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known (?-by 1715). DAUGHTER: Sarah, who
married Augustine Thompson (1691-1738/39).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES: Gent., by 1698; often ran against mem-
bers of the Hynson family in elections to the Lower
House from Kent County. OCCUPATIONAL PRO-
FILE: carpenter, joiner by 1681, contractor by 1683.
Salter was an English-trained joiner who arrived
in Maryland with expertise and capital. Between
1683 and 1685 he built the Quaker Meeting House
at Third Haven (now Easton), Talbot County, an
outstanding example of Anglo-American carpen-
try. Innholder, 1694-1695; planter; mercantile
activity. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Kent County, 1701-1704 (Ag-
grievances 1; Elections 2; Laws 2, 3, 5), Queen
Anne's County, 1708A, 1708B-1711. LOCAL OF-
FICES: justice, Kent County, 1701-1705 (quorum,
1701/2-1705); justice, Queen Anne's County,
1708-1715 (quorum); St. Paul's Parish Vestry,
Queen Anne's County, 1707-1710. WEALTH DUR-
ING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 1700
acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: between June 29
and December 5, 1715, in Queen Anne's County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £929.3.6 (including
1 servant, 12 slaves, and books); FB, £573.7.11.
LAND: at least 880 acres.
SAUNDERS (SANDERS), JAMES (?-1707) IM-
MIGRATED: by 1669, possibly transported in 1649.
RESIDED: in All Hallow's Parish, Anne Arundel
County. CHILDREN. SONS: James, who married in
1703 Jane (?-1736), widow of William Cotter (?-
1702), daughter of Nicholas Gassaway (1634-1691/
92); Robert (?-1755), who married in 1698 Re-
beckah Groome (?-1752). DAUGHTER. Anne, who
married first, Nicholas Gassaway, Jr. (ca. 1668-
1699), son of Nicholas Gassaway (1634-1691/92),
and second, in 1700, Samuel Chambers. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILI-
ATION: Protestant; called a "halfe churchman,"
and "very great with the Quakers," 1700. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: perhaps related to Jo-
seph Saunders of Bristol, a merchant, who lived
in the Severn River area of Anne Arundel County
by November 1699; James Saunders first patented
land in that area in 1670; the records contain
several references during this period to various
men named Saunders who were merchants of
Bristol; sons held no offices. OCCUPATIONAL PRO-
FILE: planter, merchant. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Anne Arundel
County, 1692-1693, 1694-1697 (Aggrievances 5,
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8; Elections 7); 1697/98-1700 (Aggrievances 1,
2, 4, probably chairman 1, 4; Elections 3), 1701
(appointed to Council before the 2nd session of
the 1701-1704 Assembly); Upper House, 1701/
2-1704 (appointed before the 2nd session of the
1701-1704 Assembly), 1704-1707. OTHER PRO-
VINCIAL OFFICES: justice, Provincial Court, 1699-
1700 (quorum, 1700); Council, 1701-1707. LO-
CAL OFFICE: justice, Anne Arundel County, 1692-
1699 (quorum, 1694-1699). STANDS ON PUBLIC/
PRIVATE ISSUES: probably leaned toward the pro-
prietary side during the Protestant Associators'
Revolution of 1689. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least 340 acres.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: buried on May 15, 1707,
in All Hallow's Parish, Anne Arundel County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £821.19.3 (including
1 servant, 19 slaves); FB, £811.0.3 before pay-
ment of legacies. LAND: over 850 acres.
SCARBOROUGH (SCARBROUGH), JOHN (ca
1694-1775). BORN: ca. 1694, probably in Snow
Hill Parish, Somerset (now Worcester) County;
only son. NATIVE: second generation. RESIDED:
at ''Scarborough's Castle," located on the road
from Snow Hill Town to the seaside, in Worcester
County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Matthew
Scarborough (ca. 1649-1724). MOTHER: Hannah
Wise. SISTERS: Wise (?-by 1758); Dennis, who
married by 1699 Nathaniel Hopkins (?-1739/40);
Comfort; Hannah; and Elizabeth. MARRIED his
first cousin Mary Cade, daughter of John Wise
(?-1717) and wife Matilda West (?-1722). Mary
was the niece of Hannah Wise, who married Mat-
thew Scarborough (ca. 1649-1724). Her brothers
were John, Thomas, and Samuel. Her sisters were
Hannah Scarburgh, who married Daniel Rogers
(?-1752) of Accomack County; Elizabeth. Her
great-grandfather was Col. Edmund Scarburgh
(ca. 1618-ca. 1671), surveyor-general of Virginia
in 1675 and a major colonial figure on the Eastern
Shore of Virginia. CHILDREN. SONS: Samuel, who
married in 1759 Peggy, daughter of John Kendall
of Northampton, Virginia, and wife Esther Lit-
tleton Robins; John, who married in 1759 Anne,
daughter of John Kendall of Northampton, Vir-
ginia, and wife Elizabeth Littleton Robins.
DAUGHTERS: Betty, who married McKemmie
Porter (?-ca. 1751); Mary; Ann (?-1788), who
married Joseph Broughton (?-ca. 1783); Leah;
and Hannah, who married Matthew Selby (?-
1777). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RE-
LIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1735. OCCUPATIONAL
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