Aholiab Sawyer (1742 - 1823)

Born 27 May 1742 in Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Bathsheba (Barrett) Sawyer — married 5 Jun 1769 in Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 4 Jan 1823 at age 80 in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Aholiab Sawyer, recorded as a son of Aholiab and Betty Sawyer, was born in Bolton, Massachusetts, on 27 May 1742. ^{[1] [2]}

Aholiab Sawyer and Bathsheba Barrett married 5 Jun 1769 in Bolton, Massachusetts. ^[3]

Together they had these children: ^[4]

1. Rebecca Sawyer, b. 1770.
2. Lucy Sawyer, b. 1772.
3. Catherine Sawyer, b. 1775.
4. Edward Sawyer, b. 1778.
5. Joshua Sawyer, b. 1780.
6. Hannah Sawyer, b. 1782.
7. Polly Sawyer, b. 1786.
   

   Private Aholiab Sawyer served with 18th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
   

   Aholiab Sawyer is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
   NSSAR Ancestor #: 284965
   Rank: Private

Aholiab was a Minute-Man of the American Revolution. He was a Private in Capt. Joel Fletcher's Company Of Minute-Men under Col. Ephraim Doolittle's Regiment, serving from Templeton, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

He died in Templeton, Massachusetts on Jan 4, 1823 ^[9] and is buried there at Templeton Common Burial Ground. ^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Bolton, Massachusetts, page 74.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQX6-JMF : 15 January 2020), Aholiab Sawyer, 1742.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH5-RYPB : 31 October 2019), Aholiab Sawyer and Bathsheba Barrett, 5 Jun 1769; citing Marriage, Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009655.
4. ↑ Vital Records of Templeton, Massachusetts; to the End of the Year 1849
5. ↑ DAR
6. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
7. ↑ "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-8L2G : 18 March 2018), Aholiab Sawyer, 19 Apr 1775; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711090.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2T-LZ94 : 19 February 2021), Aholiab Sawyer, 19 Apr 1775; citing Military Service, Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm .
9. ↑ Templeton - Deaths - Massachusetts Vital Records
10. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed May 2020), memorial page for Aholiab Sawyer, Find A Grave: Memorial #55804343.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2021-10-25), "Record of Aholiab Sawyer", Ancestor # A100202.

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896); Vol. 13, p. 859

• Vital Records of Bolton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Mass., 1910); p. 74

• Vital Records of Templeton, Massachusetts; to the End of the Year 1849 (Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Mass., 1907); p. 58-9

• Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.); will case 52254

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Malcolm Osmer for creating WikiTree profile Sawyer-1141 through the import of Elijah Hosmer_2013-02-03.ged on Feb 3, 2013.