Sarah DUNCAN
- BIRTH: 3 Sep 1773; Russel Co., Virginia (now part of USA)
- DEATH: 5 Nov 1843; Tennessee, USA
Father: John DUNCAN
Mother: Eleanor SHARP
Family 1: John L. LAUGHLIN
- MARRIAGE: 3 Sep 1793; Holston Valley, Washington Co., Virginia, USA
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_Thomas DUNCAN _______|
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_John DUNCAN ___|
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| |_Elizabeth ALEXANDER _|
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|--Sarah DUNCAN
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| _John SHARP __________|
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|_Eleanor SHARP _|
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|_Jane HAMILTON _______|
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Notes
Updated December 11, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):(1) LAUGHLIN, Samuel Hervey, "A Diary of Public Events and Notices of My Life and Family and Of My Private Transactions including Studies, Travels, Readings Correspondence, Business Anecdotes, Miscellaneous Memoranda of Men, Literature, Etc From January 1st, 1845 to August, 1845 and Sketch of my Life from Infancy"
"My mother, Sarah DUNCAN, was born on Sept. 3rd. 1773 in what is now Russell County, Virginia."
"My grandfather and his family, and all his friends, with all persons captured in Riddles and Martin's Station, old and young, black and white, were carried as prisoners by a party of British and Canadians... My mother, at the time of the captivity of the family, was about seven or eight years old and retained to her death a distinct recollection of the capture of the fort, given up by what was suspected to be RIDDLE's treachery, and of the voyage down Licking, down the Ohio, and up the Miami, and across the wilderness. She perfectly recollected the clear, limpid water of the lakes, and of the appearances of the Canadian population, their customs and manners, and much in regard to the shipping on the lakes, and of the surprise with which she passed through Philadelphia, and along Market Street on their return home, it appearing to her youthful and backwoods imagination that Philadelphia was surely the largest city in the world at that time. She lived after-wards, however, to be extensively read, even in her younger days, in history, geography, travels etc. and when I was a child, often re-counted all the adventures of this captivity, with her fears, feelings, etc. on the various occurrencies of the scenes through which the family passed."
"They were married in Washington County Virginia, at the place where my grandfather lived and died after the Revolution, sometime in the year 1794. I was born of that marriage, on the 1st day of May, 1799, in the same state and county."
"My father and mother had the following children that lived to years of discretion-myself, Nathan Montgomery, John Randolph, Henry Clinton, Sydney Nelson, Nelson Singleton, Washington Sharpe, and Laura Matilda."
"My mother was born Sept. 3, 1773."
"My excellent mother died at Hickory Hill, while I was absent, serving in the State Senate, at Nashville, on the 5th day of November, 1843, having just entered upon her 71st year. Soon after she removed to Tennessee, in Oct. 1829, having been almost helpless for many previous years, she lost the use of even her hands, from the effects of rheumatism, so as to disable her from using a needle, or even from knitting as I have elsewhere remarked. The distortion of the joints of her knees, her wrists, hands, fingers, ankles, and feet were the effect, I presume, of an improper use of mercury, under a prescription of the late Dr. Elkanah R. DULANEY of Blountsville, as well as rheumatism. She lies interred beside my wife at Liberty Meeting House burial ground (Cumberland Presbyterian) two miles south of McMinnville. She died in the full faith of a happy resurrection, having long been an humble believer in the gospel of truth and salvation to all who believe."
(2) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com
- Name: Sarah DUNCAN
- Gender: female
- Birth Place: VA
- Birth Year: 1773
- Spouse Name: John L. LAUGHLIN
- Spouse Birth Place: PA
- Spouse Birth Year: 1766
- Marriage Year: 1793
(3) Mostert family records, August 4, 2000.
- "IGI Film #1553399, Batch F508547-18."
- Nickname: Sally