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THE LEARNED FAMILY IN AMERICA
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CHAPTER I First Generation ?A
*A-1 WILLIAM LEARNED1 progenitor of the family in America, camc from Bermondsey, County Surrey, England, with his wife Goodith (Judith, Coodwife?} and his only soti Isaac-, landing ai Charlestown tn the Massachusetts Bay Colony sometime prior to October 1632. He was admitted with ?Goodith, his wife", to the First Church of Charlestown, 6 October 1632. (C.E. Banks Winthrop Fleet, Baltimore, 1961, p. 79); he was elected freeman, 14 March 1634, selectman, 13 February 1635/6, and, 26 February 1638, me r of a committee of six: "Mr. Increase Nowell, Mr. Zach. Sims, Mr. Jno. Greene, Mr. John Hayward, Sergt. Ralph Sprague and William Learned were desired to consider of some things tending toward a body of laws." (MCR I, 368.) William moved to Woburn in 1641 or 1642, and was one of seven founders of First Church of Woburn, 14 August 1642; constable, selectman, 13 April 1643, and again, 9 February 1645; he died 1 March 1646. His widow, (mentioned also as "Jane?) died 24 January 1661. (NE H&G Register, x, p. 162; The Learned Family ed. ii, 1898, p. 10-18.) William was buried in Wobum, but the graves were moved many years later to another location, and, in 1930, Henry Dexter Learned10, J-592, did not find the Learned tombstones.
Children:
B-l i SARAH2, mentioned above, dau. of William Leonarde, bapt.
at Ware, Hertfordshire, England, 30 Sept. 1604, m. (1) 13 Jan. 1623/4, THOMAS EWER, tailor, who came with Sarah and two children, Elizabeth and Thomas, Jr., in the ]ames in 1635, lai g at Charlestown; he d. in 1638; she m. (2) 11 Dec. 1639, at Barnstable. THOMAS LATHROP (1621-1701).
Children: (by first husband)
i	Sarah Ewer, b. in Eng.; m. 18 June 1645, at Barnstable, Thomas Blossom (NE H&G R ix, p. 286).
ii	Elizabeth Ewer, b. in Eng.; buried at Barnstable 9 April 1641.
iii	Thomas Ewer, b. in Eng., estate administered by Damei Wing, Barnstable, 1667.
iv	John Ewer, d. 1652; administration granted to Mary Ewer, who m. 2 Feb. 1653, John Jenkins, of Barnstable.
(by second husband)
v	Mary Lathrop, bapt. 4 Oct. 1640; m. (1) Dec. 1656, as his