Born ‎1613 England, died ‎1 Mar 1702 Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts‎, 88 or 89 years, buried ‎ Burying Ground of the First Settlers
From "A Genealogy of some of the descendants of William Sawyer of Newbury, Mass., embracing Ten Generations & One Hundred & Seven Families".William Sawyer came from England, and, according to the best tradition, from some part of Lincolnshire. He is first found in Salem, Mass., in 1640; afterwards in Wenham, Mass., in 1643, and the next year in Newbury, Mass., where he settled, raised his family , and died. He married Ruth __, whom he undoubtedly brought from his fatherland, and had 13 children, all born in Newbury

Married name: Sawyer