An American Family History

Sarah Estey Gill Ireland was born on June 30, 1660 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts. Her parents were Isaac Estey and Mary Towne.

She married Moses Gill of Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Moses was born on December 26, 1656 in Salisbury and his parents were John Gill and Phebe Buswell.

On her marriage she received “her full propotion out of my estate upon her marriage in Cattle bedding or otherwise.”

Sarah and Moses' children were Benjamin Gill (1688/89), Moses Gill (1685) and Sarah Gill Glover (1691, married Edward Glover).

Sarah became a widow when Moses died March 1, 1690 in Ipswich.

Their daughter, Sarah Gill, was baptized on May 3, 1691 and son Benjamin Gill was baptized on September 27, 1691.

In 1692, her mother, Mary Towne Estey, became a victim of the Salem hysteria and was executed for witchcraft.

Before her father's will was written, Sarah’s married a man named Ireland.

In 1712 when her father died she did not inherit, since she had already received her share, but her daughter Sarah received ten pounds.

Sarah died June 29, 1749 in Topsfield, Massachusetts.

Abigail, daughter of Vigilance (15) and Rebecca (Partridge) Fisher, was b. at Dedham Aug. 26, 1692; m. there, Sept. 24, 1728, Benjamin, son of Moses (b. Oct. 26, 1656,) and Sarah (Estey) Gill, who was b. at Salisbury, Mass./1689, and d. ( ). She was dismissed to the church in Stoughton, Dec. 22, 1728.

Benjamin Gill and his brother, Moses, b. 1685, moved from Salisbury to Canton in 1704, and in 1705 leased one hundred and seventy-two acres of land of the Indians. In 1716 they divided the laud between them, Moses taking the land on the east side of the Taunton road, and Benjamin on the west. Benjamin Gill had m. for his first wife, Abigail (who died at Stoughton, Aug. 14, 1726), the daughter of Peter Fales, of Walpole, and by her had one child, Sarah, who m. Samuel Chandler, of Stoughton.

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