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Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

John Sawyer

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Robert Frost — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 90 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Sawyer 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Emery   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Mar 1675/1676 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Mar 1756 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Welles
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1711 
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  • Child:

  Eunice Sawyer (Ahnentafel No:45 )

  • Notes: 

  • John's birth date is 23 FEB 1682/3. There appears to have been a transcription error in some of the Newbury vital records listings that have been created. John is either missing or incorrect. Other transcriptions list John (as a son of Samuel) with the correct birth date.

• Additional marriages for John Sawyer

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Merrill
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1700
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

• Sources for John Sawyer

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Newbury, Image 38 of 2384, Birth record of John Sawyer.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 464, Birth record for John Sawyer.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 715, Death record for John Sawyer.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1874, Vol. 28, pp. 195, 197.
  • ⁵ Appleton, W. S., Some Descendants of William Sawyer of Newbury, Mass., Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1891), 2, 4.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1289.
  • ⁷ Emery, Rev. Rufus, Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Mass. 15901890, Salem, Massachusetts: Emery Cleaves (1890), 4.
  • ⁸ Emery, Rev. Rufus, et. al., Emery: Four Generations of the Descendants of John Emery, Sen., of Newbury, Mass., and Anthony Emery of Kittery, Maine, Salem, Massachusetts: Emery Cleaves (1889), 6.
  • ⁹ Woodman, J. H., A List of the Descendants of Mr. Joshua Woodman, Who Settled at Kingston, N. H., About 1736, Brunswick, Maine: From the press of J. Griffin (1856), 2.