Person:Sarah Bidwell (4)

Name^[1]	Sarah Bidwell
Alt Name	Sarah Brainerd
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[3]	20 Sep 1674	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	3 Dec 1698	Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Lieutenant William Brainerd
Alt Marriage	13 Dec 1698	Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Lieutenant William Brainerd
Death^[2]	Aft 2 Mar 1759	Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (probably)Deeded land this date.
Burial^[4]		Old Rock Landing Cemetery, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 John Bidwell, 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)
471.

"Sarah (Bidwell),³ b. (Middletown) 20 Sept. 1674; d. after 2 Mar. 1759; …"
↑ 2. William² Brainerd, in Brainard, Lucy Abigail. The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America: 1649-1908. (Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Press. : The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1908)
2:William:41.

"… alive Sept. 11, 1747. She deeded land to her son, Samuel, Mch. 2, 1759, and was called Sarah the second."
↑ Middletown Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
47.

"Bidwell, … Sara[h], d. Samuel & Elizabeth, b. Sept. 20, 1674 [LR1:47]"
↑ {{Fgravemem|67620829|Sarah Bidwell Brainerd}, in Find A Grave
Accessed 10 Sep 2014.

As of 10 September 2014, this memorial is inaccurate in at least two respects: (1) the actual burials of William and Sarah (Bidwell) Brainerd are unknown, but are probably somewhere on the heights in Haddam Neck, overlooking the Connecticut River; (2) the pictured memorial is a cenotaph erected by the second Cyprian Strong Brainerd sometime in the late nineteenth century and is located on the west side of the Old Rock Landing Cemetery on Haddam Neck, not in the Thirty Mile Island Burial Yard in Haddam proper, on the west side of the river.