Mary SAUNDERS

ABT 1619 - 17 Jan 1697

• BIRTH: ABT 1619, Sudbury, Suffolk, England
• BAPTISM: 26 Aug 1619, Sudbury,Suffolk,England [5366]
• DEATH: 17 Jan 1697, Medford, Middlesex, MA [5367]

• MARRIAGE: ABT 1640, Braintree, Suffolk, MA [5984] [5985]

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 _Martin SAUNDERS _|
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|--Mary SAUNDERS 
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|_Rachel __________|
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[5368] "Genealogical Research in England"
Elizabeth French
NEHGR v66 pp174-176 (Apr 1912)
"Martin Sanders, currier, aged 40, came to New England from London in the spring of
1635 in the ship Planter, bringing his wife Rachel, aged 40, and children Mary, aged 15...
Mary, bapt. 26 Aug. 1619; m. in New England, about 1640, Francis Eliot."

"Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex"
William Wyman Fiske
NEHGR v161 pp85-91 (Apr 2007); pp186-198 (Jul 2007); pp250-259 (Oct 2007);
v162 pp65-72 (Jan 2008); pp128-139 (Apr 2008)
(Fiske provides an elaborate justification for his reconstruction of the
very early Eliot family across the multiple issues listed above.)
v162, pp136-137: "Francis Eliot, bp. Nazeing 10 April 1615; d. 23 Oct. 1677, probably at
Braintree, Mass. He m. by 1640 Mary Saunders, bp. All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, 26 Aug.
1619, d. Medford 17 Jan. 1696/7, daughter of Martin and Rachel (_____) (Brackett) Saunders
of Braintree. Francis Eliot was made a freeman 2 4th month [June] 1641. He left a will,
dated 20 Oct. 1677 and proved 12 Nov. 1677, naming daughters Mary Hubart, Rachell Poulter,
and Hannah Willis; son Stephen Willis; daughter Abigail Eliot; beloved wife Mary (to be
sole executrix); beloved friends Capt. Rich'd Bracket, Bro. Robert Parmenter, and Edmund
Quinsey to be overseers."

"New England Marriages Before 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"ELLIOTT, Francis (1615-1677) & Mary [SANDERS?/SAUNDERS] (1619-1697); by 1640;
Braintree/Lexington"

[5366] [S296] New England Historical and Genealogical Register

• PAGE: 66 (1912):176
  

[5367] [S297] Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mass., 1640-1850

• PAGE: 1557
  

[5984] [S296] New England Historical and Genealogical Register

• PAGE: 66 (1912):176
  

[5985] [S286] The American Genealogist

• PAGE: 55:217
  
• NOTE:

  [5986] In "The Brackett-Newcomb-Sanders Connection" by Douglas Richardson.