Moho, Sarah, 1714 - 1781

Sarah Moho was a Ponkapaug woman, the daughter of Samuel Moho and Dinah Wampatuck.  She married Nuff Wills and had three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, and Hannah, and a son Daniel, all of whom lived in Canton, Massachusetts.  After the death of Wills, Sally married Berry Miller and had a daughter, Sarah.  In the last year of her life, 1781, she, along with another Ponkapaug woman, Jerusha Hawking, petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature for relief from the burden of post-war taxes.  Sarah Moho Wills Berry died in Smithfield, Rhode Island at age 67 and was buried at the burial ground on Indian Lane in Canton.  Huntoon, History of the Town of Canton, Massachusetts, 32-33, 38.  Welch, And They Were Related, Too, 228. Obituary of Mary Burr, "The Last of the Punkapoag Indians," The Norfolk Democrat, November 26, 1852, p. 2.