52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. - #40 Sarah Burt

Sarah Burt is my maternal 4th great grandmother and another one of my ancestors about whom I know very little. She was the daughter of John Burt and Susannah Silver and the mother of Sarah (Sallie) Rulon. I accidentally skipped writing about Sarah Burt in my 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks posts even though I wrote about her mother and her daughter.

I don't have birth or death dates for Sarah Burt. She married John Rulon on December 10, 1782, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

New Jersey Marriages, 1684-1895 about Sarah Burt

Name: John Rulon Spouse: Sarah Burt Marriage Date: 10 Dec 1782 County: Cumberland State: NJ

The above is from ancestry.com

Cumberland County, New Jersey, as of 1780
(map from http://www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html)

The children I have listed for them are John, Deborah, Lydia, Mary, Theodosa, Sarah (my 3rd great grandmother), Henry, and Anna. They may have stayed in Cumberland County for several years. There is a John Rulon listed in the New Jersey compiled census records for the years 1802 and 1807 in Cumberland.

Before I wrote this post, I searched online on ancestry.com and familysearch.org but didn't find any new information about Sarah Burt. I wish there were more hours in the day!

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #25 Susannah Silver

Susannah Silver was my maternal fifth great grandmother. I have next to nothing about her in my family tree except that she was married to John Burt and had a daughter named Sarah who married John Rulon (Sarah Burt and John Rulon are the parents of Sarah Rulon whom I wrote about in my post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #19 Sarah Rulon).

I did some searching online to see what else I could find. There's a will abstract for John Burt "of Cumberland County," New Jersey, on ancestry.com that lists daughter Sarah "Rulong" and six sons: Noah, Richard, Daniel, John, Jesper (probably should be Jasper), and Moses. The will is dated March 25, 1798, and was proved on March 31, 1801. It doesn't list Susannah, so she must have died by 1798.*

This is all of the information I've been able to find about Susannah so far.

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.

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* the will abstract is from a digitized version of Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revoluntionary and Post-Revoluntionary History of the State of New Jersey, First Series Vol. XXXIX, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Volume X--1801-1805, edited and indexed by Elmer T. Hutchinson, New Jersey Historical Society, MacCrellish & Quigley Co., Trenton, New Jersey, 1946, 67