| Dorothy (Jones) Sears migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
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]
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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).
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.
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.
"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.
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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:
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