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Sarah (Alexander) Taft (abt. 1730)

Sarah Taft formerly Alexander
Born about in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Islandmap [uncertain]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married about 11 May 1763 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of and
Died [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Biography

Sarah Alexander of Cumberland, Rhode Island married Japhet Taft, as his second wife, on May 11, 1763. [1] [2] [3] Japhet was born at Mendon, Massachusetts on March 3, 1721/2, son of Daniel Taft and Lydia Chapin. [1] [4]

It is unknown, when either Sarah or her husband Japhet died. They may have had more children than those noted here, including a son Japhet Jr.

Children

  1. Juda born January 3, 1764; died on January 17, 1764. [1]
  2. Marcy born on January 16, 1765[1]; died January 26, 1812; married Lieut. Joseph Torrey on October 6, 1793 at Uxbridge, Massachusetts [5] as his second wife. [6]
  3. Sarah born October 29, 1766 [1]; married Daniel Fuller on March 15, 1789. [7]
Research notes

Mendon Marriages

TAFT, Japhet and [Sarah. TC] Alexander of Cumberland, int. ––– ––, 1763. (p. 235)

Mendon Births

Taft, Japhat, s. of Daniel and Lidia, Mar. 3, 1721-2. (p. 173)
?Alexander, Sarah, d. of Joseph and Sarah, Oct. 11, 1738. (p. 20)
Taft, Juda d. of Japhet and Sarah, Jan. 3, 1764. (p. 173)
Taft, Marcey d. of Japhet and Sarah, Jan. 16, 1765. (p. 174)
Taft, Sarah d. of Japheth and Deborah [Sarah dup.], Oct. 29, 1766. (p. 176)

Mendon Deaths

Taft, Juda d. of Japhet and Sarah, Jan. 17, 1764. (p. 502)
 ? son Taft, Japhet, Feb. --, 1836. (p. 500) [1]

Cumberland Births

1-70: ? Alexander, Sarah of Thomas and Mary April 28, 1738. (p. 73)' [8]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Baldwin, Thomas, compiler. Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Wright & Potter Printing Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1920
  2. May, Mary E. Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims, Book 3, National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Manchester, Connecticut, 1982 p. 500
  3. Goldthwaite, Charlotte, Goldthwaite genealogy : descendants of Thomas Goldthwaite, an early settler of Salem, Mass., with some account of the Goldwaite Family in England, Hartford Press, Hartford, Connecticut, 1899, p. 75: 112
  4. The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data: With Brief Biographical Sketches, of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Volume 1, Chapin Family Association, Hartford, Connecticut, 1924 p. 25
  5. Baldwin, Thomas, compiler, Vital Records of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Wright & Potter Printing Company, Boston, Massacusetts, 1916 p. 318
  6. Torrey, Frederic C. The Torrey Families and Their Children in America, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1924. p. 174
  7. Sears, Richard. Ancestors of William Goodell Frost and Eleanor (Marsh) Frost, Lulu.com, 2008 p. 150
  8. Arnold, James N. Editor. Vital Record of Rhode Island : 1636-1850 : First Series : Births, Marriages and Deaths : a Family Register for the People, Cumberland: Vol. 3, Narragansett Historical Publ. Co., Providence, Rhode Island p. 73




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