FATHER

Joseph Bearse

MOTHER

Martha Taylor

WIFE

Elinor Lewis

CHILDREN

1. Lydia Bearse
    b. 28 July 1712
    m. 10 Nov 1734 John Cullio

2. John Bearse
    b. Abt.1714
    m. 12 Feb 1745 Lydia Lumbaty
    d. 5 Dec 1777

3. Hannah Bearse
    b. Abt. 1716
    m. 26 Mar 1761 Jabez Bearse

4. Elearnor Bearse
    b. Abt. 1718
    m. 13 Jan 1753 John Loggie

5. Martha Bearse 
    b. Abt. 1720
    m. 19 Feb 1747 Isaac Lewis 

6. Mary Bearse 
    b. Abt 1722

7. Dinah Bearse
    b. Abt. 1724

John Bearse
by Susan Brooke
March 2023

John Bearse was born in Barnstable on 8 May 1687. (1) He married Elinor Lewis in Barnstable on 15 Nov 1711. (2)  He was 24 years old and she was four years older, aged 29 when they married.  They had at least 7 children.  He wrote his will on 13 Jan 1759/60.  He was 72 years old.  Three of his siblings had died the previous year. His brother James died on 11 Oct 1758, Ebenezer died in Feb 1759 and his sister Mary died on 19 Jan 1760.  In his will he named his wife, Elinor, and his children, John Bearse, Hannah Bearse, Mary Bearse, Dinah Bearse, Lydia Callio, Eleanor Logge, and Martha Lewis.  His daughters Mary and Dinah were made sole executors.  (3)
He died 3 May 1760 (4) and his will was probated on 15 May 1760

Sources

(1) Birth Record
Barnstable Town Record

(2) Marriage Record
Barnstable Town Records
John Berce & Elinor Lewes Married 15 of November 1711 by Justice Gorham
his Daughter Lydia born 28 Feb 1712

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families by Amos Otis, 1880 page 58
John Bearse, son of Joseph, married Elennor Lewis 15th Nov., 1711.  He died May 3, 1760, aged 72.  His children were Lydia, born 28ty July, 1712, who married Capt. John Cullio, a Scotchman, Jan'y 1, 1735; John, who married Lydia Lumbert, Feb. 12, 1746; Hannah, who married Jabez Bearse, March 26, 1761, second wife; Eleanor, who married John Loggen, Jan'y 13, 1753; Martha, who married Isaac Lewis, Feb 10, 1748; Mary and Dinah.

(3) Will of John Bearse
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Barnstable Probate Book 12 page 13
John Bearse of Barnstable
Will dated 13 Jan 1759/60
Will probated 15 May 1760
Inventory 4 July 1760

Item: 1give to Eleanor Bearse my dearly beloved wife my best cow and one third of all my  household goods and one third of all my grain and one third of all my provisions and the use of one third of my dwelling house and one third of my barn and the use of all my real estate (excepting that i have hereafter given to my son John and his sisters) so long as she lives my widow and this I give her in Lieu of her Dower.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son John Bearse Jr and to the heirs of body that house that he now lives in and all the land that he now lives upon that I bought of Gideon Hathaway being about thirty acres more or less with a small barn standing on said land and the field that lyes to the southard  of his house bounded as the fence now stand all round it being about six or seven acres and also that part of the rye field / so called/ that I bought of Joseph Bearse be it more or less and also the whole of my piece of meadow joining to Josiah Stamblens meadow called the hill meadow and also a piece of woodland at a place called the fish holes yt I bought of Benjamin Bearse, Sr. Deceased
Item: I give to my son John Bearse Jr all my wearing apparel my armour and one quarter of my cart and wheels
Item: I give and bequeath unto my three daughter equally viz Hannah Bearse, Mary Bearse and Dinah Bearse --- all my buildings both my dwelling house and barn and all my real Estate that I have not before given to my son etc, etc.
Item: I give to my Daughter Lydia Callio Six Shillings
Item: I give to my Daughter Eleanor Logge twenty shillings and two of my sheep
Item: I give unto my Daughter Martha Lewis twenty shillings
Item: I give unto my Daughter Mary Bearse and Dinah Bearse the letters to enable them to pay all my just bebts and legacies and funeral  charges, etc.
Lastly I constitute make and ordain my two Daughter Namely Mary Bearse and Dinah Bearse my only Sole Executors, etc.

(4) Death information from Findagrave.
John Barse
Birth 8 May 1687 Barnstable
Death 3 MAy 1760 (aged 72) Barnstable
Buried South Streeet Cemetery, Hyannis, Barnstable, MA