1654 -- Sarah Platts was born at Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the daughter of Samuel Platts and his wife "Sarah," who migrated to Rowley with her husband circa 1653, and died 10 Apr 1681.[1]
First, in 1 Jan 1673/4, she married Samuel Prime (14 Aug 1649, Rowley - 18 Mar 1683/4).[2]
Sarah (Platts) Prime Bradstreet died before 1697.[3]
Children by First Marriage
Samuel Prime, 29 Dec 1675
Sarah Prime, born May 8th 1678; married June 25th 1733 James Stewart; died December 29th 1747.
Mark Prime, baptized March 13th 1680-81; founder of the family still settled at Rowley.
Anne Prime, born June 27th 1683; joined the church September 12th 1714, at that time unmarried.
Second Marriage
After 18 Mar 1683/4, she married Captain Moses Bradstreet, widow of Elizabeth Harris.[4]
↑ Prime, Temple, Some Account of the Family of Prime of Rowley, Mass: With Notes on the Families of Platts, Jewetts, and Hammond, published 1887. Reference pages 4-5
↑ Blodgette, George B., Early settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts : a genealogical record of the families who settled in Rowley before 1700, with several generations of their descendants, published 1933. Reference pages 34-5
↑An American Family History citing Little, George Thomas, Burrage, Henry Sweetser, & Stubbs, Albert Roscoe. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine by George. 1909. Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
See also:
Blodgette, George Brainard. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts. 1933, pages 34-5. A reprint by the New England History Press, Somersworth, New Hampshire, 1981, (George Brainard Blodgette and Amos Everett Jewett) is also available, but is under copyright.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sarah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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