Sarah (Webb) Armitage (abt. 1623 - abt. 1650)

Born about 1623 in England

Wife of Godfrey Armitage — married about 1640 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1650 at about age 27 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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Biography

While there are several recorded candidates for Sarah Webb, daughter of William (this profile originally showed her born in Devon, England, about 1619, based on an unsourced tree), Robert Charles Anderson in "The Great Migration" does not specify her birthplace, says she was born "say 1623", and thus implies that she migrated with her father William Webb in 1635.^[1] The will of Rebekah Unknown Webb supports that Sarah's parents were Rebekah and husband William Webb,^[1] a conclusion confirmed by Anderson.^[1]

Sarah married Godfrey Armitage in Boston about 1643;^[1] Godfrey and Sarah had a daughter named Rebekah, born in 1641. They also had three sons who died young. No certain record has been found of the death or burial of Sarah (Webb) Armitage; this profile originally included a claim that she must have died "when Rebekah was very young, probably about 1650, possibly at the birth of the last son", but no source has been found to date (March 2021) to confirm that possibility.

Godfrey’s mother-in-law, the widow Rebekah Webb, left her entire estate for the care of Rebekah Armitage, her granddaughter, in 1654. As noted above, given that the grandmother and granddaughter had the same name, and that the grandmother left her estate to the granddaughter, it is reasonably deduced that Sarah, the daughter of Rebekah Webb, was the mother of Rebekah Armitage.^[2]

Godfrey Armitage, father of Rebekah Armitage, after arriving from England lived first in Lynn; Rev. Increase Tarbox's 1888 genealogy of his family confirms that Godfrey subsequently married "a woman of the name Webb, and they lived in Boston."^[3]

• Fact: Burial ( 1651) Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. p. 160, sketch of William Webb.subscription
2. ↑ Rev. Increase N. Tarbox: John Tarbox of Lynn and his Descendants for Five Generations. David Clapp & Son, Printers. Boston. Jan. 1888; online from Connecticut State Library: https://cslib.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4005coll11/id/486/
3. ↑ Rev. Increase N. Tarbox: John Tarbox of Lynn and his Descendants for Five Generations, as above; https://cslib.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4005coll11/id/486/

See also:

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 15 November 2018, 00:59), entry for Sarah Webb(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LH68-PZR); contributed by various users.

Entered from the Genealogy worksheets compiled by Ralph Pryor during his 40 years of research, traveling extensively in the military and in retirement. Entered by Greg Rose, Grandson.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Greg Rose for creating Webb-4637 on 29 Dec 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Greg and others.