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About Dr. Edward Saunders Jr.
Children of EDWARD SAUNDERS and UNKNOWN are:
EDWARD (SANDERS)2 SAUNDERS I, b. August 10, 1625, England; d. 1672, Wicomica Parish, Lancaster Co.,VA.
EDWARD (SANDERS)2 SAUNDERS I (EDWARD1) was born August 10, 1625 in England, and died 1672 in Wicomica Parish, Lancaster Co.,VA. He married MARY WEBB May 1660 in Northumberland County, VA, daughter of GILES WEBB and ELIZABETH. [SIC: Mary Partain] She died 1683.
Family
1. Dr. Edward Saunders (1625-1672) married Mary (Webb) Hudnall, widow of John Hudnall, and had two sons:[1] :Widow Mary Webb Hudnall Saunders married (3rd) William Thomas and died in 1583.[1]
Only known children of Dr. Edward Saunders:
- Ebenezer and
- Edward Saunders.[1]
Origins
2 sons: Thomas & Edward
"Thomas SAUNDERS (SANDERS) (Sic: Edward)(b 1595 in Eng) arrived on the ship “Safety” in 1635 at the age of 40 with his son Thomas age 13 and his other son Edward age 9."
Biography
EDWARD SAUNDERS VIRGINIA (1625-1672)
Edward SAUNDERS I, born in England in 1595, came to Virginia in the ship SAFETY in August 1635, a time of great influx of persons from the British Isles. Until 1634, all ships were required to land atPoynt Comfort which is a port across the James River from present day Norfolk VA.
On the manifest are listed two sons of Edward but other family members may have also come to Virginia. These two sons were Thomas SAUNDERS born 1622 and the Ancestor of this piece, Edward SAUNDERS born in 1625.
Edward SAUNDERS was born in England. As a young man of ten years, he had reason to travel to Isle of Wight County, VA, and later married a girl who had lived in that county but had moved to Northumberland County, VA. Because of the Indian massacre in 1644, most people had fled from the area north and west of Williamsburg, VA. In 1649 they were permitted to once again settle north of the York River and the Rappahannock River. It would be in this area that Edward SAUNDERS would settle.
Sometime before 1660, Edward moved to Northumberland County, VA. His home was "near the Lancaster County line, not far from a place known as Fairfield, and the Rappahannock River." Some years later he moved across the line into Lancaster County, some 8 to 10 miles from Fairfield. In 1664 the court ordered, "Whereas Dr. Edward SAUNDERS hath undertaken to keep a ferry for both horse and foot that shall have occasion to pass over the Great Wicomico River from his house to the point above it on ye side of the river, the court ordered the same." This site was referred to as Ferry Farm or Blackwell's Wharf. The families of SAUNDERS, ROBINSON, and THOMAS lived close to each other near Fairfield and were associated in many land transactions and will. These families would later find roots in Davidson County, TN.
In the patent records of Northumberland County, VA, Thomas SALISBURY patented (entry 210) land at the head of Dennis' Creek beginning on the north side of a swamp which divides his land from that of Dr. Edward SAUNDERS. Patents recorded for Edward SAUNDERS included:
26 Aug 1660 200 Acres, south side of the Wicomico River, granted for four headrights (Bk 6, page 164).
10 Feb 1662 300 Acres for six headrights.
5 Mar 1662 2,900 Acres between Northumberland Co. and Lancaster Co. (Bk 27, pg 597, may be part of the parcel recorded on 5 May 1662).
5 May 1662 3,737 Acres, granted by Governor Sir William Berkeley, located between Northumberland Co. and Lancaster Co., begin on the branch of Dameron Creek to the head of a branch of Cotoman River. (Bk 6, pg.270)
28 Aug 1668 207 Acres, on the south side of the Wicomico River. This may be a reentry of the deed of 25 Aug 1660.
14 Dec 1669 600 Acres, granted for twelve headrights.
(Note: It was the custom to grant 50 acres of land to a person who sponsored and paid for the immigration of a person to the colony. This could even be a wife)
Edward SAUNDERS was a "chirurgeon" or physician. He was known to be the personal physician to Colonel George COLECLOUGH, a large landowner and justice whose wife was Elizabeth WEBB. Edward was a justice after being appointed on 22 Jun 1669.
