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" The name of Ordway is a highly respectable one among the first settlers of Massachusetts Bay. The family originated from James Ordway, who was born in Wales, in 1620, and either there or in England married Ann Emery, on the 23d of November, 1648, and soon emigrated to and settled in Newbury. On the 17th of November, 1658, John, their fifth child, was born; who on the 5th Dec., 16SI, married Mary Godfrey. John, the son of the said John, Senior, and Mary, was born in 1683, and died Aug. 25, 1773, aged 90 years. He is handed down on the record as a deacon in the Puritan Church and as a pious and highly respectable man. On the roth Jan., 1713, they had born a son, Nehemiah, whom they educated as a physician, and who became very eminent in his profession. He settled in Amesbury, had a very extensive practice and accumulated a large fortune for that day. By the medical annals, this Dr. Nehemiah Ordway is represented as one of the most skillful and successful practitioners in New England, of that time. He was worn out by the fatigues of his practice and died Jan. 13, 1779, aged 66 years. His sister Mary was born Nov. 2, 1714 and died Mar. 2, 1796, aged SI years and four months.
FIFTH GENERATION.
(5) V. JOSIAH SAWYER, (26-1) son of Josiah, (4) was born in 1737 and settled in Deerfield, N. H. He died June 19,
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1812, aged 75 years. He was one of the original propri- ctors of Nottingham and settled where Daniel Jones now (1878) lives, near the line between Deerfield and Nottingham. He married a sister of Jeremiah Eastman, who surveyed the town of Deerfield. His children :
36-1. Josiah, (6) removed to Gilford.
37-2. Jeremiah, (6). (11) VI.
35 - 3. David. (6) b. April 14, 1666. (12) VI.
39-4. John, (6) lived in Andover, where he died, leaving children.
40-5. Israel, (6) married and lived on the homestead. (13) VI.
(6) V. ISRAEL SAWYER, (27-2) son of Josiah, (4) was b. 1739. He settled in Southampton, N. H., m. Miriam Clough, and d. July 19, 1821, aged 82 years. Their children :
41-1. Polly, (6). (14) VI.
42-2. Jemima, (6). (15) VI.
43-3. Sally. (6). (16) VI.
44 -- 1. Terzah. (17) VI.
45-5. Lydia, (6).
46-6. Israel, (6). (IS) VI.
47-7. William, (6) b. June 20, 1787 ; d. Jan. 29, ISHI, unm.
(7) V. JOHN SAWYER, (29-4) son of Josiah, (4) was born 1745 and settled in Salisbury, Mass. He was of a very slen- der constitution and d. March 19, 1796, aged 51 years. He m. Abigail Shepherd, of Salisbury, Mass. Children :
48-1. John, (6). (19) VI.
49-2. Hannah, (6) died unmarried.
50-3. Jeremiah, (6). (20) VI.
(8) V. RICHARD SAWYER, (31-6) son of Josiah, (4) was born May 31, 1748, and d. June 22, 1818, aged 70 years. He was a farmer and lived in Corinth, Vt. He m. Elizabeth Clark. Their children :
51-1. Hannah, (6) b. Oct. 31, 1774. (21) VI.
52-2. Richard, (6) b. in Southampton, N. II., Dec. 14, 1776. (22) VI.
53-3. Plant, (6) b. in Southampton, N. IL., April 19, 1779. (23) VI.
54-1. Betsey, (6) b. Sept. 1, 1782. (24) VI.
55-5. Sally, (6) b. Nov. 17, 1785. (25) VI.
56-6. Abigail, (6) b. Aug. 15, 1789. (26) VI.
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(9) V. MATTHIAS SAWYER, (32-7) son of Josiah, (4) was born May 31, 1748, settled in Gilmanton, N. H., and d. June 22, 1818. He married Eunice Batchelder, who d. Nov. I, 1785. Their children :
57-1. William, (6). (27) VI.
58-2. Jonathan, (6).
59-3. Mehitable, (6).
60-4. Mary, (6).
61-5. Sarah, (6). (28) VI.
62-6. Judith, (6).
