Ezekiel Sanford

1586 - Aft 1632  (~ 47 years)

• Name	Ezekiel Sanford
  Christening	20 FEB/FEB 1585/1586	Much Hadham, Hertsfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1632	of Margaretting, Essex, England
  Person ID	I7872	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Sanford,   b. Bef 1558, Of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England bur. 6 Apr 1597, Much Hadham, Hertsfordshire, England (Age ~ 39 years)
  Mother	Mary,   b. Bef 1566, Of, Hertfordshire, England bur. 19 Aug 1620, Much Hadham, Hertsfordshire, England (Age ~ 54 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1585	Of Much Hadham, Hertsfordshire, England
  Family ID	F3490	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rose Warner,   b. Abt 1585, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England
  Marriage	Abt 1607	Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England
  Children	1. Thomas Sanford,   b. Abt 1608, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England d. From 23 Sep 1681 to 21 Oct 1681, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age 73 years)   2. John Sanford,   b. Abt 1610, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England bur. 5 Sep 1679, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England (Age ~ 69 years)   3. Ezekiel Sanford,   c. 26 Dec 1612, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England   4. Robert Sanford,   c. 1 Nov 1615, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England bur. Bef 19 Jun 1676, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 60 years)   5. Andrew Sanford,   c. 1 Nov 1617, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England d. From 6 Sep 1684 to 12 Nov 1684, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 66 years)   6. Samuel Sanford,   c. 25 Nov 1619, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England bur. 5 Dec 1619, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England (Age ~ 0 years)   7. Mary Sanford,   c. 13 FEB/FEB 1621/1622, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England   8. Jonathan Sanford,   c. 18 JAN/JAN 1623/1624, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England   9. Zachary Sanford,   b. Abt 1627, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England d. 23 Dec 1668, Saybrook, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 41 years)   10. Nathaniel Sanford,   b. Abt 1629, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England d. 1687, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Age 58 years)
  Family ID	F3479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. "The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth," edited by Donald L. Jacobus, p. 83: "Richard Sanford of Stanstead Mountfitchet, co. Essex, Eng., was buried 16 Nov. 1591; married Elizabeth --, buried 15 Sept. 1600. Their son, Thomas Sanford, a glover, of Much Hadham, co. Herts, was buried 6 Apr. 1597; married first, at Stanstead Mountfitchet, 21 Sept. 1581, Friswith Eve, who was buried 24 Nov. 1581; married second Mary - , who married second, 9 Aug. 1597, John Haddesley, and was buried 19 Aug. 1620. His will called John Mellett and John Lewes his brothers-in-law. Ezekiel Sanford, eldest child by the second wife, baptized at Much Hadham, 20 Feb. 1585/6; married -- Warner, daughter of John Warner of Hatfield Broad Oak, co. Essex, and sister of Andrew Warner, a founder of Hartford, Conn. He may have lived at Hatfield Broad Oak until 1612, was certainly of Stanstead Mountfitchet from then until after 1624, and was of Margaretting, co. Essex, by 1635. Children, some baptized at Stanstead Mountfitchet: i. Thomas, b. abt. 1608. ii. John, b. abt. 1610; buried at Stanstead Mountfitchet, 5 Sept. 1679; m. Olim --, bur. 16 Jan. 1674/5. iii. Ezekiel, bapt. 26 Dec. 1612. iv. Robert, bapt. 1 Nov. 1615. v. Andrew, bapt. 1 Nov. 1617; d. at Milford, Conn., in 1684 (will dated 6 Sept., proved 12 Nov.); settled in Hartford, where his first wife, Mary, was convicted of witchcraft and executed in 1662; removed to Milford, where he had a second wife, whose name is not known. vi. Samuel, bapt. 25 Nov. 1619; buried 5 Dec. 1619. vii. Mary, bapt. 13 Feb. 1621/2. viii. Jonathan, bapt. 18 Jan. 1623/4. ix. Zachary, almost certainly a later child of Ezekiel; settled early in Saybrook, Conn., where he d. 23 Dec. 1668; m. Hannah Rockwell of Windsor, who d. 15 Jan. 1664/5. x. Nathaniel, perhaps the youngest son of Ezekiel; settled in Hartford, where he d. by 1687; probably m. (l)-, mother of his only dau. Mary (b. abt. 1659); m. (2) by 1665 Susanna (Clark) Kelly, who m. (3) John Buttolph." 2. Relationship mentioned in the 29 Mar 1597 will of father Thomas Sanford. 3. An extremely valuable reference book on this family is "Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England; ancestry, life, and descendants, 1632-4," by Carlton E. Sanford (Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1911). It contains a thorough examination and report of the English church records, lay subsidies, and probate for this family. The book is available online at several websites including the following: https://archive.org/details/thomassanfordemi01sanf/page/28/mode/2up.