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638 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
in the city of Norwich, that county. His wife
Sarah was born June 17, 1593, in the adjoining
town of Waynham, where Eliab Wight, born June 10, 1814, died Sept.
13, 1817; David Ray, born Aug. 28, 1816,
they were mar- died Sept. 19, 1817; John Porter, bom Sept.
ried Oct. 13, 1616. To escape religious perse- 13, 1818, died Sept. 10, 1853; Lydia Stedman,
cution he took passage from Yarmouth to New bom Aug. 28, 1820, died Jan. 14, 1859 Susan
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England April 15, 1637. He arrived "three Harrod was born Sept. 21, 1822; Eliab Wight
days before midsummer," and was admitted (2),
a townsman at Dedham July 14, 1637.
Michael Metcalf, third child of Michael and
Sarah, was born Aug. 29, 1620. He married
April 2, 1644, Mary Fairbanks, and died Dec.
24, 1654.
Eleazer Metcalf, fifth child of Michael and
Mary, was born March 20, 1653. He married
April 9, 1684, Melatia Fisher.
Michael Metcalf, second child of Eleazer and
Melatia, was born May 21, 1687, and married
Abiel Colburn.
Pelatiah Metcalf, first child of Michael and
Abiel, married Hepzibah Mann. He died April
1, 1770, and she died Oct. 11, 1773.
Thomas Metcalf, eighth child of Pelatiah
born Dec. 4, 1824, died Aug., 19, 1835;
Harriet Augusta, born June 39, 1826, married
June 18, 1844, William Mason (born at Mystic,
Conn., Sept. 3, 1808, died May 31, 1883), and
they resided in Taunton, Mass., where he was
proprietor of a large manufactory of locomotives
and cotton machinery (she died Dec. 31,
1880); Ellen Maria was bom May 20, 1828;
a daughter, bom in November, 1830, died
young.
SEARS (Middleboro family). The names of
Sarres and Series have been represented in
Guernsey for several centuries, and are found
there to-day. Marblehead, Mass., where the
American ancestor of the Sears family resided
in 1638, was largely settled by people from the
islands- of Guernsey and Jersey. "There is a
and Hepzibah, born Aug. 13, 1749, married
Jan. 25, 1776, Jemima Ray, who was born Jan.
8, 1756. Thomas Metcalf, with his older
important a part of the industry of Cambridge.
He sold out his interest in printing, and became
a partner with Eussell & Odiorne in
book publishing in Boston. He was a member
of the Legislature in 1835 ; was also a prominent
Freemason and militiaman. He died Nov.
27, 1835. His wife died Dec. 5, 1866. Their
children were: John Porter, born Feb. 3, 1810,
died June 13, 1818; Catherine E. D., born Dec.
7, 1811, married June 18, 1834, Nathaniel
Tucker Bent, an Episcopal clergyman (born at
Milton, Mass., July 31, 1810, died Nov. 4, 1856,
at Worcester), and she died Feb. 28, 1892;
popular belief that the family
of Sears is of
brother, Silas, built the hip-roofed house which
formerly stood on the farm in West Wrentham
in the year 1797. They occupied the house,
and carried on the farm in partnership for
several years, until Silas's son Lewis took his
father's share, when the farm was divided.
When a young man he got "the old elm," which
now stands by the Norman origin, and it is noticeable that in
the eastern parishes of London, and adjacent
villages, which contained many Huguenot,
Flemish and Walloon emigrants, the name of
Sears or Sares is common about 1600."
It is the purpose of this article to treat of
what may properly
roadside, in a swamp, brought
it on his back and set it out. He died Oct.
30, 1832, and his wife in May, 1830.
Eliab Wight Metcalf, third child of Thomas
and Jemima, born Jan. 20, 1781, married May
7, 1809, Lydia Stedman, who was bom Jan.
24, 1787. He learned the printer's trade of
Nathaniel Heaton in Wrentham, and about
1800 went to Boston, and soon after to work
at Cambridge for Deacon William Hilliard. He
was taken in as a partner after a short time,
finally became proprietor, and extended and
established the business which now forms so
be styled the South Yarmouth-Middleboro
branch of the old Yarmouth
Sears family. The head of the Middleboro
family was the late Barnabas Sears, a carpenter
and builder by trade and early occupation,
and later at Middleboro a dealer in lumber and
builders' supplies, succeeded by his son, the
present Henry W. Sears, Esq.; who has long
been one of the successful business men and
prominent citizens of his adopted town. The
latter gentleman descends in the ninth generation
from Richard Sares (Sears), one of the
early comers to Plymouth, from whom his de-
scent is through
Lieut. Silas Sears, Capt.
Joseph Sears, Barnabas Sears, Stephen Sears,
Stephen Sears (3), Barnabas (3) and Barnabas
Sears (3). These generations in the order
named and in detail follow.
(I) Richard Sears (name variously spelled,
in time taking the form of Sears) is of record
at Plymouth as early as March, 1632-33, when
taxed. He soon crossed over to Marblehead
and was there taxed in 1637. He removed to
Yarmouth, where he was a proprietor in 1638.
His name was on the list of those able to bear
arms in 1643. He became a freeman June 7,
1653. Commissioners on Indian affairs were