Brief Life History of Phebe
When Phebe Sawyer was born on 10 February 1747, in Lyme, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jacob Sawyer, was 30 and her mother, Rose Bennett, was 26. She married Thomas Ruby on 22 March 1767, in Lyme, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died after 1844.
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- Christopher Rubey, "United States Census, 1820"
- Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1700-1921
- Phebe Bennet Sawyer, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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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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