Alden Sears

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• 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]

1. Eleanor Sears was born on 1 May 1780 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 7 Oct 1866 in Bristol, Ontario, New York; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol Center, Ontario, New York.

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]

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• Alternate birth: 1714

Samuel married 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]

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• Buried: Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Judah married Alice Alden on 5 Dec 1706 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Alice (daughter of David Alden and Mary Southworth) was born between 1685 and 1686; died on 12 Jul 1774; was buried in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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]

Notes:

"She may be daughter of George Willard." [The Pilgrim Migration]

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• Alternate death: 1663

Samuel married Tamzin Lumpkin. Tamzin (daughter of William Lumpkin and Tamazin) was born about 1625; died on 16 Jun 1709 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1626

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• Alternate birth: 20 Mar 1636, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Zachary married Deborah Sears in 1659 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Richard Sears and Dorothy Jones) was born on 16 Sep 1639 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 17 Aug 1732 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Paddock Cemetery, East Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1646

David married Mary Southworth before 1674. Mary (daughter of Constant Southworth and Elizabeth Collier) died between 28 Mar 1718 and 1 Apr 1719. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1590, England

Notes:

Emigrated to Plymouth, 1633. Husbandman. Marblehead by 1637; Yarmouth by 1639.

Along with several others, sued William Nickerson for slander on 2 Oct 1650.

Richard married Dorothy Jones before 1637. Dorothy (daughter of George Jones and Agnes) was born about 1603; died before 19 Mar 1679 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried on 19 Mar 1679 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated to Massachusetts April 1638. Lived in Scituate, where he helped form a second Congregational church. Moved to Maryland in 1652.

George married Dorothy Dunster. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Perhaps] [s]ister of Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College. [Bassett-Preston Ancestors, citation details below.] Elizabeth Dunster, who was definitely a sister of the Harvard president, married his brother Simon Willard. The problem is that no records of Henry's family mention a sister named Dorothy.

Notes:

"John Mayo of Northamptonshire, who matriculated in the University of Oxford as a commoner's son from Magdalen Hall 28 April 1615, aged 17, but took no degree, was probably identical with the emigrant of that name who became colleague minister to John Lothrop at Barnstable in 1640, first pastor of Eastham in 1646, and first minister of the Second (North) Church in Boston 9 November 1655. Increase Mather was his colleague. Overseer of Harvard College. Dismissed in 1673 on account of age; died at Yarmouth in May 1676." [Samuel Eliot Morrison, The Founding of Harvard College, citation details below.]

Emigrated to New England with his wife and children sometime between 1638 and 1640 (sources differ). His duties as an overseer of Harvard College were by virtue of his role at the Second Church.

The Second Church at which Mayo was first minister was also known as the "Old North Church" -- but it isn't the church, or the congregation, called the "Old North Church" today. Mayo's church was on North Square, across the street from what is now called "Paul Revere's house." The church building in which Mayo preached was demolished and rebuilt on site in 1677, and this second building was dismantled for firewood by the British during their occupation of Boston during the Revolutionary War. The building now widely called "Old North Church", officially Christ Church in the City of Boston, is a separate congregation; it was built in 1723.

His successors as minister at the Second Church were Increase Mather and Cotton Mather.

John married (Unknown first wife of the Rev. John Mayo). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said by some to have been Tamison Broke, who married a John Mayo in 1618 at Leiden. Whether that couple were this couple is in dispute.

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• Alternate death: Aft 20 Jul 1668

William married Tamazin. Tamazin died after 8 Mar 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1598

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Removed to Duxbury 1632. He was a cooper, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. A protagonist of Longfellow's "The Courtship of Miles Standish", which may or may not be grounded in actual events.

He was hired at the port of Southampton, but despite the strenuous efforts of many researchers over many years, absolutely nothing has been proved about his English origins.

Deputy Governor of Plymouth, 7 Mar 1665 and 30 Oct 1667. Treasurer 3 Jun 1656, 3 Jun 1657, 1 Jun 1658. Council of War 27 Sep 1642, 10 Oct 1643, 2 Jun 1646, 6 Apr 1653, 12 May 1653, 1 Jun 1658, 2 Apr 1667. Committee to revise laws 4 Jun 1645, 3 Jun 1657. Committee on Kennebec trade 3 Mar 1645, 7 Jun 1648, 8 Jun 1649, 5 Mar 1656. He was literate. "Although there is no direct evidence for his literary and educational attainments, his extensive public service, including especially his appointments as colony treasurer and to committees on revising the laws, certainly indicates that he must have been well-educated." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Pilgrim Migration, citation details below.]

