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Jim Sanders Searches for the Connection of It Has Been A Very Moses Sanders and Patrick Sanders Interesting 14 Years The following is the result of research Moses Saunders and a Mary Hamilton in The first issue of Sanders Siftings, of Jim Sanders, 2235 Los Encinos Road, the same, immediate geographic area as only eight pages, featured a story of Ojai, CA 93023, well as the correct time frame. The Glenn D. Sanders’ grandfather—and . occurrence of the names Moses Sanders that was what got me interested in Moses Sanders/Brunswick, Va. 1772 and Mary (Hamilton) Sanders, may have taken place in other records but to our printing stories of our Sanders kin. In 1772, Moses Saunders was a knowledge, it has not been substantiated. That first issue was started with a defendant against Thomas Preston, who nucleus of people who were was a neighbor of Joseph Hamilton’s. ADD: August 2008: Francis, Moses exchanging Sanders stuff in the (Preston’s property is noted in Joseph and their brothers were very active in early days of the internet. Hamilton’s will and again in a obtaining land grants between 1771 and In that same issue were two sto- Brunswick Deed recorded in Book 7 1780 in Anson County, N.C. As shown ries by Justin Sanders, now living in Page 165). Hamilton’s property was earlier, Patrick and William left Halifax Mobile, Ala. Justin has since begun adjacent Preston’s and located on the and relocated to Anson County perhaps heading up the Sanders DNA project. ridge between Nippers Creek and Jeneto as early as 1755. Andrea Sanders Gereighty was one (Genito) Creek, near the southwestern We do have DNA confirmation that of the early contributors who sent me corner of Brunswick and adjacent to the descendants of the brothers Sanders; lots of material. present day County of Mecklenburg. Francis, Isaac and Moses are related to Paul A. Saunders, now living in Joseph Hamilton was the father of Mary Patrick Sanders. http://freepages.genealo- Knoxville, Tenn., has contributed Hamilton. gy.rootsweb.com/~sandersdna/dna.html many good, well researched stories, We believe that Moses was a young Another tantalizing piece of historical several with photos. He also man in 1772. His oldest child was information is Obediah Hooper was debunked research by another con- Aaron and the 1850 census of Franklin born in Lunenburg, Va. in 1755. He tributor who claimed descendancy Co., Ga. shows him born in 1769 in Va. married his first wife, Sally Gates, in Va. in 1780. He died in Pickens Co., Ala. in from Lawrence Saunders, the martyr. The 1772 Court actions, listed below, 1839. He married Sallie Sanders the He gave convincing evidence that helps substantiate Moses and Mary daughter of Moses Sanders, in Franklin Lawrence had no descendants who Hamilton Sanders being in Brunswick. Co., Ga. in 1804. The Hooper and had children. They connect Thomas Preston, a proven Sanders had a long-standing relationship And what readers could forget the neighbor of the Joseph Hamilton’s, to and both Moses and Obediah’s families “how many John Sanders” disagree- Moses Sanders. may have been in the Lunenburg/ ment between Paul Sanders of On 26 Feb. 1772 on page 481 of Film Bellvue, Wash., and Ted Chadbourne Brunswick area during the same time #0030665 (order book 11): A notice of frame. seemed to bring things together and tinued until the next court. eventually put forth evidence that Patrick and William Sanders of Halifax was convincing. On page 51 of FHL film # 0030666, order book 12, 1772-1774, dated 28 July Chestnut Creek Sanders It is difficult to thank all the peo- 1772 we find this: A DNA match in 2008, between ple who helped keep this publication descendants of Patrick and Moses going with their material, encourage- An attachment attained by Thomas Sanders, prompted us to document all ment, and subscriptions. I will not Preston, Plaintiff, against the estate of records in Halifax in which the Sanders forget the carefully handwritten Moses Saunders is dismissed being surname was noted. The presence of the pages given me by Elva Dixon. agreed by the parties. (“Estate,” as was used in Brunswick documents, is given names of William and Patrick were I must give a special thank you to documented, which indicated a subse- my most prolific researcher and con- defined as “all goods and possessions of the defendant.”) quent move to Anson County, N.C. tributor, Gary Sanders of Denton (Thanks to Jo Sparks and Gary Sanders) Texas. Check out his web page! Although Moses is not mentioned again in either deed records or lease William and Patrick Sanders, along Don Schaefer, editor records of Brunswick, it is strong circum- with their adjacent neighbors are noted stantial evidence because it places a (Continued on page two) SANDERSSiftings No. 57 Apr/2009 Page 2 What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You — A Story Moses/Patrick Sanders About ‘Butter and Mice and Everything Nice’ (Continued from page one) on deeds recorded in 1753-1757. These The following is from George D. two younger brothers, Meredith and deeds describe their properties as bring Saunders, 3629 Princess Ave., North Milton who remained in the Vancouver on 3 different creeks; The Snow, the Vancouver, BC, V7N 2E4, Canada, area, married and raised their families. Chestnut and the Turkey Cock. The . George is a John married Edna Ruth Schell and had mouths of the three creeks are within a brother of Raymond Saunders, creator three children, one of which is me! My 3-mile section on the Pigg River: Turkey and builder of the famous steam clock father passed away in 1951 at the age of Cock Creek flows from the hills of in the Gastown area of Vancouver, 53. Too young, I think! Turkey Cock Mountain, near the town of Canada. (See the October 2002 issue of Mountain Valley, thence easterly, across Sanders Siftings.) Ezekiel & Thomas Sanders the Franklin / Pittsylvania line, thence This is a true story from the depres- northerly into the Pigg River. The sion days in northern Vancouver Island, Of Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama mouth of the Turkey Cock is about 3 Canada, as told by my uncle about an From Heritage of Tuscaloosa County, miles from the Mouth of Chestnut Creek. incident in my father's store. Alabama, published by Heritage The Sanders properties were near the It was a cold winter day in a small Publishing Consultants, Inc, P.O. Box 67, town of Dickenson, Va. town called Courtney located on Clanton, AL, 1999: page 355. Previous research on Isham Hodges, Vancouver Island during the depression Ezekiel Sanders located at the below Web addresses con- in 1934. A frail older lady dressed in a Earliest records for Ezekiel and firms our work herein. small towel. She showed the contents to on the branch of the Sandy River, date “…There was migration from my father. It was several pounds of recorded 2 March 1773. Thomas Chestnut Creek in Franklin Co., Va. to homemade butter. She wished to trade Sanders fought in the Revolutionary the general area of Marlboro Co., S.C. as them for some other groceries. The two War, but there has been no record found early as 1750. Mark Cole had moved to of them dickered a bit and hit upon a for Ezekiel. The Sanders and Gores Anson Co., N.C. by 1752. More point- fair price and she began her shopping. intermarried. The Gores were French edly, Patrick Sanders, blacksmith, sold One of her requests was for a half pound and came before the Revolutionary War. land on both sides of Chestnut Creek in of butter. The grocer asked why she They laid out a town on the west side of 1759 (later purchased by Isham Hodges) wanted butter when she had just Chester District, S.C., and named it in what was then Halifax County. He brought in some butter. She sheepishly Baton Rouge. Many Tuscaloosa and appears in Anson Co., N.C., in 1758 on explained that she had found some dead Pickens Counties, Ala., families moved Little Mountain Creek in what is now mice floating in her cream from which from Baton Rouge. Thomas Sanders was Richmond Co., N.C., about 20 miles she had made the butter. She didn't want a Revolutionary soldier and died in north of where the Hodges settled in to use it herself but she thought that the Union Co., S.C. He was of the same gen- Marlboro County.” customers who will buy it, don't know eration as Ezekiel but slightly younger. http://searches2.rootsweb.com/th/read about the mice. So the old adage is, His pension says he was born in /HODGES/1998-11/0910008901 'what you don't know can't hurt you!' Loudoun Co., Va. Luis Sanders -- no All three of the above mentioned My father laughed and agreed that was a definite proof but he could be the Louis creeks were within the boundaries of very good saying. She packed up her Sanders who was in Clarke Co. Ala. in Halifax County, as it existed in 1753. trade goods in her basket including her 1816. Some records to the effect that he As new counties were formed, the new wrapped butter and left, quite satis- is connected with Sanders in Hinds Co., fied with her exchange. properties changed addresses but not Miss. William Sanders should have been location, (of course). The Sanders hold- My dad chuckled to himself, recalling William Gunnell Sanders who went to ings were originally granted in Halifax that, while she was picking up her order, Louisiana about 1809. He might have County, then they were encompassed he had taken her homemade butter to been a brother to Ezekiel. He also came into the newly formed Pittsylvania the backroom and put it in the butter from Loudoun Co. Va. William Sanders County in 1766, then Henry County was press. He had cut off one half pound of should have been the William Sanders formed in 1777 and finally when butter as requested, wrapped it very who died there in 1805, leaving a wife Franklin County was formed in 1785 carefully and placed it with her order. and two daughters. There does not the property was located therein. As the old lady had said, he thought, appear to be anyone in that census old enough to be Ezekiel’s father. We notice that James Sanders is noted 'what you don't know can't hurt you!!' in documents recorded during the same My father, John Melville Saunders, span of time as Patrick and William. was born in Carmen, Manitoba, in 1898. In the Terrell Times-Star, Terrell, However, we have not been able to tie His family moved to Vancouver in about Kaufman County, Texas, 26 August him, definitively, to the Chestnut Creek 1912. He joined the merchant navy at 1892: “Mrs. Jane Sanders, of Pittsburg, Sanders. the age of 17 and served during WW1 Texas was brought to the asylum last The following recorded documenta- out of Halifax on a tanker that according Saturday. Her derangement is due to tion, will “weave a web” that will show to him sailed out of the harbour just one excessive grief over the death of four of day before the huge explosion. He had her children.” (Continued on page three) Page 3 No. 57 Apr/2009 SANDERSSiftings

(Continued from page two) line of Patrick Sanders and we find this Siftings Back Issues Available William and Patrick Sanders were not given name several times in the records only neighbors to the John and Frances Back issues of SANDERS Siftings of Halifax, as well as a James Jr. Kirby’s, the Thomas Halls, the William are available at $3.00 each. They are: However, we cannot tie this James to the Hills and Isham Hodges but also, more No. 2, July 1995 through No. 56, Jan. Chestnut Creek Sanders. We believe the importantly, neighbors to each other. 2009. If you order eight issues or James and James Jr referred to in these more, the price will be $2.00 per issue. records are of the Childrey’s Creek line The Kirby’s A copy of issue No. 1, April, 1995, which migrates to Orange County, N.C. The 1750 (Lunenburg) grant to John will be included free with any order in 1770. Kirby describes his property as being on for back issues. We will discuss the Childrey’s Creek both sides of the Pigg River crossing the John Sanders and James Sanders Line Snow Creek and the Mouth of Turkey later in this paper. Cock Creek. Also in 1750 Francis Kirby The first mention of James Sanders receives 300 acres on the Pigg River with a “W” between William and in Halifax adjacent to Thomas Hall. Sanders. It may be a Mark, but we think In 1752 a deed to James Sanders, for First mention of William it is his middle initial, as the other 2 wit- 400 acres on the Little Creek and In 1753 William Sanders enters 400 ness noted did not have a designated Childrey’s Creek, in Halifax Co., Va. This acres on Chestnut Creek described as mark or initial. (Deed Book 1, Page 194. deed has not been viewed, but it proba- “Begining on Thomas Hall’s upper line Halifax) bly links this James Sanders to John thence up said Creek on both sides." In 1750 William Hill entered his land Sanders of Childrey’s Creek. This entry states “Transfered to at the mouth of Chestnut Creek (about We find no connection of the Isham Hodges.” Entry Book 197; In the same time as John and Francis Kirby Childrey’s Creek Sanders to the 1756 Thomas Hall is granted 235 acres entered their property). (Recorded in Chestnut Creek Sanders, although the on the North side of the Pigg River. Entry Land Entry Book 126 of given names of James and William are August 20th 1754 William Sanders, Lunenburg.) connected to both lines (which is not by reasons presented in the Court of 1756 - A deed from William Hill to unusual in many Colonial families). Halifax, is exempted from paying county Lewis Morgan was proved by the oaths On the 20th of November 1755 we levies. Perhaps he was too old, if so, it of John Kerby and William Sanders. find a record of James Sanders when he would indicate that he is older than (Plea Book 2, Page 150) is involved in a court action brought by Patrick. Furthermore he may be his The above two deeds from William the King of England. Elijah Hunt was a father. An Anson Co., N.C. recording in Hill, both witnessed by John Kirby, pro- witness for the King. (Halifax Plea Book 1764, received from Gary Sanders vide a bit more documentation that 2). No other info is available on this strengthens this suggestion: William and Patrick Sanders are not only action. “In 1764 William and Susan Sanders neighbors, but related! In 1755 December 17th, James exempt from paying taxes in Anson In 1757, Patrick Sanders sells the 90- Sanders Sr. witnesses a deed from County due to age and infirmity.” From acre property to Lewis Morgan. The Thomas Mitchell** to a man named Gary Sanders dividing boundary between John Hall Talbott. Note that on this same day On the 17th day of December 1755 and William Hill is noted in the descrip- William Sanders records a deed from William Sanders receives a deed from tion. The document states he is a black- Thomas Hall in Plea Book, 2 Page 84. We Thomas Hall. Cannot find this deed! smith. His wife is named as Mary. It is of know the location of William’s property However, as shown in this work, we interest that Mary Sanders’ “mark” is the is near the Mouth of Chestnut Creek on know that it was for 100 acres and letter “C” and one of the Witnesses to the Pigg River and we also know that Thomas Hall is a neighbor to Patrick the recordation is Ann Care. Patrick’s Thomas Hall, the grantor on the deed, is Sanders on Chestnut Creek. mark is an ”L.” (Halifax Deed Book 1 a neighbor to Patrick Sanders. In February 1764 William Sanders page 358) (**Mitchell is a prevalent name in sells 100 acres on the Chestnut Creek, After he sells his property in 1757, the line of the James/William/Romulus Halifax County to John Heard. The Patrick is not found again in the Court Sanders Line, of Caswell Co., N.C., writing on the recorded document is dif- Records of Halifax. He has moved, we which is thoroughly researched. This is ficult to read, but it appears to state that believe to Anson County, N.C. where he the line that moved to Orange County William is from “Anson in the Province buys his first property on November in 1770. William died in 1803, Smith of North Carolina.” (Deed Book 5 Page 10th, 1758, as shown below: Co., Tenn.) 385) Patrick Sanders, of Anson County On the next page of the Plea Book, First mention of Patrick Sanders N.C., buys 280 acres from Thomas (Page 85), James Sanders is paid for In 1756 William Hill sells Patrick Cockerham on November 10th 1758 on traveling 60 miles, coming and return- Sanders 90 acres lying on two creeks: the South Fork of Mountain Creek. This ing, 30 miles each way, whereupon he the south bank of Chestnut Creek and is now in Richmond County, N.C. witnessed a deed given by John Ward. mouth of Saw Pit Branch (which we (Anson Deed Book 6 Page 55. LDS film # We know the Halifax Courthouse, in cannot locate). 0018145) 1755, was near the Elkhorn Creek. The William Sanders and Frances and In 1763 the tax list of Anson notes distance between Chestnut and Elkhorn John Kirby are witnesses to the transac- Patrick and James Sanders. tion. William Sanders name is noted The James Sanders name is prolific in (Continued on page four) SANDERSSiftings No. 57 Apr/2009 Page 4 John Sanders’ Portrait of William Shakespeare Has World’s Attention The following article appeared in The in Stratford next month.) And in the back and forth. Sullivan has sunk his life Sunday Times, London, England, March blue corner is a retired Bell Communi- savings into proving the authenticity of 22, 2009. cations engineer from Canada, Lloyd the painting. Hinks, so gripped by his Sullivan, who champions the “Sanders” labour of love, has given her time for Desperately Seeking Shakespeare (red hair, enigmatic smile) as the only nothing. A retired Canadian intent on proving he portrait the playwright actually sat for. “I got involved when Lloyd’s cousin owns a true picture of the Bard Sullivan is a man with a mission, and found me on the internet,” she says, is now the subject of an intriguing the story of his lifelong quest has landed referring to the moment when Sullivan him in the company of the world’s lead- documentary decided that he needed someone on the ing Shakespeare scholars as the subject ground in Shakespeare country. “It’s a by Christine Finn of a new documentary, Battle of Wills. hobby — no, it’s an obsession, really,” It’s gloves off in Shakespeare land. In It’s a mystery tale, and at its heart is the she corrects herself. Knee deep in boxes, the red corner is Stanley Wells, the emi- Sanders portrait, which has been in and with files often on the bed, she is nent scholar who champions the Sullivan’s family for generations. He clearly in her element. Hinks has shared “Cobbe” portrait of William Shakespeare first announced its credentials in 2002. her maybes and hunches with her grand- (thin face, long nose, knowing look), The artist was an ancestor, a minor play- son and her late father in what Anne lately proposed as the only one the play- er in Shakespeare’s company had the Henderson, the director of Battle of wright actually sat for. (It goes on show same name, and the painting had a label Wills, describes as “a giant family board on the back that claimed it was a like- game. They would all try to work on a (Continued from page three) ness of a 39-year-old “Shakspere,” which part of the Sanders tree.” Now her hus- was how the Bard spelt his name in his is about 30 miles. band, Tim, joins her on car journeys will. The Sanders family were also relat- around the parishes of Worcestershire Did James and William travel the 30 ed to the Ardens, Shakespeare’s mother’s and beyond. miles together to the Court House when people. Sullivan’s claims were met with She works discreetly, apart from the William recorded his Deed? Perhaps. the plaudits and put-downs familiar to OR, was just coincidence, and James was occasional moment when, she says, she observers of this supercompetitive can’t help herself: “I leapt up and from Childrey’s Creek, which is about 20 scholarly field. miles from the Court House. punched the air in a records office The story gathered pace in 2006, once!” Her perseverance and gimlet The above synopsis would fit and when Sullivan went to Connecticut for eye have paid off; among her finds is a provide some evidence, albeit scant, an exhibition at the Yale Center for family will, including “eight pictures,” James, William and Patrick were on British Art called Searching for which raises the prospect that one Chestnut Creek during the 1753-1757 Shakespeare. The show, which originat- might be the Sanders portrait. time frame. However, the continued ed in London, at the National Portrait Battle of Wills is full of nuggets of appearance of James and James Jr in the Gallery, brought together a number of records of Halifax, into the 1770s, after intrigue. One trail leads to Coughton, in the contending portraits, including his Warwickshire, the heart of the 16th-cen- William and Patrick moved to Anson own Sanders and the NPG’s Chandos County, make it more likely than not tury Catholic underground and linked portrait (domed forehead, looks like a with the gunpowder plot through the James and his son were of the Childrey’s bank manager). Among the show’s visi- Creek line. Throckmorton family. Their ancestral tors in London was Alec Cobbe, a home had a secret chapel. Apparently, a Peter Saunders British art restorer. Sanders attended Mass there. Ten years after Patrick Sanders sells For both men, the show had the same Shakespeare, some scholars believe, his Chestnut Creek property and three impact. Each left, fired up. Cobbe had was Catholic. Of noble blood, his moth- years after William Sanders of Anson spotted a similarity with a family por- er’s family, the Ardens, certainly were. Co., N.C. sells his Chestnut Creek prop- trait. Sullivan, meanwhile, crucially The skeins come together: did the artist erty, we find Peter Sanders, as a dated needed to link his own roots with meet his sitter at the chapel? entry (1767), on the Settlement Map of Shakespeare’s. He began a virtual search Hinks’s smallest findings make their Franklin County. His property location of the Midlands. is noted as near Pigg River. (Franklin way back to Sullivan and to Daniel Sullivan found his inspiration in a Fischlin, a leading Canadian formed in 1785 from Henry/Pittsylvania self-trained historian in her early fifties, counties). Shakespeare scholar with whom he is Pam Hinks, who lives in a modest house writing a book. Fischlin rebuffs the Further investigation on Peter leads outside Worcester. On her sitting-room Cobbe, producing scholarly and stylistic us to believe that he is connected to the wall is a life-size reproduction of the evidence for its sitter being Sir Thomas John Hyde Sanders line and is of English Sanders portrait, which she affectionate- Overbury, a man imprisoned and poi- descent. Much of the research on the ly calls “Old Smiler.” soned by James I. From his Canadian “Hyde” connection is available on the She and Sullivan have never met. In vantage point, Fischlin suggests that the Web. We have found several websites fact, Sullivan, now 76, has never visited quest for authenticity says much about which contain many references and England. For the past five years, the British national culture, the need to nail seemingly detailed research. (Using two have communicated via thousands the image of Shakespeare. Google, type search words “Peter of e-mails and hundreds of phone calls, Saunders” Franklin County, Va.) the tiny fragments of evidence going (Continued on page five) Page 5 No. 57 Apr/2009 SANDERSSiftings

