John Meares

1635 - 1663  (~ 28 years)

• Name	John Meares
  Born	Mar 1635	, , England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  AFN	9J3N-H2
  Died	12 Nov 1663	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States   [2]
  Person ID	I620	James Henry Martineau
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2016

  
  

  Father	Robert Meares,   b. 1592, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 20 Feb 1666, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Johnson,   b. Abt 1602, Little Bowden, Northamptonshire, England ,   d. 24 Jul 1672, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Married	Abt 1631	, , England   [1]
  Family ID	F250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary,   b. Abt 1637,   d. Bef Oct 1676, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States  (Age ~ 39 years)
  Married	Abt 1656
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2015
  Family ID	F251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Mar 1635 - , , England Died - 12 Nov 1663 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  DJLRM: "Descendants of John and Lucy Rockwell Mears of Windsor, Conn.", compiled by Helen E. Rickley Healy, 1960 - D0002 DRM: "Descendants of Robert Meares of Boston, Mass.", compiled 1919-1950 by Theoda Mears Morse, copy at the NEHGS - D0001BIRTH: DJLRM, pg. 1 (England Mar 1635); DRM, pg. 1 & 9 (Mar or Apr 1635) MARRIAGE: DRM, pg. 1 & 9 (spouse and son John, who returned to Eng., mentioned) DEATH: DRM, pg. 1 & 9 (will inventoried 6 Dec 1663). "Abstracts From the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass.", "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register", 1858, vol. 12, pp. 153-154 John Meares - Boston: 26: 7 mo. 1663. I, Jno. Meeres, lying sick - declare this as my last will, if no other after this doe appeare. I make my dear Unkell, James Johnson, executor of this my last will. I give to my wife, Mary, my dwelling house during her life, & if she marry, her next husband to give to her Child she now goes with ye said house & ground, & after both her and her childs decease, then, to my two brothers, or ye survivor of them. Moreovr, I give to my beloved wife, ye bed I now ly on, with all ye furniture thereto belonging, six greene Chairs, a round table, and two paire of sheets, besids them I had with her, with a Long table in the house. To my father Meares, my best suit and Cloak, and four Cord of wood, with my Weding hat. To my dear mother Mears, my Chest of drawers, two paire of sheets, and bed ticking. To my brother Samuell Mears, a pair of blew Curtains & my 2nd suit and Coate to James Meers with my musket and arms; to my wife, all the rest of my estate. John Meers. Witness, James Johnson, James Oliver. Moreovr wee, Elizabeth Meers & Mercy Meeres, testify yt he declared this to bee his meaning, yt his child if it live to ye age of 20 yeares, or att age, it shall injoy ? ye house during the Mothers life, & all after her decease; in case of ye childs death, Mercy Meers to have it for her life. Capt. James Oliver deposed 5 March: 63. Whereas it was desired by Mrs. Sands & others of ye friends of the deceased Jno Meares, that there might be a meeting together Conserning some expretions in his will, It was declared by both Capt. James Johnson & Elizabeth Mears, yt whereas it is expressed yt ye howse is given to his wife during life and if she marry, her next husband to give it her child she now goes with, & after both her & her childes decease, to his two Brothers; ye true words & minde of ye deceased was however not soe clerly exprest, that his wife was to have the howse during her life, & if she should marry an other husband she should not have power to give it to any other child she might have, but it was given by this will to the Child yt she went then with, & to ye issue of yt child forever, & in case she should live longer then ye childs coming to age, yt at age he or she was to have possession of one halfe, but if she dies before ye child comes at age then ye whole benefit to be to ye use of ye child & his or her issue immediately after yr decease. 1 December, 1663 This was done & express in ye presence of John Wiswall, Edw. Hutchinson, Elizabeth Mears, James Johnson. Capt. James Johnson, Elizabeth Meares, mother, & Mary Meares late wife to Jno Meares, deceased, deposed 5th March 1663. Inventory of the Estate prised 6th: 10 mo: 1663, by John Lake, Edward Drinker. Amt. ?231.01.1. Mentions, "his Wedding Hatt, ?1.10s." "one Hatt Case, 1s.6d." Capt. James Johnson deposed, 5 March 1663.

  
  

• Sources

  [S74] Some Descendants of John & Lucy Rockwell Mears of Windsor Connecticut, Compiled by Helen E. Rickley Healy, GSF #223,920, 3rd item., p. 1 (Reliability: 3). [S73] Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, n.d.), R.Rm. REF F74 M48 M54 1903., Boston: 90. (Reliability: 3). 1663: John Meeres deceased the 12th of November