Samuel Lear

      Sex: M

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Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Lucy
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Alexander Lear



Samuel Lear

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: Abt 1762 - Portsmouth, NH 11
    Christening: 
          Death: Nov 20, 1842 - Epsom, NH
         Burial: in Lear Cemetery, Epsom, NH/Allenstown, NH
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Parents
         Father: Alexander Lear
         Mother: Sarah Cook

Spouses and Children
1. *Sally Salter
       Marriage: Feb 5, 1792 - Rye, NH
       Children:
                1. Eliza Lear
                2. Alexander Salter Lear
                3. Lucy Salter Lear
                4. Sally C. Lear
                5. John A.B. Lear
                6. Samuel Langdon Lear

Notes
General:
Buried in the Lear Cemetery, Epsom, NH. Died age 80-8-0. Revolutionary War Soldier according to notes of John Dowst.

NH Patriot 1-5-1843 SAMUEL LEAR
In Epsom, Nov. 20th, Samuel Lear, a Revolutionary pensioner, aged 80 years and 8 months.


S 9928

PENSION of Samuel Lear

Commenced on the 4th day of March 1834

Declaration
State of New Hampshire, County of Merrimack September 8, 1832

Samuel Lear a resident of Epsom in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy years, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on this oath make the following declaration, that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780 with Jonathan Locke and Nathaniel Goss and served in the Col. Henry Dearborn's Regiment of the Continental line, under the following named officers:
That he enlisted at Rye in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire in May 1780 for six months under Jonathan Locke and Nathan Goss a committee for the town of Rye aforesaid, and marched to Kingstown NH, passed muster there and marched directly to West Point and thence joined the company commanded by Lt. Jonathan Cilley, was under his command a few weeks thence under Lt. Cass, went from West Point to Orangetown, New York, thence to English Neighborspond (?) so called, thence to a place called Hacksmetack, thence back to Orangetown, thence to West Point, thence to Soldiers Fortune, where he was taken out of his company as a guard and put under the command of Capt. Ebenr Frye, Lt. Blodgett and Ens. Richards, and marched down the River about eight miles to a village (the name of which he cannot remembet) where he served until the expiration of the six months and was there honorably discharged by Lt. Cass who came from Soldiers Fortune to the village above mentioned and brought his discharge which was afterwards sent to Exeter, NH to get his pay and had never been able to find it since.
That the above mentioned service was in Col. Henry Dearborn's Regiment in the Continental Line.

Samuel Lear


Samuel Lear

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: Abt 1802
    Christening: 
          Death: 1819 - Epsom, NH 15
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Parents
         Father: Benjamin Lear
         Mother: Molly Morrison

Notes
General:
Drowned at Epsom, NH according to records of C.W. Leighton


Samuel Langdon Lear

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: Abt 1812 - Deerfield, NH
    Christening: 
          Death: Jun 2, 1893 - Epsom, NH
         Burial: in New Rye Cemetery, Epsom, NH
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Events

• Baptism: Epsom, NH, Aug 11, 1815.


Parents
         Father: Samuel Lear
         Mother: Sally Salter

Spouses and Children
1. *Polly T. Cram
       Marriage: Nov 24, 1835
       Children:
                1. Joseph Horace Lear
                2. Rosetta Jane Lear
                3. Infant Lear
                4. Rosetta Jane Lear
                5. Nancy Davis Lear
                6. Flora Ann Lear
                7. Thomas Alvin Lear
                8. Josiah Calvin Lear

Notes
General:
Buried in the New Rye Cemetery, Epsom, NH. Died age 81-5-0. Birth also given as Epsom, NH. In the June Session of the Legilature, Samuel Langdon Lear of Epsom, NH, took the name of Langdon Lear.

6-7-1893 Boston Daily Advertiser
LANGDON LEAR
Epsom, N.H., June 6 - Maj. Langdon Lear, who died recently here in the same house in which he was born and had always lived, was 85 years, five months and 21 days old. At the age of 18 he was appointed drum major of the 18th Regiment of the N.H. Militia and for more than half a century was one of the best known drummers in that State. He was many years ago a member of the Hooksett Band of which Natt Head, afterward governor, was the leader. At the centennial celebration of the town of Derry he was the leader of 13 drum majors from different sections of N.H. His last public appearance was on Memorial day, 1892, when he played for the G.A.R. post at Gossville, N.H. and was presented by its members with a handsome silver medal.


Sarah Lear

      Sex: F

Individual Information
          Birth: 1768
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          Death: Jul 13, 1818
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Parents
         Father: Alexander Lear
         Mother: Sarah Cook

Spouses and Children
1. *John Stockbridge
       Marriage: Abt 1796



Sarah Lear

      Sex: F

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Parents
         Father: Alexander Salter Lear
         Mother: Mary Jane Wiggin



Thomas Lear

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: Abt 1849
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Parents
         Father: John A.B. Lear
         Mother: Harriet Moses



Thomas Alvin Lear

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: Mar 4, 1844
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          Death: Jul 2, 1880 - Allenstown, NH 10
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Parents
         Father: Samuel Langdon Lear
         Mother: Polly T. Cram



Tobias Lear

      Sex: M

Individual Information
          Birth: Mar 29, 1706
    Christening: 
          Death: Abt 1751
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Parents
         Father: Tobias Lear
         Mother: Hannah Smith

Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Hall
       Marriage: Dec 13, 1733



Tobias Lear

      Sex: M

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Parents
         Father: Tobias Lear
         Mother: Elizabeth Sherburne

Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Curtis
       Marriage: 1702 - Rowley, MA

2. Hannah Smith
       Marriage: Jul 10, 1704 - Rowley, MA
       Children:
                1. Tobias Lear

3. Elizabeth Walker
       Marriage: Apr 14, 1714


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