Sarah Howard (1740 - 1801)

Ancestors

Died 1801 at about age 61 in Maryland

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Biography

Research Notes

Background notes^[1]

There is a complicated domino game of multiple merges of this generation's Howard siblings' profiles' pending. (Just try saying that fast.) Several different profile managers need to be consulted and there are issues to be addressed first, such as four of the six children said to have been born ca 1740 and several of the profiles lacking non-GEDCOM & non-Ancestry sources. When complete, these background notes will be converted to running text or moved to a more appropriate profile. Please be patient and watch this space. The to-do list, which we can all share, will be posted in the Research Notes section.

• Cornelius Howard (1717–1772), Sarah's father, the son of Joseph and Margarey Keith Howard was born at Howard's Inheritance. Before his marriage, he settled on two of his father's properties in Queen Caroline Parish, First Discovery and Howard's Passage.

• Rachel Ridgely Worthington Howard (1722.Aug.28–1801), Sarah's mother, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Ridgely Worthington, brought Worthington Range to the marriage as her dowry, and it became their family seat. Sarah and her siblings would have been born and raised up there.

Children of Cornelius and Rachel Worthington Howard:^[2]
1. Thomas Cornelius Howard married Eleanor ?
2. Brice Howard married Anne Ridgely.
3. Joseph Howard married Rachel Ridgely.
4. Elizabeth Howard married 1st) Ephraim Davis and 2nd) William Gaither.
5. Rachel Howard married John Hood Jr.
6. Sarah Howard married Jeremiah, son of John and Cassandra Ducker; they resided in Montgomery County.

Sarah's brothers Brice and Joseph may have married sisters who may have been maternal cousins.

Sarah's lifetime

1740? 1758?^[3] — Sarah Howard is born to Cornelius Howard and Rachel Ridgely Worthington Howard, probably at Worthington Range, the family seat, which was her mother's dowry.

1759.Jun.25 — Sarah's father Cornelius Howard conveyed the property Howard’s Chance to William Hanks; her mother Rachel Ridgely Worthington Howard waived her dower rights.

before 1768? — At some point, Sarah married Jeremiah Ducker, the son of John and Cassandra Ducker. (It's difficult to guess the marriage date when there's a 19-year range in her reported birth dates.) After the marriage, they live in Montgomery County.

1772 — Sarah's father Cornelius Howard died. His will made the following bequests: 1) to her brother Joseph Howard, the 465-acre estate Howard's Resolution in Baltimore County, the 26-acre estate Poole Desire and negroes; 2) to her brother Thomas Cornelius Howard, the homestead Worthington’s Range (which had been their mother's dowry); 3) to her brother Brice Howard, the 250-acre plantation Discovery with its dwelling, the 400-acre property Howard's Passage, and a one-third share of the residue of the estate; 4) to her sister Elizabeth Howard Davis, slaves and personalty; 5) to her sister Rachel Howard, a one-third share of the residue of the the estate; and 6) to her mother Rachel Ridgely Worthington Howard, the other one-third share of the residue of the estate. Sarah was not mentioned in the will. By 1772, she may have been married, and thus provided for, no matter her missing birthdate.^[4]

1801 — Sarah Howard Ducker is named in her mother Rachel Worthington Howard's will as one beneficiary of the residue of her mother's estate, to be shared with the nine children of her late brother Thomas Cornelius Howard (Thomas Worthington, Charles, Henry, Brice, Polly, Anne, Rachel Howard Duval, Elizabeth Howard Rowan, and Rebecca Howard Young), after bequests to her mother's other grandchildren are settled. These bequests benefit the four children of her sister Elizabeth Howard Gaither^[5] (Martha, Ann, Elizabeth, and Henrietta Gaither Poole), and the two children of her late brother Brice Howard (Brice and Anne). It appears that Sarah survived her parents and all of her siblings.

To Do

• Organize merges (in process /ds).
• Follow up quod vide notes on Newman 1933, p.277 ditto.
• Link profiles not involved in merges from first mention running text.

Sources

1. ↑ All information is from Newman 1933, p.277, unless otherwise noted.
2. ↑ Newman 1933, p 277, notes with qv that there is more information in his book on children 1, 2, 3, and 4. The numbered list is his.
3. ↑ Peisen GEDCOM loaded 1758. Howard-1293 profile, into which a merge will be proposed, says b.1740.
4. ↑ Unlikely if the 1758 birth date is correct, but still possible. Most women in this time and place waited until their early 20s to wed, but teenage marriages weren't unknown; her cousin Hamutah Hammond Worthington is one example. Newman lists her sixth of six children, but he has no dates and he lists the three brothers as 1-2-3 and the three sisters as 4-5-6, a common practice in older genealogies.
5. ↑ Newman, 1933. Wife of William Gaither.

Source S759220130

Title: Ancestry Family Trees.

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

Source S-456906241

Title: Ancestry Family Trees.

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

• Ancestry.com. Ancestry Family Trees repository #R-847036969, source S-245782136. Online publication by Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah, USA; family tree data submitted by Ancestry members.

• Harry Wright Newman, 1933. Anne Arundel gentry : a genealogical history of twenty-two pioneers of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and their descendants. “Cornelius Howard, Gent. 4 (1717–1772)," page 277. Pioneer Series printed 1933 by the Lord Baltimore Press, Baltimore, Maryland. Full text available online, digitized by the Internet Archive, 2016, and funded by the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.

Parked here temporarily pending pre-merge with Howard-1293 (PM Remus-2) edit:

Source S759220130 Title: Ancestry Family Trees. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

Source S-456906241 Title: Ancestry Family Trees. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

Acknowledgements

• Wikitree Profiles Howard-1293, -1304, -1362, & -1422, created through the import of 4 gedcoms, likely by the same person, all on 08 April 2011.
• All 4 profiles above were subsequently "orphaned" and adopted by Fred Remus who merged them, upgraded data section, and added all data in the biography section through the adoption date on 3 August 2013. Also added all sources other than Ancestry.com.
• Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

• Howard-7660 was created via GEDCOM import of the Peisen Family Tree_9.26.14.ged by Conan Peisen on 2014.Sep.26.

Parked here temporarily pending pre-merge with Howard-1293 (PM Fred Remus-2) edit:

Wikitree Profiles Howard-1293, -1304, -1362, & -1422, created through the import of 4 gedcoms, likely by the same person, all on 08 April 2011.

All 4 profiles above were subsequently "orphaned" and adopted by Fred Remus who merged them, upgraded data section, and added all data in the biography section through the adoption date on 3 August 2013. Also added all sources other than Ancestry.com.