Sarah Prince Gill
BIRTH
July 16, 1728
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
August 5, 1771
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
FATHER:
Thomas Prince
(1687-1758)
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Gill, Sarah Prince
(1728-1771)
Sarah Prince Gill (1728-1771) was a writer and the spouse of Moses Gill. Moses Gill was a merchant and public official whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Sarah Prince Gill to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. Although this life ended before the fighting for independence began, the marriage and family connections formed part of the colonial society inherited by the Revolutionary generation. The recorded birthplace at Boston, Massachusetts helps place this family connection within the geography of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Including Sarah Prince Gill in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Moses Gill
(1733-1800)
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DIED:
Boston, Massachusetts
Aug 5, 1771
The exact date and place of Sarah Prince Gill’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.
The available biographical record identifies Sarah Prince Gill with work or public activity as a writer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.