Brief Life History of Samuel Eastman
When Samuel Eastman Stearns was born on 3 August 1806, in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, John Burt Stearns, was 41 and his mother, Ruth Eastman, was 40. He married Rhoda Blanchard in 1833, in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Iowa, United States in 1870. He died on 12 December 1890, at the age of 84.
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- Samuel E Stearns, "United States Census, 1840"
- Samuel Eastman Stearns, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Samuel Eastman Stearns, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Stearn , with post-medieval excrescent -s (see Stern ).
History: In 1646 Charles Stearns was admitted as a freeman of Watertown, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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