John Sanders is shown as a single man (i.e., not a landowner) in the 1761 poor tax lists of Buckingham, Bucks Countty, Pennsylvania.1468 John Wilkinson, a near in-law, is also included in the lists.

For the years 1765 to 1758, a John Saunders appears as a single freeman or inmate of Coventry, in Chester County, owner of two horses and one cow. I am inclined to believe that this is the John Saunders of interest here, because the total picture is sequential: he appears there when traces of him disappear from Bucks, and afterwards reappears in Northampton.

The tax lists of Plumstead for 17691469 do not show any Saunders.

In 1775, John Sanders of Plumstead is listed as a “non-associator,” i.e. non-participant, in the local militia.1466 Although his religious practice is unclear, it seems plausible that this status rrflects his Quaker roots and the Friends opposition to participation in the military. At least some of the other non-associators in the list appear in Friends records.

In 1781, John Saunders was listed as a cordwindeer (cordwainer, shoemaker) in the tax lists of Plumstead. He had one acre of land and one cow.1470

In 1793, John Saunders, shoemaker of Plumstead, & Margaret his wife granted1 acre & 20 perches of land they acquired in 1780.1467

I do not find signs of John or Margaret after this.