Sarah Linsley

Disambiguation

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ware-440#Second_marriage_and_children

According to Jacobus, "She was not named Ware, as by misreading is often falsely stated."[1] In his 1875 Pond family genealogy[2], Daniel Streator Pond concurred that her last name at birth was unknown.

Biography

Sarah born 1618 / before 1629 England. She died 6 Jul 1665 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut.

Married Samuel Pond 18 November, 1642. on 18 Nov 1642 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.
Married John Linsley 6 June, 1655

Samuel Pond and Sarah had the following children:

• M i Isaac POND was born 16 Mar 1646 and died 15 Nov 1669.
• M ii Samuel POND 1, 2 was born 3 4 Mar 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.
• M iii Nathaniel POND 1, 2 was born 3 21 Sep 1650 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. He died 19 Dec 1675 in Narragansett, Washington, Rhode Island.
• F iv Sarah POND 1, 2 was born 3 11 Feb 1653 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.

In addition, two unnamed children born to the couple died in Windsor in 1647.[21]

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ware-440#Second_marriage_and_children

"Samuel Pond dyed March 14 1654[22], intestate. Left behaynd him Sara his wife.".[23][24] The children's names and ages are listed at the bottom of the inventory included in Samuel's probate records:

Isack - 8 years
Samuel - 5 years
Nathaniel - 3 1/4 years
Sara - 2 years and a month
Sarah, a widow roughly 30 years of age, was then confronted with how to provide for herself and 4 young children - having been left by her late husband with an estate valued at £129 (see previous reference).

What is known of the subsequent fates of Nathaniel Pond (1651-1675) and Isaac Pond (abt.1645-1669) comes mostly from testimony recorded during the 1677 sodomy trial of Nicholas Sension, a wealthy Windsor landowner.[25] The testimony documents that the brothers remained in Windsor where Nathaniel, "... in his orphan state ...", worked as an indentured servant to Nicholas Sension. While Nathaniel had complained of his master's sexual advances, he turned down an offer to be liberated from Sension. By 1677 when the sodomy trial took place, both brothers had died before their 25th birthdays -- Nathaniel being kiiled in the "great swamp fight" against the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.[26]

Second marriage and children

Sarah then married John Linsley II (1620-bef.1698) of Branford (previously referred to as "Toket") in 1655[27][28][29][30] or 1656.[31][32] The difference in the recorded year of the marriage could have resulted from a 1655 marriage in Windsor (according to Welles) being later registered in Branford in 1656 (according to Bailey). It should be noted that Branford was then part of the separate colony of New Haven. The names of John and his brother Francis were both included on a 1646 list of the 37 original planters of Branford.[33]

John was himself a widower, also with 4 young children. Available sources indicate that Sarah took with her to Branford only two of her four children -- Samuel Pond (1648-1718) and Sarah (Pond) Hoyt (1652-1676).

Jacobus summarized evidence that John Linsley likewise kept only two of his four children by his first wife. Evidence suggests that his two youngest daughters grew up on Long Island.[34]

Sarah and John had at least 2 children, both born in Branford and both died as young children:

1. Benjamin, b. 10 Jul 1656[35]; d. 29 Mar 1660[36][37]
2. Elesebeth, b. 18 Jun 1658[38]; d. 11 Jul 1659[39][40]

Death

Sarah died sometime before the death of her second husband about 1698.[41] The movable property of John's estate was inventoried by her son Samuel Pond and valued at less than £20. John Linsly IV, son of Sarah's step-son John Linsley III, served as administrator of the estate, distributing the moveable properties between Mary and Hannah -- the only two surviving children of John Linsley II.

Samuel Pond: Probate

• Source: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records.1650 to 1663
  • Original Image at: Ancestry.com.
  • Transcribed at: Google Books.
• Location: Windsor
• Date of Will: 19 Mar 1654
• Died 14 March, 1654-5.
• Invt. £129-02-00. Taken 19 March, 1654-5, by Henry Wolcott Jr., John Moore, Robert Howard, Benedictus Alford sen.
• Legatees: Wife Sarah, son Isaac 8 years of age, Samuel 6, Nathaniel 3 1/4, Sara 2 1/2 years.
• This Court order to Dist. to the Mother £40, the rest of the Estate to be equally divided between the 4 Children.

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References

• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg1198.htm#19615
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ware-440 cites
  • Corbin, Frances Harrison. "The Linsleys in American", The Connecticut Magazine (Hartford, Conn., 1908) Vol. 11, Pt. 2, Page 664
  • Welles, Edwin. Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1898) Page 42
  • The Connecticut magazine (1907) Volume 11, pt. 2, pg 654
  • Bailey, Frederic William. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (Bureau of American Ancestry, New Haven, Connecticut, 1896) Book 2.
  • Page 99: Branford, New Haven County. Marriages by Rev. Abraham Pierson. "John Linsley & Sarah Pond, June 2, 1656"