Perman, Sarah^[1]

- 1652

• Name	Perman, Sarah
  Gender	Female
  Name	Sarah Sibley
  _UID	7FD2569155A44F7D9CB9C9E27C253B845D3A
  Death	29 May 1652	Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts   [2]
  	Cause: died in childbirth
  Person ID	I11301	Tree_1
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family	Dwight, Timothy,   b. 1630, Woolverstone, Suffolk, England d. 31 Jan 1717/8, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1651	Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F3691	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 11 Nov 1651 - Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Death - Cause: died in childbirth - 29 May 1652 - Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  A seemingly infinite number of explanations can be offered for the identity of son Timothy's first wife. In his will, John calls her Sarah Sibley. ln the Dedham marriage record she is called Sarah Pennan. This latter surname might be a scribal scribble for Penniman, in which case there is a Sarah Penniman, baptized at Chipping Ongar, Essex, to George and Mary Penniman, making her a niece to the immigrant James Penniman of Boston and Braintree [TAG 74: 12-18]. This would not comfortably explain why she is called Sibley by John Dwight. Another possibility is that John and Sarah Sibley of Charlestown had a daughter, Sarah, before coming to New England, and that she married first a Pennan. and second Timothy. No convenient death record for a Pennan/Penniman fits this scenario, however. Yet another possibility is that John Sibley's wife may have been married before to a Pennan, had a daughter Sarah Pennan, who then proceeded to marry Timothy. John Dwight might have thought of her as a Sibley and called her such in his will.

  
  

• Sources

  [S346] Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 11 January 2021; Volume II, C-F, pgs. 376 - profile for Timothy Dwight. [S346] Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 11 January 2021; Volume II, C-F, pgs. 377 - profile for John Dwight. [S2498] New England Marriages to 1700 (Torrey), Vol. 1, pg. 486; marriage of Timothy Dwight; 13 January 2021.