Sarah (Brown) Embree (1769)

Born 22 Dec 1769 in Waterford, Loudoun, Virginia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Amos Embree — married 1787 in Wrightsborough, Columbia Co., Georgia

Descendants

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Biography

Sarah was a Friend (Quaker)

Sarah was born in Loudoun County, Virginia on December 22, 1769 to Quaker parents, Mercer Brown and Sarah Unknown.^[1]

Sarah's family moved from Virginia to Georgia, being received at the Wrightsborough Quaker Monthly Meeting on March 5, 1785.^[2] Her elder sister, Mary, didn't accompany the family.

Sarah married Amos Embree at Wrightsborough, Georgia sometime before February 7, 1789. A complaint was raised in the Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting about their disorderly marriage and carnal knowledge of each other prior to marriage. Their first child, Mary, was born in July, 1788. The Women's Monthly Meeting of March, 1789 reported that Sarah was desirous of making satisfaction for her outgoings and produced a paper acknowledging such that was read and received by them.^[3] The matter with the Meeting was resolved by April. It is most likely that Sarah and Amos wanted to be reunited with their Quaker Meeting ahead of the birth of their second child, Rebecca, on December 2, 1789.

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com, (2014). "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935", Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Marriages, Births and Burials 1760-1892; Collection: Baltimore Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: RG2/B/F351 3.1, [database on-line], (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2189&h=1107386539&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=sOI3&_phstart=successSource),

   "Name: Sarah Brown | Birth Date: 22 Dec 1769 | Birth Date on Image: 22 Twelfth 1769 | Birth Place: Loudoun, Virginia | Father: Mercer Brown | Mother: Sarah Brown | Event Type: Birth | Monthly Meeting: Fairfax Monthly Meeting | Type (Orthodox or Hicksite): Pre-Separation/Hicksite | Yearly Meeting: Baltimore Yearly Meeting | Meeting State: Virginia | Meeting County: Loudoun".

2. ↑ Ancestry.com, (2014). “U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935”, Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina; Minutes, 1772-1793; Collection: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes. Description Title: Minutes, 1772-1793, [database on-line], (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2189&h=3528387&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=JMU7&_phstart=successSource), image 52 of 103, “Name: Sarah Brown | Residence Date: 5 Mar 1785 | Residence Date on Image: 05 Third 1785 | Residence Place: McDuffie Georgia | Father: Mercer Brown | Mother: Sarah Brown | Event Type: Admittance | Monthly Meeting: Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting | Yearly Meeting: North Carolina Yearly Meeting | Meeting State: Georgia | Meeting County: McDuffie”.

   The Certificate stated: Mercer and his wife and children; Richard, Sarah, Ann, Margaret, Phebe and Mercer.

3. ↑ Ancestry.com, (2014). “U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935”, Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina; Minutes, 1772-1793; Collection: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes, [database on-line], (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2189&h=3528597&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=BtG142&_phstart=successSource),

   “Name: Sarah Embree| Residence Date: 7 Mar 1789|Residence Date on Image: 07 Third 1789|Residence Place: McDuffie, Georgia|Event Type: Miscellaneous|Monthly Meeting: Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting |Yearly Meeting: North Carolina Yearly Meeting|Meeting State: Georgia|Meeting County: McDuffie”.