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TOWN CLERKS.
1711, Peter IInbbell; 1712-13, Jolin Glover; 1714-38, Josepli Peck; 1739-64, John Northrop; 1765-99, Caleb Baldwin; 1800-43, Caleb Baldwin, Jr .; 1844-46, Isaac Blers ; 1847-60, Henry Sanford; 1850- 53, Monroe Judson ; 1854, Saller P. Barnum ; 1855, Isaac Blers ; 1856- 59, David B. Blers; 1860-62, Alfred D. Tynill; 1863-70, Charles C. Warner; 1871, Reuben Belden; 1872, Henry T. Nichols ; 1873-80, Charles H. Peck.
MILITARY RECORD.
From records in the Adjutant-General's office.
FOURTEENTII REGIMENT.
Company A.
George A. Bradley, enl. Aug. 18, 1862; disch. Feb. 25, 1863.
FIFTEENTH REGIMENT.
Company D.
William Weible, enl. Sept. 13, 1864; must. out July 20, 1865.
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.
Company C.
William Curtis, enl. Aug. 9, 1862; died Dec. 3, 1863. C. G. Curtis, enl. Aug. 11, 1862 ; must. out July 19, 1865. A. B. Fairchild, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; must. out July 19, 1865. Ira Sherman, eul. July 22, 1862; must. out Oct. 24, 1864. Charles Wooster, cnl. July 22, 1862; disch. July 31, 1863.
Company D.
O. C. Milton, cnl. Aug. 12, 1862; must. out July 14, 1865.
Company E.
J. Gordon, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; killed July 1, 1863. M. V. B. Glover, eul. Aug. 14, 1862; dicd May 1, 1863. II. B. Bigelow, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; must. out July 19, 1863. C. C. Chipman, enl. Aug 11, 1862; must. out July 19, 1863. M. Colgan, enl. Aug. 14, 1862; wounded; must. out July 19, 1863. Oliver Downs, enl. Aug. 9, 1862; disch. June 23, 1863. James Eagan, enl. Aug. 5, 1862: dischi. Jan. 22, 1863. W. A. Gordon, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; wounded; transferred. Dennis IIayes, enl. Aug. 13, 1862; must. out July 19, 1865. J. Hickey, enl. Aug. 9, 1862; died May 9, 1853.
M. McMahon, enl. Aug. 9, 1862; disch. July 17, 1863.
A. Northrup, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; wounded; must. ont July 19, 1865. M. V. O'Halloran, enl. Aug. 11, 1862 ; disch. Sept. 15, 1863. H. A. S. Peet, enl. Aug. 14, 1862.
P. Smith, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; disch. Dec. 15, 1862.
A. Scliriver, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; must. out July 19, 1865.
G. H. Spencer, enl. Aug. 14, 1862 ; must. out July 19, 1865. L. Shaughriess, enl. Ang. 11, 1862 ; must. out July 19, 1865.
J. Welch, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; missing.
TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
Company C.
Julins Sanford, captain ; com. Sept. 10, 1862 ; captured June 24, 1863.
J. F. Peck, second lieutenant ; com. Ang. 25, 1862; promoted to first lict :- tenant ; captured June 24, 1863.
S. Edgett, enl. Sept. 10, 1862 ; captured Ang. 31, 1864. C. N. Squiers, enl. Aug. 25, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. J. Griffin, enl. Sept. 10, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. E. F.'Sanford, enl. Aug. 18, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. A. L. Peck, enl. Aug. 25, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. B. Nichols, enl. Sept. 12, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. R. Fairchild, enl. Sept. 12, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. C. Booth, Jr., enl. Aug. 25, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. S. L. Booth, enl. Aug. 25, 1862; disch. Ang, 31, 1863. J. M. Beers, eul. Sept. 11, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. G. Briscoe, enl. Sept. 11, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. Charles Briscoe, enl. Sept. 11, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. N. Clark, enl. Sept. 10, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863.
II. B. Coger, enl. Aug. 25, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. G. B. Camp, enl. Aug. 30, 1862, disch. Aug. 31, 1863. M. Corbit, enl. Sept. 8, 1862.
A. Dimon, enl. Sept. 8, 1862.
D. R. French, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; disch. Aug, 31, 1863.
T. B. Fairchild, enl. Sept. 23, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. D. A. Gillett, enl. Aug. 30, 1862; died Feb. 26, 1863. T. Guernsey, enl. Aug. 25, 1862; disch. Ang. 31, 1863. F. N. Hawley, enl. Sept. 10, 1862.
