Sarah M Underwood (1740 - 1820)

Born 1740 in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia

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Died 12 Jan 1820 at about age 80 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA

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Biography

Sarah Underwood was a Virginia colonist.

Sarah Underwood was born in 1740 in Fauquier County, Virginia.^[1] Her parents may have been William Underwood, Sr. and his wife Rebecca.^{[citation needed]}

In 1759, she married John Ferguson Hammett, Sr. in Virginia.^[2] This is a partial list of their children:^[1]

1. Mary Jane (1760-1843)
2. James (1761-1860)
3. John Ferguson (1761-1834)
4. George (1761-1840)
5. Elizabeth (1763-1822)
6. Sarah (1765-1850)
7. Jessie (1768-1818_
8. Ellender (1774-1859)
9. Mary Polly (1775-1845)

Their children were born in Virginia, before the war. By 1790, the Hammets had moved to Spartanburg County, South Carolina.^[3]

Sarah died on 12 Jan 1820,^[1] according to a letter from John to his son George, living in Nova Scotia. "I must inform you than your dear mother I hope is gone to Heaven. She parted this life the 12th day of Jan. 1820. She got up in the morning and dressed herself and sat down in a chair and died without any complaint."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Life Sketch of Sarah Underwood FamilySearch.org; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2. ↑ Ancestry Record 7836 #1249534 Source number: 4746.009; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKN-MN7 : accessed 21 December 2020), John Hammett, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 30, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 568,151.
4. ↑ Media (accessed 21 Dec 2020)

See also:

• From a researcher prior to 21 Dec 2020: "A descendant of Thomas Underwood who was born in 1680. She married John Hammett."
• Search Documents For Free-Thomas Underwood ,b. 1734 in Virginia
• Edwards, W. Thomas (1909) and Miller, Delphine. Hammett families : descendants of John Hammett, Sr. (ca.1735-1822) and Sarah (Underwood) Hammett (ca.1740-1820); Canton, Georgia: Industrial Printing Service, c1983.