When Susanna Sawyer was born on 26 December 1787, in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Thomas Sawyer, was 25 and her mother, Susannah Wilder, was 21. She married Joseph Wakefield Jr. on 1 September 1803, in Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 23 July 1836, in Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States.
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The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the 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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