Sarah Searle / Edwards

Source: http://www.gordongridley.us/genealogy/gridleylo/pafg602.htm#19929

"John Searle was born in Warwick, England, and baptised in 1610. The names of his parents are not yet known, but he had a sister, Joanna, who accompanied him to Massachusetts. They are said to have landed in Boston in 1634.

The earliest New World record of John Searle is in the Town Records of Springfield, Mass., but the date of his arrival there is not certain He was not one of the eight signatories to the agreement to found the settlement in May 1636, nor did he sign the agreement with the Indians for the purchase of the land. John Searle was, however, the small town's first constable.

On March 20th 1637 John Searle and Richard Everitt were ordered to measure out 54 acres of ground for Mr William Pymcheon, and on September 3rd 1638 the inhabitants granted a house lot to John Searle himself. This lot was where the Union Depot is now.

On March 19th 1639, John Searle married Sarah Baldwin. She had come from Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, with her brothers to settle in Milford, Connecticut. This was the first marriage entry in the Springfield Records. The couple had one child, John, born May 3rd 1641, who was only a few months old when his father died on August 11th 1641.

In his Will, written after the birth of his son, John Searle mentions being "very sicke in body" - many of the early settlers died of unspecified illnesses aggravated by the hardships. He bequeathed all his estate to be divided equally between his wife and his infant son, except for his "beste coate and my cullord hatt" which he left to "my brother in law William Warrener" (who had married John's sister, Joanna, in Springfield July 31st 1639). Warrener also owed "betwixt three and fower poundes", which John Searle was content to remit to £2. An inventory was taken and showed property worth £l0l-14s-Od, including the house lot.

There was in this Will a clause to allow John's widow, Sarah, to have use of his son's portion until the latter reached the age of 20. However, she was required to give security if she married again, which she did in April 1642. In the marriage agreement, drawn up by Sarah and her new husband, Alexander Edwards, she gave security of £50 and he of £100 in the event of her early death."

SOURCE: http://www.ksearle.btinternet.co.uk/American_Searles_Right.htm

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accused of Hugh Parsons and his wife of witchcraft because her cow's milk turned yellow and bloody after she denied Hugh payment in milk.

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Biography

Sarah Baldwin is the daughter of Richard Baldwin and Isabell Harding.
Sarah married first, John Searle, March 19, 1638-9 in Springfield, Massachusetts.<ref>Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originallypublished as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: NewEngland Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 2, page1345</ref>Looking here: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11680-110847-19?cc=186..., it was recorded asthe 1st month 19th day of 1637/1638. Her husband, John Searle, Sr. was in Springfield as early as March 20, 1637, when he was ordered to measure out 54 acres of land. John and Sarah had a son, John, born March 30, 1641. He settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, and married Ruth Jones, who died in 1672. She was the daughter of William Jones.<ref name=baldwin>Baldwin, CharlesCandee The Baldwin genealogy supplement, published 1889 by Cleveland. Reference page 991</ref> John Searle died August 11, 1641 in Springfield, Massachusetts.<ref name=baldwin/> After John's death, Sarah married Alexander Edwards, April 28, 1642, in Springfield, Massachusetts.<ref name=baldwin/><ref>Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 1, page 499</ref> Sarah and Alexander had the following known children:<ref name=baldwin/>

1. Samuel, b March 7, 1643
2. Hannah, b 1645
3. Joseph, b 1647
4. Mary, b 1650; m John Field, 1670
5. Benjamin, b 1652; m Thankful Sheldon, 1681
6. Sarah, b 1654
7. Nathaniel, b 1657# Elizabeth, b 1690 (sic - this date looks incorrect; probably should be 1660) Sarah died October 3, 1690, in Northampton, Massachusetts.<ref>Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010). Reference Northampton Volume 1, page 111</ref> Alexander died September 4, 1690 along with 48 other members of the town in the epidemic of “Agues and Fevers” during the winter of 1690-91. Sarah died on October 3, 1690. She was mentioned in her fathers will in 1633. A transcription of his will (written 23rd of December, 1630, witnessed by Richard Crippes and[a different], Richard Baldwine, proved by the Executor, his oldest son Timothy, on 16 May 1633 - can be found in the supplement to the Baldwin Genealogy, which can be found online here: https://archive.org/stream/baldwingenealogy1889bald#page/990/mode/2up (see page 990). This is a supplement to a genealogy written by C.C. Baldwin published in 1889. The full text of the original book can be found online here: https://archive.org/details/baldwingenealogy00bald. Richard's will is also transcribed in the full original book, see page 23.

Research Notes

• Her birth date has been speculated to be about 1618.*Sarah is mentioned with her two husbands in the book, "The first century of the history of Springfield : the official records from 1636..."See pages 563 and 633.

Sources

<references />*Warner, Frederick Chester, The Ancestry of Samuel, Freda and John Warner, type­script (Boston 1949-55). Vol 3, Page 562 (Borrow from Internet Archive *Chester, Joseph Lemuel Investigations concerning the Baldwin Family of Aston Clinton, co., Bucks., publised 1884. Reference page 9*Baldwin, Charles Candee.<i>The Baldwin Genealogy From 1500 To 1881</i>(The Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1881)

• 42064091 (Unsourced)* "Family Tree," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 June 2019, 23:55), entry for Sarah Baldwin(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZNH-Q27); contributed by various users.