JOHN5 SAUNDERS was born in the city of Philadelphia in 1752. A devout
Quaker like his father, John was the seventh of Joseph and Hannah
Saunders’s eleven children and the only surviving son. He moved to
Alexandria, Virginia in 1773 to join his sister and brother-in-law, Susanna
and William Hartshorne. In 1783 he married Mary Pancoast. Of their six
children, only three reached adulthood. Mary was the daughter of David
Pancoast and his wife Sarah Marll. John died aged just 37 in 1790 of a
mysterious inflammatory disease. Two years after his death his widow
Mary married Philip Wanton.
