William Sargent Sr. (bef. 1611 - 1675)

Born before 1611 in England

Husband of Elizabeth (Perkins) Sargent — married about 1636 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Husband of Joanna (Pinder) Currier — married 18 Sep 1670 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died Mar 1675 after age 64 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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William Sargent Sr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 3, p. 1630) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Disputed Origin

According to "The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640" published in 2015, the parents and origins of this person are not proven.[GMB 1630-33; HmTR 44; NeTR 8; SyTR 5]^[1] There is no compelling evidence he was son of Richard Sargent and Katherine Stevens. For this reason, they have been removed as parents.

This family has been treated extensively by Mary Lovering Holman in "Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury"^[2] and, in 1931, by Mary Walton Ferris in "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines".^[3] But neither of these authors made a claim to his English ancestry. However, David Webster Hoyt in "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts"^[4] stated that Somerby concluded this William Sargent and William Sargent of Charlestown were brothers and sons of Richard Sargent of London, and also supposed the second William to be dead while he was in Virginia and gave the same name to a second son William of Amesbury. No evidence is cited for this narrative. Robert Charles Anderson, in 1995, in "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633,"^[5] writes:

"The convoluted affinity proposed by Hoyt among William of Amesbury, Richard of London, and ghostly William of Charlestown strains all credulity. [Hoyt 310-11]."

Anderson proceeds, referring to NEHGR 150:181-90, where it is shown that Theophilus Shatswell of Haverhill named "my brother Wilyam Sargent" implying that Theophilus Shatswell had married the sister of William Sargent. Anderson concludes:

"The most likely remaining solution is that Theophilus Shatswell married a sister of William Sargent."

Thus we have at least a clue to the identity of one of his siblings that perhaps may give us a clue to his English origin some day.^[5] Therefore, as of 2015, the position of the Great Migration project is that the parents of William Sargent have not been proven.

Biography

Records indicate that William Sargent immigrated to Ipswich by 1632 during the Puritan Great Migration.^[5] William was a seaman by trade, and was successful enough to be called 'Mister.' The following letter from John Winthrop to his wife suggests Sargent may have been in Winthrop's employ:

"To my deare wife Mrs. Martha Winthrop deliver In Boston

My Sweete and Deare Wife, I doe much long to see thee and injoy thy sweete company. It would be a great comfort to me if I could but heare from thee how thou doest… prethe send the pieces by William Sargeant and send Johns shirts for he wanteth them very much, and if it be the latter end of next weeke before he commeth then send your maide the Girle and Elzabeth Stratton for the winter wilbe so neere now and the wether could that it wilbe tedious for them to come by water: but then send a hogshead of meale and a sacke of samp corne ready grond if he can bring them if not then a sacke of meale and make some more sackes and some for our use and here and send some bedding with them: if he cannot bring them then the weeke after next send them with John Gallop and speake to him before hand to come to bringe the maids and lade him with such things as you have ready my Chests, and such meale as I wrote to my father for as it ready, and all your Chests, and things you can spare also pray my father to send me a sow of lead by William Sargeant: so I commend you to the protection of God and rest thy loving husband.

Agawam Octob: 24, 1633 - John Winthrop"^[6]

So it appears that William was perhaps in the employ of the Winthrops or perhaps he was just planning on coming from Boston to Ipswich at that time as he was a mariner by trade.

Marriages and Children

William married twice.

He married by about 1636 to Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of John Perkins.^[5] Note: profile also includes: marriage on 18 Sep 1636 in Amesbury, Esssex County, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]} They had the following children:^[5]

• Mary , b.c. 1636. m.Philip Watson-Challis;
• Sarah, b.c. 1641, d. 14 Sep 1641;
• Thomas, b.11 Jun 1643, m.Rachel Barnes;
• William, b. 2 Jan 1645/6, m. Mary Colby;
• Elizabeth, b.22 Nov 1648, m. Samuel Colby;
• Lydia (probably), b.c. 1650, d. "bet. 1660 and 1662";
• Sarah, b. 29 Feb 1651/2, m. Orlando Bagley.

