David Arnold

For this David and his wife Sarah to have children—

• one must eschew the notion that Sarah was born in her baptismal year.
  • Not all children were baptized in their birth years, and Sarah was one such child. Note the following:—
  • "TYLER, Sarah (dau. of] Fr[ —— ]" was baptized "Sept. 1697" in Branford "upon parental right" – (i.e., father granted permission). –
    • Wary fathers's about churches/religions/preachers but allied to none did exist in mid-to-late 1600's Colonial America. Churches could not baptize these father's children without him granting "parental right."
  • Source: Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Vol. 10 "Branford". Available at: Ancestry.com.
• There is no reliable source to prove the couple married in 1715. It's an improvable year for marriage which voids birth records of likely children three children that the couple had.
• One transcribed town marriage record shows only this:
  • “ARNOLD, David, m. Sarah [ —— ], Oct. 3, 17[%E2%80%94]. LR2 – 1". — They probably married in 1706 at about age 16.
    • Source: Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection): “Haddam Vital Records 1668-1852”. Available at: Ancestry.com.

Data Only: More Rational Birth Dates but Not Marriage Date

• Data Source: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Ancestry; database on-line.
  • Name: David Arnold – Gender: Male
  • Birth Place: CT –Birth Year: 1690
  • Spouse Name: Sarah Tyler
  • Spouse Birth Place: CT – Spouse Birth Year: 1690
  • Marriage State: CT
    • Marriage Year: 1715 <— no original record shows this year. Where Yates Publishing derived the year is not known. It comes from conflating records pertaining to another David Arnold who married a Sarah in Connecticut. Someone with the motivation to research it may find the solution herein as follows: —
      • Source: Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol. 19 "Turkey Hill Cemetery, Haddam" (Ancestry.com)—
      • “Lewis, Sarah Arnold, wife of Capt. Nathan Lewis, died Jan. 22, 1814, age 90 yrs. She was a daughter of David & Sarah Tyler Arnold. He was a son of Zebulon and Mehitable Arnold Lewis.”

Accepting the Yates birth data makes possible these as their children:

• David Arnold, b. 28 Jul 1707 in Haddam – FamilySearch A and FamilySearch B.
• Francis Arnold, b. Nov 1709 in Haddam. (i.e., named after Sarah's father, appearing as Fr[ —— ] above) – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2S3-46D
• Seth Arnold, b. 13 Jul 1710 in Haddam – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WY-STB

Some FamilySearch birth records to A David Arnold show no name for mother.

• None seem viable as children of this David Arnold given the huge gap in birth years from the ones above:—
  • 1722; 1724; 1730; 1726; 1734; 1736.