USA > Connecticut > Fairfield County > Redding > The history of Redding, Connecticut : from its first settlement to the present time > Part 29
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30
Ephraim Sanford, son of Ezekiel, Jr., settled in Sanfordtown, and was a large land owner there, as is shown by severad deeds now in the possession of his descendants, some of which date back as far as 1733. His children by his wife Elizabeth Mix, according to the parish record, were: Rachel, baptized July 29th, 1733; Abigail, baptized May 18th, 1735; John, April 29th, 1739; Oliver, September 20th, 1741 ; Lois, Sep- tember 17th, 1743; Huldah, May 5th, 1748; Augustus, July 15th, 1753; Esther, April 27th, 1755. His will, dated January 30th, 1761, mentions also Ephraim, Elizabeth, and Tabitha. Ephraim Sanford, according to the family tradition, was the first man having a store of goods in Red- ding. His goods were brought from Boston. Of his children, Abigail married Daniel Jackson, October 2d, 1755. John married Anna Wheeler, and settled in the Foundry district, in Redding. His children were: Jame's, Stephen, Ephraim, John, (Eli, Huldah, Lois, Easter, Elizabeth, and Annie. James, the eldest son, settled in the Foundry district, near his father. He was a teamster in the Revolutionary army, and was present at the execution of Jones and Smith on Gallows Hill. He mar- ried Sarah, daughter of John Beach, and grand-daughter of Rev. John Beach, the faithful missionary of the Church of England.
He is called "Squire James" in the records and was a man of force and prominence in the community. He lived in the old homestead on Rock House Hill, still tenanted by one of his descendants. He married Sarah
276
HISTORY OF REDDING.
Beach, daughter of Lazarus Beach and Lydia Sanford, in 1780, and died April 14th, 1842, aged 84 years. His children were: Lemuel, born Nov. 20, 1781 ; Lydia Ann, born Aug. 1, 1782; Isaac, born Apr. 23, 1786; Alan- son, born Jan. 20, 1789; Sally, born Feb. 14, 1794; John Beach, born Oct. 10, 1796; James, Jr., born Jan. 10, 1799; Charles, born Jan. 7, 1801; a child, born Oct. I, 1804; Harriet, born -, died April 29, 1840; Maria, born April, 1811, died March 28, 1824.
James Sanford, Jr. above, married, Jan. 27, 1822, Miss Eliza French, and had children: John Turney, who died in infancy; Turney, born Jan. 23, 1825; Senah, born Feb. 24, 1828; James, 3d, born Oct. 19, 1830; Sarah, born June 7th, 1833; Stephen, born March 28, 1835; Betsey, born Sept. 13, 1838; Perkins, born Feb. 24, 1841; Abby, born July 21, 1843; Henry, born Jan. 29, 1846; Charles, born Feb. 5th, 1849.
Of the above children, Turney married Mary Roe, of Southport, Conn., and had one child, George Turney, who married Florence Hill, of New Orleans, La., and died in Mississippi, Dec. 31, 1894, leaving a daughter, Beulah.
James Sanford, 3d, married Sarah Meeker, of Redding, and has one son, William Clinton, who married Miss Edith Cole, of Weston, and one son, James Harold.
Sarah married William E. Duncomb, of Redding, and had one daugh- ter, Emma Eliza, who married George Benjamin Beers, of Easton.
Stephen married Mary Sophia Banks, of Redding, and has children: Emory Perkins and Stephen Ernest. Emory married Olivia Sanford, of Redding, and has two children.
Betsey married George B. Sherwood, of Easton, and had one child, James Arthur Sherwood.
Charles married Hannah Sherwood, and has two daughters, Elsie and Lucy.
Died, May 26, 1883, Squire James Sanford, the father.