Henry Johnson, enl. Sept. 14, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. M. Keenan, enl. Sept. 10, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. John Lillis, enl. Sept. 13, 1862 ; died July 6, 1863. M. Lillis, enl. Nov. 5, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863.
P. MeDaniels, enl. Sept. 11, 1862.
P. Moakley, cnl. Oct. 27, 1862.
D. M. Peck, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. N. J. Peck, enl. Aug. 24, 1862; drowned June 6, 1863.
B. H. Peet, enl. Sept. 5, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. A. Taylor, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863.
D. B. Wood, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863.
Company G.
Edwin Benedict, enl. Sept. 7, 1862; must. out Aug. 31, 1863.
H. Beers, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; died July 5, 1863.
H. A. Gilbert, eul. Dec. 2, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863.
G. R. Gage, enl. Nov. 12, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. J. McGrath, enl. Nov. 10, 1862.
P. D. Olmsted, enl. Dec. 2, 1862; disch. Aug. 31, 1863. S. B. Wood, enl. Nov. 11, 1862; dischi. Aug. 31, 1863.
TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT. Company F.
John Jones, cnl. Dec. 22, 1863; must. out June 28, 1865.
Company I.
James Evans, enl. Dec. 31, 1863; died Nov. 19, 1864. James Adams, enl. Jan. 4, 1864; must. out Oct. 24, 1865.
Company K. James Ilawley, enl. Jan. 5, 1864; died Feb. 20, 1864.
Company D.
Thomas O'Brien, enl. May 11, 1861; disch. Aug. 12, 1861.
FIRST REGIMENT.
0. Conklin, enl. Nov. 10, 1864.
SECOND LIGHT BATTERY.
M. Lillis, enl. Feb. 19, 1864; must. out Aug. 9, 1865. James Nichols, enl. Feb. 16, 1864; must. out Aug. 9, 1865.
FIRST REGIMENT ARTILLERY. Company F.
C. S. Shepherd, enl. May 23, 1861 ; disch. July 26, 1861. Jolın Hubbell, eul. Jan. 5, 1864; dicd Sept. 23, 1864.
Company M.
HI. E. Nichols, enl. March 6, 1862 ; must. out Sept. 25, 1865.
M. Farrell, enl. Feb. 10, 1864.
A. Flannagan, enl. Feb. 10, 1864.
C. E. Gilbert, enl. Feb. 13, 1864; must. out June 1, 1865.
M. Sheplierd, enl. Jan. 5, 1864.
FIFTH REGIMENT. Company F.
William Conley, eul. July 22, 1861; disch. Jan. 5, 1863. J. H. Falkner, enl. July 22, 1861; diseh. April 24, 1862.
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SIXTII REGIMENT.
Company F. B. W. Matthews, enl. Aug. 29, 1863; must. ont Aug. 21, 1865.
Company K.
James Sullivan, enl. Jan. 5, 1865; must. out Aug. 21, 1865.
SEVENTII REGIMENT.
Company G.
J. Brown, enl. Sept. 7, 1861 ; minst, ont June 26, 1865.
L. II. Edwards, enl. Sept. 7, 1861 ; disch. Sept. 12, 1864.
Company II.
Carl Ackerman, enl. Nov. 11, 1863; wounded; died Sept. 14, 1864.
EIGHTII REGIMENT. Company F.
A. B. Clark, cnl. Dee. 17, 1863; must. out Dce. 2, 1865.
William Davis, enl. Dee. 17, 1863; must, out Dec. 12, 1865. C. R. Sherwood, enl. Dee. 17, 1863; must. out July 5, 1865.
F. E. Smith, enl. Dec. 17, 1863; diseh. Nov. 7, 1865.
Frederick Wensle, enl. Feb. 11, 1864 ; must. out Dee. 12, 1865.
Company II.
C. H. Payne, enl. Dec. 17, 1863 ; killed Juno 2, 1864.
Company I.
