Person:Sarah Chester (5)
Sarah Chester
b.5 Mar 1693/94 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d.21 Jan 1754 Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 17 Dec 1691
  1. Dorothy Chester1692 - 1754
  2. Sarah Chester1693/94 - 1754
  3. Mercy Chester1696 - Bef 1749
  4. Stephen John Chester1698 - 1725
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef 1732
  1. Mercy LambAbt 1732 - 1756
  2. Jemima LambAbt 1733 - 1795
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Facts and Events
Name Sarah Chester
Gender Female
Birth[1] 5 Mar 1693/94 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Bef 1732 [2nd wife]
to Rev. Joseph Lamb
Death[2][3] 21 Jan 1754 Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesage 58
Burial[2] Newington Cemetery, Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    62.

    "Chester, … Sarah, d. [Stephen, Jr. & Jemima], b. Mar. 5, 1693/4 [1:18]"

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sarah Chester Lamb, in Find A Grave
    includes headstone photo, last accessed Jul 2025.

    Here lies Interr'd
    the Body of Mrs
    Sarah Lamb Relict to
    the Revd Mr Joseph
    Lamb who departed
    this Life the 21st
    of Jan 1759 in ye 59th
    year of her Age

  3. ↑ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History. (New York / New Haven: Holt / Yale University Press, 1885-1912)
    1:170-171.

    Joseph Lamb ...

    For a second wife he married, as early as 1732, Sarah, daughter of Stephen Chester, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and sister of Stephen John Chester (Y. C. 1721). She returned to Newington parish, in Wethersfield, after her husband's death, and died there, January 21, 1754, aged nearly 60 years. Two daughters survived her.

    In her husband's will, one son and five daughters are mentioned. ...

  4.   Mathews, Barbara Jean; Donna Holt Siemiatkoski; Kathryn Smith Black; and Nancy Pexa. The Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut and His Wife Alice Tomes. (Wethersfield, Conn.: Welles Family Association, 2015)
    1:561-62.

    "241. Sarah4 Chester (Stephen3 Chester, Sarah2, Gov. Thomas1), born 5 March 1693/94 in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:18); and died 21 January 1754, at age 58, according to her gravestone in the Newington Cemetery near her sister Dorothy (Hale 27, which states she is a widow)."

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