When Priscilla Sawyer was born in 1793, in South Carolina, United States, her father, William Elkanah Sawyer, was 41 and her mother, Mariam Belk, was 29. She married Benjamin Brookins on 18 June 1807, in Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Leake, Mississippi, United States for about 3 years. She died after 1853, in Mississippi, United States.
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English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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