Sarah (Eliot) Curtis (1599 - 1673)

Born 13 Jan 1599 in Widford, Hertfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of William Curtis III — married 6 Aug 1618 in Nazeing, Essex, England

Descendants

Died 27 Mar 1673 at age 74 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Sarah Eliot, the daughter of Bennett Eliot and Lettice Alger Eliot was born in 1599 in England. She married William Curtis August 6, 1618 in Nazeing, Essex, England. Sarah died 26 or 27 Mar 1673 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.^[1][2]

Christening

"Sarah Eliot. the daughter of Bennet Eliot and Lettes his wife, was baptized the 13th of Jan. A.D. 1599" at St. John the Baptist Church, Widford, Hertfordshire, England.^[3] She was not baptized in Nazing as suggested by some sources^[4]

Married

William Curtis — married August 6, 1618 in Nazeing, Essex, England^[5]

Children of Sarah and William

1. Thomas, bapt. at Nazeing, March 12, 1619/20;^[5] died in infancy.
2. Mary, bapt. at Nazeing, March 11, 1620/1.^[5] Came to Massachusetts.
3. Thomas, bapt. at Nazeing, Jan. 19, 1622/23;^[5] d. June 26, 1650, "of a long and lingering consumption."
4. Elizabeth, bapt. at Nazeing, Feb. 13, 1624/25;^[5] m. to Isaac Newhall, Dec. 14, 1659. Great Migrations shows that this Elizabeth died Jan. 1627^[6] However, Elizabeth is listed upon the passenger manifest with William and Sarah when they came to Massachusetts.
5. Sarah, bapt. at Nazeing, Aug. 5, 1627.^[5] Came to Massachusetts.
6. John, bapt. at Nazeing, July 17, 1629;^[5] m. Rebecca Wheeler Dec. 20, 1661. Her death is thus recorded in the Roxbury Church Records: "Month 3 day 16 (1675). Rebecca, wife to John Curtis, dyed of hydropycall humors wch occasioned the more speedy burial of her, on the Sabath Evening".
7. Philip, bapt. at Nazeing, March 28, 1632;^[5] d. 1675; m. Obedience Holland, Oct. 20, 1658. He was a lieutenant in the war with King Philip, and was slain by the Indians.
8. Hannah, b. in Roxbury; m. Wm. Cary (or Geary), 1651.; b. 1634 m. William Gary^[7]
9. Elizabeth b. say 1637 married Roxbury 14 Dec. 1659 John Newell^[8][9]
10. Isaac, b. in Roxbury, July 22, 1641; d. May 31, 1695; m. Roxbury 10 May 1670 Hannah Polly^[10][11]

Arrival

16 September 1632

Boston, Massachusetts^[12]

William Curtis, accompanied by: Wife Sarah Eliot; Child Mary; Child Thomas; Child Sarah; Child Philip; Child John; Child Elizabeth^[13][14][15]

Please Note the children who accompanied William and Sarah to Massachusetts from England. The passenger manifest lists 6 children. Anderson differs on this, yet I think it is safer to trust the passenger manifests.

Death and Burial

Sarah Curtis died 27 March 1673 at Roxbury^[16]

Possibly buried in Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury.^[17]

Sources

1. ↑ Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Roxbury: Volume I, 1630-1785, p. 185.
2. ↑ New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. Volume 162, p. 135.
3. ↑ "Genealogical Gleanings in England." citing the Paris Register of St. John the Baptist, Widford, Hertfordshire, England. Extracted in 1893, in the language of the 1893, by Rev. John Traviss Lockwood, Rector. New England Historical and Genealogical Register 48:402. (1894)
4. ↑ Gen. Column of the "Boston Transcript". 1906-1941. (The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 19 Oct 1921, 9161; 24 Aug 1927, 5668; 26 Sep 1927, 5668; 9 Jan 1928, 6554; 18 Apr 1928, 6888; 30 Sep 1929, 8571; 4 Nov 1929, 8571; 18 Dec 1929, 8571; 19 Feb 1930, 857. Volume 49, p. 421. Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7} Winters, W. The Pilgrim Fathers of Nazing. New England Historical and Genealogical Register 28: 145. 1874 Link at Archive
6. ↑ #WCurtisGM
7. ↑ #WCurtisGM
8. ↑ #WCurtisGM
9. ↑ This Elizabeth is not in JEliot.
10. ↑ #WCurtisGM
11. ↑ Isaac is not in JEliot.
12. ↑ #JEliot p. 4
13. ↑ Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. BANKS, CHARLES EDWARD. The Planters of the Commonwealth; a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: To Which Are Added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which Brought Them; Their English Homes, and the Places of Their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. 231p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1961. Repr. 1984. p. 100.
14. ↑ Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS. In Bulletin of the Seattle Genealogical Society, vol. 28:2 (Winter 1978), pp. 115-120; vol. 28:3 (Spring 1979), pp. 221-222; vol. 28:4 (Summer 1979), pp. 313-314. p. 314
15. ↑ Transcription for William Curtis, arriving in 1632 to Roxbury, The Great Migration Begins:Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633 by R. C. Anderson p. 499-501.
16. ↑ Boston Record Commissioners. Roxbury Land and Church Records, Boston Records Commissioners Reports (Rockwell and Churchill, Boston, 1875) Vol, 6. Page 180., Possibly: Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
17. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #35896629) (accessed 25 April 2020), memorial page for Sarah Eliot Curtis (13 Jan 1599–27 Mar 1672), citing Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Note: Cemetery has confirmed there is no marker for this burial.

• Jeff Walton, transcribed from The Descendants of Rev. John Eliot, Capt. James Parker, Capt. Thomas Prentice from New England and Pulteney, New York, 1620-1967: Including references to the families of Mullins, Southworth, Bradford, Bridge, Stanton, Lord; compiled by Wilford V. Case; Syracuse, NY; December 15, 1967.

• New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. Volume 162, p. 135.

• Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

• A genealogy of the Curtiss family : being a record of the descendants of widow Elizabeth Curtiss, who settled in Stratford, Conn., 1639-1640, by Frederic Haines Curtiss, 1903. pp. xxviii-xxix. [[1]]

• A Genealogy of the Curtiss-Curtis family of Stratford, Connecticut: a supplement to the 1903 edition. Complied by Harlow Dunham Curtis. 1953. [[2]]

• Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Roxbury: Volume I, 1630-1785, p. 185.

• JEliot Title: Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot: Author: Emerson, Wilimena; Eliot, Elsworth; Eliot, George Edwin : Publication: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Press: New Haven, Connecticut, 1905: a Google e-Book: Eliot

• WCurtisGM Title: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).

• Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Royal Historical Society, 1882) Vol. 10, Page 289