The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-07-27
THREE BROTHERS
FROM ENGLAND
Interesting History of
Sawyer Family
Prominent Pioneers Rerk0ncd On
Family Tree to Madison Menue
Couple

over from fUsldUilf HuA many u
tzen of today rcckons back to those
determined ancestors who usually
seemed To come over to the new coun-
try 10 make their fortune in thrces. In
common with many others OF us, Ben
iamin 4. Sawyer, who VII Mrs. saw
yer recently passed their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary. has for his ances-
tors three brothers. who came over
the seas from old England. Their
careers and the careers Of Their des-
cendant5 form an interesting story
ana from Mr.. Sawyer we have gained
the following interesting narrative.
We lem from Massachusetts his
tory that. in the year of 1913 three
bpothers. Edward, William and Tho
mas came from Lincolnshire England
IN ship commanded by Captain Par
ker. Thomas and Edward bought
lands in Rowlcy iii 1919 the boundar-
les OF which were on the ocean. La
ter in 1913 we find Thomas at Lancas-
ter. Mass. He became one of the
chief figures in the place. In 1647
he married = daughter of John Pres
colt. and had sons, Thomas Jr., born
July 2. lG49; William Elias Ephraim
lhiiiEh ~ VIC IlAihiIo III 1 ~ "''A =
1870 Our branch comes from Will
liam. W Ham had children Ben
ianln, DR.. Israel. Joseph, William,
Jr., Joseph, Ir ah, and Aholiah. All
oliah went to Tampleton, Mass. to
live and was the father of Sylvanus,
who was born i'm Templeton and lived
there until june 1774 when he with
his family of six sons and two dauGh-
tiers came to Maine and settled on the
Eennebec Just below odd Point.
John one of the sons drowned the
very day of the Declaration OF the
INDEPENDENCE, July 4. 1915. John
with Is father and Captain tldt-
cher were goirg in their canoe to
Sebasticook 60 mill, when they struck
Il rock iii the Great Eddy below Show
hc.an. overturned, and John was
drowned Lake another Of sylvia
nus SONS. was born in Templeton,
Mass June "a, 1860 and came with
his father to Maine. He was one Of
the scouts that acnompan ed Arnold's
army as a pilot uD the kennebcc as
far "a flagstaff which was as far as
he knew tho country. August "a,
1874 he married Rachel Grccnlcaf,
ard they settled al Starks on the lie
mon stream whore he built the first
mills and the liist frame house. The
place was known as Sawycr's Mills
for many years. The Sawyers were
noted for building mills in Masslchu-
sctts and IN fact all over the country.
Luke had four sons and four daugh-
tors These as far as we can
learn were JOHN. born about 1856
Martha, Pattee, Asenath and Imri,
born August Is. 1893 John married
Polly McKcchnie Of Scotch descent,
and their Oh ldren were Mary born
November 49, 1906; Levi G.. born Oct
ober 6. 1908; Amanda r., born Sept
ember "a. 1910; Slladen born October
O. 1872 tdied in 1850; FINELY j., born
August %. 1914; John p. born March
d. 49, olive J.. lorn May ~, 1920;
William A. Born 1872; Thomas born
1925 Johns wife died and he mar
ricd for his second wife, Lois Lowell.
They had children. Nancy born Octo-
Der n 1s32; Charles Franklin. born
January Il. 1872: Idewellyn Augustus
born APR Il, 1874; Levi G.. Sawyer
marriel Deborah Fell;er and they had
chiiroE: London NJ, born June 10,
1898. lie died iii Sacramento city,
Cal 18G3
James + born December 9Th 1840,
married Add'c Skinner, and died June
30th, 1891 Deborah T. horn in 1Si2,
married Hiram NJ. Waugh and they
bad children Clifford who diet When
but years and ~ months old and
NJ nnie Florence who marric1 Hon.
IL. l.. nanforih OF Skowhcg n; Mrs
4, fret
wife died January -. 1913 and he
married FOR his second wife El1ira E.
Greerleaf and they had children Alice
T. horn July IS. 1Si7 she married
James Narnum Creator and died in
November Is, 1873. Beniamin A..
born June II. 1850. married M3ora
+. Wood. june 18th. 1Si2 Esther
r.. born August 80, 1S5S, she MARI ed
Robert Damn Irask Of &e% Sharon,
and died January Is. 1877, of all Levi
Sawyer's descendants thrrc arc but
Benjamin A. Sawyer and Mrs Flor
cree Waugh Daniorth lctt.
The history OF the Wood family as
we learn il mostly from Herbert L.
Merry of Thornd;ke. Maine who has
spent much tire in searching old re-
cords is as follows: The first John
Wood had son William who was
horn in England in 1882 came to
America and died Hay A, 1871. Will
liam had son Michael who died in
1742. Michael had son John Wood
who November Is, 1876. married Eli
zabeth Niuton daughter Of John and
Ann Y rton and died January ,,
1929. his son John Wood born Sept
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