Sarah (Andrews) Giddings (1685 - 1749)

Born 16 Jul 1685 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Giddings — married 1 Jun 1706 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1 Feb 1749 at age 63 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut

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Biography

Sarah Andrews was born on Jul. 1, 1685 to Joseph Andrews and Sarah Ringe or Ring.^[1][2]

Sarah married Thomas Giddings (Giddinge on marriage record) on Jun. 1, 1706 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.^[3] Thomas and Sarah moved from Chebacco Parish to Gloucester where he bought a house from Benjamin Lufkin in 1710. He later sold this on May 22, 1721 and moved his family to Lyme, Connecticut in 1722 where he bought several tracts of land and settled near Beaver Brook. Thomas was named tythingman for the North Society. He was a town officer in Lyme, Connecticut and a surveyor.^[4]

Sarah was mentioned in her father's will in 1724.

Sarah Giddings died . 1748/9 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. She is buried in the Marvin Cemetery in Lyme.

Sources

1. ↑ Elliott Morrison Andrews, The Descendants of Lieut. John Andrews (Typescript: Lee, Maine, 1961), person (3-29) in Mss, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, Manuscript pages are not numbered.
2. ↑ H. Franklin Andrews, History of the Andrews Family (Iowa: N. E. Brinkerhoff, 1890), p. 77. This reference shows, in error, that Lieut. John Andrews was a son of John Andrews and a grandson of Capt. Robert Andrews, the innkeeper at Ipswich. A correction was published in the "Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder", Vol. 9, pp. 223-224, 1909.
3. ↑ Chris Evans, Descendants of George Giddings and Jane Antrobus Lawrence (typescript, pages unnumbered).
4. ↑ Minot S. Giddings, The Giddings Family (Hartford: The Press of Case Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1882), p. 22. Has "Sarah Butler (?)" rather than Sarah Andrews as the wife of Thomas Giddings, Butler is incorrect.

See also:

• New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, compiled under the editorial supervision of William Richard Cutter, A. M., Volume III, New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913. Page 1295 [1]

• North America Family Histories 1500-2000

• Massachusetts Compiled Marriages

• American Genealogical Biographical Index

• Connecticut Deaths and Burials Index

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register

• Connecticut Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28533800/sarah-giddings