1Abram English Brown, History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Mass.: from its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1891, , p. 33 (1891).
"Isaac,1 came to this country in 1630, probably with Gov. Winthrop, and settled in Watertown, near Mount Auburn. He was made freeman May 18, 1631, which is the earliest date of any such admission. (Bond.) He d. June 19, 1671; wife Mary d. April 2, 1677. Of their several ch. Isaac,2 the fourth, b. Jan. 6, 1632-3, m. Sarah Beers, and settled in Lexington in 1660. he d. 1676. Their son, John,3 b. 1675, m. April 26, 1699, Mary, or Mercy Davis of Concord.
. . .".2James Savage, John Farmer and Orlando Perry Dexter, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: S-Z, Vol. 4, p. 173 (1860-2).
"STEARNS, . . .
ISAAC, Watertown, 1630, came prob. with Sir Richard Saltonstall in the fleet, was adm. freem. 18 May of next yr. tho. he may have been drawn thither as much by regard for Winthrop, since he was not a dist. neighb. of the Gov. in their native ld. He was of Neyland, Co. Sufflk. where his his two eldest ch. were bapt.; Mary, 6 Jan. 1627; and Ann, 5 Oct. 1628. Here by w. Mary (tho. Dr. Cogswell in Geneal. Reg. I. 43, calls Sarah mo. of John) had John, b. perhaps the first yr.; Isaac, 6 Jan. 1633; Sarah, 22 Sept. 1635; tho. this by Pulsifer in Geneal. Reg. VII. 159 is giv. careless. as ch. of I. and M. Storie; Samuel, 24 Apr. 1638; Eliz. and Abigail. He d. 19 June 1671, and his will of 14 of that mo. provides for w. Mary, for ch. of his s. John; for the ch. of his d. Mary, dec. besides special remem. of Isaac and Mary; for the ch. of his ds. Sarah, Eliz. and Abigail sever. ment. his kinsman Charles S. and makes his own s. Isaac, and Samuel excors. His wid. d. 2 Apr. 1677. Prob. he is the ancest. of near all of his nam. sev. thousand in number, in Mass. but sure. Farmer should have qualif. his universality. He was on the first jury that tr. civ. case in N. E. when dams. were giv. against Endicott for assault on Thomas Dexter in May 1631. His d. Mary m. 9 July 1646, Isaac Learned, and d. bef. her f.; Ann m. 25 Dec. 1650, Henry Freeman; Sarah m. 7 June 1665, deac. Samuel Stone; Eliz. 13 Apr. 1664, Samuel Manning; and Abigail m. 27 Apr. 1666, deac. John Morse.".