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(III) Captain Samuel, eldest son of Cap- tain Paul and Deborah (Willard) Sears, was
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born in Yarmouth "the last of January," 1663- 64, and died in Harwich, Massachusetts, Jan- uary 8, 1741-42. He was one of the first set- tlers in Harwich, and was constable there in 1702, lieutenant in 1706, and in 1715, "Captain Sears granted liberty to build a pew in the meeting-house." He married Mercy Mayo, born 1664, died January 20, 1748-49, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Tamzin (Lumpkin) Mayo, and granddaughter of Rev. John Mayo. They had eleven children, all born in Harwich : I. Hannah, July 1, 1685, married John Vin- cent. 2. Samuel, September 15, 1687. 3. Nathaniel, September 23, 1689. 4. Tamsen, November 13. 1691, died July 17, 1761. 5. Jonathan, September 3, 1693. 6. Captain Joseph. July 15, 1695, died August 25, 1765. 7. Joshua, May 3, 1697. 8. Judah, October 29, 1699. 9. John, July 18, 1701. 10. Seth, May 27, 1703. II. Benjamin, June 16, 1706.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Captain Samuel and Mercy (Mayo) Sears, was born in Harwich, September 3, 1693, died September 3, 1738. He was a farmer and well-to-do man in every respect, leaving an estate which after his death inventoried at three hundred and seventy-four pounds in personal and five hundred and sev- enty-five pounds in real property. He married, in Yarmouth, June 29, 1721, Elizabeth Howes, born November 7, 1697, admitted to the church in Harwich in 1723, and died January 8, 1748- 49, daughter of Deacon Joseph Howes, of Harwich. They had nine children, all born in Harwich : I. David, September 22, 1722, died in infancy. 2. David, March 26, 1724, died in infancy. 3. Jonathan, September 29, 1725. 4. Joseph, May, 1728, died March 14, 1758. 5. Mary, baptized July 12, 1730, died young. 6. Sarah, born July 28, 1731, died December 16, 1749. 7. Prince, baptized July 30, 1732, died October 31, 1732. 8. Nathan, born September 25, 1733, died young. 9. Prince, baptized April 13, 1735.
(V) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1) and Elizabeth (Howes) Sears, was born in Harwich, September 29, 1725, died December 16, 1752. He was a mariner and made his will March 28, 1752, "being then very sick." The inventory of his estate was filed February 6, 1753, and amounted to one hundred and twenty-eight pounds, twelve shillings. He married, June 29, 1749, Priscilla Sears, born Harwich, December 31, 1730, died April 12, 1819, daughter of Seth and Priscilla (Ryder) Sears. She married (second) April 11, 1754, Deacon John Sears. Jonathan and Priscilla (Sears) Sears had two children, both born in
Harwich: I. Jonathan, May 7, 1750. 2. Eliz- abeth, January 4, 1752, married, 1773, Samuel Hall, born March 7, 1752.
(VI) Sergeant Jonathan (3), only son of Jonathan (2) and Priscilla (Sears) Sears, was born in Harwich, May 7, 1750, died in Ash- field, Massachusetts, February 18, 1808. Dur- ing the early part of his life he went on whal- ing voyages and incidents of his hair-breadth escapes are still narrated among his descend- ants. In 1785 he was wrecked off Harwich and barely escaped with his life. He removed to Ashfield about 1800, in which year he was dismissed from the church in Harwich to that in Ashfield. During the revolution he served in Captain Thomas Hamilton's company and was stationed in Barnstable county for six months from July 10, 1775; was sergeant in Captain Abijah Bangs' company of Colonel Dike's regiment for three months to December I, 1776; marched on the alarm of Falmouth one hundred and seventy-four miles; on the alarm of Falmouth and Bedford, in Captain Benjamin Berry's company, September 7, 1778, marching one hundred and twelve miles and doing seven days' duty. His widow drew a pension in 1840. He married, September 3, 1773, Abigail Hall, born November 2, 1754, died November 18, 1842, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Clarke) Hall. They had eight children, all born in Harwich: I. Barnabas Clark, August 3, 1774, died April 18, 1799. 2. Jonathan, March 19, 1777. 3. Freeman, No- vember 28, 1779. 4. Hepzibah Swan, Octo- ber 16, 1783, died February 13, 1814. 5. Azarelah, July 10, 1789. 6. Nabby, January I, 1793, died February 24, 1881 ; married Dr. Joseph Warren. 7. Clarinda, July 3, 1795, died May 3, 1824; married, November 24, 1814, Dr. Enos Smith. 8. Priscilla, May 16, 1798, died September 7, 1798.
