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Isaac Stearns Jr.

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Isaac Stearns Jr. (born June 13, 1750; died April 29, 1807), of Billerica, Massachusetts, was a sergeant in the American Revolutionary Army. On April 19, 1775, he was among the minutemen who rallied at the first alarm at the onset of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.{{sfn|Van Wagenen|1901|pp=179–180}} He was also a member of a group of forty men, led by Ethan Allen, that captured Fort Ticonderoga.{{sfn|Daughters of the American Revolution|1901|p=23}} Stearns contributed ₤10 to a fund established to hire men to serve in the Revolutionary Army.{{sfn|Drake|1880|p=419}}

Stearns was a soldier in the Siege of Boston for eight months and participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he stood alongside Colonel William Prescott and advised him as to when the British were near enough to fire upon, stating: "there, that will do." On December 18, 1777, Stearns married Mary Crosby. The couple relocated to Ashburnham the following year. Stearns died on April 29, 1807.{{sfn|Van Wagenen|1901|pp=179–180}}

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{{Source-attribution|Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, by Avis Stearns Van Wagenen (1901)}}

{{cite book|title=Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution|volume=13|author=Daughters of the American Revolution|publisher=Daughters of the American Revolution|year=1901|url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=t2kZAQAAIAAJ&rdid=book-t2kZAQAAIAAJ&rdot=1|ref=harv}}
{{cite book|title=History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County|volume=2|last=Drake|first=Samuel Adams|editor=Samuel Adams Drake|publisher=Estes and Lauriat|year=1880|ref=harv}}
{{cite book |last1=Van Wagenen |first1=Avis Stearns |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogymemoirs00vanw |title=Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants |publisher=Courier Printing|location=Syracuse, New York |year=1901 |ref=harv}}

5 : 1750 births|1807 deaths|People from Billerica, Massachusetts|People of colonial Massachusetts|Continental Army soldiers

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