Friday, August 19, 2016

52 Ancestors - Week 138: #183 Sarah (Pray) Horton (1734-1820)

Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I am extending this theme in 2016 to 156 Ancestors in 156 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #138:

Sarah Pray (1734-after 1820) is #183 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandmother, who married #182 Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819) in about 1755.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #91 Phebe Horton
 (1772-after 1820) who married #90 Simon Wade (1767-1857) before 1790.
*  their daughter #45 Miranda Wade (1804-1850) who married #44 Jonathan White (1805-1850) in 1823. 
*  their son #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885), who married #23 Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)
*  their daughter #11 Julie E. White (1848-1913), who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868. 
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Name:                       Sarah Pray[1–2]
*  Alternate Name:       Sarah Horton[3]    
*  Sex:                          Female   

*  Father:                      Richard Pray (1683-1755)   
*  Mother:                    Rachel  (1685-1750)   
  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Birth:                       about 1734, Providence, Rhode Island, United States   
*  Estate Distribution: 10 November 1755 (about age 21), father's estate distribution, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States[2]   
*  Estate Distribution: 20 September 1820 (about age 86), widow's thirds distribution; Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, United States[3]   
*  Death:                     after 20 September 1820 (after about age 86), Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, United States    
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:               Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819)   
*  Marriage 1:            about 1755 (about age 21), Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States   

*  Child 1:                 Nathaniel Horton (1755-1835)   
*  Child 2:                 Abel Horton (1756-1842)   
*  Child 3:                 Katherine Horton (1758-1779)   
*  Child 4:                 John Horton (1760-    )   
*  Child 5:                 Chase Horton (1762-1819)   
*  Child 6:                 Ruth Horton (1764-    )   
*  Child 7:                 Rachel Horton (1766-1846)   
*  Child 8:                 Sarah Horton (1768-    )   
*  Child 9:                 Freelove Horton (1770-    )   
*  Child 10:               Phebe Horton (1772-1820)   
*  Child 11:               Olive Horton (1774-1859)   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Notes: Sarah Pray

Sarah Pray was born in about 1734, probably in Smithfield, Rhode Island, the third child and third daughter of Richard and Rachel (--?--) Pray of Smithfield and Scituate, Rhode Island.  The children of Richard and Rachel (--?--) Pray are listed in the book Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin and George Andrews Moriarty[1].

Sarah Pray was bequeathed all of the household goods and moveables in the will of her father, Richard Pray, which was proved on 10 November 1755[2].  She also received one half of the proceeds from the sale of her father's real estate after the debts are charges were paid.  

Nathaniel Horton married Sarah Pray in about 1755, and they had at least 11 children between 1755 and 1774 in Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island.  There may have been other children.  

Sarah (Pray) Horton was mentioned in the will of her husband, Nathaniel Horton, which was written in 1814, and she was named an executor with their son, Nathaniel Horton[3].  The estate was probated after the death of Nathaniel Horton on 4 May 1819, and the distribution of the estate, including the thirds set off for widow Sarah Horton, was approved on 20 September 1820.

She may have died shortly after 20 September 1820, probably in Foster, Rhode Island.  Sarah (Pray) Horton was probably buried with her husband in the Jones-Hammon Lot in Foster, Connecticut. 

5)  SOURCES
 
1. John Osborne Austin; George Andrews Moriarty, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690, with many families carried to the fourth generation (Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969), Richard Pray family sketch.

2. "Probate and Civil Records, 1731-1886 (Scituate, Rhode Island)," on 6 FHL US/CAN microfilm reels, citing manuscript records at town hall, Scituate, Rhode Island, Volumes 1-3 (1731-1799), Volume 1, Pages 250-252, Richard Pray estate papers, on FHL Microfilm US/CAN 0,941,155.


3. Probate Records 1781-1915 (Foster, Rhode Island), on 11 US/CAN microfilm reels,  Volumes 3-4, (1814-1826), Volume 3, pages 532-538, Nathaniel Horton estate papers, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,941,056.


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