The date of her death is not known. The will of Francis Dowse stated that, "Item, I Give unto my daughter Sarah Dunell Twenty pounds after the death of my wife." There is no mention of a Dunell-Dowse marriage or of a Sarah Dowse in Henry Gale Dunnell, M.D., The True Genealogy of the Dunnell and Dwinnell Family in New England (New York, 1862), and it is evident that Sarah Dowse could not have married Michael(1) Dunnell (Donnell, Dwenell, Duenell, Dwinell, etc.) of Topsfield, Mass., since that man had a wife named Mary all through the 1670's and 1680's. It is possible, however, that Sarah may have married either Benjamin(2) Donnell or Nathaniel(2) Donnell, sons of Henry (1) Donnell of York, fisherman and innkeeper (see Noyes, Libby, Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Me. and N.H., p. 199). Sarah (Dowse) Dunnell was not mentioned in the will of her mother Katherine Dowse, so she presumably d. between 1680 and 1697.
