Family:John Wentworth and Sarah Hall (1)

Parents: John Wentworth and Sara Hunking Maj. John Wentworth	Parents: Hugh Hall and Mary Unknown Sarah Hall b. Abt 1711 Barbados d. Bef 26 Mar 1790

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Marriage^[1]^[2]

Abt 1732

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Mary Wentworth

References

↑ 1. Capt. John³ Gerrish, in Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton. The Gerrish Family: Family of Capt. John Gerrish. (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913)
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...m. 25 Oct. 1758 Mary Wentworth, daughter of John and Sarah (Hall) of Portsmouth, N.H.
↑ LETTERS OF HUGH HALL TO BENNING WENTWORTH, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
42(Jul 1888):300.

... Sarah Hall ... married Major John Wentworth as early as 1732, for her brother Richard, writing from Barbados April 3, 1732, says:

I heartily rejoice at Sally's good fortune and hope Molly will have her turn also, but it would not have been fair to let Sally dance barefoot, which I hear Molly expected would have been done.

At the time of her marriage, she and her sister Mary seem to have resided with their [half] brother Hugh. Her descendants are given in the Wentworth Genealogy, Vol. I, p 305, et seq. ...