Cornet Robert Stetson
Robert Stetson was granted a farm on the North River at Scituate, in Plymouth Colony, in 1634. Deane's History of Scituate lists his offices. He was "a deputy to Court, a Cornet of the first light horse corps raised in the Colony, a member of the Council of war, a Colony Commissioner for settling the patent line".
A deputy was one of the men a town sent to sit for it in the colony's General Court. A cornet was the junior officer of a troop of horse, the one who carried its standard. The rank stayed with him as his title. The patent line was the boundary of Plymouth Colony's grant. In 1660 he was also a commissioner for the colony's trade on the Kennebec River.
His children, by Deane, were Joseph, born in 1639, Benjamin in 1641, Thomas in 1643, Samuel in 1646, John in 1648, Eunice in 1650, Lois in 1651, Robert in 1653 and Timothy in 1657. The Scituate births enter the eldest as "Joseph, s. Robert, June, 1639."
He died on 1 February 1702, aged ninety. His name stayed on the river. Deane, writing in 1831, says that rocks in the North River east of his farm were still called Cornet's Rocks, and that eight generations of the family had drawn water from his spring.
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Cite: Heirology, "Cornet Robert Stetson (1612-1702)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/cornet-robert-stetson-1612-1702-ab13b5.