Mark Joab Mears - Loose connection

Started by Private User on Friday, October 29, 2021
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Private User
10/29/2021 at 5:15 AM

Not the son of John Mears and Margaret Garrison - so whose son*is* he? And how much cleanup does his tree need?

Private User
10/29/2021 at 12:58 PM

MilesFiles says he isn't:

Mark Mears1
M, b. circa 1705, d. February 1773
Pedigree
Father John Mears b. c 1671, d. Sep 1747
Mother Margaret Garrison b. c 1674
Charts Descendants of Richard Kellam (Gentleman, Occahannock)
Last Edited 1 Oct 2006
Birth* circa 1705 Mark was born circa 1705 at Accomack Co, VA.2
Will - Father's* 14 August 1745 Mark was named in his father's will on 14 August 1745 at Accomack Co, VA.1
Death* February 1773 Mark died in February 1773.3
Admin of estate* 24 February 1773 Administration of Mark's estate was filed on 24 February 1773 at Accomack Co, VA. It was on this date that George Meers was named to settle the estate of Mark Meers. Jonathan Meers & Andrew Meers were the securities.3
Anecdote* 25 February 1773 According to Whitelaw, when Mark Mears died intestate in 1773 he was succeeded by a George Mears, who in 1795, wife Peggy, left all his land to a son John. In 1798 this son John sold 106 acres by survey to Francis Savage. The bounds mentioned a schoolhouse, which would have been about where the old road turns northwest towards Keller.4
Family

Child 1. George Mears+ b. c 1725, d. Feb 1795
Citations

[S570] Stratton Nottingham, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1663-1800, p. 149 (will of John Meers).
[S890] Mary Frances Carey, Bartholomew Mears of Accomack County, Virginia, One line of Descent.
[S570] Stratton Nottingham, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1663-1800, p. 235 (adm. of Mark Meers).
[S572] Ralph T. Whitelaw, Virginia's Eastern Shore (A History of Northampton and Accomack Counties), p. 750 (tract A41).

There's probably another John Mears around somewhere for him to be the son of. There were lots of Mears.

Private User
10/30/2021 at 5:06 PM

We still have the incompatibility in birth dates (c. 1705 vs. 1710), and the unexplained George Mears back in Accomack County, and said George Mears administering the Accomack County estate of Mark Mears.

I found Jonathan Mears - he's a nephew of Mark's: http://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/site/p542.htm#i54140 - but Andrew Mears is as unaccounted-for as George.

We also have to consider Mark Mears being left 100 acres of Accomack County land in his father's will of 1745 (probated 29 September 1747), plus assorted personal items. So why would he upstakes and go to North Carolina? (The Accomack County land was *certainly not* sold during Mark's lifetime - George Mears inherited it and passed it on to his son John, who (finally) sold it to Francis Savage.)

Accomack County families are very popular with researchers of similarly-named families with weak or no family trees - they get latched onto willy-nilly, and then everybody *thinks* they know where they came from.

There were Mears families in New England and i Maryland whose connection, if any, to the Accomack County Mearses is totally obscure.

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