Sarah (Welles) Lake (1742 - 1838)

Born 3 Nov 1742 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of David Lake — married 9 Aug 1763 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Descendants

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Biography

Born

Born: 3 Nov 1742 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.^[1]

Marriage and Children

Married: 9 August 1763 at the Unity Congregational Church of North Stratford in Stratford (now in Trumbull), Fairfield County, Connecticut.^[2][3]

Children of David Lake and Sarah Wells:

1. Susannah Lake. Born about 1764.^{[citation needed]}
2. David Lake Jr. Born August 1766; died 21 September 1848.^[4]
3. Abiah Lake 1769–1852
4. Dolly Dorothy Olive Lake 1771–
5. Wells Lake. Born 12 January 1772 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT. Died 26 November 1839 in New Paltz, Ulster Co., NY.
6. Edward D. Lake. Born about 1775, and baptized 23 June 1776 in Stratford. 1775–1864
7. Mathew Lake. Baptized 16 May 1779 in Stratford.^[3]
8. Phineas Lake 1782–1850
9. Eli Lake 1783–1863
10. William Lake Sr. 1785–1873

Death

Died: After 1800.

Apparently still living at the time of the 1800 census in which the household of David Lake includes 1 male over age 45 and 1 female over age 45.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Barbour. The Barbour Collection: Stratford Births-Marriages-Deaths 1639-1840. (1925): page 149.
2. ↑ Bailey. Early Connecticut Marriages, seventh book. (1906): HathiTrust.org page 98.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Connecticut, Church Records, volume 115: Trumbull Congregational Church (formerly North Stratford), 1730-1791, (1962): page 90.
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #131805236 David Lake, includes gravestone image.
5. ↑ 1800 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRC-Y9Y), David Lake, Coeymans, Albany, New York, United States.

From behind the ancestry.com subscription wall:

• Connecticut, Town Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), 1742

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W3-K5N), Sarah Wells, 03 Nov 1742; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes . The Barbour Collection: Connecticut Vital Records 1630-1870, Stratford Births-Marriages-Deaths 1639-1840. (Online Database AmericanAncestors.org, original 1925): page 149. AmericanAncestors.org link

• 1800 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRC-Y9Y), David Lake, Coeymans, Albany, New York, United States.