Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" Bridges was born circa 1780 based on her age at death. She was the daughter of Samuel Bridges and Sarah Stickney, New England Planters who settled in Maugerville, Sunbury County in 1764[1]
June 26, 1801, she married Zebulon Estey, the son of Zebulon Estey and Mary Brown[2]
Their children included;
Samuel Bridges, born 1803, who married Phebe Newcomb Cowperthwaite, daughter of
John Holland, born 1804, who married Mary Ann Raymond, daughter of Samuel and who died in 1886[3] (see FAG # 92901248)
Sarah died October 16, 1847 at age 67, and is buried in Sheffield United Church cemetery[4]
Sources
↑New Brunswick Genealogical Society First Families listing for Samuel Bridges show the following: MC1/Bridges, 6 pages: see MC1/Smith #13: see also MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 160-161, 201-202.
↑ 2.02.1New Brunswick Genealogical Society First Families listing for Zebulon Estey shows the following references: MC1/Estey #1,2, 50 pages: see MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 273-274: see MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New Brunswick, page 86: see also MC80/2642 Wanda A. Rodney’s The Esteys, Vol 1, second section.
↑Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics: Volume 66 Number 213; Date July 10 1886; County Carleton; Place Woodstock; Newspaper Carleton Sentinel, which states d. At his residence Florenceville (Carleton Co.) Thursday 1st July, John H. ESTEY, age 81 years 7 mos.
↑Provincial Archives of New Brunswick New Brunswick Cemeteries; Name ESTEY, Sarah; Died 1847-Oct-16; Age 67 Years; Relationship w/o Zebulon Estey; Cemetery Sheffield United Church, Sunbury County
Find A Grave: Memorial #112105892, Sheffield United Church Cemetery, Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sarah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sarah: