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Read the story: Captured on the Ohio: The Malott Family’s Ordeal of 1780
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Sarah Ann Tracy
1735–c. 1796
Born 18 May 1735 in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Wife of Peter Malott. Captured by Indians on the Ohio River about 1780. Died about 1796 in Canada.
Life events
| Born | 18 May 1735 | Prince George’s County, Marylandfrom Mark Malott’s Ancestry family tree (2026); other sources give about 1733 |
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| Married | about 1750 | to Peter Malott |
| Event | about 1780 | Captured with several of her children on the Ohio River near Fish Creek and taken to Detroit |
| Died | about 1796 | Canada |
Dates and places from William P. Marlatt, Families of Peter Malott and Joseph Malott (2002), which compares what each source says.
Research note: her name and death
Her maiden name, Tracy, and her birth date come from Mark Malott’s Ancestry family tree, which cites no record for them. The same tree gives her death as 4 April 1812, in Essex County, Ontario, or Washington County, Maryland; Bill Marlatt’s study records her as settling in Canada and dying early, about 1796.