Prudence STEARNS

30 Mar 1724 - 29 Dec 1781

• BIRTH: 30 Mar 1724, Billerica, Middlesex, MA
• DEATH: 29 Dec 1781, Tewksbury, Middlesex, MA

• MARRIAGE: 21 Jan 1742, Billerica, Middlesex, MA

1.  John NEEDHAM
2.  Mary NEEDHAM
3.  John NEEDHAM
4.  Prudence NEEDHAM
5. +Elizabeth NEEDHAM
6.  Lucy NEEDHAM
7.  Unnamed NEEDHAM
8.  Stearns NEEDHAM
9.  Mary NEEDHAM
10.  Abigail NEEDHAM
11.  John NEEDHAM
12.  William NEEDHAM
13.  Rachel NEEDHAM
14.  Azubah NEEDHAM

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 _Samuel STEARNS _|
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|--Prudence STEARNS 
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|_Rachel CROSBY __|
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[373] "Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts to the Year 1850"
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, Mass., 1908
http://www.nehgs.org/
"1724; STEARNS, Prudence, d. Samuel Jr. [dup. omits Jr.] and Rachel, Mar.30,1724; Birth; Billerica"
"1742; NEEDHAM, John of Tewksbury, and Prudance Stearnes, Jan. 21, 1742."

"Tewksbury Vital Records"
p. 232, DEATHS, NEEDHAM
Prudence, w. John [consumption], Dec. 29, 1781.

"History of Billerica, Massachusetts,
with a Genealogical Register"
Rev. Henry A. Hazen, Boston, MA, 1883.
pp. 99-100, NEEDHAM
"Prudence Stearns, dau. of Samuel"

"Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his Descendants"
Avis Stearns Van Wagenen
Syracuse, NY; Courier Printing Co., 1901; 802 pgs.

Needham Family Genealogical Notes
Unpublished work; 1998
Virginia Joy Chism Nichols
Notation from Virginia Chism record #12: "John & Prudence begat 14 children!"
(Hazen lists eight, presumably surviving, children.)