Betty Brock Gives Her Brief Genealogy and Hopes to Make Connections From Betty Brock, . I am Betty Sanders mules, or oxen who pulled the wagon. town” in those days. Since Holt was the Belanger Brock, born 1 Jun1941 in Henry, my grandfather, learned the location of a train depot, everyone Pensacola, Florida. My father was three “Rs” from his parents, Allen referred to the community as Holt’s Cohen Sanders, born 3 Apr 1902 in Jefferson Sanders (b. 4 Sep 1838, d. 24 Station. That is how Holt got it’s name. Holt, Florida. He died 10 Feb 1989. Jul 1917) and Artha Cornelia The logging and turpentine industries Mother was Nancy Girlie Watson, born McClelland (b. 15 Apr 1846, d. 8 Jul provided plenty of work and the town 20 Jan 1920 in Alabama. She died 1919). Allen J. was a Civil War veteran. grew. In the mid 1900s, the timber gave around 1995. My parents were married I obtained Artha’s request for widow’s out and the town became a “ghost town” in Santa Rosa County, Florida in 1939. pension after Allen died. Allen and with only the old-timers left hanging on They became the parents of two daugh- Artha had five children: Jefferson to their land and their homes. ters, Sandra C., b. 14 Dec 1943, and me. (Jeffie), b. 1866; Sissy, b. 1868; Alice, b. I hope this info can be of help to Cohen’s parents were Henry Jefferson 1870; Adeline, b. 1872; Henry, b. 1875. someone else who may find that they Sanders, b. 14 Mar 1875, d. 25 Jan 1967 The girls married boys from a nearby connect up to some of these Sanders. and Margie Smith b. 18 Apr 1874, d. 10 family named Adams. (The Adams fam- Sep 1949. Henry and Margie had three ily represents a huge unholy story of children: Cohen (my dad), Kahn (mostly murder and intrigue for another group Sanders Siftings on a CD known as “Bud” or “Jack”), b. 5 Mar of researchers.) I believe, (without All issues of Sanders Siftings will 1904, d. 29 Dec 1967 after being hit by a absolute certainty) that Allen Jefferson’s be available soon on a CD for $15.00 car. The youngest was Cornelia, b. in parents were Allen and Dorcas Sanders postpaid, each. They are not all 1906, d. mid 1990s. The family was not who were born in the early 1800s (1810 together yet, but should be available Jewish but the two sons were named after and 1814). Allen was from South by June 15. Each issue will be in a two of Henry’s friends who were mer- Carolina and Dorcas from Georgia. PDF file. when the publication be- chants in Milton. When the people of Allen d. 27 Aug 1898; Dorcas d. 6 Jun gan I chose the easy way out—no Holt came to Milton for supplies, they 1891. They are both buried in Almarant indexing. I am still lazy, so the had to stay all night at a boarding house. Cemetery between Crestview and Laurel issues on the CD are NOT indexed. In those days, traveling by buggy was tir- Hill, Florida.

(Continued from page four) Joseph Fiennes, who played the Bard in declined. His own claim now provides That British sensibility inspired Shakespeare in Love, features in Battle an unexpected prelude to Battle of Wills. Henderson to focus her film on the of Wills (as do Michael Pennington and For Sullivan, who lost his eldest daugh- Sanders story: “The fascination with this Simon Callow), waxing lyrical about the ter in the week the Cobbe was unveiled, 400-year-old portrait is very modern. feel and spirit of the smiling painting. it is a tough time to do battle. But he Because we live in the age of photography, Yet gut feelings do not authenticity has his kindred spirit in Worcestershire. we want to stare at the faces of our great- make. Sullivan put the painting through Hinks remains convinced that “Old est artists, to learn the secrets of their a battery of tests at the Canadian Smiler” is the One. “His face says, ‘You’ll inner life. We imagine a connection with Conservation Institute. The analysis not find me out.’ . . But I will,” she says. the human being in the portrait, as if the was favourable, but not conclusive. Battle of Wills premieres at the 27th person gazes back at us too.” And what of the long-faded label on International Festival of Films on Art, in The London art dealer Angus Neill the back? Montreal, on Tuesday [March 24]; the represents the Sanders portrait in Britain. “Shakspere Shakespeare Found exhibition, featuring In the film, he makes his argument Born April 23 1564 the Cobbe portrait, is at the Shakespeare against the Chandos, a portrait that is Died April 23 1616 Birthplace Trust, in Stratford-upon-Avon, fast losing ground. He describes the Age 52 from April 23. Cobbe as “a highly polished and accom- This Likeness taken 1603 [If you would like to learn more about plished portrait of a nobleman, but com- Age at that time 39 ys” this Sanders painting of Shakespeare and pletely lacking the ‘spiritual power’ of Analysis of the ink and paper sug- some of the opinions of it and other por- the Sanders, which I can only describe as gests that the label is from the period, traits of William Shakespeare—genuine, the Mona Lisa of Elizabethan portrai- but counter-scholars argue for 100% fake or otherwise—go to . You can also do flicked through a magazine while wait- and verifications that his painting was, other searches with Google, like I did, and ing for a train: “I nearly fainted. When I indeed, of the Bard. The most important find other references. But, the above web- went to the NPG show, the Sanders clue is the label. . . no other painting in site will lead you to a lot of other sources of knocked everything else off the wall.” the world has a direct link to the sitter material on this subject. I would publish a It is not only art specialists who have being Shakespeare attached to the paint- copy of the portrait, but it is copyrighted, warmed to the Sanders, which Hinks ing itself.” and I don’t think I’ll be able to get permis- suggests was painted to mark When Henderson set out to make sion in time. We might do with a follow-up Shakespeare’s final stage appearance, for what began as a modest art film, she on this story if this were not the last issue of the King’s Men in 1603. The actor offered to include the Cobbe. Its owner Sanders Siftings. -- the editor] SANDERSSiftings No. 57 Apr/2009 Page 6

