Sarah Burt
Daughter of Jonathan Burt of Springfield, Massachusetts, who wrote the town book's account of its burning in 1675. Born in 1656, she married Benjamin Dorchester in 1675 and was widowed within a year; in 1676/7 she married Luke Hitchcock, later a captain, and had eleven children by him. She died in 1746, in her ninety-first year. Mother of Capt. Ebenezer Hitchcock.
Life
- 1656Born4 Sep 1656
Neither book gives the place. Her father lived at Springfield from his marriage in 1651.
compiledprobableSources
- Henry M. Burt, ed., The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, 2 vols. (1898-99)
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
- 1675LivedSpringfield, Massachusetts
Daughter of Jonathan Burt of Springfield; married there in 1675 and again in 1676/7 to Luke Hitchcock.
compiledprobableSources
- Henry M. Burt, ed., The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, 2 vols. (1898-99)
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
- 〃Married Benjamin Dorchester
- 1676Married Luke Hitchcock14 Feb 1676/7
"He married, Feb. 14, 1676-7, Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Burt, widow of Benjamin Dorchester" (Hitchcock 1894, pp. 407-408); the list of his father's children (p. 207) has "Feb. 14, 1676."
- 1746Died9 Nov 1746
"She died Nov. 9, 1746, 'in ye 91 year of her age'" (Hitchcock 1894, p. 408). The place is not given.
Family
- Father
- Jonathan Burt
Eldest son of Henry Burt of Springfield; selectman, town clerk and deacon; he wrote the only account of the burning of Springfield in the town records, and died on 19 Oct 1715 (Burt 2:538-540). Not researched further.
compiledprobableSources
- Henry M. Burt, ed., The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, 2 vols. (1898-99)
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
- Reasoning:
research/king-philips-war/Connecticut_and_Long_Island.md
- Mother
- Elizabeth Lobdell
Of Boston, born 1632; married Jonathan Burt on 20 Oct 1651 and died on 11 Nov 1684. Burt gives his children as "all by his first wife" (2:538-539). Not researched further.
- Spouse 1
- Luke Hitchcockcompiledprobable
Sources
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
- Henry M. Burt, ed., The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, 2 vols. (1898-99)
1 child
- Spouse 2
- Benjamin Dorchester
Died on 24 May 1676 (Hitchcock 1894, p. 408).
compiledprobableSources
- Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Who Are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. (Amherst, 1894)
- Henry M. Burt, ed., The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, 2 vols. (1898-99)
Pedigree
Notes
Sarah was a daughter of Jonathan Burt of Springfield and his first wife, Elizabeth Lobdell of Boston: “Sarah, b. September 4, 1656, m. Benjamin Dorchester and later Luke Hitchcock” (The First Century of the History of Springfield, 2:540). Her father’s sister Abigail Burt was the mother of John, James and Nathaniel Munn, her first cousins (Burt 2:538-539, 612).
King Philip’s War. On 22 April 1675, at eighteen, Sarah married Benjamin Dorchester. Her father was a selectman, town clerk and deacon of Springfield. On the night of 4 Oct 1675, warned of the attack, he took refuge with the town’s older men in its three fortified houses, and when the town had burned he set the losses at “twenty-nine houses and barns.” Chosen a selectman the next February, he “entered a brief account in the third volume of the town records,” the only account of the burning preserved in Springfield (Burt 1:129-131, 134). Benjamin Dorchester died on 24 May 1676, five days after the Falls Fight, and on 14 Feb 1676/7 Sarah married Luke Hitchcock, who had ridden in it (The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, pp. 407-408).
They had eleven children, born between 1678 and 1698, two of whom died as infants (pp. 408-409), among them Capt. Ebenezer Hitchcock. Luke died in January 1726/7; his will left her the use of half his house and meadow “so long as she bear his name.” She outlived him by nearly twenty years and died on 9 Nov 1746, “in ye 91 year of her age” (p. 408).
Research: research/king-philips-war/Connecticut_and_Long_Island.md;
research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.
Open questions
- What Benjamin Dorchester died of on 24 May 1676, and whether they had a child.
- Where she was born and died, probably Springfield.