Sawyer Table of Contents

The earliest individual that we have of this line is James Sawyer, born about 1632 in England, posssibly one of the sons of Edward Sawyer.

This WWWeb site contains four Sawyer descendant outlines:

• Descendants of James Sawyer plus four additional generations (approx. 1680-1850).
• Descendants of Rebecca and Nehemiah Sawyer (6th generation).
• Descendants of Daniel and Lois Sawyer (6th generation).
• Descendants of Peter and Sarah Brackett (6th generation).

Also included are quotations about the Sawyers from published documents include:

• From the Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, by James Savage, 1860-1862, Volume IV, page 30-31.
• Sawyer Families of New England 1636-1900 by Eleanor Grace Sawyer, published by Penobscot Press of Camden, ME 1995

There is an index which uses an html table, 56KB in size, to list 235 Sawyers and their spouses.

There is a Sawyer discussion group. One can subscribe by sending an email to SAWYER-L-request@rootsweb.com or SAWYER-D-request@rootsweb.com, with the "L" being mail mode and "D" being the digest mode. Body text should contain only the word: subscribe and subject line is ignored.

Links are provided to family narratives as follows:

• James Sawyer (originally surname Sawer) b: Abt 1632 d: Abt 1703
• Lois White Sawyer b: 6 Jun 1821 d: 12 Nov 1903

Please contact Bob Anderson for additions or corrections, or if you wish your name/email address to be added or deleted from this list. Others interested in researching the Sawyer surname include Maureen Hussey, Connie Culp and Nancy (Sawyer) Donovan.

©Copyright G. Robert. Anderson, 1996

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