Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Wadsworth was born about 1695, in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Samuel Wadsworth, was 37 and her mother, Hannah Judson, was 39. She died on 20 October 1695, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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- Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 for
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Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Wadsworth near Halifax, Yorkshire. The placename derives from an Old English personal name Wæddi (genitive Wæddes) + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.
History: William Wadsworth came from England to Cambridge, MA, in 1632, and in 1636 accompanied Thomas Hooker as one of the founders of Hartford, CT. — John Wadsworth (died 1787) was a fellow of Harvard College and is buried in the old burial ground in Cambridge, MA. Peleg Wadsworth, born in Duxbury, MA, 1748, was a revolutionary war general and grandfather of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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