Sarah Hawley and Lt. Agur Tomlinson
Widow Sarah married Lt. Agur Tomlinson in 1692 and had a son named Zachariah in 1693. However, there were complications during a later childbirth and Sarah and her baby, named Sarah posthumously, died on June 29, 1694 in Derby and were buried together. Tomlinson inherited his wives personal property according to law.
Soon after Sarah's death, the Hawley's began to have some differences with Lt. Tomlinson over the orphaned Hawley children. In 1696, the Probate Court at Fairfield, ruled that the Hawley's would "award Tomlinson 50 pounds and a bed worth 5 pounds and discharge him from all further charges or trouble in bringing up ye children of sd. brother deceased". Tomlinson returned 25 pounds worth of his deceased wife's property to her children, making an entry in the Stratford land records on November 11, 1696;
Know all men by those presents I Agur Tomlinson of Stratford in ye County of Fairfield in ye Colony of Conocticott in now England in consideration of ye entire love and affection that I have and bear to ye children of my deceased wife namely Daniel Hawley Gideon Hawley and Abia Hawley ye children of Ephraim Hawley late of Stratford deceased I do freely give grant and bequeath unto ye said children as followoth; to Daniel one plowshare and coffer one chain one cow and one calf, to Gideon one gun and sword one camblot coat and one stuff coat, to Abiah one blanket at Mr. Woolcots one bed one coverlid one rugg one flagin one warming pan curtins and valins, two pewter platters and two plates one pot one cup two pillows one chest of drawers one pewter candlestick and bequeath two mares running in ye woods to ye above Daniel and Gideon.The final settlement between Lt. Tomlinson and brothers Captain John and Samuel Hawley over the children and the property were entered into the Stratford land records on November 30, 1696.
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