Sarah Bear married William Bowditch on 15 September 1663 in Dorset, England -- the union was recorded at the conjoined parishes of Bothenhampton and Loders. At the time of her marriage, she was "of Wayford, County Somerset, England".
Sarah was still alive on 6 November 1705, when her son William proved his father's original will in England.
Sources
Marriage: (Bothenhampton) FreeReg UK [1]; See also (Loders) "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-1936," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDH-6T8B : 11 December 2017), William Bowditch and Sarah Bear, 15 Sep 1663; Marriage, citing Loders, Loders, Dorset, England, Record Office, Dorchester; FHL microfilm 2,427,522.
General biographical: The Bowditch family of Salem, Massachusetts, a genealogical sketch prepared for distribution on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the family Christmas party, Christmas day, 1936; by Harold Bowditch (Boston, Mass., Press of Recording and Statistical Corporation, 1936); https://archive.org/details/bowditchfamilyof00bowd/page/2
G. Andrews Moriarty, "Genealogical Research in England - Bowditch," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1918.
Peter Wilson Coldham, "Genealogical Gleanings in England - William Bowditch of Salem, Mass., 1671-1681," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, December 1981.
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