John SEARS (Capt)

Father: Elisha SEARS
Mother: Sarah VINCENT

Family 1: Mehitable SEARS
Family 2: Kezia HOWES
  1. Mehitable SEARS 
                  _John SEARS ________
 _Elisha SEARS __|
|                |_Priscilla FREEMAN _
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|--John SEARS 
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|                 ____________________
|_Sarah VINCENT _|
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Notes

!S.P. May p.152 adm. Ch., Den., 21 Jun 1801

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John SEARS

Father: John SEARS
Mother: Deborah CROWELL 

                    _John SEARS ________
 _John SEARS ______|
|                  |_Priscilla FREEMAN _
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|--John SEARS 
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|                   _John CROWELL ______
|_Deborah CROWELL _|
                   |_Kezia ELDREDGE ____
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John SEARS (Capt)

Father: John SEARS
Mother: Deborah CROWELL

Family 1: Phebe SEARS
  1. Olive SEARS
  2. Deborah SEARS
  3. Daniel SEARS
  4. Heman SEARS
  5. Jerusha SEARS
  6. Enos SEARS
  7. Lavinia SEARS
  8. Moody SEARS
  9. Fanny SEARS 
                    _John SEARS ________
 _John SEARS ______|
|                  |_Priscilla FREEMAN _
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|--John SEARS 
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|                   _John CROWELL ______
|_Deborah CROWELL _|
                   |_Kezia ELDREDGE ____
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!S.P. May p.153 Died of consumption. Capt Sears will be long remembered on Cape Cod in connection with his invention of the process of making salt by solar evaporation. In 1776, he constructed a vat, one hundred feet long, and ten feet wide. Rafters were fixed over it, and shutters were contrived to move up and down, that the vat might be covered when it rained, and exposed to the sun in fair weather. But the works were leaky, and the first year he obtained but eight bushels of salt. He was ridiculed by his neighbors, and his invention was styled, "Sears' Folly Capt. Sears perseevered, the works were made tight, and the second year thirty bushels of salt were obtained. In this and the third year the salt water was poured into the vat from buckets a tedious and laborious operation. In the fourth year he rigged a pump, procured from the wreck of the British man-of-war "Somerset," which had been cast away upon the Cape; it was worked by" hand which was still great labor. In 1785, at the suggestion of Maj. Nathaniel Freeman of Harwich, Capt. Sears contrived a pump to be worked by wind, thus greatly abridging the labor. Covers to move on rollers were invented by Reuben Sears, a carpenter of Harwich; and Capt. Sears was further assisted in the improvement of the works by Capt. Wm Crowell, Capt. Christopher Crowell and Capt. Edward Sears of Dennis. These persons assigned to him their right and title in the invention, he applied for a patent, which he obtained in 1799. Incidently to this industry, the manufacture of Glauber Salts, once much used in medicine, became an important branch of the business. Rev Ephraim Briggs of Chatham, a skillful chemist, greatly improved the process of manufacture. The salt business was for many years one of great value and importance in Barnstable County. In 1832 there were in the county 1,425,000 feet of vats, producing 358,250 bushels, but in 1834 the industry was checked by the reducito of the duty. The development of the Salt Springs in New York and elsewhere served to make the business unprofitable, and there are now (1887) few works standing and in operation. Like many other inventive geniuses, Capt Sears had fits of abstraction, and his neighbors gave him the nickname "Sleepy John," which he held till the success of his invention caused it to be diplaced by that of "Salt John." He once undertook to build an Orrery, and rigged up an old cart-wheel, to the spokes of which he affixed his planets. This was hung up over the door of his shop, in which he used to fasten himself while at work on his hobbies. One day his wife wishing to enter the shop forced the door, when the contrivance fell upon her, injuring her severely. When asked what was the matter with her,a neighbor said:"John Sears' earth fell upon her." He was in Lieut. Micajah Sears' Co., and served 3 days from 6 Sep 1778, on alarm at Dartmouth and Falmouth; and as Sergeant in Capt. Elisha Hedges' Co., in Col. Freeman's Regt., 13 to 18 Sep 1778; 52 miles travel.

