Hezekiah Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Dec 1728 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: in (Connecticut)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Sears (1694-Cir 1748)
Mother: Sarah Howes (1699-1762)
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Deborah Spencer b: 9 Apr 1736 in Middletown, Connecticut
Married: 25 Dec 1755 in Middletown
Children, in Middletown
Annis Sears b: 3 Jun 1758
Tamsen Sears b: 1763
Tamsen Sears b: 1765
Lucy Sears b: 14 Mar 1768
Deborah Sears b: 31 Aug 1772
Lucy Sears b: 1775
Sarah Sears b: 19 Sep 1777
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Hezekiah Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: May 1727 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Bef Dec 1728 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Sears (1694-Cir 1748)
Mother: Sarah Howes (1699-1762)
Hope Sears
Sex: F
AKA: Hope Howes Sears
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Feb 1731 - Chatham, Massachusetts 2
Baptism:
Death: 24 May 1816 - Harwich, Massachusetts 3
Burial: in North Harwich Cemetery
Cause of Death:
Events
• Double Date, 11 feb 1730-31, Chatham, Massachusetts in Chatham, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Paul Sears (Cir 1710-After 1780)
Mother: Anne Atkins (1713-1783)
Spouses and Children
1. *Nehemiah Doane (15 Feb 1730 - 17 Jan 1766)
Marriage: 16 Jan 1749 - Chatham, Massachusetts 4
Status:
Children:
1. Samuel Doane (1751- )
2. Reuben Doane (1752- )
3. Paul Doane (1754- )
4. Hope Doane (1764-1834)
5. Sarah Doane (Est 1755-1821)
2. Captain Job Chase (1736 - 19 Jul 1833)
Marriage: 17 Feb 1774
Status:
Children:
1. Captain Job Chase (1776-1866)
3. Thomas Howes (1712 - 21 Dec 1768)
Marriage: 22 Aug 1767 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
General:
Howes as a married name?
Howes Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Oct 1795
Baptism:
Death: 14 Sep 1831 - Nantucket Harbor
Burial:
Cause of Death: drowned
Spouses and Children
1. *Avis Coffin (Est 1798 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 35-11 5
Huldah Sears
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Oct 1773 - Sandisfield, Massachusetts 6
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Paul Sears (1740-1832)
Mother: Elizabeth (Est 1742-1800)
Captain Isaac Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 12 Jul 1730 - Harwich First Congregational
Death: 28 Oct 1786 - Canton, China
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Sears (1697-1754)
Mother: Mary Thatcher (Cir 1698-Cir 1761)
Notes
General:
He is known as the "Liberty Boy" of the Revolutionary period. He is also referred to as "King Sears", and his daughters are described as "beautiful and accomplished, dispensing the hospitalities of their father's house like princesses". One of the daughters is referred to in a 1785 letter from John Quincy Adams to his sister Mrs. William S. Smith, describing a dinner with General Knox, Secretary of War. The Sears family was also on the guet list of Mrs. John Jay. Isaac was a peaceful trader until the French war, when he entered into privateering. In 1756 he took out the dogger DECOY (6 guns), and later the sloop of war (CATHERINE), but was most daring commanding the sloop BELLE ISLE (14 guns). It was owned by John Schermerhorn & Co, NY merchants, and put to sea in 1759. In Sep 1759 he attacked a large French sloop of 24 guns and 80 men. He was twice disabled and forced to withdraw and refit, but the third time he grappled, and after a long tme the grapplings gave way, and the French ship sheered off with 9 killed and 20 wounded. A gale sprang up and separated them. In 1761 he was wrecked on Sable Island, but managed to save himself and his crew. He was in the forefront of opposition to the Stamp Act. He was one of the Committee of Correspondence of 51 in 1774, one of the Committe of 100 chosen by citizens in 1775, and with four others, was appointed to superintend fortification of West Point. He was a member of the NY Provincial Congress, and of the Assembly of 1783, and in 1776 was appointed by General Charles Lee, Deputy Adjutant General, as Lieutenant Colonel. He was known as a daring "Son of Liberty", and when John Hancock passed through New York in May 1775 he lodged with Isaac at his residence (No. 1 Broadway, later Sir Henry Clinton's Headquarters). In the autumn of 1775 he entered NY at noon with a company of CT Light Horse, and destroyed the Tory press of Rivington. Before the war he had a small European and West India importing business, and was Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes till1772. At that time he was removed on a false charge of neglecting duty, punished for his prominence in the public censure of the Assembly. Nevertheless, he was fully supported by George Clinton, Philip Schuyler, and Nathaniel Woodhull. During the war he conducted some business in Boston MA, and partnered with his son-in-law Paschal N. Smith (formerly a Captain of an eastern trader). They were known as Sears & Smith, Merchants, 62 Water Street, but they were not successful, and failed in 1784-5. He resumed sailing, and 4 Feb 1786 departed with one of his sons for Batavia and Canton in HOPE, under Captain James Magee. Captain Magee had commanded the privateer GEN ARNOLD which belonged to Isaac and others, and which was wrecked in Plymouth bay Christmas 1778 (most of the crew froze to death). With him on board were Mr Samuel Shaw, First American Consul at Canton, and Captain Thomas Randall, Vice-Consul, Canton. He developed a fever at Batavia, but when he was recovering, a "flux" set in which killed him.
