Person:Henry Sanders (4)

Richard Handy, NEHGR 125:192

Henry Sanders, NEHGR 127:252, 253

Alias:<ALIA> /Saunders/ Henry Sanders of Sandwich, Mass., by the late Lydia B.(Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, NEHGR Vol 127, pg 253-254: 4. HENRY SANDERS was born 18 July 1676, and was evidently still living on 15 April1754, when his son Henry is called "junr" at the baptism of his youngest child. He married ca. 1700, Ann Bates, dau. of Samuel and Lydia (Lapham) bates.She was living in April of 1721, when her youngest child was baptized, and probably for some time thereafter. No death date or probate has come to light for her. She is mentioned as Anne Sanderson in her father's will, dated 20Oct. 1713 (The Bates Bulletin, 1:7). The births of only four of the eleven children of Henry Sanders are recorded at Plymouth, while the baptisms of all appear in the records of the Sandwich First Church. Henry lived in the section of Plymouth called Agawam Plantation, as we learn by the following deed: "Joshua Gibbs of Agawam in the township of Plymouth, husbandman," conveyed for 15 pounds paid by "Henry Sanders, Senr., of sd. Agawam. Husbandman . . . allmy land and housing situated in sd Agawam by the road that goes from Sandwich to Rhode Island on the West side of the Agawam river, that is to say the house in which sd Henry Sanders now dwells, and extends the length of the house that I Joshua Gibbs moved away and all that piece of land which sd house stands on and the land on which the house stood that I moved away". The deed was dated and acknowledged 11 July 1732 and recorded the next day. Witnesseswere Micah Gibbs and Zephaniah Swift (Plymouth Co., Deeds, 27:108-9). The two witnesses are of interest. Micah Gibbs had married in the preceding May, Sarah Sanders, dau. of Henry. He was a son of Job and Judith (Bates) Gibbs, his mother being a sister of Ann (Bates) Sanders. Micah Gibbs had inherited Agawam property in 1725, and Zephaniah Swift also moved from Sandwich to Agawam at about that time. It seems likely that Hanry Sanders continued to live in Agawam until his death and perhaps passed along his real estate through some unrecorded deed or agreement to his son Henry. The four oldest children were baptized together 20 June 1708; "Anna, Sarah, Abigail and Thankful Sanders" (see original of the First Church records in the Society's Library, Boston). The Rev. Rowland Cotton, pastor of the Church from 1691 to 1722 never entered the names of the parents. Fortunately, the Plymouth birth records of the first three furnish conclusive evidence of their identity. The name is variously spelled Sanders, Saunders and Sanderson in the baptismal records.

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