Sarah (Shelton) Wakelee (abt. 1695 - bef. 1787)

Born about 2 Jan 1695 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of James Wakelee — married 1715 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died before 31 Aug 1787 before about age 92 in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Sarah Shelton was born on 2 Jan 1694/5. She married James Wakelee about 1715, and they had 10 children.

Her estate in Bristol was distributed on 31 Aug 1787 and set out to Elizabeth, wife of Israel Johnson, Mary Perry, Abigail Lake, and the heirs of Charity French.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 21-23, 1781-1847”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-Y2SB  : 10 July 2022), FHL microfilm 007627288, image 390, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 23, 1785-1788, Pages 302-303.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #143070091
• Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 2 p. 981.
• Samuel Orcutt, History of Stratford and Bridgeport, CT (1886), II:1279
• Shelton, Edward Nelson. Reunion of The Descendants of Daniel Shelton at Birmingham, Conn., June 14th, 1877 (E. M. Ruttenber & Son, Newburgh, New York, 1877) Page 44.

Acknowledgments

• Profile Shelton-794 was created through the import of perry and plumb tree.ged on Aug 18, 2012 by Merry Kennedy.