DJD-70-Desire-4

LINE OF DEACON JOHN DUNHAM OF PLYMOUTH

FOURTH GENERATION IN AMERICA

70. DESIRE 4 DUNHAM (John 3.2,1) born in Barnstable 10 December 1685, [1] died in Mansfield CT 24 January 1738/9.[2] Desire married 11 March 1712/13 SAMUEL STETSON, [3] son of Sgt. Samuel and Lydia (Pickles) Stetson, of Scituate. He was born in Scituate MA in June 1679, [4] died in Mansfield CT 4 January 1726/7. [5]

Children of Samuel and Desire (Dunham) Stetson: born in Mansfield CT [6]

i. SAMUEL 5 STETSON, b. 30 December 1713

ii. REBECCA 5 STETSON, b. 27 April 1716, d. 6 May 1716, Mansfield CT

iii. ELI 5 STETSON, b. 20 November 1717 m. 14 November 1742 MIRIAM FULLLER (Ref. Mansfield VRs, check) d. after 1757 Eli Stetson served in the French and Indian war, a Lt. in Capt. Rudd’s Co., in relief of Fort William Henry 9 September 1757; service 16 days. No known issue.

iv. MARY 5 STETSON, b. 21 November 1719; d. 1807

v. ELIZABETH 5 STETSON, b. 18 January 1722 d. 10 March 1745, age 23 years she married as his second wife in Mansfield CT 15 September 1742,[7] PRENCE FREEMAN, son of Edmund and Kezia (Pressbury) Freeman. He married third 12 December 1745 REBECKAH JOHNSON

vi. REBECCA 5 STETSON, (again) b. 6 October 1724; d. 22 February 1725, Mansfield CT

References:

1. Barnstable MA VR .

2. Mansfield CT VR p. 317.

3. Check Stetson Gen. Stetson, Oscar Frank, ed. For Stetson Kindred of America - The Descendants of Cornet Robert Stetson of Scituate, Mass. 1634 (pub. 1933), p. 37-8, 45-6.

4. Scituate Ma VR .

5. Mansfield CT VR, p. 317.

6. Mansfield CT VR p. 167

7. Mansfield CT VR p. 239.