Mary Purry (Carter) Sawyer (1780 - 1849)

Born 1780 in Halifax, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John Sawyer — married 8 Feb 1799 in Caswell, North Carolina

Descendants

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Biography

Mary Purry Carter was born in 1780, in Halifax County, North Carolina, a daughter of William Carter, Daughters of the American Revolution Ancestor #A020086. Applications for membership in the Society of the DAR have been made by the descendants of Mary Carter and her husband, John Sawyer. ^[1]

On February 8, 1799, in Caswell County, North Carolina, Mary Purry Carter married John Sawyer. ^[2] Mary is named as "Mary Sawyer" in the Will of her father, dated March 17, 1810, and probated May Court, 1810, in Halifax County, North Carolina. Mary's descendants are eligible to join the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.

Researchers Notes

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-63KQ-1ZM

Some difficulties with the Family Search identification of Mary Sawyer are that while it indicates that her husband died in 1849, it shows her living with her husband in 1850, in Illinois.

Also, she is attached to John Sawyer, Jr. who was born and died in Georgia. His mother, Mary Sawyer is living with him on the 1850 Census in Newton County, Georgia and she was born in 1796 in Georgia: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZYY-2H1

This John Sawyer, Jr. is found on Find A Grave, here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50161722/john-lee-sawyer

Sources

1. ↑ https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A020086
2. ↑ "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8T6-TY9 : 14 February 2020), Mary Purry Carter in entry for John Sawyer, 1799