I have read about various William Lears and about John Lear of Culpepper, VA tonight until my eyes bleed. However, I like to think I made progress. A lot of this information comes from websites connected to the Lear Family DNA Project page. And I will create a much more coherent post with links tomorrow or Monday (in the mean time, I believe this is the research of Robert Strong), so stay tuned. This is what I found, in a nutshell, mostly do I do not forget. There was a John Lear in Culpepper, VA, not to be confused with a Col. John Lear of the Revolutionary War and his family in VA. John has been genetically connected to the Garrard County, KY, Lears. They descend from John, they just do not know how, but they speculate William Lear of Garrard County who died in 1807, was the youngest son of John, Sr, or the oldest son of his son, John, Jr.
William Lear of Garrard County had a son named Jesse Lear. And Jesse moved to...wait for it...wait for it...Jessamine County, Kentucky! The birth place of my beloved William Bronson Lear. Now, Jesse had a son named William F. Lear, who, from what I can tell, not much is known about, but it is speculated he married later in Lincoln County, Kentucky. So we may not be descended from Jesse and his son, William. However, it does go to show that the Garrard County Lears did go to Jessamine County (which I figured, since the two are close together, and may have been part of one another at some point, I have not checked that), and are most likely the family of my William Lear (there's that phrase again!). So I THINK (mostly guessing, not to DAR standards or anything, which I try to ask myself when proving anything) that my William Lear at least comes from the John Lear of Culpepper, VA. Nothing to prove that AT ALL. But that is what I think.
That's progress, right?
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