Ancestry of Dr.
Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

Silas Sears

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Vannevar Bush — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1006 
  • Father:
  • Richard Sears 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Jones   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1641 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Jan 1697/1698 
  • Death Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1665 
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  Silas Sears

  Hannah Sears (Ahnentafel No:503 )

  Joseph Sears

  Josiah Sears

  Elizabeth Sears

• Sources for Silas Sears

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 40, pp. 261-268.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1643.
  • ³ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 35.
  • ⁴ May, Samuel P., The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1890), 32, 48-52.
  • ⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 150.