Sarah's death notice appeared in the Columbian Centinel newspaper on 7 Dec 1814.
Sarah was the daughter of Josiah Kent and Sarah Dodge of Gloucester and Harvard, Mass. Her parentage was confused when the author of the Cole genealogy stated she was a daughter of Jonathan Kent of Harvard. This has likely led other researchers to make her the daughter of John Kent and Mary Godfrey, but John Kent likely never set foot in Harvard. There was no Jonathan or John Kent in Harvard. The only adult male Kent living there that could have been her father was Josiah Kent.
Though her birth date is recorded in the Gloucester records as 18 June, her baptismal date in the church record is given as 5 June 1738, so at least one of these dates is incorrect. Her family moved from Gloucester, Mass. to Harvard about 1740, shortly after her birth. Though one of ten children, only she and three or four sisters survived childhood. She was married in Harvard, Mass. on 3 March 1759 to Abijah Cole, the son of Jonathan Cole and Judah Brown. Following Abijah's death, she was married in Harvard on 30 Mar 1772 to Samuel Garfield, who was a millwright, and who taught his step-sons that trade. After her second widowhood, Sarah lived in Gouldsboro, Maine with her oldest son, Abijah, and died in Roxbury, Mass. at the house of her niece, Mrs. Crafts (her sister Abigail married Daniel Crafts, and her sister was still living, so she likely went to live with her sister, though she may have had one or more nieces living in the household).
Sarah might be buried in Roxbury, near where she died, or she may be buried back in Harvard with her first husband.
Sarah was the daughter of Josiah Kent and Sarah Dodge of Gloucester and Harvard, Mass. Her parentage was confused when the author of the Cole genealogy stated she was a daughter of Jonathan Kent of Harvard. This has likely led other researchers to make her the daughter of John Kent and Mary Godfrey, but John Kent likely never set foot in Harvard. There was no Jonathan or John Kent in Harvard. The only adult male Kent living there that could have been her father was Josiah Kent.
Though her birth date is recorded in the Gloucester records as 18 June, her baptismal date in the church record is given as 5 June 1738, so at least one of these dates is incorrect. Her family moved from Gloucester, Mass. to Harvard about 1740, shortly after her birth. Though one of ten children, only she and three or four sisters survived childhood. She was married in Harvard, Mass. on 3 March 1759 to Abijah Cole, the son of Jonathan Cole and Judah Brown. Following Abijah's death, she was married in Harvard on 30 Mar 1772 to Samuel Garfield, who was a millwright, and who taught his step-sons that trade. After her second widowhood, Sarah lived in Gouldsboro, Maine with her oldest son, Abijah, and died in Roxbury, Mass. at the house of her niece, Mrs. Crafts (her sister Abigail married Daniel Crafts, and her sister was still living, so she likely went to live with her sister, though she may have had one or more nieces living in the household).
Sarah might be buried in Roxbury, near where she died, or she may be buried back in Harvard with her first husband.
Sarah's death notice appeared in the Columbian Centinel newspaper on 7 Dec 1814.
Sarah was the daughter of Josiah Kent and Sarah Dodge of Gloucester and Harvard, Mass. Her parentage was confused when the author of the Cole genealogy stated she was a daughter of Jonathan Kent of Harvard. This has likely led other researchers to make her the daughter of John Kent and Mary Godfrey, but John Kent likely never set foot in Harvard. There was no Jonathan or John Kent in Harvard. The only adult male Kent living there that could have been her father was Josiah Kent.
Though her birth date is recorded in the Gloucester records as 18 June, her baptismal date in the church record is given as 5 June 1738, so at least one of these dates is incorrect. Her family moved from Gloucester, Mass. to Harvard about 1740, shortly after her birth. Though one of ten children, only she and three or four sisters survived childhood. She was married in Harvard, Mass. on 3 March 1759 to Abijah Cole, the son of Jonathan Cole and Judah Brown. Following Abijah's death, she was married in Harvard on 30 Mar 1772 to Samuel Garfield, who was a millwright, and who taught his step-sons that trade. After her second widowhood, Sarah lived in Gouldsboro, Maine with her oldest son, Abijah, and died in Roxbury, Mass. at the house of her niece, Mrs. Crafts (her sister Abigail married Daniel Crafts, and her sister was still living, so she likely went to live with her sister, though she may have had one or more nieces living in the household).
Sarah might be buried in Roxbury, near where she died, or she may be buried back in Harvard with her first husband.
Sarah was the daughter of Josiah Kent and Sarah Dodge of Gloucester and Harvard, Mass. Her parentage was confused when the author of the Cole genealogy stated she was a daughter of Jonathan Kent of Harvard. This has likely led other researchers to make her the daughter of John Kent and Mary Godfrey, but John Kent likely never set foot in Harvard. There was no Jonathan or John Kent in Harvard. The only adult male Kent living there that could have been her father was Josiah Kent.
Though her birth date is recorded in the Gloucester records as 18 June, her baptismal date in the church record is given as 5 June 1738, so at least one of these dates is incorrect. Her family moved from Gloucester, Mass. to Harvard about 1740, shortly after her birth. Though one of ten children, only she and three or four sisters survived childhood. She was married in Harvard, Mass. on 3 March 1759 to Abijah Cole, the son of Jonathan Cole and Judah Brown. Following Abijah's death, she was married in Harvard on 30 Mar 1772 to Samuel Garfield, who was a millwright, and who taught his step-sons that trade. After her second widowhood, Sarah lived in Gouldsboro, Maine with her oldest son, Abijah, and died in Roxbury, Mass. at the house of her niece, Mrs. Crafts (her sister Abigail married Daniel Crafts, and her sister was still living, so she likely went to live with her sister, though she may have had one or more nieces living in the household).
Sarah might be buried in Roxbury, near where she died, or she may be buried back in Harvard with her first husband.
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