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Sarah Wentworth (Bartlett)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kittery, Maine, British North America
Death: September 12, 1827 (82-90)
New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine, United States (Old Age)
Place of Burial: ME, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Capt. Nathan Bartlett and Shuah Bartlett
Wife of Captain John Wentworth
Mother of Benning Wentworth and Samuel Solley Wentworth
Sister of Shuah Coffin; Mary Dennet; Phebe Bartlett; Abigail Bartlett; John Heard Bartlett and 4 others

Managed by: William Arthur Allen
Last Updated:

About Sarah Wentworth

2016 01 10 Notes by William Arthur Allen

1. Sarah (born Sarah Bartlett on May 26, 1741 was the 12th of 12 children, 2 of whom predeceased her birth leaving 10 living children in the family. Sarah was named Sarah after her deceased sister Sarah b. Dec. 25, 1735 but died within a month - Jan., 1736). Sarah Bartlett had four marriages, first Stephen Ferguson, 2nd Captain John Wentworth (1736-1781), 3rd ? and 4th?, probably Captain Nathaniel Evelith. (Ref: mainly Stackpole 1903:284).

2. While she was wife of Captain John Wentworth she gave birth to Samuel Solley Wentworth on Sept. 29, 1771 at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. She was age 30 at the time.

3. Sarah's full maiden name was preserved when her granddaughter Sarah Bartlett Wentworth was born in 1794.

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Sarah Wentworth's Timeline

1740
December 7, 1740
Kittery, Maine, British North America
1763
October 2, 1763
Kittery, York County, ME, United States
1771
September 26, 1771
Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Maine, United States
1827
September 12, 1827
Age 86
New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine, United States
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ME, United States