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- GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts.
PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.
Historian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; Librarian of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington."
"Bibliography of Woburn," etc., etc.
VOLUME III.
ILLUSTRATED.
NEW YORK
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
.... 1908 ....
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Ebenezer Stocker (1), was of Lynn, Massachusetts, as early
as 1674, when he married Captain Marshall's daughter Sarah. This is the first definite mention of his name in colonial
history, although there is ground for the belief that he was a son of Thomas Stocker, who was a tenant on the Cogan farm in Rumney Marsh, Chelsea, in 1640, road surveyor in 1652 and 1654, and constable of Rumney Marsh district in 1661. His name and that of his son Thomas appear on the Rumney Marsh
tax list in 1674, and both the elder Thomas and his wife Martha were members of the church in Lynn about that time. The records show that by wife Martha Thomas Stocker had a son Thomas and a daughter Elizabeth, and it is probable that they also had sons Samuel, who married Mary Witt in June, 1665. Daniel, who married Margery Salmon in 1672, and Ebenezer of whom mention has been made and who is the earliest known ancestor of the family treated in this place.
Ebenezer Stocker married, July 15, 1674, Sarah Marshall, born February 14, 1655, daughter of Captain Thomas Marshall, who was one of the leading characters in early Lynn history. He came to Lynn in the ship "James" of London in 1635, and soon after ward was admitted freeman. Later he returned to England and fought under Cromwell, who made him captain. He served several years in the army and then returned to Lynn
"laden with military glory," as Mr. Lewis says in his "Annals of Lynn." He was representative to the general court six times, and in Lynn kept tavern on the west side of Sawyers river, where "with all the frankness and hospitality of a firm old English gentleman he kept open doors for the accommodation of the travelling public for more than forty years." He died December 23, 1689, and his wife Rebecca died in August, 1693.
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Abt 1618 - Aft 1650 (~ 33 years)
