John MEARS

• Will	17 Apr 1675  [1]
  	Bequeathed to his only child, Sarah, at 16 years of age, the land on the north side of the Severn river, bequeathed to him by his father, Thomas Mears; 330 acres of Mears, Calver co., adjoining his brother-in-law John Homewood's Expectation, Calvert co., 300 acres in Transquakin, Eastern Shore; with reversion to his sister Sarah, wife of John Homewood. There were bequests to the child of his sister-in-law Eliza, wife of William Coale of West river; to his brother-in-law, Samuel Thomas, etc. The executors were Samuel Chew, Philip and Samuel Thomas, his brother-in-law, and Richard Johns.
  Probate	25 May 1675  [1]

  
  

  Father	Thomas MEARS,   b. 1602, ENGLAND
  Mother	Elizabeth FREEMAN
  Family ID	F371	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah THOMAS,   b. Bef 1651, ENGLAND d. 1675 (Age > 24 years)
  Marriage	1672  [2]
  Children	1. Sarah MEARS,   b. 4 Aug 1673
  Family ID	F372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S77] Desc. of Rich. & Eliz. Talbott, (Day Printing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1927), p. 25, 77. [S86] Mackenzie, George Nordbury, Colonial Families of the US, (Grafton Press, New York, 1907), 86.