Person:Martin Saunders (5)
Martin Saunders
chr.28 Aug 1630 Sudbury, Suffolk, England
d.4 Sep 1706 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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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
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Martin Saunders1630 - 1706
  • W.  Lydia HardierEst 1631 - 1711/12
m. 1 Apr 1651
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Martin Saunders
Gender Male
Christening[1][2] 28 Aug 1630 Sudbury, Suffolk, EnglandAll Saints
Marriage 1 Apr 1651 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Lydia Hardier
Other[2][4] 7 May 1651 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Martjn Saunders").
Will[2] 16 Apr 1706
Death[2][3] 4 Sep 1706 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[2] 11 Oct 1706 £15
Probate[2] 11 Oct 1706 Will proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Martin Saunders, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    6:176.

    "Martin Saunders, bp. All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, 28 August 1630 [NEHGR 66:177]; m. Braintree 1 April 1651 Lydia Hardier [BrVR 716], daughter of Richard Hardier [NEHGR 8:352, 13:12,31:105-6]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 [4159R] Martin2 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)
    1374.

    "[4159R] Martin2 Saunders, (Martin1), bapt. Aug. 28, 1630 at All Saint's, Sudbury, Co. Suffolk, England, died, probably he given as Arter Sanders, Sep. 4, 1706 a. 78 at Braintree. … He was tithingman 1693, 1695, 1698. He was made freeman May 7, 1651. Lived on School St. south side near Summer St, probably on his father in law's homestead. He was in King Philip's War 1675. (Register Vol. 43-268). …

    [4159] S. P. 16:190: Will of Martin Saunders - being now infirm etc.: To wife Lydia the whole estate & power to sell any if necessary for her comfortable subsistence. To only daughter Elizabeth Veazey with her present husband Solomon Veazey & to my grandson John Veazey my house, barn, orchards, upland & meadows with 2 1/2 a. salt marsh at further side of the town brook by William Savell's land, equally divided between them, besides what I have given to grandson John Veazey already. To grandsons Solomon & Eleazer Veazey 10 a. upland in Great Field nigh Weymouth Ferry equally, at decease of my wife. To Dan'l Saunders 40/ or a cow at the discretion of my executors at the decease of my wife, same to Mary Kent, and Susanna Kent 40/ etc. Wife Lydia & grandson John Veazey executors. Apr. 16, 1706 - Oct. 11, 1706. Witness: James Brackett, Aloses Payne, Joseph Parmenter. Inventory: Homestead £195, pasture, field, meadow etc. Oct. 11, 1706."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Martin 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.

    SAUNDERS
    MARTIN, Braintree, s. of the preced. brot. from Eng. by his f. was freem. 1651, and m. 1 Apr. of the same yr. Lydia, d. of Richard Hardier; had Joseph, wh. d. 17 May 1667; Joseph, again, b. 3 Oct. 1657; Elizabeth 2 Oct. 1663; Jonathan, 3 Nov. 1672, bapt. 5 Jan foll. d. soon; and Lydia, b. 17 Feb. 1675, d. at 2 yrs. and he d. 4 Sept. 1706, aged 78. Elizabeth m. 3 Nov. 1680, Solomon Veazie.

  4. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:192.
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