Person:John Saunders (66)

Watchers
John Saunders
chr.5 Mar 1627/28 Sudbury, Suffolk, England
d.Bef 28 Mar 1689
m. Bef 1619
  1. Mary Saunders1619 - 1696/97
  2. Martin Saunders1621/22 - 1622
  3. Leah Saunders1623 - 1706/07
  4. Judith Saunders1625 - 1651
  5. John Saunders1627/28 - Bef 1689
  6. Martin Saunders1630 - 1706
  7. Daniel Saunders1632 - 1634
  • HJohn Saunders1627/28 - Bef 1689
  • WMary MuntjoyEst 1630 - Bef 1683
m. 9 Oct 1650
  • HJohn Saunders1627/28 - Bef 1689
  • WHannah _____Aft 1644 - 1719
m. Bef 1685
Facts and Events
Name[1] John Saunders
Gender Male
Christening[1] 5 Mar 1627/28 Sudbury, Suffolk, EnglandAll Saints
Other[1] 22 May 1650 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Marriage 9 Oct 1650 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Muntjoy
Will[1] 10 Jan 1683
Marriage Bef 1685 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Rachel).
to Hannah _____
Death[1] Bef 28 Mar 1689 Before date of probate.
Probate[1] 28 Mar 1689 Will not allowed.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 [4157R] John2 Saunders, in Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, comp. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850: including the Modern Towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the City of Quincy. (Boston, Massachusetts: Published in cooperation with the Quincy Historical Society by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983)
    1373-74.

    "[4157R] John2 Saunders, (Martin1) bapt. Mar. 5, 1627/8 at All Saint's, Sudbury, Co. Suffolk, England, died about March 1689. …"

    John Saunders will on file in Suffolk Probate (3-170, New Series) does not mention his second wife and her children as it was made before her second marriage. He was made freeman May 22, 1650.

    [4157] S. P. New Series 3:170, Will of John Sanders, Jan. 10, 1683: To son John all land at pomkin hill & meadow and all land at 'whom' (home) on S.E. side of highway save only where the cow house stands & my orchard & barn on same side and 'nue' end of my dwelling house & the 'lenetoe' on the back side & the 'seler' in the 'lenetoe' & land on backside of house from brother Ruggles orchard to the path that leads down to the brook from the 'lenetoe' or 'seller' door, and 2 steers, 1 cow & heifer & my black 'hors' & my 'fether' bed & bedstead & 'fromten'? & a 'coper' & an iron pot & two pewter platers & a 'scillett'.

    To son Josiah old end of my dwelling house & 'lenetoe' or the backside etc. and land from it to the brook, and land running to John Mills orchard & the cow house & half the plain, to be divided between him and my daughter Mary, he to have the half side next to widow Harbors orchard etc. Rest of estate to daughter Mary and son Josiah. Son William Vasey sole executor, his wife and children to enjoy the profits of income until John & Josiah Sanders come to age of 21 yrs. Witness: Francis Nucom, Samuel Tompson. Presented Mar. 28, 1689 at probate by William Vesey. (Not allowed) (as he had remarried)."

  2.   John Saunders, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:21.

    "John (Saunders), Braintree, perhaps s. of Martin, b. in Eng. m. 9 Oct. or 8 Nov. 1650, Mary Munjoy, sis. of George the first, had Mary, b. 12 Dec. 1653; John, 23 Nov. 1657, d. in few days; Judith, 28 Feb. 1663, d. very soon; Rachel, 4 Feb. 1664, d. in few days; Judith, again, 23 Jan. 1665, d. very soon; and John, 1 Sept. 1669."