(VII) Jonathan (4), son of Sergeant Jon- athan (3) and Abigail ( Hall) Sears, was born in Harwich, March 19, 1777, died in Ashfield, August 2, 1859. He went to Ashfield with his father's family and settled on Cape street, where he was a prosperous farmer and one of the leading men of the town. During the early years of his life he went with his brother Barnabas on fishing voyages to the banks of New foundland and the Magellan islands. Mr. Sears was a consistent member of the Prot- estant Episcopal church, a man of character and one who held the respect of all his fellow townsmen. He was selectman of Ashfield from 1820 to 1822, from 1824 to 1826 and from 1829 to 1831 ; representative to the gen-
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eral court in 1833 and again in 1836. He married, February 3, 1803, Hannah Foster, born Tisbury, Massachusetts, August 9, 1782, died Ashfield, July 30, 1855. They had nine children, all born in Ashfield: I. Clark, Janu- ary 31, 1804, died West Hawley, Massachu- setts, November 29, 1879; married, Novem- ber 27, 1828, Emeline Kelly, born January 10, 1809; had eight children. 2. Olive, May 27, 1806, married Heman Cargill. 3. William, March 28, 1808, died November 15, 1875; married Olive Eldridge and had three chil- dren. 4. Freeman, August 30, 1810, married (first) November 27, 1844, Eunice Parsons, born March 18, 1813, died August 15, 1850; married ( second) May 28, 1851, Mrs. Angeline Corey; lived in Goshen, Massachusetts, and had ten children. 5. Philena, September 3, 1812, died July 23, 1836 ; married Charles Car- gill. 6. Stillman, September 23, 1815. 7. Jon- athan, October 27, 1818, married ( first) March 20, 1845, Rhoda Parsons, died July 17, 1850; married (second ) May 28, 1851, Mary, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Rebecca (Eldridge) Sears; had four children. 8. Milton Foster, February 29, 1821, died 1853; married Mercy D. Williams, born November 28, 1824, daugh- ter of Apollas and Annis (Smith) Williams ; had two children. 9. Hannah, November 8, 1823, died 1856; married, February 10, 1846, Henry Eldridge.
(VIII) Stillman, son of Jonathan (4) and Hannah (Foster) Sears, was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, September 23, 1815, died at Shelburne, Massachusetts, October 10, 1854. He early learned the importance of self-reli- ance and when only a boy carned the means with which to secure his own education, work- ing out on a farm during the summer months and attending school during the winter terms. After leaving school he first took to farming, but as his inclinations lay in other channels he began contracting for excavation work in company with his brother-in-law, Henry Eld- ridge, at Shelburne Falls. Later on they were subcontractors on the excavation work of the famous Hoosic tunnel, near North Adams, Massachusetts, and while his business gave every promise of excellent success he was taken off in the prime of manhood, when thirty-nine years old. On September 27, 1842, Mr. Sears married Abigail Eldridge, who died November 20, 1854, having borne him two children, Isabella and Henry G. Sears. Isa- bella married Henri N. Woods and has four children.
