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were (Newport town record) : Abigail, born
July 8, 1741; Benjamin, June 20, 1743; Joshua,
Feb. 10, 1746; Anstis, Sept. 23, 1747;
Ann, Dec. 1, 1749; Elizabeth, April 18, 1753;
Lewis, Aug. 6, 1755; and Mary, baptized Nov.
18, 1758; all of these children were baptized
in the Second Congregational Church at New-
port, of which their father was for many years
a deacon.
(III) Lewis Sayer, son of Deacon Joshua,
born Aug. 6, 1755, in Newport, R. I., married
Patience Hathaway. Among tfieir children was
Benjamin K., born in Newport, Rhode Island.
(IV) Benjamin King Sayer, son of Lewis
and Patience, born April 13, 1792, in Newport,
married Dec. 31, 1818, Ruth Lawton, daughter
of Jonathan Lawton, of Newport. Mr. Sayer
was a baker by trade, but was a local preacher
in the church of the Methodist Episcopal denomination,
and was a co-laborer of Rev.
Daniel Webb in building up the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Newport. Mr. Sayer removed
to New Bedford in 1819, and engaged in
the baking business with Jonathan R. Ward
on North Second street, east side, just north
of Middle street. In 1823 he went to Cuttyhunk
Island, where he was keeper of the light
for nine years. When in 1832 he came back
to New Bedford he formed a partnership with
Tilson B. Denham, and the firm of Sayer
& Denham carried on the baking business
at No. 34 South Water street until 1845.
In 1851 he was elected register of deeds for
the southern district of Bristol county, and
held the office until 1860, when he resigned
and was succeeded by his son, Charles C. Sayer.
In the early years of his life in New Bedford
he was the preacher for the Methodists, and
was largely instrumental in building up that
denomination. He died March 20, 1867, and
his wife Dec. 22, 1873. Their children who
lived to mature years were : Mary Lawton, who
died unmarried ; Benjamin Lawton ; and
Charles Cahoone.
(V) Benjamin Lawton Sayer, son of Benjamin
K. and Ruth, was born at New Bedford
May 5, 1824. He married Angalette Ackley,
daughter of John and Anna (Dudley) Ackley,
at East Haddam, Conn., on Dec. 30, 1846. She
was born March 5, 1825, at Chatham Centre,,
Conn., and /lied April 19, 1901. Their children
were: William L., born Feb. 26, 1848;
Herbert A., born June 17, 1850 (died July
4, 1871) ; Edward A., born Nov. 20, 1852
(died Sept. 6, 1879) ; Charles S.. bom April
2, 1856 (died Oct. 1, 1877) ; and Ruth Annie,
born Sept. 28, 1858. Benjamin L. Sayer joined
the Providence (now New England Southern)
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Methodist Episcopal Conference when he was
about twenty-one years old, and continued in
the active work of the ministry nearly to
the time of his death, which occurred in East
Falmouth March 21, 1876. He filled a large
number of appointments, mostly in Cape Cod.
(V) Charles Cahoone Sayer, son of Benjamin
K. and Ruth, was born in Newport, R. I.,
June 5, 1827. On Feb. 7, 1855, he married
Caroline Washburn, daughter of Marsena and
Lucy (Gifford) Washburn, and their children
were : Caroline Mather, born Aug. 3, 1856 ;
and Frederic Lincoln, born May 6, 1867.
Charles C. Sayer was elected register of deeds
on his father's withdrawal from the office in
1860, and remained in that position until his
death March 19, 1883. He was generally
nominated by both political parties, and he
never had any serious opposition. He served
several years as a member of the school committee,
and he was a leading member of the
Fourth Street Methodist Church. His widow
died Oct. 7, 1908. Both were buried in the
Rural Cemetery at New Bedford.
(VI) Frederic Lincoln Sayer, only son
of Charles C. and Caroline (Washburn) Sayer,
was born in New Bedford, May 6, 1867. Educated
in the public and high schools of his
native city he was graduated from the latter
in 1884, after which he took a four-years'
course at the Massachusetts School of Technology,
of Boston, and graduated from that
school in 1888 with the degree of S. B. He
took up mechanical engineering, entering the
employ of the George F. Blake Manufacturing
Company of Boston, where he continued until
that company united with the International
Pump Company, with offices in New York. Mr.
Sayer went to New York and continued with
this firm for the rest of his life. He soon
became a valuable employee of this concern
and in 1896 he was sent to Europe to attend
to their business in London, Paris, Vienna and
other business centers abroad. He was an expert
in his line and his employers placed in
him the most implicit confidence. Mr. Sayer's
death occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 23,
1906, and he was buried in the family plot in
the Rural Cemetery at New Bedford. He was
a member of the Crescent Athletic Club of
Brooklyn.
(VI) William Lawton Sayer, son of Benjamin
Lawton and Angalette (Ackley) Sayer,
was born Feb. 26, 1848, at Falmouth, Mass.
Until sixteen years old he attended the public
schools, then worked four years in the factory