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Subject: Was the famous Green Mountain Boy, Capt. Jesse Sawyer desc. Lancaster?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:29:23 EDT

Capt. Jesse Sawyer, b. Lyme, CT - famous Green Mountain Boy.
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Subject: Mary Prescott dau. of John Prescott & Mary Platts.
Source: Prescott Memorial p.41 & Birth, Marriage & Death Register, Church
Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster by Henry S. Nourse, 1890.

p.41 - Prescott Memorial

The first child of John Prescott and his wife, Mary Platts was Mary Prescott
baptized at Sowerby, Yorkshire, England in the parish of Halifax on Feb 24,
1630. She m. Thomas Sawyer of Lancaster, Mass. in 1648; res. at Lancaster.


[Torrey p.654 - Thomas Sawyer (1616-1706) & Mary Prescott (1630-1716?);
Rowley & Lancaster

His tombstone at the Old Burial Field, Lancaster, Mass.

175. Thomas Sawyer Died September 12, 1706 About
The 90th Year of His Age.

p.45 Mary Prescott and Thomas Sawyer of Lancaster, Mass. had issue:

1. Thomas Sawyer, Jun'r b. July 2, 1649, d. 1736; m. (1) Oct 11, 1670, Sarah
Fairbanks who d. Mar 2, 1672 leaving one child, Mary Prescott. He m. (2)
Hannah Houghton, b. 1649. [Torrey p.654 married Hannah Houghton Nov. 21,
1672.

Lancaster/Marlborough. [Nourse p.10 BMDs has Thomas Sawyer Jun'r b. May 2,
1649. also p.13 has

Mary Sawyer, dau of Thomas & Sarah Sawyer was b. Nov. 30, 1671.]



His tombstone at the Old Burial Field, Lancaster, Mass.

181. Here Lies Buried ye Body of Mr. Thomas Sawyer Who Died
September 5th, 1736 in ye 89th Year of His Age.

2. Ephraim Sawyer b. Jan 16, 1651; d. February 10th 1676, killed by the
Indians at Prescott's garrison, Lancaster, when Lancaster was destroyed by the
Indians. [Nourse, BMDs, p. 10 has Ephraim b. Nov 16, 1650.]

3. Mary Sawyer b. Jan 4, 1653. [Nourse, BMDs p.10. has Mary, b. Nov. 4,
1652.]

4. Joshua Sawyer b. March 13, 1655; m. Jan 2, 1677/8 Sarah (Wright) Potter,
widow of Samuel Potter. He d. 1738. Concord/Lancaster. [Nourse, BMDs p.10
has b. Jan 13, 1655.]

James Sawyer - to Pomfret, CT.

5. James Sawyer b. Mar 22, 1657, died 1753 m. (1) Mary Marble on Feb 4, 1677
at Concord. Concord/Pomfret, CT/Lancaster.[Nourse, BMDs p. 10 has b. Jan 22,
1657.]

6. Caleb Sawyer b. April 2, 1659; m. Dec 28, 1687, Sarah Houghton b. 1662.
Lancaster. [Nourse, BMDs p. 10 has b. Feb 20, 1659.]

John Sawyer to Lyme, CT
7. John Sawyer b. April 6, 1661; 1705 m. Mary Brell/Bull/Ball. She m. (2)
William Sterling. Lancaster/Lyme, CT. [Nourse, BMDs p. 11 has John b.
Feb 6, 1661.]

8. Elizabeth Sawyer b. Jan 6, 1664. [Nourse, BMDs p.10 has birthdate as
Nov. 5, 1663.]

9. Deborah Sawyer b. 1666; d. July 16, 1666.[Nourse, BMDs p.12 has Deborah
died May 17, 1666.]

10. Nathaniel Sawyer b. Nov 24, 1670; died 1756; m. (1) Mary Houghton before
1693. Lancaster. She died 1709. [Nourse, BMDs p. 13 has Nathaniel b. Sept
24, 1670.]

11. Martha Sawyer b. Aug 10, 1673. [Nourse, BMDs p. 14 has Martha Sawyer
b. June 10, 1673.

Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth


A few words about sources. Vanderpool 1899 “History of the White Family” is
used throughout. It is the oldest reference found dedicated to the White’s
and by marriage, the Sawyer family. It is a secondary source not always
correct in all detail. It has been quoted by the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society in a very comprehensive history of the White family by Leudemann
with the following notation, Vanderpool contains: “data apparently gleaned
from family records and oral history without attribution.” (NYGBR Jan 1992,
p.1). Vanderpool also notes p. 69, “Of the branch of the Sawyer family to
which Jesse Sawyer belonged, it seems impossible to find any records” If in 1899,
Vanderpool could not find vital records after about 140 years, it is more
difficult now after we used Amory Carter as source.
Cannot trace John Sawyer
Capt. Jesse Sawyer’s line descended from the 6th son of Thomas Sawyer 1616
about whom Carter said only: “John Sawyer, sixth son of Thomas Sawyer, we
cannot trace. He must have died before his father, as he is entirely ignored in
the will.” (Carter 1883, p. 26). Vital records from CT fail to list Jesse Sr.
1721 or Capt. Jesse Jr. 1750.
_http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fjt32/JESS/hist.htm_
(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fjt32/JESS/hist.htm)

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