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Sarah Eggleston |
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Born: Abt. 1629 Loc: Kent Co. England Died: Aft. 1671 |
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Father: Stephen Eggleston Mother: Unknown |
| Married: Aug 28, 1650 at Woburn, MA - Spouse: John Nutting |
| Children: John/James/Mary/Josiah/Sarah/Ebenezer/Jonathan |
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Her father Stephen Eggleston died at sea on voyage
from England on the ship Castle (1638) and Elizabeth Bennett. After her husband died Elizabeth Bennett married 2nd William Brittian and 3rd Isaac Cole. Source: Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith |
| Sarah Elizabeth Eggleston Nutting, widow of John Nutting, of Groton, Mass. Sarah Elizabeth Eggleston survived her husband. He was killed when a force of 400 Indians attacked his house, which was a fortified garrison, built like a blockhouse with projecting upper story, with loopholes in the walls for musketry and a stockade about it. It is said his head was severed and put on a pole. Sarah and their children escaped with others to the safer settlements. (Nutting Gen., p. 10.) |
| She went to Woburn, where her sister Ruth Blodgett lived. (Boston and Eastern Mass., Vol. 2, pp. 608/9.) Inherited land from her husband, John Nutting. Landowner |