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From Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of ..., Volume 1. edited by William Richard Cutter. Page 324-328
Thomas Saunders, was born in Gloucester, March 26, 1759. He was sent to Byfield Academy to be fitted for college, but on the death of his father in 1774 he entered the counting room of Mr. Derby, of Salem, a distinguished East India merchant. Saunders finally became a merchant himself at Gloucester and he accumulated a handsome fortune. He died at Gloucester, June 5, 1844. He married, 1782, Elizabeth Elkins, an author of note in her day, a woman of admirable qualities of heart and mind. She died February 19, 1851, in her eighty-ninth year. 8 children
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1759 |
March 26, 1759
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Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
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1783 |
1783
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1784 |
August 29, 1784
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Essex, Essex, MA, United States
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1788 |
February 29, 1788
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Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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1793 |
1793
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Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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1844 |
June 5, 1844
Age 85
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Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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