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John SEARS

Father: Edward SEARS
Mother: Bethia SEARS

Family 1: Mercy HOWES
  1. Phillip Howes SEARS
  2. Mercy H SEARS
Family 2: Hannah SNOW
  1. Tamsen SEARS
  2. SEARS
  3. Bethia SEARS 
                 _Willard SEARS ___
 _Edward SEARS _|
|               |_Susannah HOWES __
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|--John SEARS 
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|                _John SEARS ______
|_Bethia SEARS _|
                |_Priscilla SEARS _
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John SEARS (Capt)

Father: John SEARS
Mother: Elizabeth WATROUS

Family 1: Judith PECK
  1. Richard SEARS
  2. Jasper Peck SEARS
  3. Betsy SEARS 
                      _Richard SEARS _
 _John SEARS ________|
|                    |_Bashua HARLOW _
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|--John SEARS 
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|                     ________________
|_Elizabeth WATROUS _|
                     |________________
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Notes

!S.P. May p.182 Capt John Sears was received into the church in Lyme, Nov 1755, and widow Judith Sears, Jul 1771. He was a large land-owner, as appears by records of Old Lyme.

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John SEARS

Father: Joshua SEARS
Mother: Mary THACHER 

                 _Samuel SEARS _
 _Joshua SEARS _|
|               |_Mercy MAYO ___
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|--John SEARS 
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|_Mary THACHER _|
                |_______________
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!S.P. May p.75 Is mentioned in his father's will in 1754. Stephen Sayre, the American banker, and in 1774 sheriff of London (of the Southampton, L.I. family of Sayre - Thomas & Job Sayre of Lynn, MA and Southampton, L.I. were sons of Frances Sears of Leighton Buzzard, co Beds, Engd), writing to Isaac Sears, 17 Feb 1764, desires "to be remembered to bro John." A john Sears was married in Trinity Ch., NY, 24 Oct 1780, to Sarah Halstead, who may be this John, but was perhaps a son of Col Isaac Sears (no. 125), who had long been a member of that church. Some of the name settled in Virginia circa 1750.

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John SEARS

Father: Jonathan SEARS
Mother: Hannah BRIGGS 

                   _Josiah SEARS _
 _Jonathan SEARS _|
|                 |_Mercy HOWES __
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|--John SEARS 
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|                  _______________
|_Hannah BRIGGS __|
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Notes

!S.P. May p.109 John was in Capt John Bradford's Co., Col Theoph Cotton's Regt.

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John SEARS

Father: Isaac SEARS
Mother: Sarah DRAKE

Family 1: Sarah HALSTEAD 
                _Joshua SEARS _
 _Isaac SEARS _|
|              |_Mary THACHER _
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|--John SEARS 
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|               _______________
|_Sarah DRAKE _|
               |_______________
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!MARRIAGE: NEW YORK MARRIAGES; 1666-1784; GPC, Inc, 1984; p 345; Brewster, NY Public Library; 1780. Oct. 21. Sears, John, and Sarah Halstead, Record M.B., Vol XXX, p 76. Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses were issued by the Secretary of the Province of NY previous to 1784, Weed, Parsons and Co, 1860, Albany; BNS News Service in CT State Library, p.44; 21 Oct 1780

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John SEARS

Father: Alden SEARS
Mother: Phebe WALKER

Family 1: Betsy LOW
  1. John Adams SEARS
  2. Rasselas L SEARS
  3. John SEARS
Family 2: Jane (Pendry) HANCOCK
  1. Edward H SEARS
  2. Ezekial J SEARS
  3. Dewitt Clinton SEARS
  4. Lizzie J SEARS
  5. Phebe SEARS
Family 3: Rhoda BLOUNT 

                 _Judah SEARS __
 _Alden SEARS __|
|               |_Mary PADDOCK _
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|--John SEARS 
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|                _______________
|_Phebe WALKER _|
                |_______________
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Notes

!S.P. May p.200 John Sears was a farmer, and lived on the old homestead in Bristol, Ontario co, NY

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John SEARS (Dr)

Father: Stephen SEARS
Mother: Sybil HUNT

Family 1: Almira GOULD
  1. Sybil B SEARS
  2. Mary SEARS
  3. Simeon B SEARS
  4. John SEARS
  5. Vincent SEARS
  6. Albert R SEARS
  7. Sarah A SEARS
  8. Frances SEARS 
                  _Benjamin SEARS __
 _Stephen SEARS _|
|                |_Abigail BURGESS _
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|--John SEARS 
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|                 __________________
|_Sybil HUNT ____|
                 |__________________
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Notes

!S.P. May Dr John Sears practiced in Sharon for 40 years, then removed to East Bloomfield, where he resided until his death.

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