Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

Thomas Stearns

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of T. S. Eliot — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 48 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Stearns 
  • Mother:
  • Phebe Waite   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Jul 1710 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 9 Jul 1710 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Dec 1784 
  • Death Location:
  • Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Read
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Apr 1743 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ebenezer Stearns

  John Stearns

  Josiah Stearns (Ahnentafel No:24 )

  Abigail Stearns

  • Notes: 

  • The three wives of Thomas Stearns are often incorrectly given as first Abigail Reed, second unknown, and third Mary Heald. Please see "The Wives of Thomas Stearns of Littleton, Mass." in The American Genealogist 74 (1999):226-229.

• Additional marriages for Thomas Stearns

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary White
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Oct 1739
  • Marriage Location:
  • Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Barrett
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 2 Sep 1750
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Thomas Stearns

  • ¹ Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784, Corey, Oliver (Rockingham), p. 2.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lexington, Vol. 1, p. 77, Birth record for Thomas Stearns.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 74, pp. 226-229.
  • ⁴ Van Wagenen, Mrs. Avis Stearns, Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, Syracuse, New York: Courier Printing Co. (1901), 36, 51-53, 101.