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(For earlier generations see preceding sketch.)
(III) John, one of the
LARRABEE younger children of Thomas Larrabee and wife, who re- sided at Scarborough, married Mary Inger- soll, of Kittery, January 13, 1726, and by this union the following children were born : I. Deborah, born July 24, 1728, married her cousin, Isaac Larrabee, and settled in Machias, Maine, where she survived her husband and reached the exceptional age of one hundred years. She was the first white woman within the town and her descendants are very nu- merous. 2. Solomon, married Elizabeth Win- ters. 3. John. 4. Mary. 5. Stephen. 6. Phebe. 7. Philip. 8. Eunice. 9. John. 10. Jonathan.
(IV) Philip, seventh child of John and Mary (Ingersoll) Larrabee, was born March 3, 1744, married Sally Smith, of Berwick, and settled in Scarborough, where he died August 22, 1821, aged about seventy-seven years.
(V) John (2), son of Philip and Sally
(Smith) Larrabee, was born August 5, 1769. He was a farmer, and later in life became a timber and lumber dealer, being a resident of Wales, Maine, where he resided from 1793 to the time of his death in 1854. He was a staunch old-time Democrat, and in religion a believer in the Universalist faith. He mar- ried Susan Andrews, a native of Wales, Maine, and their children were: Presina, Hannah, Philip, John, Daniel, William (died young), and William, who grew to manhood.
(VI) Daniel, son of John (2) and Susan (Andrews) Larrabee, born July 2, 1805, in Wales, Maine, died March 4, 1883, in Gar- diner. In his youth and young manhood he farmed, but at the age of about nineteen years entered the ship-yards at Bath, Maine, where he learned the ship-building trade. In 1838 he went to Louisiana, as a superintendent for the government, looking after the cutting of live oaks, which timber was used in ship-building. After one year in the south, and early in the forties, he, in company with his brothers, Philip and John Larrabee, went to Virginia and engaged in the business of getting out ship-frames, which they supplied to Bath ship- builders. They continued in this business until 1861, when Daniel returned to Gardiner, where he engaged in the staple and fancy grocery business, with Cyrus Libby. This partnership was in effect until the death of Mr. Libby, when his brother, Samuel W. Libby, came into the firm, and this firm con- ducted the business until 1870, when Mr. Lar- rabee retired and resided on his farm, which he still retained. He was a Democrat until 1862, then threw his vote and influence with the Republican party, and became a promi- nent figure in city government, holding the office of councilman, and at another time was elected alderman. He was a member of the Gardiner Commandery of Knights Templar, and also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Devoted to Christianity, he had his church home with the Baptist denomi- nation, and was deacon many years. He was married to Sabrina Ricker, born May 16, 1802, in Milton, New Hampshire, died February 23, 1882, in Gardiner, Maine. Their children were: Statira, Jane, James M., Ezra K., who died in infancy.
(VII) James Morrill, third child of Daniel and Sabrina (Ricker) Larrabee, was born December 4, 1833, in Wales, Maine. He se- cured a good education at the public schools of his native place, which he attended several years, then. spent three years at the Maine Seminary, at Kent's Hill, and also one year at
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Phillips Exeter Academy. After obtaining his education, he clerked one year for John Stone in the retail grocery business. Not feeling satisfied with that line of merchandising, he took a position in the dry-goods house of Frost & Judkins, at Gardiner, remaining there one year. In 1857 he taught school in the New Mills district, one term in Gardiner. In 1858 he taught the Highland grammar school, and continued in that school for three years, resigning on account of his health. He next joined his father on the farm, where he re- sided until 1879. From 1880 to 1884 he re- sided in Pennsylvania, where he was agent for Appleton's American Encyclopedia. Return- ing from Pennsylvania to Gardiner, in July, 1885, he was appointed judge of the municipal court. Among the various public positions he has held are those of assessor, and overseer of the poor, from 1864 to 1869; also presi- dent of both branches of the Gardiner city. government. Mr. Larrabee has been a mem- ber of Herman Lodge, A. F. and A. M., since 1855; of Jerusalem Chapter, for the same period; the Maine Commandery of Knights Templar since 1856. He was master of the lodge in 1860, and is the senior living past- master of the lodge, and has been secretary of the same since 1894. He was the first high priest of Lebanon Chapter, serving in 1864- 65. In 1862 he was elected commander of the Maine Commandery, serving five years, and in the seventies he was again elected and served two years. He was master of the council for twenty years ; grand high priest of the Grand Chapter of Maine, 1868-69; deputy grand commander of the Grand Commandery of Maine, 1867-68; senior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Maine in 1905. Mr. Lar- rabee was among the patriotic defenders of the Union cause during the civil war period, having been a member of the Eleventh Maine regimental band from September 8, 1861, to August 19, 1862, when they were discharged from further service, by act of congress. He is numbered among the active members of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was mar- ried to Priscilla Woodward, daughter of Amos and Nancy (Mussey) Woodward ; the date of her birth was January 13, 1834, in Winthrop. Their children were: Edgar W., Harry E., Daniel, James M., Joseph H., Edith M. and Helen W. (twins), and Austin P.
