Lucy Forbes

(IV) Thomas Saunders, son of Captain Thomas Saunders, was born at Gloucester. August 14. 1729, married, 1752. Lucy Smith. daughter of Rev. Thomas Smith. of Falmouth. Maine. Mr. Saunders died in 1774. She married second, Rev. Eli Forbes and died June 5. 1780. aged forty-eight years. She is buried at the side of her first husband and the name of her second husband does not appear on the stone. (Cutter)

Of the twelve children of Hon. Thomas Saunders, eight were living in 1774, though but two of his five sons lived to marry.

Children, born at Gloucester:

• 1. Thomas. born March 26, 1759, mentioned below.
• 2. Joseph, naval officer; lieutenant of the United States frigate “Constitution ;” died July 13. 1804; lived at Edgartown, Massachusetts; married, November 18, 1801, Eliza Allen, who married second, October 10. 1806, Joseph Kenrick. of Rochester.
• 3. Lucy, married Paul Dudley Sargent.
• 4. Judith, married Thomas Sanders. the schoolmaster.
• 5. Harriet, married Peter Dolliver.
• 6. Sarah, married Thomas Augustus Vernon. a merchant of St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 7. Mary, married Erasmus Babbitt. a lawyer, Sturbridge, Massachusetts; her daughter became the mother of Charlotte Cushman. the actress.

Notes

17. Rev. Eli Forbes (Jonathan, Daniel) b. Oct. 26, 1726, m. 2d Sept. 15, 1776. Mrs. Lucy (Smith) Sanders, dau. of Rev. Thomas Smith, of Portland, Me., and widow of Hon. Thomas Sanders;

Sources

1. (Vital Records of GLOUCESTER, MA to the end of the year 1849) 
2. Americana, Volume 13 (Google eBook)National Americana Society, 1919 - United States.  Page 58.  Goodwin and Allied Families - the Phelps line
3. Forbes and Forbush Genealogy:  The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, who Came ... By Frederick Clifton Pierce.  Page 30-34
4. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of ..., Volume 1. edited by William Richard Cutter. Page 324-328