Back to Baltimore--Who were Sarah Burrough's parents?

  There is a running joke in the Ward line about their predilection for marrying first cousins.  As you will see, we have the Sicklemores to thank:

   In November, 1705, Samuel Sicklemore's daughter, Elizabeth, married a man named John Brown. After having three sons, John died at an early age sometime in 1715.  By March 1716 Elizabeth had remarried...
   John Brown's father, Thomas, died a number of years earlier.  Margaret Brown, John's mother, then remarried to a man named Andrew Drew.  The latter died about 1720, predeceasing Margaret by about a year.  Fortunately she made her own will at that time.  A key line mentions her grandson, Thomas "son of John Brown" and then she goes on to mention Elizabeth "my daughter-in-law, wife of Richard Burrough."
   Although you will see it posted on the web that Richard Burrough married Elizabeth Brown (and that's true), this will shows us that Elizabeth Brown was initially Elizabeth Sicklemore.
   If you go back to the previous posting and look again at the document involving Joseph Ward and Robert Cutchen, you'll see the two witnesses are Richard Burrough and Archibald Buchanan.  The latter was the executor of Margaret Brown Drew's estate.
   It's a very tight cluster going on here.  Given that, and the fact that Richard Burrough appears on several documents involving Sicklemores and/or Wards, it would seem pretty clear that he's the main 'suspect' for being Sarah Burrough's father--even though, Sarah is not mentioned in his will several decades later.  For one thing, there is no evidence found of any other Burroughs in Baltimore Co at that time.  And then there's the name, Sarah, itself--remember, Richard Burrough's mother-in-law was Sarah Sicklemore.
   Certainly there's always the remote possibility that Richard brought in a unknown niece from St Mary's  Co Md (his place of origin) and introduced her to John Ward Sr.  But, given all the family associations going on in Baltimore, the time frame, and the name "Sarah," we think it quite reasonable to conclude that Sarah Burrough was the daughter of Richard Burrough and Elizabeth Sicklemore Brown Burrough.
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From there, everything seems pretty straightforward--that is, until you start to consider the implications, not to mention attempt to put all this in your family tree. 

   So we've got:

   John Ward Sr marries Sarah Burrough--her mother is Elizabeth Sicklemore.

   Elizabeth Sicklemore is the older sister of Sutton Sicklemore.

   Sutton Sicklemore's daughter, Hannah, marries John Ward Jr.

   Uh oh...

   Yep,  John Ward Jr has just married his grandmother's niece.

   And so when people are asking you why the Wards so frequently married first cousins, just look them in the eye and blame it all on the Sicklemores!

(Another thing worth noting:  one son of John Brown and Elizabeth Sicklemore Brown was named Augustus Brown.   In April, 1729 he married Ann Cutchen--sister of Elizabeth Cutchen who was the wife of Richard Perkins mentioned in the previous post.  The folks really liked to keep it "all in the family.")