Ancestral Glimpses » John Sanford (± 1605-1653)

Données personnelles John Sanford 

• Il est né environ 1605 dans ENGLAND.
• Il a été baptisé le 15 janvier 1618 dans Alford, Lincolnshire, ENGLAND.
• Immigré(e)(s) novembre 1631 vanuit Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America.

  Evidently, John Sanford came to America in November 1631 aboard the ship Lyon, landing in Boston. He made the trip as an employee (indentured servant, perhaps?) of the Winthrop family. He was made a Freeman on April 3, 1632.

• Profession: Magistrate.
• Il est décédé le 22 juin 1653 dans Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America.
• Un enfant de Samuel Sanford et Ellenor Sherman
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 9 mars 2015.

Famille de John Sanford

(1) Il a/avait une relation avec Elizabeth Webb.

Enfant(s):

1. John Sanford  1633-1687 
2. Samuel Sanford  1635-1713
3. Eliphalet Sanford  1637-1724
4. Peleg Sanford  1637-± 1701
5. Endcome Sanford  1640-????
6. Restcome Sanford  1642-± 1667
7. William Sanford  1644-????
8. Esbon Sanford  1646-????
9. Frances Sanford  1648-????
10. Elisha Sanford  1650-????
11. Ann Sanford  1652-1654

(2) Il avait une relation avec Bridget Hutchinson.

Notes par John Sanford

His place of birth and names of parents are listed as unknown. He went "to Boston, Mass. Nov. 1631 on the Ship 'Lyon', Capt. Wm. Peirce".
Jack Minard Sanford, President John Sanford of Boston, Massachusetts and Plymouth, Rhode Island, (Rutland, VT: Sharp Printing, 1966).
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbpretz/ps_src.html#C155
Found: 16-Dec-2003, David Lee Powell

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"William Coddington summoned Captain William Cooley and his vesel to sail on an exploration to the south. Among those who boarded his ship in Boston harbor were John Clarke, William Dyer, William Hutchinson, Randall Holden, John Sanford, John Porter, and Richard Carder. They sailed as far as Cape Cod and then disembarked while Captain Cooley took his ship 'about the large and dangerous cape.' After several days of exploring the woods, following Indian trails and fording streams, the seven weary men arrived at the home of Roger Williams." More details to be entered. [264]

His birth is also listed as "By about 1608 based on estimated date of first marriage". He died in Portsmouth "between 22 June 1653 (date of will) and 15 November 1653 (date of inventory).[260]

He came to America in 1631 on the second voyage of Lyon. He resided first in Boston, MA and removed to Portsmouth in 1638.[260]

Details (including will) to be entered.[260], [156], [149]

"He and 18 others signed the Portsmouth compact 7 March 1638, the year after he was expelled from Boston for being a follower of Ann Hutchinson. On 20 May 1638 he was allotted six acres of land on the north side of the great cove. He was a freeman in 1641, and became a constable and a lieutenant there. In 1653 he was president of Portsmouth and Newport."[149]

"John Sanford, who came with the Winthrop Fleet in the spring and summer of 1630 or the following year, 1631, with the younger Winthrop, was a prominent man in both Boston and Portsmouth and his descendants were prominent in the Rhode Island Colony until well on in the 18th century. . . . The late Peter Orlando Hutchinson of Sidmouth, co. Devon, a great grandson of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson and his wife, Margaret Sanford, suggested that John was perhaps the son of Samuel and Eleanor Sanford, who were buried at Alford, co. Lincoln, in 1629, and the name Samuel would seem to lend weight to this suggestion; on the other hand there are certain facts which would tend to show that he was from the Eastern Counties of Suffolk or Essex. At present his English origin is not known." [565]

"The known facts about President John show that he was a trained surveyor and was familiar with military matters, especially artillery, and his inventory shows that he was the owner of some pieces of the armor of the period. It seems reasonable to suppose that, prior to his coming to New England, he had seen service in some of the English expeditions to the Continent or in the Thirty Year's War, then raging in Germany. The Winthrop Papers show that he was well known to that family prior to his arrival in New England, and the letters of Edward Howes of London, the law clerk of Emanuel Downing, the brother-in-law of Governor John Winthrop, indicate that he was one of Howes' particular friends, who had gone to New England (Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, vol. vi Series 4). John Bluet, the neighbor of John Winthrop in Suffolk, in a letter to John Winthrop, Jr., dated 4 March 1632/3 asks to be remembered to John Sanford (Winthrop Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections). These facts tend to show that he was an East countryman." [565]

