The Cleveland Genealogy has Sabra Hosmer as
Edward Cleveland's wife but doesn't give her parents.
Edward Cleveland was s/o Samuel Cleveland and
Mary Darby, b. 4 July 1737, Pomfret, CT. Was
Sabra Hosmer the d/o Ephraim Hosmer and Dorcas
Carpenter?
Edward and Sabra named two of their children
Ephraim and Dorcas, not uncommon names, but
certainly not the most common either, and both
names together present some good evidence. The
piece of contrary evidence is that both the Hosmer
genealogy and the History of Woodstock say that
Sabra Hosmer, born 16 October 1732, Woodstock,
died 12 May 1733. That gives two possibilities:
(1) Both books are wrong, especially since I
think the Woodstock History copied from the Hosmer
genealogy, and neither one gives a source for
Sabra's death, or The Sabra Hosmer who married
Edward Cleveland was born later to Ephraim and
Dorcas and was unrecorded. Actually, I think
this might be the right answer; I just can't
prove it.
Does anybody have any sources, evidence, etc.,
which support either theory?