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1. "The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth," edited by Donald L. Jacobus, pp. 84-85:
"Robert 1 Sanford was baptized at Stanstead Mountfitchet, co. Essex, Eng., 1 Nov. 1615, and settled early in Hartford, Conn., although not an original proprietor. His wife was named Ann, who was not a daughter of Jeremy Adams, as sometimes stated. The only clue to her identity is the statement made by Winthrop in 1667 that Robert Sanford’s wife was sister of Thomas Skidmore’s wife of Fairfield. This refers to Joanna, who married successively Richard Westcott, Nathaniel Baldwin, and Thomas Skidmore, all of Fairfield. With Westcott she lived first in Wethersfield, so she and her sister Ann were probably members of one of the families that founded the three Connecticut River towns.
Robert Sanford seems to have been in Hartford by 1645, but had no lands recorded until 1655. He was a chimney inspector, 1651/2, a leather sealer, 1658, 1659, 1660, 1662, 1666, 1667, 1668, 1671 and 1672; and a fence viewer, 1662 to 1674 inclusive except 1672.
Robert made a will which apparently he did not live to complete, as it is undated and unsigned. It gives to his son Zachariah the house and orchard that had belonged to Goodman Phillips, to be his after his mother’s decease, and to his son Robert his other dwelling house in Hartford. Legacies were given to his daughters Hannah, Abigail and Sarah. He desired his wife to have the whole of his estate for life. He died shortly before 19 June 1676, when his estate was inventoried. The probate records name the children as Zachariah Sandford (eldest son), Elizabeth Colyer, Ezekiel Sandford, Mary Campe, and Sarah, Robert, Hannah, and Abigail Sandford. The court ordered £21 to be paid to each of the five daughters.
The will of Ann Sanford, dated 12 July 1682, proved 7 Sept. 1682, directed her son Robert to pay the portions of her sons Zachary and Ezekiel and her married daughters, and gave specific legacies to her daughters Hannah and Abigail, who were apparently unmarried.
Children of Robert and Ann (--) Sanford, two recorded at Hartford:
i. Zachariah 2 , b. abt. 1644; d. at Hartford, in 1714; Ensign, north Hartford Trainband, Sept. 1689, and Lieutenant, Oct. 1697; m. Sarah Willett, daughter of Nathaniel Willett and granddaughter of Jeremy Adams.
ii. Elizabeth, b. 19 Feb. 1645/6; d. 6 Feb. 1695/6; m. in 1667, Joseph Collier.
iii. Ezekiel, b. 13 Mar. 1647/8; he was probably the Ezekiel who settled in Southampton, L. I., whose will dated 9 Dec. 1715 was proved 30 Mar. 1716; m. Hannah --.
iv. Mary, b. abt. 1650; d. between 9 July 1726 (date of will) and 28 Feb. 1726/7 (date of inventory); m. John Camp.
v. Sarah, b. perhaps 1652.
vi. Robert, b. abt. 1656; d. at Hartford, 19 June 1728 ae. 72 (g.s.); m. Mary Pratt, dau. of Daniel2 and Hannah (Warner) Pratt.
vii. Hannah.
viii. Abigail.
Sources:
a. Carleton E. Sanford, Thomas Sanford Genealogy (1911), 1:24-52; 2:1399-
b. New Haven Probate Records, vol. 1, part 2, p. 82.
c. Carleton E. Sanford, Thomas Sanford Genealogy (1911), 1:67-83, 86-89; D. L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield (1930-4), 1:515-516; Milford Church Records; New Haven County Court Records, 1:196; 2:46, 286.
d. The American Genealogist, 24:108, 114.
e. Frank Farnsworth Starr, Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines, 1:71-76.
f. Manwaring’s Digest, 1:231, 347, 429; 2:287, 481; Conn. Hist. Society Collections, 14:576, 579; Carleton E. Sanford, Thomas Sanford Genealogy, 2:1335.
g. Colonial Records of Connecticut, 2:83.
h. Manwaring’s Digest, 1:40.
i. Fairfield Probate Records, 3:187; 4:142.
j. Carleton E. Sanford, Thomas Sanford Genealogy, 1:91-92; D. L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield (1930-4), 1:518-520."
2. The book "Robert Sandford and his wife Ann Adams Sandford, with some of their descendants, 1615-1930," by Josephine Grozier Sandford Ware(Rutland, VT: Tuttle company, 1930):
"EZEKIEL SANDFORD (Robert1) was born Mar. 13, 1647, at Hartford, Conn., and died Feb., 1716, at Bridgehampton; New York. He married HANNAH MITCHELL, evidently a sister of John Mitchell. According to Howell, this branch of the Mitchell family appeared in Southampton about 1650. Ezekiel, the bridge builder, was the founder of the family in Southampton, and the old Sandford homestead on Bridge Lane, built by him in 1686, is the original home of the Sandford family on Long Island. Ezekiel appeared in Southampton about 1670, and a few years later, in 1678, the town voted to give him fifteen acres of land if he would remain and carry on his trade of cartwright. This he agreed to do, and on the land thus given him built his house, and house and land remained in the possession of his descendants until very recent years. In 1686, probably after he had completed his house, Ezekiel was commissioned to build the first bridge across Sag Pond. Completed about 1690, this bridge united the two villages of Sagg and Mecox, and from it that locality became known as Bridge Hampton. Near this bridge and the road leading to it, the first church in Bridgehampton was built. The present iron bridge was built about 1900. That apprentices were not always satisfactory then as now, and the master's patience sometimes had an end, is shown by this record of 1694: "Ezekiel Sandford came and did declare to me as Just. of the Peace that his man Edward was not capable of learning a trade and desired me to enter itt upon Record.” Town Records, Vol 2, p. 319. Ezekiel's will, dated Dec 9, 1715, and proved Mar. 30, 1716, is given in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. 26. He leaves a house and various parcels of land to each of his older sons, to his younger son several pieces of land, and to his daughter £30 and land. Children: i. Ezekiel3, b. Apr. 9, 1680; m. (1) Elizabeth Moore; m. (2) Dorcas. ii. Thomas, b. Aug. 9, 1689. iii. Zachary. iv. Abigail. References: Adams, "Memorials of Old Bridgehampton" and “History of Southampton." Howell, “History of Southampton.”
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