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- [[Category: Maiden's Choice Land Grant]]
== Biography ==
Sarah Cole
=== Disambiguation - Father & Son Both Married a Sarah Cole ===
Apparently both father, Charles Sr. and his son, Charles Jr. married women both named Sarah Cole (no relation).<ref name="Haschemeyer">Haschemeyer, Sue N., [http://www.dunnuck.com/Bio-Gorsuch.html GORSUCH] Dunn*ck Family Genealogy accessed November 26, 2014</ref>
=== Birth and Parentage ===No birth record for Sarah Cole has been found. Two documents give an indication of her age. She was married before 1679. The usual age of marriage in Maryland at this time was about 16 years so she must have been born before 1663. The record of her father's will recorded in the Testamentary Proceedings in 1676 indicated she was under legal age and actually calls her an infant. This places her birth between 1660 and 1663.<ref>Testamentary Proceedings Liber 8 folio 422</ref> She is assumed to be the daughter of the woman named Priscilla listed as the wife of Thomas Cole when he emigrated to Maryland.
=== 1679 Marriage ===Sarah was married before 8 Dec 1679 to [[Gorsuch-21|Charles Gorsuch, Sr]] probably at Bettys Cove Meeting. Sarah & Charles Gorsuch were living in Talbot County when they signed deeds to transfer 1200 acres inherited from her father, Thomas Cole. Sarah and Charles both signed & sealed the deed.<ref> Baltimore County Deeds Liber IR PP folio 46</ref>.
===1679 Maiden Choice===
In a Deed, December 8, 1679, Charles Gorsuch of Talbot County and his wife Sarah convey to his brother in law David Jones the three Baltimore County tracts, Cole’s Harbour, 550 acres, upon which Baltimore Town was later laid out; Maiden’s Choice, 450 acres, at the head of the Middle Branch of the Patapsco, and Marybourne, on Jones Falls in what is now North Baltimore, 200 acres, the deed reading, his wife Sarah “being heiress to said land, as ye last will and testament of Thomas Cole will make appear. “And again, in a confirmatiory deed to these same tracs executed by Sarah, with Charles Gorscuh, alone, August 1, 1682, she is described as “the only and sole heir of Thomas Cole, late of Patapsco River, Baltimore County, deceased. The Annapolis patent records show that Thomas Cole in 1649 transported himself and wife Priscilla into the Province and settled in Anne Arundel County on the Severn, but later patented Maiden’s Choice and Cole’s Harbour in Baltimore County.” <ref name="jhp"> J. H. P, Baltimore, MD. The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families. Pages 207-222 and 325-332. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Published Quarterly by the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia. Volume XXVI for the year ending December 31, 1918. Richmond, Virginia: House of the Society. https://books.google.com/books?id=Tgc1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA326&lpg=PA326&dq=land+OR+grant+OR+patent+OR+tract+%22Maiden%27s+Choice%22&source=bl&ots=dg_R9c78SM&sig=UFBwAVXNSgZWD28DsdbBGLgQYgw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZtvLo2aHRAhXE7iYKHXF5CisQ6AEIODAH#v=onepage&q=land%20OR%20grant%20OR%20patent%20OR%20tract%20%22Maiden's%20Choice%22&f=false.. Accessed January 1, 2017 </ref>
===1687 Maiden Choice===
John Gorsuch, carpenter, the oldest son of Charles Gorsuch and his wife Sarah Cole, apparently born between 1678 and 1679, jointly with his brother Thomas Gorsuch, planter, received the tract Maiden’s Choice, 450 acres, under the will of David Jones 1687. Jones was the second husband of their aunt Anna Gorsuch. They sold it in 1708-9. <ref name="jhp"/>
===Children===
Children:<ref name="Gorsuch3"> J. H. P., [https://archive.org/stream/jstor-4243688/4243688#page/n1/mode/2up"The Gorsuch and Lovelace Familes, Continued"] (Vol 26, Page 325) ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'' JSTOR.org accessed November 26, 2014</ref>
# [[Gorsuch-28|John Gorsuch]], eldest b 1678-9
# [[Gorsuch-20|Charles Gorsuch, Jr]] b 1678-80
# [[Gorsuch-37|Thomas Gorsuch]]
Note: Researcher, Haschemeyer, reverses the birth order of Charles and Thomas thus:
* John b. 1678-1732, Thomas 1680-1774, Charles 1686-1746/7<ref name="Haschemeyer"/>
=== 1689 Death ===
Sarah died in 1689 at Baltimore County, Maryland.
== Sources ==
<references />
Scisco, L.D. (1935). Land records of Baltimore County, 1679 and 1680, (pp.271- 277). Archives of Maryland: Proceedings of the Court of Chancery of Maryland, 1669 - 1679, Vol. LI, Series 5. Maryland Historical Society, XXX(3). J.Hall Pleasants, Ed. msa.maryland.gov. [http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000119/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_119.pdf PDF]
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