Thomas Sanford

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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.

Family/Spouse: Lucy Kellogg. Lucy and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Sanford was born on 26 Apr 1762 in Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut; died on 31 Aug 1812 in Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont; was buried about Sep 1812 in Evergreen Cemetery, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont.