William Sawyer

1679 - 1741  (62 years)

• Name	William Sawyer
  Birth	2 Feb 1679	Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
  History	17 Oct 1691 (12 years)	Plymouth Colony merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony forming the Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Married	Abt 1700 (20 years)  [1]
  Mary Houghton, the daughter of John and Mary (Farrar) Houghton. She was born on 7 February 1680 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She died on Saturday 1 April 1752 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Aholiab Sawyer (c1702-____) 2. Mary Sawyer (c1704-____) 3. Annah or Hannah Sawyer (1706-____) 4. Hepzibah Sawyer (c1708-____) 5. William Sawyer (1711-____) 6. Josiah Sawyer (1714-____) 7. Thankful Sawyer (1717-____) 8. Martha Sawyer (1719-____) 9. David Sawyer (1721-____) 10. Abigail Sawyer (1724-____) 11. Benjamin Sawyer 12. Israel Sawyer 13. Joseph Sawyer 14. Uriah Sawyer
  Death	3 Feb 1740/41	Bolton, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Burial	Aft 3 Feb 1740/41	Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Massachusetts
  He gave the land for the graveyard and was the first to be buried there.
  Siblings	4 brothers and 2 sisters
  + 1. Hannah Sawyer,   b. 23 May 1675, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 1 May 1765, Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 89 years) ▻ Jonathan Moore   2. William Sawyer,   b. 2 Feb 1679, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 3 Feb 1740/41, Bolton, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 62 years)   3. Joseph Sawyer,   b. Abt 1682, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 10 Jul 1737, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 55 years)   4. Bezaleel Sawyer,   b. 13 May 1685, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 25 Aug 1760, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 75 years) + 5. Elias Sawyer,   b. 1689, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 20 Nov 1752, Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 63 years) ▻ Beatrix Pope   6. Sarah Sawyer,   b. Abt 1692, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   7. Josiah Sawyer,   b. About 1694, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Half siblings	2 half sisters (family of Thomas Sawyer and Sarah Fairbanks)
  1. Sarah Sawyer,   b. 3 Jan 1671/72, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   2. Mary Sawyer,   b. 30 Jan 1671/72, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Edmund Sawyer,   b. Abt 1540, Norfolk, England   (3 x Great Grandfather)  Amy Wells   d. After 1670  (Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I16369
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Sawyer,   b. 2 Jul 1649, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 5 Sep 1736, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Hannah Lewis,   b. 18 Mar 1648/49, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Before 1718, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F480	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1William Sawyer(1679 – 3 Feb 1740/41) 2Thomas Sawyer(1649 – 1736) 4Thomas Sawyer(1616 – 1706) 8John Sawyer(1582 – 15 Jul) 16Thomas Sawyer(Abt 1556 – ) 17unknown wife 9 18 19 5Mary Prescott(24 Feb 1629/30 – 1716) 10John Prescott(1604/05 – 1681) 20Ralph Prescott(1569 – 1609) 21Helen(Abt 1571 – 1643) 11Mary Platts( – 1678) 22Abraham Gawkroger Platts 23 3Hannah Lewis(18 Mar 1648/49 – 1718) 6William Lewis( – 1671) 12 24 25 13 26 27 7Amy Wells( – 1670) 14 28 29 15 30 31

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 2 Feb 1679 - Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Death - 3 Feb 1740/41 - Bolton, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Burial - Aft 3 Feb 1740/41 - Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S1105] Burr, Annie Lane and Thomas Hovey Gage. "John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass., and Some of His Descendants", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Registe, volume LXXIX, 1925).