John Sanford, Jr., son of John and Anna ( Wheeler) Sanford, married first, 1788, Lydia Wheeler, of Weston, and second, Elizabeth Parsons. His children, all by the first wife, were: Elizabeth, born Aug. 15, 1790; Ruth, born April 22, 1792; Margaret, born Oct. 20, 1794; Sarah, born Jan. 25, 1797; John W., born May 21, 1799; Eli, born Aug. 4, 1801 ; Lydia A., born March 17, 1804.
Of these children, Elizabeth married Aaron Lyon and had three chil- dren, Lemuel, Mary Eliza, and Lydia Louisa. Ruth married David Dun- combe, and had children : Henry B., David S., Asabel S., Charles, Harriet N., Lydia A., Aaron H., and William E.
Margaret married Henry Dean; no children. Sarah married Garry Dayton, and had children: Betsey, Caroline, Betsey, Lydia Ann, San- ford, and Charles W. John W. married Altha Fanton, of Weston, and
277
HISTORY OF REDDING.
had children : Mary Ann, unmarried; George Wheeler, died Dec. 6, 1842, aged 18 years ; Harriet Stevens, died Feb. 4, 1853, aged 27 years ; Flora Maria, died April 30, 1894, aged 66 years ; Edward J. and Georgiana.
Edward J. removed to Knoxville, Tenn., in early life, where be be- came a prominent man, being at one time the Republican nominee for Governor of Tennessee. He married, Aug. 21, 1860, Miss Emma Chav- annes, daughter of the Rev. Adrian Chavannes, of Lausanne, Switzerland. Their children were: Edward T., now a prominent lawyer of Knoxville, Tenn., and who married Lutie Mallory Woodruff, of Knoxville, and has two children : Dorothy and Anna Magee; and Emma, who married Ed- ward Jackson Sanford, elder son of the Hon. William Eli Sanford, M. P., of Hamilton, Can., and has one child, Constance Phyllis.
Georgiana, fourth daughter of John W. Sanford, married the Rev. Charles W. Kelley, July 1I, 1876.
Eli Sanford, the youngest son of John Sanford, Jr., married Feb. 26, 1826, in New York City, Miss Eveline Argall, and had children : Eliza, Lydia Ann, Hannah J. (died May 5th, 1849, aged 18 years), and William E.
Of these children, Eliza married, Ist, Elijah P. Farmer, and second, Dr. James T. Alley, of Buffalo, N. Y. She had one child by the first husband: Hannah Eliza, who died in infancy; and one by the second, William Sanford. Mrs. Alley died Aug. II, 1886.
Lydia Ann married Andrew Meeker, of Redding, and had one child, who died in infancy.
William E. Sanford, youngest child of Eli, born Aug. 21, 1834, in New York, married, first, Emmeline Sanford Jackson, and on her death in 1858, Sophia Vaux, of Ottawa, Can. His children, all by the second marriage, are Edward J., Henry Vaux (died in infancy), Edna and Muriel.
Hon. William E. Sanford settled in Hamilton, Canada, and engaged in commercial pursuits. He is president of a large manufacturing con- cern, and is intimately connected with many monied and educational insti- tutions of Canada. In the year 1887, he was appointed by Her Majesty a member for life of the Canadian Senate, and has also been a member of various Government Commissions. He resides in Hamilton, Canada.
Stephen Sanford, son of John and Ann (Wheeler) Sanford, married Sarah Curtis, of Huntington, Conn., and had children: Nehemiah C., Charlotte, Phoebe, John, Charles, Stephen, Jr., and Nelson, all of whom settled out of Redding, largely in Newtown and Roxbury, Conn. Nehe- miah C. married Nancy Bateman Shelton, of Huntington, and had an only child, Henry Shelton Sanford, who attained prominence in many lands and was of signal service to his country in her hour of need. Mr. Sanford began his diplomatic career as attaché at St. Petersburg in 1847,
278
HISTORY OF REDDING.
