Thursday, May 19, 2016

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 314: Birth Records of Children of Ephraim and Abigail (Stone) Sawtell in Groton, Mass.

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 birth record of the children of Ephraim Sawtell (1734-ca 1800) and Abigail Stone (1737-before 1800) born in Groton, Massachusetts:


The list of children for Ephraim and Abigail (Stone) Sawtell is on the left-hand page:

The transcription of this record is:

Abagail Sawtell the daughter of Ephraim Sawtell and
Abagail his wife born at Groton November 3'd 1758
Lucy Sawtell the daughter of Ephraim Sawtell and
Abagail his wife born at Groton January 20'th 1760
Josiah Sartell the son of Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail
his wife was born at Groton January the 30'th 1762
Molley Sartell the daughter of Ephraim Sartell
and Abigail his wife born at Groton December 3'd 1763
Eli Sartell the son of Ephraim Sartell jnr & Abigail his
wife was born at Groton Nov'r 26'th 1765
Josiah Sawtell the son of Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail his
wife born at Groton January 24'th 1768
Ephraim Sawtell the son of Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail
his wife was born at Groton June 23'd 1770
Sarah Sawtell the daugh'r of Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail
his wife was born at Groton November 20'th 1772

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 May 2016), "Groton, Births, Marriages, and Deaths," image 86 of 990, births of children of Josiah and Abigail Sawtell; citing original data from Massachusetts town and city clerk records in Jay and Delene Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records (Provo, Utah : Holbrook Research Institute), Microfiche collection.

These are the first eight of ten children born to Ephraim and Abigail (Stone) Sawtell; the last two children were born in Mason, New Hampshire.  

The surname varies between Sawtell and Sartell in these records, presumably spelled as the town clerk heard the names.  Note that there are two children born with the name of Josiah.  The first one was born in 1762 and died in 1766.

Ephraim and Abigail (Stone) Sawtell are my 5th great-grandparents.  Their son and 6th child, Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847) is my 4th great-grandfather.

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1 comment:

T said...

Randy, your ancestors keep either showing up in the same place as mine or they are the same people. I need some Baileys in Peacham, Groton, VT. Have any?