This is one of the surnames SAWYER which probably arose from an occupation, and has been hon- ored in America since its transportation by
many leading citizens of various states. It has figured conspicuously in the United States senate, in the ministry, in law and in the various callings pursued by the American people. It is ably and numerously represented in Massachusetts and has contributed its pro- portion to the progress and development of the state. Within a few years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth it appears in the records of the settlements of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and this patronymic of Sawyer has been borne and honored by men who have been successful leaders in nearly all the walks of life. As pioneers they showed those quali- ties of character which planted civilization in a land inhabited with savages, and under con- ditions that would have disheartened any but the strongest and bravest. Their hardihood and Christian fortitude made them fit instru- ments for the advancement of civilization upon the underlying foundation principles, the ob- ject which is the enjoyment of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." As defenders of these principles they were ever ready to face death, as the records of the early In- dian wars in New England show, as well as those of the revolution, and in later years when their country required defenders. It is a mat- ter of record that eighteen members of the Sawyer family from Lancaster, Massachusetts, alone were in the military service at the same time during the revolution, and that one com- pany recruited in that town was officered from captain down by Sawyers. John Sawyer (or Sayer) was a farmer in Lincolnshire, Eng- land, where he is supposed to have been a landholder also. He was the father of three sons : William, Edward and Thomas, who left England on the ship commanded by Cap- tain Parker, and settled in Massachusetts about 1636.
(I) William Sayer, the immigrant ancestor, was born about 1613, probably in England. He was in Salem, Massachusetts, and later in Wenham, from 1640 to 1645. His name at that time was spelled Sayer. He subscribed to the oath of allegiance in 1678, and became a member of the First Baptist Church in Boston, with his wife and several others of Newbury in 1681. It is probable that he had then re- sided in Newbury for forty years. A branch of the First Baptist Church was formed in Newbury in 1682, and William and John Sayer and others were among its members. He was still living in 1697, and his estate was administered by his son-in-law, John Emery, in March, 1703. The name of his wife was Ruth, and his children were: John,. Samuel,
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Ruth, Mary (died young), Sarah, Hannah (died young), William, Frances (died young), Mary, Stephen A., Hannah and Frances.
(II) John, eldest child of William Sawyer, or Sayer, was born August 24, 1645, in New- bury, and bought land in Haverhill in 1669 ; he probably lived in that town for a time. He was a member of the Baptist church of New- bury with his parents in 1682, and died March, 1689, his death being recorded in Salem. He married, February 18, 1676, in Newbury, Sarah, fifth daughter of John Poore, of New- bury. She was granted administration of his estate March 25, 1690, and it was divided in November, 1697. Slie married ( second) No- vember 27. 1707, Joseph Bailey. John and Sarah ( Poore) Sawyer were the parents of Ruth, William, Sarah, John (died young). Jonathan, David and John.
(III) David, fourth son of John and Sarah (Poore) Sawyer, was born January 13, 1687, in Newbury, and settled in that part of Kit- tery which is now Eliot, Maine. He was there married, February 28, 1711, to Elinor Frost, daughter of Nicholas Frost, a beaver trader, and his wife, Mary ( Small) Frost. He prob- ably passed his life in Eliot, as the marriage and the births of all his children are recorded there. They were : John, Mary, David, Jona- than, Sarah and Steven.
(IV) David (2), son of David (1) and Elinor (Frost.) Sawyer, was born February 12. 1715, in Eliot, and early settled in Pep- perellboro, now Saco, Maine. He served as a soldier of the revolution from that town. No record of his marriage or children appears, but he is known to have been the father of the next mentioned.
(V) Abner, son of David (2) Sawyer, was born about 1757 in Saco, and died there No- vember 15, 1823. He was a revolutionary sol- dier, like his father. By engaging in ship- building he accumulated a considerable for- tune, and was able to give each of his sons a good farm. He married Mary Staples, who was born about 1760 in Saco, and died April 12, 1842. These records are from their tomb- stones in Saco. They had a family of ten children who married into the best families of the neighborhood, and were evidently of good social standing.
