Ancestry of
Merrill C. Meigs

Publisher, Chicago Herald & Examiner

Mercy Howes

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Merrill C. Meigs — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 103 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Howes 
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  • BY 18 Aug 1720 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Josiah Sears
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  Josiah Sears

  David Sears

  Marcy Sears (Ahnentafel No:51 )

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  • Mercy Howes's given name is also seen as Marcy.

• Sources for Mercy Howes

  • 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), 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.