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Hannah Richards Stocker

Settlers from Salem purchased land in an area known as Saugus from the Indians. This land originally included the towns of Swampscott, Nahant, Saugus and Lynnfield. In 1630 the land was incorporated as the Town of Saugus. The settlers changed the name to Lynn in 1637 in honor of their first official minister, Samuel Whiting, from King’s Lynn, England.
Lady Day Before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year, not the beginning.

Hannah Richards Stocker was born in 1717 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Crispus Richards and Sarah Collins.

She married John Stocker on March 30, 1738. John Stocker was born on February 15, 1713 in Lynn and was the son of Samuel Stocker and Hannah Lewis.

They had one daughter, Thankful Stocker, who was born in March 1739/40 in Lynn.

Hannah died on March 5, 1739/40 when she was about 23 years old. She probably died of complications of childbirth. She is buried in the Old Burying Ground, Lynn.

Here lyes ye body of
Mrs Hannah
ye wife of
Mr John Stocker
who died
March ye 5th
1740
in her ?? year

After she died, John married Ruth Breed who was born on September 30, 1721. Ruth was the daughter of Joseph Breed and Suzanah Newhall.

John died on August 7, 1810.
Children Sarah Collins
and Joseph Eliot
  • Mercy Eliot Alton
    • of Crispus Richards
    and Sarah Collins
  • Joseph Richards
  • Esther Richards Estey
  • John Richards
  • Mary Richards
  • Crispus Richards
  • Sarah Richards Ingalls
  • Hannah Richards Stocker
  • Richard Richards

    • Between 1 and 1.5 percent of births ended in the mother's death. Since the average woman gave birth to five to eight children, her lifetime chance of dying in childbirth was quite high.
     

    from Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, Volume 3 by William Richard Cutter

    (II) Samuel Stocker, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Marshall) Stocker, was born in Lynn. November 29, 1684. He married, November 13, 1711. Hannah Lewis, born January 22. 1685-86, daughter of John, Jr. and Elizabeth (Brewer) Lewis, granddaughter of John and Hannah Lewis, and great-granddaughter of William and Amy Lewis, of Lynn.

    Samuel and Hannah (Lewis) Stocker had three children:
    1. John, February 15, 1713.
    2. Joseph, twin, July 28, 1717.
    3. Samuel, twin, July 28. 1717.
    and possibly others whose names do not appear in the records.

    (III) John Stocker. son of Samuel and Hannah (Lewis) Stocker, was born in Lynn, February 15, 1713: married March 17, 174243, Ruth Breed, born September 31, 1721. daughter of Joseph and Susannah (Newhall) Breed, of Lynn.

    They had eight children, all born in Lynn:
    1. Susannah, September 1, 1744.
    2. John, September 7, 1746.
    3. Ebenezer, February 9, 1749.
    4. Marchal (Marshall), March 27. 1751.
    5. Martha. January 11, 1753.
    6. Ephraim, January 7, 1756.
    7. Jane, May 14. 1758.
    8. Daniel, February 7. 1761.

    		  

     

         

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