Sarah married Jonathan Sparrow (~1629 - 1706) on 23 Nov 1698 in Barnstable.
Sarah died on 11 Feb 1735 in Barnstable aged 92.[4] Her gravestone still stands in the Goodspeed's Hill East Cemetery in Barnstable, where the epitaph reads:[5]
Here lies ye body of Mrs. Sarah Sparrow wife of Jonathan Sparrow, Esqr of Eastham, who decd Febr ye 11th 1735 in ye 92d year of her age.
Research Notes
Disputed mother: Great Migration Begins has her mother as Mary (Doggett) Lewis (bef.1600-1676), not Sarah Jenkins.[6] According to Robert Wakefield, F.A.S.G., the erroneous statement that George Lewis married to Sarah Jenkins in England is without foundation, and in addition, "statements by Deane should be used with great caution."[7] In fact, all the evidence supports Mary Doggett as the only wife of George Lewis.
There is a high probability that this Sarah Lewis did not have children with Jonathan Sparrow.
Editing Note: At one point in the evolution of this profile, Sarah had the nickname of "Pandora". The reason for the nickname is uncertain, so it was removed from the name fields on the profile. (Please do not remove this comment.)
↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), citing americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13885/694/248820524 Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. 8, "A Coppy of the Marriages, Birthes, and Burials of sundry Prsons prsented fromt the Record att Barnstable"] (Link by $ubscription to AmericanAncestors.org.)
Gorge Lewis Senir, ... Sarah, the second of February, 1643.
↑ americanancestors.org/DB1638/i/28747/88/577963772 "Barnstable, MA: Church Records, 1639-1892." Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts. CD-ROM. Boston, MA.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)] (Link by $ubsription to AmericanAncestors.org.)
Sarah Daugtr of George Lewes [bp.] Feb. 11. 1643.
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #91639428 Cobb's Hill Cemetery East and West, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
↑ americanancestors.org/DB46/rd/130290827 Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, 1650-2000. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002.)] (Link by $ubscription to AmericanAncestors.org.)
↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration Begins, (NEHGS, Boston, 1995), pages 394 and 1717.
↑ Wakefield, Robert S., "George and John Lewis of Brenchley, Kent, England, and Scituate, Massachusetts."] (Vol 68 1993, Pages 25-26) The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) accessed September 13, 2014
William T. Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Boston, MA: Damrell U Upham, 1899), page 66.
Rev. E. B. Huntington, A. M., Lo-Lathrop Family, A Genealogical Memoir of the, (Mrs. Julia M. Huntington, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1884), page 52.
Cobb, Philip L., A History of the Cobb Family, Cleveland, unknown, 1907, page 29
Freeman, Frederick. The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of The Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, Volumes 1 and 2, published online by Google Books, 2009 Freeman History of Cape Cod Vol1&2; original publisher: Geo. C. Band & Avery & Cornhill, Boston, Mass., 1858.
Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, published online by Ancestry.com. The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, 2005; original publisher: F.B. & F.P. Goss, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1890.
A history of the Cobb family, pt 1-3 (a more detailed source definition needed)
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, editor. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, Miscellaneous Records, 1633-1689. Vol. VIII. Boston: Press of W. White, 1857. [1]
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011,
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
American Marriages Before 1699 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
Acknowledgments
Grant R. Phillips, John Putnam, Jamie Swindells, Becky Syphers, Chris Bacon, Tom Elliott, Tom Bredehoft, Robert Stafford, LJ Massey, and Larry Chesebro'. Note: This list may be incomplete.
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The profiles and explanations offered for George Lewis-467 are scrabbled with that of his son George and with a different, unrelated George Lewis who married Mary Doggett-344 in Horsmonden, Kent, England.
George Lewis-467 did wed before 1654 a Mary, surname unknown, following the death of Sarah Jenkins Lewes. This Mary unknown Lewes is in the will of George Lewis-467. At least 6 genealogies report that Sarah Jenkins and George Lewes emigrated with their several children to Plymouth. Their emigration occurred shortly after Rev Lathom’s First Independent Church in London was shut down and members persecuted and imprisoned, some died. Two of those genealogies are by direct-line family members and another is by Mr. Amos Otis, a highly credible man, who routinely published his genealogies of the relatively small Barnstable community in its local newspaper.
