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Maria
Wendell Sanders
Maria Wendell was born in February 1685. She was the third of the ten children born to Albany merchant Evert Wendell and his wife, Elizabeth Sanders Wendell.
Nineteen-year-old
Maria married her cousin Albany merchant Barent Sanders
at the house of Mayor Johannes Schuyler in 1704.
The couple made their home on Pearl Street. Their
three children, born between 1705 and 1714, were
baptized in the Albany Dutch church where both parents
were members and frequent baptism sponsors.
Although
her family was much smaller than most, Maria's sons
became leading citizens in Albany and Schenectady.
However, she was not able to enjoy their success
or her grandschildren as Maria Wendell Sanders died
in June 1738. She was fifty-three years old.
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Notes: The life of Maria Wendell Sanders is CAP biography number 3044. This profile
is derived chiefly from family and community-based
resources.
Sons: Robert Sanders became mayor of Albany. John Sanders
prominent Schenectady businessman and pioneer of
Glenville.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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