Sarah (Randall) West (1661 - aft. 1727)

Born 24 Mar 1661 in Saco, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Wife of Joseph Cole — married before 1698 in Saco, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Wife of Thomas West — married 25 May 1710 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

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Disputed items:

• Sarah Randall/Randall-501 is reported born 24 March 1661. Profile had reported she died 1713, but she survived her second husband (Thomas West, d. 1723) and died sometime after 25 January 1726/7. On that day in 1727 she and her sister, "Priscilla Presbery," claimed their father's 100 acre Cape Porpus land grant of 1681 as his "Children & Only Heirs."^[1]

Both the vital data and narrative have been updated to remove the report of her death in 1713.

• Sarah Randall's parentage is often confused in different family reporting. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire reports her birth 24 March 1661,^[2] thus could not have been the the daughter of an Elizabeth Tozier/Tozier-7 said born "about 1658."For the same reasons, Sarah Randall born 1661 is unlike the daughter of a union in which the parents married married years and years later. More follows.

Sarah's association as the daughter of Elizabeth Tozier was severed pending pending notice of further historical discovery or reasoning.

• No such child, Sarah Randall, is reported born to the union of Richard Randall (of Dover) and Elizabeth Tozier by the authors of Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire.^[3]

Sarah's association as the daughter of Richard Randall (of Dover) was severed pending pending notice of further historical discovery or reasoning.

• Profile reports Sarah Randall married Joseph Cole "1675," but this seems unlikely. (a) Traces of their children suggest those births in the mid- to late-1690s; (b) Sarah would have been about 14 years old in 1675.

Torrey has marriage of Sarah and Joseph "by 1698"^[4]

The WikiTree record of the marriage was updated to reflect a later date.

• Identity of Sarah's first husband, Joseph Cole, was not shown as a son of John Cole and Mary Chilson by the authors of Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire in either entry (a) about her husband, Joseph (19) Cole^[5] or (b) entry for the purported father, John (12) Cole^[6]

Referenced authors report John Cole and Mary Chilson married at Saco 23 December 1658, and that he (John) was buried "Mar. 1661."^[7]

The relationship of Joseph Cole to parents John and Mary (Chilson) Cole was severed pending notice of further historical discovery or reasoning.

Biography

Sources

1. ↑ Maine Genealogical Society, York Deeds Book 12, Part 1 (Bethel Maine: E. C. Bowler, 1903), folio 177; digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 12 June 2013); Sarah West & Priscilla Presbury to Edward & Stepn Presbury.
2. ↑ Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in five parts, paginated consecutively (1928-1939), 576 for entry about Richard (15) Randall; digital images, FamilySearch (accessed via Family History Library Catalog, 2014).
3. ↑ Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in five parts, paginated consecutively (1928-1939), 576 for entry about Richard (16) Randall; digital images, FamilySearch (accessed via Family History Library Catalog, 2014).
4. ↑ "Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700"; database, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : accessed 2013), Joseph Cole and Sarah [Randall].
5. ↑ Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in five parts, paginated consecutively (1928-1939), 156, entry for Joseph (19) Cole; digital images, FamilySearch (accessed via Family History Library Catalog, 2014)
6. ↑ Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in five parts, paginated consecutively (1928-1939), 155, entry for John (12) Cole; digital images, FamilySearch (accessed via Family History Library Catalog, 2014).
7. ↑ Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in five parts, paginated consecutively (1928-1939), 155, entry for John (12) Cole; digital images, FamilySearch (accessed via Family History Library Catalog, 2014).

Sources surveyed

• Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in five parts, paginated consecutively (1928-1939), 574-577 (Randall), in particular, 576 for Richard (15) Randall; digital images, FamilySearch (accessed via Family History Library Catalog, 2014). Among other notices, reports Sarah's birth "24 Mar. 1661."

• Sybil Noyes, et al, The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (1928; reprint 1979), p. 156; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 2013), entry for Joseph (19) Cole. Note: Joseph Cole and his son lost their lives in massacre of 10 Aug 1703. Wife (Sarah Randall) and a child taken to Canada, but three children were there baptized to her. Son's name not listed in this record, but daughters as Deborah, Mary and Priscilla.

