Sarah Henchman

Magna Carta Gateway Ancestor
Descendant of Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod, and possibly others.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woodward-1931

Sarah Woodward, daughter of Rev. Hezekiah Woodward, Gent., of Bray, Berkshire, and Uxbridge, Middlesex, nonconformist minister and educator, by his wife, and Frances (MNU),[1] was baptized on 5 September 1627 at Saint Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, London.[2]

Sarah Woodward married, as his first wife, to Capt. Daniel Henchman[3][4] before 1657[1] in England. Richardson states that Sarah and Daniel Henchman had the following five children:

1. Richard[1]
2. Hezekiah[1]
3. Nathaniel[1]
4. William[1]
5. Susanna, married Samuel Collins and John Harris.[1][5]

A 1700 Massachusetts deed indicates another daughter:

1. Hannah (wife of William Sumner[3] and John Hall): the deed refers to "said land of a greater parcel purchased by Daniel Henchman dec'sd of Austin Lindon, given to the said Hannah Sumner & Susanna Collins (said Henchman's daughters)"[6]

The family immigrated to New England about 1666 and settled in Boston, Massachusetts where, on 15 October 1669, Daniel and Sarah Henchman signed a deed.[1]

Sarah Henchman's date of death is unknown. Daniel Henchman married second at Dorchester, Massachusetts on 26 April 1672 to Mary Pole or Poole,[4] daughter of Capt. William Poole, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.[1] They had two sons, William and Daniel, and two daughters, Jane (wife of James Varney) and Mary.[1] Daniel died at Worcester, Massachusetts 15 October 1685 and was buried there.[1]

Son-in-law Daniel Henchman and "the five children of Sarah Henchman, deceased," were named in the will of Sarah's father, Hezekiah Woodward of Uxbridge, Middlesex, dated 22 February 1674 and proved 10 July 1675.[7]

In February 1676, the sons of Daniel and Sarah Henchman, Hezekiah, "aged 19 and upward", and Nathaniel, "aged 15 and upward", appeared in court and chose their father, Daniel, to be their guardian with respect to their inheritance from their grandfather, Hezekiah Woodward. The court approved the request and also appointed Daniel as guardian of Susanna Henchman, aged 9 years.[8]

Ancestry

Sarah is a descendant of Alphonso IX, King of Leon, Berengaria of Castile, daughter of Aphonso VIII, King of Castile and Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.[3] She also descends from the following Magna Carta barons:

• Hugh le Bigod[1]
• Henry de Bohun - trail (see below) still needs development
• William Malet - trail (see below) still needs development

Famous Descendants

Sarah is an ancestor of the Beach Boys Wilson brothers[9] and of Sir Winston Churchill.[3]

References

1. Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., (2004). Section: Immigrant Descendants of High Medieval Kings. Page 385. < Ancestry.com >; (document attached.) "Descent from Alfonso IX, king of Leon and Galicia & Berenguela I la Grande, reina de Castilla." Hannah Hall, daughter of Sarah Henchman & Capt. Daniel Henchman, married Lieut. William Sumner, III, and was the ancestor (via American heiress, his mother) of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
2. WikiTree contributors, "Sarah (Woodward) Henchman (bef.1627-bef.1672)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woodward-1931 : accessed 19 December 2024). Cites
3. Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pages 365-368, WOODWARD 16.ii.
4. Ancestry.com. "England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975." Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT: Sara Woodward, bap. 5 Sep 1627 at Saint Mary The Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, England, father Ezekiel Woodward, FHL Film #0845245, 0845246.
5. Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004; [database on-line] Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006: #467 p.385-6: Sarah Woodward through Theobald de Verdun, 2nd.
6. Torrey, Clarence. "New England Marriages Prior to 1700." database. Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012, Provo, UT, USA: "HENCHMAN, Daniel ( -1685, Worcester) & 1/wf Sarah [WOODWARD]; b 1662?, b.1667, ca 1654?; Boston/Worcester."; "...& 2/wf Mary POLE/POOLE; 26 Apr 1672; Dorchester.
7. Clarence A Torry. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Accessed online at Ancestry.com: "Collins, Samuel (1668- ) & Susan/Susanna Henchman (1667-1748, ae 80), dau. Daniel, m/2 John Harris 1702/3; b. 1693; Boston."
8. Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Register of Deeds, Records of deeds, 1639-1885, Vol. 20, p. 70; filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969, image (251 of 909) on Familysearch
9. ↑Genealogical Gleanings in England published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, NEHGS, 2001-2018). Vol. 49, p.373-374: Hezekiah's will with ed. note, citing Vol. 2 - Arch. of Middlesex (1672-1677).
10. Massachusetts. County Court (Suffolk County). "Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680". Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1933. Online at HathiTrust, p. 776-777.
11. Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#71 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Immediate New England and Royal Ancestry of the Beach Boys - Michael Thomas Meggisonat." at AmericanAncestors.org.
12. Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
13. Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.