I4047: Rachel (ABT 1590

Rachel

ABT 1590 - 15 Sep 1651

BIRTH: ABT 1590, Sudbury, Suffolk, England
DEATH: 15 Sep 1651, Braintree, Suffolk, MA

MARRIAGE: ABT 1607, Sudbury, Suffolk, England

MARRIAGE: ABT 1618, Sudbury, Suffolk, England

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[5257] Rachel appears to have had four children by Peter Brackett and then seven
children by Martin Saunders, all born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England.

"Braintree Marriages/Deaths 1640-1793", from
"Vital Records of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1793"
Edited by Samuel A. Bates, 1886
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/braintre.htm
Death: "Saunders Rachel; F; 07m 15d 1651"

"The Brackett-Newcomb-Sanders Connection"
Douglas Richardson
TAG v55, pp215-217 (Oct 1979)
"Rachel (surname unknown), born say 1590, married, first, about 1607, Peter Brackett, son
of Richard Brackett of Sudbury. Peter was buried 25 Aug. 1616, All Saints Parish, Sudbury,
and Rachel married, second, about 1618, Martin Sanders, a currier by occupation. They
crossed the Atlantic in 1635 on the Planter in the company of their children and Rachel's
married daughter and son-in-law, the Newcombs, and settled at Boston and then at
Braintree. Rachel having died at Braintree, 15 Sept. 1651, Martin married, second, 23 May
1654, Elizabeth, widow of Roger Bancroft, and he died 4 Aug. 1658 in Braintree."

"The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England"
Anderson, Robert Charles
New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, MA; 1995
http://NewEnglandAncestors.org/
"Brackett, Richard: Birth: Baptized at St. Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk, 16 September 1610,
son of Peter Brackett [and his wife Rachel] [TAG 52:73]."

"Pioneers of Massachusetts"
Pope, Charles Henry
Boston, MA; 1900
p399: "Sanders, etc; Martin, currier, ae. 40, wife Rachel, ae. 40, children Lea, ae. 10,
Judith, ae. 8, and Martin, ae. 4, with servants Marie Fuller, ae. 17, Richard Smith, ae.
14, and Richard Ridley, ae. 16, came in the Planter April 6, 1635. Settled at Braintree.
Wife Rachel adm. chh. Boston 8 (9) 1635, dism. to chh. of Br. 16 (2) 1639..."

"A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England"
James Savage
Pub. Boston, 1860-1862
Repub. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1998
v pp21-22:"Saunders, Martin, Boston, currier, came in the Planter from London,
in the spring of 1635, aged 40, with w. Rachel, 40... His d. Judith d. 7 July 1651.
and his w. d. 15 Sept. foll."

"New England Marriages Before 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"SANDERS, Martin (1595-1658) & 1/wf Rachel [?WHEATLEY] wid (1595-1651), in Eng,
by 1625; Cambridge/Braintree"