Family talk:Moses Newton and Sarah How (1)

How is it known? [31 October 2010]

We know Moses Newton m. a Sarah Howe in 1725. We know a Sarah Howe b. 1697. How do we know they are the same Sarah Howe? Source:Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, p. 383, shows no marriage, death or anything past her birth for the Sarah who was daughter of Thomas Howe.

On Person:Sarah Newton (44), Tarbet put that great note about the will of Mary (Axtell) Newton. That same source goes on to say that John Howe names in his will a daughter Sarah, wife of Pelatiah Rice. Pelatiah Rice m. 1728 Sarah Newton. She died age 84 in 1784. So she is a widow and she was b. about 1699/1700.

Doesn't this suggest she was probably the widow of Moses? I can't find anything about Moses after his marriage. He was born 1699/1700. Hence the Sarah that married Moses Newton is probably the daughter of John b. 1699, who then married Pelatiah Rice, and not the d/o Thomas b. 1697. I haven't found any direct evidence yet, but I think the puzzle pieces fit enough that a challenge to the alternative presented here is justified by some kind of evidence. --Jrich 01:13, 30 October 2010 (EDT)

This was updated to point to Sarah Howe, d/o John, citing How Genealogies by Daniel Wait Howe, plus circumstantial evidence presented here. --Jrich 00:31, 1 November 2010 (EDT)