Sarah (Unknown) Gedney (abt. 1612 - abt. 1649)

Born about 1612 in Norfolk, England

Wife of John Gedney — married before 1637 in England

Descendants

Died about 16 Mar 1649 at about age 37 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Dispute: There was speculation that John's wife Sarah died on passage or shortly after arrival in New England and he married second widow Mary (possibly Prince/ unk) but this is unproven (see NEHGR: 170: 2016). In TAG: 14: 1937: this was speculated by the employees Robert and Rebecca Prince, working at his tavern as the children of this wife Mary. Recent research in NEHGR170 has shown that these are actually the children of wife Katherine (Franklin/Prince/Clarke) Gedney. A 1637 church admission at the church at Salem for Mary Gedney may simply a transcription error for Sary Gedney.

Biography

Sarah (___) was aged 25, in May, 1637, when registered for passage to New England on May 11, 1637, with her husband John Gedney, weaver of Norwich, Norfolk, England, children Lydia, Hannah and John and two servants, William Walker and (___) Burges. ^{[1] [2]}

The family settled at Salem, Massachusette where on August 7,1637, John Gedney admitted as an inhabitant of Salem. ^[3]

It appears she died by March 16, 1649, when John signed a deed, selling land to Thomas Spooner, and no wife's name accompanied his signature. ^{[4] [5]}

On February 27, 1650 [27: 12:1649] Mrs. Gedney made oath that Mrs. Susan Archer converted needlework napkins that she herself proved she had made, to 'coives' (head scarves). Samuel Archer ordered to pay Mrs. Gedney 3s. It is undetermined which Mrs. Gedney. ^[6]

After her death, John married the widow Katherine (nee Franklin) (Prince) Clarke by 1653/4. They had no children. ^[4]

In his will written on September 22, 1684, and proved on August 3, 1688, John Gedney Sr. named: ^{[7] [4]}

• daughter-in-law, Rebecca Putnam
• Rebecca Hutchinson that now liveth with me, daughter of Joseph Hutchinson
• daughter Mary Potter
• son Bartholomew Gedney, his wife and children
• grandson Eleazer Gedney
• daughter Susannah Gedney, and the children she had by my son John ^[7]

In 1698 -1700, several of John Gedney's Sr's. heirs, submitted documents attesting that they had received their shares as listed in his will of 1684, from William Gedney, administrator, his grandson. The December,1698 inventory included the 'Ship's Tavern', stable, shops, great parlor, furnishings and land belonging to it. ^[8]

• Samuel Gedney, Hannah Grafton, Lydia Corwin, Bethiah Gedney and Deborah Gedney, surviving children of Bartholomew and Hannah Gedney, and grandchildren of John Gedney Sr., attested in December, 1698 to receiving their portions of their grandfather's estate and quitclaimed all rights of Susannah Parkman, wife of Deliverance and to Nathaniel Gedney, mariner
• Susannah (alias Gedney) Parkman, and her husband Deliverance Parkman, attested on January 6, 1698/9 they received their share of father John Gedney Sr.'s estate
• Nathaniel Gedney, surviving child of John and Susannah Gedney Jr., attested he had received and further quitclaimed his rights of his grandfather John Gedney Sr's. estate on January 2, 1698/9
• Mary Gedney, widow of Eliezer Gedney, and guardian to Martha Gedney his surviving child, attested to receiving and further quitclaimed right's to grandfather John Gedney Sr's. estate on May 1, 1700
• Martha Gedney, surviving child of Eliezer Gedney, attested she had received and further quitclaimed her rights of her grandfather John Gedney Sr's. estate on December 3, 1701 ^[8]

Children

1. Lydia born before 1637 in England ^[1]; not named in her father's 1684 will. ^[7]
2. Hannah born before 1637 in England ^{[1] [2]}; not named in her father's 1684 will. ^[7]
3. John born before 1637 in England ^[1]; died by November 25, 1684 when his estate was submitted to the court ^[9]; married his stepsister Susannah Clarke on May 4, 1659. ^{[10] [2]}
4. Mary born c 1638; married Nicholas Potter as his third wife c 1659; named in her father's will written in September, 1684. ^{[5] [7] [11] [2]}
5. Bartholomew baptized at Salem on June 14, 1640 ^[12]; died on February 28, 1698 ^[13]; married his stepsister Hannah Clarke on December 22, 1662. ^{[10] [2]}
6. Eleazer baptized on May 15, 1642^[12]; died April 29, 1683 ^[13][14]; married first Elizabeth Turner on June 9, 1665; married second, Mary Pattashall on June 6, 1678. ^{[10] [8] [2]}
7. Sarah baptized on June 23, 1644 ^{[12] [2]}; not named in her father's 1684 will. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Hotten: James C. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England, London, England, 1874, p. 294
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Waters, Henry FitzGilbert. The Gedney and Clarke Families of Salem, Mass. in: Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume 16: No. 4, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1879, p. 241-54
3. ↑ Town records of Salem, Massachusetts, Volume 1, 1639-1659. The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1868 p. 53: 63: 94: 110: 118: 160: 180-1: 184-9: 213:
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Prince, Roger A., Katherine (Franklin) (Prince) (Clarke) Gedney of Rotherhithe, Surrey, and Salem, Massachusetts, and the English Origins of Robert Prince of Salem in: The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 170, The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2016, p. 195-209
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume 39, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1903 p. 259-64: 370: 380
6. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1: 1636-1656, The Essex Institue, Salem, Massachusetts, 1911 p. 11: 19: 29: 114: 185-6: 328
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5} Case 1667: p. 1-4: Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Case 10709:p. 1-14: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
9. ↑ Case 10708:1: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849: Volume 3: Marriages, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1924
11. ↑ Miller, June Butler. Nicholas Potter of Lynn and His Descendants in: The Essex Genealogist, Volume 19, 1999 p. 142-4. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.)
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2} Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849: Volume 1: Births, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1916
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849: Volume 5: Deaths, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1925
14. ↑ Case 10707: p. 1-30: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)

See also:

• Essex Institute Historical Collections (Salem, Massachusetts, 1878) Vol. 15, Page 242
• Prince, Roger A., The English Origin of John Gedney of Salem, Massachusetts, and His Three Wives, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., Winter 2020) Vol. 174, WN 693, Page 33.

• She is "probably the Sarah Helly who married John Gidny on 25 April 1637 in Wrentham, Suffolk."