under Hon. Ralph I. Ingersoll. The next year, 1848, he was acting Secretary of Legation under Hon, Andrew J. Donelson at Frankfort. In 1849 he was appointed by President Taylor, Secretary of Legation at Paris, under Hon. William C. Revis, and on the departure of the latter in 1853, Charge de Affaires for nearly a year, arranging for our first pos- tal convention with France. He resigned and returned to this country in 1859, and soon after was sent by President Buchanan to New Gre- nada to negotiate for the extension of the Panama Railroad charter. His house in Washington during the winter of 1860-61, the year of the Peace Congress, was a centre of decisive discussion. Mr. Lincoln, immediately after his inauguration, appointed him Minister to Belgium, and within three days he was on his way to Paris under confidential instructions. His mission to Belgium was made to cover much diplomatic ground.
Governor Seward said of him: "Mr. Sanford during the first year of the war was the Minister of the United States in Europe." During the eight and a half years that Mr. Sanford remained in Belgium he nego- tiated and signed the treaties of the Scheldt, of Commerce and Naviga- tion, of Trade Marks, and the Consular Convention, the first ever made by Belgium. The extradition treaty he had discussed failed by reason of one point, since yielded by our government.
On Mr. Sanford's retirement from the diplomatic service and return to his native country, he became much interested in the industrial devel- opment of the South, particularly of Florida. In the latter he founded the town of Sanford, at the head of navigation on the St. Johns. There he created an extensive orange grove and tropical garden a mile out of the village. In this grove Mr. Sanford had gathered every species of orange known to horticulturists from all over the world, and pretty much every important tropical fruit and plant. The writer was invited to visit it one day, as the guest of the diplomat, who gave his visitor a most in- teresting account, not only of the trees and plants, but of his efforts in securing them. This grove, a vast service in introducing improved species of the citrus family into Florida, was ruined by the great freeze of 1895. In 1884, Mr. Sanford again entered the diplomatic service as Plenipotentiary of the International Congo Association. In 1884-5 he was Plenipotentiary of the United States at the Berlin Conference, and signed, Feb. 26th, 1885, with his colleague, Minister Kasson, the Act Générale, opening up the Congo region to our commerce and mission- aries. A year later he dispatched to the Congo from Brussels the "San- ford Exploring Expedition" for scientific and commercial discovery and information. This became, in 1888, in Brussels, a large stock company, with seven steamers and ten stations. It was one of the disappointments of Mr. Sanford's life that he could not interest American capital in this enterprise. In February, 1891, he sailed for America to look after his.
279
HISTORY OF REDDING.
business interests there, being then in ill health, and died at the White Sulphur Springs, Va., May 21, 1891.
Mr. Sanford married, Sept. 21, 1864, in Paris, France, Miss Gertrude Ellen du Puy, of Philadelphia, Pa. Their children were: Henry Shelton, Gertrude Ellen du Puy, Frida Dolores, Ethel, Helen Carola Nancy, Leo- pold Curtis, and Ebvyn Emeline Willimine Gladys Mckinnon.
Oliver Sanford, son of Ephraim, married, in April, 1767, Rachel, daughter of Deacon David Coley, of Weston. Their children were: Mary, baptized July 31st, 1768; David, August 20th, 1769; Ephraim, September 15th, 1771 ; Abigail, May 29th, 1774; Enoch A., April 28th, 1776; Levi, December 14th, 1777; Oliver C., Abigail, Mary, Betsey, and Lorraine.
SMITH.
Anna, daughter of Samuel Smith, of Redding, was baptized July 6th, 1740 ; and Seth Samuel, son of Samuel and Lydia Smith, September 28th, 1760. The latter was the first lawyer who located in Redding. He had an office in the Centre, where also he kept a select school. He was town clerk for a term of years, and wrote a most elegant hand, as will be re- membered by those familiar with the records of his times. He also filled many other important positions in the town. He married Huldah Their children were: Zalmon, baptized February 3d, 1780; and probably others.
STOWE.
