Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 29

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924

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9, 1682. 9. Ambrose, June 4, 1684, married Ruth Leach. 10. Lydia, September 13, 1685, married George Nourse. II. Robert, Novem- ber 3, 1687, married Elizabeth Putnam.

(XII) Benjamin, son of Joseph Hutchin- son, was baptized September 26, 1666, died intestate in 1733. While an infant he was adopted into the family of Deacon Nathaniel Ingersoll, whose only child had died, and brought up by him as a son. He lived with Mr. Ingersoll until he was twenty-one years of age, at which time his foster father con- veyed to him by deed of gift ten acres of upland and three of meadow. Deacon Ingersoll, in his will made in 1719, bequeathed to Benjamin Hutchinson "in consideration of the great help he had been while living with him, and after he had left," all the remaining part of his whole estate, real and personal, after making provision for the remainder of his family. He was a farmer, and lived on a part of the homestead which had been his father's. He gave away most of his property to members of his family before he died. He and his wife were witnesses in certain witch- craft cases in Salem. He married (first) Jane Phillips, who died 1711, daughter of Wal- ter and Margaret Phillips. He was received into the church May 7, 1699, and his wife the May following. He married (second), Jan- uary 26, 1714-15, Abigail Foster. Children of first wife: I. Son, died young. 2. Benjamin, born August 31, 1690, died September 18, 1690. 3. Hannah, May 7, 1692, married, March 6, 1717-18, William Henfield. 4. Ben- jamin, January 27, 1693-94. 5. Bethiah, Janu- ary 5, 1695-96. 6. Nathaniel, May 3, 1698, mentioned below. 7. Sarah, December 26, 1701, married, November 17, 1725, Cornelius Putnam. 8. Bartholomew, April 27, 1703. 9. Jane, August 1, 1705, married, September 8, 1726, Jonathan Buxton. 10. Israel, baptized October 5, 1708, died young. II. John, died before 1733. Child of second wife: 12. Jon- athan, born July 18, 1716.

(XIII) Nathaniel, son of Benjamin Hutch- inson, was born at Danvers, May 3, 1698, died at Sutton. His will was dated May 5, 1756, and proved October 24, 1757. In 1733 he removed to Sutton and settled on the Joseph Severy place in the northwestern part of the town. He served in the French and Indian war. He married (first) Mary -, and with her united with the church at Danvers, March 15, 1723-24. He married (second) Joanna Conant, daughter of Lot and Elizabeth Conant. She was baptized in the first church

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at Beverly, November 27, 1709, and died in 1802. Children of first wife: I. Mary, bap- tized March 15, 1723-24, married, November 27, 1745, Jonathan Fitts. 2. Susannah, bap- tized November 28, 1725, died January 12, 1797 : married, May 14, 1752, Daniel Day. 3. Bethia, baptized July 14, 1730, married Ebe- nezer Fitts. Children of second wife: 4.

Bartholomew, born June 28, 1734, mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth, born November 1, 1736, married, August 13, 1762, Israel Richardson. 6. Nathaniel, died 1755 in the French war. 7. Lot, born August 1, 1741, died March 24, 1818; settled at Braintree, Vermont ; married, September 25. 1764. Hannah Morse. 8. Ben- jamin, born January 30, 1744, died January 7, 1840; married, July 1I, 1825, Judith Lillie. 9. Jonathan, born September 2, 1746. died September 1, 1807 ; married Ruth Underwood. IO. Sarah, born August, 1752, died June 9, 1834; married, October 19, 1813, Ensign Samuel Rich.