63-7. Noah, (6). (29) VI.
64-8. Timothy, (6) unm.
65-9. Elizabeth, (6). (30) VI.
66-10. Israel, (6). (31) VI.
67-1I. Eunice, (6) unm.
HOUSE OF DEACON MOSES SAWYER, SITUATED ON SOUTH ROAD TWO MILES WEST OF THE SOUTH ROAD VILLAGE.
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(10) V. MOSES SAWYER, (Deacon,) (33-8) the eighth son of Josiah, (4) was b. at Southampton, N. H., Aug. 2, 1750. He married Jan. 16, 1775, Ann Fitz, daughter of Richard Fitz of this town, and a great-great-grandaughter of Robert Fitz, who was the first Anglo-American ancestor of the American Fitzes and an uncle of Sir John Fitz, a distinguished barrister of Lin- coln's Inn, London, who had a country-seat near Tavistock, in Devonshire county, England, near a ford of the river Tavy, named from its location Fitz Ford .*
Robert Fitz was of good social position and estate, but, find- ing his situation at home unpleasant on account of the Puritan principles which he had espoused, he emigrated to America and settled at Salisbury, Mass., about 1640. He there became an influential citizen and died in June, 1665. There is some reason to believe that he was at Ipswich for a few years before 1640.
Ann Fitz was the youngest of fourteen children, twelve of whom lived to maturity. She was b. at Southampton, Jan. 20, 1750. Previous to his marriage Mr. Sawyer had purchased a tract of land in Salisbury and had spent several seasons in clearing a portion of it for a farm, and had also erected upon it a temporary dwelling.t He became a permanent resident of the town soon after his marriage. His name appears upon the "List of Training Soldiers of the Town of Salisbury, drawn May 27, 1776," being the fifty-first on a roll of seventy-five. All he possessed at this time, besides his partially cleared farm and his scanty herd, was youth, health, hope, an unwavering trust in God, and a noble wife, in full sympathy with him in all his views and purposes.
About the close of the revolution, probably in 1782, he built a more commodious house, which afterwards became his residence. This house still remains in his family, and is yet in fair condition. Its heavy oak timbers have been only hardened by time, while their external covering has suffered but little
* The scene of the novel " Fitz Ford," by Mrs. Bray, is laid in this locality. For account of the Fitzes of Fitz Ford see Wescot's Devonshire, p. 446.
t This stood at the fork of the roads near his subsequent residence. [ See foregoing page.]
* My authority for this date is his grandson, Isaac Newton Sawyer, of Salisbury .- J. B. W.
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from exposure. It is a good type of the house of a well-to-do New Hampshire farmer of a hundred years ago. With timely repairs it will easily outlast this century and the next.
Back Room
Closeto The wall FILE?
Pantry
Kitchen
Bed Room
Entry
To cellen
South West Room
Clock Room
Front Entry
FLOOR PLAN OF FIRST STORY.
This house is of two low stories, with a length of thirty-eight feet and a breadth of thirty. Attached to it on the back side is a small ell, twenty feet long and eighteen wide, but one story. The main house is painted red, while the casings and corner boards are white. The ridge-line of the roof is broken only by a short, bulky chimney, indicative of the comfort and good cheer which abounded below and within. Facing the south, the front door is upon the back side, and opens upon a square vestibule, which affords access to the two south rooms. The other half of the first story is taken up by a long kitchen, dim- ly lighted by a single window in its northwest corner, and
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flanked at one end by a small bedroom and at the other by a pantry, the chamber stairs, and a side entry. The division of the second story, so far as made, corresponds very nearly with that of the first.
As before intimated, the huge chimney occupies the central portion of the house, and affords five spacious fire-places, the one in the kitchen being some five feet from jamb to jamb. In early days this rendered important aid to the good deacon in helping him dispose of the large quantities of useless wood which his forest clearings produced. Before these blazing fires four generations of Sawyers have scorched their faces and frozen their backs.
In this venerable home Deacon Moses Sawyer and his wife lived happily together for a period of forty-six years. Here they reared their children ; here a modest competency, secured by daily industry, was to them an abundance ; here they estab- lished and maintained a family altar.
