"SYLVESTER ... married Sarah -----, whose surname Hon. John D. Baldwin, of Worcester, informed me long since, on the authority of Hon. Ralph D. Smith, of Guilford, Conn., was Bryant. Mr. Smith, a very high authority in early relationships in Connecticut, could not some years after, on my visiting him in Guilford, give me his authority."
"The late Ralph D. Smyth, of Guilford, Conn., claimed that Sarah was a Bryan, and others have followed him in this claim and have stated that Sarah was a sister of Alexander Bryan, who was baptised at Aylesbury, co. Buckingham, 23 Sept. 1602, and later settled at Milford. This is untrue, for Alexander Bryan had no sister Sarah despite the number of twenty-one children in his father's family ... Moreover, Smyth was never able to show Charles Candee Baldwin any proof that Sarah was born a Bryan ..."
A discussion of the identity of Sarah, the wife of Sylvester Baldwin, doesn't come to any conclusions, but categorically states she was NOT the sister of Alexander Bryan.
↑ Her birth year is estimated based on the year of her first marriage.
