Notes
Ref#175:
1735, June 30. Searing, Simon, of Elizabeth Town, Essex Co., yeoman; will
of.
Wife Alse. Son, Simeon, land joining land of Joseph Williams. Son,
Joseph, land
joining land of Mathias Swaim. Daughters- Sarah, Phebe and Amy Searing.
Executors- brother, Samuel Searing, brother-in-law Thomas Ball, of
Newark, and
son Simeon. Witnesses- Timothy Whitehead, George Ross, Jun'r, Benhamin
Bonnel.
Proved Aug. 2, 1753. Lib C, p. 64
1735, Aug. 1. Inventory, L123.02.03; made by Joseph Bonnel and George
Ross,
Jun'r.
Ref#32:
Interestingly, the will of his brother Samuel precedes it on the page,
although
it wasn't proved until 1738. I find both brothers (Simon and Samuel
Searing)
on p. 312 of Hetfield's History of Elizabeth, but no mention of their
wives.
From: Cindy Hughes - Lucinder2@aol.com
I've been trying to find the parents of my ggg grandfather James S
Searing. He was born in NJ (probably Newark or Hillside-Eliz) in August
1783, and married Elizabeth Dunham in Sept 1807 in Westfield NJ. He may
be descended through the Simon Searing that married Apphia Ball, but I
don't know about this. There seem to have been Searings with Simons and
Jacobs; and Searings with Johns and Jameses. My own family's passed-down
stories say that the Searings were originally French (Saurin) and came to
Long Island in the 1600s. A Simon Searing was one of the first settlers
of Hempstead LI in abt 1644. Eventually there were a lot of Searings
there, and later in 1715 a James and John Searing from Hempstead bought
property in the Kakiat patent in Rockland County NY and it was called New
Hempstead.
The next piece of information I have, is that my g grandmother Cornelia
Searing, living with her father Warren in Tompkins Cove NY, wrote in her
journal in 1861 that "grandfather James" had sent her and her new husband
a calf from NJ. It would either have been from his property around Lock
St, Searing St and Nuttman St in Newark (he was collector at Newark's
Lock 16 E there on the Morris Canal), or from some place call Lyons
Farms--family story has it that his address was Lyons Farms, a place a
bit to the south I think, supposed to be around where Hillside now
is--that I can't really find.
Warren Searing was James' oldest son. Warren left Newark in about 1849-40
with Daniel Tompkins, as a kind of co-investor in Tompkins' venture of a
limestone quarry business in Tompkins Cove. I would imagine that since
Warren was young and had been working as a clerk (the Newark directory
listings) that the real investor was his father James, who set him up.
Warren left Newark with a young wife, Mary Machette, and his first child,
Cornelia, born July 4th 1839 in Newark. They are supposed to have taken
up residence in the Searing summer home in Tompkins Cove. The house they
lived in near the Hudson is still there, and I have a photo.
I have a fair amount of information on James' descendants, particularly
through Warren, and would be happy to share with anyone who is
interested. That branch of the Searings spent only about 30 years in
Tompkins Cove--when Mary died in 1869, Warren and most of his children
went back to Newark. Only Cornelia, who married locally, and two sisters
remained in the Cove. I just have no idea how to get back further than
the 1783 James. He lived only blocks from the old First Presbyterian
church in Newark, but does not appear to have belonged to it, and no
Searings are in their cemetery there. His 1861 will (he died in November
1861, only months after sending the calf) leave his pew in a different
church, Central Presbyterian, to his wife, but I have not been able yet
to attempt to find out where that church is and if it still has any
records.
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