Deacon Sawyer was a member and an officer of the Salisbury Congregational church for many years. When at length its pastor promulgated certain religious opinions, which he deemed unsound, he withdrew from its membership and joined the Corser Hill church, in Boscawen. The cause and manner of this action is clearly set forth in the following letter of Mrs. Horace Eaton, of Palmyra, N. Y., to one of the compilers :
PALMYRA, N. V., April 2, ISS4.
JOSEPH B. WALKER, ESQ.
You ask me to note down some things which my mother, Mrs. Betsey ( Sawyer ) Webster, used to tell me of her parents.
" Grandmother Sawyer," ( Anne Fitz,) descended directly from Puritan stock. Her ancestor, Robert Fitz, came over from England in 1631, only eleven years after the landing of the Pilgrims. The rights of primogeniture were taken from him by his father because he espoused the cause of the Puritans. Our grandmother pos- sessed great strength of character. She was a noble wife and mother. She endured with heroism the trials incidental to pioneer life; for Salisbury, when she first made a home in it, was a frontier town. Much of the description of a " virtuous woman," in the 31st chapter of Proverbs, could truthfully have been applied to her.
Her husband, Deacon Moses Sawyer, was a man of good common sense, in- dustrious, energetic, devout. Knowing the right, he dared maintain it.
The history of the Ecclesiastical Council held in Salisbury, somewhere about the year 1814, shows how carefully the great string-pieces of the gospel system
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were guarded by our fathers. They obeyed the injuntion of the Apostle, " IIold fast the form of sound words.". The language of their solicitude was, "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do."
One Sabbath afternoon, after a communion season, at which some persons had united with the church, grandfather returned home silent and thoughtful. He talked low with grandmother. The Articles of Faith and the Covenant he knew by heart, but as read that day by the minister, Rev. Thomas Worcester, ( brother of Rev. Drs. Noah and Samuel Worcester, ) they did not sound "as aforetime." Hoping that " peradventure it was an oversight," he awaited the next sacramental service. It came. He listened attentively. He tried to catch the name of the second person of the adorable Trinity, Jesus Christ the Saviour, of the third per- son, the Holy Ghost, the Blessed Comforter, but they did not fall upon his ears. There was a void, a vacuum, over which hovered a darkness that could be felt. He passed a sleepless night. The morning meal was left untasted. Saddling his horse, a ride of two miles and a half found him at the gate of the parsonage. He meekly inquired of the pastor if there had not been a change in the covenant of the church, and received the brusque reply, "I have altered the Covenant and the Articles of Faith, and shall do it again at my pleasure." Repeated interviews brought them no nearer together. The differences involved were radical. To our grandfather it seemed that they had "taken away his Lord and he knew not where they had laid him." He then asked Mr. Worcester to unite with him in a Mutual Council, which should discuss and settle the questions at issue. This Mr. Wor- cester very peremptorily refused to do. Grandfather then proceeded to summon an ex-parte council. This council were forbidden by Mr. Worcester to assemble in the church at the South road. So they convened at the old red house, the home of our grandparents. There were some forty delegates present, embracing the most prominent clergymen and laymen of the Congregational church of New Hampshire I can recall but few names - Rev. Samuel Wood, D. D., of Boscawen, Rev. Abra. ham Bodwell, of Sanbornton, Rev. Dr. Moore, one of the professors of Dartmouth College, Rev. Moses Bradford, of Francestown, Rev. Ephraim P. Bradford, of New Boston, Rev. Walter Harris, D. D., of Dunbarton and Rev. Seth Payson, of Rindge, father of Rev. Edward Payson, D. D., of Portland, Me.
