Sarah (Clark) Bowers (1651-1704) is number 545 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #544 Samuel Smith (1641-1691) in 1677 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their son #272 Henry Smith (1680-1743) who married #273 Ruth Barber (1696-1761) in 1730.
* their son #136 Moses Smith (1736-1806) who married #137 Patience Hamant (1735-1780) in 1762.
* their son #68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) who married #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) in 1795.
* their son #34 Alpheus Smith (1802-1840) who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.
* their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1851.
* their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Sarah Clarke[1–3]
* Alternate Name: Sary Clarke[4–5]
* Alternate Name: Sarah Bowers[8]
* Alternate Name: Sarah Clark Bowers Smith[7]
* Alternate Name: Sarah Smith[6]
* Sex: Female
* Father: Joseph Clarke (1613-1683)
* Mother: Alice Fenn (1619-1710)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 20 February 1650/1, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[4–5]
* Death: 20 May 1704 (age 53), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[6–7]
* Burial: after 20 May 1704 (after age 53), Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[7]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: John Bowers (1646-1676)
* Marriage 1: 7 January 1673 (age 21), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]
* Child 1: John Bowers (1675-1729)
* Spouse 2: Samuel Smith (1641-1691)
* Marriage 2: 22 February 1677 (age 26), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[8]
* Child 2: Sarah Smith (1679-1769)
* Child 3: Henry Smith (1680-1743)
* Child 4: Daniel Smith (1682-1704)
* Child 5: Nathaniel Smith (1684-1762)
* Child 6: Abigail Smith (1686-1725)
* Child 7: Mary Smith (1688-1774)
* Child 8: Prudence Smith (1691-1784)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Sarah Clarke was born 20 February 1650/1 in Dedham, Massachusetts, the daughter of Joseph and Alice (Fenn) Clarke[1, 4-5]. Her birth record in the Dedham town record book says:
"Sary the Daughter of Joseph & Alice Clarkewas borne the 20 of the 12 m'h [1650]"
Sarah Clarke married John Bowers (1646-1676) of Medfield on 7 January 1673/4 in Medfield[3]. They had one son:
* John Bowers (1675-1729), married 1702 Hannah Partridge (1677-1761).
The History of Medfield, Massachusetts book has this information about John Bowers[2]:
"John [Bowers] came with his father [John Bowers to Medfield]. He married in 1673 Sarah Clark; and, about this time, he appears to have had a house near his father's. His house was burned and its owner slain on the day of the Indian attack upon the town [during King Phillip's War]. His widow was married to Samuel Smith (whose wife was also slain by the Indians) on the first anniversary of the mournful event."
One year after her first husband's death, Sarah (Clarke) Bowers married on 22 February 1677 to Samuel Smith (1641-1691) of Medfield[8], who had lost his first wife in the Indian attack on 21 February 1676.
Samuel and Sarah (Clarke) (Bowers) Smith had seven children, all recorded in the Medfield town record book:
* Sarah Smith (1679-1769), married (1) 1701 Mathias Evans (1670-1725); (2) 1726 Henry Harding (1673-1764).
* Henry Smith (1680-1743), married (1) 1703 Deborah Pratt (1684-1705); (2) 1708 Mary Adams (1681-1725); (3) 1730 Ruth Barber (1696-1761).
* Daniel Smith (1682-1704).
* Nathaniel Smith (1684-1762), married (1) 1705 Mary Clark (1687-1717); (2) 1717 Lydia Partridge (1687-1773).
* Abigail Smith (1686-1726), married 1705 John Fisher (1677-1727).
* Mary Smith (1688-1774), married (1) 1706 Henry Plimpton (1684-1731); (2) 1732 Jabez Pond (1677-1749); (3) 1750 Joseph Wight (1681-1756).
* Prudence Smith (1691-1784), married (1) 1711 Joseph White (1683-1737); (2) 1739 Benoni Benson (1684-1761).
Samuel Smith died on 25 October 1691 in Medfield, aged 50. There is no probate record for him in Suffolk or Middlesex Counties.
Sarah (Clarke) (Bowers) Smith died 20 May 1704[6-7], and was probably buried in Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield, Massachusetts. There is a Find A Grave memorial for her, but there is no gravestone photograph[7].
SOURCES:
1. William S. Tilden and John A. S. Monks, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 : with genealogies of the families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries (Boston, Mass.: G.H. Ellis, 1887), page 347, Joseph Clarke family sketch.
2. William S. Tilden and John A. S. Monks, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 : with genealogies of the families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries (Boston, Mass.: G.H. Ellis, 1887), page 320, John Bowers family sketch.
3. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), page 119, John Bowers and Sarah Clarke marriage entry, 7 January 1673/4.
4. Don Gleason Hill (editor), The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Dedham,1635-1845 (Dedham, Mass. : Town of Dedham, 1886), page 5, Sary Clarke birth entry, 20 February 1650.
5. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), "Dedham births, Marriages, Deaths," page number 5 (image 6 of 1916), Sary Clarke birth entry, 20 February 1650/1, daughter of Joseph and Alice Clarke; Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
6. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Deaths, page 235, Sarah Smith death entry, 20 May 1704.
7. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image, (http://www.findagrave.com), Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Mass., Sarah Clark Bowers Smith memorial #51077471.
8. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 174, Samuell Smith and Sarah Bowers marriage entry, 22 February 1677.
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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.
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