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Sarah Austin Barry
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Sarah Austin Barry, (1754-1831) was the second wife of Commodore John Barry. She was the daughter of Samuel Austin and Sarah Keen of New Jersey. She married Barry on July 7, 1777, and survived him after his September 13, 1803 death. They had no children. She helped raise [http://en. .org/wiki/Patrick_Hayes_(mariner) Patrick]and Michael Hayes, children of John Barry's sister, Eleanor, and her husband, Thomas Hayes, who both died in the 1780s. She converted to Catholicism and was baptized on July 21, 1879 at St. Joseph's Church. Her sponsor was her sister-in-law, Anna Barry, wife of Thomas Barry. Along with the ladies of Gloria Dei Church, she made and presented[http://books.google.com/books?id1W0UAAAAYAAJ&pgPA273&dq=sarah+austin+barry&lr=] the flag that allegedly flew on the Bon Homme Richard to John Paul Jones. She died on November 13, 1831, aged seventy-seven. See Also
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