Lear, Alexander (1741-1815)

Name:: Lear, Alexander (1741-1815)
Title:: Private, Captain Nathaniel Rand's Company, Rye, March 4, 1776
Pledge, Opposition to Hostile British Forces, Rye, July 6, 1776
Private, Captain Joseph Parsons' Company, Col. Senter's Battalion, September 8, 1777
Signer, Petition to the General Court Relative to Military Grievances, Rye, February 9, 1785.
Born:: 10/04/1741
Birthplace:: Portsmouth, NH
Died:: 00/00/1815
Death Location:: Epsom, NH
Residence:: Portsmouth, NH 1761, 1763, 1767
Rye, NH 1776, 1777, 1782, 1785, 1789, 1790
Epsom, NH 1797, 1808, 1815
Nationality:: American
Occupation:: Farmer
Father:: Lear, Samuel
Mother:: Mary Lervey
Spouse:: (1) Sarah Cook (1743-1778), December 25, 1761
(2) Elizabeth (Brown) Goss
Children:: Benjamin, born 1759; died 1838
Samuel, born 1762; died 1842
Elizabeth, born 1771; died
Alexander, bp. 1777
Molly, bp. 1777
Mehitable Odiorne, bp 1778
Notes:: Agnes P. Bartlett, Lear Family of New Hampshire. (NHHS Library, Typescript, 1940), 2-4.

Langdon B. Parsons, History of the Town of Rye, New Hampshire, From Its Discovery and Settlement to December 31, 1903. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Printing Company, 1905), 261, 262, 265, 272-273, 311, 412.