"President John Sanford, of Boston, Mass., and Portsmouth, R.I., born about 1600-1610, died 22 June-20 Nov. 1653. The first mention of him, known to the writer, is in a letter of John Winthrop, at London, to his wife, at Groton, dated 2 March 1629/30, shortly before the sailing of the Winthrop fleet: 'our 2 boyes and Ja[mes] Downinge, Jo[hn] Samford and Mary M. and most of my servants are gone this daye towardes S[outh] Hampton: the good Lord be with them and us all'. (Winthrop Journal, Savage, 1853, vol. i, p. 439.) The New England records show that he belonged to that somewhat indeterminate class between the gentry and the highest yeomanry. In 1631 he became a member of the First Church at Boston, being no. 115 on the list and on 3 April 1632 he was made a Freeman (Pope's Pioneers, p. 400; Austin Genealogical Dictionary, p. 171). On 6 Aug. 1633 he was on a Committee to build bridges over Muddy and Stony Rivers (Austin, op. cit.). On 10-9 mo.:1634 he was on a Committee to lay out lots at Hog Island. On 14 May 1634 it was ordered that Mr. Edward Tomlyns and Mr. John Sanford were to look to the ordinances, powder and shot and report on them. On 3 Sept. 1634 he was appointed cannoneer of the fort at Boston and on 8 Sept. 1636 he was made surrveyor of ordnance and other ammunition. On 23:12:1634/5 he was a member of a Boston Committee regarding the regulation of cattle and on 4 March 1634/5 Mr. Daniel Dennison and he were to lay outt the bounds of Roxbury and Newtown (Cambridge) at Muddy River. On 4:10mo.:1635 Mr. William Brenton and Mr. John Samford were in charge of fencing in the town of Boston. On 14:10:1635 he was on a committee to lay out the bounds of Mr. William Coddington's and Edmund Quincy's lands at Mount Woolliston and on 4 January 1635/6 he was to lay out the lands of Mr. Atherton Houlgh at Mount Woolliston. On 9:3mo.:1636 he was one of those who were to lay out the bounds of the Rev. John Wilson and Mr. William Hutchinson at Mount Woolliston. On 28 Oct. 1636 he was again chosen cannoneer of the fort at Boston and Surveyor of arms and ammunition. He was a Selectman of Boston from 21:1:1636-19:12:1637/8. On 8:11mo.:1637 he had a grant of 100 acres of land and 6 acres of marsh at Rumney Marsh and Pullen Point. On 20 Nov. 1637 he was ordered disarmed as an adherent of Mrs. Hutchinson (Massachusetts Bay Colony Records; Boston Town Records). He subscribed £8 for the free school at Boston on 12 Aug. 1636. (Winthrop Journal, Savage, 1st edition, vol. II, p. 215, footnote.) On 7:1 mo.:1638 he signed, undoubtedly at Boston,, the Portsmouth Agreement (Chapin's Documentary History of Rhode Island, vol. II, p. 19), and about the middle of March he left Boston, with the other Antonomian leaders, and proceeded to Providence (ib., p. 24) and thence to Aquidneck, where he was present at the first Portsmouth Town Meeting on 13:3:1638. At this meeting John Coggeshall and he were ordered to lay out the neck 'that goes over to the main of the island' (ib., pp. 34, 35). On 10:12 mo.:1639 he was granted 240 acres at Black Point (ib., p. 67). In Feb. 1639/40 he was one of the Portsmouth men who met with the delegation from the Boston Church, which was sent to discuss matters with their Rhode Island brethren (ib., p. 89). On reunion with Newport (ib., p. 95) and at this time he was chosen constable for Portsmouth (ib., p. 96). On 14:7:1640 he was one of those chosen to run the line between Portsmouth and Newport and his grant of 200 acres at Black Point was confirmed (ib., p. 103-104). On 29:4:1640 he was one of the Portsmouth men who wrote to Governor Winthrop regarding Barbara, wife of James Salixe (ib., p. 171). He appears as 'Mr. Stanfford' in the list of Rhode Island freeman on 16 March 1641 (ib., p. 120). On 13:1:1644 he was chosen Lieutenant of the Portsmouth company (ib., p. 128). On 7:7:1640 'Leftenant Samfoard' was one of those charged with laying out certain lands in Portsmouth (Portsmouth Town records, p. 15). Thereafter he frequently appears in the Portsmouth Records charged with the laying out of lands there (ib., passim). On 4 Feb. 1646, he was in charge of the payment of bounties for wolves killed (ib., p. 33). From 1647-1649 he was an Assistant (Austin, op.cit.). On 29 April 1650 he was chosen a Town Magistrate at Portsmouth (Portsmouth Town Records, p. 45) and on 2 June 1650 he was a member of the Town Council (ib., p. 46). On 16 May 1651 he was on a committee from Portsmouth for the General Court (ib., p. 49). He was chosen Head Magistrate at Portsmouth 3 June 1651 (ib., p. 50). On 2 Feb., 1651/2 he was one of the disposers of land at Portsmouth (ib., p. 57)." [565]

