On 12 Apr 1716 Sarah married Samuel Bemis (18551) , son of John Bemis (6689) (Aug 1659-24 Oct 1732) & Mary Harrington (7289) (12 Jan 1663/4-8 Sep 1716), in Watertown, MA.30 Born ca 1691 in Watertown, MA.30 Samuel died in Spencer, MA in Aug 1776.563 Buried in Spencer, MA.563 Epitaph: “In memory of Mr. Samuel Bemis, one of the first settlers of the town, who died August 1776, in his 84th year. “Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey, Or men as fierce and wild as they, Our kind forefathers did repair, And built us towns and cities there”.

Samuel and Sarah settled first in Sudbury, then moved to the western part of Leicester in 1721, the part of Leicester that became Spencer in 1753. The Bemis’s were the first permanent settlers of that area. See Draper’s History of Spencer, pp. 105-109, for more information about the family.30

From Draper’s History of Spencer:563
    “Samuel was the second settler in Spencer. He purchased 400 acres of the easterly part of lots 29 and 36. He commenced felling the ancient forest, which coverted his farm, before he removed his family here. At that time the Indians had not all retired from this part of the country, and some of them frequently came into his cabin and tarried with him through the night, but their prescence was very offensive to him. In 1722, when his wife was about to give birth to her third son (William), fearing the Indians, she made a journey to Sudbury, for safety during that critical period, and when her little son was only two weeks old, she rode home on horseback, a distance of nearly fifty miles in one day, and carried her infant in her arms, although the greatest part of the distance the road, such as it was, passed through an entire wilderness! He acquired a handsome estate, and built the first frame house in town, a building of two stories, which stood on the site of the present house of Mr. Robinson [1861], and was taken down a few years since.”