The First Sanders Family of Virginia from Ralph Sanders’ History The following is from Ralph Sanders, the tribes of the region.” ensued, and the matter was thrown to an 114 Mickler Blvd., St. Augustine, FL Henry Spelman was not the only fam- English court on their return. 32080, . ily member to perish at Indian hands. Alexander Sanders arrived in THE FIRST OF THE FAMILY IN VIRGINIA Fate dealt equally harshly with Lt. Virginia in 1623 aboard the Truelove, a so far as we know was Henry Spelman Edmond Sanders. Edmond came to ship named for its owner Richard who, though not a Sanders by name, Virginia before 1622, though his ulti- Truelove. A certain Francis Lathbury, a was nonetheless a close relative of the mate purpose there is unclear. His title close associate of London vintner and Sanders of Ewell, in Surrey, and Wales. of lieutenant suggests an appointment as merchant Joseph Saunders, had once Henry’s father was Erasmus Spelman subordinate of Captain John Martin, assumed responsibility for goods carried who was named after Erasmus Saunders who at that time was master of the on the Truelove, a hint that Alexander of Tenby. Erasmus Spelman’s mother was colony’s ordnance. Edmond lived at Sanders was part of a Vintner Company Erasmus Saunders’ sister. Erasmus’s Martin’s Brandon, a large estate on the operation. The name Alexander Sanders brother Francis Saunders of Norfolk south side of the James River above does not occur again in any records for mentioned young Henry Spelman of Jamestown owned by one of that era’s the period, however, either in England Virginia in his will of 1613. most controversial figures. John Martin or Virginia. Much the same is true for Henry Spelman was sent to Virginia was a merchant tailor, a sea captain, and George Sanders, who lived at Archer’s in 1609 at the age of fourteen as punish- vigorous adventurer in Virginia enter- Hope along the James River in Virginia ment for some youthful indiscretion. prise. An argument over land and cattle in 1623. At a later time, in 1653, a Shortly after his arrival, he was taken by at Martin’s Brandon in 1622 caused John George Sanders lived in Barbados, Capt. John Smith to an Indian encamp- Martin to return to England and to leave though we cannot discern whether this ment, an auspicious and perhaps too his cattle, the ownership of which lay in might be the same person. Given the immediate beginning for Henry dispute, in the care of Lt. Edmond thirty years of separation in these Spelman’s career as Indian interpreter Sanders. records, this seems unlikely. and local diplomat. But while Martin was in England, on Reverend David Sanders, a name In his first days, weeks, and months, March 22, 1622, a large Indian attack suggesting Welsh origins, lived at Hogg Henry Spelman developed close rela- burst forth, resulting in the death of 330 Island in the James River near tions with native leaders but all too settlers in Virginia. The massacre missed Jamestown in 1623. There can be no quickly found himself snared in few areas in colonial Virginia, and among mystery as to the reason for his coming intrigue. In 1610, the powerful Indian the many casualties was Lt. Edmond to Virginia. From its earliest moment, chief Powhatan induced Spelman to Sanders. Shortly after, Samuel Argall, a the London-based Virginia Company convince colonists to engage in a trad- former governor and leading figure in saw need to furnish Protestant services ing expedition for desperately needed Virginia, surveyed the destruction at to colonists far from home and to “prop- Indian corn. But trusting Spelman and Martin’s Brandon, leaving an account of agate the Christian religion to such peo- following his instructions, thirty the scene of Lt. Edmond Sanders’s ple as yet live in darkness and miserable colonists in the expedition were slain demise. Argall had “certain news that ignorance of the true knowledge and from ambush by Powhatan’s tribe. For the houses and all things else therein worship of God.” Yet the Virginia Spelman, the lesson was clear, and it were burnt.” Little besides “some small Company noted as late as 1619 that was learned repeatedly for the next trompery” remained, “the Indians having Virginia by then had eleven boroughs decade. As an interpreter and reluctant carried away all other things as it should but not more than five ministers in all. go-between for cultures at war, Henry seem by their strewing of old chests and A proposal therefore was advanced in Spelman and other interpreters in his barrels about the field.” the company to provide at least one minister for each borough. As an position were often useful but frequent- Henry Sanders sailed to Virginia in inducement to serve in Virginia, the ly mistrusted by both sides. A contem- 1623 aboard the Southampton, accompa- company proposed to advance to each porary wrote that “we have sent boies nying Abraham Piercey, a cape merchant willing cleric one hundred acres of glebe (boys) amongst them to learn their lan- to whom Henry was indentured. By land and six men as tenants to work this guage, but they return worse than when 1625, Henry had reached the age of land. Rev. David Sanders was recruited they went.” twenty years, and he resided at Piercey’s under such arrangements, but the length In 1623, Henry Spelman, by now Hundred in Virginia. Nothing more is or success of his Virginia service is called “Captain” Henry Spelman, led a known of this Henry, save that he expe- unknown. trading expedition along the Potomac, rienced a mutiny aboard the north of secure colony lands. But he Southampton during his Atlantic cross- In London, Richard Sanders was again was deceived by a promise of safe ing. The Southampton originally had apprenticed to Richard Lee in 1608 and trade, and Henry with nineteen other been instructed to sail to Virginia, then by 1617 gained free admission to the colonists were slain in an attack involv- to Canada for a lading of fish, and from London-based Vintners Company. ing about sixty Indian canoes. Their there to “Portucall, Biscay, or France” Before 1624, he took passage to Virginia ship, the Tiger, narrowly escaped cap- and then home to England. But Capt. aboard the Francis Bonaventure and at ture, carrying only four survivors. John Harvey of the Southampton seems that date lived in the Main in Virginia. A Henry Spelman died in the ambush, it to have changed this plan en route, year later, Richard was one of the gover- was said, “because he presumed too much to the displeasure of his crew and nor’s men at Pasbyhaigh and the Main, much upon his acquaintance amongst passengers. Struggles aboard the ship (continued on page seven) Page 7 No. 57 Apr/2009 SANDERSSiftings