(IX) Henry G., only son of Stillman and
Abigail (Eldridge) Sears, was born in Shel- burne Falls, Massachusetts, April 4, 1853, and was less than two years old when his father died and his mother died soon after. After their death the two children were taken to the home of her father, Eli Eldridge, where Henry G. spent his young life. At the age of twelve he was hired out for two years to a farmer in Conway, to work for his board, clothes, school- ing, and just a mere pittance of money ; and when his term was up he hired out to work for another farmer for seven months and to re- ceive for his service the sum of fourteen dollars per mouth and the privilege of attend- ing winter terms of school. He afterward devoted another year to work under a similar arrangement, but this time he received twenty dollars per month for his work. He prudently saved the greater part of his wages thus earned and used it in educating himself at the Powers Institute and the Northampton Academy, which proved as good an investment as he ever made, for it gave him a good education and in respect to intelligence it placed him on a footing equal to that of other boys of his age and time. After leaving school he went to Holyoke, Massachusetts, and for a few weeks was employed by Lemuel Sears, a mer- chant of that city, but at the end of that short period he went west, to Dwight, Illinois. This trip was made at the suggestion of his uncle, Henry Eldridge, who believed it would be best for the young man to start out in life for him- self, and that in Illinois he could "grow up with the country," but after a month the young man returned to Holyoke and was again taken into Mr. Sears' grocery store at a moderate salary and his board, and remained there until he was about twenty-three years old, when he acquired a partnership interest in the business. This was the actual beginning of his success- ful business career, and while the elder Sears had for years been proprietor of a moderately profitable retail establishment, the young part- ner took such an earnest and meaning interest in building up and increasing the trade of the store that in the course of time it became an extensive wholesale and jobbing house with a large retail branch, while he himself soon came to be recognized as one of the most cap- able and straightforward business men in the city ; and such is his standing today in the business life of Holyoke. And in addition to his immediate interests in the mercantile busi- ness Mr. Sears is in many other ways promi- nently identified with the best institutions of the city, a trustee and member of the invest-
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ment committee of the Mechanics' Savings Bank and treasurer of the Holyoke Ice Com- pany. He holds membership in the several subordinate Masonic bodies, the lodge, chapter and council, is a member of the Bay State, Holyoke, Mt. Tom Golf and Holyoke Canoe clubs, the Holyoke Young Men's Christian Association, the Congregational church, and in politics is a Republican. He married, June 18, 1884, Fannie E., daughter of Charles E. and Jane R. (Hemenway) Ford, of Minnea- polis, Minnesota, granddaughter of Alvah and Betsey ( Barnes) Ford, and great-granddaugh- ter of Phineas Hemenway, of Herkimer, New York, who ran away from his home when six- teen years old and entered the revolutionary service as a drummer boy. Mr. and Mrs. Sears have three children: Marion E., Mar- guerite, and Henry F., died in infancy.
(For earlier generations see Richard Sares.)
(III) Paul (2), second son of SEARS Captain Paul (I) and Deborah (Willard) Sears, was born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, June 15, 1669, died February 14, 1739-40. He lived on Quivet Neck and was prominent in the church of the east parish of Yarmouth, to which he was admitted member June 23, 1728; and his wife was admitted there August 6, 1727. In 1724 he was one of the committee appointed to inform Mr. Taylor of his call to the ministry there ; in 1725 was one of the committee to lay out the meeting-house floor for the pews; in 1726 was appointed to "receive Mr. Dennis' answer," and in March, 1727, was one of the committee on Mr. Dennis' ordination. He married, in Harwich, 1693, Mercy Freeman, born Harwich, October 30, 1674, died August 30, 1747, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Rebecca (Sparrow) Freeman, granddaughter of Major John and Mercy ( Prence) Freeman, and great-granddaughter of Edmund Freeman, "the proprietor." Her mother, Rebecca (Spar- row ) Freeman, was a daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca ( Bangs) Sparrow, and her great- grandmother, Mercy ( Prence) Freeman, was a daughter of Governor Thomas and Patience (Brewster) Prence, and great-granddaughter of Elder William Brewster. Paul and Mercy (Freeman) Sears had twelve children, all born in Yarmouth : I. Ebenezer, August 15, 1694. 2. Paul, December 21, 1695. 3. Elizabeth, Au- gust 27, 1697, died February 28, 1728-29. 4. Thomas, June 6, 1699. 5. Rebecca, April 2, 1701, died 1791. 6. Mercy, February 7, 1702- 03, married Joseph Blackmore. 7. Deborah,
March II, 1705-06, married Thomas Howes. 8. Ann, December 27, 1706, married Ebenezer Bangs. 9. Joshua, November 20, 1708. 10. Daniel, July 16, 1710. II. Edmund, August 6, 1712. 12. Hannah, March 6, 1714, married Thomas Howes.
