Sarah Armitage McKean
(1747-1820)
BIRTH
1747
PLACE
NAME
Sarah Armitage
DEATH
1820
PLACE
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Thomas McKean
(1734-1817)
CHILDREN
Sally McKean
(1777-1841)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sarah Armitage McKean (1747–1820) married Thomas McKean in 1774, after the death of his first wife, Mary Borden. Their Philadelphia household included children from both marriages. Her daughter Sarah, known as Sally, married the Spanish diplomat Carlos Martínez de Irujo. Sarah’s own image survives in portraits, including an 1819 painting attributed to Thomas Sully. McKean later governed Pennsylvania, placing her family at the center of its public life.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Sarah Armitage McKean’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Sarah Armitage McKean is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Armitage McKean died in 1820, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sarah Armitage McKean married Thomas McKean in 1774, after the death of his first wife, Mary Borden. Their Philadelphia household included children from both marriages. Her daughter Sarah, known as Sally, married the Spanish diplomat Carlos Martínez de Irujo. Sarah’s own image survives in portraits, including an 1819 painting attributed to Thomas Sully. McKean later governed Pennsylvania, placing her family at the center of its public life. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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