Sarah Slater

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name
Sarah Slater
aka
[Sarah Ellingwood, Sarah Downes, Sarah Downs]
sex
female
access
public
summary
Wife of Richard Ellingwood, cooper of Boston, married on 5 January 1766, and very probably the "Mrs. Sarah Ellingwood" licensed to retail in Cross Street in 1782. Widowed in 1784, she administered his estate and two days later married Isaac Downes; she was living in 1790. Mother of Richard, Ralph and Joseph Ellingwood.
died
date
1796
place
Massachusetts
basis
compiled
confidence
possible
sources
[online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry, online-tree-familysearch]
note
As the trees have it (5 Apr 1796), without a source. Living 26 Jan 1790.
spouses
name
Isaac Downes
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[vital-records-boston-ellingwood, probate-suffolk-ellingwood]
married
date
7 Nov 1784
place
Boston, Massachusetts
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[vital-records-boston-ellingwood]
note
By Rev. Samuel Stillman of the First Baptist Church; the intention spells her "Alinwood".

Wife of Richard Ellingwood, cooper of Boston, married 5 January 1766 (record); very probably the "Mrs. Sarah Ellingwood approbated to retail in Cross Street" in 1782 (record). As "Sarah Ellingwood of Boston Widow" she administered Richard's estate on 5 November 1784, and two days later married Isaac Downes. In January 1790, as "Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs, the Mother of said deceased", she took a third of her son Joseph's estate, signing by mark (record).

Open questions

  • Her parents. The Ancestry tree gives her a birth on 25 Aug 1744 at Boston and a mother Susanna Mulberry, with no record; they are not used. The Mulberry ancestry is disproven: Susanna Mulberry (b. Boston 1725/6, daughter of Benjamin and Ann Mulbery) married Malachy Salter, the Halifax merchant, in 1744 ("Malachi Salter & Susanna Mulberry," Boston Marriages) and died at Halifax in 1794, aged 68; "Salter" was read as "Slater," and no Sarah is among the Salter children. The tree's death "19 Feb 1794, Halifax" is Mrs. Salter's, and the grandparents it gives, Capt. Benjamin Mulberry and Anne Everton, are the Salters' ancestry, not this family's (Woodbury, Rand–Cheever–Ivory and Slater lines behind the Ellingwoods). Boston candidates for her parents: James Slater and Elisabeth Odiorne (married 1735), Claus Slater and Sarah Russell (married 1739/40), or Peter Slater and Abigail Bradford (1741-51). A lead: "Asa Stodder & Mary Slatter" were married by Rev. Samuel Stillman on 24 Nov 1765, six weeks before Sarah's own marriage; Asa Stoddard, bricklayer, was surety on her administration bond in 1784, and Stillman married her to Isaac Downes two days later. Mary was possibly her sister.
  1. ---
  2. name: Sarah Slater
  3. aka: [Sarah Ellingwood, Sarah Downes, Sarah Downs]
  4. sex: female
  5. access: public
  6. summary: >-
  7. Wife of Richard Ellingwood, cooper of Boston, married on 5 January 1766, and very probably the
  8. "Mrs. Sarah Ellingwood" licensed to retail in Cross Street in 1782. Widowed in 1784, she
  9. administered his estate and two days later married Isaac Downes; she was living in 1790. Mother
  10. of Richard, Ralph and Joseph Ellingwood.
  11. died:
  12. date: '1796'
  13. place: Massachusetts
  14. basis: compiled
  15. confidence: possible
  16. sources: [online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry, online-tree-familysearch]
  17. note: As the trees have it (5 Apr 1796), without a source. Living 26 Jan 1790.
  18. spouses:
  19. - name: Isaac Downes
  20. basis: documented
  21. confidence: proven
  22. sources: [vital-records-boston-ellingwood, probate-suffolk-ellingwood]
  23. married:
  24. date: 7 Nov 1784
  25. place: Boston, Massachusetts
  26. basis: documented
  27. confidence: proven
  28. sources: [vital-records-boston-ellingwood]
  29. note: By Rev. Samuel Stillman of the First Baptist Church; the intention spells her "Alinwood".
  30. ---
  32. Wife of Richard Ellingwood, cooper of Boston, married 5 January 1766
  33. ([record](/files/sources/vital-records-boston-ellingwood/)); very probably the "Mrs. Sarah Ellingwood approbated to
  34. retail in Cross Street" in 1782 ([record](/files/sources/town-records-boston-selectmen-ellingwood/)). As "Sarah Ellingwood of
  35. Boston Widow" she administered Richard's estate on 5 November 1784, and two days later married
  36. Isaac Downes. In January 1790, as "Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs, the Mother of said deceased",
  37. she took a third of her son Joseph's estate, signing by mark ([record](/files/sources/probate-suffolk-ellingwood/)).
  39. ## Open questions
  41. - Her parents. The Ancestry tree gives her a birth on 25 Aug 1744 at Boston and a mother Susanna
  42. Mulberry, with no record; they are not used. The Mulberry ancestry is disproven: Susanna Mulberry
  43. (b. Boston 1725/6, daughter of Benjamin and Ann Mulbery) married Malachy **Salter**, the Halifax
  44. merchant, in 1744 ("Malachi Salter & Susanna Mulberry," Boston Marriages) and died at Halifax in
  45. 1794, aged 68; "Salter" was read as "Slater," and no Sarah is among the Salter children. The tree's
  46. death "19 Feb 1794, Halifax" is Mrs. Salter's, and the grandparents it gives, Capt. Benjamin Mulberry
  47. and Anne Everton, are the Salters' ancestry, not this family's
  48. (`research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Woodbury_Rand.md`). Boston candidates for her parents: James
  49. Slater and Elisabeth Odiorne (married 1735), Claus Slater and Sarah Russell (married 1739/40), or
  50. Peter Slater and Abigail Bradford (1741-51). A lead: "Asa Stodder & Mary Slatter" were married by
  51. Rev. Samuel Stillman on 24 Nov 1765, six weeks before Sarah's own marriage; Asa Stoddard, bricklayer,
  52. was surety on her administration bond in 1784, and Stillman married her to Isaac Downes two days
  53. later. Mary was possibly her sister.
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