H. C. Hall, en1. Sept. 21, 1861; pro. to capt. Co. F; killed July 11, 1864.
J. D. Seeley, enl. Sept. 21, 1861 ; diseh. July 22, 1865.
S. W. Brown, enl. Scpt. 27, 1861; must. out Dee. 12, 1865.
S. A. Evarts, enl. Sept. 21, 1861; rejected.
II. Gilbert, enl. Sept. 30, 1861; must. out Sept. 12, 1865.
George Hawley, cnl. Sept. 27, 1861; disch. May 11, 1862. J. Riley, enl. Scpt. 27, 1861 ; disch. July 18, 1865. Robert Tappan, enl. Sept. 21, 1861 ; must. out May 10, 1865. HI. Tongue, enl. Sept. 21, 1861; must. out Sept. 21, 1864.
J. B. Weed, enl. Sept. 21, 1861; diseh. July 15, 1865.
NINTII REGIMENT.
Company I. James Hawley, enl. Oet. 1, 1861.
TENTII REGIMENT. Company G.
Thomas Johnson, cnl. Jan. 10, 1865; must. out May 29, 1865.
ELEVENTII REGIMENT.
Company A.
David Andrews, enl. Oct. 24, 1861 ; killed April 24, 1863.
Company C.
Fritz Meyer, enl. Jan. 27, 1865.
Company G.
L. Hf. Fairehild, enl. Dee. 12, 1861 ; disch. June 7, 1862.
J. W. Green, cnl. Dee. 1, 1861; diseli. Dcc. 21, 1865.
G. S. Hubbell, enl. Dee. 1, 1861 ; wounded Sept. 17, 1862.
B. E. Lewis, enl. Dec. 1, 1861; wounded; disch. Dee. 20, 1862. George McLcan, enl. Dee. 12, 1861.
H. L. Nichols, enl. Dee. 1, 1861 ; died Aug. 24, 1862.
F. E. Smith, enl. Dee. 1, 1861; wounded; disch. Fcb. 3, 1863.
TWELFTH REGIMENT. Company E.
John Tappan, cnl. Nov. 19, 1861 ; captured Oct. 19, 1864. G. B. Botsford, enl. Nov. 19, 1861; disch. June 27, 1862. H. Newman, enl. Jan. 12, 1865.
THIRTEENTH REGIMENT.
Company B.
W. G. Hawley, enl. Dee. 22, 1861; dischi. June 27, 1862. C. L. Briseoe, enl. Feb. 5, 1861.
John Kane, enl. Jan. 6, 1862; captured Sept. 19, 1864.
C. D. Peck, enl. Feb. 1. 1862 ; rc-enl. Feb. 8, 1864; must. out April 25, 1806.
Roswell Taylor, enl. Jan. 22, 1862; disel. Jan. 6, 1865. Company D.
E. M. Hull, enl. Dee. 17, 1861.
George Dimelow, enl. Dee. 17, 1861.
Charles Munson, enl. Dee. 22, 1861; died Aug. 29, 1863.
S. Tyrell, enl. Dee. 17, 1861 ; must. out Sept. 13, 1865.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
HENRY SANFORD.
This worthy descendant of Josiah Sanford was born in Newtown, June 2, 1822.
He remained with his parents until he attained his fourteenth year, in the mean time enjoying the ben- efits of the neighborhood school and the wholesome practical lessons daily taught by his father's precepts and example. It was a part of his father's religious belief, to which he tenaciously held, that children should be made to form habits of industry, to be ap- plied not only to books but to business pursuits. The father was jovial, and encouraged his children in their legitimate sports, yet the main object of his training was to prepare them for life in its reality, and with Henry, no less than with his brothers and sisters, was this parental treatment made available in the near threescore years that he has battled with the world.
At fourteen years of age he was placed by his father at Baldwin & Beers', who kept a general store in the village of Newtown. He remained with this firm seven years at fifty dollars per annum, and from this seanty allowanee he was expected to pur- chase clothing, keep in poeket change, and lay by for a rainy day.
Reaching his majority, his employers engaged his services for two years at one hundred and fifty dollars per annum.
Just here it is proper to remark that Henry's de- portment had been such that at eighteen he virtually did the whole business of the establishment. He did all the buying, and at regular intervals would make out his bills, visit New York, make his purchases and payments. Onee a year a statement of the busi- ness and the transactions for the twelve months was rendered to his employers.
At twenty-three, with assistance (by indorsement) from his father, he purchased a one-half interest, and continued the general management as before. Proud day for the young merchant, who was now a partner in one of the oldest mercantile establishments in the town of his nativity.
