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Dr. John Stedman

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Dr. John Stedman

Birth
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
2 Jul 1780 (aged 37)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.8026125, Longitude: -70.872507
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Genealogy of the Odiorne Family, by James Creighton Odiorne, pg 200; print, Boston, MA · 1875 (Google Books): V. John Stedman, son of Ebenezer, born May 16, 1743; died of yellow-fever July 3 [2], 1780, a twin with Ebenezer... He graduated Harvard College in 1765, studied medicine and settled in Boston as a physician. He married Mary, daughter of Henry Quincy, merchant. They had two sons, [i.] Ebenezer. [ii.] John [b. 7 Aug 1774]. [iii. Henry Stedman b. 2 Mar 1780; he must have died young, the books are stating there were only two children, Ebenezer and John.]

Continental Journal dated ? Jul 1780, Boston: Stedman, John, died 2 Jul 1780, 38 years. (Death announcement may have been publ. Thursday, the 6th.)

Library of Congress: The Continental Journal, and Weekly Advertiser, Boston Mass.; publishing years, 1776-1787.

List of Obituaries in Boston Newspapers 1704-1800, Boston Athenaeum, Volume I, A-Z Deaths within Boston; print, Boston, MA . 1968: These newspapers were researched in 1968 and Worth Point is selling the newspapers for the Continental Journal for 27 July 1780 on eBay. July 6th may be there, they are reporting two pages and there are four. I am not seeing support from the Library of Congress for this; and they are not reporting July 1780 as missing, so they may have it on microfiche.
Genealogy of the Odiorne Family, by James Creighton Odiorne, pg 200; print, Boston, MA · 1875 (Google Books): V. John Stedman, son of Ebenezer, born May 16, 1743; died of yellow-fever July 3 [2], 1780, a twin with Ebenezer... He graduated Harvard College in 1765, studied medicine and settled in Boston as a physician. He married Mary, daughter of Henry Quincy, merchant. They had two sons, [i.] Ebenezer. [ii.] John [b. 7 Aug 1774]. [iii. Henry Stedman b. 2 Mar 1780; he must have died young, the books are stating there were only two children, Ebenezer and John.]

Continental Journal dated ? Jul 1780, Boston: Stedman, John, died 2 Jul 1780, 38 years. (Death announcement may have been publ. Thursday, the 6th.)

Library of Congress: The Continental Journal, and Weekly Advertiser, Boston Mass.; publishing years, 1776-1787.

List of Obituaries in Boston Newspapers 1704-1800, Boston Athenaeum, Volume I, A-Z Deaths within Boston; print, Boston, MA . 1968: These newspapers were researched in 1968 and Worth Point is selling the newspapers for the Continental Journal for 27 July 1780 on eBay. July 6th may be there, they are reporting two pages and there are four. I am not seeing support from the Library of Congress for this; and they are not reporting July 1780 as missing, so they may have it on microfiche.

Inscription

JOHN STEDMAN, M. D.
died in Boston
July 2, 1780
Aged 38 y'rs.



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