"… the Connecticut Journal, April 22, 1802, contains an interesting obituary sketch, 'Died in her Mansion house in North Branford, Mrs. Sarah Eliot, by some called Mrs. Harlow, on the 7th inst. She was found dead in her bed about seven o'clock in the morning, the particular cause being unknown, aged sixty-one years. She was a woman whose fortitude and resolution had been thoroughly tried, by a long series of bodily pains and infirmities, and whose philanthropy, generosity, integrity, and honesty, were generally and happily experienced, and always well known, by her numerous acquaintance."
