Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

Samuel Stearns

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of T. S. Eliot — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 96 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Stearns Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Beers   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Jan 1667 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • 19 Nov 1721 
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  • Phebe Waite
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  Ruth Stearns

  Thomas Stearns (Ahnentafel No:48 )

  John Stearns

• Sources for Samuel Stearns

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Samuel Sternes.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lexington, Vol. 1, p. 77, Birth and baptism record for daughter Ruth Stearns.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lexington, Vol. 1, p. 77, Birth records for children of Samuel and Phebe Stearns.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 74, pp. 226-229.
  • ⁵ Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts . . ., 2nd ed., Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic-Genealogical Society (1860), 454, 456-457.
  • ⁶ Thwing, Walter Eliot, The Livermore Family of America, Boston: W. B. Clarke Company (1902), 31.
  • ⁷ Van Wagenen, Mrs. Avis Stearns, Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, Syracuse, New York: Courier Printing Co. (1901), 35-36.
  • ⁸ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 75.