Person:Sarah Udall (5)

No other record of John's wife can be found except this reference to Sarah Udall by Mary Powell Bunker and repeated by William Robbins in his article on the Tredwells in NYG&BS. But I did find the following comment which brings up the possibility that she was instead Sarah Woodhull. There were a lot of Woodhull's in the area, but again, no reference to a Sarah Woodhull married to John Jackson.

"Refugees from Long Island" p 9: (part of the introduction)"His was not the only family in which the name was spelled variously [Baines/Baynes]; sometimes by the individual, more often by the one recording it. Thus we have: Curwin, for Corwin; Hoel, for Howell; Udall and Woodle, for Woodhull; Hulse, for Halsey; Parsons, for Pierson; Cupper, for Cooper; and Tillenness, for Tillinghast. . ."

Based on the above quote, Bob Mitchell has concluded: "Sarah is referred to in many genealogies as Sarah Udall. Based upon the above, I believe her name to be Woodhull and a descendant of Richard Woodhull who migrated from England in 1648 and settled in the Dutch Colony in what is now New York a few years later.

"Richard Woodhull was the progenitor of the family in America. He was born at Thenford, Northamptonshire England September 13, 1620, according to the most reliable search and record. He arrived in this country prior to April 29, 1648, when he wrote his name as witness to a deed at Easthampton Long Island which would place him among the earliest settlers of that locality. He was first at Jamacia but having a dislike for the Dutch government and finding himself to close to the seat of administration, he removed to another part and settled permanently at Setauket Harbor, then known as Cromwell Bay or Ashford."

Any confirming information, would certainly be appreciated.

1.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
   223.
2.   The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
   Jul 1912, pg 211.