In those primitive times, the entertainment of so large a number of guests for two or three days together was no inconsiderable matter. The work of the house- wife was not expedited by modern facilities ; meats were roasted in " the tin kitchen " in front of the huge, open fire-place, or in the immense brick oven, heated by wood. The vegetables were boiled in kettles suspended on the adjustable iron hooks of a " crane." Tea and coffee were "set to draw " on little heaps of burning coals at the corner of the hearth. When their heat began to wane, the coals were renewed. or fanned with "the bellows." The necessary labor was systematically divided. Grandmother's aged but deft fingers prepared the bread and "the doughnuts," while your mother and mine with Aunt Sarah attended to the meats, pies and more fancy dishes, as well as to the general ordering of the household. It was the year before my mother's marriage, rendering the situation a little complicated, as the Webster's were all devoted friends of Mr. Worcester.
The august sessions were held in "the west room." The tall eight-day wooden clock ticked in the corner. "Cynthia, empress of the night," revolved at its head.
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There was always a simper on her face, which upon this occasion must have seemed slightly irreverent. Brass candle-sticks, brightly polished, held the tallow candles, which on "mantel-board " and "stand," lighted the divines at their evening con- ferences.
The bed was removed from the old bed-room, where six of the eight children had been born, and that apartment was entirely devoted to the liquors for the use of the clerical company. Our grandfather had previously provided a liberal sup- ply of these at Concord. By the side of the bottles and decanters were bowls of white sugar broken off from tall loaves, encased in wrappers of Tyrian purple hue. Water to dilute the port wine, New England and Jamaica rum, Holland gin and Cognac brandy, was brought from the " old oaken bucket, dripping with coolness," and drawn up by the long arm of the well-sweep. One by one, as need required, these fathers and brethren stole away from creeds and canons and comforted the inner man with these beverages. My mother noticed that the intervals of refresh- ment were much shorter with some than with others.
But those days when the true faith was confronted by Arianism and Arminian- ism, under the shadow of Kearsarge, ended at last. The council reported that "errors fatal to the souls of men" were rife in the Salisbury church, and they gave Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer and several others letters of recommendation to evan- gelical churches.
It was hard for the old deacon to leave his church-home, where on communion Sabbaths he had "lined the hymns " and distributed the sacred elements for a long term of years. But he had his reward. Many of his posterity have been sus- tained in life and in death by the great doctrines of grace he then and there de- fended. His oldest son, who bore his name, preached the gospel with faithfulness and success for twenty-four years in Henniker, N. H. His grandaughter, Mrs. Jessie Lockwood, told the story of the cross to the Creeks and Choctaws of Ar- kansas. And recompense came a half century or more after his death, when his great grandson, Rev. Frank T. Bayley, was ordained in Canandaigua, N. I., over a church distinguished for its talent and benevolence, where men in the nation's cabinet worshiped. Youthful like Timothy, eloquent like Apollos, with modesty, clearness and ability, he answered the questions of the council, and spoke words that gloriously exalted the divinity and the atoning sacrifice of Jesus the Christ. It was then I blessed God for the heroic steadfastness of our ancestor, Deacon Moses Sawyer, of Salisbury, N. H. MRS. HORACE EATON.
How a man, with a fair-sized Salisbury farm as his only re- source, could pay his full share of the state, county and town taxes, support in comfort a large family, send two of his sons to Dartmouth College, give a good English education to his other children, and at his death leave a respectable estate to his heirs at law, is doubtless a mystery to any person unac- quainted with the ordinary farm life of New England seventy years ago. Every one in Deacon Sawyer's household earned his or her living day by day. The family raised its own food
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and produced most of its own clothing. God-fearing, self-re- specting, healthy, industrious, level-headed, they could not fail to succeed.
Deacon Sawyer died of lung fever, April 29, 1821. Mrs. Sawyer survived him about fifteen years and died October 4, 1836. Their children :
68-1. Moses, (6) b. March 11, 1776. (32) VI.
69-2. Isaac Fitz, (6) b. March 9, 1778. (33) VI.
70-3. Polly, (6) b. May 30, 1780. (34) VI.
71-4. Nathaniel, (6) b. March 13, 1782; d. March 22, 1783.
72-5. Nathaniel, (6) b. April 10, 1784. (35) VI.
73-6. Ann, (6) b. June 21, 1786. (36) VI.
74-7. Sarah, (6) b. June 5, 1789. (37) VI.
