Sarah Pacey

Not the same as Sarah Judkins

Sarah Dudley Immigrated June 12, 1630 on ship Arbella with Gov. Winthrop. Admitted with husband Benjamin Keayne to First Church, Boston, JUNE 1639. Divorced from Keayne, circa 1647. Then married, second, Thomas Pacy (Pacey) by 1652 as she is called Sarah Pacy in her father's will dated on April 26, 1652 [12] and in Captain Robert Keanye's will. [4]

Child

1. Anna/Hannah Keayne born c 1641 at Lynn, Massachusetts; died on June 30, 1704: married first Edward Lane at Boston on December 11, 1657 [15]; married second, Colonel Nicholas Paige. [1] [16]

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dudley-401

Benjamin married Sarah Dudley by 1639, as on June 9, 1639, Benjamin Keayne, and Sarah his wife, were admitted to the Boston church. [2] [1] Sarah was baptized on July 23, 1620 at Semprinham, Lincolnshire, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Yorke) Dudley. [12]

They marriage was dissolved in 1647 due to his wife Sarah's 'increasing religious fanaticism' and her sexual promiscuity. [1] [2] [1] [7]Divorce was granted by the Massachusetts General Court. Sarah was excommunicated by the Boston Church in October of 1647 for "odious, lewd, and scandalous behaviour" with Nicholas Hart who had been excommunicated at Taunton.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dudley#Family_and_legacy

The fourth child, Sarah, married Benjamin Keayne, a militia officer. This union was an unhappy one, and resulted in the first reported instance of divorce in the colony; Keayne returned to England and repudiated the marriage. Although no formal divorce proceedings are known, Sarah eventually married again,[69] [to Job Judkins, by whom she bore five children. NO]

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Disambiguation

From Bill & Rita Stupak http://www.stupakgen.net/Genealogy/Beahm/07684_judk.htm

We originally had Sarah as the daughter of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy York, following several sources. However, there seem to be too many conflicts and I do not feel this is a good connection. Going from “bottom up”, i.e. those sources concerned with finding ancestors of Job and Sarah, often results in her identification as a daughter of Thomas. But going from the top down, i.e. looking at those sources concerned with Thomas Dudley and his descendants, does not match. Thomas did indeed have a daughter Sarah, but she was born in 1620, came to Massachusetts in 1630, married someone else, and died in 1659. Most sources concerned with Thomas Dudley’s descendants do not mention Job Judkins. And a 1620 birth date makes Sarah too young for her first two children (born 1629 and 1631). Our Sarah had to be born earlier, and (assuming the marriage location is correct) was in Boston at least by 1627. I believe the persistent desire to make a connection to Thomas stems from the fact that he was one of the first governors of the Massachusetts colony. It would be nice to claim him as a member of our family, but I don’t think there is any evidence for it other than the name. However, no one can say that Sarah Dudley Keayne Pacey did not have an exciting life. I think that after reading this account of Ms. Dudley in “The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley: The Second Governor of Massachusetts; Augustine Jones; Houghton, Mifflin, 1900, I think you’ll agree she was not the wife of Job Judkins.

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References

• https://nescbwi.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/the-write-sisters-women-of... “Anna Keayne was sixteen years old in 1656. She did not come from a model family. Her grandfather, a wealthy merchant, gained his riches by being sneaky, conniving and miserly. Her parents were ne’er-do-wells. Her father accused her mother of adultery, and when she was found guilty, he moved back to London to take advantage of his new freedom and left Anna to be raised by his parents in Boston. Anna’s mother became a habitual offender, often in trouble with authorities for ‘Irregular prophecying in mixt Assemblies.’”
• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Great Migration Begins profile for Thomas Dudley, page 585. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/0
• 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. AmericanAncestors “PACEY, Thomas & Sarah (DUDLEY) KEAYNE (1620-1659, Boston), div w of Benjamin; by 1655; Boston {Salisbury Fam. 140; Lynn Hist. 26; Dudley 224, 276; Haynes Anc. 72; Cushing (ms) 148; Reg. 5:296, 444, 9:348, 10:130; Drake 27; T. Dean Gen. (1903) 42; Boston”
• They marriage was dissolved in 1647 due to his wife Sarah's 'increasing religious fanaticism' and her sexual promiscuity. [1] [2] [1] [7]Divorce was granted by the Massachusetts General Court. Sarah was excommunicated by the Boston Church in October of 1647 for "odious, lewd, and scandalous behaviour" with Nicholas Hart who had been excommunicated at Taunton.[13]
• Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) AmericanAncestors
• https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/654 “1 August 1653, Robert Keayne of Boston, a retired merchant of great piety, began to write the final version of his Last Will and Testament t was not an easy task. The bequests he had in mind for the members of his immediate family (his wife, son, and granddaughter) were complicated. Other relatives also had to be properly provided for, servants had to be rewarded, friends acknowledged. Moreover, the merchant had long ago decided that one-third or thereabouts of all his property would be given as a gift for specific uses to the town and the commonwealth. The most elaborate precautions must be taken to see that this pious intent would not be thwarted. …”His son Benjamin’s marriage to the “unnatural and unhappy,” “proud and disobedient” Sarah Dudley had ended in separation.
• The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, William Ryland Beall. Page 71 GoogleBooks
• First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World By Francis J. Bremer. Page 107 - 112. “The Keaynes,” GoogleBooks
• “The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley: The Second Governor of Massachusetts.” By Augustine Jones. Appendix H - Sarah Pacey. Page 469-471. GoogleBooks