The lessons of promptness and general application of that old father were strictly adhered to, and the reward followed. For fifteen years the youth Henry did not lose from any cause exceeding fifteen days from his business. Will the youth aspiring to fortune and honorable station pin this faet upon his memory and emulate the example ?
In the natural course of time other purchases,-the remaining half-interest in stoek, then again the building and grounds; another period, the old store- house torn down, and new and more extensive ones erected. A gradual, legitimate, and certain increase, -the result of those habits of economy, application, industry, and constancy of purpose that made up
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the characteristics of the man whom we are sketch- ing. Was it from selfish motives that Henry Sanford was so aspiring in his youth ? Then notice his walk when a mature man.
Property after property was bought, improved, and resold at a small advance upon original purchase. Why? That the town might present a more at- tractive appearance to its citizens, its visitors.
Together with Aaron Sanford and M. C. Hawley he erected the beautiful Grand Central Hotel, and hundreds of summer boarders annually thank them for their enterprise.
But the crowning, the grandest effort of his life is the handsome monument to his nerve and constancy of purpose that attracts every passer-by. We allude to that solid, beautiful, grand old structure, the Holy Episcopal church, which stands within the centre of the village.
For four years he unfalteringly prosecuted the work. Through favor and disfavor, obstacles and difficulties at times absolutely appalling were finally trium- phantly overridden. Imagine a town of eight hun- dred voters ; a church to be built that cost fifty thou- sand dollars ; invitations extended to all ; the greatest official of the sect expected; a fair day, and only five single individuals, including the rector and offi- cers who were to officiate, being present at the solemnn and ancient custom of laying the corner-stone, and you have some conception of the encouragement, rather the discouragement, Henry Sanford encoun- tered while prosecuting this his grandest achievement.
For years he had been a vestryman and the church treasurer. The old building was tottering. It was suggested to repair it.
But by persistent appeals Mr. Sanford got his brethren to agree to put up a new structure, and as treasurer and financial agent he carried the project through to successful consummation, with but one prominent and efficient ally with whom to divide any of the labor attending details of the construc- tion. This coadjutor was Mr. Silas N. Beers, whose brain and pencil first put upon paper what was so accurately followed by the mechanics, under the joint surveillance and superintendence of the two Christian friends.
JULIUS SANFORD.
This son of Josiah Sanford was subjected to the same vigorous, wholesome training of his brothers. Having a fondness for machinery he was longer re- tained in his father's factory than were his brothers. When about eighteen years of age, however, he re- paired to Naugatuck to learn the machinist's trade in the shops of Warner & Isbel. Having served his apprenticeship, he returned to Sandy Hook and en- gaged with Moses Parsons to learn the hatter's trade. He remained with Mr. Parsons several years, be-
coming in the meanwhile thoroughly acquainted with the process of hat manufacture.
On leaving Mr. Parsons, Julius obtained from him his daughter Mary in marriage and his good-will in business, and immediately began in the same village manufacturing on his own account.
For a time he made nap-, fur-, and silk-hats com- plete, and in abundance; but owing to reverses oc- casioned by the failure of contracting parties in New York, and at the suggestion and with the co-operation of his father, he changed his business to the special and more profitable branch of manufacture,-"form- ing" wool-felts for soft hats. He was applying him- self with ardor to this industry at the time of the great crisis that was pending just prior to the break- ing out of the Rebellion of 1861.
When it absolutely became apparent that the Southern States were seriously meditating on the dissolution and destruction of the nation and cradle of liberty, that they were positively bereft of patri- otism, reason, and justice,-when this news, wafted as it were by the wings of the wind, came to his ears he answered with alacrity in response to the nation's call, and enlisted upon the side of liberty and the perpetuity of the Union, and the preservation of American institutions. He was complimented by his fellows-in-arms in a unanimous vote that he should accept the captaincy.
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It is also worthy of note that his sword contained the following inscription : "Presented to Captain Julius Sanford by many citizens of Newtown, Conn." The Twenty-third Connectieut Infantry had no braver or more popular officer than the captain of Company "C" of Newtown.
The fortunes of war, however, were disastrous; for, while guarding a large amount of stores at Brazier City, La., Capt. Sanford and all of the guard with him were compelled to capitulate to a superior foree of the enemy. The surrender did not take place, how- ever, until the stores were destroyed by fire. Capt. Sanford was ineareerated at the military prison of Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, and suffered all the rigors of a prison life for fourteen months. His ex- istenee during this period was only inade tolerable by indireet benefits that were seeured through Masonie influence. Fortunately, friends and fellow-prisoners of Capt. Sanford were the recipients of favors that were obtained through the above-named fraternity. Upon his return home Capt. Sanford took early steps to gain membership with an order that would not suffer seetional animosity in time of war to deter its brotherhood from practically illustrating the beautiful features of its mission.
