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Thomas Sears

Thomas Sears

Male 1745 - 1804  (58 years)

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  • Name Thomas Sears  [1] 
    Birth 30 Apr 1745  Probably Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Burial Abt 1804  Old Southeast Church Cemetery, Dutchess Co, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Death 26 Apr 1804  South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4] 
    Person ID I476  Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2020 

    Father James Sears,   b. 30 Mar 1704, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Mar 1791, Ridgefield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Desire Tobey,   b. Abt 1707, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 1781, Ridgefield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Marriage 28 May 1730  Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Marriage intention: James Sears & Desiar Toby were published march ye 14 1729/30.
    Family ID F173  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Deborah Baldwin,   b. 23 Nov 1749, Mansfield, Windham Co, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1828, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 9 Sep 1767  [6] 
    Children 
     1. Eli Sears,   b. 16 Oct 1768, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Thomas Baldwin Sears,   b. 21 Feb 1773, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Elizabeth Sears,   b. 3 Sep 1775, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Sep 1790, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 15 years)
     4. James Sears,   b. 24 Mar 1778, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Feb 1857, Tyre, Seneca Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     5. Archibald Sears,   b. 8 Aug 1780, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Oct 1864, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
     6. Sophia C. Sears,   b. 12 May 1784, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Apr 1869 (Age 84 years)
     7. Isaac Sears,   b. 23 Jul 1786, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     8. Deborah Sears,   b. 18 Oct 1789, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     9. Sally B. Sears,   b. 26 Jun 1792, South East, Dutchess Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F172  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jul 2007 

  • Photos
    Thomas Sears_d 1804.jpg    		Thomas Sears_d 1804.jpg

  • Notes 
    • The following are extractions from various sources, especially from letters received by Hubert Andrew Arnold (HAA) when he hired professional genealogists in the early 1960s to investigate the Seases and Sherwoods of South East, New York
      Thomas Sears, Capt Higgins' company, Dutchess Co NY militia - NARA Roll 2145
      Thomas Sears was a captain in the Revolutionary Army, and after the peace settled in South East, Putnam [then Dutchess] County, N.Y. on land which he bought of the government, and on which his descendants still live. He was a prominent church member and trustee during many years. - Nelson Sears Journal, 1895

      B Book of Wills, page 444, will dated 24 Apr 1804 To wife Deborah, one thid of the increase and profit of real estate and 1/4 from the personal estate, horse, saddle, bridle and all the furniture To son Archibald Sears $250 over and above and to have also an equal share with the rest of my sons; Thomas Baldwin Sears, Samuel Sears, and Isaac; to two grandsons, issue of son Eli, deceased, named Thomas and David, $40 each...his sons to have a double share, daughters (not named) a single share. Sons Thomas and Archibald executors to receive a reasonable compensation for their trouble in settling the estate. - Margaret H. Talbot (MHT) to HAA May 3, 1961 (no son James mentioned)
      A letter from Clifford M. Buck to HAA dated April 27, 1960: "Looking over B 444 carefully I find James is there inserted above the line after the name of Thomas Baldwin Sears and before Isaac Sears very similar to the way Baldwin is inserted in third line from bottom...".Why, then, did MHT not find the inserted names when she examined page 444 of the B Book of Wills in May of 1961 about one year later?
      In a letter Luedemann to Wasilik (who hired Luedemann in the early 1990s to study the Searses and Sherwoods as did HAA in the 1960s) dated 18 Jun 1991, Luedemann has examined the same book of wills page 444 (as did MHT) and found the following: "I Thomas Sears of Southeast, County of Dutchess...24 April 1804...dear wife Deborah Sears, son Archibald Sears, son Thomas Baldwin Sears, son James Sears, son Isaac Sears..." (what happened to Samuel Sears?) [7]

  • Sources 
    1. [S320] Samuel P. May, Sares main, (Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, Albany NY, 1890), 28 Jul 2005, p. 178 (Reliability: 4).

    2. [S389] Janet Wethy Foley, Foley - NY Settlers, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.), p474 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, Gravestone picture FAG memorial id 16829284 in Old Southeast Church Cem, Brewster Hill, Putnam Co, NY (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S387] NYGBR, v33 , p139 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S592] Holbrook, Jay Mack, MVR, (Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). ), Yarmouth, Town Records 1670-1773, Vol 3, p40 (Reliability: 3).
      "James Sears & deziar toby was marriad may ye 28th 1730 by jd Smith"

    6. [S320] Samuel P. May, Sares main, (Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, Albany NY, 1890), p178 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S388] Thomas Sears will, p444 (Reliability: 3).


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