Sarah Meeker

Sarah Preston. Born ca 1626 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Sarah was baptized in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, on 18 Jul 1626. She was the daughter of William Preston and his first wife, Elizabeth Sale Preston, who died when she was a little girl. She was raised by her step-mother, Mary Seabrook Preston. Sarah sailed to America in September 1635 with her family on the Truelove. Sarah married William Meeker. William and Sarah moved to Newark, NJ.

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Immigrated to British colonial America with her father William Preston who brought his family from England aboard the Truelove in 1635. They lived first in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, then moved to New Haven Colony in 1640.

Baptized June 18, 1626, Chesham county Bucks, England.

Mentioned in a medical diary in New Haven in 1658 as "Goody Meeker," daughter of Widow Preston.