Born in Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thankful Collins
and Sarah (Gorton) Collins
Sister of
Elizabeth Collins and Thomas Collins
Wife of
Silas Field
— married
4 Jul 1762 in Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Sarah was born in 1731 at Warwick, Rhode Island, the daughter of Thankful and Sarah (Gorton) Collins.[1]
She married Silas Field in 1762 at Cranston.[2]
Silas passed away in 1774, and on April 11 of that year is the record:[3]
- Whereas Stephen Field and Freelove Field, infant children of Silas Field late of Scituate aforesaid, deceased, are not of a sufficient age to choose guardians to take care of their persons and estates and it being necessary that some person or persons should have the case of the said infant children and their estates: It is therefore voted that Sarah Field the mother of the said infants and Stephen Knight of Cranston ... be ... appointed guardians..., John Field and William Field both of said Cranston to be their sureties.
Research
Sarah appears as recently widowed head of household in the 1774 census of Rhode Island[4]. Her household distribution and inferred attributions are then
- one white male under 16: son Stephen
- two white females over 16: Sarah and unknown
- one white female under 16: daughter Freelove
Sources
- ↑ Arnold: Vol. 1, Warwick Births, Page 157
- ↑ Arnold: Vol. 2, Cranston Marriages, Page 11
- ↑ Mathew, page 211
- ↑ 1774 Census
- Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence, R.I., Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1891)
- Gorton, Adelos,. The life and times of Samuel Gorton : the founders and the founding of the Republic : a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time. Philadelphia: unknown, 1907.
- 1774 Rhode Island Census, Scituate, Page 7, Entry 34 -- Sarah Field; citing transcription by Linda L. Mathew in Rhode Island Roots 32 p.144, September 2006.
- Mathew, Linda L. "Guardianships from the town of Scituate, R. I., 1762--1799" in Rhode Island Roots 30 (2004) pp.206--228.
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