"On 1 April 1653 at the breaking out of the Dutch War he was a Conservator of the Peace and one of the Portsmouth Town Committee to consult on defense and offense (ib., p. 59) and on 20 June 1653 he was one of the Town Council (ib., p. 60). In May 1653 he was chosen President (Governor) of the Rhode Island Colony Records, vol. I, p. 264) and died in office. He owned, besides his lands at Black Point, a lot in the original layout at the extreme Northerly end of the Island and one at Ferry Neck, where he ran the ferry to the mainland (cf. 'Original Land Grants of Portsmouth', West, 1932)." [565]

"The will of John Sanford was not, apparently, recorded but a certified copy was filed in the case of Sanford vs. Sanford in 1726 in the Newport County Court. It was dated 22 June 1653 and on 20 Nov. 1653 his widow took receipts from his two eldest sons for their legacies. He made his wife, Bridget, his executrix and the overseers were his brother-in-law, Edward Hutchinson of Boston, and his friends Richard Te of Newport, Richard Borden, Philip Sherman and Edward Fisher, all of Portsmouth. He left his new dwelling house, where he lived, together with the great orchard and one third of his cattle and personalty to his wife Bridget. He gave his eldest son John the old house, his land at the ferry and two houses on the South side of a path in fee tail male, with successive remainders in fee tail male to each of his other sons. He gave a part of the Black Point lands to his son and heir, John, in fee tail male, with successive remainders in fee tail male successively to his other sons. To each of his younger sons he gave a part of the Black Point lands in fee tail male with remainders in fee tail male successively to each of the younger sons. He names his sons John, his eldest son and heir, Samuel, Peleg, Restcome, William, Esbon and Elisha. His daughters were Eliphal and Anne (Newport County Court Files, 1725-1727, the case of Sanford vs. Sanford; cf. Austin, op.cit., p. 171). His inventory amounted to £824:11:1. It included 3 fowling pieces, a cutlas, three old swords, corslet, wanting the gurget, a ferry boat, &c., &c. (Austin, op. cit., p. 171-172.)" [565]

Extensive details of John Sanford's early life are to be entered. [574]

"Much of the preceding seems to support Mr. Moriarty's conclusion that John Sanford 'was from the Eastern Counties of Suffolk or Essex'. The late Col Charles E. Banks wrote he was 'From Essex county, perhaps High Ongar'. Unfortunately the suggestion of High Ongar, co. Essex, seems to be disproved. If it can be assumed that the Henry Samford or Sandford, Gen., of Groton was an elder brother of John Sanford, then the identification of this Henry might lead to the origin of John Sanford. As stated before the name Samford (or any of its variants) was uncommon in Suffolk, but it was common in Essex for this period. A number of Henry Sandford variants were located, but of those located only Henry Sandford, Jr., of Dedham, co. Essex, could possibly be the correct one. Henry Sandford, Jr., was a grandson of Thomas Sandford of Colchester and Chappel, co. Essex, Gent. (died 1591), whose forebears came from the area surounding Shellow Bowells, co. Essex. An incomplete pedigree of his descendants appears in the Visitations of Essex for 1612, 1634, and 1664. Henry Sandford, Sr., of Dedham, co. Essex, was a son of the above Thomas Sandford, Gent. by his first wife. . . . At present it has been neither proved nor disproved that John Sanford of Boston, Mass., and Portsmouth, R.I., was a son of Henry and Ann (Paine) Sandford, Sr., of Dedham, co. Essex. It is known that not all the then living descendants of Henry Sandford, Sr., were included in his will. socially and geographically it is possible that John Sanford could have been his son. Can this be the long sought answer for John Sanford's parentage?" [574]

"Sanford, John. President of Rhode Island.
Arms: Ermine on a chief gules two boar's heads couped gold.
Crest: A demi-eagle" Picture on file [756]