(IV) Daniel, son of Paul (2) and Mercy (Freeman) Sears, was born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, July 16, 1710, died November 28, 1771. He lived in the east parish of Yar- mouth, now East Dennis, and appears to have been quite prominently identified with the his- tory of the town and church, having fulfilled several important offices. In 1742 he and his wife were admitted to membership in the church in East Dennis, and in 1749 he was selected as one of a committee "to keep the boys in order on the Sabbath day." In 1760 he was one of the committee to locate a school in the town, in 1762 was appointed "to procure wood for Mr. Dennis," and in 1765 was appointed "to see Mr. Dennis." He appears to have possessed considerable means for after his death his real estate was appraised at five hundred and seventy-eight pounds, and his per- sonal property at one hundred and seventy- nine pounds, thirteen shillings. He married, in Eastham, Massachusetts, January 13, 1736- 37, Mercy Snow, born September 16, 1713, died May 8, 1790, daughter of Micajah Snow, of Eastham. They had seven children, all born in Yarmouth: I. Micajah, April 25, 1738. 2. Jerusha, January 28, 1740, married Robert Homer. 3. Hannah, August 17, 1742. 4. Daniel, "June 17, 1744. 5. Phebe, March 31, 1747, married John Sears. 6. Paul, June 2, 1750. 7. Enos, June II, 1752.
(V) Enos, youngest son and child of Daniel and Mercy (Snow) Sears, was born in Yar- mouth, June II, 1752, died July II, 1822, hav- ing suffered with a mental derangement for many years previous to his death. He was a farmer and lived in Ashfield, Massachusetts, where part of his children were born. He married, in Yarmouth, February II, 1777, Re- becca, daughter of Sylvanus Kelly, and by her had six children: I. Daniel, born October 6, 1779. 2. William, about 1785. 3. Hannah, married Barnabas Eldridge. 4. Tamsen, mar- ried Joseph Hall. 5. Dinah, married Baldwin. 6. Mercy, died December 16, 1821.
(VI) William, son of Enos and Rebecca (Kelly) Sears, was born in Ashfield, Massa- chusetts, about 1785, and died there in August, 1829. He was a thrifty farmer and spent his whole life in the town. He married Tamsen Eldridge, born Ashfield, 1786, died 1880,
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daughter of Levi Eldridge, who was one of the most energetic men of Ashfield, could turn his hand to almost any kind of employment, and whatever he did was well done. William and Tamsen ( Eldridge) Sears had five chil- dren, all born in Ashfield: I. Lomina, about 1810, married, about 1830, Ephraim Williams, and lived in Ashfield. 2. Nathan, about 1813. 3. William, June 20, 1818, married in Albany, New York, October 16, 1845, Judith Adams and had three children ; he died May 15, 1903. 4. Samuel, July 28, 1820, married, in Winfield, New York, August 13, 1850, Amanda Dodge, and removed to Grand Rapids, Michigan ; he died June 26, 1908. 5. Stephen, September 17, 1822, married, November 14, 1850, Min- erva Lilley, and had two children; he died in 1903.
(VII) Nathan, son of William and Tamsen ( Eldridge) Sears, was born in Ashfield, Mass- achusetts, about 1813, died in Ashfield, to which town he removed about twenty years before his death. After the death of his father the hard work of the farm fell upon him, but he managed the old place to good advantage, keeping at times as many as four hundred and fifty sheep. He also dealt in wood and proved a capable and fairly successful business man. He was a member of the Congregational church and in political preference was an old line Whig. He married Abigail Bates, and by her had two children: 1. Lemuel, born February 17, 1835. 2. Eliza, March 2, 1839, married Duane Lilly ; she died March 23, 1901.
