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Sarah Willett (Adams)

Also Known As: "Elionas or Hannah Adams", "Sarah Adams"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death: 1670 (32-33)
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Place of Burial: Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Jeremy Adams, of Hartford and Rebecca (unknown) Taylor Baseden Greenhill
Wife of Nathaniel Willett, of Hartford
Mother of Abigail Bishop; Rebecca Ranney; Sarah Sanford and Hannah Webster
Sister of John Adams, of Hartford; Hannah Smith; Hester Adams (died young) and Samuel Adams, (died young)
Half sister of Rebecca Shepard and Thomas Greenhill

Managed by: Erica Howton
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About Sarah Willett

Sarah Adams

  • Birth: ABT 1643 1 2 in Hartford, Connecticut
  • Father: Jeremy ADAMS b: 1604/1611
  • Mother: Rebecca BASEDEN

Also known as Hannah

Marriage

  1. between 1645 and 1665 to Nathaniel Willett (1618-1698). His second wife; he was the widower of Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Wakeman. Nathaniel survived Sarah and married Eleanor Watts, widow of Jasper Clements, thirdly.

Sarah was the mother of Nathaniel's 4 children, born at Hartford

  1. Sarah, born est 1665 - died bef 2 Mar 1710/11. Married Zachariah Sanford.
  2. Rebecca, born est 1667 - died 16 Jan 1731. Married 1) Thomas Ranney 2) Jacob White
  3. Abigail, born bef 1671 - died 1725. Married John Bishop.
  4. Hannah. Married 1) Baysey Baker 2) Joseph Webster

Notes

Barbour's Hartford genealogy says Nathaniel Willett married Hannah Adams, daughter of Jeremy, and Torrey says the wife of Nathaniel Willett was Hannah Adams, and shows her as the mother of Nathaniel's children.

Anderson, in the Great Migration, says that Hannah married Jonathan Smith, citing TAG 9:54 and 25:129, and that she had no children. He shows Sarah Adams, daughter of Jeremy, married Nathaniel Willett.

The will of Thomas Greenhill of Hartford, dated 16 July 1653, gave bequests to his Mother Rebeckah Addams, to her son John Addams & to her 3 daughters, Hanna, Hester & Sarah.

Links

GEDCOM Source

@R1203672254@ Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>GenealogieOnline</i>. Coret Genealogie. http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/: accessed 31 August 2015. 1,9289::0

GEDCOM Source

1,9289::8130490

GEDCOM Source

@R1203672254@ Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>GenealogieOnline</i>. Coret Genealogie. http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/: accessed 31 August 2015. 1,9289::0

GEDCOM Source

1,9289::8130490

GEDCOM Source

@R1203672254@ Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>GenealogieOnline</i>. Coret Genealogie. http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/: accessed 31 August 2015. 1,9289::0

GEDCOM Source

1,9289::8130490

GEDCOM Source

@R1203672254@ Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>GenealogieOnline</i>. Coret Genealogie. http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/: accessed 31 August 2015. 1,9289::0

GEDCOM Source

1,9289::8130490

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Sarah Willett's Timeline

1637
1637
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
1660
1660
Hartford, Connecticut
1662
1662
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
1665
1665
Hartford, Connecticut Colony
1670
1670
Age 33
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
1672
1672
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
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Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States