"John, Boston 1631, wh. is No. 115 on the list of ch. memb. was sw. freem. 3 Apr. 1632, and the same yr. made cannoneer at the fort; had John, bapt. 24 June 1632; Samuel, 22 June 1634; Eliphal, Dec. 1637, when he was disarm. as a support. of Wheelwright. He went with Coddington, Hutchinson, and other, to purch. R.I. and liv. at Portsmouth, the N. end of the isl. is in the list of freem. there 1655, was constable, treasr. Secr. Assist. 1647, and chos. head of the Colo. as Presid. in May 1653. One or more of his ch. were tak. by the Ind. when they k. Mrs. Hutchinson, it is said; and the friend. visit from a distance of a hundred and thirty miles, shows the intimacy the poor wid. kept up with old acquaint. When he d. is not heard." [5]

John Sanford - TimeLine

JOHN, b. ; d. 1653.
m. (1)
ELIZABETH WEBB, b. ; d.

m. (2)
BRIDGET HUTCHINSON, b. of & Susanna ( ) Hutchinson; d. 1698.
(She m. (2) Wm. Phillips.)

Boston, Mass., Portsmouth, R. I.
1631, He was a member of the church this year.
1632, Apr. 3. Freeman.
1633, Aug. 6. He with others was chosen to oversee the building of a sufficient cart bridge over Muddy river, and another over Stony river.
1634, May 14. He and another person were appointed to take notice of the ordnance, powder and shot and report to next court what condition they are in.
1634, Sep. 3. He was chosen cannoneer for the fort at Boston, and for two years service he hath already done at said fort and one year more he shall do, he was allowed £20.
1636, Sep. 8. He was allowed £10, for service year past.
1636, Oct. 28. He was chosen cannoneer and Surveyor of the arms and amunition and was to have £30, for his own and his man's pains.
1637, Nov. 2. He was granted £13, 6s. 8d , for year past and so he is discharged upon delivery of an inventory to another which shall be appointed.
1637, Nov. 20. He and others were ordered to deliver up all guns, pistols, swords, powder, shot, &c, because "the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England"
1638, Mar. 7. Portsmouth. He and eighteen others signed the following compact: "We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help will submit our persons, lives, and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby."
1638, May 13. He was present at a General Meeting of inhabitants. It was ordered that the meeting house shall be set on the neck of land that goes over to the main of island, where he and John Coggeshall shall lay it out.
1638, May 20. He had 6 acres allotted him on the north side of the Great Cove.
1638, Jun. 27. He and four others were appointed to repair highways.
1640. Constable.
1641, Mar. 16. Freeman.
1644. Lieutenant.
1647-49. Assistant.
1653. President of Portsmouth and Newport.
1653, Jun. 22. Will—proved 1653. Exx. wife Bridget. Overseers, brother-in-law Edward Hutchinson, of Boston, and friends, Richard Tew, of Newport, Richard Borden, Philip Sherman and Edward Fisher, of Portsmouth, and son John Sanford. To wife, my new dwelling house in which I live, with all and every chamber or room therein and half the cook room and all the houses on the north side of the aforesaid cook room, all my right in the great orchard, land on north side of new dwelling house, meadow and a third of all cattle and movables, for life. To son John, certain land and the ferry, the old house, half the cook room, and two houses on south side of a certain path, all to him and his heirs male, failing of which, testator's son Samuel shall
have and so on. To John, also great roan mare besides one which is his own, a negro man and wife, four oxen, two cows, the great ferry boat, five ewes, five ewe lambs, a breeding sow, feather bed, cutlass, great fowling piece, &c. To son Samuel, 40 acres at Black Point, four oxen, two cows, brown mare, five ewes, five ewe lambs, a sow, Spanish gun, sword, belt, best cloak and hat, feather bed and great bible. To son Peleg, at age, 20 acres at Black Point, second roan mare, five ewes, five ewe lambs, two cows, breeding sow, French gun, sword, &c. To son Restcome, at age, 40 acres at Black Point and a mare, and like legacies to sons William, Ezbon and Elisha. To daughter Eliphal Sanford, £100, of which £60 to be hers at marriage and £40 at her
mother's marriage or death. To daughter Anne, £60 at marriage. To sons Samuel, Peleg, Restcome, William, Ezbon and Elisha, rest of estate. The hay and corn on ground for cattle and family. "And I do bequeath my children
unto my wife, next unto God, entreating that they may be carefully provided for and tenderly brought up as hitherto they have been, and that they may be well educated and brought up in the fear of the Lord," &c. To overseers, a ewe lamb.
