1William Richard Cutter and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 106 (1910).
"(I) Richard Sares appears in our New England colonial history with the mention of his name in the records of the Plymouth colony tax list in 1633, when he was one of forty-four persons there assessed nine shillings in corn at six shillings per bushel. From Plymouth he soon crossed over to Marblehead, Massachusetts, and was taxed there, as shown by the Salem lists, in 1637-38. He also had a grant of four acres of land "where he had formerly planted," from which it appears that he may have been in that plantation at some previous time. In 1639 he joined the colonists under Anthony Thacher and went to Cape Cod and founded the town of yarmouth. His first house was built on Quivet Neck, and afterward built another house a short distance to the northwest of his first home there. In 1643 the name of richard Seeres appears in the list of inhabitants of Yarmouth "liable to bear arms." He was made freeman in 1652, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1653, was constable in 1660, grand juror in 1652, and representative to the court in Plymouth in 1662. In 1664 Richard Sares, husbandman, purchased for twenty pounds from Allis, widow of Governor William Bradford, a tract of land at Sesuit. He died in August. 1676, and was buried on the 26th of that month. His wife was Dorothy -------, who was buried March 19, 1678-79; but it is not certain that she was his only wife, or the mother of all or even any of his children. Indeed there is a presumption that he was previously married and that his children may have been born of his former wife. So far as known his children were as follows: 1. Paul, born 1637-38. 2. Silas, died yarmouth, January 13, 1697-98. 3. Deborah, born Yarmouth, September, 1639.".