John Alden (1599-1687) = Priscilla Mullins (d. aft. 1651)
Ruth Alden (~1640-1674) = John Bass (1630-1716)
Hannah Bass (1667-1705) = Joseph Adams, Jr. (1654-1737)
John Adams (1691-1761) = Susanna Boylston (1709-1797)
John Adams (1735-1826) = Abigail Smith (1744-1818), 2nd President of the United States
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th President of the United States

John Alden (1599-1687) = Priscilla Mullins (d. aft. 1651)
Rebecca Alden = Thomas Delano
Jonathan Delano (~1675-1765) = Hannah Doty (1675-1764)
Jonathan Delano (1701-~1745) = Elizabeth Winslow (1707-~1745)
Elizabeth Delano (b. 1725) = John Penney (1721-~1756)
Jonathan Penney (~1754-~1812) = Priscilla Grover (1757-~1820)
Priscilla Pinney (~1778-1811) = Luther Franklin (1780-1861)
Abigail Franklin (1811-1892) = Hiram D. Moor (1812-1888)
Victoria Josephine Moor (1846-1885) = John Calvin Coolidge (1845-1926)
(John) Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th President of the United States

John married Priscilla Mullins about 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Priscilla (daughter of William Mullins and Alice) was born about 1602; died after 1651. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1600 to 1605
• Alternate birth: Abt 1603
• Alternate death: Bef 1687, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620.

She may have been a daughter of an earlier wife of William Mullins, rather than of Alice.

Notes:

Emigrated 1628, first at Plymouth, then at Duxbury.

Constant married Elizabeth Collier on 2 Nov 1637 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of William Collier and Jane Yates) was born before 9 Mar 1619; was christened on 9 Mar 1619 in St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England; died after 10 Feb 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 20 Feb 1679

George married Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1564, Goudhurst, Kent, England

Richard married Joan on 10 Jan 1610. Joan died in Feb 1617. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have been Joan Morebread or Morehead, but if so, this is probably a surname from a previous marriage.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1572

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Died in the first winter. He was a shoemaker.

From "The Probable English Origin of Mayflower passenger Peter Browne, and His Association with Mayflower Passenger William Mullins," by Caleb Johnson, The American Genealogist 79:3, July 2004:

"The parentage and ancestry of William Mullins have not been conclusively proven. The Mullins family may have been living in Dorking for a considerable period of time prior to William Mullins himself, as the Dorking manor court rolls between 1454 and 1458 mention a Peter and Isabel Moleyn on several occasions. The Dorking parish registers are unfortunately defective for the years 1572 through 1578 -- the time period in which we would expect William to have been baptized. However, there was only one Mullins family in Dorking that was having children during this time period: the John Mullins who married Joan Bridger there on 8 July 1571. Most of their children would have fallen into the 'black hole' in the registers. On 23 September 1582, we see the baptism of their last child, Edward Mullins. On 4 February 1583/4, a Mullins (no Christian name given) was buried. Wc can reasonably assume this burial record was for John Mullins the father, because the next Mullins burial record in the registers, on 8 July 1584, was recorded as the 'son of widow Mullins.' And since son Edward Mullins appears in no subsequent Dorking records, we can speculate that this was the unnamed son who was buried. The following year, on 1 November 1585, the widow Joane Mullins was remarried to Vyncent Benham.
"Two Mullinses appear in later Dorking records; they are assumed to be unrecorded children of John and Joan (Bridger) Mullins. They are the Mayflower passenger, William Mullins, and John Mullins."

William married Alice before 1593. Alice died after 2 Apr 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 21 Feb 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Died sometime after the Mayflower set sail on its return voyage, but before the mid-November arrival of the Fortune.

She may or may not have been the mother of Priscilla Mullins.

Notes:

He was for many years and in many genealogical works given as a son of Thomas Southworth (1548-1616) and his wife Rosamond Lister. Were this so he would have been a proven descendant of Edward I, but no actual evidence exists that this was the case.

Edward married Alice Carpenter on 28 May 1613 in Leiden, Netherlands. Alice (daughter of Alexander Carpenter and (Unknown wife of Alexander Carpenter)) was born about 1590; was christened on 3 Aug 1590 in Wrington, Somerset, England; died on 26 Mar 1670 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; was buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 3 Aug 1590, Wrington, Somerset, England
• Alternate death: 27 Mar 1670, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
• Alternate death: 26 Mar 1671, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Notes:

She was the widow of Edward Southworth, and is thus referred to in many sources as "Alice Southworth." She arrived in New England on the Anne on 14 Aug 1623.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1585

Notes:

His English place of origin is unknown, although he is known to have become a member of the Grocer's Company of London on 3 Mar 1628. Emigrated in 1633 on the Mary and John.

"William Collier [...] came to Plymouth in 1633 as one of the few London-based Merchant Adventurers, a colony investment group, to settle in New England. He was often elected as an Assistant Governor in the thirty-some years between 1634/5 and 1665. He was on the side of the government leaders in the historic 1645 dispute with liberal religious leader William Vassall. During his long life involved in public service, he served on the Council of War and served at times as a commissioner of the United Colonies, a New England colonies military alliance primarily for defense against Indian attack." [Wikipedia]

William married Jane Yates on 16 May 1611 in St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England. Jane (daughter of Henry Yates and Alice) was born before 5 Feb 1587; was christened on 5 Feb 1587 in St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England; died after 28 Jun 1666 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]