Benjamin wife unk. ASSORTED QUERIES . . . Nahum wife unk Mike Sanders, 3965 W. 83rd Street, 7 mos. 1870 Johnson Co., Mo. - James Thos. killed in action at Guilford Suite 171, Prairie Village, KS 66208, 21, Anna 19, Wm 16, Newton 10, Courthouse in Revolutionary War. has two different Claiborne 7, Mary 4, Hirman 2. 1880 Nathaniel Perry, father of Mary, left queries to offer: Palo, Pinto Co., Texas - James 31, grandson Nathaniel Saunders property George Sanders - b. 1784/5 in Newton 20, Claiborne 17, Mary 14, in his will. Was Nathaniel the only Randolph County, N.C., d. probably 22 Hirman 11. 1900 Erath Co., Texas - child of Thos. and Mary? Was Dec 1867 in Jackson County, Ala. Can Wm 77, Pamelia 72, born Feb. 1828, Mathilda Saunders, who m. Daniel anyone verify this death date? Does James 51. I have been unable to find Tubbs a daughter or granddaughter of anyone have additional information on Wm., Pamelia, or James in 1910. Wm. Saunders and Sarah Ragan? Who George Sanders or his wife, Phebe? Pamelia - is she the daughter of Isaac was Benjamin’s wife? Where did they go from Dickson Co., Tenn.? Henry Sanders - (1677-1733) married Sanders and Lucinda ???. I have tried Margaret Sellway (1677-?). Rumored to Texas for death records with no luck. I ______be the father of John Sanders, b. 1711 in would very much like to exchange Isle of Wight, Va., m. Elizabeth ? in information with anyone working on this family. 1747, d. 3 Feb 1772 in Randolph Leslie Adams, has proof that she is a descen- ______dant of Mary “Polly” Sanders/ Saunders, E. Lee Hoover, 544 Twomey Road, d 1818, who married John Mary Harris, 857 Cornish Dr., San Centerville, TN 37033-5212, Straughn/Straughan/Strawn b 1759 d Diego, CA 92107,. I is seeking veri- 1808. She needs information regarding am searching for the family of William fication of the children and grand chil- her ancestors. She believes Polly’s father Cox and Pamelia F. Sanders. Married dren of Thomas Saunders, b. ca.1720, was Nathaniel Sanders 1734-1808 who May 30, 1845 Rutherford Co., Tenn. and wife Judith. Her records may not be married Sarah Elizabeth ?. Nathaniel’s Living in Rutherford in 1850 with James correct. Children: parents were Hugh Sanders 1700 & A., age 1. 1860 Shelby Co, Ill. - James Thos. Saunders m. Mary Perry Catherine ?. Hugh was the son of 11, Lucinda A. 8, Wm 6, Isaac 3, Joseph William Saunders m. Sarah Ragan Thomas Sanders.

(continued from page six) 1624 census, Edward was identified as a ularly on a newly established Virginia James City. At some point, he married a Virginia inhabitant during a legal Court, and he became a burgess in the woman named Margaret. Richard, died inquiry in that year in London. The colony’s weak legislative authority. about 1636 at Neck of Land, a small spit occasion was an investigation of a docu- Together over the next decade, Edward of land near Jamestown, and Margaret ment produced by one Edward and Roger assisted others in managing shortly thereafter married William Waterhouse, a Virginian who drafted an the lands and cattle of Lady Dale, the ex- Morgan. Following the marriage, indictment of conditions in the colony governor’s wife, and in establishing their Morgan acquired land on the at the time of the 1622 massacre. In own plantations. More importantly, Chickahominy River, claiming fifty acres that inquiry, a Captain Butler elaborated Edward and Roger Saunders collaborated each for two headrights originally on the colony’s problems in a document to operate a colonial warehouse for acquired by Richard Sanders that passed called “The Unmasked Face of Our transatlantic trade. This warehouse was to Margaret on his death and then to Colony in Virginia as It Was in the among the first, or even the very first, Morgan through marriage. Winter of the Year 1622,” read before a private commercial establishment in Privy Council in London. Edward English America. The precise location of Edward Saunders was born about Sanders was one of three persons named this warehouse is not known, but it lay at 1595 in Charlwood, Surrey. He came to as Virginia residents at these proceed- the southern end of Accomack County Virginia in 1619 at age twenty-four and ings, and Edward provided his mark sig- on its Chesapeake side, near a place on resided there intermittently for nearly nifying agreement with Butler’s main today’s maps called Cape Charles, close two decades. During his early Virginia message. to the place where Roger Saunders estab- years, Edward stayed both in the penin- lished a plantation in 1628. sular settlement at Accomack and on the Edward Sanders’ first son Thomas mainland near Jamestown. Edward was born in England in 1622 and a sec- Roger’s wife joined him at the planta- developed some familiarity with the ond son Edward was born in 1625. tion, perhaps the first instance of a mar- entire colony, at least as far upriver as a Edward also had another child, a daugh- ried couple named Sanders living place called Pasbyhaigh on the James ter, but neither her name nor year of together in the New World, if the mar- River. He probably had regular contact birth have been discovered. riage of Richard and Margaret Sanders with Richard Sanders, not only because Edward’s work required his regular was not. of some family relationship but because presence in Virginia and frequent The above article is condensed from both were intimately involved in Atlantic crossings. As early as 1622, he Ralph Sanders et al., Generations: A Virginia business interests of the had been joined in Virginia by a relative Thousand-Year Family History, Xlibris Vintners Company. named Roger Saunders, called a mariner Corp., Philadelphia, PA, 2006, 432 pp., Although he was not specifically enu- in one instance and a gentleman in available from Xlibris and other book- merated as a resident in Virginia in a another. In time, Roger would serve reg- stores. SANDERSSiftings No. 57 Apr/2009 Page 8

