Hannah Sawyer
Born at Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1689, probably a daughter of Joshua and Sarah Sawyer, she married Josiah Converse there in 1706 and bore at least nine children, among them Col. James Converse of Brookfield and probably Josiah Converse (1710). The family moved to Leicester about 1727 and later to Brookfield, where she died in 1747. Probably the grandmother of Col. Israel Converse.
Life
- 1689Born25 Nov 1689, Woburn, Massachusetts
"Hannah, d. of Joshua and Sarah, Nov. 25, 1689" (Woburn births, under Sawyer).
- 1706Married Josiah Converse30 Dec 1706, Woburn, Massachusetts
"Josiah Converse and Hannah Sawyer, both of Woburn, Dec. 30, 1706."
- 1747Died18 Jun 1747, Brookfield, Massachusetts
"He afterward removed to Brookfield, Mass. where his wife Hannah died June 18, 1747" (Ella Browne, 1903); WikiTree has the same.
compiledprobableSources
- W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
- American Monthly Magazine (Daughters of the American Revolution), vol. 22, no. 4 (April 1903): Genealogical Notes and Queries, answers signed "E. P. C. B."
- WikiTree profiles: the Chapin, Munn, Hitchcock, Sheldon, Whiting, Pynchon, Cummings, Kendall and Converse ancestors of Ella (Chapin) Browne
Family
- Father
- Joshua Sawyer
Of Woburn; "Joshua, Sen.," died 14 July 1738 (Woburn deaths). WikiTree has him born 1656 at Lancaster, son of Thomas Sawyer and Mary Prescott. Not researched further.
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- Mother
- Sarah Wright
Her birth record names her mother Sarah; Kith and Kin gives "Joshua and Sarah (Wright) Sawyer." WikiTree has Sarah Wright, b. 1653 at Woburn. Not researched further.
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Pedigree
Notes
Grandmother of Col. Israel Converse (on the one doubt, see Josiah Converse (1710)). Born at Woburn in 1689, a daughter of Joshua and Sarah Sawyer, she married Josiah Converse there on 30 Dec 1706; her elder sister Abigail had married his brother John Converse in 1699, and a Mary Sawyer, probably another sister, his brother Robert in 1698 (source). She bore at least nine children between 1707 and 1729, among them Josiah (1710), Jesse (1720), Jude (1723) and Col. James Converse of Brookfield (1725). The family moved to Leicester about 1727 and later to Brookfield, where she died in June 1747 (source). Since the other reading of Israel’s descent runs through her sister Abigail, the Sawyer ancestry is the family’s either way.
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.