♀Ann Sturtevant

Ann Sturtevant (4 June 1647 – 9 February 1719/20) was the wife of John Waterman of Plympton in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her son Robert Waterman (1681–1750).

She was born at Plymouth, in Plymouth Colony^W: the colony’s register of births for 1647 reads “Ann Sturtivant, the daughter of Samuell Sturtivant”. Her father was Samuel Sturtevant, whose nine children are entered in that register; the entries do not name their mother. The Plymouth register records that John Waterman (1642–1718) was “married to Ann Sturtevant” on 7 December 1665, the surname written Sturtivant in the hand. Their son Robert was born in 1681.

A transcription of her gravestone in Ye Olde Burial Ground at Plympton reads: “Anna Waterman, Widow of Deacon John Waterman, Died the 19th of February 1719, in her 71st year.” The printed vital records of Plympton enter the death of “Anna, wid. Dea. John” on 9 February 1719-20, a double date from the Old Style^W calendar, under which the year began in March, and two indexes and a memorial website likewise read the day on the stone as the 9th. The 9th is taken here. An age in the seventy-first year would place her birth about 1648 or 1649, a year or two after the register’s 1647; the records do not explain the difference.