Family:John Sibley and Rachel Pickworth (1)

Note: Because both John and his father married women named Rachel, many older sources misidentify the wife of the older John Sibley as Rachel Pickworth. Sometimes she is called the daughter of Amariah Pickworth. For example, Savage [edited for readability] says "Amariah Pickworth, Salem, had, says a very good author, a daughter Rachel, who married the second John Sibley, but I feel no small degree of hesitation because the first John Sibley married Rachel Pickworth, as is said." Modern research, based on the wills of John Pickworth and Lawrence Leach, as mentioned in the Great Migration Begins articles on those two men, clearly show that the elder John Sibley married Rachel Leach, who after his death in 1661 married Thomas Goldwaite. The younger John Sibley (the one of this page) married Rachel Pickworth, the daughter of John, not of Amariah.

1. ↑ "John Pickworth", in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   1463.

   Will of "widow Ane Pickworth of Manchester", dated 10 May 1682, proved 10 Apr 1683, mentions daughter "Rachell Sible" and "my daughter Rachell Sible['s] youngest daughter her name being Ane Sibblie". Division of estate of "John Pickworth Senior deceased" dated 26 Jun 1683 included "Rachell Sibly". Married by 1675 (eldest known child b. 20 Aug 1675).

2.   "Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   7:358.

   Will of Benjamin Pickworth of Salem, dated 20 Aug 1681, names sister Rachel, wf. of John Sibley, plus others.