Sarah Mackworth, daughter of Arthur Mackworth and Jane Andrews, the widow of Samuel Andrews[1] was born about 1642 in Casco Bay, Maine. Sarah's birth date is based on her father's marriage to Jane Andrews being after 1638,[2][3] and that her sister, Rebecca was the eldest daughter.[4]
By the year 1665, Sarah was married to Abraham Adams[1] of Boston.[5][2] Sarah and Abraham returned to Boston about 1667 where they had 6 children:
↑ 1.01.11.2 Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "The Mackworths of Shropshire: Royal Ancestry and Colonial Descendants," in The Genealogist, 2021. Vol. 35, No. 2, 182-191: profile of Arthur Mackworth, person 12.
↑ 2.02.1The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660: A Descriptive List ..." Pages 131-2
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DCTM-RF3Z : 10 November 2020), Sarah in entry for Jane Adams, 22 Feb 1669; citing Birth, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329324.
↑ Her death date is from the unsourced date estimate shown in the biography of her husband Abraham Adams
Collections of the Maine Historical Society 1st Ser.̈, Volume 1 (Google eBook) Maine Historical Society. Page 69.
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In the Pioneers of Main and New Hampshire Source #2, on page 132, there is also a reference to Arthur Mackworth's widow giving land to her sons in law Abraham Addams and William Rogers; to daus Sarah Addams...
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