Among hundreds of Lewis family members in Barnstable, another genealogy, including the handwritten page image shown, was thoroughly researched in the Lathrop library and published in 1966. Genealogical Notes of Cape Cod Families, Vol 33. (Lewis to Loring). 1966. Extensive Lewis pedigree, many pages of Lewis family of Barnstable. Handwritten. See page 267 for George Lewes, Sarah Jenkins, and Mary? and family. Note the page of references, after the inside front cover page, including references from the Lathrop library. https://ia800308.us.archive.org/6/items/genealogicalnote33brow/genealogicalnote33brow.pdf
Even today Barnstable is not a large community, isolated on a peninsula as it is by ocean, bay and geography. Amos Otis, a local, probably knew by name every Lewes and Lewis in the community. If in the very unlikely event Amos Otis published the incorrect name of Sarah Jenkins Lewes, the matriarch of this large, well known family in Barnstable, and previously in nearby Scituate and Plymouth just across the bay, then Amos Otis would have been immediately corrected by dozens of locals, family members, and fellow Lathrop congregants.
Yet, incredibly, this scrambled George Lewis-467 profile as well as that of Mary Doggett's scrambled profile claim that the wife and children of this George Lewis-467 emigrated later after George. Yes Mary Doggett emigrated later, but it was to join her husband a different George Lewis.
Furthermore, the persecution and destruction (by the Church of England led by the King of England) of Rev Lathom's First Independent Church in London is the obvious reason there are no English church records of the marriage of George and Sarah and the births of George and Sarah’s children. Those records would have suffered the same fate as Rev. Lathom's church in England and other records.
It was a different non-related George Lewis who married in England and fathered children in England with Mary Doggett, who then left his wife Mary Doggett and children in England and emigrated to Casco, which is 203 miles north of Barnstable and inland from Portland, Maine. This non-related George Lewis and Mary Doggett did eventually move to Barnstable where this George was recognized as a troublemaker with another man in the Barnstable community. Edward Lewis, son of George Lewis and Mary Doggett, is born in England in May 1634, after George Lewis-467 and Sarah Jenkins Lewis family are already in America. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7GM-M6P
On the other hand, George Lewis-467 married to Sarah Jenkins, was a "Goodman" as his church nickname states, notable in his community, who moved with his family to re-join with Rev Lathom and his congregation.
George Lewes, wife Sarah Jenkins and wife Mary unknown and family are described in detail in the 1990 publication, 400 Years with a New England Lewes-Lewis family, by direct descendant Barbara Lewis Williams, available on loan here: https://archive.org/details/400yearswithnewe00will/page/n7/mode/2up
George Lewes, clothier, his wife Sarah Jenkins and Sarah’s brother Edward, a clothier like George, and George's second wife Mary surname unknown are described in detail by direct descendant Winslow Lewis, M.D. in Brief Memoir of Dr. Winslow Lewis, compiled by J.H. Sheppard. The George and Sarah Jenkins Lewes family are described on page 24 and the multi-generation linkage of the Lewis and Jenkins families are described on page 11.
https://archive.org/details/briefmemoirofdrw00shep/page/n47/mode/2up page 24
Among other references, the George Lewis who emigrated to Casco, Maine is mentioned in State of Maine: Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine; compiled ... Little, George Thomas, ed. 1857-1915, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t3jw8hg40;view=2up;seq=22;size=125
page 1062-1064 Lewis of Lewes of Kent, England to Massachusetts and Maine, United States from 1632-1904. Lineage and historical information of descendants.
Lewis-20379 and Lewis-149 appear to represent the same person because: same birthdate and place, same spouse (dups pending merge), child on -20379 appears incorrect based on last name of Cole and birth year 60 years after her "mother"'s birth, so is almost certainly incorrect. Same death date and place. Please merge
Removed parents who would have been almost 75 years old at her birth. Her nearest "sibling" listed was born 30 years before her. The birthdate is correct for the Sarah Lewis that married James Cobb
The supposed mother died January 10, 1626 in Benchley, Kent; probably not the right parents. Source information is needed to keep her attached to her parents.DB Errors Project
I am confused by the current last name of Sarah. I'm sure there is a good reason for it, but having it as Sparrow, Lewes seems as if it would lessen search potential for her. She is an 8th ggm of mine, so was just curious when I saw it today.
I agree. This is the only place I've seen her referred to as 'Pandora'. If there is no source to back it up, it should be be removed. It does seem odd she would use her mother-in-law's name as her nickname.
If Pandora was her mother-in-law's name, why would Sarah use it? My real question is this: Is there a document that applies the name Pandora to Sarah (Lewis) (Cobb) Sparrow? I don't find one, and believe the name Pandora on this profile is in error and should be removed.