He applied himself with assiduity in familiarizing himself with the principles and work of the frater- nity, and prosecuted his work with such suceess as to early become a master spirit and Master Mason in the society. He was a charter member and a Wor- shipful Master of Hiram Lodge of Newtown.
After the war Capt. Sanford was more domestie in his taste. Always fond of his family and attentive to their wants, and to gratify the wishes of his wife, he removed to New Haven, Conn., and, with other business, assumed charge of a musie store, where he remained until his death, Nov. 1, 1879. In polities and religion, Capt. Sanford was in full sympathy with his father and brothers. He died from disease con- traeted while in prison.
FREDERICK SANFORD.
This representative of an old New England name is the fourth son of Josiah Sanford, and was born in Newtown, Sept. 18, 1825. A full account of Mr. San- ford's varied business and traveling experienee would make quite a little volume in itself, and one of no mean interest. Complete data can be had for this did the limits of this sketeh admit, for, by nature, by education, and long habit, he is methodieal, and his day-book is a complete history of his life, his busi- ness, his travels, what he has seen, and whom he has met. Like thousands of others of New England, he left its erowded walks to seek elsewhere his fortune; returning, however, content and satisfied to remain under its old roof-tree. So the year 1880 finds him at the old homestead, where for five generations his fam- ily have lived. His education was received at the pub-
lic and private schools and the academy of his town. At eighteen he was placed with John H. Tweedy & Co., of Danbury, to learn the mercantile business. These gentlemen manufactured clothing for their wholesale and jobbing houses at New York City and Charleston, S. C., and in conjunction carried on a general store. In 1845, John H. Tweedy withdrew and was suceceded by Edgar S. Tweedy, from which time Frederick was in charge of the business until his majority, when he went with Alvah Merriam, who carried on a general country store at Woodbury, remaining with Mr. Merriam two years. In Septem- ber, 1849, he went South, and engaged in book-keep- ing for the hat-jobbing house of D. A. Ambler, at Charleston, S. C. Receiving a very excellent offer from Haviland, Harral & Co., he went to live with this firm. These gentlemen were wholesale druggists, with braneli houses in Atlanta and Augusta, Ga., and a house in New York under the firm-name of Havi- land, Keese & Co., and a fine retail store, in addi- tion to their wholesale house, in Charleston. By reason of their having been long established and well and favorably known, Haviland, Harral & Co. had an exceptionally fine elass of customers, and Mr. . Sanford looks upon this period of his life as a very pleasant one, indeed. The South at this time was at a high degree of prosperity, and he had many opportunities of becoming familiar with the habits and customs of the people, and seeing the different phases of slavery and the manners and customs of the slaves, and especially their quaint religious doings and their jollifications on Christmas and other holidays.
At different times of life, and during different trips South and West, Mr. Sanford has visited nearly every seetion of the American Union, and witnessed some of the most imposing of our politieal and national pageantries and "receptions," and has heard Webster, Clay, and Calhoun on the floor of the Senate.
His first initiation South was an attack of yellow fever, from which, by the skill of his physician, the celebrated Dr. Robertson, and good nursing, he reeov- ered. The following season he had the "break-bone" fever, after which he was considered pretty well aceli- inated. His father's health failing, he returned home just in time to see him die, July 26, 1851.
At the solicitation of his family, and to assist in winding up his father's estate, he remained in New- town, engaging in the manufacture of hatting-felts .--- first with his brother Henry, then Henry and Julius, and then alone from 1859 to 1865, when he leased his factory to Horr & Mitehell, wool-hat manufacturers, of Boston, Mass. These gentlemen operated his fae- tory till January, 1867, when it was destroyed by fire. Sinee this time Mr. Sanford has retired from active business-life.
Reared as a Whig, he votes and aets with the Re- publican party, but his acquaintance with and knowl- edge of the people of different sections of our common country prevent his taking an active part in the sec-
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tional politics of the day. He has filled many town offices and other positions of trust. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, being the present treas- urer of that society.
