John SANDERS

Under the date of June 1622, the colonial records of Plymouth Colonynote: 'Came into our harbor two ships of Mr. Weston's, the Charity,100 tons, the Swan, 30 tons, with letters of Apr 10, and fifty orsixty men, sent at his own charge, under Capt. John Sanders, overseer,to settle a plantation in the Massachusetts Bay, of which he hasprocured a patent.' Sanders settled the colony at Weymouth in the Fall of 1622. Theenterprise was abandoned by Spring, however, because of insufficientsupplies. In London is recorded on 23 May 1623, 'Captain Sanders andCompany arrived at Southampton.' Undaunted by the failure of the Weymouth Colony, Sanders made severalvisits to the colonies over the next several years (his son Johnsettled in Salem in 1628). Many of these trips were to Virginia, acolony under the control of Sir Edwin Sandys (the source believesthere is some relation and that Sandys became Sanders). In 1638 hetraveled back to England for a new patent to found a colony and wasgranted a patent with 11 others for a 75 mile wide strip from theAtlantic Ocean to the Merrimack and Hampton Rivers: Salisbury. On hisreturn, he brought his daughter Sarah, who soon married Maj. RobertPike.

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