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James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Paul Sears

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1468 
  • Father:
  • Richard Sears 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Jones   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1637 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Feb 1707/1708 
  • Death Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Deborah Willard
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1659 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Bethia Sears

  Samuel Sears

  Lydia Sears

  Paul Sears Jr. (Ahnentafel No:734 )

  Ann Sears

• Sources for Paul Sears

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 50, p. 266.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 40, pp. 261-268.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1997, Vol. 72, p. 110.
  • 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), 1643.
  • ⁵ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 24, 35.
  • ⁶ May, Samuel P., The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1890), 41-48.
  • ⁷ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 3, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2019), 29.