Hi Bob
Your Saunders family line seems to be well documented.
The parents of the Benjamin Saunders who was married to Ann Elliott were
Francis Abraham Saunders (1676-1750 and Judith Pritloe (1696-)
The parents of Francis Abraham were John Saunders (1645-Bef.1712) and Sarah
Davis.
The parents of John were John Saunders (1611-Bef. 1686) and Susanna Ravenett
(1615-)
The first John Saunders(Sanders) in this line was reported to have been born
in England in 1611 and he married Susanna in about 1637 in Virg
A group of Sanders descendants have recently begun a Y-chromosome DNA
project with the genealogical DNA testing company FamilyTree DNA. We are
trying to be as open as possible to connections with other
Sanders/Saunders/Sanderson/Saunderson lines, so we are announcing the
project on the respective mailing lists.
I'll now try to explain a bit about the testing and the project.
1. The companies that do genealogical DNA testing look at the Y
chromosome-- the one that all males have. There are several region
Hi again, Benjamin Saunders was the son of Abraham Saunders. Mary Barber was
the wife and daughter in law of these two. Abraham Saunders brother was also
Benjamin Sanders, my sixth GGF who was married to Anne Elliott.
Bob