Robert Stow, the first of the name in Redding, settled in Lonetown, on the farm now owned by Albert Bartram. He married Anne Darrow, January 26th, 1775. Their children were: Daniel, born July 4th, 1779; Abigail, born April 11th, 1776, married Israel Adams; Sarah, born October 4th, 1777; Sarah, born August 11th, 1781 ; Sumner, born September 17th, 1783; Huldah, born February 6th, 1787; married An- drew Andrus, of Danbury; Abraham, born March 4th, 1792; Polly, born September 20th, 1794, married Moses Parsons of Newtown. Robert Stow died November 5th, 1795. Daniel Stow married Lucy Hoyt, of Bethel, and settled in Redding, near his father. His children were: Rob- ert, Almira, Sarah, Harriet, Lucy, Sumner, Mary, and Polly. Abraham settled in Bethel. Sumner died when a young man.
STRONG.
For the following notes of the descendants of the Rev. William L. Strong, I am indebted to his grandchild, Miss May D. Strong, of Pitts- ton, Pa.
My grandfather had eleven children, who grew to years of maturity, and all married. The eldest, Judge William Strong, born 1808, gradu-
280
HISTORY OF REDDING.
ated at Yale 1828; afterwards a lawyer in Reading, Pa., a member of Congress, a judge of the Supreme Court of Penn., and, in 1870, made Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He had seven chil- dren, only three of whom survive him; one married and two single daugh- ters ; he has one grandson, however, who bears his own name, of William Strong.
The second son, Newton Deming Strong, graduated at Yale in 1831 ; became a lawyer in St. Louis, married there, and died there in 1866, leav- ing no children.
The third son, Edward, born 1813, graduated at Yale 1838; became a Congregational minister, was settled in New Haven, Pittsfield, and Bos- ton; died in 1898, leaving two sons and one daughter.
The fourth child, Harriet, married Frederic Pratt, of Fayetteville, N. Y. She died without children in 1864, aged fifty-three.
Fifth child, Mary, born 1815, married Rev. Robert Wilson, a Presby- terian minister ; she still lives, a widow, at the age of ninety, and all her three children survive.
The sixth child, Elizabeth, married Henry H. Cooley, a merchant of Auburn, N. Y. She died at the age of seventy-five. One son alone of three children survive her.
Seventh child, Theodore, born 1820, educated for Yale, like his brothers, but prevented from matriculating by failing sight; entered a business life, and served as President of the First National Bank of Pittston, for forty-one years, having but recently resigned. He still lives at the age of eighty-six ; also five of his eight children survive,
The eighth child, Samuel, graduated at Yale in 1843; became a Con- gregational minister ; was settled during a short pastorate in Springfield, Mass. He left that profession because of failing health, and studied law, but died in 1856, aged thirty-four.
Ninth child, Abigail, married Nelson H. Gaston, of New Haven, who died after six years. She still lives, aged eighty-two; also one of her three children.
Tenth child, Julia, married Rev. Henry Darling, a Presbyterian min- ister ; afterwards President of Hamilton College; died, aged twenty-five, without children.
Eleventh child, Helen, married John Loveland, a merchant of Pitts- ton, Penn. She died in 1886, aged fifty-six years, survived by but one of her four sons.
1
Other settlers in the town at an early date, but who do not appear to have been permanent residents, were: Daniel Bradley, Thomas Williams, Thomas and William Squire ( of Fairfield), Ebenezer Ferry, George Cow- den, Nathaniel Booth, Edmund Sherman, Jonathan Squire, John Whit-
281
HISTORY OF REDDING.
lock, John Truesdale, Frederick Dikeman, and John Nott. The families of Byington, Chapman, Hamilton, Knapp, Osborne, Dennison, Bennett, St. John, Gilbert, Johnson, Abbott, Duncomb, Edwards, Olmstead, Rider, Treadwell, and Todd figure in the later records of the town.
