Person:Robert Sanders (1)

Colonial Governor of the area now known as Dutchess County.

Collections on History of Albany, p. 160 SANDERS, Robert, son of Thomas and Sarah Van Gorcum, smith, 1667, merchant, 1692, settled in Albany as early as 1665. In 1691, he and Harmanus Myndertse Van der Bogart, received a patent for a mile square of land in Dutchess county, including the site of the city of Poughkeepsie. His first w. was Elsie Barentse; the second was Alida .... Ch: Helena, wife of Johannes Lansing; Barent; Maria, w. of Gerrit Roseboom; Sara (?), w. of Hendrik Greefraadt; Elsje, bp. July 13, 1683, buried, Dec. 31, 1732.

New York Wills, Liber 7, Page 103 In the name of God, Amen, this 21 day of September, 1702. I, Robert Sanders, of New York, merchant, being in health. I leave to me eldest son Thomas Sanders 50 shillings in full of ye pretence he might have as being my eldest son and heir at law. I leave to my wife Elsie all houses, lands, and Plantations, with full power to sell the same, and to give to the children as she may think best. Witnesses, Abraham Vandewater, Direk Ten Eyck. Proved, May 1, 1703.