(XIV) Lieutenant Bartholomew, son of Nathaniel Hutchinson, was born at Sutton, June 28, 1734, died there February 18, 1820. He inherited his father's estate at Sutton, and added to it by purchase, making it a two hun- dred acre farm. He sold it later to his son Simon, who in turn conveyed it to his son, Edwin H. Hutchinson, who owned it as late as 1878. Bartholomew Hutchinson was a lieutenant in the revolution in Captain Barthol- omew Woodbury's eighth company, fifth Wor- cester county regiment, in 1776; also in Cap- tain John Howard's company, Colonel Jona- than Holman's regiment, and marched from Worcester to reinforce the army of the north in the fall of 1777: also in the same company under Colonel Jacob Davis, in 1780, at the Rhode Island alarm. He was a member of the first church of Sutton. He married (first) August 4, 1763. Ruth Haven, born 1742, died September 3. 1796. daughter of Deacon John and Susannah Haven. He married ( second) (intentions dated January 26, 1799) Mrs. Phebe Stockwell. He married (third) (inten- tions dated July 14. 1799) Rebecca Munroe, who died September 26, 1826. Children, all by first wife : I. Nathaniel, born April 13, 1764, died August 3, 1794; married, 1786, Lucy Flint. 2. John, January 18, 1766, mar- ried, January 4, 1793, Lucy Kenney ; died May 29, 1845. 3. Asa, December 24, 1767, died June 6, 1771. 4. Bartholomew, January 7, 1770, married ( first ) 1791, Lydia King; (sec- ond ) January 23, 1797, Olive Kenney; died February 14, 1855. 5. Lois, January 18, 1772,

died August 7, 1799; married, May 15, 1798, Simon Holbrook. 6. Timothy Harden, July 31, 1774, mentioned below. 7. Ruth, June 7, 1776, married Lee. 8. Simon, April 26, 1779, died September II, 1865; married (first ) No- vember 28, 1806, Vandalinda Morse ; chlidren : i. Alaxa Ann, born September 7, 1807, mar- ried, November 1, 1830, Alanson A. Lumbard ; ii. Sylvander, born March 7, 1809, died June 15, 1838; iii. Dexter, born March 14, 18II, died July 24, 1813; iv. Lucy Morse, born Sep- tember 24, 1812 ; v. Charles Dexter ; vi. Horace ; vii. Hannah Gibbs, born July 23, 1818, died July 16, 1845 ; viii. Bartholomew H., born Sep- tember 3. 1820, died September, 1822; ix. Ed- win Haven, born August 22, 1821, married, December 12, 1844, Mary Ann F. Waters; x. Emeline Bemis, born July 23, 1823, married, August 30, 1853, Amos Brown; xi. Mary Lee, born September 23, 1828, died July 28, 1844; xii. Margaret, born October 12, 1830, died June 3, 1831. 9. Betsey, April 22, 1781, mar- ried, October 7, 1804. Jonas Cummings. 10. Lucy, April 24, 1784, married, November 28, 1808, Sylvester Morse.

(XV) Timothy Harden, son of Lieutenant Bartholomew Hutchinson, was born at Sutton, July 31, 1774, died at Albany, Maine, March 14, 1867. He received his education in the public schools, and for twenty years taught school a part of the year, farming the re- mainder of the year. He settled near the centre of the town of Sutton, in the South parish. Between 1808 and 1810 he removed to Sangerville, Oxford county, Maine, and about 1813 to Bucksfield, Maine, and in 1818 was a resident of Paris, Maine. He sold the property in Sutton which was inherited by his wife from her father, Ebenezer Rawson, and also land which he inherited from John Haven. He also sold his own property in Sutton to his brother Simon. In 1818 he removed to Albany, Maine, and bought a farm at Hunt's Corner, of two hundred acres. He became a pros- perous farmer and a leading citizen of the town, serving as justice of the peace and in other positions of trust and honor. He was a man of strict temperance principles, a leader in reform movements, and of earnest piety. He was a fervid supporter of the Methodist church. In politics he was a Whig. He served in the militia. He married, March 24, 1797, Nizaula Rawson, born April 18, 1777, died February 25. 1869, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah ( Chase ) Rawson, of Sutton. Children : I. Lewis, born at Sutton, October 3, 1797, mar- ried (first) Abigail Merrill; (second) Febru-

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ary 21. 1852, Caroline Packard; children: i. Almond, born June 10, 1820; ii. Angeline, born May 19, 1825; iii. Freeland, born August 14, 1831 ; iv. Arvilla, born November 24, 1833. 2. Galen, Sutton. January 8, 1799, married, June 10, 1821, Olive Flint ; children: i. Eliz- abeth, born December 31, 1822, died October 15, 1839 ; ii. Sullivan, born June 10, 1826, mar- ried, January 2, 1850, Elzina Eastman and had Aurin, born February 13, 1851, and Olive, born February 24, 1853; iii. Galen, born De- cember 31. 1829, died January 29, 1831 ; iv. Timothy W., born November 21, 1832, mar- ried, March 13, 1862, Anna L. Canby and had Bessie, born November 12, 1864, died Septem- ber 7, 1866, Richard C., born June 19, 1867, and Parke S., born October 10, 1869. 3.

