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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
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."
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