Sarah's mistress, Mrs. Ann Davis, beat her to death according to witnesses.
Ruth Sparacio and Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Middlesex County, Virginia 1694-1697 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1995), 65-68, quoting Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book 3:105-110.
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(1) Thomas Ross Gambrell, An Ancestral History: 8 B.C. to 1986 (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., 2001), 307.