Sarah Knox Nock

• Sarah Drisco daughter of John Drisco of Wells (please don't conflate her father with John Dricko of Exeter, NH and Brunsiwck, ME)

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Sarah Drisco
Female
4 May 1683–Deceased

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https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/M5QY-ZB2/sarah-drisco-1683

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Drisco was born on 4 May 1683, in Wells, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Drisko, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Emerson, was 24. She married Sylvanus Nock on 13 December 1706, in Dover, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, British Colonial America.

Spouse

Sylvanus Nock
Male
1679–1724

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Male

Sarah Drisco
Female
1683–Deceased

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Female

Marriage
13 December 1706
Dover, New Hampshire, British Colonial America

Children (8)

Samuel Nock
Male
1707–1754

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Male

Ebenezer Nock
Male
1710–1767

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Male

Henry Nock
Male
1714–1750

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Male

Ester Nock
Female
1717–1755

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Female

Drisco Nock
Male
1719–1752

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Male

Rebecca Nock
Female
1720–Deceased

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Female

Sarah Knox
Female
1721–1802

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Female

Mercy Nock
Female
1723–1782

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Female

Summary

• Sarah Drisco daughter of John Drisco of Wells (please don't conflate her father with John Dricko of Exeter, NH and Brunsiwck, ME)
• Born 4 May 1683 in Wells, ME
• Death 1750 in Wells, York, Maine
• Married 13 Dec 1706 Sylvanus3 Nock son of Sylvanus2 Nock (Many internet trees confuse him with Sylvanus son of Thomas)
• Nine Children see below

Notes

Sylvanus Nock was son of Sylvanus of Dover and inherited his father's home in Dover. He was of Somersworth in 1730 when he, two bros. (not James) and two sisters gave a deed to John Hanson. Sold 5½ a. at Birch Pt., 1725. He m. 13 Dec. 1706 Sarah Drisco who was b. in Wells 4 May 1683. Administration of his estate was granted 12 Nov. 1750 to his son Drisco, They had nine children.

Children

Children born in Wells:

1. Samuel, b. 20 Sept. 1707, m. Abigail Ricker; his ch. Henry, Samuel, Sobriety Ricker (w. of Moses), Jedediah, Dorothy and Hannah gave a deed to their uncle Ebenezer N. in 1764.
2. Ebenezer, b. 16 May 1710, eldest surv. s. in 1752, m. 1st Elizabeth Ricker, m. 2d Mary (Bandall) Ricker.
3. Henry, b. 23 Aug. 1714, d. bef. 1750, s.p.
4. Esther, b. 21 Nov. 1717, m. Eliphalet Cromwell.
5. Drisco, b. 11 Oct. 1723, d. s.p. in 1752, adm. to br. Ebenezer.
6. Sarah, b. 11 July 1721, m. 1st Ezekiel Wentworth, m. 2d David Lyford.
7. Mercy, b. 11 Oct. 1723, m. Nathaniel Ricker. Sylvanus, Berwick, m. and had ch. 1763-1768.
8. Rebecca, m. Benjamin Varney.
9. Sylvanus, Berwick, m. and had ch. 1763-1768

Sources

1. Lapham, William B. (William Berry). Thomas (Nock) Knox of Dover, N. H., in 1652, and some of his descendants. (Augusta: Press of the Maine Farmer, 1890), 7.
2. Wentworth, John. The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1878), 1:252.
3. Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939). 5 JOHN, Wells, 1683, d. 16 July 1697, adm. 10 Aug. 1637 to John Cooper of Berwick. Lists 266, 268a, 269b. His farm at Ogunquit was sold to Zachariah Goodale in 1716 by two daus: ch. of John and Sarah rec. at Wells: Sarah, b. 4 May 1683, m. Sylvanus Nock (3). John, b. 28 Dec. 1686. Mercy, b. 25 June 1688, m. Timothy Conner. By trad. (Wentworth Gen.) the bro. went away unheard from, and their mo., an Emerson, was English.
4. Drisko, Frances Sterling. Drisko-Crocker-Foster : some of the "Coasters" of Maine and New Hampshire. (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, c2001). Warning this source conflates two men of the same name and repeats information proven to be incorrect.
5. Vital records of Wells 1619-1950 ed. Hope Moody Shelley (Rockport, Me: Picton Press, 2005) page 7
6. Torrey 1:476 DRISCO, John (-1697) & ____ [EMERSON?]; by 1690; Wells, ME {Knox 7; GDMNH 208}

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