Person:Mary Sears (11)

Name	Mary Sears
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	24 Oct 1672	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Bef 1696	to John Knowles, Jr
Death^[2]	7 Nov 1745	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Sherman, Robert M. (Robert Moody), and Ruth Wilder Sherman. Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975)
1.

(worn)ary Seares born the 24th of October 1672.
↑ 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)
43.

Children of Capt Paul Sears and Deborah Willard: 6) Mary or Margery, b. 24 Oct 1672. "Thought to have been Mary, wife of Col. John Knowles of Eastham, who d. 1745, ae. 77 (if my copy of the epitaph on her gravestone be correct,) but the age does not agree with that of her birth as recorded."
[Note: MD, p. 8:3, "Gravestone Records in the Ancient Cemetery at Eastham, Mass." has: Knowles, Mary, wife of Col. John, died 7 November, 1645, in her 73d year. If this is correct, the age does agree with the recorded birth. The Sears Genealogy was published about 30 years before that issue of Mayflower Descendant.]