Person:Sarah Weston (20)

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• It was said that Mrs. Heywood could do four things at once, rock the cradle with one foot while the other turned the flax wheel, holding the flax thread in one hand, and with the other do the churning.^[3]
• It was told that Peter Heywood had a great liking for conversation with his neighbors, but was sometimes called upon by his busy wife to do the churning. On one occasion he was doing the churning when he saw a passing neighbor and slipped out, not returning for two or three hours. In the meantime Mrs. Heywood finished the churning and took the butter from the churn, leaving the buttermilk. Peter's conscience must have troubled him for he at length slipped back into the kitchen and began to churn vigorously. He churned and churned but there was no sign of the butter coming. At last he asked why that butter did not come; "Oh," answered his wife, "the butter came two hours ago, while you were away, that is only the buttermilk."^[3]
• After being nearly blind, her sight so far returned that she could read very fine Bible print.^[2]

1. ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
   118.

   Sarah Wesson ye Daughter of Stephen Wesson & Hannah his wife was born November ye 11 : 1727

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Hanson, J. W. (John Wesley). History of the old towns, Norridgewock and Canaan: comprising Norridgewock, Canaan, Starks, Skowhegan and Bloomfield, from their early settlement to the year 1849 : including a sketch of the Abnakis Indians. (Boston, 1849)
   124-5 [1].

   She died in Palmyra.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 The Skowhegan register, 1905. (Brunswick, Me. : H.E. Mitchell Co., 1905)
   22-23 [2].