He married at Amesbury on 18 Sept 1670, as his 2nd, and as her 2nd, to Joanna Pinder Rowell, daughter of Henry and Mary Pinder, widow of Valentine Rowell.^[5] After William's death, she married, at Amesbury on 26 Oct 1676, as her 3rd, to Richard Currier.^[5] Joanna died at Amesbury in October 1690.^[5]

Property and Positions

He was an educated man. While no books are listed in his inventory, he did sign his name to his will, deeds and other documents. Anderson makes a mistake in claiming that this William was made a freeman on 22 May 1639 as “Mr. Willi[am] Sergent” (p.1632), but the use of Mr. makes it clear that this belongs to William Sergent of Charlestown. In the Great Migration Directory, the source listing corrects this error.^[1]

William first settled in Ipswich where he received a 12 acre grant in 1634(2). While there, the General Court issued this edict 1 April 1633: “It is ordered that no person whatsoever shall go to plant or inhabit at Aggawam, without leave from the court, except those that are already gone, viz: ... Willm Srjeant”.^[7] By 1638, he had moved to Newbury as “Willli[am] Sergant” was amongst the list of mostly Newbury men headed by Stephen Bachiler, who on 6 September 1638 were granted “liberty to begin a plantation at Winnacunnet (Hampton)”.^[8] “Will[iam] Sargent” was listed in the section of married men on the list of first comers to Hampton, NH.^[9] He stayed in Hampton for about six years before moving to Salisbury by 1644 and finally settled in Amesbury between 1666 and 1669 (p 1632).^[5] He is listed in the first division of land in “Colchester” in Salisbury on 7 Nov. 1639 in the front of the town’s earliest book of land records.^[10] William and his son Thomas were on a July 1667 list of those with meeting house seats in Amesbury. His name is on a list of the original inhabitants of Salisbury from a town meeting held on 3 Feb. 1650/1.

On 7 November 1644, John Severans of Salisbury, planter, sold to William Sargent of Salisbury, planter, twenty acres of upland in Salisbury on the west side of the Powwow river.^[11] On 25 March 1647, Anthony “Colebie” of Salisbury, planter, deeded to William Sargent of Salisbury, seaman, a dwelling house and house lot in Salisbury between Jarred Haddon and Henry Browne.^[12] William Sargent of Salisbury, seaman, sold to Samuel Fellows of Salisbury on 25 Mar. 1648/9 a dwelling house and land. On 16 December 1652, William sold to John Browne of Hampton, the meadow and upland adjacent to Aquilla chase and widow “Bristos”.^[13] William sold the upland in Salisbury "near the Pawwaus River above the falls” to John Wooding of Salisbury on 15 Apr. 1659. ^[14]

On 1 November 1666: “I William Sargent of… Salisbury… seaman… for… yt natural affeccion I… do bare unto my dearly & well beloved sone Thomas Sargent… doe… confirme unto… my sone all yt my lott of upland… thirty acres… wthin… the new towne of… Salisbury” on the Merrimack River.^[15]

On 22 Oct. 1669: “Willi: Saragent of ye town of Almsbery… for ye natural affection I have & do bare unto my beloved son Thomas Sargent… ye full compleat half part… of my six acre lott of marsh…also all yt my Sweepage lott of saltmarsh… in Salisbury” at a place called “ye beache” being lot number 8 containing three acres and four rods, being half the lot of marsh between two islands called “Barnss Iland” and “Ware Iland”. ^[16]

On 9 October 1669: “I William Sargent of… Almsbery… planter… in consideracon of yt natural afection wch I have & doe bare unto my well beloved sone William Sargent… confirme unto ye sd William… several Divisions or lotts of upland & marsh… two hundred acres… wthin… Almsbery… also… 8 acres… in ox common… a lot of upland west of the great pond containing forty acres… a lot of upland in urchin meadow hill… forty-five acres which I bought of Edward Goe… the last division of three acres in the pond meadow… in Amesbury… also one ful & compleat halfe of my first division of ye higledee pigledee lotts of salt marsh now lying in Salisbury. ^[17]

“I William Sargent… of Amsburie… seaman for… two pounds ten shillings received of Willi: Sargent Junr of ye same town planter… sell… my two acre lott of upland at the Indian ground in Amesbury.” The deed is dated 4 Mar. 1670/1 and Johana Sargent also signed this deed with her mark.^[18]

On 23 Apr. 1672 William Sargent of Amesbury, yeoman, sold to Isaac Green of Hampton two acres of salt marsh called Hall’s farm.^[19] In the following year on 1 July he sold, with the consent of his wife "Janna", part of his houselot consisting of 95 rods of land in Amesbury, to Thomas Wells of Amesbury.^[20] On 1 Oct. 1673 “William Sergent ... of Almsberry in Norfolke senior and mariner” mortgaged to Nathaniel Williams of Suffolk County eight acres of upland in Amesbury that William had by exchange with Richard Currier.^[21] On 24 February 1673/4 William Sargent Sr. of Amesbury, seaman, sold to Caleb Moody of Newbury, maltser, for £5 1s “my second division higledee pigledee” lot of salt marsh containing three acres in Salibury.^[22]

Among parcels sold by William Sargent Jr on 18 October 1696 to Henry Deering, was a great lot of upland given by his grandfather [who is unnamed... shoot!] to his father William Sergeant, “containing by estimation 200 acres in Amesbury amongst the great lots”.^[23] As no other Sargent was in the area at the time, the unnamed grandfather might have been John Perkins, however, no grant to John of such a lot has been found. If this unnamed grandfather was his mother's father then one would expect that she would have signed the transfer of property to him in 1669. This implies that William's first wife Elizabeth had died by this date.

