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Hannah Rockwell

Female 1627 - 1665  (~ 37 years)

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  • Name Hannah Rockwell
    Christening 9 Dec 1627  Fitzhead, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female
    Death 15 JAN/JAN 1664/1665  Saybrook, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7885  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Family Zachary Sanford,   b. Abt 1627, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Dec 1668, Saybrook, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)
    Family ID F3497  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."