75-S. Betsey, (6) b. May 17, 1793. (38) VI.
SIXTH GENERATION.
(II) VI. JEREMIAH SAWYER, (37-2) son of Josiah, (5) married Miss - Purrington, of Brentwood, and removed to Gil- manton, where he died. His children :
76-1. John, (7).
77-2. Jeremiah, (7) who served in the war of the revolution.
78-3. James, (7).
79-4. David, (7).
So-5. Nancy, (7).
81-6. Miriam, (7).
S2-7. Lydia, (7) m. - Jones, of Epping, N. H.
(12) VI. DAVID SAWYER, (38-3) son of Josiah, (5) b. April 14, 1766, and settled in Deerfield, N. H., but subsequently removed to Lee, N. H., where he d. Aug. 21, 1845, aged 80 years ; m. Ist, Hannah Palmer. Children :
S3-I. David, (7). (39) VII.
84-2. Josiah, (7). (40) VII.
S5-3. John, (7) b. March 16, ISOI. (41) VII.
S6-4. IIannah, (7) m. John Porter.
S7-5. Luella, (7) m. - Conklin, of Exeter.
m. 2d, Mary, sister of Deacon Levi Knowles, of North- wood, N. H. Child :
S8-6. Jefferson, (7). (42) VII. m. 3d, Mrs. Susan Chesley, widow of Thomas Chesley, of Durham, N. H.
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(13) VI. ISRAEL SAWYER, (40-5) son of Josiah, (5) m. - and lived on the homestead. Children :
S9-1. Coffin, (7).
90-2. Ebenezer, (7).
91-3. Phebe, (7).
92-4. Tristram, (7).
93-5. John, (7).
(14) VI. POLLY SAWYER, (41-1) daughter of Israel, (5) married Samuel Currier. Children :
94-1. Reuben, (7) unm.
95-2. Samuel, (7) unm.
96-3. Polly, (7) m. Jacob Rowe, of Plainfield, N. H. Children, ist, Mary Ann, (S) 2d, William, (S).
(15) VI. JEMIMA SAWYER, (42-2) dau. of Israel, (5) m. Isaiah Palmer, Esq., of Southampton, N. H. Children :
97-1. Israel, (7) died young. 98-2. John, (7). (43) VII.
(16) VI. SALLY SAWYER, (43-3) daughter of Israel, (5) mar- ried Thomas Flanders, of Cornville, Me. Children :
99-1. Parker, (7) m. Ann Blaisdell.
100-2. Salina, (7) m. John McClure.
101-3. Lydia, (7) m. - Greeley.
102-4. Thomas, (7).
103-5. William, (7).
(17) VI. TERZAH SAWYER, (44-4) dau. of Israel, (5) m. Parker Flanders, of Cornville, Me. Children :
104-1. Parker, (7).
105-2. William, (7).
106-3. Washington, (7).
107-4. Eliza, (7).
IOS-5.
Ellen, (7).
(18) VI. ISRAEL SAWYER, (46-6) son of Josiah, (5) married Mary Galishan. Children :
109-1. Mary, (7) m. Adams Gale, of Amesbury, Mass.
110-2. Rebecca, (7.)
111-3. Jacob, (7) died young.
112-4. Caroline W., (7).
113-5. Abba, (7).
114-6. Hannah, (7) m. Ezekiel Merrill. Children : Israel Sawyer, (S).
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(19) VI. JOHN SAWYER, (48-1) son of John, (5) m. Hannah Perkins. Child :
115-I. John, (7) m. Ann Perkins. Children : Ist, Ann, (7) 2d, Hannah, (7).
(20) VI. JEREMIAH SAWYER, (50-3) son of John, (5) m. Betsey Fitz. Children :
116-I. Enoch, (7) m. Apphia Kelley. Children : Ist, Susan, (8) 2d, Enoch, (8).
117-2. Moses Judkins, (7) unm.
IIS-3. Elizabeth, (7) unm.
119-4. Josiah, (7) m. Abba Page. Children : Ist, Albert, (8) 2d, Sarah A., (S).
120-5. Sarah, (7). (44) VII.
