Sarah (Adams) Castle (1680 - 1708)

Born 3 Oct 1680 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Isaac Castle — married 1701 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Ct

Descendants

Died 24 Feb 1708 at age 27 in Woodbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Sarah Adams was born on October 2, 1680,^[1]in Fairfield, Connecticut, to parents, Mary Meeker and Samuel Adams.^[2]She was the first born, out of Mary and Samuel's eight children, followed by Abigail, Elizabeth, Abraham, Jonathan, David, Benjamin, and John.^[3]Her father had 2 sons, before Sarah was born, Samuel, Jr and Daniel, but their mother is unknown.^[4]When Sarah's father died in 1694, her mother married Moses Lyon, who died 4 years later. Sarah's mother then married, in 1698, John Thorpe, giving Sarah two more step-brothers, Peter and Daniel Thorpe. Sarah, herself, married Isaac Castle, Sr, 1701, in Connecticut^[5] with their union producing three children: Isaac, Jr, Samuel and Sarah.^[6][7]Sarah died at the early age of 28, in 1708, shortly after the birth of her daughter, Sarah.^[8][9]

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
2. ↑ "Pedigree Resource File," database
3. ↑ "The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: 1639-1700"
4. ↑ "The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: 1639-1700,Volume 1", page 349 by Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey Schenck; Published by the author, New York, 1889
5. ↑ "New England Marriages Prior to 1700", page 140, By Clarence Almon Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley; Genealogical Publishing Company, Jan 1, 1985
6. ↑ Family Central, Family History Services-SOURCES: "A Castle encyclopedia and Henry Castle of Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Ct. and some of his descendants" by Joan M. Smith and Noreen E. Haler; Grand Prairie, Texas : N.E. Haler, 1991
7. ↑ ReoCities Project
8. ↑ "International Genealogical Index"
9. ↑ "Pedigree Resource File," database

• Barnes, Leon M., Barnes' Mortality Record of The Town of Woodbury (Leon M. Barnes, Woodbury, Connecticut, 1898) Page 7. Deaths:

• 1708, February 24, Sarah, wife of Isaac Castle

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Fairfield, Page 1.