A daughter of Josiah and Lucy Lakin. Sarah married Jonathan Green, a son of Eleazer and Sarah (Prescott) Green on February 25, 1724 at Groton, Massachusetts.

Tombstone:
Memento mori
(Cherub's Head)

Here lies Buries the Body of Sarah Green, (Relict of Jonathan Green) who departed this Life Dec. 8th l782 Aged 77 years 6 months & 27 days.

"Bless'd are the dead, yea saith the Lord,
That die in Christ the living Lord,
And on the other side of death
Thus joyful spend their praising breath."

Note: This gravestone is listed in "Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Massachusetts" by Samuel A. Green M.D.

HER DESCENDANCY

Sarah is a descendant of the immigrant John Lakin who came to Colonial America prior to 1653:(Sarah, Josiah, John).

IMMIGRANT JOHN LAKIN

According to "John Lakin's Deed, 1653," printed in NEHGS "Register," Vol 45, pg. 79, John Lakin was a native of England who came to this country with his elder brother William, his mother and his grandfather, William Lakin, Sr. The family first settled at Reading where the name was often spelled "Laukin" and a few years later, all of them were living at Groton.

John Lakin was one of the first settlers at Groton, MA. He was one of the original petitioners to set off the land which eventually known as Groton, along with elder brother William - and with Richard, John and Robert Blood (see all 4 elsewhere in this genealogy.) He and his brother each owned a 20 acre right as original proprietors. John's property was at Nod, a district lying northerly of the soapstone quarry. He was later an ensign there in the militia. Savage speculates that he may have fled Groton during the Indian Wars (Groton attacked and burned by the Indians March, 1676), but returned and died there in 1697.

John had conveyed various lands by deed to his children in 1697 (deed Vol. 18, p. 579) to son Joseph, his "eldest" son, and about the same time to his sons Josiah and Benjamin, and daughters Lydia Lakin, then single, and Abigail, wife of Samuel Parker. After his death the widow also conveyed various lots, one being to her daughter Lydia Shepley, then married, and another daughter Sarah Willard, wife of Benjamin.