Sarah (Webb) Price (abt. 1651 - aft. 1704)

Born about 1651 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Zechariah Field — married 17 Dec 1668 (to about 1674) in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Robert Price — married about 16 Feb 1677 in Deerfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died after 29 Feb 1704 after about age 53 in between Deerfield, Mass and Canada

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Biography

Sarah was born in 1646. ^[1]

Sarah Webb married 1st on 17 Dec 1668 at Northampton, MA to Zachariah Field.^[2]
Children of Sarah & Zachariah Field:

1. Zachariah born 12 Sep 1669 died young
2. Ebenezer born 31 Oct 1671 at Northampton married 14 Jan 1697 to Mary Deadly or Dudley
3. John born 8 Dec 1673

Sarah married 2nd in 1677 to Robert Price.
Children of Sarah & Robert Price:

1. Sarah born 12 Sept 1678
2. Mary born 21 Mar 1681
3. Elizabeth born 23 Aug 1683 married Andrew Stephens, an Indian
4. Samuel born 1685
5. John born 14 May 1689

Sarah Webb Price was captured during the Deerfield Mass, Massacre in the Winter of 1704. About 300 French Soldiers and Indians from different tribes raided their small village, killing 48 men, women and children in the Village and taking the rest captive. Sarah died in route to Canada where the captives were being taken, she was 53 years of age. ^[3][4][5]

Burial: Old Deerfield Burying Ground, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Note: Birth year based on Historical information verifying she died soon after February 29, 1704 at age 53.
2. ↑ MA Town Records https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Q1-9SS3?i=39&cc=2061550
3. ↑ Raid on Deerfield
4. ↑ [1] Deerfield Captives of 1704
5. ↑ Deerfield Massacre Mass Grave
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #9578078

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