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Andrew Sanford

Male 1617 - 1684  (~ 66 years)

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  • Name Andrew Sanford
    Christening 1 Nov 1617  Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    Death From 6 Sep 1684 to 12 Nov 1684  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7880  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Father Ezekiel Sanford,   c. 20 FEB/FEB 1585/1586, Much Hadham, Hertsfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1632, of Margaretting, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 47 years)
    Mother Rose Warner,   b. Abt 1585, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage Abt 1607  Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3479  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary,   b. Bef 1623, , , England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 13 Jun 1662, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 39 years)
    Marriage Bef 1643  Of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3495  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

    Family 2 Mrs. Andrew Sanford
    Marriage Aft 1662  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3496  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."