Sarah of Maidstone

In the earliest of Mulford accounts, she is known simply as Sarah, not Southcott (her mother-in-law's maiden name, for whom she has been mistaken in later generations). If the Mulford genealogy we're based on English record, as claimed by some nowadays, she would therefore have been called Susan, not Sarah. There is no one in all of English record named Sarah Southcott. The fact she is still called Sarah, in spite of English record, affirms the authenticity of this tradition. Quite possibly of aristocratic birth, she may indeed have had no surname of her own. Sarah and Thomas Southcott Mulford (named for his maternal grandfather) simply got turned around in later generations as as Thomas and Sarah Southcott Mulford.