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Robert Meares
1592 - 1666 (74 years)-
Name Robert Meares Born 1592 London, Middlesex, England 
[1] Gender Male AFN 9J3N-DJ Died 20 Feb 1666 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [2, 3] Person ID I619 James Henry Martineau Last Modified 18 Apr 2016
Family 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 [4] Children 1. Samuel Mears, b. Abt 1632, , , England , d. Bef 1640 (Age ~ 7 years)2. John Meares, b. Mar 1635, , , England , d. 12 Nov 1663, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 28 years)3. Stephen Mears, c. 10 Dec 1637, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States , d. 31 Dec 1637, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 0 years)4. Stephen Mears, b. 25 Dec 1638, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States , d. 10 Dec 1661, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 22 years)+ 5. Samuel Mears, b. 7 Jun 1641, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States , bur. 19 Jul 1676, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 35 years)6. James Mears, b. 9 Mar 1644, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States , d. 6 Oct 1712, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 68 years)Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 Family ID F250 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Married - Abt 1631 - , , England 
Died - 20 Feb 1666 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - BIRTH: "Descendants of John and Lucy Rockwell Mears of Windsor, Conn.", compiled by Helen E. Rickley Healy, 1960, pg. 1 - D0002
"Descendants of Robert Meares of Boston, Mass.", compiled 1919-1950 by Theoda Mears Morse, copy at the NEHGS, pg. 1-14: (age 43 in 1635) - D0001
MARRIAGE: D0002, pg. 1
DEATH: D0002, pg. 1; D0001, pg. 1-14 (Will dated 20 Feb 1666, alive 20 Jun 1667, will probated 10 Sep 1667)
NOTES: D0001, pp. 1-14, Came to America on "The Abigail of London", arrived Boston 8 Oct 1635, infected with smallpox. Arrived (age 43) with spouse (Elizabeth) and children Samuel (age 6 or 3) and John (age 3 mos.). Will names wife executor, two sons, Samuel and James. Mentions "brothers" James Johnson (wife's brother) and Thomas Wilder (a sister's husband?).
1. Lists of Emigrants to America, 1600-1700, Hotten, p. 92. 2.Directory of the Ancestral Heads of N. Engl. Families, p. CLXI. 3. Report of the Record Comm., Boston Records, Vol 1630-1699. 4. Gates Dawes Ancestral Lines, by Mrs. Mary Walter Ferris. 5. ----- Descendants of John & Lucy Rockwell Mears, by Helen W. Hickley Healey, 1940, Boston His't Society. 6. Mears Family History, 1927, McKittrick,Calif.
He came from London in 1635, at age 43. W D 20 Feb 1666
- BIRTH: "Descendants of John and Lucy Rockwell Mears of Windsor, Conn.", compiled by Helen E. Rickley Healy, 1960, pg. 1 - D0002
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Sources - [S74] Some Descendants of John & Lucy Rockwell Mears of Windsor Connecticut, Compiled by Helen E. Rickley Healy, GSF #223,920, 3rd item., 1592 (Reliability: 3).
"aged 43 in 1635" - [S112] Abstracts of Early Suffolk Wills & Inventory, (1894), Vol 48, vol 17, p.345 (Reliability: 3).
- [S108] Some Descendants of John Norton of Branford 1622-1709, With Notes and Dates of Other Emigrant Nortons, etc., Walter Whittlesey Norton, (Lakeville, Conn., The Journal Press 1909), p. 1 (Reliability: 3).
His will dated 20 Feb 16666 & probated 10 Sep 1667 - [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).
- [S74] Some Descendants of John & Lucy Rockwell Mears of Windsor Connecticut, Compiled by Helen E. Rickley Healy, GSF #223,920, 3rd item., 1592 (Reliability: 3).