> Mrs. Louise Prosser Bates of Westerly, a highly educated woman and > descended from Tobias Saunders and Joseph Clarke and William Crumb, spent years in > research of original records in Westerly and left her papers by bequest to the > state of RI. Unfortunately they have never been printed. The following is > from her papers: "The first wife of Joseph Clarke (brother of Dr. John Clarke > who is often called the founder of Newport, RI) was a sister of Tobias > Saunders. Tobias married Mary Peckham, daughter of John Peckham and Mary Clarke, > sister of Joseph Clarke. > > Frank, The above is a quote from the Peckham genealogy. Unfortunately, this is not my Sanders line but I have tried to follow them anyway because in Indiana the Sanders line from MASS met up with this Saunders line (Tobias progenitor) from Westerly. Jean Sanders Haverhill MA