Nizaula, Sutton, February 13, 1801, died Sep- tember 2, 1855; married, 1822, Herman Towne : children: i. Arabella, born December 7 1824; ii. Clarissa D., born July 26, 1830. 4. Marmaduke Rawson, Sutton, February 12, 1802, married, February 28, 1827, Sophia Cummings : children : i. Lyman, born January 4. 1828, married. May 6, 1855, Martha M. Stone and had Fred R., born November 27, 1863, died October 9, 1865; ii. Charles, born May 2, 1831 : iii. Daniel, born April 19, 1834, died 1870; iv. Miranda, born September 24, 1837, married P. F. Wardwell; v. Rowena, born September 9, 1845, married, November 28. 1869, Ellery Wheeler and had Lizzie Sophia Wheeler, born September 5, 1871. 5. James Sullivan, Sutton, November 22, 1804, died November 8, 1806. 6. Charlotte, Sutton, died young. 7. Liberty Haven, Sutton, No- vember 1, 1808, married, December 23, 1834, Laurinda Kimball; children: i. Horace, born July 22, 1837, married, December 3, 1863, Harriet Proctor and had Ervin, born Septem- ber 28, 1864, Laura, born May 4, 1867, died 1859, Arthur and Archie (twins), born 1869; ii. Frederick, born December 31, 1842; iii. Austin, born November 29, 1846, married, 1872, Lucy J. Carter. 8. Timothy Harden, March 5, 1810, married, December 22, 1856, Eliza A. Hazeltine ; resided at Gorham, Maine, and was an inventor of mill machinery. 9. Arvilla, 1812, married, January 29, 1837, Will- iam Evans ; children : i. Edwin F., born Janu- ary 29, 1838, married Cora Lumm and had Wayne and Sadie Evans; ii. Caroline, born August 17, 1839, died October 2, 1850; iii. Virgil, born October 28, 1841 ; iv. Rawson S., born August 2, 1845, married Nellie Seeley ; v. Sanford W., born June 27, 1847 ; vi. Osman C., born March 21, 1850; vii. Clara Emily,

born August 18, 1854. 10. Clarissa, January 8, 1813, married, June 20, 1833, William H. Pingree ; children : i. Edwin F., born July 14, 1834; ii. Harriet, born January 20, 1836; iii. Rosanna, born February 25, 1838, married, 1858, Charles E. Dunn; iv. Mary E., born April 2, 1840, married Thomas Smith; v. Rowena, born January 20, 1843; vi. Caroline, born May 4, 1852. II. Edwin Freeman, November 16, 1815, mentioned below. 12. Freeman. 13. Mary, February, 1817, died February, 1843; married, Septem- ber 5, 1839, Dustin P. Ordway and had Sum- ner P. Ordway, born March 31, 1842. 14. Diantha, October 12, 1819, died July 16, 1868; married, June 8, 1841, Prescott Lovering ; chil- dren: i. Mary Elizabeth, born May 6, 1842, died November 12, 1842 ; ii. Sibra Rawson, born February 8, 1845, married William Staples ; iii. Lewis H., born April 18, 1848; iv. Francis Hill, born January 17, 1850, married Abbie Bennett and had Chester B. and Stanley Lover- ing ; v. Dustin Ordway, born January 5, 1851, died 1853; vi. Alma Adelaide, born March 15, 1859, married Frank A. Oxnard. 15. Ebe- nezer Sumner, Albany, Maine, December I, 1822, married, June 15, 1845, Betsey F. Pin- gree ; children: i. Mary Ursula, born Sep- tember 30, 1846, married, November 29, 1866, John E. Saunders and had Mary Annette Saunders, born December 7, 1867 ; ii. Orinda D., born May 28, 1853; iii. Luella Angeline, born June 22, 1857; iv. Ambrose Burnside, born June 2, 1862.

