Andrew Sanford

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography: History of Old Fairfield, Jacobus, Page 516. Andrew Sanford
Brother of Thomas, he was baptized at Stanstead Mountfitchet, co. Essex, 1 Nov. 1617, and died at Milford in 1684. He settled in Hartford, where his uncle Andrew Warner lived; freeman, May 1657. His first wife, Mary, was indicted with him for witchcraft; she was convicted, 13 June 1662,and presumably executed. He removed to Milford 1667, and had a second wife, of whom not even her given name has been learned, with whom he joined the church in 1671. The younger children belonged to the second wife, and five were bapt. together at Milford in 1671. Much light on this family is shed by the (as yet) unpublished Winthrop documents. As a physician, in 1661,he treated the Sanford children and specified their ages as follows: Andrew, above 16 yrs., Mary 14~, Elizabeth 13, and Ezekiel 6. Later in the same year, he noted the youngest daughter (age 14) of Andrew Sanford, pumpmaker, which is important in indicating that Andrew's daughters Hannah, Martha, etc., were born after 1661, and hence were by the second wife. Again, in 1663, Winthrop noted Andrew (age 20), son of Andrew of Hartford.

Will: 6 Sept. 1684, proved: 12 Nov. 1684; children, - only Ezekie1, Mary and Hannah named. Invoiced: 16 Oct. 1684.

Children [by first wife] :

Andrew, b. abt. 1643.

Mary, b. abt. 1646, d in 1689, unmarried. Inventory: 12 Apr. 1689. The Court ordered £1 to the sister that is weakly, and £1 to the youngest sister; one-third of residue to Andrew Sanford, only natural brother, and two-thirds to four sisters.

Elizabeth, b. abt. 1648, d. young, quite likely in 1661.

Ezekiel, b. abt. 1656, baptized at Milford, 4 June 1671, d. in 1685, without issue. Inventory: 11 Jan. 1685 [1685/6]; tools left at Mr. Wm. Maltby's of Branford; estate at Greenwich and Bedford belonging to his widow out of her father's estate. Adm'n granted to his widow Elizabeth, 9 June 1686. He married Elizabeth Ratleff, daughter of William of Greenwich; she m. (2) Zechariah Baldwin. On 31 Mar. 1704, receipt was given by Henry Grey of Fairfield and his wife Hannah, who was sister to Ezekiel Sanford, to their brother Andrew Sanford, Sr.; by Joseph Tuttle and Elizabeth Tuttle alias Sanford of New Haven, to Zechariah Baldwin and Elizabeth his wife, formerly widow of Ezekiel Sanford; and by Joseph Beard for his late wife Sarah Beard alias Sanford of Milford, to the. same. On 4 Apr. 1704, receipt was given by Pelatiah Holbrook and Martha his wife of Milford, who was sister to Ezekiel Sanford, to their brother Andrew Sanford, Sr., and Zechariah Baldwin.

Thomas, b. abt. 1658, perhaps was son of Andrew, and if so, d. y.; mentioned by Winthrop 1667 age 9, as at Mr. Richards' in Hartford; perhaps left with Mr. Richards by Andrew temporarily upon his removal to Milford.

Children [by second wife], first four baptized at Milford, 4 June 1671 :

Hannah, m. (1) Samuel Gunn, of Milford; m. (2) in 1700, Henry Gray, of Fairfield. On 12 Nov. 1700, Mr. Andrew Sanford, Adm'r of the Est. of Samuel Gunn, informed the Court that the widow was about to marry out of the Colony [by which County must have been meant], and Mrs. Hannah Grey alias Gunn is mentioned 19 Mar. 1700/1.

Martha, m. (1) Pelatiah Holbrook; m. (2) after 1707, -- Arnold.

Elizabeth, m. (rec. New Haven) 20 Nov. 1691, Joseph Tuttle.

Abigail, baptized with the others, died young.

Son, b. 30 Mar. 1673, called Nathaniel in baptismal record, d. y.

Samuel, b. 27 Jan. 1674 [1674/5], died young

Sarah, b. 7 Apr. 1677, d. between 1701 and 1704; married at Milford, 1 Apr. 1701, Joseph Beard.

Andrew married Mary.

Andrew next married Mary. (Mary died about 1662 in Hartford, Connecticut.)