(VI) Captain Mark, son of Abner and Mary ( Staples) Sawyer, was born December 13, 1799, in Saco, and in common with his brother was a seafaring man and the com- mander of a vessel. When he retired from the sea he settled upon the farm inherited from his father in the town of Saco, where he died
April 15, 1865, at the age of sixty-five years. He married, April 21, 1825, Asenath Patter- son, born March 27, 1803, died July 14, 1866, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Sawyer) Patterson (see Patterson III). Their chil- dren who survived the period of infancy were : 1. Cordelia, wife of Captain George Titcomb. 2. Horace Bacon, mentioned below. 3. Green- leaf, who died upon the paternal homestead. 4. Charles Evans, who now resides in Saco. 5. Sarah, married Edward Stiles, of Saco.
(VII) Horace Bacon, eldest son of Captain Mark and Asenath ( Patterson) Sawyer, was born February 16, 1830, in Saco, where he grew up and began his education in the com- mon school. He was subsequently a student at Kent's Hill, Maine, and in the school of Theology at Concord, New Hampshire. He became a member of the Vermont Methodist Conference on probation, and was first sta- tioned as a pastor at Hartland, and subse- quently at Putney, Vermont. He removed from the latter place to Maine and was pastor of the church at Wells, in 1862-64. For three years he engaged in business and subsequently returned to Vermont, where he was ordained in the Baptist church and occupied a pastorate for some years in Danbury, New Hampshire, where he was very successful. He returned to business life again until 1873, when he was made pastor of a church in Albion, Maine. In 1875 he retired from the ministry, and after five years of business life settled on a farm in Brunswick, Maine, where he con- tinued nine years. He then sold the farm and removed to Turner, Maine, whence he went to Massachusetts and died at Haverhill in that state, at the age of sixty-three years. Al- though Mr. Sawyer was generally conceded to be a speaker of interest and ability upon religious matters by those who heard him, he was naturally independent in his thoughts and unusually free in the expression of those thoughts for those times. This tendency grew upon him the more he thought upon religious matters, causing him to frequently resign po- sitions where he felt that he could not longer continue with a free conscience. He was a member of the Masonic order and was an active and prominent citizen, and while re- siding in Albion was supervisor of schools. He married, July 31, 1860, at White River Junction, Vermont, Clarissa Jane Carter, daughter of Horace Black and Ruth J. ( Wood) Carter, of Lebanon, New Hamp- shire (see Carter, VIII). She was born March 15, 1841. Her children were : Sarah, Asenath, George Mark, Harvey Lincoln, Clarence
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Evans and Clara Mabel. The oldest daughter is a music teacher and the eldest son engaged in business. The second son died at the age of twenty-one years. The third is the sub- ject of the following paragraph. The younger daughter is the wife of Williard O. Copithorn, a dentist, of Natick, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Clarence Evans, third son of Rev. Horace B. and Clarissa J. (Carter) Sawyer, was born August 7, 1869, in Wilmot, New Hampshire, and was about six years of age when his parents removed to Brunswick, Maine. He attended the public schools of that town and the Adams Academy at Quincy, Massachusetts. While pursuing his education he was busily employed during spare time as a clerk in a grocery store in order to bear the expenses of his education. Later he engaged in teaching school and the funds thus earned were employed in pursuing a partial course at Bowdoin College in the class of 1893 and in the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and at once began the practice of his profession in Brunswick, where he has since continued, and has built up a fine reputation and remunerative practice. In 1908 he re- moved his residence to Portland because of his increasing professional employment at the county seat, but continues his law office at Brunswick, as well as one in the city. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Knights of Pythias and cherishes the fraternal sentiments of these orders. He married, Au- gust 18, 1896, Blanche M., daughter of Cap- tain John F. and Mary A. J. (Lovell) Brown. They are the parents of three children: Rus- sell Fulton Brown, Lovell Brown and Louise Burton.
