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James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Samuel Sears

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1460 
  • Father:
  • Paul Sears 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Willard   
  • Birth Date:
  • Jan 1663/1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jan 1741/1742 
  • Death Location:
  • West Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mercy Mayo
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  Jonathan Sears

  Judah Sears

  John Sears

  Seth Sears (Ahnentafel No:730 )

• Sources for Samuel Sears

  • ¹ The Mayflower Descendant, 1915, Vol. 17, p. 99.
  • ² Curfman, Robert Joseph, The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable 1646, Fort Collins, Colorado: Robert Joseph Curfman (1977), 38.
  • ³ May, Samuel P., The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1890), 42, 53-55.
  • ⁴ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 175.
  • ⁵ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 620-621.