William served on the Essex Grand Jury on 13 April 1652 and the Jury to End Small Causes on 8 April 1662, 24 June 1662, 13 April 1669 and 12 April 1670. He was also sworn as Clerk of the Train Band of Salisbury, Essex co., MA on 8 April 1651.^[24]

William was also placed in other positions of trust as on 28 Sept. 1652, he was granted administration on the estate of Thomas Wathen. Theophilus Shatswell of Haverhill named “my Brother Wilyam Sargent” and “my Kinsman Lefttenent Philip challis” as overseers in his will of 20 June 1663. On 3 May 1665, William Sargent Sr. and Lt. Phillip Challes took inventory on the estate of William Delle.^[25]

William also had his share of court cases... which seems so common at the time. He sued Mr. William Hook of Salisbury for 56s. “in corn” on 26 Dec. 1643.^[26] William also acknowledged the Ipswich Court’s judgment in favor of Mr. Jonathan Wade and Mr. William Payne on 26 Sept. 1648.^[27] Michael Spencer sued him at a court in Salem for detaining corn and other goods on 2 Jan. 1650.^[28] William sued Samuel Buswell at the 12 Apr. 1653 court at Salisbury over a cow that was killed by a beast of Samuel's. In addition, there was an ongoing dispute between the Sargent family and their neighbors the Martins. George Martin sued one of the William Sargents (the court records are unclear as to whether it was William, Sr. or Jr.) for slander on 13 Apr. 1669 accusing him of calling Martin’s wife “a witch” (not something you took lightly in 17th century New England!). He also sued Thomas Sargent for saying that George Martin, Jr. was a bastard and that “Richard Martin was Goodwife Martin’s imp”(24). Finally, in 1672, William Sargent and Joanna his wife sued Christopher Osgood for debt due part of the estate of Joanna’s late husband, Valentine Rowell.^[29]

Death and Probate

William died in Mar 1675 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts and is buried in Golgotha Burial Ground, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.^{[5][30][31][32][33][4]}

William Sargent made his will 24 March 1670/1:

"In the name of God Amen the 24 day of Marche: 1670-71 I William Sargent of ye town of Emsbery in ye County of Norfolk Massechusets in Newengland: Seaman: being in preitty good health of body, & of sound, & pfect memorie (praise bee giuen to god for ye same) & knowing ye vncertenty of this life on earth, & being desierous to settle things in order doe make this my last will & Testamt in manner, & forme following: That is to say.

First & principally I comend my soule to Allmighty God my Creator assueredly beleiuing yt I shall receiue full pardon & free remission of all my sinns & be saved by ye prcious death & meritts of my blessed Savior & Redeemer Christ Jesus, & my body to ye earth from whence it was taken to bee buried in such decent & Christian manner as to my Executors, hereafter named shalbe thought meet & convenient: and as touching such worldly estate as ye lord in mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning is ye same shalbee imployed & bestowed as hereafter by this my will is expressed, And first I doe revoke, renounce frustrate & make voyd all wills by mee formerly made & declare & appoint this my last will & Testamt

Item I giue & bequeath : to my grandchild William Challis fiue pound: & to my grand childeren: Elizabeth, Lidia: Mary: & Phillip watson Challis to eache of them twenty shillings:

Item I giue & bequeath vnto my Grand childeren: Dorethie, & Elizabeth Colby: to each of them twenty shillings:

Item I giue vnto my grandchild William Sargent thirty shilling

Itt I giue & bequeath vnto my Daughter Elizabeth ye wyfe of Samll Colby fiue pound: Item I giue all ye remaynder of my estate (these my legasies: & my funerall Charges being first payd) vnto my daughter Sarah both howsing & lands: chattells & other moueables wtsoever; alwayes pvided that if she die, wthout childeren: that then ye howsing & lands to bee equally divided: vnto my fower Childeren herafter named i.e.: my sons Thomas & William: & my daughters: Mary and Elizabeth:

Item I do constitute ordaine & appoint my sone Thomas Sargent, & my daughter Sarah Sargent, Executors vnto this my will & Testamt: & doe make my loueing brother in law mr Tho: Bradbury: & my Esteemed friend Major Robert Pike, my overseers, to take care that this my will may bee pformed according to ye true intent & meaning therof:

And to this my last Will & Testamt: I doe herevnto sett my hand & seale ye day & ye are aboue named.

