The Captain
William Sanders Chapter was named for the Revolutionary
Ancestor of our Organizing Regent, Stella Corcoran White,
when she organized the chapter in 1937.
William
Sanders was born in Beaufort, NC, on 20 February 1760. He
married Patience Benthal in Beaufort City in 1783. They were
parents of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters.
During
the Revolutionary War, William Sanders served as a Private,
a Sergeant, then as a Lieutenant of the 4th North Carolina
Regiment. He was commissioned a Captain on 8 February 1779
when he was 19 years old. His name appeared on a record of
the proceedings of a board of officers of the North Carolina
Line dated 6 February 1782.
Sanders
fought in the battle of Briar Creek near the Savannah River
in Georgia, where he served under General Lincoln.
Captain
William Sanders died in Jonesboro, Alabama on 15 March 1847
at 87 years of age.
Children
of Capt. William Sanders and his wife, Patience:
Child: |
Born: |
Married: |
David |
1784 |
Margaret
Fox |
Philip |
1786 |
Mary
Lindsay |
Francis |
1788 |
David
Lovett |
William |
1790 |
Anna
Crombie |
Tamar |
1793 |
|
Elijah
John |
1795 |
|
Nancy |
|
Neely
McMillan |
Ezekiel |
1799 |
|
John W. |
1803 |
|
Sophia |
1806 |
Chesley
Burton |
Absalom |
1808 |
Ann
Dickinson |
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