(XVI) Edwin Freeman, son of Timothy Harden Hutchinson, was born at Albany, Maine, November 16, 1815, died 1884. He went to live with his sister when he was eight years old, helping on the farm in summer and attending the district school in winter. At the age of fourteen he returned home and learned the trade of shoemaker, and after the custom of the times followed his trade in winter and farmed in summer. When he came of age he engaged in the building and equipment of saw mills and grist mills, in partnership with his brother, Timothy Harden Hutchinson. They built mills at Dixfield, Buckfield and Peru, Maine, and at various places in New Hamp- shire, during the next six years. In 1840 he removed to Milan, New Hampshire, buying a farm of three hundred acres on Milan Hill, about a mile from Milan Corners. He became a prosperous farmer. In addition to farming he carried on extensive lumbering operations, cut- ting and sawing the timber from wood-lots that he bought in that section. He had one

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tract of seven hundred acres of timber land at Jericho, New Hampshire. He kept some thirty-five head of cattle and fifty sheep. In the last year of his life on the farm he raised eight hundred bushels of potatoes. He was a skillful mechanic with all kinds of tools. He built his own house from timber that he cut on his own land. About 1867 he removed to Auburn, Maine, selling his farm and property at Milan, buying a small place at Stevens Mills and engaged in the building business. After -. wards he lived for a time with his daughter at Auburn. In 1878, at the time of his second marriage, he removed to North Norway, Maine, and settled on a fifty acre farm that he owned, devoting himself to the culture of fruit and having one of the best apple orchards in that section. He was an active, energetic man, much respected in the community in which he lived. Early in life he became inter- ested in temperance reform and signed the total abstinence pledge, which he always kept. He was devoted to his family and much beloved by his children. He was brought up in the Methodist faith, but in later years became a Universalist. In politics he was a Republican, and was selectman of the town of Milan. He also held other positions of trust. He mar- ried (first ) July 23, 1843, Elizabeth Ann Flint, born at Norway, Maine, April 6, 1821, died April, 1873, daughter of Benjamin and Eliz- abeth ( Merrill) Flint. Her father was a farmer. He married (second) Mrs. Eliza Hutchins. Children: 1. Liberty Haven, born March 1, 1844, mentioned below. 2. Harlan, November 21, 1845, died August 15, 1863. 3. Freedom, August 6, 1847, mentioned below. 4. Luella, June 18, 1849, died December 10, 1854. 5. Melvin, August 27, 1851, mentioned below. 6. Arabella Libby, June 26, 1853, died July 20, 1863. 7. Etta, March 26, 1855, mar- ried, April 13, 1887, George Dexter Bearce, of Auburn, Maine, who died August 26, 1887 ; children : i. Winfield Dexter, born August 16, 1880, graduated from University of Maine in June, 1906, married, September 8, 1906, Mae Lora Cook, son, Winfield Hutchinson Bearce, born April 19, 1908; ii. Edwin Freeman, born February 2, 1882, graduated from University of Maine, June, 1905 ; iii. Clara Florence, born January 19, 1884, died December 6, 1890; iv. George Dunliam, born December 14, 1887, he is now student at University of Maine, class of 1911. 8. Lizzie Florence, June 20, 1859, married (first) Frank Tarr and (second) Millard F. Haskell, of Poland. Maine. 9. Ella May, April 9, 1864.

(XVII) Liberty Haven, son of Edwin Free- man Hutchinson, was born at Milan, March I, 1844, died at Lewiston, Maine, September 9, 1882. He attended the public schools of his native town, fitted for college in the academy at Lancaster, New Hampshire, and graduated from Bates College in the class of 1871 with the degree of A. B. He inherited strong intel- lectual powers and at a comparatively early age displayed those sterling characteristics that later won for him success and honor in his pro- fession. He began the study of law in 1871 in the office of M. T. Ludden and was admitted to the bar the following year. He began to practice in Lewiston and continued with con- stantly increasing success and distinction until his death. During his later years he was a law partner of Hon. Albert R. Savage, now justice of the Maine supreme court, and his esteem for his partner is shown by the fact that he named his eldest son for him. During his brief but brilliant career he had many important cases. He was especially gifted as a public speaker and effective in addressing juries. Of good judgment, great learning, keen intellect, upright in character and high in ideals he made this influence widely felt and attained a leading position in his profession and in public life. For a number of years he was a member of the Lewiston school board. He represented his district three terms in the state legislature and in 1881, his last year, was speaker of the house of representatives, elected, it should be said, by a unanimous vote. Just before his death he was prominently mentioned as Republican candidate for congress. He was a member of the Lodge of Free Masons of Lewiston. He was a member of the Uni- tarian church of Lewiston and for a time superintendent of its Sunday school. He en- joyed to the fullest extent the respect and esteem of his townsmen and the confidence of the whole state. He married, November 20, 1869. Mary Wyatt Emery, of West Newbury, Massachusetts, born April 7. 1850, daughter of Nehemiah Follansbee and Mary Ann ( Wyatt) Emery, of West Newbury. Children, born at Lewiston : 1. Annie Luella, August 12, 1870, married, June 29, 1892, William Henry Green, of Lynn, Massachusetts ; children : i. William Albert, born August 24, 1893; ii. Grace Kath- erine, born May 26, 1895; iii. Edwin Thomas, born December 3, 1903. 2. Albert Savage, October 27. 1871, mentioned below. 3. Edwin Liberty. November 1, 1872, married, Septem- ber, 1890. Mary Elizabethi Mower, of Lynn; child, Mary Eleanor, born July 21, 1900. 4.

