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Edmund Hamilton Sears

Author, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"

Joshua Sears

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• • Great-grandfather of Edmund Hamilton Sears — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Paul Sears Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Freeman   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 20 Nov 1708 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Sep 1753 
  • Death Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Mayo
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Feb 1731/1732 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elkanah Sears

  Joshua Sears (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Joshua Sears

  • ¹ The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut: Register of Pedigrees and Services of Ancestors, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1941), 275.
  • ² May, Samuel P., The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1890), 83-84.
  • ³ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 3, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2019), 31, 97.