'The will of William Bartrum of Swansea, dated 10 April 1688 and proved 19 November 1690, names his wife Sarah ...' '... Elizabeth Bartram, daughter of William Bartram of Lynn and Swansea and likely step-daughter of his widow, Sarah (____) (Burt) Bartram [referencing Helen S. Ullmann, "William Bartram of Lynn and Swansea, Massachusetts: How Many Wives?" in The Essex Genealogist, 6(1986):178].'
'SARAH, bp. Ware 12 November 1624; bp. Ware 12 November 1624; m. (1) by 1647 Hugh Burt (possibly Hannah below was his wife); m. (2) by July 1653 William Bartram (child b. before April 1654). ... While there is no doubt that one of the five children named by John Johnson in his will was at one time the wife of Hugh Burt, it is not certain which daughter, Sarah or Hannah, she might have been. Sarah is the more likely candidate, and if it was she, then she went on to marry William Bartram. This difficult and unsolved problem has been discussed by Helen S. Ullmann and by Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn [TEG 6:178-84; Angell Anc 390; see also NEHGR 149:230-39].'
NOTE: This source assumes that Elizabeth Bartram was Sarah's daughter, but Zubrinsky indicates that an argument has been made that Elizabeth was Sarah's step-daughter.
