Turner, Sally , 1797 - 1889

Sally Turner came from Plymouth, Massachusetts.  She married James Burr, a member of the Ponkapog Indians, and had a son, James. After her husband's death, she and her son, an invalid, lived in Boston.  From 1861 to 1870, Sally petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for financial assistance for her and her son, James through the Ponkapog's guardians.  On October 13, 1889, she died at 92, of old age. Deaths, Cambridge VR (1889), 25.  Ancestry.  Letter from Endicott to John Milton Earle, December 31, 1860.  Earle Papers, American Antiquarian Institution. Massachusetts State Enumeration (Boston, 1855), Ancestry.  Federal Enumeration (Cambridge, MA, 1880), Ancestry.