The Family of John Saunders

 (Son of James and Sarah Gunnel Saunders)

John (1746 - 1797) m Mary Oxley (26 Jul 1759 - 1797)

 Children born to this marriage were:

James

Elizabeth 

Patience

Permelia

John

Barbary

Nancy Ann

Sarah

Mary

Bethany

 

They also had an infant, "not yet named," when John Saunders’s will
was filed.

 

Sarah married James Sanders and lived in Kentucky in 1814. 

Elizabeth married Thomas Triplett and also was in Kentucky in 1814.

Mary (29 Jul 1793 - 11 Aug 1853) married (9 Sep 1804) Presley Saunders.

Barbary married (12 Feb 1808) William Darne in Loudoun County, Va..

Nancy Ann (29 Jul 1793-16 Jan 1853) married (29 Jul 1809) General
Samuel M. Edwards.

Bethany married (22 Apr 1801) George Moul.

John Saunders was an Ensign in the Loudoun County, Virginia militia
having enlisted January 13, 1777 at Leesburg, Virginia during the
American Revolutionary War. An "Ensign" then was a Lieutenant 3rd Class
in the Army.

Author’s note: Much of the Oxley family information is also recorded
in the Rev. James Saunders’s bible: a photostatic copy of the family
story pages is kept at the Thomas Balch Historical Library, Leesburg,
Virginia.