Richard SEARS

Father: Paul SEARS
Mother: Deborah WILLARD

Family 1: Hope HOWES
  1. Thankful SEARS
  2. Paul SEARS
  3. Samuel SEARS
  4. Hannah SEARS 
                    _Richard SEARS _
 _Paul SEARS ______|
|                  |_Dorothy _______
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|--Richard SEARS 
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|                   ________________
|_Deborah WILLARD _|
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Richard Sears purchased land in Monomoy, now Chatham, in 1707. (By deed dated 3 mar 1707/8, he bought of Samuel Sprague of Marshfield all the lands and rights of the latter at Monomoit. This included the farm, formerly of Joseph Quason, Indian, extending from the head of the Oyster pond east to the bay or salt water, and from the Black pond south to the head of the Mill pond, also one-third interest in the undivided lands.

30 Mar 1708: "the inhabitants gave Richard Sears leave to fence across the highway in two places, said Sears to make and maintain convenient gates on the highways, for those who wish to pass," etc. He was on the grand jury, 1710; Town Treasurer, 1713; Constable, 1714-15; Selectman, 1717. His estate was settled Sep. 19,1723, and Daniel Sears and Hope Sears, adms discharged. "Hope Rich, formerly widow of the deceased was allowed L 70 6 2, being her full part of the movable estate, and right of dower; "Thankful Sears, L 70 6 3; Hannah Sears the other third part of the personal estate; Paul, eldest son, two-thirds of the real estate, his guardian to pay Thankful, L 57 16 3, and to Hannah, L 19 5 5. Samuel, youngest son, one-third of real estate, his guardian to pay Hannah,L 38 10 0. Daniel Sears of Chatham was appd guardian of Samuel, ae.10; Thankful, ae.17, and Hannah, ae. __; and John Rich of Eastham, guardian to Paul, ae.13. The real estate was appraised at L 500, and the personal at L 280 18 11. In the "Sears Gen'y," by Rev. E.H. Sears, Richard Sears is made the junior by two years of his brother Daniel, and born 1684. On the contrary it appears by their gravestones in (West) Chatham old burying-ground, that Daniel was the younger; being born in 1682, and Richard in 1680. On a half sunken gravestone in a south-easterly direction from the Sears monument, may still be read the following inscription: "Here lyes ye Body of Richard Sears, who died May ye 24th 1718 in ye 38th year of his age." It is the oldest stone in the cemetery. Samuel Howes of Yarmouth, in his Will, June 8, 1722, gives to his " dau. Hope Sears, 40s in addition to what she has already had."

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Richard SEARS

Family 1: Dorothy
  1. Paul SEARS
  2. Deborah SEARS
  3. Silas SEARS 
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!The Ancestry of Thomas Brainerd by Dwight Brainerd Richard Sears born in England, about 1612; died at Yarmouth, MA, buried 26 Aug 1676; married Dorothy Jones. A strange pedigree, in part at least concoted by that able genealogist but (alas!) occasional fabricator of illustrious pedigrees, the late Horatio G Somerby, was given circulation in 1857 when Rev. E H Sears included it in all innocence in Pictures of the Olden Time. This pedigree was gently but effectively castigated by Samuel Pearce May in 1886 in an article, "Some Doubts concerning the Sears Pedigree" published in The new England Historical and Genealogical Register (Vol 40, pp.261-268) Four years later, Mr May brought out an authoritative genealogy of the Sears family. He was taxed at Plymouth, 25 Mar 1633, but seems to have moved soon to Marblehead, then part of Salem, MA, where his brother-in-law, Rev Anthony Thacher, settled in 1635. Early in 1639 he was among those who accompanied Thacher in the settlement of Yarmouth. Freeman, 1652; Constable, 1660; Deputy to the Plymouth General COurt, 1662. His will makes his "brother Thacher" a trustee of his estate, and Thacher's son John calls Richard Sears "uncle." These terms led formerly to an assumption that his wife Dorothy was a Thacher, but that has been disproved, and it is now accepted that she was a sister of Thacher's second wife, Elizabeth Jones. Their brother, Richard Jones of Dorchester, MA, died intestate, and his widow in the inventory referred to her brother Thatcher, and also made Anthony Thacher of Yarmouth a trustee of the estate. Samuel Jones, son of Richard, in his will in 1661, made bequests to his six cousins in Yarmouth. Thacher had three children by his second (Jones) wife, and Richard Sears had three children, and that accounts for the six. (Savage, Genealogical Dictionary (1862), Vol 4, p.46, was misled by the pedigree and "family tradition" to the extent of giving Richard a mythical son, Knyvett.) Also New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol 42, pp.77-79. !CHILDREN-DEATH-BIOGRAPHY: GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY of SOUTHERN NEW YORK and the HUDSON RIVER VALLEY, Vol II;1640-1913; Lewis Historical Publishing Co, 1913; pp 507-510; Brewster, NY Public Library; The several attempts of genealogists to trace the pre-American ancestry of the Sears immigrant have met with many discouraging obstacles and few satisfactory results; while it seems to be pretty well established that the family is one of great antiquity there has always existed a doubt regarding its origin, and there are those who are disposed to place it among the old Holland families and bring forth Dutch intermarriages in support of their reasoning. In these annals no attempt is made to investigate the subject of the origin of the family of the Sears immigrant, for it is not known when or where he was born, and nothing of his parentage, although there are various traditions and vague conclusions regarding his forbears. The family in America is fully strong enough in every material respect to stand forever without the warrant of distinguished pre-American lineage. But in regard to the apparent lack of earlier data the Sears family is only one in the long list of our best colonial families whose history back of the immigrant is unkown, and the absence of definite knowledge of his ancestors is not to be taken as evidence of doubtful or obscure origin, for the simple truth is that it has been found impossible to trace his lineage in the mother country. (I) Richard Sears appears in our New England colonial history with the mention of his name in the records of the Plymouth colony tax list in 1633, when he was one of fourty-four persons there assessed nine shillings in corn at six shillings per bushel. From Plymouth he soon crossed over to Marblehead, MA, and was taxed there, as shown by the Salem list, in 1637-38. He also had a grant of four acres of land "where he had formerly planted," from which it appears that he may have been in that plantation at some previous time. In 1639 he joined the colonists under Anthony Thacher and went to Cape Cod and founded the town of Yarmouth. His first house was built on Quivet Neck, and afterwards he built another house a short distance to the northwest of his first house there. In 1643 the name of Richard Sears appears in the list of inhabitants of Yarmouth "liable to bear arms." He was made freeman in 1652, grand juror in 1652, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1653, was constable in 1660, and representative to the court in Plymouth in 1662. In 1664 Richard Sears, husbandman, purchased for twenty pounds from Allis, widow of Governor William Bradford, a tract of land at Sesuit. He died in August, 1676, and was buried March 19, 1678-79; but it is not certain that she was his only wife, or the mother of all or even any of his children. Indeed, there is a presumption that he was previously married and that his children may have been born of his former wife.

There is a RIchard SEARS in the IGI AFN 4JDS-SW (1590-1676) with a daughter listed as Mary??? Contributed by Tom Greene, 4906 Apple Tree Dr, Alexandria, VA 22310

Is John Satre his father? RIN -72

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Richard SEARS

Father: George SEARS
Mother: Lucretia FRY 

                 _George SEARS _
 _George SEARS _|
|               |_Abigail HALL _
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|--Richard SEARS 
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|_Lucretia FRY _|
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Richard SEARS

