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David Ogden Stiers

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Sarah Smith

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of David Ogden Stiers — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 163 
  • Father:
  • Phineas Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Dec 1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • Aug 1786 
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Thompson Cemetery, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Copeland
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 May 1753 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Thankful Copeland (Ahnentafel No:81 )

  • Notes: 

  • It is possible that Sarah Smith was the second wife of William Copeland, his first being named Mary Smith. Pomfret vital records give William's first wife's name as Mary Smith, and William's first three children as "of William and Mary." However, Brooklyn vital records also records the marriage but gives William's wife as Sarah. William's fourth through thirteenth children are all recorded as "of William and Sarah." Although it is possible that there were two marriages and the Brooklyn marriage record is in error, it is also possible that there was only one wife named Sarah and the Pomfret records were in error. The latter seems most likely as William's first child was named Phineas, the same name as the father of Sarah Smith.

• Sources for Sarah Smith

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 58, Birth record for daughter Thankful Copeland.
  • ² Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 505.
  • ³ Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 4, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 174-177, see footnote on pages 174 and 175.