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John Stebbins

Ancestry of
John Stebbins

(1647–1724)

    John Stebbins

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • 28 Jan 1647 
    • Birth Location:
    • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • 19 Dec 1724 
    • Death Location:
    • Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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    • Notes: 

    • John Stebbins is said to have been the only man known to have escaped unhurt from the Battle of Bloody Brook in 1675.

      John Stebbins had his house burned and his entire family taken prisoner during the Deerfield Massacre on 29 FEB 1703/4. He, his wife and son John are the only ones known to have returned . His other children never made it back from Canada.

  • Marriages for John Stebbins

    • Spouse:
    • Dorothy Alexander
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1683
    • Marriage Location:
    • prob. Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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  • Sources for John Stebbins

    • 2 Denio, Francis Brigham and Herbert Williams Denio, A Genealogy of Aaron Denio of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1704-1925, Montpelier, Vermont: Capital City Press (1926), 9-39.
    • 3 Greenlee, Ralph Stebbins and Robert Lemuel Greenlee, The Stebbins Genealogy, Volume 1, Chicago, Illinois: Privately printed (1904), 74, 103-108.
    • 4 Sheldon, George, A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Times When and the People By Whom It Was Settled . . ., Volume 1, Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall and Co. (1895), 47.