'Sarah Harman, the daughter of Nathaniel Harmon and Mary his wiffe was borne the 1 mo. 3, 1652'
With two exceptions, the records for the earliest years (1643-1655) are written as day, month, year (e.g., '(16) (5th) 1646'), or are ambiguous (e.g, '5, mo. 7'). Although it would seem natural to associate 'mo.' with the first number in a format such as '5th mo. 8th', there is at least one record (on page 635) in which it is clearly associated with the second number: '(15)th. mo. (8th.) 1653'. Therefore, I have chosen to interpret all the early ambiguous dates as day, month, year, even though Savage did not always do so.
'Sarah's death date is unknown. It is possible that she, their daughter Rachel and son Jonathan died in an epidemic that struck down many in Milton in 1689 and 1690. ... Sarah had certainly died before December 1693, for on Christmas Day of that year Thomas married Susannah Keney, ...'
