Sarah Kirby (1667 - aft. 1741)

Born 1 May 1667 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Died after 4 Apr 1741 after age 73 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Sarah was born 1 May 1667^[1]

Research Note

"The children of Richard Kirby and Patience Gifford were :

" i. Sarah Kirby, b. May i, 1667 (" One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families ");

m. Samuel Merihew [b. 1667] of Dartmouth, son [should be brother] of Jonathan Merihew.

He was constable of Dartmouth in 1719.

Cautionary Note: Kirby Genealogy is in error this Will is that of Samuel Merithew b. 1710, who is not Sarah Kirby's husband. His will, dated Sept. 29, 1733, makes no mention of wife or children. He names his father Jonathan " Merithew," his sister Mary Merithew, his sister Grace Burlingham, " my sisters Desire, Susanna and Dinah," his brother Roger Merithew, and his brother Jeremiah Merithew. He gives to his father all his real and personal property. It may therefore be assumed that his wife was dead and that he had no children. " The Kirbys of New England ... page 237 https://archive.org/details/kirbysofnewengla00dwig/page/n506/mode/1up?view=theater&q=Merihew

Sources

• The Kirbys of New England : a history of the descendants of John Kirby of Middletown, Conn. and of Joseph Kirby of Hartford, Conn., and of Richard Kirby of Sandwich, Mass. together with genealogies of the Burgis, White and Maclaren families, and the ancestry of John Drake, of Windsor, Conn.

by Dwight, Melatiah Everett

1. ↑ Vital records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 ( Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society,1929-1930)

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