Ancestry of
Sarah Child

(1724–1805)

Sarah Child

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Child Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Aspinwall   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 May 1724 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Apr 1805 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • Many sources incorrectly state that the parents of the Sarah Child who married Jedidiah Morse were Benjamin Child and Patience Thayer.

    However as early as 1914, Lyman May Paine got it right in his book My Ancestors: A Memorial of John Paine and Mary Ann May of East Woodstock, Conn. Sarah Child was the 2nd great-grandmother of Lyman. Lyman correctly stated that the parents of Sarah Child, wife of Jedidiah Morse, were in fact John Chiild and Abigail Aspinwall.

    In October 2005, Christopher Callender Child wrote an article in the October 2005 New England Historic and Genealogical Register (pp. 317-318) that gave the proof of this parentage. Although her father John Child died intestate, an estate document gave the names of all his children and his daughters' husbands. Included in this list were Jedidiah and Sarah Morse thus proving that Lyman Paine had it right all along.

• Marriages for Sarah Child

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  • Spouse:
  • Jedidiah Morse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Feb 1746/1747
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut

• Sources for Sarah Child

  • ¹ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, (2002), p. 197667, Cemetery record for Sarah Morse.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/28/2015).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2005, Vol. 159, pp. 317-318, 322.
  • ⁴ Woodstock, CT: Vital Records, 1686-1854, p. 285, Marriage record for Jedidiah Morss and Sarah Child.
  • ⁵ Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 258, 427.
  • ⁶ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History, Volume 4, July 1778-June 1792, New York: Henry Holt and Company (1907), 295.
  • ⁷ Paine, Lyman May, My Ancestors: A Memorial of John Paine and Mary Ann May of East Woodstock, Conn., Chicago: Printed for Private Circulation (1914), 67.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 36.
  • ⁹ Sprague, William B., The Life of Jedidiah Morse, D.D., New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company (1874), 1.