AND

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF THE

Ancestry and Descendants

OF

RICHARD SEARS, THE PILGRIM.

"In blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore."-GEN. xxii. 17.

"Old Anchises, in a flowery vale,

Reviewed his mustered race and took the tale,

With studious thought observed the future throng,

In Nature's order as they pass along,

Their names, their fates, their conduct, and their care,

In peaceful senates and successful war."-ÆNEID, Book VI.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY.

PREFACE.

THE following chapters are supplementary to "Pictures of the Olden Time"; but some of them being of private, and not of public interest, they are printed in a separate form for those who wish to preserve them in family archives. Most of the facts pertaining to the Colchester Sayers and their ancestors are taken from Burke's "Visitation of Seats and Arms in Great Britain and Ireland." The Genealogy has been carefully collected and arranged from public and private records. facts in the life of "King Sears" were gathered from contemporaneous history, from a biographical notice found in the Pictorial History of the United States published by Robert Sears, Esq. of New York, from Sketches of Revolutionary History published a few years since in the New York Express, and from private letters and documents.

The

These facts are arranged in their present form for those of the family name who may desire to preserve some memorial of their ancestors. The "Pictures" are more full and complete in matters of early contemporaneous history. These family sketches are so printed that they can be preserved with or without the "Pictures," as occasion may hereafter require.

E. H. S.