Sally (Standley) Wyman (1769 - 1838)

Born 1 Jul 1769 in Princeton, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Oliver Wyman — married 11 Mar 1790 in Princeton, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 24 May 1838 at age 68 in Peru, Bennington County, Vermont, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Stanley Name Study.

Sally Standley (known as Sarah in later years) was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, on July 1, 1769. She was a daughter of Ichabod and Submit Standley.^[1][2]

Sally married Thomas Wyman in Princeton on March 11, 1790.^[2][3] Five children were born to the couple while they resided in Princeton.^[4]

In 1801, Thomas and Sarah Wyman moved to Peru, Vermont.^[5] They were among the earliest settlers of the town, which had only four resident families in 1800. The Wymans are said to have been the sixth family to arrive, and their son Thomas was the first child born in town.^[6] As of 1805, there were about 20 families living in the town of Peru.^[5] In 1807 Thomas Wyman and his wife were one of the four married couples who became the first members of the newly organized Congregational church in Peru. Sally's sister Sophia Lyon and her husband Seth were also among the organizers of the church.^{[5][7] [8]}

Sarah Wyman died in Peru on May 21, 1838 in her 69th year.^[9][10]

Sources

1. ↑ Rice, p. 63
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Blake, p.269
3. ↑ Rice, p. 135
4. ↑ Princeton Births, p. 72, Vital Records of Massachusetts
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Whitney, pp. 6 and 10
6. ↑ Batchelder, p. 30
7. ↑ Batchelder, p. 99
8. ↑ Blake, pp. 182-3
9. ↑ Gravestone inscription in photograph by Ellen Smith.
10. ↑ “Vital Records Recorded in the Peru, Vt. Town Records.” page 68: Sarah Wyman, wife of Dea. Thomas Wyman, Died May 24th 1838.

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• Blake, Francis Everett. History of the town of Princeton, in the county of Worcester and commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1759-1915 (Volume 2). Town of Princeton, Massachusetts, 1915. [2]
• Old Yard Cemetery Records, Town of Peru, Bennington County, Vermont. compiled by Lynn Tooley. New Horizons Genealogical Services.
• Rice, F. P. Vital Records of Princeton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1902.
• “Vital Records Recorded in the Peru, Vt. Town Records,” compiled by Jonathan W. Stephens. Special Issue of Vermont Genealogy, Vol. 20, Spring 2015). Braintree, VT: Genealogical Society of Vermont, 1996–. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020.
• Whitney, Mabel E. History of the Congregational Church of Peru, Vermont. Manchester, Vt.: Journal Press, 1932. 14 pgs. Access on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/22267/