Born in Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey
Ancestors 
Daughter of Nathaniel Vail UE
and Elizabeth (Dennis) Vail
Sister of
Mary (Vail) LeFevre, Nathaniel Dennis Vail, Elizabeth Vail, Martha Vail, Lewis Vail, Catherine Vail, Asher Vail, Robert Vail, Hannah Vail, Reuben Vail and Nathaniel Dennis Vail
Wife of
Adam Burwell
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 69
in Southwold, Upper Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Oct 2013
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Biography
Sarah Vail (sometimes spelled Veal) was the daughter of United Empire Loyalists Nathaniel Vail and Elizabeth Dennis. She married Adam Burwell, another native of New Jersey, and they settled in Upper Canada where Adam received a land grant in Bertie Township for his military service as a loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.[1]
Sources
- ↑ John Clarke, “BURWELL, MAHLON,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed February 11, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/burwell_mahlon_7E.html.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Melissa Hulse for creating WikiTree profile Vail-832 through the import of Colson.ged on Oct 26, 2013.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sarah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sarah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sarah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sarah:
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~0.78%
Roderick Boland
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member roderickboland1
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Nancy (Clark) O'Hare :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A351032 [compare], Ancestry member nrclark3
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~0.78%
Robert Allen :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A234676 [compare], Ancestry member robert2632748
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~0.78%
Corrie Harris :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member corriejean76
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