Isaac Sears (1 July 1730 – 28 October 1786) was an American merchant, sailor, Freemason, and political figure who played an important role in the American Revolution.
He was born July 1, 1730, at West Brewster, Massachusetts, the son of Joshua and Mary Sears.[1] He was a descendant of Richard Sears, who emigrated to the colonies from Colchester, England, in 1630.[1] While he was a child, the family moved to Norwalk, Connecticut.
At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to the skipper of a coastal vessel. By 1752, he was in command of a sloop trading between New York and Canada. Sears established his reputation as a privateer during the French and Indian War, commanding a vessel from 1758 until 1761, when he lost his ship. He moved to New York City and had become successful enough to become a merchant investing in ships engaging in trade with the West Indies.[2]
Brewster, Massachusetts, the son of Joshua and Mary Sears. He was a descendant of Richard Sears, who emigrated to the colonies from Colchester, England...
correspondents in the colony of New York: "New York [city] — John Lamb, IsaacSears, William Wiley, Edward Laight, Thomas Robinson, Flores Bancker, Charles...
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conducted by the Sons of Liberty and led by Marinus Willett, John Lamb, IsaacSears, and Alexander McDougall, attacked the Turtle Bay Depot in Manhattan...
group opposing the Stamp Act were the local Sons of Liberty headed by IsaacSears, John Lamb and Alexander McDougall. Historian Gary B. Nash wrote of what...
Olive (Deming) Sears. She was descended from an old English family that included preachers, scholars, patriots and nobles. The Sears family was of Saxon...
contrition at his execution, which Rivington reprinted. He infuriated Captain IsaacSears, the prominent patriot and Son of Liberty: He would appear as a leading...
York on 25 June 1775 after the American Revolutionary War had begun. IsaacSears returned in July from the Continental Congress with orders to put Tryon...
peace and restore order to the city, Moore had met with the influential IsaacSears, a leader of the Sons of Liberty, and others, and shortly thereafter...
1855 by Isaac Howe Sears, remains headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, and as of 2019[update], has over 600 employees in the Quad Cities. Sears' customers...
1765, and quickly rose to a leadership position alongside John Lamb and IsaacSears. There, he participated in negotiations with the New Haven Sons of Liberty...
Boston Massacre, IsaacSears and others tried to stop some soldiers from posting handbills at the Fly Market at the foot of Maiden Lane. Sears captured some...
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PMID 1542842. Sears, p. 500. Murray and Hsieh, p. 234. Murray and Hsieh, p. 285; Sears, p. 206. Sears, p. 506; Coddington, p. 573. Sears, pp. 505–507....
91. Dawes 1999, p. 95. Sears 1983, pp. 202–203. Bailey 1984, pp. 79–80. Sears 1983, p. 206. Sears 1983, pp. 214–215. Sears 1983, p. 215. Cleaves 1960...
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Robert Boyd William Denning* William Duer William Goforth* William Malcom IsaacSears John Stagg Robert Troup Orange John Bradner Gilbert Cooper* Nathaniel...
New York in 1783. Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb by Isaac Q. Leake (Bedford, Mass., 1857; page 297) The New York Civil List compiled...
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