Talk:Richard Sears (pilgrim)

Length
What's sad is that tht references take up half of this article. I am really suspicious about this article. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:37, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Fraudulent
No parents of Richard Sares have ever been proven much less John Bourchier Sayer (or Sears) and Marie Van Egmond. This article is a fraud because no reference exists to show this. Notice that there is a list of books in the Notes section that deceptively appears to be a bibliography. For instance for this entry ''May, Samuel Pearce.The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass.: 1638-1888. Albany, Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1890'', May specifically disputed the contentions of this Wikipedia article. Dangnad (talk) 02:44, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

In this book, it looks like a pilgrim monument in 1676 states the parents of Richard Sears. Is it incorrect? https://sail1620.org/images/downloads/Published_Family_Genealogies/searstan_family_of_colchester__england__landed_at_plymouth__may_8__1630__1800_.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.199.189 (talk) 21:12, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Also, https://www.alamy.com/towns-of-new-england-and-old-england-ireland-and-scotland-rch-ownand-to-the-first-howes-do-dedicate-this-stonethis-monument-was-erected-in-1s34-etc-richard-sears-usually-referred-to-as-the-pilgrim-was-another-important-man-inthe-history-of-the-cape-and-particularly-at-yarmouth-and-chatham-where-in-thecemeteries-of-these-towtis-monuments-have-been-set-up-to-the-memory-of-himselfand-his-descendants-he-married-dorothy-thacher-the-daughter-of-anthonyand-is-said-to-have-attended-the-yarmouth-church-for-twenty-three-years-thisrichard-sears-the-founder-of-the-american-line-sought-ref-image372577252.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48961743/richard-sears — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.199.189 (talk) 21:19, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143204808/john_bourchier_sayres — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.199.189 (talk) 21:21, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Cleaning up
I've done an initial cleanup of the article with reference to the difficulties noted above. (Consisting mainly of consolidation of the false claims and their rebuttals into a single narrative.) I've moved the list of references here, to the talk page. They therefore remain available to actually be used as citations, should any of them be found useful. I trust is will now be clear to readers that Sears' ancestry is unknown. - Nunh-huh 04:10, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

list of loose notes:


 * Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. 3 vols. Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995.
 * Banks, Charles Edward. Planters of the Commonwealth. [Banks PC]
 * Brainerd, Dwight.The Ancestry of Thomas Brainerd. [NOT CONSULTED YET]
 * Browning, Charles Henry. Americans of Royal Descent.. 3rd Ed. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1894. 708. [Spurious pedigree connecting Richard Sears to Edward III through a completely invented Bourchier line.]
 * Burke, John Bernard. Visitation of Arms. Vol. III. 5-7. [Yet another official printing of the fantasy Sears genealogy.]
 * Burkes American Families with British Ancestry. 1939. 2905. [Sears formerly of Colchester].
 * Conover, George S. & Lewis Cass Aldrich. History of Ontario Co., N.Y. NY, 1893.
 * Curfman, Robert Joseph. The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable, 1646. Fort Collins, Colorado, 1977.
 * Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts. NY, 1910. [Cutter M]
 * Dictionary of American Biography.
 * Early Settlers of Western New York.
 * Emmison, F.G. Wills of the County of Essex (England) 1571-1577. Boston: NEHG Soc., 1986.
 * Freeman, Frederick. The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable Co. and of its Several Towns. 2 vols. Boston, 1860.
 * “Harwich, Mass. Vital Records.” Transcribed by George Ernest Bowman. The Mayflower Descendant 3 (1901): 175; 13 (Jan 1911), No. 1, p. 58; 13 (July 1911) No. 3, p. 148.
 * History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Mo. Goodspeed 1880.
 * An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Sullivan Co., Mo. by Edwards Brothers of Mo. Philadelphia, 1877.
 * Mass. Soldiers & Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Vol. 13, p. 947. Boston, 1905.
 * May, Samuel Pearce.The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass.: 1638-1888. Albany, Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1890.
 * "Some Doubts concerning the Sears Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 40: 261-268.
 * National Cyclopedia of American Biography.
 * Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive Note. Boston, 1900. Rochester, Mass. VR.
 * Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing Three Generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer’s Register. 4 vols. Reprint. Baltimore, 1965.
 * Sears, Rev. Edward Hamilton. Pictures of the Olden Time. 1857. Includes the spurious pedigree derived from the fraudulent research of Horatio G. Somerby.
 * Sears Family History. Ms. in possession of Mrs. G.B Galyon, Rt. 1, Box 33, Berryville, Va.
 * "Spurious Pedigree," NEHGR 40: 261 foll.
 * Taunton, Mass. Vital Records to 1850. Boston: NEHG Soc., 1928.
 * Totten, John R.Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. Publ. in NYGR.
 * The Visitations of Essex. Part 1. Ed. by Walter C. Metcalfe. London, 1878. 286-87.(Sayer, Sayre)
 * "Will of Captain Paul Sears" http://www.ca-probate/wills/SEARS_P.HTM
 * Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Volume 16, Part 1, FAMILY OF JOHN ALDEN. Edited by Alice Crane Williams. Published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999.