Richard Sears

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1590 BIR,c 1637 MG, 1676 DTH: Pedigree Chart pg 254 Rawson-Coffin Gen Book, copy-poss of Pam Hallmark Wagner: "Nantucket Vital Records" by Savage, Americana pg 44 809, History of Nantucket pg 684, Sears Genealogy, Utah Gen Archives. Above born, "(the Pilgrim)" 1590.
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, Richard Sears: BN abt 1595 based on age at death; MG by 1637 to Dorothy Jones (bn c1603, dau of Geo and Agnes ( ) Jones of Dinder, Somerset [TAG 58:244-46]. "Cady [ie Goody] Seares bur 19 Mar [16]78[/9] at Yarmouth [YarVR 125]; DTH 5 Sep [1676] "age 81y 4m" [YarVR 126] at Yarmouth. Origin, unknown.

1633 IMM: Plymouth. The Great Migration Begins.

1637-1639 HIST: Marblehead by 1637, Yarmouth by 1639. The Great Migration Begins. Occupation: Husbandman. Education: His inventory included "1 Great Bible and other books" valued at f1 3s.

1639-1653 FREEMAN: Yarmouth-Oath of fidelity 1639 [PCR 8:185]. Propounded for freemanship 3 June 1652 [PCR 3:7]. Admitted a freeman 7 June 1653 [PCR 3:31]. Lists of freeman from Yarmouth on 1658 and 29 May 1670 {PCR 5:274, 8:200]. The Great Migration Begins.

1643-1662 HIST: Plymouth Colony 1643, list of men able to bear arms [8:194]; Offices held: 7 Jun 1652-Grand Jury [PCR 3:9]; Tax Collector-1 Mar 1658/9 [PCR 3:155]; Yarmouth Constable-6 Jun 1660 [PCR 3:188]; Deputy (from Yarmouth)-3 June 1662 [PCR 4:14]. The Great Migration Begins.

1633-1638 ESTATE,LAND: Plymouth tax list, 25 Mar 1633, assessed 9s [PCR 1:11]; omitted from list of 27 Mar 1634; Salem Rate List for the "inhabitants of Marblehead"-1 Jan 1637/8 "Richard Seeres" [STR 1:63]; Marblehead-"Rich[ard] Sears" granted 4 acres "where he had planted formerly" [STR 1:74]. ...Great Migration...

1650 COURT: On 2 Oct 1650, with a large number of other men, "Richard Seares" brought an action against William Nickerson for slander [PCR 7:50] ...Great Migration.

1664 LAND: Yarmouth-23 Nov 1664: "Allis Bradford the widow of Wm Bradford" sold to "Richard Sares" of Yarmouth, husbandman, 2 tracts of 20 acres each "at a place commonly called...Sasuet," one of which had been the lot of Wm Bradford, dec'd and the other of which had been the lot of Experience Mitchell [MD 34:23, citing PCLR 3:18] The Great Migration Begins.

1667 WILL, CODICIL 1675/76: Will dated 10 May 1667, codicil dated 3 Feb 1675/6

Will, dated 10 May6 1667 -"Richard Sares of Yarmouth" bequeathed to
1. "Sylas Sares my younger son...all my land, that is all the upland upon the Neck where his house stands in which he now dwells...after mine and my wife's decease," provided that "my son-in-law Zachery Paddock" shall have the house where he dwells and 2 acres within the above tract "during the life of Deborah his now wife"; also to "the said Sylas Sares" a tract of meadow and half of "my land called Robins as is undivided."
2. "my elder son Paule Sares all the rest and remains of my lands whatsoever."
3. "Dorothy my wife" all lands and goods during her natural life, she to be sold executrix, and 'do entreat my brother Thacher with his 2 sons as friends in trust" as overseers.
4. "my son-in-law Zacery Paddock" 2 acres from land called Robins before it is divided between Silas and Paul Sears, and this 2 acres, along with the 2 acres mentioned above, to go to Ichabod Paddock, son of Zachary, at the death of Zachary's wife.
WIT: Anthony Thacher and Anthony Frey

Codicil dated 3 Feb 1675/8-Richard Sears bequeathed to
5. "my eldest son Paul Sares...the house which I now live in" and various moveables.
WIT: John Thacher and Judah Thacher. The Great Migration Begins.

