Sarah (Wetherill) Hobart (1644 - bef. 1717)

Born 10 Feb 1644 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Israel Hobart — married 30 Dec 1668 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 1717 before age 72 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Sarah Wetherell/Witherell, daughter of Rev. William and Mary (Fisher) Witherell, was born 10 Feb 1644/5 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony.^[1] [Her father spelled his name Witherell. See ^[2]]

She married 30 Dec 1668 Israel Hobart, son of Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts,^[3] and moved north to his home on Hingham’s Great Plain. After the Indians destroyed their home they move to her hometown, Scituate, and settled on the North River.[See husband's profile.]

She died before her husband for she is not mentioned in his will. Her death apears to be sometime between March 27, 1714, when Judge Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) noted in his diary that he had given her 10 “shaillings” when he had supper with Mr. Eels, the current pastor of Scituate's Second Church^[4] and 1718, when she is not mention in the deed where Israel sold the land to their son.^[5] She was probably about 70.

Surviving Children: ^{[6] [7]}

1. Sarah Hobart b. May 30 1670 in Hingham, m. Francis Brock
2. Jael Hobart b. Jun 26 1680 in Scituate. Single in 1729,
3. Abigail Hobart b.Jan 14 1683/4 in Scituate. Single in 1729.
4. Israel Hobart Jr b. Feb 5 1686/7 in Scituate. Was deeded the home and half of the homestead by father in 1718.

Originally posted: "their children were Sarah, Israel & Rebekah." A daughter Rebekah is not named in the will, nor any children attributed to her, so apparently not a child.

Sources

1. ↑ Scituate vital rec., p.415: Sarah d. Will[iam], Feb 10 1644/5; by Thomas King, ruling elder. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293104950823&view=1up&seq=423
2. ↑ Samuel Deane’s “History of Scituate” (1831), p.397. https://archive.org/details/historyscituate01deangoog/page/n404/mode/2up
3. ↑ Hingham vital records, p.17: Dec 30 1668, by Thomas King.
4. ↑ Thomas, M. Halsey, ed., The Diary of Samuel Sewall 1674-1729, Vol.2, p.789.
5. ↑ Plymouth Co. Deed Bk.15, p.79.
6. ↑ Hingham vital rec., p.20: of Israel & Sarah Hubbard.
7. ↑ Vital Records of Situate Massachusetts, 1909 Vol. 1, p.182. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293104950823&view=1up&seq=190

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