Mrs. Sawyer's ancestry was very early iden- tified with the township of North Yarmouth, Maine. The first in the line of whom she has knowledge was Reuben Brown, whose wife was Elizabeth Parker. They were the parents of Moses, Benjamin, Joanna, Jeremiah, Ra- chel and Abigail, the last two being twins: Captain Jeremiah, third son of Reuben and Elizabeth (Parker) Brown, was born May 12, 1798. Though a shoemaker by trade, he be- gan to follow the sea early in life, commanded the schooner "Phoenix," and carried the first load of stone to build Fort Sumter, famous in the civil war. He married, September 13, 1833, Eliza Ann Fulton, who was born in 1809, and they were the parents of Abigail Reade, Martha Ann, Mary Jane, John Fulton, Samuel Larrabee, Eliza Ellen, Harriet, Au- gusta and Charles Albert. Captain John Ful- ton, oldest son of Jeremiah and Eliza Ann
(Fulton) Brown, born August, 1842, followed the sea with marked success from 1862 to 1896. He served in the United States navy on the "Ohio," the "Santee," the "Sabine" and the "Florida." After the war he com- manded the "Giles Loring," the "Ida M. Com- ery" and the "Jennie Phinney," which was built for him at Yarmouth, until 1886. Sub- sequently he sailed the brig "Screamer," "Elizabeth Winslow," "Henry B. Cleaves" and the bark "II. J. Libbey." He now resides on the Brown homestead at Bay View, Yarmouth. He married Mary Abbie Jane Lovell, of Gray, Maine, November 28, 1867, and they were the. parents of : Hattie Fulton, Blanche May, Ed- mund Phinney, Burton Eugene and Gertrude Louise (twins), and John Millard. Blanche May, second daughter of Captain John F. and Mary A. J. (Lovell) Brown, was born May 8, 1874, in Yarmouth, Maine, and married, Au- gust 18, 1896, Clarence E. Sawyer, of Bruns- wick (see Sawyer VIII above.)
(For first generation see William Sawyer (Sayer) I.) (II) William (2), third son of SAWYER William ( I) and Ruth Sawyer, was born February 1, 1656, in Newbury, and settled in Wells, Maine. He was a soldier of the Narragansett campaign in 1675 and bought land in Wells in 1679 and 1685. The first date probably indicates the time of his settlement there. He was deputy to the general court in 1707, 1716-17 and died June 7, 1718. His will was dated three days previous to his death. He was married about 1677 to Sarah Littlefield, daughter of Francis and Rebecca Littlefield, of Wells, and granddaughter of Edmund Littlefield, who came from Tichfield, England, to Wells about 1637. She was born about 1650, and married (first) at Wells ; she survived her second hus- band and was baptized and received into the church at Wells, July 27, 1718. She died in January, 1735. Their children were: Joseph, Frances, Daniel, Hannah and Ruth.
(III) Daniel, third son of William (2) and Sarah (Littlefield) Sawyer, was born May 26, 1683, in Wells, and seems to have resided there through life, dying between 1714 and 1716. The baptismal name of his wife was Sarah. After his death she married Joseph Hill, of Wells, the intention being published March 23, 1739. Daniel Sawyer's children were: William, Sarah, Lydia, Daniel and Han- nah.
(IV) William (3), eldest son of Daniel and Sarah Sawyer, was born February 6, 1705, in Wells, and died there in 1768. His first wife
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bore the name of Mary. The second was Love, daughter of Arthur Bragdon, of York, their intention being published March 30, 1734. Their children were: Phoebe, Sarah, Lydia, Daniel, Samuel, Mary, Sarah and Will- iam.
(V) William (4), youngest child of Will- iam (3) Sawyer and fourth child of his sec- ond wife, was born about 1740 in Wells, and probably settled in Cumberland. There is a family tradition that he with several compan- ions walked from Gilmanton to Westbrook in the winter season because at that time the ice furnished a means of crossing the rivers. He had children: Benjamin, William, Rebecca, Asa and John.
(VI) William (5), second son of William (4) Sawyer, was born about 1766 and died February 8, 1856, in Pownal, Maine. He mar- ried Susanna Blake, of Harpswell, Maine, and settled in Pownal, same state. Susanna Blake's mother was Jane, daughter of Waitstill Weber. She was born 1731, died in 1797. The name of her husband was John Blake. Waitstill Weber was a son of Samuel Weber, born 1631 and killed by the Indians in 1716. Samuel Weber was a son of Wolfert Weber Jr., grand- son of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, and was born 1604, and died 1670. The chil- dren of William and Susanna ( Blake) Sawyer were: Benjamin.,' William, Jeremiah, Susan, Abigail, John, Charles, Charlotte and Rebecca.
(VII) Benjamin, eldest son of William (5) and Susanna ( Blake) Sawyer, was born Au- gust II, 1795, in Pownal. He married, Jan- uary 26, 1825, Lydia Fields, of Freeport, Maine. Their children were: I. Lydia, born June 26, 1825, married Simon Fickett. 2. Elijah F., September 24, 1827. 3. Lewis F., J'une 19, 1829, married Laura Plummer, of Alna, Maine. 4. Harriet B., November 2, 1832, married Joshua Witham, of Gray, Maine. 5. Melissa E., November 12, 1843, married Edward Bowie, of Durham, Maine.
