Sarah (Hickock) Prime (1698 - aft. 1757)

Born 23 Jul 1698 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Root — married 1723 in Litchfield Co., Connecticut

Wife of Joseph Prime — married 8 Jan 1728 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died after 1757 after age 58 in Woodury, Litchfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Sarah HICKOK was born ^[1] 23 Jul 1698 in Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. She passed away after 1757.

Sarah Hickock was baptized July 31, 1698 at the Woodbury First Congregational Church. Sarah is mentioned in her father’s will where she and her sister Lois were to receive twenty shillings. The probate record for Thomas Root, October 05, 1727: “Mr Benjamin Hickock and Sarah Roots ye widow who were appointed administrator and administratrix” for the estate of Thomas Roots of Woodbury presented the inventory of the estate of Thomas Roots to the Probate Court of Woodbury. Also mentioned in the probate records is the distribution of the estate to sons, Amos and John Roots.

January 27, 1745/6: Joseph Prime and his wife Sarah and the “heirs of Deacon Benjamin Hicock” made claim to land left to them by Benjamin Hicock which consisted of “thirty two acres of land which our sd father purchased of Timothy Hinman lying in the town of sd Woodbury lying on the south side of Great Chestnut Hill.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F77K-K4N : accessed 30 April 2016), Benjamin Hiccock in entry for Sarah Hiccock, 23 Jul 1698; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

• Barbour Collection at the Woodbury, Connecticut Vital Records
• The Hickock Genealogy, Descendants of William Hickock of Farmington, Connecticut; A History of William Hickok A First Settler of Farmington, Con-necticut and William Andrews A First Settler of New Haven, Connecticut and of Their Descendants From 1635 to 1972
• History of Ancient Woodbury Connecticut;
• Woodbury, First Congregational Church, 1670–1920 [CSL Film No. 419, FHL Film No. 0006182.
• Woodbury Probate Packets, 1720–1880 [CSL Film No. 1604].
• Root, James Pierce, Root and Roots Families in America, 1870.
• Woodbury land records at the Woodbury Office of the Town Clerk; Vol. 5; Page: 165; Vol. 7; Pages: 29, 133
• Prime, Ralph Earl. The Descendants of James Prime (G.B. Mottram, Yonkers, N.Y., 1895) Page 6