Sarah DAWES

1635 - 1725  (90 years)

• Name	Sarah DAWES
  Birth	c. 1635  [1]
  	Her birthdate has been established from testimony which she gave in 1656 at a trial at which she and Daniel Mackdonnell, one of the Scots prisoners who arrived in Boston Harbor aboard the John & Sarah in May 1652, were convicted of fornication.
  Gender	Female
  Death	23 Dec 1725  [2]
  Person ID	I2633	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family 1	John CRAGGEN,   b. c.1626, Scotland d. 27 Oct 1708
  Marriage	4 Nov 1661	Woburn, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [3]
  Children	1. Abigail CRAGGEN,   b. 4 Aug 1662, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA d. 17 Jun 1707, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA (Age 44 years)   2. Sarah CRAGGEN,   b. 10 Aug 1664, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA   3. Elizabeth CRAGGEN,   b. 3 Aug 1666, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA   4. Mercy CRAGGEN,   b. 25 Mar 1669, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA   5. Anna CRAGGEN,   b. 6 Aug 1673, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA   6. John CRAGGEN,   b. 19 Sep 1677, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA d. 26 Jan 1703/1704, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA (Age 26 years)   7. Rachel CRAGGEN,   b. 14 Mar 1680/1681, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA d. 18 Mar 1680/1681, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA (Age 0 years)   8. Leah CRAGGEN,   b. 14 Mar 1680/1681, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA d. 18 Mar 1680/1681, Woburn, Middlesex Co, MA (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F184	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Daniel MACKDONNELL
  Notes	During a court trial in Middlesex County in 1656 Sarah confessed to being "quicke with child." Daniel pleaded guilty to the charge of fornication, but stated that he had left a wife and two children in Scotland seven and a half years before. Both Sarah and Daniel were servants of John Wyman of Woburn at the time of the incident.
  Children	1. Benoni MACREST,   b. Abt 1656   2. Mary MICRIST,   b. Abt 1659
  Family ID	F5727	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S4869] conviction / Dawes & Mackdonnell, Middlesex Co, MA. [S127] Samuel Sewall, M.A., Sewall, The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass., two volumes, ((1868, Rpt. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc. 1990)), ISBN 1-55613-324-3. p. 607. [S214] Edward F. Johnson, compiler, Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, From 1640 to 1873, Part III -- Marriages, ((Boston: Winship, Daniels & Co., 1891)). p. 74.