Brief Life History of Barnabas Howes
When Barnabas Howes Sears was born on 27 June 1815, in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Paul Sears Sr., was 37 and his mother, Ruth Howes, was 33. He married Elizabeth Allen Seabury on 28 November 1840, in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He died on 7 May 1898, in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in East Dennis, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Barnabas H Sears, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Barnabas Howes Sears, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Barnabus H. Sears, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair ‘son of Saoghar’, a borrowing in Anglo-Norman Ireland of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Saher, Seier (Old French Seheri), from ancient Germanic Sigeheri, Sighari, composed of the elements sig‘victory’ + hari, heri ‘army’. See Sayer 5.
English: variant of Sayers .
Americanized form of French (or French Canadian) Cyr and French Saint-Cyr (see St. Cyr ), with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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