Inventory, £824, l1s., 1d., viz: 60 pounds gunpowder £94, 10s., 84 pounds shot £1. 1s., 8 pair men's shoes and a pair of woman's shoes £1,16s., 18 trading hatchets, peage £58,10s. (8 per penny), carpet, cupboard cloth, stuff cloak, long cushion, corslet wanting the gorget, 7 chairs, table, form, cradle, parcel of books £2, 5 pewter platters and flagon, 2 silver spoons, 6 old scythes, warming pan, 3 fowling pieces, cutlass, 3 old swords, flock bed lor the negroes, 80 ewe sheep £120, 36 wethers, 9 of them rams £27, 4 old oxen £30, 8 young oxen £56, 6 steers, 2 bulls, 4 calves, 12 milch cows, 4 heifers, 7 yearlings, 5 calves, bay horse, foal, 4 breeding mares, 5 breeding sows, 5 hogs, 5 sows, 2 negroes and negro boy £62, 10s., great ferry boat and tackling £20, canoe £10, hay and corn £40.
1653, Nov. 20. His widow took receipts from sons John and Samuel for legacies.
1663, Oct. 17. His widow, now the wife of William Phillips, of Boston, took receipt from Bartho Stratton, husband of her daughter Eliphal, for the legacy apportioned by overseers of her husband's will.
1670, Jun. 17. His widow took receipt from son Ezbon, for his share of his father's estate.
1696, Sep. 29. Will — proved 1698, Aug. 18.
Widow Bridget Phillips, of Boston. Exs. daughter Eliphal Stratton and sons, Samuel and William Phillips. To children of my two sons Samuel and William Phillips, certain lands in Saco and Cape Porpus, and her part of Cow Island and Boniton Island in said river. To two sons Samuel and William Phillips, land at Kennebunk, purchased by husband William Phillips, of Moghegen. an Indian, also tract of 2,000 acres, all said estate being given her by said husband in consideration of a considerable estate, which I brought him. To my four children, Peleg Sanford, Samuel Phillips, William Phillips and Eliphal Stratton, certain land bought of Indians. To grandson William Stratton, 1,000 acres that was made over to my son Elisha Sanford, by my said husband. To
son Peleg Sanford, my Book of Martyrs. To my three children Samuel and William Phillips and Eliphal Stratton, all other books equally. To three daughters, Eliphal Stratton, Sarah and Deborah Phillips, all my wearing clothes and household stuff equally. To granddaughter in England, my son Ezbon Sanford's daughter, a gold ring. To Elizabeth, wife of my grandson
William Stratton, a gold ring. To other grandchildren, the children of my said three sons and my said daughter, a gold ring apiece. To granddaughter Ann Atkins, and her daughter Ann, a silver bodkin, and to her daughter Eliphal, a bodkin. To granddaughter Bridget Ladd and her daughter Bridgett a silver bodkin. To grandson William Stratton's daughter Bridget, a silver dram cup, and to his other two daughters, a silver bodkin, each. To sons Samuel and William Phillips and unto my daughter Eliphal Stratton, all other my estate,
goods and chattels. To daughter Eliphal, the best bed, she paying to my son Samuel, 8s., and to son William, 20s. To great-grandsons William Stratton and Edward Ladd, each a set of silver buttons. A deposition of a great-grandson of John Sanford, stated that Restcome, William, Ezbon and Elisha, sons of the first John Sanford, all died without issue. It appears however that
Ezbon certainly had one child (mentioned in her grandmother's will).
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John Sanford; who died 1653, was an early settler of Boston. He was cannoneer of Boston and Surveyor of Arms there for several years. Removing to Rhode Island, he was Constable, Lieutenant, Assistant to the Governor, and in 1653, President of Portsmouth and Newport, having gone to Portsmouth at the time of Mrs. Hutchinson's banishment from Boston, in 1638.
His first wife was Elizabeth Webb; his second was Bridget Hutchinson, the daughter of William and Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson. His eldest son by first wife:
John Sanford II., born June 4, 1633, and died 1687, was General Treasurer, General Recorder and Attorney-General between the years 1655 and 1671,
holding each office a number of terms. For sixteen years he acted as Deputy, three years as Assistant and was a member of the Council.[1] He married, second, April 17, 1663, Mary, the daughter of SAMUEL GORTON [2] and the widow of Peter Greene. She died in 1688.
Their daughter, Eliphal, was born February 20, 1666, and died 1726. She married James Akin.
Their daughter, Mary Akin, married WILLIAM COREY.
[1] Austin's loc. cit., p. 171. Arnold's loc. dt.. Vol. i.
[2]Life and Times of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton.
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Source: Ancestral Records and Portraits, Volume I, The Colonial Dames of America, New York: The Grafton Press, 1910, page 20.

Ancestral File Number: 8KDT-50

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