Ancestry of
James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Mercy Freeman

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of James Taylor — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 735 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Freeman 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Sparrow   
  • Birth Date:
  • Oct 1674 
  • Birth Location:
  • Harwich, Cape Cod, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Aug 1747 
  • Death Location:
  • West Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Paul Sears Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 15 Aug 1694 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Ebenezer Sears

  Paul Sears

  Elizabeth Sears

  Thomas Sears

  Rebecca Sears

  Marcy Sears

  Deborah Sears (Ahnentafel No:367 )

  Ann Sears

  Joshua Sears

  Daniel Sears

  Edmund Sears

  Hannah Sears

  • Notes: 

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

• Sources for Mercy Freeman

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/23/2018).
  • ² Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 250.
  • ³ May, Samuel P., The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1890), 55-57.
  • ⁴ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 3, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2019), 29-31.
  • ⁵ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 291.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 84, 116, 371, 428, 532, 799.
  • ⁷ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 393-394.
  • ⁸ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 183.