(VIII) Elijah Field, son of Benjamin and Lydia (Fields) Sawyer, was born in Pownal, Maine, September 24, 1827, and died Septem- ber 1, 1906. In early youth he removed with his parents to Cumberland, from thence to New Gloucester, and lived on a farm until he arrived at manhood and then took up his resi- dence in Bath and became a prominent figure in the industrial and business life of that city. It was in the year 1847 that Mr. Sawyer went to Bath and began learning the trade of ship- carpentering in the yards of the late William D. Sewall, where he himself carried on busi-
ness in later years. In 1865, with Captain Guy C. Goss as his partner, under the firm style of Goss & Sawyer, the young ship-car- penter began his active business life and in that year built and launched the schooner "John Crooker"; but this was only the be- ginning in a small way of what soon became one of the largest firms in ship-building in New England. In 1872 B. F. Packard came into the firm, the name of which then changed to Goss, Sawyer & Packard, and the business was continued without material change in the personell of the partnership for about twelve or fourteen years and then was incorporated as the New England Shipbuilding Company. But during the years in which Mr. Sawyer was a member of the old firm of Goss & Saw- yer and the successor firm of Goss, Sawyer & Packard, the yards built and put afloat two hundred vessels of all kinds to be used in the carrying trade. In 1886 Mr. Sawyer, in company with his son-in-law, D. Howard Spear, and Captain John R. Kelley, became or- ganizers of the Kelley-Spear Company, build- ers of steam and sailing vessels, barges and lighters. Mr. Sawyer was president of the company from 1902 until the time of his death, and during the period of his connection with it the company built one hundred and forty-four vessels ; and during all the years of his con- nection with the ship-building industry of Bath, the firms in which he was a partner and the company of which he was president con- structed and launched a total of three hundred and forty-four vessels of all kinds, a greater number than stands to the credit of any other wooden ship-builder in this country. This has meant something to the business interests of Bath, with the hundreds and perhaps thou- sands of mechanics employed in the years in which Mr. Sawyer was financially interested, and it has meant something to the industrial history of the state of Maine.
During the long period of his business life Mr. Sawyer was an extensive employer of workmen, skilled mechanics most of them, and the state of Maine has yet to produce the man at the head of a great industrial enterprise who has been more considerate than he of the interests and comforts of wage-earners in his service, or the man more universally respected for the qualities of honesty, integrity and fair- ness, or the man who has at heart the best in- terests and welfare of the city in which Mr. Sawyer lived so long. In his nature there was neither arrogance, vanity nor selfish am- bition, no thought to enrich himself at the ex-
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pense of other men or profit by their misfor- tunes; neither was he ever unmindful of the claims of other interests than his own upon his time, as is shown by his service as a mem- ber of the city government of Bath, his devo- tion to and liberal support of the Free Will Baptist church. He was naturally of thought- ful mind, pious meditations, correct in his daily walk, always cheerful himself and every ready to contribute to the comfort of those about him, whether in counsel or financial aid, and his dispensations for charitable purposes, more than a few, were made quietly, so that atten- tion should not be attracted to the donor. He was interested in a number of the best institu- tions of Bath, its churches, schools, and Old Ladies Home, and also held investments in other than the ship-building company of which he was the head. He was one of the incor- porators of the Peoples' Safe Deposit and Sav- ings Bank. On December 27, 1851, Mr. Sawyer married Sarah Noyes Marston, who was born June 27, 1830, and died May 28, 1904. Of this marriage five children were born : 1. Emma, died young. 2. Ada R., born May 25, 1856, married, December 27, 1876, D. Howard Spear. 3. George, died young. 4. Harry B., December 27, 1863. 5. Jennie M., September 27, 1867, died December 20, 1880.
(IX) Harry Banks, son of Elijah Field and Sarah Noyes ( Marston) Sawyer, was born in Bath, Maine, December 27, 1863. He acquired his early education in the Bath pub- lic schools and his higher education at the Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachu- setts, where he graduated in 1886. He took up school-teaching as a profession, going first to Washington, D. C., and from there to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he taught ten years in public schools. He returned to Bath in 1898 and was in the grain business for a time, then became associated with the Kelley- Spear Shipbuilding Company, as an assistant to his father, the president of the company and who felt the burden of advancing years. Upon the death of the elder Sawyer in 1906, Mr. Sawyer was elected treasurer of the company and is still in that office. In addition to these duties he also serves as trustee of the Peoples' Safe Deposit and Savings Bank and of the Bath Trust Company. In politics he is a Re- publican and has been somewhat interested in that field, having represented the seventh ward in the common council in 1902 and served as alderman from the same ward from 1903 to 1907. He is also prominent in fra- ternal circles, a member of Solar Lodge, No. 14, F. and A. M .; Montgomery and St. Ber-
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