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Merrill C. Meigs

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Josiah Sears

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Merrill C. Meigs — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 102 
  • Father:
  • Silas Sears 
  • Mother:
  • Anna -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1675 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 23 Aug 1727 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mercy Howes
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  • Children:
  
  

  Josiah Sears

  David Sears

  Marcy Sears (Ahnentafel No:51 )

• Additional marriages for Josiah Sears

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  • Spouse:
  • Judith Gilbert
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Aug 1720

• Sources for Josiah Sears

  • ¹ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 345.
  • ² May, Samuel P., The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1890), 49, 68-69.
  • ³ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 101.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 84.
  • 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), 505.