SEARS

Sometime spelled "Sayres" or "Sayer". Richard Sears is believed to have been born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1590. We first hear of him in this country at Plymouth Mass. Where he was taxed in 1633. In 1638, he was taxed in Marblehead and in 1643 we find him at Yarmouth. He served on the Grend Jury in 1653 and in 1653 he was made a freeman. In 1662, he was a Deputy. He was married to Dorothy Thatcher in 1632. Richard and Dorothy’s daughter Deborah married Zeckariah Paddock, from which we get the Folger descent.

Dorothy Thatcher was born 1611 in Queen Camel, Somerset, England. Her father was Peter Thatcher, who was born about 1545 in Queen Camel and was buried May 7, 1624 at St. Barnabas, Queen Camel, Somerset, England.

Richard Sears died August 26, 1676 in Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was the son of John Sears and Maria Lamoraal Van Egmond. John was the son of John Bouchier Sears and Elizabeth Hawkins. In 1585 John Bouchier Sears married Maria Lamoraal Van Egmond (born 1564) in Amsterdam, Holland.