# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sarah-smith-lay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:03:39.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sarah-smith-lay"
name: "Sarah Smith Lay"
slug: "sarah-smith-lay"
description: "Sarah Smith Lay, wife of abolitionist Benjamin Lay, and Quaker, was born in 1677 in Rochester, Kent County, England. She was known as a well respected woman in Quaker Friends groups. According to her husband, who himself had physical disabilities which limited his height, Sarah too was similar in stature. The couple were, generally, noted to be a fine fit with one another."
tagline: "American Quaker abolitionist (18th-century)"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1677"
deathDate: "1735"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.28
  momentum:             0.303030303030303
  historical:           1.541901333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  19
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Smith_Lay"
    title: "Sarah Smith Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124576949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations