Jacob Sanderson (1741 - 1829)

Born 3 Aug 1741 in Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Child) Sanderson — married 1760 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 9 Feb 1829 at age 87 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Jacob was born in 1741 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

North Worcester: its first settlers and old farms. An historical address, delivered before the Chamberlain district farmers' club by Caleb Arnold Wall, 1890, pages 11-12

Elisha Smith's second child. Patience, born February 23, 1717, married December 6, 1733, Abraham Sanderson, who was born in Watertown, March 28, 1711, and they also settled in Lunenberg, on seventy acres of land given them by her father, on the northern border of the town, adjoining Townsend, where Abraham and Patience had thirteen children, of whom the fourth one was Jacob Sanderson', a minute man of the revolution, at the battle of Bennington, who married in Worcester in 1760, Elizabeth Child, and settled in Lunenburg on 400 acres of land he purchased east of his father.

The homestead farm of the first Abraham Sanderson in Lunenburg is still in the family, being owned and occupied by his great-grandson, Richard Gilchrist, in the original gable roofed house, to which many pilgrimages are made by descendants of the original settler. The grave of this venerable ancestor is marked by a headstone of slate in the old cemetery in Lunenburg, inscribed "Abraham Sanderson, died December 4, 1776, aged 86." His wife Patience lies by his side. Abraham was the second of five children of Samuel and Mercy (Gale) Sanderson of Watertown, grandson of Dea. Jonathan and Abiah (Bartlett) Sanderson, and great-grandson of the original settlers, Edward and Mary (Eggleston) Sanderson of Watertown. The name of this family was frequently written in the old records Sanders, and Saunders.

Among the numerous descendants of the Jacob Sanderson above mentioned, is his great-grandson, our esteemed fellow citizen, present with us to-night. Rev. Alonzo Sanderson, pastor of Laurel Street church, whose father, Jesse Sanderson, is still living in Lunenburg, hale and hearty at 86.

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