Brief Life History of Israel
When Israel Sawyer was born on 13 September 1739, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Josiah Sawyer, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ordway, was 24. He married Jemima Eastman on 24 November 1763, in New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 19 July 1821, in South Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in South Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Israel Sawyer, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Israel Sawyer, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Israel Sawyer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New Hampshire is 9th state.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
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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