Mary recalled, "Visiting school that morning was a young man by the name of John Roulstone; a nephew of the Reverend Lemuel Capen, who was then settled in Sterling.

The young man was very much pleased with the incident of the lamb, and, the next day, he rode across the fields on horseback, to the little old schoolhouse and handed me a slip of paper, which had written upon it the three original stanzas of the poem.

A 2-foot (0.61 m) tall statue and historical marker representing "Mary's Little Lamb" stands in the town center.

Mary Sawyer's house, located in Sterling, Massachusetts, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, but was destroyed by arson on August 12, 2007.

[15][16] The following year, Tyler was one of twenty women who helped save the Old South Meeting House in Boston by selling fleece from her pet lamb as attachments on autograph cards.

She was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, beside her husband, who predeceased her by eight years, aged 76.