ESTHER SAUNDERS

(1741-after 1770) - New Castle, Rockingham co., NH

(Third Generation - Saunders Family)

FATHER	MOTHER
JOHN SAUNDERS	MARY BERRY

BIRTH

Esther was baptized on 17 September 1741.

MARRIAGE #1

On 24 August 1759 Esther first married John YEATON^[8], son of [not known] YEATON, in New Castle, Rockingham co., NH^[9]. John was lost in the Great October Gale of 1770 along with Esther's father and uncle^[10].

Esther lost her father, John; her brother, John, Jr.; her uncle, Samuel; her nephew, Samuel, Jr. and her husband, John Yeaton in this storm. In addition, I can only imagine that the "two others and two boys..." who rounded out the crew of John Saunders' fishing schooner were also related.

CHILDREN (surname Yeaton)	i.	John² YEATON
	ii.	Mary YEATON
	iii.	Elizabeth YEATON
	iv.	Esther YEATON
	v.	Merribah YEATON
	vi.	Polly YEATON

MARRIAGE #2

Esther second married Simon KNOWLES.

GENERATION

Great-great-great-great-great-great (G6) Grandmother

FAMILY NUMBER

285

SOURCES

1. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR or Reg.], 3:152; 8:161-162; 36:144; 41:382.

2. Parsons, Langdon B., History of the Town of Rye, NH From Its Discovery and Settlement to December 31, 1903, (1905; repr. Bowie, MD: Heritage Press 1992), [RyeHist], 523.

3. Ibid.

4. Perley, Sidney, Historic Storms of New England: Its Gales, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Showers with Thunder and Lightning, Great Snow Storms, Rains, Freshets, Floods, Droughts, Cold Winters, Hot Summers, Avalanches, [etc.]..with Incidents and Anecdotes, Amusing and Pathetic., (Salem, Mass.: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company; rpt. 2001 Beverley, MA: Commonwealth Editions, Memoirs Unlimited, Inc.), [Perley], 70-71. 5. Ibid.

6. Mini Atlas of Britain, (Edinbugh, Scotland: Bartholomew), [BritAtl], 4c. 7. [RyeHist], 524.

8. Meloon, Ian, New Castle, NH Records, (Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Library).

9. [RyeHist], 571.

10. Ibid. 523, 571

11. Odiorne, James Creighton, Genealogy of the Odiorne family in America., (Rev. in 1966), [Odiorne (1966)], 51.


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