Paul Sears (1744 - 1810)

Born 29 Nov 1744 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

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Died 20 Jan 1810 at age 65 in Winthrop, Kennebec County, Maine, USA

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Biography

Paul Sears was born on 29 Nov 1744 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts as the fourteenth child of Ebenezer Sears and Sarah Gorham Howes. He had thirteen siblings, namely: Sarah, Desire, Ebenezer Jr., Desire, Hezekiah, Hezekiah, Thomas, Betsey, Dinah, Mercy, Hannah, Ann, and Sears. He died on 30 Jan 1810 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. When he was 33, he married Mercy Stevens,daughter of Joseph Stevens Jr and Elizabeth Sawtell, on 27 Jan 1778 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA.

Paul Sears and Mercy Stevens had the following children:

1. John Sears was born on 03 Sep 1778 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. He died on 04 Mar 1853 in Knox, Maine, USA. He married Achsah Whitcomb on 28 Apr 1805 (Thorndike, Or Knox, ME). He married Maria Millbry Stover in Jan 1830.
2. Moses Sears was born on 03 Dec 1779 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA.
3. Mercy Sears was born on 05 Jul 1781 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. She died in Freedom, Waldo, Maine, USA. She married John R White in 1831.
4. Paul Stickney Sears was born on 05 Jul 1781 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. He died on 22 Mar 1833 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. He married Susan E Billington in 1805 in Wayne or, Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine, USA.
5. Silas Sears was born on 17 Mar 1783 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. He died on 12 Oct 1869 in North Adams, Hillsdale, Michigan, USA. He married Abigail Burgess in 1809.
6. Alice Sears was born on 22 Oct 1785 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. She died on 12 Aug 1873 in Farmington, Franklin County, Maine, USA. She married Nathaniel Whittier on 06 Nov 1813 in Chesterville, Franklin, Maine, USA.
7. Thomas Sears was born on 15 Feb 1788 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. He died on 04 Oct 1790.
8. Charlotte Sears was born on 27 Nov 1791 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. She died on 13 Sep 1814.
9. Tryphena Sears was born on 21 Oct 1793 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. She died on 12 Apr 1864.

Paul Sears and Alice Nutters had the following children:

1. Sears.
2. Paul.

Burial Unknown

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #50676431

• May, Samuel. The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888Page 131 (Joel Munsell's Sons, 1890), No 181, Rev E H Sears says: "Paul Sears married a worthy lady of Marblehead, who died giving birth to twins, in the absence of her husband. On his return, finding his wife and babes all dead, he left the country broken-hearted, went to Nova Scotia, and was not heard of afterward." Paul Sears of Marblehead was granted 200 acres, Hallowell, 18 May 1774. In the history of Winthrop, he is called "a cooper from Cape Cod." The soldiers' monument there was placed over his grave, but his grave-stone if he had one, is missing.

• Mary B Sherwood research: Reportedly all children were born in Winthrop, ME. The French fairly well kept the English out of what is now Maine near Penobscot until 1750 and that part of the Mass Colony now known as Maine did not become a separate state until 1820. Paul made barrels and wagon wheels.

• Mayflower Index: No. 30,003 Paul; spouse Mercy Stevens; father Ebenezer

• NEHGS -The Massachusetts and Maine 1798 Direct Tax may be used as a companion to the 1800 U.S. Federal Census, and to track the movement of individuals between the 1790 and 1800 censuses

• General liſt of Lands, Lots, Buildings, and Wharves, owned, poſſeſſed, or occupied on the firſt day of October 1798, within the Aſſeſſment Diſtrict No. 7 in the first Diviſion, of the State of Maſſachuſetts, excepting only ſuch Dwelling Houſes, as, with the Out Houſes appurtenant thereto, and the Lots on which they are erected, not exceeding two acres in any cafe, are above the value of one hundred Dollars. Number of liſt-3 Names of occupants or poſſeſſors- Paul Sears Names of reputed owners - Sears Paul In what County, Township, Pariſh, Town or City in the Aſſeſſment Diſtrict ſituated-Winthrop Number of dwelling houses - 1 Value $40 Land, Lots &c. - 100 acres Value $730