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Richard Sears (c. 1590–1676)
Dorothy Jones
Richard died in 1676, age 86. [history]
Richard Sears arrived in Plymouth on 8 May 1630. [history] He had a grant of land at Salem in 1638. [history] He settled in what is now East Dennis in 1643. [history]
Richard was a constable in Yarmouth in 1660 and a deputy in 1662. He was on a 1670 list of freemen. [history]
Desire Sears was buried on 26 August [16]76 in Yarmouth. [VRMY]
[...]still Sears died on 1 February [16]83 in Yarmouth. [VRMY]
Children of Richard Sears and Dorothy Jones:
i. Paul Sears died on 20 February 1707/8. He married Deborah Willard.
ii. Lieutenant Silas Sears of Yarmouth died on 13 January 1697/8 in Yarmouth. [VRMY]
Silas was on May 1678 list of freemen in Yarmouth. He was a selectman and a deputy in 1685. He was on a committee to seat the meeting house in 1694. [history]
iii. Deborah Sears married Zachariah Paddock. [history] Zachariah, the son of Robert Paddock, died on 26 May 1726, age 91. [history]
References:
VRMY. Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, vol. 1 (Warwick: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island, 1975), 125 (deaths of "Desire" and [...]Still), 130 (death of Silas).
history. Charles F. Swift, History of Old Yarmouth (Yarmouth: the author, 1884), 59, 93, 108, 117, 139, 236–7.
Last revised: 16-Oct-2021