Sarah Coulson was born about 1725 in West Nottingham, Cecil, Maryland to parents Thomas Coulson and Martha Mary Wiley.
She married Joseph Rich on 27 Feb 1742 in Chester, Pennsylvania.[1]
Children:
Agnes Ann
Martha
Mary
Samuel
Sarah
Rachel
Hannah
Stephen
Prudence
Rebecca
Thomas
Elizabeth
She died on 31 May 1783 in West Nottingham, Cecil, Maryland, and was buried in the Harrisville Friends Cemetery in Harrisville, Cecil, Maryland.[2]
Geography
In 1701, all 18,000 acres of Nottingham lay in Chester County, PA. However, after the settlement of the Mason-Dixon Line in the late 1,760's, only 1,300 acres of the original Nottingham Lots remained in Chester County and the other 16,700 acres became part of Cecil County, Maryland.[3]
Sources
↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CYX-7QTM : 13 January 2021), Sarah Coulson in entry for Joseph Rich, 1742.
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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.
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