David Sawyer

b 17 Mar 1760, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts
d 25 Jul 1832, Westford, , Vermont
16 09 Feb 1915,
24 12 Mar 1915, Samuel Sawyer, [Lieut.] >
61 26 Mar 1949, William Sawyer Mary Emery >
Henry Sawyer b 1673 George Lilly >
| b 15 Feb 1697 Abigail Lilley Jane
Francis Sawyer   16 01 Apr 1939 b 15 Aug 1672 Francis Nurse
|b 03 Mar 1728 | Francis Nurse Rebecca Town >
|d 01 Dec 1827 Sarah Nurse b 03 Feb 1660 Thomas Tarbell >
|  b 27 Jan 1697 Sarah Tarbell Mary
David Sawyer  d 15 Jan 1755 b 01 Jan 1661 Isaac Richardson >
|Judith Harris David Richardson Deborah Fuller >
|m 26 Apr 1787 Solomon Richardson b 04 Feb 1678  
|Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts |b 1700 Hannah Putnam  
Elizabeth Richardson  d 1761 b 1682 Zachariah Goodale >
 b 20 Aug 1730 | Joseph Goodale Elizabeth Beauchamp >
 d 1772 Elizabeth Goodale b 23 Sep 1672 Edward Hutchinson >
 b 07 Aug 1706 Mary Hutchinson  
  16 27 Aug 1923 b 1670

Children

1 David Sawyer, Jr
2 Asa Sawyer
3 Achsah Sawyer
4 < Thaddeus Colburn Sawyer
5 Hannah Sawyer
6 Judith Sawyer, Jr.
7 Eliza Sawyer
8 John Harris Sawyer
9 < Alfred Sawyer
10 Mary Badgen Sawyer

Notes

Revolutionary Soldier. Crossed the Delaware with Washington that Christmas night. David's record in book of records of Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of Revolutionary War, Vol. XIII, Page 863, Boston, 1905.

Private, Captain Joseph Bradley Varnums (Dracut) Co. of Volunteers, Col. Johnathan Reeds Regt. Enlisted 29 September, 1777. Discharged 7 November 1777, Service 42 days, Company marched to reinforce northern Army, also Capt Varnums Co, Col Simeon Spaulding Rgt. abstract of equipments for train band and alarm list, endorsed 1777. Said Sawyer reported as belonging to train band also returns, etc. of 2nd Dracut Company. Said Sawyer appears among men raised agreeable to resolve of June 1778 to serve for 6 months at Rhode Island. Also enlistment's agreement dated Dracut June 23 1778 by said Sawyer and Timothy Kelly engaging themselves to serve until Jan 1 1779.

Source: Notes by Anna O Sawyer Ridenour, March 1916, p 8. 'The Richardson Memorial...', John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 554.


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