Edward Sanderson
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Edward Sanderson (abt. 1611 - abt. 1680)

Edward Sanderson
Born about in Englandmap [uncertain]
Son of and [mother unknown]
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Husband of — married 16 Oct 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Died about at about age 69 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

The origins of Edward Sanderson have not been proved. It is possible that he was the Edward Saunderson baptised in Higham Ferrers on 5 May 1611. He is not the son of Edward Saunderson and Isabella Shiercliffe of Sheffield,Yorkshire. [1] He was in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1645, and in Cambridge in1654. He died in Cambridge 1 Sep 1674 or May 1680 (there is some dispute).See NEHGR 127:181.[2]However, if he was the brother of Robert Saunderson, Goldsmith of London, he had to have been alive in 1693 when he was named in his will. [3]

The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 Parent citation: ancestry.com (see url source) Notes Name: Edward Sanderson Event Type: Birth Birth Date: 1614 Birth Place: USA Father's name: Edward Sanderson Volume Number: 127..

Immigration: Edward immigrated from England to Watertown, Massachusetts by 1638.. [4] An Edward Sawnders, age 20, sailed 21 August 1635 to Virginia in the Thomas, departing from Gravesend, England. [5]

Marriage: Edward Sanderson and Mary Eggelston, 16: 8m: 1645.[6][7]

Also: Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 Name: Edward Sanderson Event Type: Marriage, Marriage Event Date: 16 Aug 1645 (per 4,5 and url) Event Place: Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Gender: Male Spouse's Name: Mary Eyellston Spouse's Gender: Female

Marriage License (see image) Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records Name: Sanderson, Edward Spouse: Egellston, Mary Town: Watertown, Massachusetts Date: 16 August 1645

Residence: "Edward Sanderson settled in Watertown, Mass., where he was an early proprietor, until about 1654, when he removed to Cambridge where he is supposed to have died." [8]

Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records: Name: Johnathan Sanderson Event Type: Birth Event Date: 15 Jul 1646 (correction per source) Event Place: Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Gender: Male Father's Name: Edward Sanderson Mother's Name: Mary

There are no other children listed for Edward Sanderson in Watertown's birth records, although Hester (baptized in Watertown in 1686, described as a "young person") and Hannah (b. about 1670) are attributed to Edward and Mary (SOURCE: "Edward Sanderson of Watertown, Mass," by Page Sanderson, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register #127, Jul 1973), and a town clerk wrote that Edward Sanderson was indigent and needed two young daughters apprenticed out in 1671. There are other hints, as well: Jonathan worked as a servant for Justinian Holden for five years starting in about 1663.

LDS Listed Children: Jonathan LBJ3-W2K, 15 September 1646-3 September 1735; Hester LBCF-K86, 12 March 1652- Deceased; Abigail LZJ3-993, 1653-8 October 1693; Ann L19W-QS4, 19 October 1654-Deceased and Hannah L6PL-7RQ, 1658-14 May 1743

Hannah married Richard Norcross JR., 6 August 1695, Weston, Middlesex, Mass.

Richard (LDS Profile L6PJ-WMP) Born: 4 August 1660, Weston, Middlesex, Mass., Died: 1 December 1745, Princeton, Worcester, Mass.

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Sources

  1. ↑ Hunter, J. (1875). Hallamshire: The history and topography of the parish of Sheffield in the county of York. With historical and descriptive notices of the parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton, and Whiston, and of the chapelry of Bradfield. A new ed., London: Virtue and Co.; [etc., etc.].
  2. ↑ Colket, Meredith B. Jr. Founders of Early American Families. Second Revised Edition. Cleveland, Ohio: The Ohio Society with the authority of The General Court of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 2002.
  3. ↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2735/i/48703/2082-co7/69455353
  4. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration Directory", (Boston: 2015, New England Historic Genealogical Society) , page295.
  5. ↑ "Edward Sanderson of Watertown, Mass., by Page Sanderson of Meredith, N.H., New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1973, page 181.
  6. ↑ Watertown Records Comprising The First and Second Books of Town Proceedings with the Lands Grants and Possessions also the Proprietors' Book and the First Book and Supplement of Births Deaths and Marriages. Watertown, Mass: 1894. (Vol 1) p. 12
  7. ↑ Genealogies and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, p. 416, by Henry Bond.
  8. ↑ "Edward Sanderson of Watertown, Mass., by Page Sanderson of Meredith, N.H., New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1973, page 181.


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Kevin Sanderson
Robert's and Edward's cousin was William Sanderson who married Joan in Higham Ferrers on May 1, 1634, he was the son of Robert, a tanner in Rushden and Higham Ferrers. That William was christened at St. Mary's in Rushden on April 16, 1604. He disappears from the records there after his wedding until his mother's will (Mary Thorpe Sanderson - will written November 20, 1643, proved May 6, 1648). He's probably the indentured carpenter William Sanders who was in the Colony around 1636 paying back his several debts to Richard Bellingham and Edward Gibbons, and possibly with four sons if he was the William Rev. H.I. Longden in Northamptonshire couldn't find out more about him. Cousin was not widely used until after 1750, until then you see Nephew used for male relatives as Robert did in his will or kinsman. I and others speculate he was the father of the William Sanderson in Watertown and later Groton. His son was likely born in 1635 though no records have been found. One William Sanderson in Watertown was deposed and the math with the age given puts the birth at 1635. In another deposition William Sanderson gives an age that puts the birthdate in 1641. It's very possible there was another William Sanderson, possibly one of Edward's children. We know from goldsmith Robert's will that he was not his son. Edward was married to Elizabeth Brightman in Irchester in 1637 (on Ancestry) and they had a son named John In Higham Ferrers in late 1638 (Rushden Research). The Vicar at St. Mary's in Higham Ferrers was removed when the English Civil War started and no records were kept after early 1641 until 1656. So possibly more unrecorded children were born before Edward came to the Bay Colony and he brought them over when Elizabeth died. He married Mary Eggleston in Watertown in 1645. There is no proof of Edward being here before he married in 1645.

