Jemima Root, daughter of Solomon Root and Jemima Stiles; born 17 October 1787, Connecticut [recorded in Strafford Township, Orange County, Vermont];[1] died 30 August 1876 in Oregon, where she had settled as a member of her son Arthur Elliott’s family.[2] She married (1) 19 March 1806, Connecticut, Edward Sears;[3] mother of Hiram, Philo, Ira, Asahel Parker, Julia Ann, Arthur Elliott, and Anson Sears. She was married (2) 29 May 1833, Clermont County, Ohio, by J.W. Robinson, J.P., to Rev. Matthias Potter,[4] born 1777/8, New Jersey, died before 1860. Jemima was living in her son Rev. Arthur E. Sears’s household in Milan, Missouri, in 1860.
On 4 March 1807 Edward Sears of Bristol, County of Ontario, yeoman, sold land situated in Pittstown, New York, part of lot no. 2, 81 acres, to Ebenezer of the same place for $600. Edward and his wife Jemima both signed the deed, which was sealed and delivered in the presence of Nathaniel Fisher, Jr., and Jemima Sears. The transaction was not completed in 1807, however: “State of New York—on the ninth day of June 1810 before me came Jemima Sears who acknowledged that she executed this Indenture freely & without any fear or compulsion of her husband on being examined by me separately and apart from her husband also came Nancy Lyon to me known on oath before me made identified the said Jemima. I therefore allow the same to be recorded, Ebenr F. Norton Master in Chancery.” Myron Holley, Clerk, reported that he had recorded “a true copy of the original 9th June 1810 at 5 oclock P.M.”[5]
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