Sarah (Jones) Chamberlain (1631 - 1710)

Born 28 Jan 1631 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Chamberlain — married about 1651 in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 16 Dec 1710 at age 79 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Sarah (Jones) Chamberlain immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Sarah Jones was born in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England on January 28, 1630/1; the daughter of Thomas Jones and his wife Anna (Linney) Jones.^[1]

At about age 7 years, Sarah migrated with her parents and three siblings on the ship Confidence out of Southampton on April 24, 1638,^[2]her siblings being John, Abraham, and probably Hannah. Also on board the Confidence were the Jones' servants, William Baunsh(e) and Jude Donley (or Denley); as well the family of John Benson of Caversham who were probably closely related to Helen (Benson) Linney, Sarah's grandmother.^[1]

In New England the family first settled at Hingham where her father continued in his trade as a tailor. He had been born at Caversham, England about 1602^[3]probably the son of Roger Jones; baptized there on January 23, 1602/3. Sarah's mother, according to English parish records, was Ann Linney, baptized in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire; the daughter of Floris/Florence Linney and his wife Helen (Benson) Linney. While in Hingham, two more siblings of Abraham came into the world, Thomas Jones and Mary Jones.^[1]

About 1651 at Hingham, Sarah married Henry Chamberlain, the son of Henry and Jane Chamberlain of Hingham and Hull. Her mother had died the previous year and a few years later, in 1657, her father remarried to Abigail (unknown surname) Ellithorpe in Boston on June 25, 1657. At that time, the family moved to Hull, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1][3]

Henry, Sarah's husband, had inherited blacksmith tools from his father; so it seems he was a blacksmith while living at Hingham. When, however, Sarah and Henry moved to Hull, and he became a proprietor of Hull, "he was obligated to enter the fishing trade, and his inventory mentions one-sixth of a scine and a small sea-bed.^[4]

Sarah's husband, Henry Chamberlain died at Hull on December 2, 1678, about 60 years old. He left Sarah all the lands, houses, cattle and estate during her widowhood, until their children became of age.^[4]

Sarah's father, Thomas Jones died in Manchester before March 9, 1680/1.^[3]

Sarah (Jones) Chamberlain died in Boston on December 16, 1710^[3]at the age of 75 years.^[4]

Children:^[4]

1. Sarah Chamberlain bap. at Hingham on 6 June 1652. m. prob. at Hull before 2 Dec 1678, to Robert Milton/Melton. He d. at Hull on 15 Nov 1702. Sarah d. at Hingham on 6 June 1752.
2. Henry Chamberlain b. at Hull abt 1654. m. Jane ____ abt 1682. He was a blacksmith. d at Hull on 6 May 1706. (more info at NEHGR142)
3. Benjamin Chamberlain prob. bap. at Hingham as "Benj." on 18 May 1662. Prob. m. Mary Wright, dau. of Edward on 13 Oct 1685. (see more at NEHGR142)
4. Mary Chamberlain prob. b. at Hull abt 1664. m. at Hingham 13 Oct 1685 (same date as brother Benjamin) as his 2nd wife, Thomas Sawyer. She died probably at Hingham before May 21, 1713.
5. Jane Chamberlain was a minor when her father made his will in 1678.
6. Unnamed Daughter who was a minor in 1678.
7. Joanna was a minor in 1678. Perhaps d. 25 Sep 1735 as Joanna, wife of James Phippen who d. 29 Dec 1735; son of George and Elizabeth (_____) Phippen.^[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Robert Battle, "The Identity of Ann, Wife of Thomas Jones of Hingham, Hull, and Manchester, Massachusetts," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 176 (2022):369-373; digital images via AmericanAncestors (free article).
2. ↑ Drake, Samuel Gardner. "Founders of New England" Pub. at Boston, Office of the New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Register. (1860).stt at archive.org
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)Claude W. Barlow. "Descendants of Thomas Jones of Hingham, Hull and Manchester, Mass." Vol. 113, p. 42ff.subscriber$
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Ethel Farrington Smith. "Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts and Her People." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Vol. 142 pp 352, 353.subscriber$
5. ↑ Thomas W. Baldwin. "Vital records of Hull, Massachusetts, to the year 1850." Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, MA (1911).see at archive.org
6. ↑ The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Donald Lines Jacobus. "The Phippen Family and The Wife of Nathan Gold of Fairfield, Connecticut." Vol. 17 (1940) p. 18.subscriber$

See also:

• Clarence Almon Torrey. "New England Marriages Prior to 1700." Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore. (1985) p. 142.see at google.com
• Source: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
• World Chamberlain Genealogical Society
• Local History & Genealogy | Hingham Historical Society

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