• Maine Genealogical Society, York Deeds Book 12, Part 1 (Bethel Maine: E. C. Bowler, 1903), folio 177; digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 12 June 2013); Sarah West & Priscilla Presbury to Edward & Stepn Presbury. Note: Sarah and Priscilla claim Cape Porpus land granted to their father and convey same to two of Priscilla's sons, Edward and Stephen Presbury of Newbury, Mass., shipwrights. Therein, the two widows claimed they were the "Children & only Heirs of Mr. Richard Rundal late of Cape Porpus Mariner …"

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Towns Records, 1579-2001," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-22577-1517-81?cc=2061550&wc=MMBX-XCF:n2079469534 : accessed 13 Jun 2013), Essex > Beverly > Births, marriages, deaths 1653-1890 > image 568 of 589, for Thomas West and Elizabeth Jackson family entries. Note: Concerns Thomas West and includes his second marriage to Sarah Cole by Robert Hale, Esq. Marriage contract dtd 29 Mar 1709/10.

• Beverly, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Beverly Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Vols. 2 vols., 2 (Marriages): 64; digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 2012). Record reads, "[Coal (see also Cole)], Sarah, and Capt. Thomas West, May 25, 1710 [with intention]."

• "Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700"; database, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : accessed 2013), Joseph Cole and Sarah [Randall], entry. Marriage is "by 1698"; ?Beverly is location reference; no dates for Joseph, Sarah as b. 1666 m2 Thomas West; cites two references, "GDMNH 156; Reg. 28:159."

• William S. Appleton of Boston, "English Captives in Canada," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 28 (1874):158-160; digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 2013), p. 159 for Sarah (Randal) Cole entry.

• Cyprien Tanguay (1819-1902), Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours, par l'abbé Cyprien Tanguay, 7 vols (1871-1890); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2013), 1 ([1871]):8, entry for "Cole, Joseph, de Beverly"; 7 ([1890]):45, 156, 670. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000250018

• "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-28142-19716-78?cc=1321742&wc=MMY5-H2N:n1010561016 : accessed 01 Oct 2013), Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 > Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 > Montréal > Notre-Dame > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1695-1710 > image 512 of 826, for entry Marie Madelene Cole; "(.. devant nom__ Deborah) (Coal) (Cole)" on "huitième jour de Décembre [1703]."

• "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-28142-19706-72?cc=1321742&wc=MMY5-H2N:n1010561016 : accessed 01 Oct 2013), Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 > Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 > Montréal > Notre-Dame > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1695-1710 > image 511 of 826, for entry "[Mar]ie Terese Cole; (___ Mary) (Coal) (Cole) ... huitième jour de Décembre [1703].

• "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-27863-6788-43?cc=1321742&wc=MMY5-4MS:n1736006442 : accessed 01 Oct 2013), Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 > Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 > Boucherville > Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1668-1789 > image 592 of 2674, for entry Elisab. Raldat / Sarah Elizabeth Raldalt, age 43, "veuve de Joseph Coal" [widow of Joseph Coal]" on "27 Avril ... [1704]."

• "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-27863-6355-33?cc=1321742&wc=MMY5-4MS:n1736006442 : accessed 01 Oct 2013), Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 > Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 > Boucherville > Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1668-1789 > image 591 of 2674, for entry Priscile Coal, 2[8] Janvier 1704

• Suzanne B. Sommerville, "Re: [Q-R] Family of Madeleine COLE," Quebec Research listserve message dated 13 May 2003. Note: Suzanne provides abstract from Marcel Fournier, _De la Nouvelle-Angleterre à la Nouvelle-France_ (1992) about Mary Cole. Overviews the Joseph Cole family attack and capture of the wife and daughters at Saco in 1703. Includes that her husband, Joseph Cole, killed in the attack, was born at Boston. Reports about Sarah's conversion and gives related baptismal name as "Elisabeth Catherine _Raidait_" Says she exchanged and returned to New England in 1710. Mentions remarriage to Thomas West. More details therein, including comments about daughters. Reports Mary Cole, b. 9 May 1701 at Beverly, bapt. Marie Thérèse Cole on 8 December 1703. "Naturalized in May of 1710, she married at Boucherville, Pierre Rougeau dit Berger." Further references as "Jetté. p. 262, 1041; DGFC, vol 7, p. 156; NEC, vol. 2, p 13-15; BRH, vol. 30, p. 231."

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 about Sarah Cole; Sarah Cole; Marriage; 25 May 1710, Marriage Place: Beverly, Massachusetts; Spouse Name: Thomas West

Acknowledgments

Randall-501 was created through the import of breesefam.ged on 09 May 2011.

GeneJ X started profile, Randall-1414.

Kelley Rosenbach started profile Sarah West (Cole-5686).