Thomas Sanford

Male 1736 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Thomas Sanford  [1
    Birth Y  [1
    Christening 13 Apr 1736  Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I1712  Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
    Last Modified 27 Sep 2020 

    Family Lucy Kellogg   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Sanford,   b. 26 Apr 1762, Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Aug 1812, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Family ID F562  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Aug 2008 

  • Notes 
    • Caleb and family lived in Weybridge Vermont according to the Cooley Genealogy.
      According to Carleton E. Sanford, author of Thomas Sanford, the Emigrant to New England. Ancestry, Life and Descendants. 1632-4_Vol 2, there is only circumstantial evidence that the Thomas Sanford born in Hartford CT in 1736 is the same Thomas Sanford of Weybridge VT but the evidence is substantial enough, in his view, to render the separate Thomases as the same man. Accordingly, the following anecdote is presented from the above named volume page 1348 of Vol II: "On November 8, 1778, a squad of British soldiers with some Indian allies rushed into Weybridge, burning cabins, killing stock, etc., taking defenseless farmers prisoners and leaving the mothers and younger children without shelter or food. Among the prisoners were Thomas Sanford and his eldest son Robert who were taken to Quebec and put in prison. Mrs. Sanford with three or four other women and their young children, in great terror, found a shelter in an open cellar, which they managed to cover over, where they hid and lived for some days. Some American scouts found them and took them to Pittsford. Thomas Sanford managed to escape from prison in 1779. He wended his way through the forests of Maine and New Hampshire eventually reaching Pittsford. He gathered his family and went back to his farm at Weybridge. [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S485] Sanford, Carlton E., Sanford, (The Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont, 1911), p. 2:1349-1350 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S485] Sanford, Carlton E., Sanford, (The Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont, 1911), p1348 (Reliability: 3).



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