admin THE SAWYER FAMILY. The Sawyer family came to America from England during the Colonial period and settled in Vermont. James Sawyer was a soldier of the Revolution, and fought as a Lieutenant at the battle of Bunker Hill. His son, Dan Sawyer, removed to Windham, Connecticut, after the Revolution. He married Miss Denion. Their son, James Denison Sawyer, was born at Windham, Conn., in 1813. In 1840 he removed to Buffalo and the same year married Miss Charlotte Olivia Field, a daughter of Pliny A. Field and Olivia Babcock. Miss Field’s elder brother, George Pliny Field, was an infant at the time of the burning of Black Rock by the British and Indians in 1813. Escaping from the catastrophe with her child, Mrs. Field fled from Black Rock to Batavia by the way of Williamsville, taking with her household goods, which she had loaded on a cart. Her home was burned, but after the invasion was over she returned to Black Rock and built a house.
Pliny A. Field served with the Patriot army in the defense of the Niagara Frontier. George Pliny Field, the son of Pliny A. and Olivia Field was educated at West Point. He served in the Mexican War and was killed at the Battle of Monterey.
SOURCE: Memorial and Family History of Erie County New York; Volume I