Sarah Cook
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Mary Eno ← Mary Gillett ← Mary Saxton ← John Saxton ← Sarah Cook
In brief
She married April 16, 1647. She died June 13, 1674, in Windsor, Connecticut.
Family
Children
- Sarah Sextonb. March 26, 1647[1648], in Windsor, Connecticutm. Robert Roath in October 1668d. March 20, 1687[1688]
- John Sexton · in this lineb. March 4, 1649[1650], in Windsor, Connecticutm. Mary Hill, July 30, 1677, in Windsor, Connecticutd. December 4, 1718 · Simsbury, Connecticut
- Mary Sextonb. February 27, 1651[1652], in Windsor, Connecticutm. George Sanders
- Richard Sextonb. March 1, 1654[1655], in Windsor, Connecticutd. December 19, 1675, in King Philip’s War
- Patience Sextonb. January 28, 1658[1659], in Windsor, Connecticutm. John Roberts around 1686
- Frances Sextonb. January 17, 1661[1662], in Windsor, Connecticutd. May 6, 1662
Siblings
- Nathaniel Cookm. Lydia Vore in 1649
Life story
A Windsor Widow's Household
Sarah Cook married Richard Sexton on April 16, 1647, and settled with him in Windsor, Connecticut, in a home he had purchased from the Filley family. When Richard died without a will in 1662, Sarah was appointed to administer his estate, and she continued running the household — with four people living under her roof by 1670 — until her own death, also without a will, on June 13, 1674. Her property was inventoried that July: a dwelling house and several small parcels of land, livestock including two cows and a heifer, and a modest collection of household goods, together valued at just over fifty pounds.
Sources (1)
- Buell Burdett Bassette, One Bassett Family in America: Part 2 (New Britain, Connecticut: F.A. Bassette Company, 1926); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/onebassettfamily00bass_0 : accessed 13 July 2026).