George Lewis-467 did wed before 1654 a Mary, surname unknown, following the death of Sarah Jenkins Lewes. This Mary unknown Lewes is in the will of George Lewis-467. At least 6 genealogies report that Sarah Jenkins and George Lewes emigrated with their several children to Plymouth. Their emigration occurred shortly after Rev Lathom’s First Independent Church in London was shut down and members persecuted and imprisoned, some died. Two of those genealogies are by direct-line family members and another is by Mr. Amos Otis, a highly credible man, who routinely published his genealogies of the relatively small Barnstable community in its local newspaper.
Among hundreds of Lewis family members in Barnstable, another genealogy, including the handwritten page image shown, was thoroughly researched in the Lathrop library and published in 1966. Genealogical Notes of Cape Cod Families, Vol 33. (Lewis to Loring). 1966. Extensive Lewis pedigree, many pages of Lewis family of Barnstable. Handwritten. See page 267 for George Lewes, Sarah Jenkins, and Mary? and family. Note the page of references, after the inside front cover page, including references from the Lathrop library. https://ia800308.us.archive.org/6/items/genealogicalnote33brow/genealogicalnote33brow.pdf
Even today Barnstable is not a large community, isolated on a peninsula as it is by ocean, bay and geography. Amos Otis, a local, probably knew by name every Lewes and Lewis in the community. If in the very unlikely event Amos Otis published the incorrect name of Sarah Jenkins Lewes, the matriarch of this large, well known family in Barnstable, and previously in nearby Scituate and Plymouth just across the bay, then Amos Otis would have been immediately corrected by dozens of locals, family members, and fellow Lathrop congregants.
Yet, incredibly, this scrambled George Lewis-467 profile as well as that of Mary Doggett's scrambled profile claim that the wife and children of this George Lewis-467 emigrated later after George. Yes Mary Doggett emigrated later, but it was to join her husband a different George Lewis.
Furthermore, the persecution and destruction (by the Church of England led by the King of England) of Rev Lathom's First Independent Church in London is the obvious reason there are no English church records of the marriage of George and Sarah and the births of George and Sarah’s children. Those records would have suffered the same fate as Rev. Lathom's church in England and other records.
It was a different non-related George Lewis who married in England and fathered children in England with Mary Doggett, who then left his wife Mary Doggett and children in England and emigrated to Casco, which is 203 miles north of Barnstable and inland from Portland, Maine. This non-related George Lewis and Mary Doggett did eventually move to Barnstable where this George was recognized as a troublemaker with another man in the Barnstable community. Edward Lewis, son of George Lewis and Mary Doggett, is born in England in May 1634, after George Lewis-467 and Sarah Jenkins Lewis family are already in America. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7GM-M6P
On the other hand, George Lewis-467 married to Sarah Jenkins, was a "Goodman" as his church nickname states, notable in his community, who moved with his family to re-join with Rev Lathom and his congregation.
For easy reference, here is the Amos Otis reference: Amos Otis revised by C. F. Swift, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Vol. II, F. B. & F. P. Goss, Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, MA, 1890: https://archive.org/details/genealogicalnot00swifgoog/page/n126/mode/2up
George Lewes, wife Sarah Jenkins and wife Mary unknown and family are described in detail in the 1990 publication, 400 Years with a New England Lewes-Lewis family, by direct descendant Barbara Lewis Williams, available on loan here: https://archive.org/details/400yearswithnewe00will/page/n7/mode/2up
George Lewes, clothier, his wife Sarah Jenkins and Sarah’s brother Edward, a clothier like George, and George's second wife Mary surname unknown are described in detail by direct descendant Winslow Lewis, M.D. in Brief Memoir of Dr. Winslow Lewis, compiled by J.H. Sheppard. The George and Sarah Jenkins Lewes family are described on page 24 and the multi-generation linkage of the Lewis and Jenkins families are described on page 11. https://archive.org/details/briefmemoirofdrw00shep/page/n47/mode/2up page 24
Among other references, the George Lewis who emigrated to Casco, Maine is mentioned in State of Maine: Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine; compiled ... Little, George Thomas, ed. 1857-1915, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t3jw8hg40;view=2up;seq=22;size=125 page 1062-1064 Lewis of Lewes of Kent, England to Massachusetts and Maine, United States from 1632-1904. Lineage and historical information of descendants.
And here: http://dunhamwilcox.net/me/me_bio_lewis.htm
edited by Clare Bromley III