Sarah (Sage) Brockett (1795 - 1882)

Born 13 Sep 1795 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Pierpont Brockett — married 22 Sep 1819 in New Haven Co., Connecticut

Died 11 Oct 1882 at age 87 in East Orange, New Jersey

Biography

She is the daughter of Col. Josiah Sage, of Upper Middletown, Conn., and Sarah Savage.

From: The Bulkeley Genealogy, Pgs. 677, 678 (Jacobus)

1695 Sarah (6) Savage (Sarah (5), Sarah (4), Edward (3), Gershom (2), Peter (1)), baptized at Middletown (Cromwell), Conn., 6 June 1773, died at Middletown, 29 Sept. 1837; married at Middletown (Cromwell), 17 Feb. 1794, (Col.) Josiah Sage, born 1772, died at Middletown, 14 Sept. 1839.

Children, born at Middletown, Conn.:

6565 i. Sarah (7), b. 13 Sept. 1795; d. at East Orange, N. J., 11 Oct. 1882; m. 22 Sept., 1819, (Rev.) Pieirpont Brockett, b. at North Haven, Conn., 30 Oct. 1787, d. 7 Apr. 1868.☨ Mr. Brockett served as Ensign and Lieut. in the War of 1812 under Commander Abraham Hubbard. He studied theology, and was ordained in 1819, becoming pastor of the Baptist Church in Canton, Conn. In 1822 he became State Missionary for Conn., but returned to the pastoral field, serving several Conn. churches; from 1849 to 1862 he was pastor at Wethersfield, and was Chaplain of State Prison, 1854-57. During a ministry of forty-one years, he preached more than 6300 sermons. He possessed a warm heart and sympathetic nature, and was greatly loved.

6566 ii. Linus, bapt. 18 Mar. 1797

6567 iii. Julia, bapt. 26 July 1801

☨ Children were Linus-Pierpont Brockett, M. D., author of fifty volumes and a large contributor to several encyclopedias; and Edward-Judson Brockett, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and East Orange, N. J., an officer of the firm of Battelle & Renwick, manufacturers and importers, and publisher of the Brockett Genealogy.

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Sources

• Brockett, Edward. The Descendants of John Brockett, One of the Original Founders of New Haven Colony (Orange Chronicle Co., East Orange, N.J., 1905) Page 91
• Jacobus, Donald. The Bulkeley Genealogy (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1933). Sarah (Sage) Brockett is Record #6565. ^[1]
• U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930: Marriages, The Hartford Times, Pierpont Brockett, of Middletown, & Sarah Sage, of Canton, dau. of Colonel Josiah, 28 Sep. 1819 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts
• Find A Grave: Memorial #20435618; Sarah S. Brockett, Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield CT, Plot: ancient burying ground (C-3-c)
• Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997, GS Film Number: 000003250. Digital Folder Number: 007593211. Image Number: 01928.

See also:

• Tillotson, Edward Sweetser. Wethersfield Inscriptions (William F.J. Boardman, Hartford, Conn., 1899) Page 36

Footnotes

1. ↑ The Bulkeley Genealogy, Page 677