A contribution to the genealogy of the Bearse or Bearss family in America: . THE BKARSE OR BEARSS FAMILY. ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS OF DEA. JOHN BEAR8S HIS WIFE MOLLY (BEARDSLKY) BEARSS, OF NEW FAIRFIELD, CT., AND WESTMORELAND, N. Y. By John Beabss Newcome, of Elgin, Illinois. [1] AUGUSTINE BEARSE, our first ancestor of thename in this country, came ofer Shipp, the Confidence of London, of two hundred tonnes, fromSouthampton, England, April 24, 1(538, and was thentwenty years of age, having been born at or near South-ampton in 1618. He came to Barnstable. (Cape Cod,Mass.), with


A contribution to the genealogy of the Bearse or Bearss family in America: . THE BKARSE OR BEARSS FAMILY. ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS OF DEA. JOHN BEAR8S HIS WIFE MOLLY (BEARDSLKY) BEARSS, OF NEW FAIRFIELD, CT., AND WESTMORELAND, N. Y. By John Beabss Newcome, of Elgin, Illinois. [1] AUGUSTINE BEARSE, our first ancestor of thename in this country, came ofer Shipp, the Confidence of London, of two hundred tonnes, fromSouthampton, England, April 24, 1(538, and was thentwenty years of age, having been born at or near South-ampton in 1618. He came to Barnstable. (Cape Cod,Mass.), with the first company in 1639. His houselot,containing twelve acres of very rocky land in the wesierly part of the East Parish, was bounded westerly byJohn Crockers land, northerly by the meadow, easterlyby Isaac Robinsons land, and southerly into y • house stood on the north side of the road, and hiscellar and some remains of his orchard existed at thecommencement of the present century;—a road from hishouse to Hyannis is still known as Bearses owned six


Size: 2751px × 908px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookidcontribution, bookyear1871