Person:James Sawyer (16)
Cornet James Sawyer
b.22 Mar 1657 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
d.27 Jan 1753 Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1648
  1. Thomas Sawyer, Jr.1649 - 1736
  2. Ephraim Sawyer1650/51 - 1676
  3. Mary Sawyer1652/53 - Abt 1740
  4. Joshua Sawyer1655 -
  5. Cornet James Sawyer1657 - 1753
  6. Caleb Sawyer1659 - 1755
  7. John Sawyer1661 -
  8. Elizabeth Sawyer1663/64 - 1745/46
  9. Deborah SawyerBef 1666 - 1666
  10. Nathaniel Sawyer1670 -
  11. Martha Sawyer1673 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Cornet James Sawyer1657 - 1753
  • W.  Mary MarbleEst 1658 - 1708/09
m. 4 Feb 1677
  1. Ephraim Sawyer1678 - Aft 1735
  2. James Sawyer1686 -
  3. Mary Sawyer1696 -
  4. Benjamin Sawyer1697/98 - 1761
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Cornet James Sawyer1657 - 1753
  • W.  Mary _____ - 1763
m. Aft 20 Mar 1709
  1. Cornelius Sawyer1712 -
  2. Mary Sawyer1714 -
  3. Jonas Sawyer1716 - 1791
  4. Martha Sawyer1719 -
  5. Joseph _____1721 -
  6. Sarah Sawyer1724 -
  7. Thomas Sawyer1726 -
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Facts and Events
Name[4][5] Cornet James Sawyer
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3] 22 Mar 1657 Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 4 Feb 1677 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Marble
Marriage Aft 20 Mar 1709 Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, USAto Mary _____
Death[3] 27 Jan 1753 Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States
Burial[3] Bruce Cemetery, Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
    19.

    James the sonn of Thomas Sawyer and marie his wife : was borne the 22=1 mon 1657. [22 Mar 1657]

  2. ↑ Cutter, William Richard (ed.). Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (New York, New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1908)
    1377.

    James Sawyer, s/o Thomas, b. Lancaster 22 Mar 1657, moved to Pomfret, CT, Cornet of military company 1710, selectman 1714, m. (1) 4 Feb 1678 Mary Marble, m. (2) Mary Presccott of Pomfret. Listed as resident of Pomfret as late as 1731.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 James "Cornett" Sawyer, in Find A Grave.
  4. ↑ Carter, Amory. Sawyers in America, or, A history of the immigrant Sawyers who settled in New England: showing their connection with colonial history ... also, wonderful increase of the descendants of Thomas Sawyer, one of the nine first settlers who organized the town of Lancaster and gave it its name. (Worcester Mass.: E.R. Fiske, 1883).

    p. 25: "James, the fourth son [of Thomas Sawyer of Lancaster?], went to Pomfret, Conn., and married Mary Marble. I cannot trace him any further."
    p. 75: "Thomas, one of the first settlers of Lancaster, and Mary, his wife, had nine children: ... James, born March, 1657 ... Worcester Magazine, page 298. See Willard's History of Lancaster."
    [Note: the reference to Worcester Magazine appears to mean Vol. 2, p. 281, part of "History of Lancaster" by Joseph Willard, since that gives the birthdates cited. Nothing in the neighborhood of p. 298 seems to mention James.]

  5. ↑ Claude W Barlow. "The Children of Thomas Sawyer of Lancaster", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    30:76-77, 1954.

    Children of Thomas Sawyer and Mary Prescott: 5) James, b. 22 Mar 1657, d. Pomfret, Conn., 27 Jan 1753, m. (1) Concord 4 Feb 1677/8 Mary Marble, m. (2) Mary "(said to have been Mary Prescott)".
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