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Dorothy (Jones) Sears (1603 - 1678)

Dorothy Sears formerly Jones
Born in Dinder, Somerset, Englandmap
Wife of — married about 1635 in Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 75 in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colonymap
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Dorothy (Jones) Sears migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
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Biography

Dorothy Jones was born about 1603 in Dinder, Somerset, England, daughter of George Jones and Alice Unknown.[1]

According to this same source, she married Richard Sears. their children were Paul, Silas and Deborah.

She died 19 MAR 1678 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.[2]However, Barnstable county was not formed as a part of Plymouth Colony until June 2, 1685; so she died in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony.[3]

Sources

  1. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, "Richard Sears", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. III, Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society 1995
  2. Yarmouth VR: 125. Actually the date is for her burial.
  3. Wikipedia "Barnstable County, Massachusetts"link
  • Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Warning: this is a highly derivative source. Use with caution.




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Jan,

I've proposed a merge of this Dorothy into that of Dorothy Jones-615. An article published in the American Genealogist (58:244) confirmed that the Dorothy who died in 1678/9 in Yarmouth, widow of Richard Sears there, was herself a daughter of George Jones, and sister to Richard Jones and Elizabeth Jones (who m. Anthony Thacher).

posted on Thacher-304 (merged) by Jillaine Smith
Thacher-304 and Jones-615 appear to represent the same person because: The wife of Richard Sears was confirmed to be Dorothy JONES (not Thacher) in The American Genealogist 58:244
posted by Jillaine Smith
disconnected alleged dtr Sears-1711. Please provide adequate sourcing and discuss with the project before adding parents to Mary
posted on Thacher-304 (merged) by Anne B
The DOB estimate for both Dorothy (1603) and her husband, Richard Sears (1595) do not appear to match the estimated Married date (1610). Using these dates, Dorothy would have about 7, and Richard about 15.
posted by Peter Geary
Jones-74512 and Jones-615 appear to represent the same person because: Please agree to merge these duplicate profiles. Thanks!
posted by Kay (Johnson) Wilson
Dorothy-86 and Jones-615 appear to represent the same person because: This entry was created as a placeholder for the spouse of Richard Sears
posted by Rob Stafford Jr
Jones-30158 and Jones-615 appear to represent the same person because: near match in death date and location, matching spouses
posted by Rob Stafford Jr
After reading the previous three comments, if anyone has better evidence that Dorothy, wife of Richard Sears, was a Jones, I would really appreciate seeing that evidence.

If it appears that she is a Thacher, the Trotten work in volumes 41 & 42 of "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record", gives a fair overview of the early Thacher-Thatcher family in America and their English Roots.

posted by Gilbert Nelson
Given the entry in "Marriage Records Before 1699" giving a marriage year and place and indicating that Dorothy's maiden name was Thacher, I take issue with Mr. Trotten.

I think the most logical connection is that Dorothy was a sister to Antony/Anthony Thacher. In that case, Richard would certainly call Anthony (Dorothy's brother) "Brother", and Anthony's son John would call Richard "Uncle".

Three missing Jones cousins in Yarmouth is hardly compelling evidence to tie Richard's wife, Dorothy Sears into the Jones family by anything but Anthony's second marriage to Elizabeth Jones. That would only make her a sister-in-law to one of the Jones's, and not a Jones herself.

To me, it appears that the missing three Jones cousins are still missing, and that Dorothy is a Thacher, not a Jones.

posted by Gilbert Nelson
"That Richard Jones was a brother of Elizabeth Jones is proved by the will of his son Samuel Jones dated 28 May 1661 in which he makes bequests to his six cousins in Yarmouth. Either Antony Thacher in 1661 had six children [I only find three names] or else there are three cousins to be accounted for.

"Bearing in mind that Richard Sears in his will calls Antony Thacher 'Brother' and that Anthony Thacher's son John calls Richard Sears 'Uncle', it is borne upon me that Richard Sears had married a sister of Elizabeth Jones and of Richard Jones, and that Richard Sears' three children Paul, Silas, and Deborah were the other three cousins."

Mr. Trotten also says in the same issue that Antony Thacher's second wife, Elizabeth Jones was a sister to Richard Jones.

Continued in next comment.

posted by Gilbert Nelson
Something is obviously wrong here. Dorothy supposedly was born 1603, but married about 1610.

I am fairly certain that Richard Sears was married to Dorothy Thacher, not Dorothy Jones. In the book "Marriage Records before 1699", it states that Richard Sears married Dorothy Thacher in 1632 at Plymouth, Mass.

Several years ago, I tracked down the origin of the idea that Richard married Dorothy Jones. It seems to come from a series of articles in the "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" called Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy" by John R. Trotten. In Volume 42 (1911), page 78 of that magazine, Mr. Trotten says:

continued in next comment:

posted by Gilbert Nelson

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