Person:Henry Sanders (3)

5 children

Henry Sanders, NEHGR 127:250-252

Savery Fam. of America, NEHGR 41:382

Alias:<ALIA> /Saunders\Sanderson/ Name Variations: Saunders, Sanders, Sanderson Henry Sanders of Sandwich, Mass., by the late Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, NEHGR Vol 127, pg 251: 2. Henry Sanders was born about 1645 and died intestate at Sandwich, probably soon before 2 June 1685. He married, evidently about 1669, but no record of the name of his wife has come to light. We venture the hypotheses that both his parents died, and it would appear likely that he was "bound out" at an early age to some family in the village. We can find no further record of him, except in connection with thebirth records of two of his children, apart from the probate records which show that he had managed to acquire land and to accumulate a modest estate. His wife survived him but she is unfortunately not named in the distribution, dated 2 june 1685: As to the settling of the Estate of Henry Sanders of Sandwich, the Court orders that the relict of sd Sanders shall have one third of the whole Estate and the house and lands shall be to the two sons. The eldest shall have a double portion of the sd house and lands, hee paying fourty shillings to his youngest sister; the youngest son shall have a single part of sd house and lands, he paying to his youngest sister twenty shillings, and the four daughters is to have five pounds apiece of sd Estate and what of the Estate doe remain, the relict shall have for the paying of debts and bringing up the shildren. By ssher chance an updated appraisal has survived which seems clearly to refer to this Henry Sanders and is found in Charles H. Pope. Comp., The Plymouth Colony Scrap Book, 1918, p. 110. The appraisers were Thomas Tubber, born 1638, and Samuel Briggs, born 1649, contemporaries of Henry Sanders. The inventory includes "the housing upland and meadow." valued at 90 pounds and nine cows, two oxen, two steers, a bull, four yearlings, two young calves, a horse, two swine, some small pigs, silver money, three beds "with all yt belongs to them", some empty casks, other lumber, twochests, two cups, eight spoons, "iron things", and about 40 pounds of cottonand woolen yarn.

1. ↑ Sharon Bearce (skbearce@mehs.com). number number Our RoyalAncestors.
2. ↑ Sharon Bearce (skbearce@mehs.com). number number Our RoyalAncestors.