Sarah Brown (a1662-a1733) is #733 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #732 John Pray (a1653-1733) in 1678 in Providence, Rhode Island.
I am descended through:
* their son, #366 Richard Pray (1683-1755), who married Rachel --?-- (a1685-b1755) in 1723.
* their daughter, #183 Sarah Pray (1734-1820), who married #182 Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819) in 1753.
* their daughter, #91 Phebe Horton (1772-a1820), who married #90 Simon Wade (1767-1857) in about 1790.
* their daughter #45 Miranda Wade (1804-1850), who married #44 Jonathan White (1803-1850) in 1824.
* their son #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864) in 1844.
* their daughter #11 Julia 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 Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Sarah Brown[1–3]
* Alternate Name: Sarah Pray[4]
* Sex: Female
* Father: John Brown 1629-1706
* Mother: Mary Holmes 1632-1690
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: about 1662, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States[2]
* Distribution: 5 February 1733/4 (about age 71), Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States[4]
* Death: after 5 February 1733/4 (after about age 71), husband's will proved, Sarah named as widow; Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States[4]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: John Pray a1653-1733
* Marriage 1: 14 November 1678 (about age 25), Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States[1-3]
* Child 1: John Pray 1679-1751
* Child 2: Sarah Pray 1679-1728
* Child 3: Richard Pray 1683-1755
* Child 4: Mary Pray 1685-1725
* Child 5: Hugh Pray 1687-1761
* Child 6: Penelope Pray 1688-1752
* Child 7: Katherine Pray 1689-1728
* Child 8: Martha Pray 1693-1784
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Sarah Brown was born in about 1662 in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of John and Mary (Holmes) Brown of Providence[1-2].
She married John Pray (a1653-1733) on 14 November 1678 in Providence, Rhode Island[1-3], the son of Richard and Mary (--?--) Pray of Providence. They had eight children, but none of them were recorded in Providence records:
* John Pray (1679-1751), married 1713 Sarah Downing (1685-????)
* Sarah Pray (1681-1728), married 1703 Joseph Brown (1678-1764).
* Richard Pray (1683-1755), married 1723 Rachel --?-- (a1685-b1755).
* Mary Pray (1685-1725), married 1705 Richard Brown (1676-1774).
* Hugh Pray (1687-1761), married 1716 Abgail Blake (1698-1775).
* Penelope Pray (1688-1752), married 1710 John Aldrich (1688-1750).
* Katherine Pray (1689-1728), married 1706 Hazadiah Comstock (1682-1764).
* Martha Pray (1693-1784), married 1713 Joseph Wilkinson (1683-1740).
John Pray wrote a will on 19 April 1726, and died 9 October 1733, testate in Smithfield, Rhode Island at age 80. The will was proved 5 February 1733/4 in Smithfield Town Council records. In his will he provided for his wife Sarah:
"Imprimus - I give and bequeath to sarah My Dearly Beloved wife the one half of my home stad Farm all my Cattle Dwelling house and House hold goods During her Lifetime to be ???? and Clearly Enjoynedly her During the term of her ???? provided she Remain my widow but In Case she marries again than my son Richard his heirs or assigns shall ??? furtherworth Enter unto the possession of said half of my home sted all my Cattle household Goods and ???
Sarah was named as John Pray's relict and widow:
"At a town Council in Smithfield February the 1 1733/4 John Prays will being laid before the Council and this Council having advised with Sarah Pray widow and Relick to John Pray and she desiring to have said will proved, Wherefore it is voted that the said John Prays will be accepted to be a perfect will and Testament and ordered to be Received."
It is not known when Sarah Pray died after 5 February 1733/4. There is no known extant death or burial record for her.
5. SOURCES
1. Harold Leonard Pray, The Pray Family of Braintree, Quincy and Weymouth, Massachusetts, Including Later Generations Through the United States, 1643-2006 (Santa Maria, Calif.: Harold Pray, 2006), page 11, John and Sarah (Brown) Pray family sketch.
2. William Bradford Browne, "Chad Browne of Providence, R.I. and Four Generations of His Descendants," in Genealogies of Rhode Island families, Volume I, Alden-Mowry (Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1989), pages 64-94, page 67, John Brown family sketch, birth of Sarah Brown.
3. "New England Marriages to 1700," online database with digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008, page 600, John Pray and Sarah Brown marriage entry, 14 November 1678.
4. "Probate Records, 1733-1917 (Lincoln, Rhode Island)," on 14 FHL US/CAN microfilm reels, FamilySearch Catalog, "Volume 1 (1733-1754)," pages 1-5, John Pray estate records, on FHL Microfilm US/CAN 0.959,528.
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