Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for James GODFREY | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James Godfry married Sarah Dowse Sep 14, 1732 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA [ref 23:0818093 - 0818095] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JAMES GODFREY, birth, parentage, and death unknown. James was a mariner. They lived for a number of years in Charlestown, then removing to Boston. James and Sarah Godfrey join with the other heirs of her parents in selling his property. Evidently James knew that he might not be on shore to attend to the matter for he gave his wife a power of Attorney as follows: I James Godfrey of Charlestown . . . Marriner . . . do constitute my well beloved wife Sarah Godfrey to be my . . . attorney . . . hereby granting her . . . full power . . . to bargain . . . all our Right . . . in the Real Estate . . . of her late father Mr. Nathanael Dowse late of Charlestown . . . Gentn. deceased, 11 Sept. 1735. Wit: Jos. Marion, Wm. Story (Middlesex Co., Deeds, 37:58). The last mention found of Sarah and James is in this deed: I Sarah Godfrey . . . wife of James Godfrey of Boston . . . by power of Attorney . . . in consideration of fifteen pounds . . . paid by John Trumball of Charlestown pipe maker . . . do confirm unto him . . . my right . . . in that certain pew in the meeting house in Charlestown . . . which was part of the estate of . . . my father . . . Nathaniel Dowse, 5 Aug. 1740. Wit: Davis Whitman, Rachel Kidder (Ibid., 50:657). [ref 79:145] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
| Notes for Sarah DOWSE | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SARAH3 DOWSE (NATHANIEL2, LAWRENCE1), born in Charlestown, Mass., 30 Nov. 1704, died after 1740, probably in Boston, Mass. She married in Boston, 14 Sept. 1732, JAMES GODFREY. This is not the Sarah Dowse who married Joseph Burbank 17 Oct 1744. Child probably born in Charlestown, Mass. 1736: Sarah. [ref 79:145] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - the "Sarah Burbank" who married Asa Burbank had children born 1755-1764, she would have to be younger than this Sarah Dowse - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
| Last Modified 15 Nov 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |