The identity between David Stearns the father of Lydia Walker Stearns and David Stearns the son of Eleazer and Mary (_____) Stearns (#659 in Stearns Gen) is estabished by RJO on the basis of website http://www.gendex.com/users/rtwgen/mwheeler/d0022/g0000028.html#I32651 (20 Dec 1998) which cites Bolton and Boxborough VRs. The Stearns Genealogy gives only a first wife for David Stearns, named as Lois _____. This was Lois Crouch according to website, and Miriam Walker, mother of Lydia Walker Stearns was David’s second wife.

The Boxborough VR records the marriage of David Stearns and Miriam Walker on 3 December 1791 with the notation “Intention not recorded”; and then the birth of their daughter Lydia Walker Stearns three days later.521