The Standish Family of Plympton Massachusetts

The Standish Family of Plympton Massachusetts Ye Olde Burial Grounds

Myles Standish Monument
Duxbury, Massachusetts

John Alden House
Duxbury, Massachusetts

The Standish Family of Plymouth Colony
As Found at Ye Olde Burial Grounds
in Plympton, Massachusetts

Descendants of Ebenezer Standish: Son of Alexander and Sarah (Alden) Standish

Ebenezer Standish, the progenitor of that portion of the Standish Family that settled in western Plymouth, which was incorporated as the town of Plympton in 1707, was the son of Alexander and Sarah (Alden) Standish and thus grandson of Myles Standish and John Alden, and great-grandson of William Mullins. So, of course, all of the Plympton Standishes, as the children of Ebenezer and Hannah Sturtevant Standish, thereby carry Standish, Alden and Mullins Mayflower lineages. Ebenezer married Hannah Sturtevant, a daughter of the prominent Sturtevant family of Halifax. Also found at Plympton is Alexander and Sarah's daughter Sarah Standish who married Benjamin� Soule, and thus the Soule families found at Plympton are Soule, Standish, Alden and Mullins descendants, at least.

Once the native population had been removed as a source of danger after King Phillip's War, Plympton lands, known at first as the "western precincts" of Plymouth, were settled. While it is families such as the Adam Wright family that are considered the likely first settlers of around 1680, it would seem that Ebenezer Standish was not far behind. Born at Duxbury around 1672, Ebenezer married a Halifax daughter of the important Sturtevant family of that town, around 1697. There would be at least six children born to Ebenezer and Hannah at Plympton, Zachariah, Moses, Hannah, Zerviah, Sarah and Mercy. Your writer is descended from the two sons, Zachariah and Moses. Four of these children are buried in the old Burial Grounds. Only Hannah and Zerviah would find their paths leading permanently away from the home fields of Plympton.

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The Ebenezer Standish Family Headstone of Ebenezer Standish (c.1672-1759) Headstone of Hannah (Sturtevant) Standish (1680-1755) Zachariah Standish (1698-1770)
Abigail (Whitman) Standish (1720-1778) Ebenezer Standish, son of Zachariah

Zachariah and Abigail Standish with son Ebenezer Zachariah and Rebecca (Wood) Standish Zachariah Standish (1739-1791) Rebecca Wood Standish Ebenezer and Standish The Shadrach Standish Family Shadrack Standish