Sayre family : lineage of Thomas Sayre, a founder of Southampton . gation of theenemy or their sympathizers. • When the news of the murder of Parson Caldwell (his wife having previouslybeen killed at Connecticut Farms) reached Deacon Sayre, he got up his team, to Elizabethtown and took Mr. Caldwells six orphan children to his ownhouse, where he took care of them until they were permanently provided for else-where. They were under his roof at least three months, and learned during thattime to greatly love and reverence their benefactor. Here Baxter Sayre, the famous abolitionist, spent his
Sayre family : lineage of Thomas Sayre, a founder of Southampton . gation of theenemy or their sympathizers. • When the news of the murder of Parson Caldwell (his wife having previouslybeen killed at Connecticut Farms) reached Deacon Sayre, he got up his team, to Elizabethtown and took Mr. Caldwells six orphan children to his ownhouse, where he took care of them until they were permanently provided for else-where. They were under his roof at least three months, and learned during thattime to greatly love and reverence their benefactor. Here Baxter Sayre, the famous abolitionist, spent his early years; and to thishome of his childhood the philanthropist David A. Sayre, of Lexington, Ky.,used to return at intervals with great delight. So memories of old-time patriotism, hospitality, religious zeal, and self-sacrificecluster around this old homestead and make it holy ground. The present owner (1900), Mr. Joseph M. Sayre, is the great-grandson of thegood old Deacon, and cherishes the old mansion and its associations with a truepatriotic Sixth Generation : Line of Daniel,^ Daniel,^ Joseph^ 139 The following article was written for the St. Louis Presbyterian, and pub-lished by request. It is a copy from the newspaper clipping now (February, 1895)in possession of D. F. Sayre, Esq., Fulton, Wisconsin. Evidence shows it tohave been undoubtedly written by Rev. J. G. Bergen, pastor of the Madison,N. J., Presbyterian church. The reverse side of the chpping shows that it was published in 1856 (duringthe Fremont and Dayton campaign), in a Morristown, N. J., newspaper: I found the church of Madison to consist of about two hundred members,two hundred families, and over twelve hundred souls. It had a strong and ablebench of Elders, on whom I could lean for prayer, counsel and aid; and anactive Board of Trustees, who relieved me from the burden of worldly concerns. Ephraim Sayre, a man of about seventy years, strongly marked with what inthat part of the country was
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