The peeuliar management and training of his chil- dren by Josiah Sanford is elsewhere remarked, and perhaps its cffeet is not more marked upon any of them than the subject of this sketeh. He has kept a cash account and diary since his fourteenth year, and has not been of one dollar expense to his father since. As before remarked, this diary is a complete kaleido- scope, as it were, of the events of his life.
JOSIAHI SANFORD.
Samuel Sanford, the father of Josiah Sanford, had a shop opposite the old Sanford homestead, where Frederick Sanford now lives, and was engaged in the manufacture of spinning-wheels, reels, and looms for spinning thread and weaving cloth, earpets, etc. He was sueeeeded by his son Josiah, who followed the same business till the ycar 1830, when he entered into the manufacture of broadeloth, eassimeres, and satinets, in the village of Sandy Hook. He remained in this business, extending it from time to time, till 1842. Between the years 1830 and 1842 he did a very heavy business, building and causing the crec- tion of a large part of the village of Sandy Hook. In addition to his factory he ran a large general store, and bought a considerable tract of land and ran an extensive farm.
Mr. Sanford was married to Polly, daughter of Capt. Enos Johnson, Aug. 7, 1816. Mr. Sanford was a man of great foree of character and originality, a leading member of Trinity Episcopal Church, and one of the founders of Newtown Academy. His manage- ment of his children was especially noticeable. If the boys wanted spending-money he gave them a job of work and paid them for it, thus making them earn the money, and letting them estimate its value by the labor it cost them. He would give them opportuni- ties of earning money and then borrow it of them, giving them his note, drawing interest in regular form. In settlements they produced the note and he had them to reckon up the interest themselves, re- fusing to settle until it was done properly. Thus he instilled into them correet ideas of value and the ne- cessity of strict business habits that in after life has served them well. Hc died July 26, 1851. His chil- dren were eight in number,-viz., Edwin (deceased), Julius (deceased), Henry, Frederick, Charlotte (Mrs. George B. Wheeler), Margarctte (Mrs. Albert North- rop), Josiah, Augusta.
Josiah Sanford (6) was the son of Samuel Sanford (5) by his second wife, Charity (Foote) Bristol. Sam- uel Sanford (5) was born in 1743. His children were, by his first wife, (Abiah Dunning),-viz., Annit (1), Isaac (2), Josiah (3), Betsey (4), Sarah (5), Joel (6),
Ruah (7), Azubah (8), Artemesia (9), Abigail (10). By his second wife : Abiah, Ann, Josialı, and Philo.
Samuel (5) was the son of Samuel (4), who was born April 1, 1704. His children by his wife, Hannah Gil- bert, were Thomas, Amos, Mary, James, Hannah, Sarah, Samuel, and Louis.
Samuel Sanford (4) was the son of Samuel Sanford (3), who was born March 12, 1680, who married Esther Baldwin, and whose children were Nathaniel, Samuel (4), Ebenezer, Esther, John, David, Stephen, Job, Hannah, Rachel (Mrs. Eben Booth).
Samuel Sanford (3) was son of Samuel Sanford (2), who was born April 3, 1643, and who married Mary Brinson. His children were Hannah, Thomas, Sam- ucl (3), Sarah, Mary, and Thomas.
Samuel Sanford (2) was son of Thomas Sanford (1), who married Sarah -, and whose children were Ezekiel, Sarah, Mary, and Samuel (3). Thomas San- ford died October, 1681. The date of his birth is un- known.
To Julius, son of Josiah, were born Ellen Louisa (Mrs. Sherwood S. Thompson), Katie, and Gertrude. Henry Sanford married Mary E., daughter of Dr. Cyrenius H. Booth, Nov. 9, 1845, to whom were born Annie E. and Sarah E.
GENEALOGY OF THE SANDFORDS .*
Sandford Manor of England is one of those very few Shropshire estates which ean be said to be held by the lineal descendants of its carliest feoffee.
Thomas de Sandford, a Norman follower of William Duke of Normandy, is mentioned on the roll of Battle Abbey, Oct. 14, 1066. His son, Sir Thomas de Sand- ford, held under King Henry I. the manors of Sand- ford and Rothal, and the former is still held by his descendants. The armorial bearings of this family are quarterly 1 and 4 per chevron sa and erm, in chief two boars' heads eouped close, or 2 and 3 quarterly per fesse indented azure and crmine. Crest, a falcon with wings endorsed preying on a partridge ppr. Motto, Nec temere Nec timide.
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