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Sarah Wentworth

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m. 1650

Facts and Events

Name	Sarah Wentworth
Alt Name	_____ Veale
Gender	Female
Birth`^?`	1630	England
Marriage	1650	Englandto Thomas Vail
Other^[1]	4 Jun 1651	Southampton (town), Suffolk, New York, United Statessentenced to stand with her tongue in a cleft stick

References

↑ Vail, Henry H. Genealogy of some of the Vail family descended from Jeremiah Vail at Salem, Mass., 1639. (New York: DeVinne Press, 1902).

Sarah Veale, the wife of Thomas, was sentenced 4 June, 1651, by the Magistrates of
Southampton " For exhorbitant words of imprecations, to stand with her tongue in a cleft stick soelong as the offence
committed by her was read and declared."
Howell, George Rogers. The Early History of Southampton, L. I., New York, with Genealogies: Revised, Corrected and Enlarged. (Albany, N. Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1877).

1651. Sarah Veale, wife of Thomas Veale, was at the quar-
ter Court held upon the 4th day of June, 1651 sentenced by the
Magistrates for exorbitant words of imprecation to stand with
her tongue in a cleft stick soe long as the offence committed by
her is read and declared.