Sarah Towne1

#1292, (3 September 1648 - 1703)
Father*William Towne2 (1598/99 - b 1673)
Mother*Jone Blessing2 (s 1604 - c 1682)

Family 1

Edmund Bridges Jr b. 1637, d. 1682
Children 1.Edmund Bridges III+10 (1660 - 1682)
 2.Capt. Benjamin Bridges+10 (1664/65 - 1725)
 3.Mary Bridges10 (1667 - )
 4.Hannah Bridges10 (1669 - )
 5.Caleb Bridges10 (1677 - )

Family 2

Peter Cloyes
Her married name was Cloyes.3 
Her married name was Bridges.1 
Birthsay 1642She was born say 1642.4 
Baptism*3 September 1648She was baptized on 3 September 1648 at Salem, Massachusetts; (same date as Joseph, prob. well after birth given the date of marriage.)5 
Marriage*11 January 1659/60She married Edmund Bridges Jr, son of Edmund Bridges and Alice Millington, on 11 January 1659/60 at Salem, Essex Co., MassachusettsG.6,7,5 
Marriage*circa 1683She married Peter Cloyes, son of John Cloyes and Abigail _____, circa 1683.3,8 
1692She was accused of witchcraft in 1692; the Salem Witch Trials.9 
Death*1703She died in 1703 at Framingham, Middlesex Co., MassachusettsG. 

Citations

  1. [S161] George Thomas Little, editor, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1909), four volumes, p. 1602; daughter of William Towne. She later married Peter Clayes.
  2. [S187] Walter Goodwin, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1916, 1963), online Ancestry.com, Vol. III, p 486. Hereinafter cited as Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis.
  3. [S187] Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, Vol. III, p 487/8.
  4. [S187] Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, Vol. III, p 488, giving the date of baptism.
  5. [S187] Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, Vol. III, p 488.
  6. [S161] George Thomas Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, p. 1602; daughter of William Towne. She later married Peter Cloyes.
  7. [S266] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Holbrook). Original data Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
  8. [S387] Sidney Perley, editor, "Bridges Genealogy", The Essex Antiquarian XII:1 :26-28, (Jan 1908): p. 26, Sarah "married secondly" but no date given.
  9. [S187] Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, Vol. III, p 488, "primarily because of her courageous protest against the blackening of her sister's name by the Salem Village clergyman, Mr. Parris, but escaped execution."
  10. [S387] Sidney Perley, "Bridges Genealogy", p. 26.