283
HISTORY OF REDDING.
APPENDIX I.
Representatives to the Legislature.
October, 1767. Col. John Read.
May, 1768. None.
October, 1768. Capt. Stephen Mead.
May, 1769. Col. John Read, Capt. Henry Lyon.
October, 1769. Capt. Henry Lyon.
May, 1770. Capt. Stephen Mead, Mr. Lemuel Sanford. October, 1770. Col. John Read, Mr. Lemuel Sanford.
May, 1771. Col. John Read, Mr. Lemuel Sanford.
October, 1771. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford.
May, 1772. Col. John Read, Mr. Hezekiah Sanford. October, 1772. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford.
May, 1773. Col. John Read, Mr. Hezekiah Sanford.
October, 1773. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. James Rogers.
May, 1774. Mr. William Hawley, Mr. Peter Fairchild. October, 1774. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Hawley. May, 1775. Mr. William Hawley.
October, 1775. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Hawley May, 1776. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Seth Sanford.
October, 1776. Mr. Samuel Sanford, Jr., Mr. Stephen Betts, Jr., May, 1777. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. Daniel Sanford. October, 1777. None attended.
January, 1778. Mr. Seth Sanford.
February, 1778. Mr. Lemuel Sanford.
May, 1778. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Heron.
October, 1778. Mr. Lemuel Sanford.
May, 1779. Mr. Seth Sanford.
October, 1779. Mr. William Hawley, Mr. William Heron.
May, 1780. Mr. William Hawley, Mr. William Heron.
October, 1780. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. Seth Sanford. May, 1781. Unrecorded.
October, 1781. Capt. William Hawley.
May, 1782. Mr. Stephen Betts.
October, 1782. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. Stephen Betts. May, 1783. Mr. Stephen Betts, Mr. Thaddeus Benedict. October, 1783. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. Stephen Betts.
284
HISTORY OF REDDING.
May, 1784. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Thaddeus Benedict. October, 1784. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Heron. May, 1785. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. William Heron. October, 1785. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. William Heron. May, 1786. Mr. William Hawley.
October, 1786. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. William Heron. May, 1787. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Heron. (Jctober, 1787. Mr. William Heron.
May, 1788. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Heron. October, 1788. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Heron. May, 1789. Mr. William Heron.
October, 1789. Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Heron. May, 1790. Mr. Thaddeus Benedict, Mr. William Heron. October, 1790. Mr. Thaddeus Benedict, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. May, 1791. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. October, 1791. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. May, 1792. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. October, 1792. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Aaron Barlow. May, 1793. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. October, 1793. Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Simeon Munger. May, 1794. Mr. Thaddeus Benedict, Mr. Aaron Barlow. October, 1794. Mr. Thaddeus Benedict, Mr. Aaron Barlow. May, 1795. Mr. Thaddeus Benedict, Mr. Aaron Barlow. October, 1795. Mr. William Heron, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. May, 1796. Mr. William Heron, Mr. James Rogers.
October, 1796. Mr. William Heron, Mr. James Rogers. May, 1797. Mr. Simeon Munger, Mr. Seth Samuel Smith. October, 1797. Mr. Simeon Munger, Mr. Seth Samuel Smith. May, 1798. Mr. Simeon Munger, Mr. Seth Samuel Smith. May, 1799. Mr. Simeon Munger, Mr. Stephen Jackson. October, 1799. Mr. Simeon Munger, Mr. Stephen Jackson. May, 1800. Mr. Simeon Munger, Mr. Seth Samuel Smith. October, 1800. Mr. Andrew L. Hill, Mr. Stephen Jackson. May, 1801. Mr. Andrew L. Hill, Mr. Stephen Jackson. October, 1801. Mr. Simeon Munger, Mr. Peter Sanford. May, 1802. Mr. S. Samuel Smith, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. October, 1802. Mr. Aaron Sanford, Mr. Joshua King. May, 1803. Mr. Seth S. Smith, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. October, 1803. Mr. Seth S. Smith, Mr. Andrew L. Hill. May, 1804. Mr. Seth S. Smith.
