Ancestry of
Leverett Saltonstall

55th Governor of Massachusetts

Sarah Sedgwick

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Leverett Saltonstall — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 267 
  • Father:
  • William Sedgwick 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Howe   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1629 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jan 1705 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Leverett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Sep 1647 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Leverett (Ahnentafel No:133 )

  Anne Leverett

  Mary Leverett

  • Notes: 

  • Sarah is often cited in sources as the daughter of Gen. Robert Sedgwick. However, the family bible of her husband John Leverett is said to have contained an entry that stated "9th September 1647 marryed Sarah, daughter to Mrs. Elizabeth Sedgwick the widdoe of William Sedgwicke, maryed at Louisham in Kent at the home of her brother Mr Robert Houghton." See Leverett Saltonstall's Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall, (1897), pp. 150-152.

• Sources for Sarah Sedgwick

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, p. 51, Birth record for daughter Mary Leveret.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for Sarah Leverett.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1177.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#84 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Frank Lloyd Wright, with Notes . . .", www.americanancestors.org/notes-on-other-architects, (accessed 09/23/2014).
  • ⁵ Saltonstall, Leverett, Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall: First Associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and . . ., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press (1897), 150-152.
  • ⁶ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 462.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "John Leverett", (accessed 06/22/2013).