Ann [Gross] Shears

Biography

Ann _____ married Edmond Grosse as his second wife sometime before 1647. Assuming she was at least 20 when she married she was born sometime before 1627.

Ann and Edmond had four children:

1. Hannah, Born 12 June 1647[1]
2. Lydia, Born 6 January 1650[2]
3. Mary b 9 September 1652 Boston[3]
4. John b 21 April 1655[4]

After Edmond's death, Ann remarried to Samuel Sheares of Dedham.[5] Together they had one child:

1. Samuel b 3 Oct 1657

Ann died 2 Mar 1659/60 in Dedham, Massachusetts.[6]

Sources

• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lwberry/genealogy/Berry/gp15.htm
• ↑ First Church Records, Boston Massachusetts, Volume 1, PDF Image 366, book page 306. [Downloadable PDF Copy of this book]
• ↑ First Church Records, Boston Massachusetts, Volume 1, PDF Image 377, book page 317. [Downloadable PDF Copy of this book]
• ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCWV-YM9 : 14 January 2020), Mary Grosse, 1652.
• ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHTB-BVF : 15 January 2020), John Gross, 1655.
• ↑ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Originally published as: A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1883. Volume Name Boston Page 67 " Samuel Sheeres of Dedham & Ann Grosse of Boston widow were married 15th -- 6th month by Richard Bellingham Dept. Govr."
• ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Dedham - V1&2 Page 8 "An Sheers, deceased ye 2 March, 59 or 60."
• My Heritage Family Tree
• Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, Isaac Gross, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003., pgs 159-163. NEHGS Member link