121-6. Jeremiah Hayden, Dr., (7) Newburyport ; m. Lydia Olive Davis.
(21) VI. HANNAH SAWYER, (51-1) daughter of Richard, (5) b. Oct. 31, 1774; d. Aug. 18, 1817 ; m. Ezekiel Courier, of Hampstead, N. H., a Methodist minister, who died in Orange, Vt., in 1851. Children :
122-I. John, (7) farmer, b. 1796. (45) VII.
123-2. Hannah, (7) b. 1798. (46) VII.
124-3. Betsey, (7) b. Sept. 14, 1799, unm.
125-4. Nancy, (7) b. Aug. 31, 1801. (47) VII.
126-5. Richard Sawyer, (7) b. June 22, 18- (48) VII.
127-6. Lucinda, (7) b. March 17, 1805. (49) VII.
128-7. Sabin, (7) b. March 29, 1807. (50) VII.
129-8. Susan, (7) b. January, 1809. (51) VII.
130-9. Newell, (7) b. in ISII ; died young.
131-10. Philura, (7) b. in 1813; died young.
132-II. James Monroe, (7) b. July 28, 1817. (52) VII.
(22) VI. RICHARD SAWYER, (52-2) son of Richard, (5) farmer, b. at Southampton, N. H., Dec. 14, 1776; m. Anna Poor, dau. of Lieut. David Poor, of Hampstead, N. H., b. June 9, 1777. Children :
133-1. Betsey, (7) b. Sept. 26, 1800; d. at Salisbury, N. H., of brain fever, July 26, 1835.
134-2. Atalus, farmer, b. Jan. 17, 1804; d. July 26, 1850.
I35-3. Brydone, (7) b. June 27, 1805; d. April 10, IS31 ; stone cutter.
136-4. Moreau, (7) cabinet maker, b. Feb. 23, 1809; d. of consumption Oct. 29, IS28.
I37-5. Mayo Greenleaf, (7) farmer, b. Dec. II, IS10; d. of consumption Aug. 13, 1845; m. Caroline Eastman, of Haverhill, N. H. Children : Ist, Rich- ardson, (8) 2d, Brydone, (8).
138-6. Mary Poor, (7) b. Feb. 15, 1814; d. of dropsy June 5, 1848; m. Alfred Lathrop, farmer, of Vershire, Vt.
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139-7. Anna, (7) b. Nov. 2, IS15; d. of typhus fever Nov. 21, IS42 ; m. Erastus Dickinson, farmer, Washington, Vt. Child: Joseph Leonard, (S).
1.10-S. Susan, (7) b. April 5, IS17 ; m. John Bragg, farmer, of Thetford, Vt. Chil- dren : Ist, Dana, (S) 2d, John, (8) 3d, Albert, (S).
141-9. Sarah G., (7) b. Jan. 12, 1819, unm.
142-10. Caroline, (7) b. Feb. 11, IS21, unm.
(23) VI. PLANT SAWYER, (53-3) son of Richard, (5) farmer, b. in Southampton, N. H., April 19, 1779; d. Feb. 28, 1840, of dropsy ; m. Ruth Eastman, of Coventry, now Benton, N. H., b. July 25, 1785. Children :
143-1. Ira, (7) b. Nov. 6, ISOS ; d. Nov. 26, 1823.
144-2. Rosilla, (7) b. Aug. 25, ISI0; m. Horace Richardson, farmer, of Corinth, Vt. Children, Ist, Fanny M., (S) 2d, Orin, (S).
145-3. . Otis, (7) b. Feb. 17, 1813. (53) VII.
146-4. Alvira, (7) b. March 3, IS15; d. March 7, IS17.
147-5- Dana, (7) b. Aug. 14, 1817; m. Sally C. Sanborn, b. in February, ISIS. Children : Ist, Emma V., (S) 2d, Henry T., (S).
148-6. Almira, (7) b. Sept. 13, 1819. (54) VII.
149-7. Emeline, (7) b. Jan. 9, 1822; m. Hilas Dickey, mason, Manchester, N. H. Child : Edwin, (S) died young.
