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Stetson

Taken directly from John Stetson Barry's A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name and Family of Stetson; from the year 1634, to the year 1847. Published in Boston 1847. Reformatted for ease of reading, skipped descendents of collateral lines, inserted last name for consistency across documents.

Generation No. 1

Cornet Robert Stetson, born 1613 and died February 1, 1702/3.

Generation No. 2

AA.. Thomas Stetson, son of the Cornet, married Sarah Dodson. Deane. His will is dated July 2, 1729. Prob. Rec. Plymouth. 6. 296. As his wife's name is not mentioned in the will, it is presumed she was dead at the time.

BB.. Samuel Stetson, son of the Cornet, married Lydia ——. (The children, on the Scituate Town Records, are called children of Samuel and Lydia; but from the same Town Records, I find that Mercy or Mary, wife of Samuel Stetson, died in 1687. Was he married twice ?) He lived in Scituate, and was a man of considerable note. His name occurs quite frequently on the Church Records. Thus, in 1702-3, Samuel Stetson, Peter Colemore, and William Perry, were chosen to attend to the sale of a parcel of land belonging to the' Church. He was chosen with Mr. Cushing, and Dea. James Torrey, to make the rate in 1703. In 1707 he was on a Committee with Ensign Clapp, to see the town about changing the locality of a road. He was chosen with two others, in 1709-10, to see about clearing and fencing the parsonage land. And from 1719 to 1722, he was chosen to make the rates.

Generation No. 3

AA.. Ebenezer Stetson, son of Thomas. Mr. Joseph Pitts of Dighton, one of his descendants, informs me, that he married Lydia Barker of Scituate, who died February 20, 1776. He died in 1778. Prob. Rec. Plymouth. 28. 91.; and he and his wife were buried on Church Hill. It is said that he was a very zealous Churchman, and built the Church on Church Hill at his own expense. No vestige of that building now remains; it was taken down in 1810.

BB.. Jonah Stetson I, son of Samuel, married Mercy Turner of Scituate, May 31, 1720. He died in the year 1766. Prob. Rec. Plymouth. 19. 387. His decease was very sudden, he being found cold and stiff in apasture, whither he had gone to walk. He was a man of business note, and much esteemed by his townsmen. His wife died about the year 1769. Prob. Rec. Plymouth. 21. 298.

Generation No. 4

AA.. Ebenezer Stetson, son of Ebenezer, married 1st, Hannah Hall of Raynham, in 1750, and the same year settled in Dighton. She died in 1761, and he then married Anna Leonard of Raynham, in 1762. He died in Antigua, one of the W.I. Islands, October 1768.

BB.. Jonah Stetson II, son of Jonah, married Elizabeth Hatch of Scituate, December 19, 1751, and lived in Scituate, not far from the Cornet's place. Elizabeth, wife of Jonah, was born May 12, 1728, and died April 26, 1816, aged 88; an excellent woman and much esteemed. The Inventory of the Estate of Mr. Jonah, was made March 4, 1783, Prob. Rec. Plymouth. 28. 551. He was a man of good property. good character, and good business habits.

Generation No. 5

AA.. Hannah Stetson, born June 1754 and died April 18, 1814. Married Noah Brooks I of Scituate, son of Taylor Brooks, in 1770.

BB.. Micah Stetson, son of Jonah, married Sarah Copeland of Scituate, March 23, 1783. He was Representative to the State Legislature in 1815 and 1816, and a man of considerable business enterprise. He lived near the Cornet's place, and died December 27, 1838.

Generation No. 6

AB.. Esther Stetson, born November 24, 1785 and died June 6, 1863, married Noah Brooks II of Boston on February 16, 1812.

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