Person:Sarah Homes (2)

Sarah Homes b. 1748. She used to tell her grandchildren that she remembered seeing her great-uncle, Dr. Franklin, on a visit to that house and sitting upon his knee to listen to his stories. By consulting Dr. Franklin's auto-biography it appears that he visited Boston in 1745, when she was between six an seven years of age.

The above is quoted from "My Ancestors In America" by Wm Blake Pierce, 1864. A copy is in the possession of George Dick Pierce.

The following is copied from Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan taken in part from the Home Missionary Magazine, of November, 1828, and printed for distribution among her descendants. The William B. Pierce copy is in the possession of George Dick Pierce at this writing. 1995.

"Mrs. Tappan was born in Boston, Mass., January 2, 1748. She was the daughter of William Homes, Esq., goldsmith; grand daughter of Captain Robert Homes, who married Dr. Benjamin Frankln's sister Mary; and great grand daughter of Rev. William Homes, a minister near Londonderry, Ireland, who emigrated to this country about the year 1700, and was settled at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Her maternal ancestors were names Dawes, and were early settled in Boston. She was baptized in the "Old South Church," in that city, by the Rev. Dr. Sewall; and was brought up under his ministry. Her father was a justice of the peace, under a commission from the then British governor, but what was a higher honor in her estimation, both her parents were exemplary Christians.

Through her whole life the deep impression received from her parents, of her obligation strictly to observe the Sabbath, were not effaced. By her example, and precept, she inculcated upon her children the value of this sacred day, and that in remembering to keep it holy there was a great reward.

In the year 1770, she was married, by the Rev. Dr. Cooper, of Boston, to Mr. Benjamin Tappan, of Northampton, Mass, goldsmith, with whom she lived happily fifty-nine years, and reared ten children, nine of whom survived her. She was attacked by the distressing disorder, which speedily terminated her life, on Tuesday morning, at 9 o'clock, March 21, 1826."

1. ↑ "Old South Church", in Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. Lainhart. Records of the Churches of Boston and the First Church, Second Parish, and Third Parish of Roxbury: including baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions, and dismissals: (1600s-1800s). (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001)
   p. 198.

   1747
   Dec'r 27 Sarah, of William & Rebecca Hommes [baptized].

2. ↑ Tappan, Lewis. Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan. (New York)
   p. 123.

   William and Rebecca Homes had fifteen children...
   "Sarah was born in the house where her brother William lived and died, in Ann-street, January 2, 1748 (new style), and was married to Benjamin Tappan, Monday evening, October 22, 1770, in Hawkins-street, near Sudbury-street, by Rev. Dr. Cooper, her own minister, Dr. Sewall, being sick."
   [Note: in old-style, the legal form of dates at the time, 2 Jan 1747/48 n.s. would lose 11 days and be 22 Dec 1747, which is consistent with the baptism date.]

3. ↑ Find A Grave: Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA, in Find A Grave
   Sarah Homes Tappan.

   Sarah Tappan
   wife of
   Benjamin Tappan
   Esquire
   died March 26, 1826,
   aged 78.