John Sawtell/Sawtelle

(July 17, 1743 – May 10, 1811) 

Originally from Groton, Massachusetts, John Sawtelle lived in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, in 1773.            

Most information on Sawtelle is vague and difficult to confirm. However, historian J.B. Wilkinson notes in his book The Annals of Binghamton: And of the Country Connected with it, From the Earliest Settlement that a “Capt.” John Sawtelle participated in the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Bunker Hill.  

After the Revolutionary War, Sawtelle settled in Binghamton, New York, and took up the profession of tavern keeping. Reportedly, he hosted Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a prominent French statesman during Revolutionary France. 

John Sawtelle died around May 10, 1811, in Broome County, New York.