Sarah (Howland) Akin (1691)

Born 15 Jan 1691 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Timothy Akin — married about 1720 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

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Sarah was a Friend (Quaker)

Sarah was born on 15 Jan 1691 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1] She was the daughter of Nathaniel Howland and Rose (Allen) Howland.^[1][2]

In 1720, she married Timothy Akin, of Dartmouth. She forfeited membership by marrying out of the meeting, and the paper was signed by her father and uncle Benjamin.^[2] The condemnation is as follows:^[2]

Whereas Sarah the Daughter of Nathaniel Howland and Rose his wife of Dartmouth in the county of Bristol in New England having been Educated amongst friends not regarding the fear of God the honour of her parents nor the good order established amongst friends hath Stubbornly and willfully against the mind of her father and mother kept company from time to time that they did not allow of and at last in the Same obstinate Spirit hath proceeded in marriage with him out of the unity of friends to the grief of her parents and trouble of friends.
We are therefore concerned for the clearing of friends to give this forth as a publick testimony against all disobedience to parents and disorderly walking and particularly against the above said actions of the Said Sarah now the wife of Timothy Akin of Dartmouth Denying her to be one of us the people called Quakers yet Sincerely desiring if it be the will of God She may come to a Sight and Sense of this and all other her outgoings and by an unfeigned repentance and amendment of life so walk as to find mercy with the Lord.
given forth at our monthly meeting of friends held in Dartmouth the 16th day of the 11th month 1720/21 Signed at Said meeting by

Nathaniel Howland John Tucker Benjamin Howland Eleazer Slocum William Wood Stephen Wilcox James Tripp Deliverance Smith

Henry Tucker John Lapham Josiah Merrihew Joseph Taber Thomas Taber Junr Judah Smith Ruth Tucker

Mary Slocum Hannah Tucker Rachel Allen Hannah Soule Mary Smith Phebe Tucker Dinah Smith Mary Russell

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZVV-ZV4 : 15 January 2020), Sarah Howland, 1690.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Monthly meeting records, Men's Minutes 1699 – 1727, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, N.Y.), p 203.

• Howland, Franklyn. A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland (The Author, New Bedford, Mass., 1885) Page 79