Sarah Sheldon

1688 - 1738  (50 years)

• Name	Sarah Sheldon
  Birth	12 Jul 1688	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 Nov 1738	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Burial	Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  1. Sarah Sheldon ,   b. 12 Jul 1688, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 14 Nov 1738, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts  (Age 50 years) ▻ Josiah Parsons   2. Isaac Sheldon ,   b. 26 Aug 1686, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 16 Apr 1749, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 62 years) ▻ Elizabeth Pratt ,  m. 28 Feb 1716
  Person ID	I7893	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Isaac Sheldon,   b. 4 Sep 1656, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 29 Mar 1712, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Sarah Warner,   b. 24 Jun 1667, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
  Marriage	25 Nov 1685  [3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F4313	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Josiah Parsons,   b. 2 Jan 1681, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 12 Apr 1768, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 87 years)
  Children	1. Martha Parsons,   b. 3 May 1727, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 16 Dec 1814, Chester, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F6449	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Leo van de Pas's site has Sarah Sheldon's parents as Isaac Sheldon III and Elizabeth Pratt, and Isaac Sheldon III's parents as Isaac Sheldon Jr. and Sarah Warner. His citation is Gary Boyd Roberts' 1984 book American Ancestors and Cousins of the Prince of Wales. Roberts is a highly respected genealogist, but I literally can't find anyone else who agrees with this. It's still possible, of course, that Roberts is right and the absence of this extra generation is simply one of those gross errors that gets endlessly repeated in online genealogies. Unfortunately, van de Pas doesn't give dates for any of these people, and I'm guessing (based on Roberts's 600 Immigrants, etc, which I own) that this is because Roberts' book doesn't either. If I find a source with plausible dates that includes the extra generation, I'll be inclined to revisit the question. Sarah Sheldon family tree from van de Pas's site. Sarah Sheldon Parsons page at findagrave.com, giving the much more common parentage.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1088] Findagrave.com page for Sarah Sheldon Parsons. [S899] The Mary Bliss Parsons Trial, website developed by Historic Northampton and the Center for Computer Based Instructional Technology (now the UMass IT Center for Educational Software Development [CESD]) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst., year only. [S443] Joann Saemann, The Sheldon Archives. [S655] Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut by Frank Farnsworth Starr. Hartford, Connecticut, 1915. [S1085] History of Hardwick, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register by Lucius R. Page. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883.