Person:Joseph Sears (4)

Watchers
m. 1659
  1. Richard Sears
  2. Silas Sears1661 - 1732
  3. Hannah Sears1672 - Bef 1706
  4. Josiah Sears1675 - 1727
  5. Capt Joseph SearsAbt 1675 - 1750
  • HCapt Joseph SearsAbt 1675 - 1750
  • WHannah HallAbt 1680 - 1753
m. 19 Sep 1700
  1. Priscilla Sears1701 - 1760
  2. Hannah Sears1703 -
  3. Zachariah Sears1706 -
  4. Joseph Sears, Jr.1708 - 1779
  5. Stephen Sears1710 -
  6. Roland Sears1711 -
  7. Barnabus Sears1714 -
  8. Peter Sears1718 -
  9. Bethiah Sears1718/19 - 1788
  10. Silas Sears1719/20 -
  11. Thankful Sears1723 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][3] Capt Joseph Sears
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 1675 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 19 Sep 1700 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesto Hannah Hall
Death[2][4] 7 May 1750 Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower: The First Five Generations. (Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 1990-2008)
    p. 101.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Find A Grave: Dennis Village Cemetery, Dennis, MA, in Find A Grave
    Capt Joseph Sears.

    Here lyes Buried
    the Body of Capt
    JOSEPH SEARS
    Who Departed this Life
    May 7th [obscured by lichen: "Anno Dom"?] 1750 In
    ye 75th [obscured by lichen: "year of his Age"?]

  3. May, Samuel Pearce. The descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888: with an appendix containing some notices of other families by the name of Sears. (Albany: J. Munsell, 1890)
    p. 49, 67.

    Capt. Joseph Sears [#18], s/o Lieut. Silas Sears [#3] and Anna --- "perhaps Bursell", b. Yarmouth about 1675, d. 7 May 1750 per gravestone in North Dennis, m. Yarmouth 19 Sep 1700

  4. Massachusetts. Probate Court (Barnstable County). Probate records, 1686-1894. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002)
    Vol. 8, p. 368.

    Will of "Joseph Sears of Yarmouth ... Yeoman" dated 9 Dec 1746, proved 5 Jun 1750, names son Zachariah Sears; wife Hannah; son Joseph Sears; "unto Several of My Children and Grandchildren ... what they have already had"; daughter of my son Stephen Sears Decs'd; son Rowland Sears; children of my son Barnabas Sears Deceased viz't Stephen ... Hannah ... Mary; son Silas Sears; son Peter Sears; daughter Priscilla Gorham; daughter Hannah Blackmore; daughter Bethiah House; daughter Thankfull Taylor. Wife Hannah and son Zachariah to be executors.
    7 Sep 1750: Inventory of Joseph Sears Gent deceased: £320-18-8, by Tho's Winslow, John Sears, Phillip Howes.