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Jon Meacham

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Richard Sears

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Jon Meacham — 14th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9956 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1595 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Sep 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Dorothy Jones
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  • BEF 1637 
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  Paul Sears (Ahnentafel No:4978 )

  Deborah Sears

  Silas Sears

• Sources for Richard Sears

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 50, pp. 261-268.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, p. 207.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 40, pp. 261-268.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1642-1644.
  • ⁵ Curfman, Robert Joseph, The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable 1646, Fort Collins, Colorado: Robert Joseph Curfman (1977), 27-28.
  • ⁶ May, Samuel P., The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1890), 32-40.

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