Joseph Sawyer papers, 1767-1871

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Joseph Sawyer papers, 1767-1871

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/641577333

This collection contains original correspondence of Joseph Sawyer, deeds, bills, receipts and other financial papers. It also contains original United States land grants, one signed by President Andrew Jackson. There are also materials addressed to Mr. Sawyer's wife Mary and from his brother Edward.

2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7911612

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Sawyer, Joseph, 1786-1858

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Joseph Sawyer was born in 1786 in Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He married a widow, Mary Dole Plastridge, the daughter of Moses and Lucy Poor Dole, in 1829. They had six children, including Joseph Edward Sawyer, who became a Michigan attorney. (His papers are also located in the Burton Historical Collection.) Mr. Sawyer became a prominent landowner and respected selectman of the Grafton County, N.H. community. He began his career as an administrator of several prominent estates throug...

Sawyer, Edward

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