Timothy Saunders (1771)

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Timothy was born in 1771. Timothy Saunders ... ^[1]

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Thomas Saunder, who came here from Amesbury in the State of Massachusetts, settled upon the lot of land lying westerly of, and adjoining, that of Mr. John Pressey, Jr. His wife was Miss Hephzibah Chase, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and they were married in Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1755; in 1757 they moved to Amesbury, and came here in 1771. His wife and that of Mr. John Pressey were sisters. Mr. Saunders was drowned near the mouth of the Northwest Harbor in June, 1786, while engaged in towing some logs which were to be manufactured into pumps for the purpose of pumping salt water for the manufacturer of salt. He left two sons, Messrs. James and Timothy Saunders, and two daughters, one of the wife of Mr. John Dow; another, that of Mr. Thomas Small, Jr. His farm passed into the hands of his sons, who occupied it till they died. It is now the property of their descendants. The wife of Mr. James Saunders was Susan Webb, a daughter of Mr. Seth Webb, one of the early settlers; that of Mr. Timothy Saunders was Ann Staples, the daughter of the person of that name before noticed as having been impressed into the British service before the war of the Revolution. The sons of Mr. James Saunders were Thomas and James, the sons; and the daughters were the wives of Messrs. Crowell H. Sylvester, Joseph Whitemore, and afterward of Dr. Robert Young, a practitioner of medicine, who made the treatment of cancers a specialty. After his death she was that of Jonah Dodge, of Brooklin, Maine, and lastly, that of Mr. Sylvester, the husband of her sister, and she was four times a widow. Another was that of Mr. John Averill, of Castine, and afterward that of Mr. John B. Woods, of the same place. Another was that Captain Henry Lufkin, Jr.; another, that of Captain Joseph R. Lufkin; and another, that of Mr. Benjamin Lufkin, -- all of whom are now dead, with the exception of the widow of Captain J. R. Lufkin, who is now (1882) eighty-one years of age. The children of Mr. Timothy Saunders were Samuel, John, Asa, and Timothy, sons; the daughters were the wives of Messrs. Thomas, Ezra, and Joshua Pressey, Captain David Haskell; all the family are now dead.

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1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Adrian Stanley, Saturday, January 24, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.

• "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-B3X : 10 February 2018), Timothy , 06 Jan 1801; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
• An Historical Sketch of the Town of Deer Isle, Maine: With Notices of Its Settlers and Early Inhabitants" George Lawrence HosmerStanley and Usher, 1886 - Deer Isle (Me. : Town) - [1]