Ancestors
Sarah Long
1673-1756 · Connecticut
Born 1673, Connecticut
Died 1756
Father: Thomas Long
Mother: Sarah Wilcox
Children include Robert
Sarah Long was born about 1673, a daughter of Thomas Long and Sarah Wilcox. Her parents had grown up in the same house. Her mother's father, John Wilcox, had married her father's widowed mother, Mary Long, and the step-brother and step-sister married each other in 1666. The marriage failed. They were divorced in 1681, when Sarah was about eight, and each married again. Her mother became the wife of David Ensign of Hartford, and her father married Sarah Elmer and moved to Windsor.
She married John Culver, a panel maker of Groton, Connecticut, and their first child was baptized at Stonington in 1696. Their children were Mercy, Sarah, Esther, John, Thankful, Thomas, Timothy and Robert, and probably Nathan.
John and Sarah were Rogerenes, followers of John Rogers of New London. The sect held that no day was holier than another and that the magistrates had no say over worship. Its members walked into Congregational meetings to protest, and they were fined, jailed and whipped for it. Sarah was jailed with her husband in April 1716 and stood trial in 1719. In the mid-1720s she went with a party that travelled to Lebanon to baptize converts, and among the Rogerenes she was called the "singing sister."
About 1735 the Culvers led a group of Rogerenes from Connecticut to New Jersey. They settled first on Schooley's Mountain in Morris County, spent some years near Barnegat on the shore, and came back to the mountain. In November 1752, still on the mountain and both about eighty, Sarah and John sold to their son Robert her share of her grandfather Wilcox's land at Middletown, Connecticut.
She died on Schooley's Mountain in March 1756, aged 83, and was buried in the Culver burying ground there. When the stone was read in 1948 it was so worn that the year looked like 1766. A genealogy of the region's German families, published in 1895, took that reading, and so gave her birth as 1683. The same book called her "Sara Winthrop, dau. of Gov. Winthrop." No Winthrop daughter ever married a Culver. The deeds of 1752 and her sister's estate show who she was.
Sources
T. F. Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies (Dover, N.J., 1895), p. 298; archive.org earlygermansofne00cham, leaf n413.
John R. Bolles and Anna B. Williams, The Rogerenes (Boston, 1904), p. 249; archive.org rogerenessomeh00boll.
John R. Bolles and Anna B. Williams, The Rogerenes (Boston, 1904), p. 272; archive.org rogerenessomeh00boll.
Donald Lines Jacobus, "Culver and Winthrop", The American Genealogist, vol. 22 (October 1945), pp. 107-110 (archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1945-10_22_2), p. 107.
Donald Lines Jacobus, "Culver and Winthrop", The American Genealogist, vol. 22 (October 1945), pp. 107-110 (archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1945-10_22_2), p. 109.
Donald Lines Jacobus, "Culver and Winthrop", The American Genealogist, vol. 22 (October 1945), pp. 107-110 (archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1945-10_22_2), p. 110, citing Middletown Land Records 14:328-329 and Hartford District probate file 3397.
W. Herbert Wood and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Additions and Corrections to the Colver-Culver Genealogy", The American Genealogist, vol. 31 (July 1955), pp. 129-144 (archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1955-07_31_3), p. 140.
W. Herbert Wood and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Additions and Corrections to the Colver-Culver Genealogy", The American Genealogist, vol. 31 (July 1955), pp. 129-144 (archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1955-07_31_3), p. 141.
T. F. Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies (Dover, N.J., 1895), p. 298 (archive.org earlygermansofne00cham); John R. Bolles and Anna B. Williams, The Rogerenes: Some Hitherto Unpublished Annals Belonging to the Colonial History of Connecticut (Boston, 1904), archive.org rogerenessomeh00boll, pp. 240 and 247-249. Donald Lines Jacobus, "Culver and Winthrop", The American Genealogist, vol. 22 (October 1945), pp. 107-110 (archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1945-10_22_2); W. Herbert Wood and Donald Lines Jacobus, "Additions and Corrections to the Colver-Culver Genealogy", The American Genealogist, vol. 31 (July 1955), pp. 129-144 (archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1955-07_31_3), pp. 140-141; W. H. Whitmore, The Wilcox Family (Boston, 1875, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 29), archive.org wilcoxfamily1875whit, pp. 3-6; Frederic Lathrop Colver, Colver-Culver Genealogy (New York, 1910), archive.org colverculvergene00colv, pp. 59-60, quoting Colonial Records of Connecticut 5:559.
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