Also known as Mrs. Aaron Lopez. “The daughter of Jacob Rodriguez Rivera and Hannah Pimental Sasportas Rivera, Sarah grew up among the wealthy Sephardic merchant families of Newport, Rhode Island. And it was from within that world that she would marry. Her cousin Aaron Lopez, the “merchant prince” of Newport, became her husband when she was in her teens, his first wife, Abigail, having died a few years earlier.” (Loeb Portrait Database)
