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Sarah Homes
b.22 Dec 1747 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.26 Mar 1826 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
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m. 24 Apr 1740
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m. 22 Oct 1770
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Sarah Homes b. 1748. She used to tell her grandchildren that she remembered seeing her great-uncle, Dr. Franklin, on a visit to that house and sitting upon his knee to listen to his stories. By consulting Dr. Franklin's auto-biography it appears that he visited Boston in 1745, when she was between six an seven years of age. The above is quoted from "My Ancestors In America" by Wm Blake Pierce, 1864. A copy is in the possession of George Dick Pierce. The following is copied from Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan taken in part from the Home Missionary Magazine, of November, 1828, and printed for distribution among her descendants. The William B. Pierce copy is in the possession of George Dick Pierce at this writing. 1995. "Mrs. Tappan was born in Boston, Mass., January 2, 1748. She was the daughter of William Homes, Esq., goldsmith; grand daughter of Captain Robert Homes, who married Dr. Benjamin Frankln's sister Mary; and great grand daughter of Rev. William Homes, a minister near Londonderry, Ireland, who emigrated to this country about the year 1700, and was settled at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Her maternal ancestors were names Dawes, and were early settled in Boston. She was baptized in the "Old South Church," in that city, by the Rev. Dr. Sewall; and was brought up under his ministry. Her father was a justice of the peace, under a commission from the then British governor, but what was a higher honor in her estimation, both her parents were exemplary Christians. Through her whole life the deep impression received from her parents, of her obligation strictly to observe the Sabbath, were not effaced. By her example, and precept, she inculcated upon her children the value of this sacred day, and that in remembering to keep it holy there was a great reward. In the year 1770, she was married, by the Rev. Dr. Cooper, of Boston, to Mr. Benjamin Tappan, of Northampton, Mass, goldsmith, with whom she lived happily fifty-nine years, and reared ten children, nine of whom survived her. She was attacked by the distressing disorder, which speedily terminated her life, on Tuesday morning, at 9 o'clock, March 21, 1826." References
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