(VIII) Lemuel, only son of Nathan and Abigail (Batcs) Sears, was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, February 17, 1835, and for almost half a century has been engaged in mercantile pursuits in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He lived at home on the farm in Ashfield until he was about twenty years old, and while hc was brought up a farmer he appears to have been a natural mechanic, having inherited his grandfather's peculiar talent in that direction. Several years before he was of full age he rebuilt an old mill and built a new sugar house, laying out the frames and doing the work him- self ; and when the new mecting house in Ash- field was finished and there yet remained the horse sheds to be put up, he laid out the frames for men far older than himself, and much to the surprise of Captain Chapin who, observing the young man's work, exclaimed "Lemuel can do it as well as I." When he was twenty years old Mr. Sears began dealing in wool, buying and selling quite extensively, and travelling over all the surrounding country
in prosecuting his business. When he was thirty-one he went to Holyoke and bought a small grocery and provision store, and while he was without previous experience in that line of trade the venture proved a success from the beginning, and the large wholesale and retail establishment of which he is the head is the outgrowth of the start he made just at the close of the civil war. During the forty-three years of his residence in Holyoke Mr. Sears has been identified with the business life of the city in many ways, although he never sought political office, and frequently declined it. For more than twenty years he has been a member of the board of directors of the City Bank of Holyoke, for the last ten years president of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, and for twenty- five years a member of the city sinking fund commission. On November 27, 1860, Mr. Sears married Martha M., daughter of Dea- con Ephraim Ford, of Cummington, and by whom he had two children: I. Jennie E., mar- ried Franklin M. Street and have one daughter, Florence Street. born March 4, 1897. 2. Arthur L. died November 9, 1880.
SHUMWAY The Shumways are a French family and doubtless of the Protestant sect of Hugue- nots. Some writers have said that originally the name was Chamois or Charmois. In the ancient records of Essex county, Massachu- setts, the name is frequently found written Shamway. Dr. Baird is authority for the statement that a "Protestant family named Chamois is mentioned in a list of fugitives from the neighborhood of St. Maixent in the old province of Poitou, France, at the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes."
(I) Peter Shumway, the immigrant, was settled in Topsfield, Massachusetts, as early as the year 1660, and it is believed that he was in this country at least ten years previous to that time, or about the middle of the seven- teenth century. He was a soldier of King Philip's war and is said to have been present at the taking of the fort in the memorable swamp fight of December 19, 1675, in the country of the Narragansetts. On account of his services in that war his son afterward peti- tioned for a grant of land. Peter Shumway canie into this country at the same time that Peter Fancuil and other French Huguenots came, and he lived for a time at Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts, previous to his removal to Oxford, Massachusetts, where a few years afterward his son was a settler.
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The baptismal name of his wife was Frances, and by her he had three children: I. Peter, born at Topsfield (see post). 2. Dorcas, born Topsfield, October 16, 1683, married Valentine Butler. 3. Joseph, born Topsfield, October 13, I686.
(II) Peter (2), son of Peter (I) and Fran- ces Shumway, was born in Topsfield, June 6, 1678, settled in Oxford, not however with the original settlers and proprietors of that town, but on the land right of Joshua Chandler, which he bought January 13, 1713. His home lot in Oxford included that now or quite re- cently owned by Josiah Russell. His family has since been one of the best known and most highly respected in that region. He married (first) February II, 1701, Maria Smith, who died January 17, 1739. It is said that her father built the third house having a cellar in the city of Boston. Peter Shumway married (second) February 28, 1740, Mary Dana. He had nine children, all born of his first mar- riage: I. Oliver, Oxford, June 8, 1702. 2. Jeremiah, baptized at Topsfield, March 21, 1703. 3. David, baptized December 23, 1705 (see post ). 4. Mary, baptized Topsfield, May 9, 1708. 5. Samuel, born Oxford, March 6, III. 6. John, born Oxford, June 26, 1713. 7. Jacob, born Oxford, March 10, 1717. 8. Hepzibah, born April 1, 1720, married, No- vember 12, 1741, Obadiah Walker. 9. Amos, born January 31, 1722.
