Rachel Sanders

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This Rachel is the same as Rachel Sanders. Merge must be performed by a curator due to relationship locks on this profile.

brief bioqraphy and family

Rachel's first husband, Peter Bracket, died before 1618 about when she married secondly Martin Sanders. In 1635 Sanders, his wife, their Sanders children, along with Rachel (Brackett) Newcomb (sister of Peter and Richard Bracket), her husband Francis Newcome, and their children sailed for New England on the Planter[2]

notes

Through both her BRACKETT and SANDERS descendants, Rachel can be considered a "Grandmother" of Braintree as by 1800 a large portion of Braintree citizens were descended from her.

Martin & Rachel Sanders set sail 10 April 1635 from London, crossed the Atlantic on the Planter with their children and with Rachel (Brackett) Newcomb and her husband. they arrived in Boston 7 June 1635. Rachel Saunders was admitted to the Boston church on 8 November 1635, the same time as was Richard Brackett's wife, Alice. On 16 April 1639 she was dismissed to the new Braintree church.

Family

Married

1.   Peter Brackett (1585 - 1616) 4 children
2.   Martin Saunders (1595 - 1658) 7 children

Children of Rachel and Peter Brackett

• 1. Peter c. 1608 m. Martha Ray, Priscilla ?, and then Mary the widow of Nathaniel Williams
• 2. Richard bp. 16 Sep 1610 m. Alice Blower
• 3. Rachell bp. 28 Apr 1614 m. Francis Newcomb
• 4. Jonathan bp. 4 Oct 1616 no further record p. died young

Children of Rachel and Martin Sanders

• 1. Mary bp. 25 Aug 1619 m. Francis Eliot
• 2. Martin bp. 4 Mar 1622 d.y. 1622
• 3. Leah bp as Lydia 10 Oct 1623 m. John Wheatley and then Robert Parmeneter
• 4. Judith bp. 27 Dec 1625 - died unmarried 1651
• 5. John bp 10 Mar 1628 m. Mary Munjoy and then Hannah Unknown
• 6. Martin bp 29 Aug 1630 m. Lydia Hardier
• 7. Daniel Sanders, bp. 25 Mar 1632 d.y. 1634

Biography

Evidence needed to support as daughter of Capt. Frank Wheatley

According to the Wheatley name Study on the Mormons Genealogy site, she was the daughter of Frank Wheatley ( Wheatleigh), (born February 2, 1562 in Tingsboro, Somerset, England) and unknown mother. Siblings listed in this study are Dorothy (Wheatley) Blass and John Wheatleigh. Frank Wheatley is listed as the son of Captain John Wheatleigh (born about 1530 in Tingsboro, Somersetshire, England and died March 24, 1594 in Wells, Somersetshire, England) and unknown mother.

Martin Saunders married (1) by 1619 Rachel (_____) Brackett, widow of Peter Brackett. She died at Braintree on 15 September 1651.

They had 7 children: Mary ELIOT, Martin, Leah Wheatley Parmenter, Judith, John, Martin again, & Daniel. Rachel (_____) (Brackett) Saunders, first wife of Martin Saunders, was mother of RICHARD BRACKETT {1632, Boston}, of PETER BRACKETT {1639, Braintree} and of Rachel (Brackett) Newcomb, wife of FRANCIS NEWCOMB {1635, Boston}

Rachel died Sept 15,1651 at Braintee, MA.

Source: Anderson's Great migration Study project.

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From Find A Grave Memorial# 37232942 Find A Grave contributor treerpgmo adds

Rachel BRACKETT-SANDERS maiden name and origin is not known. The earliest definite record of her is that of the baptism of her son Richard BRACKETT by her first husband Peter BRACKETT on 16d 9m 1610 at Saint Gregory's Church, Sudbury, Suffolkshire, England. She had three other children with Peter: Peter Jr. (no baptismal record), Rachel (bp. 1614), and Jonathan (bp. 1616). The inventory of her husband Peter BRACKETT's estate was taken 25d 8m 1616 in All Saints Par, Subury, Suffolkshire, England. Sometime between then and before 1619 she married second to Martin SANDERS and they had seven children baptised in All Saints Parish from 1619-1632. Their last child, son Daniel SANDERS was buried there 1d 8m 1634 and soon after Martin & Rachel SANDERS emigrated to Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts where both of them died. Through both her BRACKETT and SANDERS descendants, Rachel can be considered a "Grandmother" of Braintree as by 1800 a large portion of Braintree citizens were descended from her. 

Notes

Sailed to New England in 1635 aboard the ship 'Planter' with her daughter Rachel. Her last name 'Sanders' may have been her second married name. One source questions whether 'Wheatley' was her real maiden name.

From The Great Migration Project, as quoted by http://www.genealogy.com/users/m/y/e/Ron-C-Myers/GENE30-0091.html

ASSOCIATIONS: Through his mother and his wife Richard Brackett became a member of, and the first immigrant from, the largest kinship network as yet uncovered among the participants in the Great Migration, a network worked out mostly by Mary Lovering Holman, John Brooks Threlfall and Douglas Richardson. (See John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins [Madison, Wisconsin, 1990], pp. 63-116, for a summary of much of this research.)

comments

July 2014

No support for parents of  Thomas Blower & Susan Vincent. Disconnected. Please raise a discussion from the profile if discussion desired.

Notes

Note: Both FamilySearch and Geni.com have Rachel as a daughter of John and Dorothy Willoughby Wheatleigh. However, after careful review of the biographies and other documents available online of the Saunders, Brackett and Wheatleigh families, I have concluded that this is yet, another example of someone’s wishful thinking. The genealogy of the Wheatley/Wheatleigh family which is available online does NOT list a daughter Rachel as one of their children. His will does not mention a daughter Rachel- ONLY lists daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Margery and it appears that someone has added her as the last daughter- even though there is NO source listed for the addition, NO record of her baptism and no mention of her in any of the other records related to the Wheatleigh family. Also, Martin Saunders, Richard Brackett and Rachel ______ are all listed as being from Suffolk, England and the Wheatleigh family mentioned was from Tingsboro, Somerset, England which is a distance of 232 miles which makes it unlikely that she would have married someone from that area. Also, the Wheatleigh family was a wealthy family of landed gentry whose lineage goes back to the Fiennes, Bourchier, Dacre, Neville and Stafford lines which makes the connection very hard to believe. Therefore, I have opted to leave this information out.

sources

• Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Boston, NY: NEHGS 1995, p 206. Footnotes

1. Hotten 48-49; TAG 55:215-217

• The American Genealogist V 55 (1979) P 215-217. “The Brackett Newcomb Sanders Connection.” link
• GEDCOM Source ,Book Title: Solomon Peirce family genealogy : containing a record of his descendants, also an Appendix containing the ancestry of Solomon Peirce and his wife Amity Fessenden 1,61157::4166805

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concerns

This Rachel is the same as Rachel Sanders. Merge must be performed by a curator due to relationship locks on that profile.