He wa a member of the Corporation of Trinity Church NY, and was vestryman 17 Apr 1784 to 6 Apr 1786, when he resigned and sailed for China. He was at Cambridge with Washington, and at the evacuation of Boston took up residence on Tremont Street opposite the north end of the chapel burying ground, in the mansion of Gov Phillips. After its confiscation by the state, he bought the Com. Loring house now known as the "Greenough Place" at Jamaica Plain near Boston. When residing in Boston he fitted out privateers, and was on many committees from 1777 to 1782. He was "a thorn in the flesh" of NY Tories and their sympathizers, and no man of the period was more vilified. Quoted as saying, "Hurrah! my boys, we will have the stamps!", he ensured they were seized and burned, and as a result the people placed him at the head of the committee for general safety. He was rough and uncultured, but of sterling character and honesty. In 1768 he with three others offered on behalf of the estate of John Schermerhorne, a reward for Noke, a runaway Negro slave aged about 16.
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Marriage 1 Sarah DRAKE
Married: 22 JAN 1752 in Trinity Church, NY, NY 7
Isaac Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 5 Oct 1723 - Harwich, Massachusetts 8
Baptism:
Death: 13 Jan 1724 - Harwich, Massachusetts 1
Burial: in Sears cemetery, Brewster
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Samuel Sears (1687-1726)
Mother: Ruth Merrick (1684-1766) 9
Isaac Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Oct 1734 - Harwich, Massachusetts 10
Baptism:
Death: 24 Mar 1759 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial: in Sears cemetery, Brewster
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Sears (1708-1779)
Mother: Ruth Sears (1715-1761)
Notes
General:
stone:
Here lies ye Body of
Mr ISAAC SEARS
son to Mr JOSEPH
& Mrs RUTH SEARS
who departed this
Life March ye 24th
1759 in the 25th Year
of his Age 1
Isaiah C Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1853 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Barnabas Sears (1818-Cir 1894)
Mother: Deborah Manter Clark (1832-1885)
Jacob Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 9 Oct 1771 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 27 Dec 1846 - Dennis, Massachusetts
Burial: in Quivet cemetery, East Dennis
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Edmund Sears (1744-1832) 11
Mother: Hannah Taylor (1755-1828)
James Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Mar 1704 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts 12
Baptism:
Death: 17 Mar 1791 - Ridgefield, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Silas Sears (1661-Abt 1732)
Mother: Sarah Crosby (1668-1705)
Spouses and Children
1. *Desire Tobey (Cir 1707 - 28 Jul 1781)
Marriage: 28 May 1730 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. David Sears (1731- )
2. Sarah Sears (1732-1810)
3. Thankful Sears (1734- )
4. Seth Sears (1736- )
5. Knowles Sears (Cir 1738- )
6. Thomas Sears (1745- )
7. Desire Sears (Cir 1747- )
8. James Sears (Cir 1747- )
9. Rebecca Sears (Cir 1750- )
10. Comfort Sears (1751-1827)
Notes
General:
Oscar Weed (Mill Plains CT) has a 10 Jul 1739 deed from Robert Hebard, Jr. and Ruth, his wife, of Windham CT, to James Sears, late of Yarmouth, county Barnstable, Province of Mass. bay, of a tract of land in Windham, near the Shautucket River, containing 52 acres. It is unknown how long James lived in Windham (if at all), but he is supposed to have moved to Mill Plains, then part of Ridgefield, about 1740-45 (although his name is not on "listable estates" of Ridgefield for 1746). He was chosen pathmaster, Kent CT (near Ridgefield) 7 Apr 1747, and in 1756, of the Old Gilead Church in Carmel. He was one of the organizers of the Congregational Church in Ridgebury (northern Ridgefield) in 1769. After his wife died, he lived with his son Comfort, and was a very orderly man with rigid religious observances. It is said that one Sabbath a flock of wild turkeys landed in his cornfield. He was going to shoot them, but remembered it was the Lord's Day, and remarked, "You did not get to me that time, Mr. Devil".
