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Joshua Sawyer

Male 1684 - 1738  (53 years)


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  • Name Joshua Sawyer  [1
    Born 29 Jun 1684  Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Residence 22 May 1706  Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Died 1 Mar 1738  Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    • The sources disagree slightly as to the date; headstone and town records give 1 Mar 1738, as does one of the probate papers, while another probate paper gives 6 Mar 1738. We use the consensus date of 1 Mar 1738.
    Probate 3 Apr 1738  Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Estate administration granted to widow Mary (Carter) Sawyer 
    Probate 18 Apr 1738  Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Estate inventoried; total not given on this page but later given as £1437.2.8  
    Probate 25 Nov 1738  Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Legal heirs (widow with four minor children and eight adult children) petition for division of estate 
    Probate 27 Nov 1738  Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Estate appraisal and division ordered 
    Probate 9 Mar 1738/9  Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Estate appraisal and division. Total value not given, however the widow's third is given a value of £434.5.0 
    Probate 7 Aug 1739  Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Administratrix's account 
    Buried Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    • First Burial Ground
    Joshua Sawyer (1684 - 1738) - Find A Grave Memorial
    Joshua Sawyer (1684 - 1738) - Find A Grave Memorial
    Includes headstone photo.

    Created by: Dorothy Longabard (inact...
    Record added: Sep 09, 2003
    Find A Grave Memorial# 7849494
    Person ID I2392  Wm L Gann Ancestors
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2017 

    Father Joshua Sawyer,   b. 13 Mar 1655, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jul 1738, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Sarah Wright,   b. 16 Jan 1653, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1697, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Married 2 Jan 1678  Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    • Could not find a record of this marriage in MA Vital Records
    Family ID F1031  Group Sheet

    Family Mary Carter,   b. 5 Oct 1683, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Oct 1751, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Married 22 May 1706  Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F1073  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S26902] Vital Records of Woburn, MA - 1642-1849, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, comps., (http://ma-vitalrecords.org, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, 2005-), v. 1 p. 232 (Reliability: 3), 04 Jan 2011.

    2. [S26902] Vital Records of Woburn, MA - 1642-1849, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, comps., (http://ma-vitalrecords.org, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, 2005-), v. 3 p. 247 (Reliability: 3), 04 Jan 2011.

    3. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Middlesex Co., Probate Papers, No 19962-20064, img. 00186 (Reliability: 3), 26 Jun 2017.

    4. [S26902] Vital Records of Woburn, MA - 1642-1849, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, comps., (http://ma-vitalrecords.org, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, 2005-), v. 2 p. 172 (Reliability: 3), 04 Jan 2011.

    5. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Middlesex Co., Probate Papers, No 19962-20064, img. 00192 (Reliability: 3), 27 Jun 2017.

    6. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Middlesex Co., Probate Papers, No 19962-20064, img. 00193 (Reliability: 3), 27 Jun 2017.

    7. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Middlesex Co., Probate Papers, No 19962-20064, img. 00194 (Reliability: 3), 27 Jun 2017.

    8. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Middlesex Co., Probate Papers, No 19962-20064, img. 00195 (Reliability: 3), 27 Jun 2017.

    9. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Middlesex Co., Probate Papers, No 19962-20064, img. 00205 (Reliability: 3), 27 Jun 2017.

    10. [S40191] Find a Grave, Jim Tipton, founder, (http://www.findagrave.com), Memorial# 7849494 (Reliability: 2), 04 Jan 2011.

    11. [S40191] Find a Grave, Jim Tipton, founder, (http://www.findagrave.com), Memorial# 104055644 (Reliability: 1), 10 May 2013.