Sarah (Sawyer) Brown (1651 - 1732)

Born 20 Nov 1651 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joshua (Brown) Browne — married 15 Jan 1669 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 2 Aug 1732 at age 80 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Birth
Sarah, daughter of William Sawyer was born 20 November 1651 Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. ^{[1] [2]} Sarah's mother was Ruth (Bitfield aka Bidfield) Sawyer her parents having married about 1644 at Newbury after the death of William's first wife.

Marriage and Children
Sarah married 15 January 1669 at Newbury, Joshua Browne of Newbury,^[3] Joshua was the son of Richard and Edith (Unknown) Browne. Sarah and Joshua Browne of Newbury had the following known children:

1. Joseph "Browne", b. Oct 1699, Newbury, MA. ^[4] ; m. 1st Sarah Treadwell, abt 1694, Newbury ; m. 2nd Lydia Emery, 23 May 1696, Newbury
2. Joshua "Browne" (Jr.), b. 18 May 1671, Newbury, MA. ^[5]
3. Tristram "Browne", b. 21 Dec 1672, Newbury, MA. ^[6] ; m. Mary Tilton
4. Ruth "Brown", b. 29 Oct 1678, Newbury, MA. [not in Newbury VR's, births.] ^[7] ; m. John Ayers aka Ayres III, 31 Oct 1698, Newbury
5. Elizabeth "Browne", b. 2 Apr 1682, Newbury, MA. ^[7] ; m. Skipper Lunt of Newbury ; d. 21 Dec 1746, Newbury
6. Samuel "Brown", b. 4 Sep 1687, Newbury, MA. ^[8] ; m. 1st Dorothy Woodbridge, 24 oct 1712, Abington, Plymouth, MA. ; m. 2nd Mary Pratt, 11 Feb 1719, Abington, Plymouth, MA. ; he d. 12 Sep 1749, Abington, Plymouth, MA.

Death
Sarah (Sawyer) Brown(e) passed away 2 August 1732 at Newbury and was buried in the Sawyer Hill Burying Ground in Newbury. [legible gravestone image] ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ New England Historic and Genealogical Society Register: page 194, year 1874
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988" p.Anno 1651. Reprinted (subscription online db) Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Accessed 11 Jan 2022. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=MATownVital&h=7530480&ti .
3. ↑ Torrey, Clarence A. "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Accessed 11 Jan 2022. [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=NewEnglandMarriages&h=142086&ti
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, U.S., Town & Vital Records, 1620-1988; Newbury BMD's" p.51. [Orig. Rec. p.126] Reprinted (subscription online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Accessed 11 Jan 2022. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/21837199?h=e8f0b7
5. ↑ "Massachusetts, U.S., Town & Vital Records, 1620-1988; Newbury BMD's" p.17. [p.Anno 1671] Reprinted (subscription online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Accessed 11 Jan 2022. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/27024219?h=cc3ffa
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, U.S., Town & Vital Records, 1620-1988; Newbury BMD's" p.56. [Orig. Rec. p.136] Reprinted (subscription online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Accessed 11 Jan 2022. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/27024257?h=074755
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} "Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849: Vol.1, Births" p.71 (Ruth). Salem, Mass., USA: The Essex Institute, 1911 (Newcomb & Gauss, printers). Accessed 11 Jan 2022.

   p.71 (Ruth) https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/27024440?h=298f01

   p.73 (Elizabeth) https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/27024503?h=1f81d9

8. ↑ NEHGR: Vol. 3 (Oct 1849) p.374. "Rev. Samuel Brown of Abington, Plymouth, MA."
9. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61148474 Find A Grave Memorial# 61148474

See Also

• A Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of William Sawyer, of Newbury, Mass. (W.E. Moore, Manchester, N.H., 1889) Page 5
• Appleton, William. Some Descendants of William Sawyer, of Newbury, Mass. (D. Clapp & Son, Boston, 1891) Page 1