Richard Sanford

Bef 1527 - 1591  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Richard Sanford
  Birth	Bef 1527	Of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England
  Gender	Male
  Burial	16 Nov 1591	Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England
  Person ID	I7873	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2026

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth,   b. Bef 1529, Of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England bur. 14 Sep 1600, Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England (Age ~ 71 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1548	Of Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex, England
  Children	1. Thomas Sanford,   b. Bef 1558, Of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England bur. 6 Apr 1597, Much Hadham, Hertsfordshire, England (Age ~ 39 years)   2. Richard Sanford,   b. Bef 1558, Of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England d. Bef 17 Oct 1636, North Weald, Essex, England (Age < 78 years)   3. Robert Sanford,   b. Bef 1558, Of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England d. Aft 1591 (Age > 35 years)   4. Elizabeth Sanford,   b. Bef 1558, Of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England   5. Henry Sanford,   b. Bef 1558, Of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex, England
  Family ID	F3491	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. 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. 2. Relationship mentioned in the 29 Mar 1597 will of father Thomas Sanford.