I 50-S. Lucinda, (7) b. Sept. 24, IS26; m, Amos P. Collins, farmer. Children : Ist, Charles E., (S) died young ; 2d, Carlos C., (S).
151-9. Moreau, (7) b. June 14, 1829, unm ; is a mason in Missouri.
(24) VI. BETSEY SAWYER, (54-4) dau. of Richard, (5) b. Sept. 1, 1782 ; m. David Poor, farmer, Hampstead, N. H., b. Sept. 5, 1773. Children :
152-I. Plant Sawyer, (7) b. Jan. 18, ISO3; d. June 27, 1846.
I 53-2. Seneca, (7) b. Nov. IS, 1807 ; d. Feb. 14, ISO9.
154-3. Christina, (7) b. June 13, ISHI ; m. Samuel C. Clement, farmer. Children : Ist, Orson C., (S) 2d, Martin Van Buren, (S).
(25) VI. SALLY SAWYER, (55-5) dau. of Richard, (5) b. Nov. 17, 1785 ; d. 1846; m. John Clifford. Children :
155-1. Peter Lorenzo, (7).
1 56-2. Clark, (7).
1 57-3. Edwin, (7).
158-4. Plant, (7).
1 59-5. Richard, (7).
160-6. Sally, (7).
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(26) VI. ABIGAIL SAWYER, (56-6) dau. of Richard, (5) b. Aug. 15, 1789; m. Stephen Merrill, farmer, Corinth, Vt., b. July 10, 1776, and d. July 30, 1842. Child :
16I-I. Louisa M., (7) b. Dec. 6, 1831.
(27) VI. WILLIAM SAWYER, (57-1) son of Matthias, (5) mar- ried Polly Lane. Children :
162-I. Thomas, (7).
163-2. William, (7). (55) VII.
(28) VI. SARAH SAWYER, (61-5) dau. of Matthias, (5) married Stephen Marvin. Children :
164-I. George, (7).
165-2. Franklin, (7).
166-3. Mary F., (7).
(29) VI. NOAH SAWYER, (63-7) son of Matthias, (5) married Adaline Flanders, of Alton, N. H. Child :
167-1. Leander, (7).
(30) VI. ELIZABETH SAWYER, (65-9) dau. of Matthias, (5) m. Alfred Jacobs, of Gilmanton, N. H. Children :
168-1. Sarah E., (7).
169-2. Charles T., (7).
170-3. Mary Ann, (7).
(31) VI. ISRAEL SAWYER, (66-10) son of Matthias, (5) married Betsey Small, of Guilford, N. H. Children :
171-I. Sarah, (7).
172 -- 2. Israel, (7) married Lucinda Colman.
(32) VI. MOSES SAWYER, Rev., (68-1) son of Moses, (5) was born at Southampton, N. H., March 11, 1776. Gradu- ated at Dartmouth College in 1796 and took one of the first honors of his class. He read divinity with Rev. Asa Burton, D. D., of Thetford, Vt., and was pastor of the second Congregational church in Henniker, N. H., from May 26, 1802, to March 29, 1826. In his History of Henniker, Mr. L. W. Cogswell says of him: "Through his straightforward manner of conduct, his even disposi-
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tion, amiability and urbanity, always having a pleasant word for all with whom he came in contact, he became quite a favorite with the people of the town and much regret was felt at parting with him. He lived in the house that he built, on the site occupied now by the res- idence of Mr. Moore. He was a valuable citizen, always taking a deep interest in everything pertaining to the interest of the town." He was subsequently settled over the Congregational church in Scarborough, Me., and afterwards for brief periods over churches in Glou- cester, Mass., and Saugus of the same state. His health failing, he relinquished preaching and retired, first to Boscawen, N. H., for a time, and then to Ipswich, Mass., where he died of paralysis, Aug. 26, 1847. He married, July 7, 1802, Miss Frances Kimball, daughter of Capt. Peter Kimball, of Boscawen, who was b. Aug. 9, 1776, and d. at Medford, Mass., May 13, 1854. Children :
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