Note: Pelletreau (p. 756) believes he moved to Putnam Co (then Dutchess Co NY) in 1743, living on a farm adjacent to Eleazar Hamblin in 1762, as show by a survey of Lot 6 in that year.
James Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Sep 1799 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 17 Aug 1865 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts 13
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Phebe Lewis (11 Dec 1803 - 25 Sep 1889)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Captain James F Sears (1834-After 1920)
James Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1747 - Ridgefield, Connecticut
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Sears (1704-1791)
Mother: Desire Tobey (Cir 1707-1781)
Captain James F Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Nov 1834 - Dennis, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: After 1920 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Sears (1799-1865)
Mother: Phebe Lewis (1803-1889)
Spouses and Children
1. *Sophia Small (1836 - )
Marriage: 25 Dec 1856 - Dennis, Massachusetts 14
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Sophia Small)
"James F. Sears, born in 1834, is the youngest and only surviving son of James, grandson of James, and great-grandson of James Sears. Mr. Sears' mother was Phebe Lewis, who died September 25, 1889, aged eighty-five years, nine months and fourteen days. Mr. Sears has been a master mariner since 1862. He was married in 18[5]6 to Sophia S., daughter of Francis and Rozetta Small."
1880, 1920 US census, Yarmouth 15
Jane Sears
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Oct 1792 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism: 24 Oct 1796
Death: 1 Sep 1849
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Willard Sears (1759-1852) 17
Mother: Hannah Sears (1766-1843) 7
Jerusha Sears
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Feb 1743 - Eastham, Massachusetts 18
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Josiah Sears (1708-1772) 19
Mother: Azubah Knowles (1714-1762) 19
Joanna Sears
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Oct 1799 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 16 Nov 1800 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Reuben Sears (1753-1844)
Mother: Abigail Vincent (1760-1828)
John Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Jan 1741 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Bef Jul 1744 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Deacon John Sears (1713-1791)
Mother: Deborah Crowell (1719-1753) 21
John Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Jul 1744 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Deacon John Sears (1713-1791)
Mother: Deborah Crowell (1719-1753) 21
John Sears
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 9 Nov 1779 - Sandisfield, Massachusetts 6
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Paul Sears (1740-1832)
Mother: Elizabeth (Est 1742-1800)
Sources
1. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
2. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:31.
3. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 434. Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no 'Harwick.'
4. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:12.
5. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), Nantucket Supplementary Records. 100:280.
6. Capt. Elizur Yale Smith, editor, Vital Records of Sandisfield, Massachuestts to the year 1850 (1936. Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Publishing Co.), 62.
7. L. R. Sears, "Sears Genealogy" (lrsears.com).
8. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 10.
9. Lila Nickerson, My Bunch (Rootsweb file irish, with Nickerson Family records).
10. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 63.
11. Helen Swift, My Father and My Mother (1937. Chicago: privately printed).
12. George Ernest Bowman, transcriber, "Yarmouth, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant, in several parts), 10:245.
13. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Yarmouth.
14. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Dennis.
15. Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 17. Yarmouth (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 503.
16. L. R. Sears, "Sears Genealogy" (lrsears.com), 160.
17. L. R. Sears, "Sears Genealogy" (lrsears.com), 159.
18. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass. 79:381-2 (1925). .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 98 (MD17:145). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.
19. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass. 79:381-2 (1925).
20. George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 63.
21. George Ernest Bowman, transcriber, "Yarmouth, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant, in several parts), 23:108.