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Sarah Forehand (Elias Stallings’s legatee)
Birth: unknownDeath: unknownNamed in will, 27 November 1778Sarah Forehand named in Elias Stallings’s 1778 will. Two separate inferences are Moderate confidence (probable): that she was Elias’s daughter and that she was Daniel’s wife. Her clause states neither daughterhood nor husband. Separate documentary profile preserves those qualifications; it does not assert a second woman.
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FAMILY STORIES
Daniel Forehand’s 1781 will placed his unnamed children in Sarah’s care. His land, household inventory and family connections trace a life between Newland and Perquimans—and a probable link to the Stallings family.