Sarah (Savage) Sage (1773 - 1837)

Born 1773 in Middletown, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Sage — married 17 Feb 1794 in Cromwell, Middlesex Co., Connecticut

Descendants

Died 29 Sep 1837 at about age 64 in Cromwell, Connecticut

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Biography

Sarah was born in 1773. She was the daughter of Josiah Savage and Sarah Stow. She passed away in 1837.

From: Early Connecticut Marriages, Book 2: Pg. 98

Josiah Sage & Sarah Savage, Feb. 17, 1794 (Cromwell)

From: The Bulkeley Genealogy, Pgs. 677, 678

1695 Sarah (6) Savage (Sarah (5), Sarah (4), Edward (3), Gershom (2), Peter (1)), baptized at Middletown (Cromwell), Conn., 6 June 1773, died at Middletown, 29 Sept. 1837; married at Middletown (Cromwell), 17 Feb. 1794, (Col.) Josiah Sage, born 1772, died at Middletown, 14 Sept. 1839.

He was Captain, 2d Major and 1st Major in the 23d Regt., Conn. State Militia, also Lieut.-Col. and Colonel in the 6th Regt., his service ending about 1819.

Children, born at Middletown, Conn.:

6565 i. Sarah (7), b. 13 Sept. 1795; d. at East Orange, N. J., 11 Oct. 1882; m. 22 Sept., 1819, (Rev.) Pieirpont Brockett, b. at North Haven, Conn., 30 Oct. 1787, d. 7 Apr. 1868.☨ Mr. Brockett served as Ensign and Lieut. in the War of 1812 under Commander Abraham Hubbard. He studied theology, and was ordained in 1819, becoming pastor of the Baptist Church in Canton, Conn. In 1822 he became State Missionary for Conn., but returned to the pastoral field, serving several Conn. churches; from 1849 to 1862 he was pastor at Wethersfield, and was Chaplain of State Prison, 1854-57. During a ministry of forty-one years, he preached more than 6300 sermons. He possessed a warm heart and sympathetic nature, and was greatly loved.

6566 ii. Linus, bapt. 18 Mar. 1797

6567 iii. Julia, bapt. 26 July 1801

☨ Children were Linus-Pierpont Brockett, M. D., author of fifty volumes and a large contributor to several encyclopedias; and Edward-Judson Brockett, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and East Orange, N. J., an officer of the firm of Battelle & Renwick, manufacturers and importers, and publisher of the Brockett Genealogy.

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Sources

• Jacobus, Donald. The Bulkeley Genealogy (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1933). Sarah (Savage) Sage is Record # 1695, Pgs. 677, 678. ^[1]
• Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, edited by Frederic W. Bailey, Bureau of American Ancestry, New Haven CT, printed by The Price, Lee & Adkins Co., 1898, Book 2, Pg. 98
• Find A Grave: Memorial #70776309; Old Burying Ground, Cromwell CT

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Footnotes

1. ↑ The Bulkeley Genealogy, Page 677