Sarah Nutting (1663-1717) is #597 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #596 John Stone (1658-1735) in 1698 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through
* their son, #296 James Stone (1702-1783), who married #297 Mary Farwell (1709-1804) in 1726.
* their daughter #149 Abigail Stone (1737-1800), who married #148 Ephraim Sawtell (1735-1800) in 1757.
* their son #74 Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847) who married #75 Hannah Smith (1768-1827) in 1789.
* their daughter #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) who married #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) in 1810.
* their son #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) 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 Nutting[1–2]
* Alternate Name: Sarah Farnsworth[4–5]
* Alternate Name: Sarah Nutting Farnsworth[1,6]
* Alternate Name: Sarah Holden Nutting Farnsworth[3]
* Sex: Female
* Father: John Nutting (1620-1676)
* Mother: Sarah Eggleton (1630-1687)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 29 May 1663, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3]
* Administration: 6 December 1698 (age 35), appointed administrator of husband's estate, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]
* Death: 11 March 1717 (age 53), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Matthias Farnsworth (1649-1693)
* Marriage: 1681 (about age 18), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]
* Child 1: Joseph Farnsworth (1682-1682)
* Child 2: Ebenezer Farnsworth (1684-1724)
* Child 3: Josiah Farnsworth (1687-1744)
* Child 4: Sarah Farnsworth (1688-1767)
* Child 5: Matthias Farnsworth (1690-1773)
* Child 6: Jonathan Farnsworth (1693- )
* Spouse 2: John Stone (1658-1735)
* Marriage 2: 7 December 1698 (age 35). Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-2,5-6]
* Child 7: John Stone (1699-1784)
* Child 8: James Stone (1701-1783)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Sarah Nutting was born 29 May 1663 in Groton, Massachusetts, the daughter of John and Sarah (Eggleton) Nutting[1,3].
Sarah married, first, in 1681 in Groton to Matthias Farnsworth, son of Matthias and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth[1-2]. They had six children, all born in Groton, but not all recorded there[2]:
* Joseph Farnsworth (1682-1682)
* Ebenezer Farnsworth (1684-1724), married 1707 Elizabeth Whitney (1686-1750).
* Josiah Farnsworth (1687-1744), married 1710 Mary Pierce (1696-1740).
* Sarah Farnsworth (1688-1767), married 1720 Jonathan Shedd (1696-????)
* Matthias Farnsworth (1690-1773), married 1713 Catherine Charpentier (1696-1777).
* Jonathan Farnsworth (1693-????).
The Farnsworth family lived in Groton which suffered several Native American attacks in the 1692-3 time period. The Farnsworth house was a garrison house. Matthias Farnsworth died before 8 November 1693 as a result of these attacks, leaving Sarah a widow with five small children[2].
The probate records for Matthias Farnsworth are in Middlesex County Probate Packet 7,257, dated 1698. His wife, Sarah, made an inventory of the estate, which totaled £129-14, on 8 November 1693 and then did nothing further for five years until 6 December 1698 when she applied to be appointed administratrix of the estate, was appointed, and Sarah, Deacon Simon Stone and John Stone posted bond on the estate. Her final account was made on 6 December 1698. There are no other papers in the probate case file that indicate a distribution[4].
Sarah (Nutting) Farnsworth married, second, on 7 December 1698 in Concord, Massachusetts to John Stone (1658-1735), son of Simon and Mary (Whipple) Stone of Groton[1-2,5-6]. John Stone was the same person who was a surety on the estate of Matthias Farnsworth. They had two children, both recorded in Groton:
* John Stone (1699-1784), married 1722 Elizabeth Farwell (1703-1762).
* James Stone (1702-1783), married 1726 Mary Farwell (1709-1804).
The death date of Sarah (Nutting) (Farnsworth) Stone is not known. There is no death entry in the Groton vital records book. The Find A Grave memorial for her, which does not include a burial location, indicates she died on 11 March 1717 in Groton[3]. There is no probate record for Sarah Stone.
5) SOURCES
1. J. Gardner Bartlett, Simon Stone Genealogy, Ancestry and Descendants of Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass. 1320-1926 (Boston, Mass.: The Stone Family, 1926), pages 62-63, #5 John Stone family sketch.
2. Moses Franklin Farnsworth, Farnsworth Memorial: Being a Record of Matthias Farnsworth and His Descendants in America (Salem, Mass. : Higginson Books, 1990), pages 41-43, No. 1-2: Matthias Farnsworth family sketch.
3. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image, (http://www.findagrave.com), Groton, Mass., Sarah Holden Nutting Farnsworth memorial #129377841.
4. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Case file 7257 - Matthias Farnsworth of Groton 1698; "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 26 May 2021).
5. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1926-1927), Two volumes, Volume 2, Marriages, page 63, Sarah Farnsworth and John Stone marriage entry, 7 Dec. 1698, "at Concord".
6. "New England Marriages to 1700," online database with digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008, page 714, John Stone and Sarah (Nutting) Farnsworth marriage entry, 7 December 1698.
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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 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 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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