Born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Tobey
and Rebecca (Knowles) Tobey
Wife of
James Sears
— married
28 May 1730 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
David Sears, Sarah Sears, Thankful Sears, Seth Sears, Knowles Sears, Desire Sears, Thomas Sears, James Sears, Rebecca (Seers) Eastman, Comfort Sears and Rebecca (Sears) Crosby
Died
at about age 74
in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Apr 2012
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Contents |
Biography
Called "Desire, the Mother of Patriots" because she had five sons in the Revolution, Desire Tobey Sears was born in 1707 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. On May 28, 1730, she married James Sears, a substantial farmer. They had ten children and sixty grandchildren. She died at Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1781.[1]
Birth
- Birth:
- User ID: 9D7965D8-5CEF-46F8-8429-DDB4C6F8842C
- Record ID Number: MH:IF1445
- Date: 1704
- Place: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Death
- Death:
- User ID: A7C2F542-3B15-4B07-B2AB-64956E21EB42
- Record ID Number: MH:IF1553
- Date: 1781
- Place: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Record ID Number
- Record ID Number: MH:I678
User ID
- User ID: 9258FEE3-8E84-424F-B6DF-DE220ABACB37
UPD
- UPD 13 APR 2012 13:21:41 GMT-8
Sources
- WikiTree profile Tobey-91 created through the import of Westoversallover.GED on Apr 18, 2012 by Angela Westover. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Angela and others.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Jeff Rickerson for creating WikiTree profile Tobey-175 through the import of Jeff Rickerson family tree.ged on Oct 22, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jeff and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Desire by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Desire:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Desire by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Desire:
-
~1.56%
Craig Crosby
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member cwcrosby421
-
~1.56%
Mildred (Thomas) Rice :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A272296 [compare], Ancestry member juliagustafson9
-
~0.78%
Dan Benedict :
23andMe, GEDmatch NG1778592 [compare]
-
~0.78%
Beverly (Luce) Walker :
23andMe, GEDmatch M642090 [compare]
-
~0.78%
Daniel Cooley :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JT4120730 [compare], yourDNAportal DAN35e611c7, Ancestry member danbcooley
-
~0.78%
Victoria (Sears) Fraser :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member biddybump65
-
~0.78%
Suzanne (Auble) Reif :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A232754 [compare]
-
~0.78%
Jo Cooley :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Brett Milner :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Misty Sears :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Donavon Auble :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T950053 [compare]
-
~0.39%
Steve Benedict :
23andMe
-
~0.39%
Michelle Wright :
23andMe, GEDmatch M896753 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A606965 [compare], Ancestry member suspirar
+
Autosomal DNA Test
-
~0.39%
~3.12%
Michael Keefe :
23andMe, GEDmatch M110133 [compare]
-
~0.39%
Nikki (B) Lamb :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lambalek2
-
~0.39%
Donna (Goodrich) Goodwin :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
-
~0.39%
~3.12%
Brian Roth :
23andMe, GEDmatch TH9676940 [compare]
-
~0.39%
GC Webb :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
+
MyHeritage DNA
-
~0.39%
Doug Collins :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
+
MyHeritage DNA
-
~0.39%
~3.12%
Shannon Holmes :
23andMe, GEDmatch kd7956146 [compare]
-
~0.39%
Julia Gustafson :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Julia_gustafson
-
~0.39%
Larry Reif :
AncestryDNA
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