Paul Sears

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Feb 1638, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: 20 Feb 1638, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Captain of Massachusetts militia in the Narragansett War, 1654.

Paul married Deborah Willard in 1658 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of George Willard and Dorothy Dunster) was born before 14 Sep 1645 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was christened on 14 Sep 1645 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 13 May 1721 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Ancient Cemetery, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 3 Jun 1662

Bethia married John Crowell on 27 May 1684. John (son of John Crowe and Mehitable Miller) was born in 1662 in of Nobscussett on Cape Cod, Massachusetts; died on 15 Oct 1728; was buried in North Dennis burying ground, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mercy Mayo. Mercy (daughter of Samuel Mayo and Tamzin Lumpkin) was born in 1664; died on 20 Jan 1749 in West Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleazar Hamlin. Eleazar (son of James Hamlin and Mary Dunham) was born on 12 Apr 1668 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in 1698 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Thomas Snow on 30 Sep 1706 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Col. John Knowles. John (son of John Knowles and Apphia Bangs) was born on 10 Jul 1673 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 3 Nov 1757 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bethia married Joseph Atwood on 12 Oct 1710 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of Stephen Atwood and Apphia Bangs) was born about 1685 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in 1740 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her husband both died of smallpox in the epidemic of 1766.

Mehitable married John Ryder on 20 May 1713 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. John (son of John Ryder and Esther Hall) was born on 28 May 1692 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jan 1766 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judah married Mary Paddock in Nov 1731 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Judah Paddock and Alice Alden) was born on 5 Mar 1715 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a whaler, out of Billingsgate, now called Wellfleet.

From the Boston News Letter, 25 Aug 1737, quoted in The Hamlin Family (citation details below):

We hear that some time in the beginning of July, Captain Atherton Hough, master of a whaling vessel being in the Streights, killed a large whale and brought her to the vessel's side as usual to cut her up; and as the hands were hoisting the blubber into the hold, the runner of the block gave way, and fell with great force, on the head of a man, who stood underneath--Benjamin Hamblin, of Eastham--and instantly killed him.

Descent to Hannibal Hamlin, 15th Vice-President of the United States:

Benjamin Hamlin (1692-1737) = Anne Mayo (1692-1735)
Maj. Eleazar Hamlin (1732-1807) = Lydia Bonney (1731-1769)
Cyrus Hamlin (1769-1829) = Anna Nancy Livermore (1775-1852)
Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) = Sarah Jane Emery (1815-1855), then = Ellen Vesta Emery (1835-1925)

Descent to James Danforth Quayle, 44th Vice-President of the United States:

Benjamin Hamlin (1692-1737) = Anne Mayo (1692-1735)
Isaac Hamlin (1728-1762) = Sarah Shaw (1726-1803)
Isaac Hamlen (1748-1826) = Polly Beals (1754-1833)
Sarah Hamlen (1779-1822) = Peleg Standish (1775-1853)
Sarah Standish (1815-1866) = Reuben Burras (1812-1850)
Oscar Burras (1838-1880) = Annette Hakes (1841-1910)
Adelia Burras (1865-1940) = William Orran Cline (1864-1941)
Marie Pauline Cline (1890-1975) = Robert Harwood Quayle (1887-1968)
James Cline Quayle (1921-2000) = Martha Corinne Pulliam (1922-2014)
James Danforth Quayle (1947- )

Benjamin married Anne Mayo on 25 Oct 1716 in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Phebe Paine on 28 Feb 1723 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Phebe (daughter of Thomas Paine and Hannah Shaw) was born on 11 Feb 1699 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jun 1748 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 7 Oct 1722, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Notes:

He was a tanner.

Joshua married Mary Knowles on 27 Nov 1746 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Paul Knowles and Phebe Paine) was born on 20 Jan 1727 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died before 1775 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Joshua Nickerson on 15 Dec 1754 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Joshua (son of Caleb Nickerson and Mary Godfrey) was born on 27 May 1733 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 16 Apr 1821 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1738, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Notes:

Revolutionary War: Private in Capt. Elijah Walker's company, Col. John Hathaway's regiment which marched to the Tiverton Alarm in 1780.

From The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) (citation details below):

Alden Sears, " yeoman," of Rochester, resided for a time in Nova Scotia, and was one of the grantees of the town of Liverpool in 1761.

His wife dying, he returned to the States, living for a time in Pawtucket and Providence, engaged in boat-building and distilling.

He had been previously a seaman, and is said to have commanded a whaling vessel before he was of age.

Marrying again, he settled in Dighton, Mass., on the old Walker homestead, which, on the death of her father, fell to his wife. The old house is still standing, near 200 years old, and is a good specimen of early colonial times.

About the commencement of the Revolutionary War he resumed his voyages, and in returning from the West Indies with a cargo of molasses was captured by the British, lost his vessel and cargo, and was held prisoner several years.

An English officer, with whom he made friends, finally procured his release and supplied him with funds for his return. His wife is said to have had full faith during all the years of his absence that he would return, although others had given him up as dead.

According to the superstitions of the times, there were many signs convincing to her that he would return.

One evening in turning her tea-cup, the peculiar position of the leaves was proof that he was then on his way home.

She rose hastily, saying: "Alden will be home to-night, and I must put the house in order, and dress and go to meet him."

Upon opening the door, she really saw him in the distance approaching the house.

They removed to Bristol, N. Y., in 1792, with others from the vicinity of Dighton. For his land he paid six cents an acre.

He was in Capt. Elijah Walker's Co., in Col. John Hathaway's Regiment, and marched on "ye alarm of Aug. 2, 1780, to Tiverton, 18 miles' travel, 7 days' service, wages £1 8 0. Tiverton, 18 miles' travel, 7 days' service, wages £1 8 0."

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Note on the above: Alden Sears married his second wife, Phebe Walker, the one in the anecdote above, in Dighton, Massachusetts, 29 December 1769. So his first wife, Hannah Bassett, who died in Nova Scotia on an unknown date, has to have died before then. Therefore what he returned to can't have been "the States" as claimed above. No entity called "the States", United States or otherwise, existed in eastern North America in or before 1769.

When Alden Sears went from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia and then back to Massachusetts, he no more thought of himself as visiting a foreign land than he would have thought that way of relocating to Connecticut. He probably would have considered Quebec a foreign place, because although it was by then ruled from London it was dominated by French speakers. But Nova Scotia was just another English colony in which most of the inhabitants spoke English.

Alden married Phoebe Walker on 29 Dec 1769 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Phoebe (daughter of Elnathan Walker and Bethiah Tisdale) was born in 1748 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 23 Oct 1830 in Bristol, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Sarah Shaw on 23 Jan 1747 in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Nicholas Shaw and Lydia) was born on 1 Oct 1726 in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died in 1803 in Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joshua Atwood on 27 Nov 1746 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Joshua (son of Joseph Atwood and Bethia Crowell) was born on 27 Oct 1722 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]