Richard Sawtell (1611 - 1694)

Biography
Richard Sawtell was born on 7 Apr 1611 in Somersetshire, England and died on 2 Aug 1694 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. On 7 Apr 1611 he was baptized in Aller, Somersetshire, England. In 1636 he arrived in Massachusetts, North America. On 25 Jul 1636 he became an early proprietor of one acre, indicating that he was a single man in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. In 1661 he was elected the first Town Clerk and elected again in 1663 and 1664 of Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. In 1661 he was granted 20 acres of the Patatawag Indian Plantation and settled there with his two sons Jonathan Sawtell ( - ) and Zachariah Sawtell ( - ). In 1675 to 1678 he was a soldier through the whole of King Philip's War. He married to Mary Pope. She was born in 1621 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England and died on 18 Oct 1694 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. She is buried in Old Burying Place in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

Lineage
Richard Sawtell (1611 - 1694)

m. Mary Pope (1621 - 1694)

Jonathan Sawtell (1639 - 1690)

m. Mary Tarbell (1640 - 1676)

Elizabeth Tarbell (1668 - 1723)

m. Joseph Morse (1671 - 1709)

Jonathan Morse (1704 - 1801)

m. Mary Cloyes (1712 - 1785)

Zeruiah Morse (1735 - 1805)

m. Abraham Nurse (1732 - 1793)

Asa Nurse (1754 - 1803)

m. Louis Bent Glover (1762 - 1800)

Sally Nurse (1795 - 1819)

m. Nathan Fairbanks (1788 - 1825)

William Nelson Fairbanks (1818 - 1854)

m. Abby Augusta Reed (c.1826 - 1899)

Helen Suzette Fairbanks (1841 - 1921)

m. Frederic Crowninshield (1845 - 1818)

Helen Suzette Crowninshield (1868 - 1941)

m. Carl August de Gersdorff (1865 - 1944)

Chevalier Josephine de Gersdorff (1896 - 1975)

m. Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892 - 1970)

Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921 - 2014)

m. Sally Sterling Quinn (b. 1941)

Josiah Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee (b. 1982)