William Sargent

Witness: Tho. Bradbury

Mary Bradbury her MB mark

John Bradbury

The will was proved in Salisbury court Apr. 13, 1675 by Tho. Bradbury and Jno. Bradbury to be the last will of Wm. Sargent, Sen."^[34]

Inventory (of the estate of Willi. Sargent, Senr: copy) taken by Thomas Sargent and John Weed.

(housing & lands about ye : copy) house (& oarchyard on both sides ye Contrey way: copy).................. 85li.

(Halfe ye lott in ye tide: copy) meadows...... 16li

(A higledee pigledee lot in ye salt marsh: copy).25li

(A lot lying in a place: copy) commonly called ye
Lyons mouth....................................................... 5li. 10s

(A lot in ye great Swamp: copy)........................ 2li

(A lott in a place commonly called: copy)

Bugmore..............................................................4li

(a payer of Oxen: copy)................................... 12li. 10s

(Two Cowes & a Calfe........................................ 7li. 6s

mare & a two ye ar old horse........................... 3li. 10s

Two 3 ye ar old heiffers..................................... 6li. 10s

eighteen sheep & Lambs: copy)....................... 6li

(five Swine: copy)............................................... 2li. 15s

(A cheyn & wedges, tenant saw &: copy), severall
other Iron things............................................... 2li. 5s

(2 Iron potts, 2 tramells: copy), spit, dripin pan,
(frying pan, 2 kettles: copy), warming pan & (other
Iron things: copy)............................................... 2li. 10s

(4 peuter platters wth: copy), other peuter things &

Tin....................................................................... 1li

(Earthen ware & wooden platers: copy) & dishes &

trayes.......................................................................... 3s

(hogshead barrels, tubs: copy), Celers wth other
wooden things........................................................ 12s

(table, Cubard & seats: copy) belonging to ye

house................................................................... 1li. 5s

(bed, bedstead, 2 sheets: copy), 4 blankets, rug &

curtin.................................................................. 7 li

(bed, bedstead & curtains: copy), truckle bed &

beaden................................................................3li

(3 chests, bible, sheep shears &: copy) other (small:
copy)

things............................................................ 15s

(woolen yarne: copy)............................................... 5s

(lace, Incle & cot: copy) ten yarne................... 1li. 10s

total................................................................ 196li.

(Inventory taken as it was given in by Tho. Sargent 8:2m:1675 by us. John Weed.

The following came to our knowledge after the apprizement: one sheet, Tow yarn 5 pound, one payle, two ston juggs, smoothing Iron, Carpett, firkin of soap, one blankett, one pillow.

Attested in Salisbury court Apr. 13 1675 by Tho. Sargent: copy)"

On 14 Apr. 1675:

“I Sarah Sargent of… Eamsbery… Mayden, was by my father William Sargent… late deceased… appointed together wth my brother Tho: Sargent, executor of his last will… doe by these prsents give full power… to my loving brother Tho: Sargent… to act & doe wtsoever shalbe… necessary…

Witness: Tho. Bradbury and John Bradbury. Acknowledged May 10, 1675 before Robert Pike, Commissioner.^[35]

I Sarah Sargent Administratrix to ye estate of my father William Sargent of Amsbery… ffor… a valuable some… payd by Thomas Stevens of ye same town… sell… unto ye sd Tho: Stevens ye one half of a fower acre lott… in Salisbury called… highly pigly”. The deed is dated 17 Dec. 1681, signed by Tho Sargent, Mary Challis and Wm Sargent, and was witness by Thomas Frame and William Challis