I took the FamilyTreeDNA Y-DNA test and am descended from Edward and I am related to descendants of William Sanderson of Watertown and Groton. The common ancestor is probably the one time mayor of Higham Ferrers, Robert Saunderson from the mid-1500s.

We all go back to Edward Sanderson of Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire.

posted by Kevin Sanderson
edited by Kevin Sanderson
Kevin Sanderson
Hi Ron! Edmund L. Sanderson who lived in Waltham in one of the old Sanderson homes had much info. He was one of the founders of the Waltham Historical Society and had many old deeds and papers from the family. He was a descendant of Edward as I am. There's much info, some recently found. Genealogist J.G. Bartlett was hired by Edmund and he determined the family was from Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire which others have also determined. To answer one of your questions, Edward probably died after Robert. There is no recorded date that's turned up but his son Jonathan Sanderson sold Edward's old house and land in western Watertown (later Waltham) to Michael Flagg in 1694. It was where the north campus of Brandeis is now, Edmund did a paper for the administration of Brandeis around 1947 pointing out who owned which parcels of land originally. Edward had moved there from King's Common in 1664. Also, to mention another comment below... Robert Sanderson spelled the name as we do on the record of him joining the Goldsmith Guild in London. There's also an earlier tomb of relatives in Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire that spelled the name as we do. Most people did not write back then and the clerks wrote what they thought it was. Some families were finicky about the spelling but "a" and "au" generally had the same pronunciation. Simon Eire who was the town clerk and Watertown's first doctor also spelled it Sanderson for Edward's marriage record. Other clerks did many variations of the name.
posted by Kevin Sanderson
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Ron Campbell
Barbara Bouchard reports from her Sanderson family recorded history: "I have Edward Sanderson having 2 sons Edward Edward of Braintree Sanderson 1602-1707 by Isabella Shirtcliffe and another son Edward 1615-1680 by second wife..." Take Note: This would account for the impossible death date of 1680 for Robert's brother Edward Saunderson/Sanderson that is in his last recorded will. Please contribute to the discussion and let's resolve this profile problem together.
posted by Ron Campbell
Ron Campbell
I encourage family genealogists to consider and comment. I'm requesting help to determine if Robert and Edward Sanderson/Saunderson's father is Edward Saunderson, probably of Norfolk, England.

I should carry the Sanderson DNA, at least from Robert Sanderson/Saunderson's father. 23andMe DNA on file (Campbell-25710)

posted by Ron Campbell
Ron Campbell
Consider the following from source: http://miller-aanderson.blogspot.com/2011/07/robert-sanderson-1608-1693.html

Robert and his brother Edward (1615-1665)—and possibly another brother named William—left for America aboard the ship INCREASE, from Ipswitch, England, on April 15th, 1635.

Robert Sanderson and his wife Lydia were the first settlers of Hampton New Hampshire. He came from Norfolk in the year 1637 and in 1638, Hampton. Soon after the birth of Mary he moved to Watertown of which he was at 1642. He had a brother Edward Sanderson who also settled in Watertown and married Mary Eggleston. The name is often Saunders/Saunderson and in the early records Sanderson, married second in Watertown. 1642 Mary Cross widow of John Cross remained in Watertown until about 1653, when he removed to Boston and was deacon of a church there.

posted by Ron Campbell
Ron Campbell
The Sanderson family records recently contributed by Barbara Bouchard, researched by "The Media Research Bureau," 1110 F Street, Washington, D.C. and published as "Genealogical and Historical Sketch," states that our direct initial emigrant Sanderson/Saunderson ancestors, Robert and both Edwards were born in Sheffield, Yorkshire. We as objective genealogists should check more verifiable sources on this and Edward's death date.
posted by Ron Campbell
Ron Campbell
A new Sanderson family WikiTree member, Barbara Bouchard today wrote:

The father of Robert Sr is Edward Saunderson 1576-1617 had a son Edward Saunderson 1615-1880 he died in Watertown Mass. Robert and Both Edwards were born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. When I started researching when I was in high school my dad gave me the papers his dad had obtained. He also said the name in England was Saunderson and upon coming to the new world they dropped the "u".

posted by Ron Campbell
Thornton-1836 Jeanie (Thornton) Roberts
Believe the date of death is incorrect
posted by Jeanie (Thornton) Roberts
Jean Sanders
it certainly can't be 1880; cx. 1680???
posted by Jean Sanders
Ron Campbell
Yes Jeanie, This Edward's death date is a problem because of Robert's will we must assume Edward was alive the year before Robert's death.
posted by Ron Campbell

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