Freedom Hutchinson

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Mary Elizabeth, November 16, 1874, died Jan- uary 17, 1899. 5. Grace Lyndon, April 19, 1879, died September 16, 1904.

(XVIII) Albert Savage, son of Liberty Haven Hutchinson, was born at Lewiston, October 27, 1871. He attended the public schools of his native city, and graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1893 and from Harvard Law School in the class of 1899. From 1893 to 1896 he taught school at Pough- keepsie, New York. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1899, and has practiced since then in Boston. He has an office in the Ames Building and resides in Newton Highlands, Newton, Massachusetts. He married, October I, 1904, Virginia Walker Mellen, of Newton Highlands, born at Worcester, Massachusetts, May 15, 1878, daughter of George Henry and Nora (Walker) Mellen. They have one child, Virginia Walker, born February 10, 1908.

(XVII) Freedom, son of Edwin Freeman Hutchinson, was born at Milan, New Hamp- shire, August 6, 1847. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Nichols Latin School of Lewiston, Maine, and entered Bates College in that city. He took high rank in scholarship and had the English oration at Commencement in the class of 1873. During the next two years he was principal of the Topsham high school, Topsham, Maine. He began to read law in the office of his brother's firm, Hutchinson & Savage, of Lewiston, and was admitted to the bar at Auburn, Maine, in April, 1876. He came at once to Boston where he was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county, May 9, 1876, and where he has since practiced his profession with uniform success. His business has been of a general civil char- acter with a considerable specialty in corpora- tion matters. He has had charge of the legal interests of the Swift Brothers of Chicago and Boston, now Swift and Company, meat packers, during the past twenty-five years. He has attended to the organizing and incorporation of the numerous meat-packing, slaughtering, rendering and transportation companies of this concern, as its attorney .. He has represented these clients also in court in many important cases in Massachusetts and other states. He has attained a distinguished rank as a lawyer and is reckoned among the leaders of the Boston bar. He resided in Boston from 1876 to the fall of 1892 when he removed to New- ton Highlands. He has lately removed from Lincoln street to a handsome residence that he built on Center street, Newton. In politics he is a Republican. He was a member of the

common council of Newton in 1895-96. He was made a Free Mason in Henry Price Lodge of Charlestown, and is now a member of Columbian Lodge of Boston. He belongs to many clubs and social organizations of Boston and Newton. Among them are the Middlesex Club, the Hunnewell Club of Newton; the Katahdin Club of Maine composed largely of Newton men ; the Civic Club of Newton; the Braeburn Country Club of West Newton and the Newton Golf Club. He is a member of the Unitarian church of Newton Center and for the past thirteen years has been chairman of the executive committee and ex-officio presi- dent of the society. He married, February 15, 1886, Abbie Laighton Butler, born May 9, 1865, daughter of Dr. David Presbury and Eleanor ( Bisbee) Butler. Her father was a prominent physician, a pioner in the develop- ment of systematic exercises for the health and development of the body. Children : I. Eleanor Butler, born October 31, 1887, student at Smith College. 2. Harlan Freedom, July 4, 1893, died June 24, 1894. 3. Sumner Free- dom, March 13, 1897.

