 1617 - 1684
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| Name |
Andrew Sanford |
| Born |
01 Nov 1617 |
Stansted-Mountfitchet, Essex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Sep 1684 |
Milford, New Haven Co, Connecticut |
| Will |
06 Sep 1684 |
Milford, New Haven Co, Connecticut |
- Mr. Sanford left a will dated Sept. 6, 1684. The inventory of his estate is dated Oct. 16, 1684. the will mentions the oldest son Andrew, son Ezekiel, eldest daughter Mary, daughter Hannah, and "the three younger ones." "If any of these die, their portions to go to the remaining daughters." (New Haven Pro. Rec. Book 1, p. 130.)
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| Notes |
- ANDREW SANFORD baptized 1 Nov 1617, Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex Co., England ... , died 1684, Milford, Ct.; married (1) Mary ______, died 1662; married (2) Sarah, daughter of William Gibbard, of New Haven, Ct. Her mother was a daughter of Edmund Tapp of Milford, and sister to the wife of Gov. Robert Treat.
The first record of him is in Hartford in 1651. His residence was on what is now lot 74 on Burr St. On May 21, 1657, he was made Freeman and was made Chimney Viewer in June, 1662. It is very likely that he was in Hartford and married as early as 1638 and the first two children born soon thereafter. The records state that Mary, his second child, was of marriageable age in 1667.
He and wife certainly got into serious trouble in Hartford. They were both indicted for witchcraft or for holding public meetings other than those prescribed by the elders or for dealings with "Sathan." The records show that he was "accused" June 6, 1662, and very soon after tried in court by a jury; that the verdict of the jury was, "some thought guilty, some strongly suspected," result, a disagreement.
It further appears that the wife Mary was indicted June 13, 1662, and soon tried, whether with her husband has not been learned. The verdict in her case, it is certain, was "Guilty," which of course meant execution. The actual record of the execution has not been found, but it is morally certain that she was executed. John M. Taylor in his "Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut" states that she was executed. In the preparation of that work, as he states, in a letter to Mr. F. A. Sanford, No. 303 in this family [Andrew's], of Nov. 14, 1910, (to whom the author is indebted for assistance in this matter), he (Taylor) had access to the notes of the late Dr. Charles J. Hoadley who made an exhaustive research of some years since on the subject of witchcraft. His vol. of memoranda is now held by Mr. George E. Hoadley of New Haven. For the trial of Mrs. Sanford, see page 151. Andrew's trial will be found in the same volume. See also records of "Particular Court" vol. 2, pages 174-5, in the office of Secretary of State and State Librarian, Hartford, Ct.
The fact, too, that Mr. Sanford not long after these trials, had married again goes to show that his first wife had died.
A recent article (1910) in the New England Historical Magazine refers to the Sanfords of Hartford, Ct. as being "All Quakers." In and under Hartford Colonial law Quakers were classed as and with heretics. Quite a good many Quakers and Heretics were executed in New England in colonial times. So we need not look upon the case of Mary Sanford as a strange one. On going to Milford in 1667 he and his second wife accepted the situation, and joined the church, March 4, 1671.
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| Person ID |
I28442 |
Bryant |
| Last Modified |
20 Aug 2006 |
| Father |
Ezekiel Sanford, b. 20 Feb 1586, Stansted-Mountfitchet, Essex, England , d. Abt 1683, Stansted-Mountfitchet, Essex, England |
| Mother |
Rose Warner, b. 1588, Broad Oak, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England , d. Great Waltham, Essex, England |
| Married |
1607 |
Broad Oak, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England |
| Family ID |
F1705 |
Group Sheet |
| Family 1 |
Sarah Gibbard, b. 20 Oct 1648, New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut |
| Married |
Abt 1670 |
Milford, New Haven Co, Connecticut [1] |
| Family ID |
F2413 |
Group Sheet |
| Family 2 |
Mary, b. Abt 1619, England , d. Aft 13 Jun 1662, Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut |
| Married |
Aft 1641 |
probably, Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut |
| Family ID |
F2414 |
Group Sheet |
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 | Born - 01 Nov 1617 - Stansted-Mountfitchet, Essex, England |
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 | Married - Aft 1641 - probably, Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut |
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| Married - Aft 13 Jun 1662 - probably, Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut |
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 | Married - Abt 1670 - Milford, New Haven Co, Connecticut |
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| Died - Sep 1684 - Milford, New Haven Co, Connecticut |
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| Will - 06 Sep 1684 - Milford, New Haven Co, Connecticut |
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