Person:Sarah Fobes (1)

NEGHR V.14 P. 114 "Perkins Family of Connecticut".....«i» "Matthew Perkins owned a farm of 1000 acres in Hanover Society, north part of Lisbon. He belonged to the Hanover branch of the family, known thereabouts as the "Black Perkinses". He was a large and powerful man. He died from lockjaw, caused by a bite on the thumb which he received from a young negro slave whom he was chastising for some fault. He m. 1739, Hannah dau of Samuel Bishop and Sarah Fobes, who was then aged 15 and who died at Lisbon 28 Oct 1809, aged 87.«/i»"

Connecticut Puritan Settlers, 1633-1845 Appendix, Containing Additions and Corrections.

«i»Forbes, James, Hartford--died in 1692---estate £344. Children, John, Dorothy, Robert, Mary, David, Sarah, all except Francis, (15 in number) were more than 21 years of age at the death of James. «/i» ----------------------------------------------

1.   International Genealogical Index (R) (10)
   Film #: 537412.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Granberry Family and Allied Families: including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry. (Hartford, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 1945)
   p. 218.

   SARAH FOBES, born at Norwich, Conn, 24 June 1684, died there 11 Mar. 1759, aged 73 (gravestone); married at Norwich, 2 Jan. 1705/6, (CAPTAIN) SAMUEL BISHOP, born at Ipswich, Mass, Feb. 1678/9, died at Norwich [Lisbon], Conn,18 Nov. 1760, aged 81 (gravestone).

3. ↑ Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
   p. 37 [39].

   The names & ages of ther [Caleb ffobes & Sarah Gager] children as followeth
   Sarah ffobes was [born] upon the 24^th of June Ano Dom 1684