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Sarah

Female Bef 1617 - 1681  (> 64 years)

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  • Name Sarah
    Birth Bef 1617  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female
    Death 14 May 1681  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7876  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Family Thomas Sanford,   b. Abt 1608, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. From 23 Sep 1681 to 21 Oct 1681, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Marriage Bef 1637  Of Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3493  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. 84:
      "Thomas1 Sanford, born about 1608, came with some of his brothers to New England, following their uncle Andrew Warner. Thomas settled in Dorchester about 1634, and probably married there. About 1640 he removed to Milford, Conn., where he was admitted to the church, 9 Jan. 1641/2. His wife Sarah was admitted 15 Dec. 1642. She died 14 May 1681, and he died the following Autumn.
      His will, dated 23 Sept. 1681, named eldest son Ezekiel; sons Thomas, Ephraim, and Samuel; daughters Sarah wife of Richard Shute of Eastchester, and Elizabeth wife of Obadiah Allyn of Middletown; grandchildren Sarah Shute and Thomas Allyn; gave a legacy to Sarah Whitlock that was his maid. His inventory was taken 21 Oct. 1681.
      Children, all except the first two baptized at Milford:
      i. Ezekiel 2, b. abt. 1637.
      ii. Sarah, b. abt. 1639; m. Richard Shute, of Eastchester, N. Y.
      iii. Mary, bapt. 16 Jan. 1641/2; d. y.
      iv. Samuel, bapt. 30 Apr. 1643; d. at Milford, 27 Nov. 1691; m. 16 Aug. 1674, Hannah Bronson, dau. of Richard of Farmington.
      v. Thomas, bapt. Dec. 1644; d. at New Haven, after 1721; m. at New Haven, 11 Oct. 1666, Elizabeth Payne.
      vi. Ephraim, bapt. 17 May 1646; d. at Milford in 1687 (estate inventoried 12 June 1687); m. at New Haven, 18 Nov. 1669, Mary Powell, dau. of Thomas, bapt. 20 July 1645; she m. (2) Nathaniel Baldwin.
      vii. Elizabeth, bapt. 27 Aug. 1648; m. at Milford, 26 Oct. 1669, Obadiah Allyn."