- A research paper by Margaret Bleeker, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois entitled Stearns Brothers Builders of Northfield given to the Warwick Historical Society December 10, 980 by the Northfield Historical Society as they felt this paper should also be in our archives as the “Stearns boys” were born and brought up in Warwick. The Stearns brothers were the “architect-builders responsible for the visual quality of Northfield Main Street.”
- Letter dated July 23, 1896 to Mrs. Samuel Hastings, Warwick from E.C. Stearns, President of the New York State Association of the Stearns’ Family. The following genealogical information is in the letter: Isaac Stearns came from England in 1630 in the ship Arabella. His third son, Samuel, born April 24, 1638 married Hannah Manning in 1663. Their second son, Nathaniel, born December 13, 1668 married (1) Elizabeth Dix and (2) Sarah Nevinson. He fathered twelve children. His ninth and tenth children, twins, Ebenezer and Mercy were born April 22, 1708. Ebenezer married Mary Spring April 12, 1737, fathered nine children. Nathaniel Stearns (son of Ebenezer and Mary) born October 26, 1743, married Mary Rice in Worcester October 13, 1768 and settled in Warwick - she died in 1772 and Nathaniel married his second wife Mary Richards of Roxbury. They had one son, Nathaniel, who ran away when a boy and was never heard from. Nathaniel married his third wife Elizabeth Stratton of Northfield in 1778. Nathaniel died February 17, 1819. Simeon, son of Ebenezer and Mary, born June 10, 1745, married Elizabeth Clark in 1772, settled in Warwick, died July 24, 1800.
- Copy of two+ pages of the History of Northfield which traces the Stearns family. It contains the same information as above but mentions an Ebenezer Jr. born October 3, 1741 residing in Warwick and continues with Ebenezer Jr.’s eight children, the last four of whom were born in Warwick. One of their daughters, Martha married Nathan Leonard in 1797 and had eight children, three died in infancy or early childhood. November 5, 1829, Rev. Preserved Smith married Martha and Nathan Leonard’s daughter, Experience to Daniel Hastings. Experience and Daniel had two sons, Nathan and Samuel. Samuel born February 1, 1837 married Helen R. Witherell of Mansfield, MA November 10, 1859.
- One+ page of handwritten genealogy: Ebenezer Stearns, born April 1708 and Mary Spring, born November 30, 1701, married April 12, 1737 and chronicles the names and birth dates of their nine children and deaths of same.
- A slip of paper in Charles Morse hand referring to someone who served numerous town officers from 1876-1906. No name to whom this refers.
- Two pages of handwritten notes (Charles Morse) covering the above material.
- Three letters to Charles Morse from Ethel F. Jackson (dated February 1966, June 13, l966, and March 29, 1967) asking for information concerning the Stearns family and thanking for information sent.
- Two pages of notes (Charles Morse's hand) with list of John & Sarah Stearns and children; Simeon & Eunice Stearns and children; Ebenezer & Eunice Stearns and children; John Stearns Jr. & Mary and children
-Xerox copy of Letter dated 1840 from Andrew Stearns to "Beloved Cousins."
