Person:Sarah Read (4)

Heywood's book, "The History of Westminster MA," published 1893, says that Sarah was the daughter of Jacob and Experience Read. Her father was actually Isaac as shown by the Sudbury birth record. The erroneous Jacob was probably based on one of many errors (this one on p. 280) in Jacob Whittemore Reed's History of the Reed Family in America, which apparently was carried over into Jesse Montgomery Seaver's typescript "The Seaver Genealogy."

In the 1790 U.S. census, Sarah Seaver was a head of household in Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. The household included one free white male under age 16 and six white females (1790 US Census, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Page 243, FHL Microfilm 0,568,144).

In the 1800 census, Sarah Seaver is probably included in the census record for her son, Benjamin Severs of Westminster [Worcester County MA 1800 US Census, LDS Microfilm 0,205,617, Page 451].

The estate of widow Sarah Seaver, who died intestate, probably in late 1808, included (Worcester County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, Probate Packet 52924, reviewed and copied at Worcester County Court House): On 3 January 1809 Benjamin Sever was appointed administrator of the estate, and bond of $10,000 was given by Benjamin Seaver, Heman Ray, and Daniel How, all yeomen of Westminster (Worcester County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, Volume 171, Page 328, FHL Microfilm 0,860,623). On 3 January 1809, a warrant of appraisal was granted (Worcester County (Massachusetts, Probate Records, Volume 623, Page 194). On 1 November 1809, the inventory was recorded with real property of $450 and a personal estate of $63 (Worcester County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, Volume 38, Page 152, FHL Microfilm 0,856,321).

1. ↑ Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
   p. 118.

   REED, Sarah, d. Isac and Expereince, [born] Dec. 28, 1736.