Mary Holman and Bob Anderson noted that in all the probate records there is no mention of William’s widow Joanna. They suspected that there was a prenuptual agreement between William and Joanna so he did not mention her in the will (pp 1631-32).^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Anderson, Robert Charles. (2015) Great Migration Directory (The). Immigrants to New Englnad, 1620-1640. A Concise Compendium. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, p.296.
2. ↑ Holman, Mary Lovering, "Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury" Rumford Press, Concord, 1938- Vol. I, pp. 119-22
3. ↑ Ferris, Mary Walton, "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines." (n.p., 1931) 1:486
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Hoyt, David Webster, "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts," 3 vols. (Providence, R.I., 1897-1919) 2:310-11
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10} Anderson, Robert Charles. "William Sargent," Featured name. The Great Migration Begins. (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1995) Vol III, pp. 1630-33.[1] or AmericanAncestors.org
6. ↑ The Winthrop Papers- Vol. III, p. 141
7. ↑ Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686- Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Boston, 1853-1854, MBCR- Vol. I, p. 103
8. ↑ Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686- Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Boston, 1853-1854, MBCR- Vol. I, p. 236
9. ↑ Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire- Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, Anthosensen Press 1928-1939, Portland- p. 55
10. ↑ Focus on Salisbury- Great Migration Newsletter- Vol. VIII, p. 28
11. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. III, p. 5
12. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. I, p. 19
13. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. I, p. 21
14. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. I, p. 84
15. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 157
16. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 153
17. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 153
18. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 201
19. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. III, p. 25
20. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. III, p. 5
21. ↑ Ipswich Land Records-MSS at the Essex County Courthouse, Salem- Vol. 3, p. 284
22. ↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 312
23. ↑ Essex County Deeds- Vol. 10, p. 58
24. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. 1, pp. 223, 251, 377, 385; Vol. IV, pp. 128, 235
25. ↑ Essex County Probate Records- Vol. I, pp. 148, 425, 442
26. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. I, p. 55
27. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. I, p. 147
28. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. I, p. 205
29. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. III, p. 1633
30. ↑ JeaniesGenealogy web page
31. ↑ William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, (Boston: Lewis Publishing Co., 1908) 863, digital images, Google Books (books.google.com : accessed 26 Feb 2017)
32. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633," Vol 1-3, database with images, American Ancestors (https://www.americanancestors.org : accessed 26 Feb 2017) p. 1431, entry for John Perkins
33. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, vol. 4, 1667-1671 (Salem, Mass: Essex Institute, 1914)129, digital images, Archive (https://www.archives.org : accessed 26 Feb 2017
34. ↑ Essex County Probate Records- Vol. II, pp. 438-40
35. ↑ Essex County Probate Files, Docket #24708, transcription, Wayback Machine, archived page from 20 Sep 2015 unfortunately, the inventory is now missing from the file at the court house in Salem; the copy is Norfolk Records, vol. 3, part 2, pp. 6, 7, 11

See Also:

• First Settlers of Amesbury Plaque. Ancestry.com #43226990_125615521305
• "A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport,..."; Ancestry.com
• Records about William Sargent, Sr. 1611-1675. Ancestry.com
• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862)
• Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
• Early Settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts Asa W. Brown, NEHGR Vol. 7 (1853), pp. 311-4, Vol. 8 (1854), pp. 79-82, 157-162| Page 162
• Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk- Joshua Coffin, NEHGR- Vol. 6 (1852), pp. 205-8, 243-254, 339-346, Vol. 7 (1853), pp. 83, 357-360, Vol. 8 (1854), pp. 49-54 | Page 50
• List of Freemen. Lucius R. Paige, NEHGR Vol. 3 (1849), pp. 89-96, 187-194, 239-246, 345-352
• Sargent Record (St. Johnsbury, Vt., Caledonian Co., 1899) Pages 17-21
• Oaths of Freemen, Allegiance, &c. in Old Norfolk County- Alonzo H. Quint, NEHGR- Vol. 6 (1852), pp. 201-4
• Original Settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts Thornton, NEHGR Vol. 3 (1849), p. 55
• The Colby Family in Early America: Early Generations of Descendants of Anthony Colby of Boston, Cambridge, Salisbury, Massachusetts 1595-1661 Frederick Lewis Weis, Colonial Press, Concord, 1970
• English Background of George and Margery Wathen of Salem and Their Nephew William Sargent of Gloucester- Clifford Stott NEHGR, AmericanAncestors.org Vol. 148, pp. 67-78
• A New Look At The Corwin And Shatswell Families David MacDonald, NEHGR- Vol. 150, pp. 180- 9 (Apr. 1996)
• The 1638 Emigration of William Sargent and George Curwen- John Brandon, NEHGR- Vol. 163, pp. 192-3 (July 2009)
• Find a Grave (no image) Find A Grave: Memorial #34984585 (accessed 4 March 2024) - Memorial page for Rev William Richard Sargent (28 Jun 1598-13 Mar 1675), citing Corner Cemetery, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by JoLynn Mangum Cooper Self (contributor 46878379).