Sarah (Grange) Howe (abt. 1735 - 1792)

Born about 1735 in Province of North Carolina

Descendants

Died 1792 at about age 57 in North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Sarah Grange ... ^[1]

Sarah was born about 1720.

• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Married to Major General Robert Howe in Revolutionary War on the side of England. Sarah married Major General Howe in 1754. Sarah was heiress to a large fortune. Howe was widely considered a womanizer by contemporaries; by 1772 he became estranged from Grange, and the two separated. In the year of their formal separation, Howe recorded a deed for the support of his wife.

Loyalist sympathizer and diarist Janet Schaw described Howe prior to the revolution:

... very like a Gentleman, much more so indeed than any thing I have seen in the Country. He is deemed a horrid animal, a sort of a woman-eater that devours every thing that comes in his way, and that no woman can withstand him. But be not in pain for your friend, I do assure you they overrate his merits, and as I am certain it would be in the power of mortal women to withstand him, so am I convinced he is not so voracious as he is represented.

Parents:

John Grange

Moore

Research Notes

Will written 26th day of September 1796 by Sarah Grange Howe, wife of Major General Robert Howe of Brunswick Co., NC:

Mentions: Son, Robert Howe, Executor of her estate.

Mentions: My beloved daughter, Mrs. Ann Goodlet Daniell, deceased, and notes her (Ann Goodlett Howe's) children and her, Sarah Grange Howe's grandchildren) as:

Sarah Daniell, Rebecca, John Daniell, George Daniell, Stephen Daniell, and Ann Daniell.

Sarah Grange Howe also mentions a daughter, Mary Moore.

Will is signed by Sarah Howe and Witnessed by Oxford O. Beasley and John Freeland.

Via Book CR 12.012, page 15. State of North Carolina.

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Sally Hawkins, Jul 4, 2013

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 15 May 2016, 20:16), entry for Sarah Grange(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:9NV6-WT9); contributed by various users.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 05 July 2016, 18:37), entry for Sarah Grange(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LVS5-V59); contributed by various users.
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Acknowledgments

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