(XVII) Melvin, son of Edwin Freeman Hutchinson, was born in Milan, New Hamp- shire, August 27, 1851. He attended the public schools of his native town and of Auburn, Maine, working on the farm during his boy- hood. He learned the carpenter's trade of his father and worked with his father until he was twenty years old, when he left home and during the next seven years worked in the shoe factory of Moses Crafts at Auburn. For three years he was employed in the same busi- ness in the factory of Miller & Randall, also of Auburn. He came to Lowell, Massachu- setts, in June, 1882, in the employ of a sewing machine dealer. After a short time he re- moved to Providence, Rhode Island, and was for seven years with the Davis Sewing Machine Company. Then he was with the Standard Sewing Machine Company at Bos- ton eight years and later with the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company. He was engaged in the sewing machine busi- ness in various positions and departments for a period of twenty years. In recent years he has been in charge of the eyelet department of the United Shoe Machinery Company of Beverly. He is the company's expert in machinery for eyeletting and has charge of the repairs and setting up of this kind of machinery in all parts of the country. His headquarters are at the Boston office, 205 Lin- coln street. In religion Mr. Hutchinson is a

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Universalist ; in politics an independent Re- publican. He was a delegate to the state con- vention of the Greenback party in Maine, when Governor Harris M. Plaisted was nominated. He is a member of Abouben Adhem Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Auburn, Maine, of Pejeb- scot Encampment and of Patriarch Militant. He married, June 5, 1890, Anna Lydia Raw- son, born at Oxford, Maine, November 15, 1856, daughter of Solon and Lydia Hackett (Downing) Rawson, of Oxford. Her father was a contracting painter and farmer ; also at one time a grocer. They have no children.

SEARS The several attempts of genealog- ists to trace the pre-American an- cestry of the Sears immigrant have met with many discouraging obstacles and few satisfactory results; and 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 where or when he was born, and noth- ing of his parentage, although there are vari- ous traditions and vague conclusions regard- ing his forebears. The family in America is full strong enough in every material respect to stand forever without the warrant of distin- guished 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 unknown, 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 Sares appears in our New Eng- land colonial history with the mention of his name in the records of the Plymouth colony tax list in 1633, when he was one of forty-four persons there assessed nine shillings in corn at six shillings per bushel. From Plymouth he soon crossed over to Marblehead, Massachu- setts, and was taxed there, as shown by the Salem lists, 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 after- ward built another house a short distance to the northwest of his first home there. In 1643 the name of Richard Seeres appears in the list of inhabitants of Yarmouth "liable to bear arms." He was made freeman in 1652, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1653, was constable in 1660, grand juror in 1652, and representative to the court in Plymouth in 1662. In 1664 Richard Sares, 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 on the 26th of that month .. His wife was Dorothy who 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. So far as known his chil- dren were as follows: 1. Paul, born 1637-38. 2. Silas, died Yarmouth, January 13, 1697-98. 3. Deborah, born Yarmouth, September, 1639. (II) Captain Paul Sears, son of Richard, the immigrant, is supposed to have been born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, sometime after February 20, 1637-38, and died at Yarmouth, February 20, 1707-08. He took the oath of fidelity in 1657, held a commission as captain of the militia, and made a claim for a horse lost in the war with the Narragansett Indians ; but there is no further record of his military services. He was one of the original pro- prietors of Harwich, Massachusetts, grand juror there in 1667, and appears to have been of considerable importance in the plantation. His estate was appraised at the value of four hundred and sixty-six pounds, hence he was well possessed in lands and goods. He mar- ried, at Yarmouth, in 1658, Deborah Willard, baptized Scituate, September 14, 1645, died Yarmouth, May 13, 1721, daughter of George Willard, of Scituate. They had ten children, all born in Yarmouth: I. Mercy, July 3, 1659. 2. Bethia, January 3, 1661, died 1724. 3. Samuel, January, 1663-64. 4. A daughter, October 24 1666. 5. Paul, June 15, 1669. 6. Mary, or Margery, October 24, 1672. 7. Ann, March 27, 1675, died November 14, 1745. 8. John, 1677-78, died April 9, 1738. 9. Richard, 1680-81, died May 24, 1718. 10. Daniel, 1682 -. 83, died August 10, 1756.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 29

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 924

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924