Brief Life History of Elias Baxter
When Elias Baxter Sawyer was born on 3 July 1802, in Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Elias Sawyer, was 22 and his mother, Phoebe R. Slater, was 21. He married Priscilla Gardner on 13 November 1827, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Marion Township, Douglas, Kansas, United States in 1859 and Douglas, Kansas, United States for about 6 years. He died on 29 July 1874, in Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Douglas, Kansas, United States.
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- C B Sawyer, "Kansas State Census, 1865"
- Elias B. Sawyer and Caroline Vanhorn, "Ohio, County Marriages, 2 Apr 1850
- Elias Baxter Sawyer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · Ohio Becomes a State
Ohio became the nation's 17th state on March 1, 1803.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
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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