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- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
Vol. 2, p. 302.
PATTIN, Nath[anie]ll and Sarah Frost, May 17, 1720.
- Source:Paige, Lucius Robinson. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, Vol. 2, p. 624, does not identify Sarah Frost, but says she d. at Menotomy (Arlington) 11 Aug 1747, a. 78. This would make her born about 1669. But Source:Frost, Thomas G. Frost Family in England and America, p. 56, says Sarah is the daughter of Ephraim Frost and his wife Hepzibah ---. There is no birth date for Sarah, but the other children in the family are born from 1678 to 1696, making a 1669 birth a difficult fit. A little digging, and it turns out that Ephraim Frosts wife was Hepzibah Pratt, born about 1655. She would only have been 14 in 1669 when Sarah was supposed to be born. Thus, these appear to be mutually exclusive choices: either she died 1747 aged 78, or she was a considerably younger child of Ephraim Frost and Hephzibah Pratt.
The vital records of Arlington, p. 145, show the death of widow Pattin on 11 Aug 1747, a. 78. No name is specified, meaning the process of elimination would have to encompass not only all widow Sarah Pattens, but all widow Pattens. One quick possibility, for example, seems to be the third wife of Nathaniel's father, nee Sarah Hancock, was born 23 Aug 1667 and doesn't seem to have a known death date.
Source:Patten, Malcolm Clark. Patten Genealogy, p. 23, which should have had access to both these earlier works, says Sarah d. at Menotomy 11 Aug 1747, age of 78, but then says she married Joseph Hamilton of Boston 2 May 1728. You can't have both! If she remarried, then she wouldn't survive as widow Patten to be the Arlington death record. Unfortunately, this same set of contradictory facts is seen others places as well (e.g., Source:Baldwin, Thomas W. Patten Genealogy : William Patten of Cambridge, 1635, and His Descendants) and this seems to represent blind copying.
Cambridge VRs do show the marriage of Sarah Patten to Joseph Hambleton (not Hamilton) of Boston, and Boston records have it as well. Source:Wyman, Thomas Bellows. Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1818, p. 731, indicates Sarah (Frost) Patten married Joseph Hamilton, but the wording is confusing. Fortunately, Baldwin was clearer, and states that on 25 Mar 1730 Sarah Hamilton quitted her right of dower, thereby connecting this recorded marriage specifically to the widow of Nathaniel Patten.
So the recorded death of widow Pattin is shown to be irrelevant, but what happened to Joseph and Sarah Hambleton? Wyman shows, as do both Concord and Charlestown records, that a Sarah Hambleton married a Richard Temple in 1745. There is no confirming death record for Joseph that would let us know that she was available to marry, but then there is no death record for a Sarah Hambleton to rule it out. One would suspect Joseph died by 1745, and his widow remarried. We'll pursue this possibility to see if we can confirm this, and possibly find an age at death for Sarah.
Source:Temple, Levi Daniel. Some Temple Pedigrees, a Genealogy of the Known Descendants of Abraham Temple, Who Settled in Salem, Mass. in 1636, p. 14, says Richard Temple, b. 1674, m. (1) Mary Barker, m. (2) Rebecca Leighton, m. (3) Sarah Hambleton, and he d. 1756. This is what we were expecting. But wait! Source:Parlin, Frank Edson. Parlin Genealogy, the Descendants of Nicolas Parlin of Cambridge, Mass, p. 23, says it was a Richard Temple, s/o Joseph Temple, b. 1724/5 that married Sarah Hambleton. Clearly this second scenario is completely incompatible with our Sarah. In trying to rule out one or the other, I failed to find a death record for the older Richard Temple's second wife Rebecca, and I failed to find an alternative marriage that I could say was the younger Richard Temple. Because the parents of the younger Richard, Joseph and Abigail Temple, moved first to Westford, then to Maine, it might be suspected that the younger Richard Temple did too. Further, the Sarah Hambletons that match his age were not of Charlestown. So it seems probable this is indeed the older Richard Temple marrying Sarah (Frost) (Patten) Hambleton. But, honestly, we are piling perhaps on top of perhaps at this point.
There is a death record in Burlington for "Madam Temple, late of Charlestown", who d. 1775, aged 84. This would work out to a birth in 1691. So if this rather vague death record did actually happen to apply to Sarah (Frost) (Hambleton) Temple, then she would fit nicely into the family of Ephraim Frost and Hephzibah Pratt. But with viable alternatives at almost every step, it would be reckless to say it is so.
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