Brief Life History of Daniel
When Daniel Sawyer was born in 1800, in New Holderness, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Humphrey Sawyer, was 31 and his mother, Susanna Piper, was 27. He married Eleanor Robbins in 1828, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Holderness, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States in 1850. He died on 26 December 1858, in New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Webster, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Daniel Sawyer, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Daniel Sawyer - Cemetery record or headstone: birth:
- Daniel Sawyer, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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