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James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Sarah Howes

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of James Taylor — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 183 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Howes 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Sears   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Oct 1749 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Nov 1817 
  • Death Location:
  • Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hill Cemetery, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Reuben Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Aug 1775 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Desire Hall (Ahnentafel No:91 )

  Thomas Hall

  • Notes: 

  • Some publications incorrectly list Sarah Howes's parents as Heman and Mary (Howes) Howes.

• Sources for Sarah Howes

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/23/2018).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ashfield, Vol. 1, p. 53, Birth record for daughter Desire Hall.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ashfield, Vol. 1, p. 56, Birth record for Sarah Howes.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ashfield, Vol. 1, p. 244, Death record for Sarah Howes Hall.
  • ⁵ Western Massachusetts Families in 1790, Reuben Hall, pp. 1-9.
  • ⁶ Howes, Joshua Crowell, Genealogy of the Howes Family in America: Descendants of Thomas Howes, Yarmouth, Mass., 1637-1892 with . . ., Yarmouthport, Massachusetts: Printed for the author by Fred. Hallett (1892), 25-26.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 371, 532.
  • ⁸ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 394.