1675/6 WILL PROVED - 5 Mar 1675/6 deposed that he and his brother witnessed the codicil, and that when "my uncle signed this appendix," he asked him [John Thacher] to redraw the will and "to leave out of the new draft the legacy of land that is given to Ichabod Paddock, for saith he I have answered it in another way," but Thacher never did produce this new draft [PCPR 3:2:53-54] The Great Migration Begins.

1676 INVENTORY: The inventory of the estate of "Richard Sares," taken 8 Oct 1676 and presented at court on 15 Nov 1676 by "Dorethy Sares the relict of Richard Sares and Paul Sares his eldest son," was untotalled and included "his house and lands," valued at f220 [PCPR 3:255; PCR 5:213] The Great Migration Begins

NOTES: Other info from The Great Migration Begins:
ASSOCIATIONS: Dorothy (Jones) Sears, wife of Richard, was sister of Richard Jones of Dorchester and of Elizabeth (Jones) Thacher, wife of Anthony Thacher of Yarmouth [TAG 58:244-46].
COMMENTS: Although the earliest record of Richard Sears in Marblehead is in 1637, he may have moved there as early as 1634, since he is in the 1633 Plymouth tax list, but not in the list of 1634.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Various publications of the middle of the 19th century set forth an English pedigree for Richard Sears, and partly on the basis of this pedigree assigned to Richard Sears, a son Knyvett Sears.
In 1886 Samuel Pearce May carefully examined and analyzed this pedigree, and found it to have no merit; he further demonstrated that the proposed son Knyvett did not exist [NEHGR 40:261-68]. Four yrs later, May published a genealogy of the family [The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888 (Albany 1890)].
In 1948 Dddonald Lines Jacobus prepared a brief account of the family of Richard Sears [Brainerd Anc 257-58]

Richard married Dorothy Thatcher Jones 1632. Dorothy was born Abt 1611, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

BIR,MG,DTH: Pedigree Chart: History of Nantucket, pg 684, Sears Genealogy, Americana pg 44 809, Nantucket Vital Records by Savage, Utah Gen Archives, from pg 254 Rawson Genealogy Book, copy of Pam Hallmark Wagner.

Deborah married Zachariah Paddock 1659. Zachariah (son of Robert Paddock and Mary Trine) was born 20 Mar 1636, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died 1 May 1721, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; was buried May 1721. [Group Sheet]

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c1641 BIR, c1665 MG: Silas, b. say 1641; md by about 1665 Anna, probably dau of James Bursell of Yarmouth [PCR 5:212].

Notes:

BIR,MG,DTH: Family Group Sheet: History of Nantucket-Starbuck pg 708-9, submit by Lynn M Dewey, pg 251 Rawson Genealogy Book, copy of Pam Hallmark Wagner

Nathaniel married Ann Bunker 15 Dec 1706. Ann (daughter of William Bunker and Mary Macy) was born 3 Sep 1686, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States; died 18 Jan 1767, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States; was buried Jan 1767. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

BIR,MG,DTH: Family Group Sheet: Autobiography of William Vestel Coffin, NC 12 Vol 1, pg 494, submitted by William F Owen, pg 223 of Rawson Gen Bk, copy of Pam Hallmark Wagner.

Priscilla married William Coffin 4 Oct 1740, Guilford, North Carolina, United States. William (son of Samuel Coffin and Miriam Gardner) was born 11 Apr 1720, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States; died 11 Oct 1803, New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina; was buried Oct 1803, New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]