October, 1804. Mr. Simeon Munger, Mr. Peter Sanford. May, 1805. Seth Samuel Smith, Andrew L. Hill. October, 1805. Simeon Munger, Peter Sanford.
285
HISTORY OF REDDING.
May, 1806. Andrew L. Hill, Simeon Munger. October, 1806. Andrew L. Hill, Simeon Munger. May, 1807. Andrew L. Hill, Simeon Munger. October, 1807. Seth Samuel Smith, Lemuel Sanford. May, 1808. Andrew L. Hill, Lemuel Sanford. October, 1808. Lemuel Sanford, Simeon Munger. May, 1809. Andrew L. Hill, Lemuel Sanford. October, 1809. Andrew L. Hill, Lemuel Sanford. May, 1810. Andrew L. Hill, Lemuel Sanford. October, 1810. Andrew L. Hill, Lemuel Sanford. May, 1811. Samuel Whiting, Peter Sanford. October, 1811. Andrew L. Hill, Samuel Whiting. May, 1812. Andrew L. Hill, Lemuel Sanford. October, 1812. Andrew L. Hill, Lemuel Sanford. May, 1813. Lemuel Sanford, Samuel Whiting. October, 1813. Lemuel Sanford, Samuel Whiting. May, 1814. Lemuel Sanford, Samuel Whiting. October, 1814. John Meeker, Lemuel Sanford. May, 1815. Jonathan R. Sanford, Samuel Whiting. October, 1815. Simeon Munger, Hezekiah Read, Jr. May, 1816. Isaac Beach, Hezekiah Read, Jr.
October, 1816. Samuel Whiting, Hezekiah Read, Jr. May, 1817. Isaac Beach, Benjamin Meeker.
October, 1817. Jonathan Meeker, John R. Hill.
May, 1818. Billy Comstock, Aaron Sanford, Jr.
October, 1818. William Sanford, John Meeker.
May, 1819. Billy Comstock, Hezekiah Read, Jr.
1820. Isaac Coley, Jonathan R. Sanford.
I821. Daniel Barlow, Seth Wheeler.
1822. Billy Comstock, John R. Hill.
1823. John R. Hill, Aaron Sanford, Jr.
1824. Ephraim Sanford, Rowland Fanton.
1825. Benjamin Meeker, William Sanford.
1826. Joel Merchant, Michael, Jennings.
1827. Thomas B. Fanton, Gershom Sherwood.
1828. John M. Heron, William Sanford.
1829. Aaron Sanford, Daniel Barlow.
1830. Gershom Sherwood, Gurdon Bartram.
1831. Jonathan R. Sanford, Jared Olmstead.
1832. Ralph Sanford, Walker Bates.
1833. Jacob Wanzer, Thaddeus B. Read.
1834. Thomas B. Fanton, Bradley Hill.
1835. Thomas B. Fanton, Walker Bates.
286
HISTORY OF REDDING.
1836. Ralph Sanford, Burr Meeker.
1837. Timothy Parsons, Jesse Banks.
1838. Thomas B. Fanton, Aaron Perry.
1839. Thomas B. Fanton, Benjamin Meeker.
1840. Walker Bates, David S. Duncomb.
184I. Thaddeus M. Abbott, Morris Hill.
I842. Hezekiah Davis, John W. Sanford.
1843. Edward Starr, Jr., Barney Bartram.
1844. Charles Beach, Charles D. Smith.
1845. Peter S. Coley, Aaron R. Bartram.
1846. James Sanford, Harry Meeker.
1847. Bradley Hill, Samuel S. Osborn.
1848. Burr Bennett, Floyd Tucker.
1849. Daniel C. Rider, Henry Couch.
1850. Matthew Gregory, Rufus Mead.
1851. Milo Lee, Frederick D. Dimon.
1852. Aaron Burr, Aaron B. Hull.
Ebenezer Wilson, Turney Sanford.
