Samuel Sears Captain
- Born: Jan 1663 or Jan 1664, Yarmouth, Massachusetts 82,114
- Marriage: Mercy Mayo on 15 Jun 1701 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
- Died: 8 Jan 1741 or 8 Jan 1742, West Brewster, Massachusetts at age 78 87,114
- Buried: The Ancient Sears Cemetery, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 114
Captain Samuel Sears was born at Yarmouth at the end of Jan 1663/4 and died 8 Jan 1741/2, at 78 years of age, and his grave site is in west Brewster. He married Mercy Mayo, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Tamzin (Lumpkin) Mayo, and grand daughter of Reverand John May. Mercy was born 1664 and died 20 Jan 1748/49, at the age of eighty-four. Her gave site is in West Brewster.
~The descendants of Richard Sares of Yarmouth, p. 53
Samuel Sears lived in that part of Harwich, now known as West Brewster, and his house stood on the site that recently built and occupied by Captain Constant Sears.
His will is dated 25 Nov 1726, and was proved 20 Jan 1726/7 (though his gravestone says he died 22 Nov) names wife and eight children living. Inventoried by John Paddock, John Sears and Peter Paddock.
~The descendants of Richard Sares of Yarmouth, p. 71
• Web Reference: The grave site of Captain Samuel Sears.
Here lyes Buried
ye Body of Capt
SAMUEL SEARS
Who departed this Life
Jan'ry 8th Anno Domini 1741/2
in ye 78th Year of his Age
Samuel Sears, Sears Cemetery, Massachusetts
Samuel married Mercy Mayo, daughter of Samuel Mayo and Thomasine Lumpkin, on 15 Jun 1701 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. (Mercy Mayo was born in 1654 in Oyster Bay Suffolk Massachusetts,113 died on 20 Jan 1747-1749 in West Brewster, Massachusetts 113 and was buried in The Ancient Sears Cemetery, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.)
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