Sarah (Lawson) Buckminster (1702 - 1747)

Born 26 Mar 1702 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Joseph Buckminster III — married 1719 in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 11 Sep 1747 at age 45 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Biography

Sarah Lawson ... She passed away in 1747.

The following,taken from the “ Boston Transcript,” December, 1899, is of interest as it concerns several ancestors.

Sarah Lawson was daughter of John and Sarah (Simpson) Lawson of Boston, and granddaughter of Savil Simpson of Boston, Framingham and Hopkinton. She was born 1702,married to Colonel Joseph Buckminster June 18, 1719, at Hopkinton, Mass.,where her grandfather, Savil Simpson, owned 500 acres of land which he had bought from the heirs of Colonel William Crowne, in what was then included in Framingham, but later was set ofi to Hopkinton, and is now included in the town of Ashland. She was named in her grandfather Savil Simpson’s will, who died Aug. 22, 1725; will pro­bated January 3, 1726. Colonel Joseph Buckminster, Jr.. was the son of Colonel Joseph and Martha (Sharp) Buckminster; his mother,Martha Sharp, being the daughter of John and Martha (Vose) Sharp of Muddy River (Brookline). Sarah Lawson Buckminster died Sept.11, 1747, having borne her husband seven children. He married, second, widow Hannah Kiggell, who bore him one son. Colonel Joseph Buckminster, Jr., received his commission in 1738-39, and was prominent in town affairs for nearly forty years. He died May 15, 1780, aged eighty-three.” (M. M. WOOLFORD).^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Historical notices of Thomas Fuller and his descendants : with a genealogy of the Fuller family, 1638-1902; reprinted from the N.E. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/217777-historical-notices-of-thomas-fuller-and-his-descendants-with-a-genealogy-of-the-fuller-family-1638-1902-reprinted-from-the-n-e-hist-and-geneal-register-october-1859?offset=9&viewer=1&medianame=FL13280348_2720503_000010&q=Buckminster#page=10&viewer=picture&o=ocr&n=0&q=Buckminster

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHMC-L31 : 15 January 2020), Sarah Lawson, 1702.
• "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHYL-FFC : 17 January 2020), Sarah Buckminster, 1747.

• Records of some of the descendants of William Curtis, Roxbury, ... Clarke, Samuel C. (Samuel Clarke), b. 1806.