Mary (Prescott) Sawyer (bef. 1630 - abt. 1717)

Born before 24 Feb 1630 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Sawyer — married about 1648 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1717 after about age 86 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Mary (Prescott) Sawyer immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Mary Prescott was supposedly baptized on "24 February 1630" at Sowerby (chapelry), Halifax (parish), Yorkshire, England.^[1]

She married Thomas Sawyer about 1648 in Lancaster, Middlesex (now Worcester) County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[2]

Mary (Prescott) Sawyer probably died at Lancaster, Middlesex County (now Worcester County), Province of Massachusetts Bay, about 1717^[3]

Children

1. Thomas Sawyer, b. 2 Jul 1649, d. 5 Sep 1736
2. Mary Sawyer, b. 4 Jan 1652, d. 1711
3. Nathaniel Sawyer, b. 24 Nov 1670, d. 10 Nov 1756
4. Ephraim Sawyer
5. Elizabeth Sawyer
6. Joshua Sawyer
7. Cornet James Sawyer
8. Caleb Sawyer
9. John Sawyer
10. Elizabeth Sawyer
11. Deborah Sawyer
12. Hannah Sawyer
13. Martha Sawyer

Sources

1. ↑ This baptism is taken from William Prescott, The Prescott memorial, or, A genealogical memoir of the Prescott families in America (Boston: 1870), 41. This is a secondary source. The original church register needs to be consulted to confirm this, which would also show what the dual year should be. If this is the date as it appears in the register, the dual year surely is 1630/1.
2. ↑ Henry Nourse, The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850 (Lancaster: 1920), 40 [1]. This was included by Nourse in "Marriages of Sundry Early Proprietors and Residents of Lancaster Not found in the Preceding Lists," with the year 1648. He doesn't give a source for these entries, but 1648 is a plausible year.
3. ↑ She is described as being deceased "near two years since elapsed" previous to 9 December 1719, when the estate was ordered to be administered. This would put her death most likely in early 1718. Another document says Thomas, Jr., took care of his mother for 9 1/2 years. If this was since his father's death, her death would be some time in 1716. This makes 1717 a plausible circa year. Middlesex Co., MA, probate file 19992, Americanancestors.org, $ [2]

See also:

• The Longley Family Genealogy compiled by Louise Baneck Longley and Janneyne Longley Gnacinski, 1967, FHL Film # 928132 Item 6, page 3.
• Homer Wakefield, Wakefield Memorial : comprising an historical, genealogical and biographical register of the name and family of Wakefield, 1897. p. 83.
• Nourse, Henry. The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850 (Lancaster, Mass., 1890)