Ebenezer Sears (1694 - 1748)

Born 15 Aug 1694 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Howes) Sears — married 26 May 1720 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 1748 at about age 53 in East Hampton, Middlesex, Connecticut

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Biography

Mayflower Line- Thomas Sears- Marcy Freeman-Thomas Freeman-Mercy Prence-Patience Brewster

Ebenezer Sears^[1] was born on 15 Aug 1694 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Barnstable County, Cape Cod as the first child of Paul Sears and Mercy Freeman). He had eleven siblings, namely: Paul, Elizabeth, Thomas, Rebecca, Mercy, Deborah, Ann, Joshua, Daniel, Edmund, and Hannah. He died in 1748 in East Hampton, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA^[2]. When he was 25, he married Sarah Gorham Howes,daughter of Ebenezer Howes and Sarah Gorham, on 26 May 1720 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.

Ebenezer Sears and Sarah Gorham Howes had the following children:

1. Sarah Sears was born on 10 Mar 1720/21 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died after 16 May 1804. She married James Higgins on 06 Oct 1742 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
2. Desire Sears was born on 23 Apr 1722 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died between 06 Jul 1722–1723 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
3. Ebenezer Sears Jr. was born on 13 Jun 1723 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died on 29 Dec 1814 in Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Cooke on 25 Jan 1753 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. Desire Sears was born on 15 Aug 1725 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died on 19 Nov 1786 in Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. She married John Markham on 03 Nov 1748.
5. Hezekiah Sears was born in May 1727 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died in Dec 1727.
6. Hezekiah Sears was born on 30 Dec 1728 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died after 1780 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut. He married Deborah Spencer on 25 Dec 1755 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. Thomas Sears was born on 22 Sep 1731 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died in 1801.
8. Betsey Sears was born on 27 Aug 1733 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died on 13 Jun 1828 in Middlesex, Connecticut. She married William Norcott IV on 05 Oct 1753 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. Dinah Sears was born on 01 Dec 1735 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died in 1805. She married Moses Kellog on 03 Sep 1755.
10. Mercy Sears was born on 11 Feb 1737/38 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died on 09 Nov 1780 in East Hampton, Middlesex, Connecticut. She married Thomas Shepard on 10 Jan 1760 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
11. Hannah Sears was born on 23 Nov 1739 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died on 26 Apr 1742 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
12. Ann Sears was born on 05 Feb 1741 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died on 18 Apr 1741 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
13. Sears was born on Mar 1742/43 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died in Apr 1743.
14. Paul Sears was born on 29 Nov 1744 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 30 Jan 1810 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine. He married Mercy Stevens on 27 Jan 1778 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine.

Sources

1. ↑ Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
2. ↑ Date: 1748 Place: East Hampton, Middlesex, Connecticut Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line].Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #50677557 This memorial has no burial information

• AmericanAncestors.org New England Historic & Genealogical Society

Database "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850"

Birth Location: Yarmouth

Volume: Yarmouth Volume 1 Page: 18

"Ebenezer Seers the son of said Paull and Mercey Seers was born upon the 15th day of August 1694"

• May, Samuel. The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888Page 80, No 34 Ebenezer Sears removed with his family to Middletown, CT, where, in 1748, he made a purchase of land on the east side of the Connecticut river, in that part afterward set off as Chatham. Ebnr Howes of Yarmouth, in his will dated Dec 3, 1760, mentions his daughter, Sarah Sears. Joseph Gorham's will 27 Jul 1723 and widow Sarah Gorham will 1 May 1728 mention gr.-dau. Sarah.

• Mayflower Index: No. 29,928 Ebenezer; spouse Sarah Howes; mother MD

• History of Middlesex co, Town of Chatham THE CHRISTIAN ADVENTS: The Christian Advents have held occasional services in Sears' Hall, in East Hampton, for the past four or five years.

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