Butler gives Sarah Blood’s birthdate as “17d. 2m. 1675”256 and Harris concurs with “Apl 17, 1675.”305 Shattuck gives it as “April 2, 1675.”246 I cannot reconcile these conflicting dates.

Harris reports that this is “prob the Sarah Blood who d. Roxbury July 28, 1690, quite likely a servant to a Roxbury family. (It has been stated that this Sarah married first John Gilson of Groton and secondly Richard Warner of Groton -- that Sarah was Richard’s first wife, not second as stated, the two daughters credited to a former wife were in reality Sarah’s daughters by John Gilson -- This Sarah died in Pepperell Sept 3, 1759 age 85 and would seem to fit and the statement in these books was apparently arrived at in this manner. It is a very logical marriage, but in the controversy relating to the heirs of Capt James Parker in 1729 when the names of all 32 heirs are listed hers is not among them as it should be if she were alive.)”305