(III) David, son of Peter (2) and Maria (Smith) Shumway, was baptized in Topsfield, December 23, 1705, and lived for some time in Oxford, Massachusetts. In December, 1733, he bought one fiftieth part of the lands of Sturbridge and was one of the pioneers of that town as well as being one of the foremost men of that region. He married (first) Esther , and (second) Alice She died January 12, 1810, having survived her hus- band several years, he having died May 10, 1796. He had a large family of thirteen chil- dren, five by his first and eight by his second wife: I. Esther, born April 3, 1736. 2. Asa, October 16, 1739. 3. Mary, June 25, 1741. 4. David, May 12, 1743. 5. Solomon, April I, 1745 (see post). 6. Cyril, May 4, 1752. 7. Elijah, born July 24,, 1753. 8. Alice, Decem- ber 14, 1754. 9. Abigail, July 8, 1756. IO. Lavinia, August 26, 1759. II. Chloe, Novem- ber 4, 1761. 12. Jemima, August 9, 1763. 13. Danforth, July 18, 1768.
(IV) Solomon, son of David and Esther Shumway, was born April 1, 1745. He re- moved early to Belchertown, Massachusetts,
and was progenitor of the numerous family of his surname in that town and its vicinity. He had a son, grandson and great-grandson named Solomon, the latter of whom was a teacher at Belchertown in 1885 and who was father of Edgar L. Shumway, one of the faculty of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1892. The records furnish only a meagre account of Solomon Shumway and make no mention of the names of any other of his chil- dren than Solomon, although it is more than probable that he had others; and it may be assumed that among them there was a son Elihu.
(V) Elihu, presumably a son of Solomon Shumway, was for many years a resident of Belchertown and may have been born there. He married Charlotte Crittenden, and by her had seven children: I. Leonard C., born No- vember 21, 1815. 2. Samuel H., July 16, 1817. 3. Elizabeth R., October 23, 1821. 4. Lucretia, September 23, 1824. 5. Cynthia, April 9, 1827. 6. Willard, October 16, 1829. 7. Austin L., September 13, 1832 (see post).
(VI) Austin L., youngest son and child of Elihu and Charlotte (Crittenden) Shumway, was born in Belchertown, September 13, 1832, and while as a boy he was sent to the town school it became necessary that he start out early to make his own way in life. For several years he worked as clerk in a store in Enfield, Massachusetts, and after he had gained a fair understanding of business methods and accum- ulated sufficient money to make a safe start he opened a dry goods store in Holyoke, Mass- achusetts, and in the course of a few years became one of the leading merchants and busi- ness men of that city. He continued in active pursuits for full thirty-five years, and his career was one of most gratifying success from every point of view. He was a Templar Mason, a Republican in politics and a Congre- gationalist in religion. He died March 23, I90I. Mr. Shumway married, October 25, 1859, Louise F. Richards, born April 21, 1838, daughter of James and Priscilla C. (New- comb) Richards (see Richards). Mr. and Mrs. Shumway had nine children: I. Edward A., born July 22, 1861. 2. Arthur R., January 16, 1864, died 1872. 3. Mary L., August 28, 1865, married George S. Parsons; one daughter, Mary Louise, born July 25, 1900. 4. Char- lotte, March 24, 1867, died in 1868. 5. Sarah, January 15, 1869, married A. K. Sibley, of Warren, Massachusetts, and has one child, Priscilla, born December 13, 1905. 6. William R., April 20, 1873, married Mary Fraser. 7.
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Charles, July 26, 1875, died 1875. 8. Robert, August 16, 1876, married Adelina Ritter, and has two children, Helen E., born April II, 1903, and Frank Ritter, born March 27, 1906. 9. Priscilla, June 24, 1881, graduated from Mt. Holyoke College, class of 1905.
(The Richards Line).
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