Sarah

- 1734

• Name	Sarah   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 16 Jan 1731 and 28 Sep 1734	of Prince George's County, Maryland   [3]
  Alternate death	1734  [4, 5]
  Person ID	I34706	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2023

  
  

  Family	Samuel Magruder,   b. Abt 1660, of "Good Luck," near Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland d. 1711 (Age ~ 51 years)
  Children	+ 1. Ninian Magruder,   b. 1686   d. 1751 (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F20403	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  She was long thought to have been Sarah Beall, a daughter of Ninian Beall; later, genealogist Brice Clagett suggested that she may have been Sarah Pottenger, a daughter of Robert and Sarah Pottenger of Lambourne, Berkshire. In 2001, however, Clagett withdrew this theory, saying that it could not be sustained in the face of further evidence that had emerged. A page on WikiTree, The Mystery of Sarah Magruder and Mary Pottenger, expands on this and ventures a well-argued theory that she was a daughter of William Mills (born 1628, died 26 Apr 1676 in Calvert County, Maryland) and Tabitha Wright (born 1647 in Medfield, Suffolk, died 20 Jan 1701, Prince George's County, Maryland. Mike Marshall mounts further evidence for this at his page for this Sarah on his site Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties.

  
  

• Sources

  [S82] Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families by Sharon J. Doliante. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Maryland, 1991. [S5590] Charles G. Kurz, "The McGruder Lineage in Scotland to Magruder Family of America." Yearbook of the American Clan Gregor Society 63, p. 53, 1979. [S134] Mike Marshall, Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties. [S6113] Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "My Children's Royal Descents.". [S6893] Seven Centuries: Ancestors for Twenty Generations of John Brice de Treville Clagett and Ann Calvert Brooke Clagett by Brice McAdoo Clagett. 2002.