Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

Richard Saunders

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Cokie Roberts — 10th Generation
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  • Sarah Steel
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  • AFT 29 Jun 1718 
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  • prob. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
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  Rebecca Saunders (Ahnentafel No:473 )

• Sources for Richard Saunders

  • ¹ Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810, Vol. 2, Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, State Printers (1880), p. 214, Marriage authorized for Richard Saunders and Sarah Steel.
  • ² U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #67700, Membership application for Paul D'Otrenge Seghers.
  • ³ Cope, Gilbert, Genealogy of Dunwoody and Hood Families and Collateral Branches: Their History and Biography, Minneapolis: Tribune Printing Co. (1899), 165.

Cokie Roberts photo by NARA