History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . extremely loath tolose so falthlul and experienced an officer. 1 must de-sire you would give him such relief as may make himeasy in the service. The House doubtless compliedwith Governor Shirleys request, for Captain Sanderswas in the expedition to Cape Breton the same year,and had command of the transports in ChapeauRouge Hay. He had eleven children. His son,Thomas (the third) of Gloucester, married Lucy,daughter of Rev. Thomas Smith, the first minister ofFalmouth, Maine, (afterwards


History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . extremely loath tolose so falthlul and experienced an officer. 1 must de-sire you would give him such relief as may make himeasy in the service. The House doubtless compliedwith Governor Shirleys request, for Captain Sanderswas in the expedition to Cape Breton the same year,and had command of the transports in ChapeauRouge Hay. He had eleven children. His son,Thomas (the third) of Gloucester, married Lucy,daughter of Rev. Thomas Smith, the first minister ofFalmouth, Maine, (afterwards Portland). This ThomasSanders fitted for college with Rev. Moses Parsons,of Hyfield, the father of the chief justice, and gradu-ated at Harvanl in 1748. He was a merchant atGloucester, represented that town in the House ofRepresentatives frjm 1701 to 1770 inclusive, and wasthen amembcrof the Council till he resigned, in June,1773. His son, Thomas, born in 1759, settled in Salem,and died a wealthy citizen of that place, June 5,1844. He married Elizabeth Elkius, a lineal descen- 1 By JobD B. I». J4UT^M^^ J li^^c^riH/^


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