at age 74 in Cold Spring, Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

Samuel was born on 21 Jan 1658 to John Stebbins and Abigail [Bartlett] in Northampton, Massachusetts. [1]

He was married first on 14 Mar 1677/78 at Northampton, MA to Mary French, daughter of John & Freedom (Kingsley) French. Children of Samuel & Mary (French) Stebbins:

  1. Mercy b 12 Feb 1682
  2. Esther b 1686 died 1690
  3. Samuel b 1689

"It appears that upon some miscarriage of Samuel Stebbens, that he and his wife Mary agreed to separate, he to give her 20 pounds and she to relinquish all right of dowry to residue of his Estate ..."

"In 1695. Mary applied for a divorce stating that Samuel had several children by Sarah"[2][3]

He deserted his wife and married second to Sarah Williams on 14 Mar 1692 in Rhode Island. Children of Samuel & Sarah (Williams) Stebbins:

  1. Joseph settled at Belchertown
  2. John

Samuel had resided at Northampton, Deerfield, Boston, Leicester and Belchertown.

Samuel died in 1732.[4]

Sources

  • Ruth Baker was the mother of a baby boy, born abt. 1689, fathered by Samuel Stebbins (Source: Joan A. Hunter, “Samuel Stebbins of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island,” The American Genealogist 80 #4 (2005): https://www.dutchgenie.net/family/family-e-o/p4857.htm
  1. ↑ Ancestry. Subscription Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
  2. ↑ "A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: the times when the people by whom it was settled, unsettled and resettled" by George Sheldon, publ 1895 vol 2 p 167 , 319 https://archive.org/stream/historyofdeerfie02shel#page/167/mode/1up https://archive.org/stream/historyofdeerfie02shel#page/319/mode/1up
  3. ↑ v. 8 -- Depositions (from p.57), 1662-1766 ; v. 9 -- Domestic relations, 1643-1774 ; v. 10 -- Ecclesiastical (to p.23), 1637-1670., Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-NHZW : 19 April 2024), Massachusetts State Archives Collections, Film# 007702907, image 906-909.
  4. ↑ "The Stebbins genealogy" by Ralph Stebbins Greenlee and Robert Lemuel Greenlee, publ 1904, vol 1 p 115 https://archive.org/stream/stebbinsgenealog01gree#page/115/mode/1up
  • Burt's Springfield Mass, vol 2 p 142, 149

The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Volume 2, by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, page 771

Shirley Amacher Robinson (Researcher).





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Janice White
Samuel Stebbins had two confirmed illegitimate children while married to Mary French. For this she sought and received a divorce.

1st: 1690 25 March. Thomas Lyman sued Samuel Stebbins, who “did feloniously, fraudulently or by stealth carry away Ruth Baker contrary altogether to the knowledge of her father & mother yet by his enticements a luring of her did prevale with her to go with him in the night time to the great sorrow of all her Relations which also put to the said Thomas Lyman her father & other of her Relations to great cost & charge to recover her home againe, as also to considerable Losse in her apparel which came by his meanes in carrying her away, as also for the maintenence of a child which said Stebbins is the father of which the said Ruth since her coming home hath been delivered of, all which besides the damage done to the said Ruth & her Relations, which money will not Recompense, the said Lyman saith he cannot but Judge at £40 and more together with other due damages…10 shillings.”

2nd:

1690 25 March (Same court as above). “Samuel Bartlett ingages In behalfe of Samll Stebbins, to pay to Thomas Lyman & Jno Caitlin two shillings and three pence per week for the maintenance of their children, said Stebbins is the father of by their daughters Ruth Baker & Elizabeth Caitlin, who being convicted of fornication,, having each of them a Bastard child, they charged Samuel Stebbins as father of their children, Also this Corte adjudged said Ruth & Elisabeth to be well whipt with ten strips apiece well Layd on, or to pay a fine to said Countie each of them 5 pounds apiece.”

After his divorce from Mary French 27 December 1692 , in 1693 he married Sarah Williams, who did not have any children before their marriage.

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