Thursday, April 16, 2015

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 258: 1757 Marriage Record of Ephraim Sawtell and Abigail Stone

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the  1757 marriage record of Ephraim Sawtell and Abigail Stone in Groton, Massachusetts:



The snippet of the Sawtell-Stone marriage;


The transcription of the record is:

"[December] 22d [1757] Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail Stone boath of Groton"

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Groton, Births, Marriages and Deaths," no page number, image 106 of 990, Ephraim Sawtell and Abigail Stone marriage entry.

The published Groton Vital Records book has the same information:


The source citation for this entry is:

Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1926-1927), Two volumes, Marriages, page 165, Abigail Stone and Ephraim Sawtell entry.

Ephraim and Abigail (Stone) Sawtell are my 5th great-grandparents, and the parents of Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847), who married Hannah Smith (1768-1827) and nine other children.  


Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver


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