Part of the city of Ashtabula is located in northeastern Saybrook Township, along the shoreline of Lake Erie.

The early settlers are listed in the 1820 census for Ashtabula County with the township recorded as Wrightsburg.

[citation needed] The first settler in Saybrook Township was George Webster, a New Yorker who came in 1810.

[7] The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1.

Currently, the board is composed of chairman Norman Jepson and members Robert Brobst and Tom Pope.