Person:Sarah Backus (3)
Sarah Backus
b.Apr 1668 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
 
Parents and Siblings
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m. Dec 1666
  1. Sarah Backus1668 -
  2. Stephen Backus1670 - 1707
  3. Mary Backus1672 -
  4. Ruth Backus1674 -
  5. Lydia Backus1677 -
  6. Deacon Timothy Backus1682 - 1762
  7. Rebecca BackusEst 1684 -
  8. Elizabeth Backus1686 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 17 Mar 1691/92
  1. Rachel Knight1691 - Bef 1740
  2. David Knight1693 - 1769
  3. Sarah Knight1695 - 1779
  4. Jonathan Knight1698 - 1770
  5. Mary Knight1700 - Aft 1770
  6. Hannah Knight1701/02 -
  7. Lurana Knight1703/04 -
  8. Joseph Knight1705 - 1739
  9. Benjamin Knight1707 - 1772
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Sarah Backus
Married Name Sarah Knight
Gender Female
Birth[1][8] Apr 1668 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 17 Mar 1691/92 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto David Knight
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Settlement of the Estate of Stephen Backus

On 28 May, 1707, Timothy Backus of Canterbury, David Knight of Norwich, Robert Green and William Baker, both of Canterbury, in behalf of their wives, Sarah, Ruth and Rebeckah, daughters of Stephen Backus of Norwich, dec'd, and Elizabeth Backus, daughter of said Stephen, and Sarah Backus, the widow, agree that Timothy is to have the 200 acres in Canterbury, he to pay debts and remaining legacies (to Widow, Timothy and Elizabeth); Stephen the eldest son who administered with his mother "deceased on the first day Instant."[1]

The Backus family moved to Canterbury, Windham County, but before the final distribution of the estate of the first Stephen was made, his son Stephen, the administrator, died in 1702. On file in the Probate department of the State Library at Hartford is an Agreement of Backus his children dated May 28,1707 and signed by Sarah Backus "widow and relict" of the first Stephen, by her only surviving son Timothy, by Elizabeth Backus her daughter, and by David Knight, Robert Green and William Baker in behalf of their wives, her daughters Sarah, Ruth and Rebecca.[2]

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 William Backus, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    453.
  2. ↑ Backus, Mary Elizabeth Neilson. The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus. (Salem, Massachusetts: Backus, 1949)
    7-8.
  3.   Historical notices of the First Congregational Church in Canterbury, Conn: with catalogues of its officers and members, from its organization in 1711, to December 1853 : to which are annexed the confession of faith and covenant now in use in the church. (Northampton, Mass.: Hopkins, Bridgman & Co., 1987)
    16.

    Members, Or persons received to full communion
    34 Sarah, w. David Knight, (Backus) June 13, 1718.

  4.   Hammon, Donald Levi Gale. Levi Byram and Martha Jane Belnap : gold medal pioneers. (Prospect, Oregon: D.L.G. Hammon, c1996)
    15.
  5.   Carr, Janet Jones. Thomas Jones of Guilford, Connecticut : and some of his descendants. (Decorah, Iowa: Amundsen Publishing, c2000)
    37.
  6.   Hazen, Celeste Pember. John Pember, the history of the Pember family in America. (Springfield, Vermont, United States: C.P. Hazen, c1939)
    27.
  7.   Warner, Lucien C, and Josephine Genung Nichols. The Descendants of Andrew Warner. (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1919)
    618.
  8. ↑ Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
    1:4.

    "The marriage of Stephen Bakus with Sarah fpencer (This name "Gardiner" in the copy.) was in Defemb Anno Do 1666
    Sarah Bakus was borne in April Anno Dom 1668"

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