Father: Jasper Peck SEARS
Mother: Martha PARSONS

Family 1: Sophia STONE
  1. Richard Stone SEARS
  2. Mary Louise SEARS
  3. Sophia Stone SEARS
  4. William Henry SEARS
  5. Mary Tudor SEARS 
                      _John SEARS __
 _Jasper Peck SEARS _|
|                    |_Judith PECK _
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|--Richard SEARS 
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|_Martha PARSONS ____|
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!S.P. May p.433 Richard Sears was born 24 Apr 1800;( or 29 May by another account.) When but a boy, he obtained a clerkship in a dry goods store; removed in 1818 to Sandusky, OH, and commenced business on his own account, dealing in furs and trading with the Indians. In 1826, hemoved to Buffalo, NY, and became interested in the forwarding business, owned two warehouses, and a number of steamers and sailing vessels plying on the lakes. He was a strong advocate of temperance, and worked for the cause; he was the first owner to prohibit both the use and carrying of liquirs on board of his boats. He was also largely interested in mining, and at the age of 34 had accumulated what was then considered a large fortune. He was one of the founders of St John's Episcopal Church, in Buffalo. In 1851, he retired from business, and removed to Brooklyn, NY, and thence, in 1857, to a farm near Paterson, NJ. In 1867, he removed to Montclair, NJ, where he died in 1870.

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Richard SEARS

Father: Richard SEARS
Mother: Mary ASH

Family 1: Almira HOWARD
  1. Cordelia M SEARS
  2. Mary Catharine "Kate" SEARS
  3. Lois Ann SEARS
  4. John M SEARS
  5. Darius Martin SEARS
  6. Henry Bela SEARS
  7. George Evernett SEARS
Family 2: Diamy "Amy" TUBBS 
                  _Richard SEARS _
 _Richard SEARS _|
|                |_Mary LEE ______
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|--Richard SEARS 
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|_Mary ASH ______|
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S.P. may p.457 After living for a time in Camden, NY, Mr Sears removed in fall of 1837 to Reading township, Hillsdale co., MI, and later to Kane co., IL, near Dundee, where his wife died in 1848. He then broke up housekeeping and went to Jefferson co., WI, leaving his children in IL provided with good homes in different families. He was married in 1852 to Mrs Amy Fuller, taken sick the same day, and died seven days after; was a farmer.

!BIRTH: Letter from Carol Aldrich, Tulsa, OK, to Ray Sears, Duncan, OK; 1675-1989; Letter dtd 18 May 1994; ; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK; Married Almyra Howard.

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Richard C SEARS

Father: Alfred Francis Jr SEARS
Mother: Ellen CARVER 

                            _Alfred Francis SEARS _
 _Alfred Francis Jr SEARS _|
|                          |_Augusta BASSETT ______
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|--Richard C SEARS 
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|                           _______________________
|_Ellen CARVER ____________|
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!Barbara Sears McRae Alfred changed date to Jun from April

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Richard Dudley SEARS

Father: Frederic Richard SEARS
Mother: Albertina Homer SHELTON

Family 1: Eleanor M COCHRANE
  1. Richard Dudley SEARS
  2. Miriam SEARS 
                            _David SEARS _________
 _Frederic Richard SEARS __|
|                          |_Miriam Clarke MASON _
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|--Richard Dudley SEARS 
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|                           ______________________
|_Albertina Homer SHELTON _|
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!Poss grad Harvard Univ [c1879-83 A.B.]1910 directory-232 Beacon St, Boston

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Richard Dudley SEARS

Father: Richard Dudley SEARS
Mother: Eleanor M COCHRANE 

                         _Frederic Richard SEARS __
 _Richard Dudley SEARS _|
|                       |_Albertina Homer SHELTON _
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|--Richard Dudley SEARS 
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|                        __________________________
|_Eleanor M COCHRANE ___|
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Richard Elliott SEARS

Father: Lewis Elkanah SEARS
Mother: Harriet Emily ELLIOTT 

                          _Elkanah Howes SEARS ____
 _Lewis Elkanah SEARS ___|
|                        |_Lelia Tabitha ELDREDGE _
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|--Richard Elliott SEARS 
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|                         _________________________
|_Harriet Emily ELLIOTT _|
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Richard Franklin SEARS

Father: Roland SEARS
Mother: Mehitable Sears BERRY

Family 1: Emma BORT 

                          _Joseph SEARS ___
 _Roland SEARS __________|
|                        |_Thankful CLARK _
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|--Richard Franklin SEARS 
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|_Mehitable Sears BERRY _|
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!S.P. May p/294 Is of firm of Sears & Co., lumber and rubber dealers, Para, Brazil. !DVR p.337

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