Eunice Houghton

1698 - 1748  (50 years)

• Name	Eunice Houghton
  Birth	1 Mar 1698	Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [2, 3, 4]
  Religion	9 Apr 1723/24 (26 years)	Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  On 9 April 1723/24 she was admitted to the Lancaster Church.
  Baptism as an Adult	19 Apr 1724 (26 years)	Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  She was baptized as an adult on 19 April 1724 in the Lancaster Church, Lancaster, Massachusetts.
  Death	24 Jun 1748	Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [2, 3, 4]
  Burial	Aft 24 Jun 1748	Chocksett Burial Ground, Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Chocksett Burial Ground, Sterling, Massachusetts   [3]
  	Gravestone of Eunice (Houghton) Sawyer HERE LIES BURIED Ye BODY OF MRs EUNICE SAWYER Ye WIFE OF Liet EPHRIAM SAWYER WHO DECd JUNE 24th A. D. 1748 AGE 52 YEARS Plot: Section W
  Siblings	7 brothers and 5 sisters
  1. Captain Jonas Houghton,   b. 2 Sep 1682, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 15 Aug 1739, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 56 years)   2. John Houghton,   b. 24 Jan 1683, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   3. Mary Houghton + 4. Benjamin Houghton,   b. 1691, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 28 Feb 1764, Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 73 years) ▻ Zerviah Moore,  m. 28 Jul 1720   5. Daniel Houghton > 6. Eunice Houghton,   b. 1 Mar 1698, Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 24 Jun 1748, Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 50 years) ▻ Lt. Ephraim Sawyer,  m. 4 Mar 1720   7. Josiah Houghton,   b. Oct 1698, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 29 Sep 1723, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 24 years)   8. Ruth Houghton   9. Stephen Houghton   10. James Houghton   11. Dorcus Houghton   12. Jemima Houghton   13. Dinah Houghton,   b. Apr 1711, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 23 Sep 1723, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 12 years)
  Patriarch & Matriarch	father Houghton   (3 x Great Grandfather)  Mary   d. 28 Sep 1642, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   (Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I20814
  Last Modified	16 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Jonas Houghton,   b. Abt Apr 1663, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 20 Sep 1723, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Mary Berbeane,   b. 2 Jul 1661, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 31 Dec 1720, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 59 years)
  Family ID	F93	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Spouse / Partner	Lt. Ephraim Sawyer,   b. Abt 1698, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   Other Partners: Sarah Richardson
  Marriage	4 Mar 1720	Concord, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [2, 4]
  They were married by Justice Minott. [5]
  Age at Marriage	She : 22 years - He : ~ 22 years and 3 months.
  Children	From 1721 to 1728  [1, 2, 4]
  1. Abigail Sawyer (1721-1759) 2. Mary Sawyer (1724-1759) 3. Eunice Sawyer (1725-1760) 4. Katherine Sawyer (1727-1819) 5. Ephraim Sawyer (1728-1814)
  Family ID	F8214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jul 2025

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Eunice Houghton(1698 – 1748) 2Jonas Houghton(Abt 1663 – 1723) 4John Houghton(1624 – 1684) 8John Houghton(1593 – ) 16John Houghton( – 1618) 17Catherine Houghton 9Damaris Buckmaster 18 19 5Beatrix(1628 – 8 Jan 1711/12) 10 20 21 11 22 23 3Mary Berbeane(1661 – 1720) 6John Berbeane(Abt 1628 – 8 Jan 1713/14) 12 24 25 13 26 27 7Sarah Gould(1637 – 1670) 14John Gould(Abt 1611 – 21 Mar 1690/91) 28 29 15Mary( – 1642) 30 31

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1 Mar 1698 - Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Marriage - 4 Mar 1720 - Concord, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Religion - 9 Apr 1723/24 - Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Baptism as an Adult - 19 Apr 1724 - Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Death - 24 Jun 1748 - Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Burial - Aft 24 Jun 1748 - Chocksett Burial Ground, Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S110] Ancestry.com, Ancestry Family Trees, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [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). [S14] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current® http://findagrave.com, (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Memorial ID 50532091 Eunice Houghton Sawyer. [S815] Sawyer, Fred E. Genealogical Index of the Sawyer Families of New England Prior to 1900, (Blackfoot, Idaho: Neves Printing Co., 1983). [S1100] Tolman, George. Concord, Massachusetts: Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850, (Concord, Massachusetts: Town of Concord, 1895).