About This Last Issue Rabbi Ira Sanders Was A Leader For Arkansas If you have been holding back Civil Rights; Sender Was German Name articles or other offerings to send me Ira Eugene Sanders became the most with whites up front. From that time to publish, your procrastination has well-known and respected rabbi in forward until his death, he worked paid off! You won’t have to bother to Arkansas and known for his efforts in toward improving race relations. He was send it in. This is the last issue promoting social work and civil rights. outspoken in favor of the desegregation If you are reading this in a library Ira Sanders was born on May 6, 1894, of Central High School in 1957. He or from another person’s copy and in Rich Hill, Missouri, one of five chil- joined fourteen others who appeared you are not a subscriber, but you’d dren of Daniel and Pauline (Ackerman) before the state legislature in February, like to subscribe, please don’t write to Sanders. His father was a wholesale meat urging compliance regarding the U.S. me. There will not be any issues after packer. When Ira was six years Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown April 2009. Start your own Sanders old, his family moved to Kansas vs. Board of Education of newsletter! City, Missouri, where he attend- Topeka, Kansas school deseg- All 57 issues will be available on a ed public school. He received a regation decision. However, CD, in a PDF format, that will be B.A. degree from the University bills to protect segregation available in June for libraries and of Cincinnati in 1918; he then were passed. individuals. Also, see the box on obtained a rabbinate degree from He was a strong supporter of page five. the (Reform) Hebrew Union Israel all his life, which was E-mail addresses of contributors College, Cincinnati, in 1919 and Rabbi Sanders unusual within Reform are listed right after their regular was ordained as a rabbi that year. Judaism. (In 1885, that mailing address in these signs < >, if He served as rabbi of Congregation branch of Judaism had ruled out the the person has an e-mail address. Keneseth Israel in Allentown, need for a Jewish homeland, believing it This newsletter was done in Pennsylvania, for five years. was God’s will that the Jews be scattered QuarkXPress 5.01 on a PowerMac On March 21, 1922, he married worldwide to demonstrate Biblical ethics G4 computer and output is on a Selma Loeb, a Wellesley graduate and a worldwide; the rise of Hitler in the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 2200D. native of Rich Hill, Missouri. They had 1930s brought about a change in that Text type is 10 pt. Berkeley Medium one daughter, Flora Louise. In 1924, doctrine.) Sanders assisted in nineteen on 11 pt. line spacing. Display type Rabbi Sanders joined Temple Israel in bond drives for the state of Israel. is Berkeley and Opine Heavy. New York City as an associate rabbi. In Rabbi Sanders retired on August 31, Scanning is done with a Microtek 1926, he received an M.A. degree in 1963, and served as rabbi emeritus of ScanMaker IIHR using ScanWizard, sociology from Columbia University and B’nai Israel until his death on April 8, PhotoShop, and OmniPage Pro. began work on a Ph.D. but never com- 1985. He wrote numerous articles on The envelopes are addressed on pleted it. religious and humanitarian topics and, the HP LaserJet 2200D printer. In September 1926, at age thirty-two, in 1966, wrote a centennial history of Rabbi Sanders came to Little Rock, Congregation B’nai Israel. He died of natural causes just one month short of Congressman Everett Sanders, Indiana Arkansas, as leader of the state’s largest Reform Jewish congregation, B’nai Israel. his ninety-first birthday. He is buried at WILLIAM EVERETT SANDERS, a He was elected as president of the Oakland Jewish Cemetery in Little Rock, Representative from Indiana; born near Central Council of Social Agencies in the only rabbi interred there. Coalmont, Clay County, Ind., March 8, 1927, which served under the auspices Ira Sanders’ heritage goes back to 1882; attended the public schools and of the Little Rock Community Fund. In Germany where the surname was the Indiana State Normal School at Terre February 1927, he initiated and headed Sender. His father, as previously men- Haute; was graduated from the law the Little Rock School of Social Work. tioned was Daniel Sanders, born 30 Jul department of Indiana University at Office space for the school was in the 1846. Daniel’s parents were Abraham Bloomington in 1907; was admitted to Community Welfare Building, and class- Sender (born 1816) and Elisabeth the bar the same year and practiced his es were held at the YWCA building. Kaufmann (born 1820) of Sötern, profession in Terre Haute, Ind.; elected Germany. Abraham’s parents were as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to Sanders’ wide range of knowledge Daniel Aaron Sender and Charlotta Levi, the three succeeding Congresses (March made him a sought-after speaker by also of Sötern (now Sotern). Sotern is in 4, 1917-March 3, 1925); declined to be a civic, business, and religious organiza- Saarland just south of the border with candidate for renomination in 1924; was tions. His oratory skills were enhanced Rheinland. It is located north of director of the speakers’ bureau of the by his voice, which was described by Saarbrucken, west northwest of Republican National Committee in one local newspaper reporter as “persua- Kaiserslautern, and east of the country of 1924; appointed secretary to President sively mellow and resonant,” a distinct Luxemburg. Calvin Coolidge on March 4, 1925, and attribute in the days before public served until March 4, 1929; served as address systems. [Some of this article came from the Republican National Chairman from Rabbi Sanders first encountered the website of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas 1932 to 1934; resumed the practice of South’s “Jim Crow” laws just three History and Culture and some from the law in Washington, D.C., where he died weeks after coming to Little Rock, when website, created by Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind. seating arrangements—blacks in back, Georg Stockschlaeder.] Sanders Siftings

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