♀Sarah Goodrich

Sarah Goodrich (10 April 1679 – 17 October 1719) was a colonial Connecticut woman of Wethersfield, the eldest child of John Goodrich (1653–1730) and Rebecca Allen (born 1657). She was the sixth great-grand-aunt of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the sister of Mary Goodrich (born 1682), his sixth great-grandmother.

Marriage and children

A compiled genealogy gives her birth at Wethersfield, in the Connecticut Colony, on 10 April 1679, as the first of the nine children of John Goodrich and Rebecca Allen. A compiled genealogy gives her marriage to Abraham Kilbourn there on 26 October 1699, with the Rev. Stephen Mix officiating. A Find a Grave memorial calls Abraham a carpenter and merchant.

A compiled genealogy gives the couple three children: Samuel, born 25 January 1701; Sarah, born 6 May 1702; and Abraham, born 12 April 1708.

Widowhood and second marriage

A compiled genealogy gives Abraham Kilbourn’s death as 9 March. The sources differ on the year, 1712 or 1713, so Sarah was then either thirty-two or thirty-three.

On 15 October 1718 the town book enters the marriage of Thomas Bordman (Boardman) to “Sarah Kilborn, wid. of Abraham”. She died the following year, and the same book records “Sarah, w. Thomas” dead on 17 October 1719. The Find a Grave memorial gives her age as forty and a half and her burial at Wethersfield.

Notes

Another Sarah Kilborn

Several indexes list a “Sarah Kilborn, wife of Abraham,” who died on 3 October 1719 aged 32. She belongs to Glastonbury, not Wethersfield: Sarah Mitchell, who married a different Abraham Kilborn (born 1691) there on 5 June 1712, and whose own husband outlived her. The Sarah of this page had been a widow since 1712 or 1713 and died as Sarah Boardman, fourteen days later. One Find a Grave index entry gives her death as 7 October; the Wethersfield town book gives 17 October.