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From: "Doyle Sanders\\Susan M. O'Brien, M.D." <>
Subject: Re: LISTMOM: SANDERS List Update - December 1997
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 10:24:58 -0800


Yvonne wrote:
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> As of Dec. 7, 1997, we have 287 listmembers total:
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> 60 on digest
> 227 on regular mail
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> (We gained 31 members last month!)
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> Yvonne Bowers, List Owner
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> SANDERS-L Family List
> (Looking for Joshua)
> http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/
> http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/sanders.html

My name is Doyle Sanders I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma but I am a native of
Kentucky where my Sanders/Saunders have lived since 1779. I have been
reading/watching this list and corresponding with various members for
some time now and I have come to realize there are a lot of Sanders out
there, most of whom are in no way related to my Sanders. It begs me to
ask; where are our common ancestors?

Though a Sanders, I have had little success running down the origins of
the name other than it was a name brought back from one of the Crusades
and that Sander/Xander was a pet name for Alexander which came from
Alexander the Great, so the story goes.

I'd like to give an example of my mothers family name Wood which proves
that a name isn't all that it seems. (John Cabot the Englishman was
actually Giovanni Cabotti the Italian)I found that the name Wood was
derived from Atwood which came from Atte Wode, which meant the name was
probably Norman, that Wyckhurst which meant the could be Anglo-Saxon,
but that was a corruption of the Norman French name "du Bois", but then
I rationalized that Normandy was a Viking colony settled (p.c. for
conquered) by a bunch of Danes between 800-900 A.D. I remembered too
that Hamlet was a British play about a Danish king in what today is
England. So while my Wood line came from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
making the family English, the name is anything but that.

O.K., so where are all of these Sanders from? I'll open with this, my
first two Sanders/Saunders came from Scotland. They were Samuel and
Joseph who arrived before 1732 since Samuel's son Samuel was born in
North Carolina December 8, 1732. They were quite possibly indentured
servants since many who went to North Carolina went there to labor in
the tobacco fields. Samuel eventually left and is believed to have
settled in Pennsylvania or Maryland. Joseph just drops out of sight. He
could have moved on or died, I am not certain, he has not been found
yet. He only exists in the telling of Samuel's story. Samuel (I)
probably died in Pennsylvania or Maryland, his son fought in the French
and Indian War and the Revolutionary War and in March of 1779 Samuel
(II) and his wife Anne Gordon, Samuel (III), John Swadden and one other
son into Kentucky briefly and then down to the Cumberland River in the
fall of 1779 to Mansker's Station at present day Goodlettesville, TN.
The family remained there during the Hard Winter of 1779-80 but left the
following summer because of nearly constant Indian attacks. They moved
back to the relative safety Kentucky living at Pottenger's Station then
Pitman's Station. They were amongst the earliest settlers of Green,
Edmonson, Hart and Grayson Counties, Kentucky.

Doyle Sanders in Indian Territory

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