EDMUND SAWYER Lt and MEHITABLE MORRILL SAWYER
Edmund Sawyer was born Sept. 2, 1759 in Hampstead N.H Birth Record
The Edmund Sawyer "Farm"was in Warner New Hampshire located on the high point of land on the old road to Henniker, near the junction to the road running to Benjamin Badger's.
1777 - 1779 He was a private on the Roll of Capt. Ebenezer Webster.s Co in Col. Thomas Stickney.s Regiment of Gen. John Stark.s Brigade raised out of the regiment of NH Milita which company joined The Continental Army at Bennington and Stillwater.
Engaged July 20, 1777. Discharged September 20, 1777. Time of service . 2 months. Vol 15, 164.
Then he appears as a private in the roll of Capt. Simon Marstson.s Co. in Lt. Colonel Stephen Peabody.s Regiment which was raised by the State of NH for Continental service in RI. Engaged June 12, 1778. Discharged January 1, 1779 Time of service 6 months, 20 days. Vol 15, 462.
as per NH Rolls of Soliders, Revolutionary War and Warner Historical society
1784 - Edmund and Mehitable Morrill were married on September 30, by Congregational minister, Rev. William Kelley. They had ten children over the span of twenty years.
1795 - The first wagon ever used in town was brought in by Lt. Edmund Sawyer somewhere about 1795. Mrs. Mary Sawyer Peters of Henniker, who is in her 101st year, is a daughter of Lt. Sawyer, and can remember this carriage. Up to that time everybody rode horseback and in carts behind oxen. Kearsarge Independent November 17, 1899.
1809 - Edmund Sawyer bid off the building of the pound [place for stray cattle etc.] at thirty-seven dollars, and did the job in April, 1809. (The pound was located on School street Warner NH). In the month of May, 1902 the old pound was dismantled, the last stone being used toward the foundation of the George & Helen Martin home on Kearsarge street. Because he built the pound Edmund probably built the foundation and steps of his house.
1827 - Lt. Edmund Sawyer died and is buried in the Parade Ground cemetery. He was 67 years old. Jacob [his oldest son] may have been living at the farm and sold it to Cephas Houghton. The 1830 & 1840 census indicate a Jacob Sawyer living in Henniker and by 1850 he is working in Manchester as a clerk along with his wife Laura, six sons, and a young girl by the name of Sarah H. Bartlett.
1834 - Mehitable Sawyer passes away on December 25, 1834 and is buried in Henniker in the the Old or Center Cemetery on Old Concord Road in the plot of her daughter Mary Sawyer Peters.
