Sarah (Prentice) Woodward (abt. 1649 - 1723)

Born about 1649 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of John Smith — married 8 Jun 1676 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of John Woodward — married 16 Mar 1699 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 22 Sep 1723 at about age 74 in Newton, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Sarah was born about 1649 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Henry Prentice and Joanna Savage.She passed away in 1723, in Newton, Massachusetts.

First Marriage and Children

Sarah married, first, John Smith in Cambridge on 8 June 1676.^[1][2] That Sarah's first husband was John Smith of Cambridge is proven by John's will, in which he appointed his "brother" Nathaniel Hancock as a co-executor. John Smith of Cambridge and Nathaniel Hancock were brothers-in-law because Nathaniel was married to Sarah's sister Mary Prentice.

Sarah and John had the following children:

• Sarah, b. 31 March 1677 in Cambridge,^[3] d. 13 April 1677 in Cambridge^[4]
• John, b. 2 March 1677/8 in Cambridge^[5]
• Sarah, b. 17 August 1681 in Cambridge^[3]
• Rachel, b. 19 December 1685 in Cambridge^[6]
• Joseph, b. 9 August 1687 in Cambridge^[5]
• Mary, living in 1695.^[7] May have been the Mary Smith who married John Prentice in Cambridge on January 5, 1704/5.^[2]
• Elizabeth, living in 1695^[7]
• Hannah, living in 1695^[7]
• Abigail, living in 1695^[7]
• Dorcas, living in 1695.^[7] She was probably the Dorcas Smith who married Timothy Howe on 27 July 1715 in Newton^[8]

Sarah's first husband, John Smith, died in Cambridge on 22 January 1694/5.^[9]

Second Marriage

Sarah married, second, John Woodward on 16 March 1698/9 in Cambridge.^[10] In 1701, John became the legal guardian of Joseph Smith, Sarah's son from her first marriage.^[11]

Death

Sarah died in Newton on 23 September 1723.^[12]

^{[1] [12] [4] [3] [6] [5] [7] [11] [9] [2] [8]}

Sources

Footnotes and citations:

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England 1632-1830. 1906. p. 70. Link to page at archive.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Volume I - Marriages and Deaths. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914. p. 360. Link to page at archive.org.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Volume I - Births. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914. p. 653. Link to page at archive.org.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Volume I - Marriages and Deaths. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914. p. 741. Link to page at archive.org.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Volume I - Births. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914. p. 651. Link to page at archive.org.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Volume I - Births. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914. p. 652. Link to page at archive.org.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5} The assertion that John had daughters named of Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah, Abigail and Dorcas who were living in 1695 is proven by bequests to them in his will made on 14 January 1694/5.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHD-Q142 : 11 May 2022), Timothy Howe and Dorcas Smith, 27 Jul 1715; citing Marriage, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011106.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Middlesex County Probate Records. File 20659. FHL Film #007553765, images 1044-1047. Link to images at familysearch.org.
10. ↑ Sharples, Stephen Paschall ed. Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830. (Boston, 1906): page 70.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Middlesex County Probate Records. File 20660. FHL Film #007553765, images 1048-1050. Link to images at familysearch.org.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC97-K9J : 20 May 2022), Sarah Woodward, 23 Sep 1723; citing Death, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009513.

Source list:

• Cambridge. Thomas W. Baldwin, ed. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, vol. 1: Births. (Boston: NEHGS, 1914).
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• Cambridge. Thomas W. Baldwin, ed. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, vol. 2: Marriages and Deaths. (Boston: NEHGS, 1915).
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• Early Families of New England Project, 1641-1700. (NEHGS online database, 2013): Biography of George Woodward. AmericanAncestors.org link (subscription).
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Granberry Family and Allied Families (E.F. Waterman, Hartford, Conn., 1945) Page 134
• History and Genealogy of the Prentice Families of New England, by C.J.F. Binney, 1883, p.3.