Capt. Seers Harris [5729] ^994,995

   Another name for Seers was Sears Harris.

  General Notes:

BIOGRAPHY: Sears Harris was b. Plainfield CT ca. 1742 to Peter and Mary (---) Harris and d. there in 1825; he m. ca. 1764 Elizabeth Harris, b. Plainfield ca. 1744 to Ebenezer and Sarah (Trull) Harris; Elizabeth d. there in 1822. Children, b. Plainfield, CT [by John Austin]

BIOGRAPHY: Capt. Seers Harris, a life-long resident of Plainfield, Connecticut, was a soldier, farmer and something of a land dealer. Often when he signed his name he was "Seers Harris of Plainfield in Connecticut". He lived in that southern part of Plainfield where his grandfather, Ebenezer, had settled in the 1690s when he moved from Ipswich, Mass. to the new settlement on the Quinebaug River. This settlement in 1699 was incorporated as Plainfield.
Throughout our early research we wondered where the name "Seers" originated. Until we found that Peter's wife was Mary Welch we had expected to learn that she was born a Seers. We now believe that Seers Harris was named for ____ Sears or Seers, the first husband of Peter's sister, Elizabeth. He died somewhat before Seers Harris was born. Captain Seers Harris spelled his name with two e's, but some scribes and later generations have spelled the name S-e-a-r-s.
The earliest record of Seers, himself, is in 1760, when as a boy of fifteen he was serving in Capt. John Tyler's company of the Connecticut militia in the French and Indian War.
Three or four years after this war service Seers must have married, since his first child, Anna, was born in 1765. Seers' wife was his cousin, Elizabeth Harris, daughter of Ebenezer and grand-daughter of Ebenezer, the early proprietor of Plainfield.
When the Revolution began Seers reentered military service. His name appears in a payroll for the Twenty-first Reg't. of Militia, at New York in 1776, in Lieut. Dan Clark's Company in Col. J. Douglas' Reg't who joined the American Army in the State of New York Sept. 1776. "Corp. Seers Harris entered service Sept. 7, discharged Mar. 20".
Capt. Seers Harris died Feb. 8, 1825 and is buried beside Elizabeth and Mary in the cemetery on the Joseph Rude farm in South Plainfield.

BIOGRAPHY: Seers Harris b. 1745 in Plainfield, Conn. d. Feb. 8, 1825 in Plainfield, Conn. He had land left him by his father, Peter, in Plainfield. He married his cousin, Elizabeth (Betty) Harris, b.___, d. Apr. 4, 1822. Elizabeth (Betty) Harris was also given land in Plainfield by her father,Ebenezer Harris. This land was sold by Betty and Seers Harris in 1787-1790. Both are born in South Plainfield, died there and are buried in a small cemetery on the Joseph Rude Farm. Seers Harris was a Captain in the French & Indian War and also served later in the Rev. War.

BIOGRAPHY: French & Indian War - Mohawk Valley, NY
Private Seers Harris (Plainfield, Conn.) was in Captain John Tyler's Co. of Conn. Militia at age 15.
Record reads:
Little Falls, Augt ye 10, 1760
To Capt. Tyler plese to pay Isaac Fellows the sum of one pound, seven shillings and 6d, and stoop the same out of my wages for value Recd.
Pvt. Seers Harris
In the year 1760, General Amherst advanced on Montreal by way of Oswego and the St. Lawerence River. Little Falls, NY is a narrow and strategic point in the Valley of the Mohawk on the main route of travel from the East to Oswego. Isaac Fellows, mentioned in the note, was also a resident of Plainfield, Conn. Capt. John Tyler, latter General John Tyler, was from Preston Conn.

BIOGRAPHY: Revolutionary War
When the Rev. began, he re-enterd military service in 1776. He enrolled Sept. 7, 1776 in the American Army in the State of New York, for 6 months. Payroll records show:
Corp. Seers Harris in Lt. Dan Clark's Co. of Col J. Douglas 21st Reg. of Militia of N.Y. He was discharged Mar. 20, 1777
Going back to Plainfield, Conn., in 1783 and 1784 he was appointed by the State of Conn., Ensign of the 1st Co. (or Trainband) in the 21st Conn. Reg. of Militia. He then was appointed 1st Lt. in this unit. He continued through and after the war, and in January 1789, was appointed by the state as Captain of the 1st Co. of Militia in the 21st Reg. of Conn.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Burial Place. Joseph Roode Farm Cemetery

Seers married Elizabeth Harris [5730] [MRIN: 2016], daughter of Ebenezer Harris, Jr. [5736] and Sarah Trull [5737], in 1764.⁷¹⁷ (Elizabeth Harris [5730] was born in 1744 in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA, died on 4 Apr 1822 in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA and was buried in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA.)