Alden SEARS, Jr. & Thankful PITTS & Delaney VINCENT

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Alden SEARS, Jr.
Thankful PITTS
Delaney VINCENT

WARNING: This family group sheet is not documented, and there are some real problems with it. Most sources make Thankful PITTS the first wife and the mother of all the children, but Aaron's middle name indicates Delaney is his mother. Marshall's middle name indicates Thankful is his mother, but Marshall is younger than Aaron, making Thankful the second wife, not the first. But daughter Thankful, who is presumably Thankful PITTS's daughter, is older than Aaron. Can of worms — and the kind of confusion that makes you think there were two different Alden SEARS. Yet, sons Aaron Vincent and Marshall Pitts are living next door to one another in the 1850 census, strongly suggesting they are brothers. Or was Aaron's middle name really Vincent? Or Marshall's really Pitts?

Husband: Alden/Aldrich⁶ SEARS, Jr.
Birth: 28 Feb 1769, Dighton, Bristol Co., MA
Death: 28 Feb 1828, Bristol, Ontario Co., NY
Father: Alden⁵ SEARS, Sr. (1738/9-1803), of Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA [Judah⁴, Samuel³, Paul², Richard¹ — immigrant to Plymouth Colony by 1632]
Mother: Phoebe WALKER; m. 28 Dec 1769, Dighton, Bristol Co., MA

Marriage-1:

Wife-1: Thankful PITTS
Birth: 1780

Marriage-2:

Wife-2: Delaney VINCENT
Birth: 1775-80
Death: 27 Aug 1841

Children:

Sources:

1. Marriage Record:

2. 1790

3. 1800

4. 1810 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #5 of 6; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1810 NY Ontario Co. Bristol Roll M252_33 p. 158/250 Ln. 6 Alden Sears 31010-30011-00

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

3 males 9 or under 1800-1810 =

1 male 10-15 1794-1800 =

1 male 26-44 1765-1784 = Alden

3 females 9 or under 1800-1810 =

1 female 26-44 1765-1784 = Delaney? Thankful?

1 female 45 or over in or bef. 1765 = mother? mother-in-law?

5. 1820 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #4 of 5; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1820 NY Ontario Co. Bristol Roll M33_62 p. 53 Ln. 31 Aldrich Sears 520001-12010-0-300

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

5 males 9 or under 1810-1820 =

2 males 10-15 1804-1810 =

1 male 45 or over in or bef. 1775 = Aldrich

1 female 9 or under 1810-1820 =

2 females 10-15 1804-1810 =

1 female 26-44 1775-1794 = Delany?

3 persons engaged in agriculture

Listed next to John SEARS (Ln. 32, 500110-00011-0-200).

6. 1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #25 of 46; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1830 NY Ontario Co. Bristol Roll M19_101 p. 235 Ln. 16 Delany Sears 002 320 - 001 020 010

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

2 males 10-14 1815-1820 =

3 males 15-19 1810-1815 =

2 males 20-29 1800-1810 =

1 female 10-14 1815-1820 =

2 females 20-29 1800-1810 =

1 female 50-59 1770-1780 = Delany

7. 1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #1-2 of 6; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840 IL Boone Co. Deerfield Precinct Roll 55 (Book 1) pp. 150B-151A Ln. 10 Delaney Sears 000 032 - 000 011 001 0500000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

3 males 20-29 1810-1820 =

2 males 30-39 1800-1810 =

1 female 20-29 1810-1820 =

1 female 30-39 1800-1810 =

1 female 60-69 1770-1780 = Delaney

5 persons employed in agriculture

8. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

. Henry Edwards Scott, ed. 1929/1978. Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston (online at NEHGS web site):

Surname Record Record Type Place

SEARS Alden of Rochester and Phebe Walker of Dighton, Dec. 28, 1769, in Dighton, * P.R. 28. Marriage Taunton

Dighton is in Bristol County, as is Taunton.

. William Richard Cutter, ed. 1913-15. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. 4 vols. Lewis Hist. Publ. Co., New York (reprinted 1994 by Clearfield, Baltimore, MD; online at GenealogyLibrary.com): and entry on "The Sears Line," which follows immigrant, Richard SEARS, down to our subject's father, Alden SEARS.

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