Edward married Mary WEBB in 1660 and who died in 1683. She was the widow of John HUDNALL who had lived in Isle of Wight County but later moved to Northumberland County in 1655. John HUDNALL died in 1658. Edward and Mary had three children. (Submitted by Dero Saunders RAMSEY of Starkville, MS)
The Children of Edward SAUNDERS and Mary WEBB were:
- 1. Ebenezer b. 1661, m. 1684, Elizabeth PRESLY (b.1660, d. 1719) the daughter of Peter PRESLY and his wife, Elizabeth THOMPSON.
- 2. Edward Jr. b. 1663, m. Mary Elizabeth WEBB, Edward d. 1736.
- 3. John Will proved 24 Feb 1700, m.1st Mary RISLE.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Saunders-205
Edward Saunders, of Northumberland county, Chirurgeon, (Surgeon) 1660, was probably he whom Hotten mentions as coming to Virginia in 1635 in the ship "Safety," aged 9, with his father, Thomas, aged 40, and brother Thomas, aged 13. Others of this family may also have come to Virginia. Until 1634 all immigrants were landed at James City, and the commander at "Poynt Comfort" was required to administer the oath of "Allegiance and Supremacy" (Hen. 1, 166). Before 1660, Edward Saunders removed from James river to Northumberland county--named for the noble Percy, but called "Chicacone," until after 1645, when it was represented in the Assembly by Capt. John Mottrom, who died in 1655. Act of 1649: "All south of the Potomac shall be accounted within the county of Northumberland," * * and, after 1st of September, 1649, "from that day, and not before, it shall be lawful for any of the inhabitants to remove themselves to the north side of Charles (York) river and Rapp river." This, because of the massacre by the Indians in 1644, when the whites had fled. The Northumberland patents began 1648, with Capt. Francis Poythress to collect the assessments. At first, commanders of plantations held monthly courts, with right of appeal to the Quarter Court held by the Governor and Council. These were succeeded by Commissioners of Monthly courts, later called County Courts, when commissioners were first called Justices, in 1645. Edward Saunders, or Sanders (as it is variously spelled in the old records) was born in England 1625. His will, written in Northumberland county, 4th October, 1669, was not proved until 1672. He evidently had much intercourse with Isle of Wight county, and in 1660 he stated in a court "held that month at Capt. Peter Ashton's house," that he had married Mary, widow of John Hudnall,(*) who had removed to Northumberland in 1655 from Isle of Wight county, and died 1658, and whose plantation was on the south side of Wicomico river, near "the Island." (His descendant, James Saunders, of North Carolina, wrote in Edenton, N. C. (1824), a "Pamphlet of the Saunders Family," which gives an unbroken line from the immigrant ...
Notes
- http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SANDERS/2009-03/12368...
- http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SANDERS/2004-10/10976...
- http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=515952.0
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39441850
- http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SANDERS/2009-03/12368...
Citations
- From Early Settlers of Alabama by Col James Edmonds Saunders of Lawrence County AL (comments that there are inaccuracies)
- & his granddaughter Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs of New Orleans LA
- Hale, Nathaniel Claiborne, 1903-. Roots In Virginia: an Account of Captain Thomas Hale, Virginia Frontiersman, His Descendants And Related Families. With Genealogies And Sketches of Hale, Saunders, Lucke, Claiborne, Lacy, Tobin And Contributing Ancestral Lines. [Philadelphia?, 1948. Hathitrust
- http://vikingsandvirginians.com/2015/04/timeline-for-edward-saunder...
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Sep 12 2016, 1:20:37 UTC
- Immigration: 1635 - Virginia, United States
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Sep 12 2016, 1:20:37 UTC
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Sep 12 2016, 1:20:37 UTC
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Dr. Edward Saunders Jr.'s Timeline
| 1625 |
August 10, 1625
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Chilton, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1661 |
1661
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Lancaster, VA
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| 1663 |
1663
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Middlesex, Virginia, United States
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| 1672 |
June 17, 1672
Age 46
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Wicomico Parish, Northumberland County, Province of Virginia
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