JOHN SEARS, born February 22, 1773; died December 1, 1852 in Monkton, Addison County, Vermont. Married BETSY CHAPMAN. RICHARD SEARS, born October 9, 1775; died May 2, 1830 in Rome, Oneida County, New York. Married MARY ASH in February, 1798. ORANGE SEARS, born December 4, 1776 in Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died in 1854 in Lyons, Wayne County, New York. Married ANNIS SILLIMAN in 1809 in Valley Falls, Rensselaer County, New York. POLLY SEARS. Married DANIEL HARRINGTON. SILAS SEARS. SALLY SEARS. ABNER SEARS, born June 15, 1787; died August 22, 1842 in Scott County, Illinois. Married MARY VAN PELT on December 30, 1807 in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York.
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The children may have been born in different order.
Richard Sears was probably born in Hardwick, or in the adjoining town of Greenwich, Mass., but I do not find his name on record in either place prior to his marriage in 1771.
Richard Sears, from Ashfield, was a Corporal in Capt. Isaac Gray's Co. in Col. Jon. Brewer's Regt., 1775, which fought at Bunker's Hill; and Sergeant in Capt. Abner Pomroy's Co. in Col. Ezra Wood's Regt.; marched into N.Y. State, 160 miles travel, 7 mos., 27 days' service, wages £:5 16 0.
Family tradition says he was at battle of Bunker's Hill, and his grandson, Walter S. Sears, of Adrian, Mich., possesses the powder-horn which he carried on that memorable occasion.
After the Revolution he removed to Hoosick, N.Y., and is supposed to have died there.
He was a member of Federal Lodge No. 33 of Mark Masons, at Hoosick, June 1, 1814.
His grandson, Rev. Hiram Sears of Effingham, Ill. and of the Seamen's Bethel Home, Cleveland, Ohio, earnestly requests any person having knowledge of Richard Sears or of either of his children to communicate with him.
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