1853. 1854. Jonathan R. Sanford, Walker Bates.
1855. Cortez Merchant, Gurdon B. Lee.
1856. Thomas Sanford, Milo Lee.
1857. John O. St. John, David B. Sanford.
James Sanford, Benjamin S. Boughton.
1858. John Edmond, Matthew Gregory.
Jacob Shaw, Daniel S. Sanford.
Edmund T. Dudley, Matthew Gregory.
Walker Bates, Aaron Treadwell.
Charles Osborne, Edward P. Shaw.
David S. Johnson, William B. Hill.
Francis A. Sanford, B. S. Boughton.
1864. I865. Thomas B. Fanton, William Hill. 1866. 1867. I868. 1869. Aaron H. Davis, William H. Hill. 1870. John S. Sanford, J. R. Sanford. I871. E. F. Foster, Luzon Jelliff. 1872. Henry S. Osborn, Arthur B. Hill.
Stebbins Baxter, Moses Hill.
J. R. Sanford, Edward P. Shaw. Turney Sanford, Henry Burr Platt.
1873. I874. 1875. 1876. James Sanford, Orrin Platt.
1877. Thomas Sanford, George F. Banks.
1878. Azariah E. Meeker, Daniel Sanford.
1879. Harvey B. Rumsey, George Coley.
1859. 1860. I86I. I862. Walker Bates, George Osborn. 1863. John Edmond, David H. Mead.
287
HISTORY OF REDDING.
1880. David S. Bartram, Azariah Meeker.
I88I. David H. Miller, William F. Mandeville.
1882. Thomas Sanford, Ebenezer F. Foster.
1883. James E. Miller, Charles Porter.
1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. Samuel B. Gorham, David E. Smith.
Jesse L. Sanford, Eli Osborn. John N. Nickerson, Uriah S. Griffin.
Michael Connery, William C. Sanford.
1889.
Seth Sanford, James E. Miller.
1891. Edwin Gilbert, William H. Hill.
1893.
William F. Mandeville, Henry S. Osborn. ,
1897. Henry S. Osborn, Nathan Perry.
1899. . Albert A. Gorham, John Todd.
1901. William H. Hill, Aaron H. Davis.
I903. John Todd, Aaron H. Davis.
1905. William E. Hazen, William H. Hill.
Redding was made a Probate District in 1839. The successive Judges of Probate have been : Thomas B. Fanton, Jonathan R. Sanford, Thaddeus M. Abbott, Lemuel Sanford, Edward P. Shaw, and John Nick- erson, the present incumbent.
INDEX.
PAGE
Abbott, Elijah
.216
Frank F. .84, 171, 186
Thaddeus M. 29, 92, 125, 17I
Adams, Aaron .215
Abigail
.2II
Abraham.
64, 194, 213, 216
Ani
.2II
Deborah
.213, 220
Eli
.218
Elizabeth
193
Ellen
210
Henry
49
Hezekiah
64,
210
Israel
.214
James
77,
106
Joseph
213
Molle
.210
Nathan
14, 217
Salle
.210
Sarah .195, 215
Stephen
.64, 208
Rev. Wm. H.
II6
Agnew, Gen.
29, 3I
145
Sylvester
146
Thomas
80
Allen, Widow. 221
Ambler, Rev. John L.
I22
Samuel S.
S. S.
II7
49
Amery, Rev. A. J.
II6
Ammerman, Rev. O. V.
II3
Andrews, Eunice.
.196
Francis
64, 198
Jonathan
64
Molle
195
Seth
64,
109
Ebenezer
22
Sarah
215
Stephen
197
Angevine, Anthony
195
John
I2
Robert
I2
Armstrong, Rev. Wm. P. II6
Arnold, Gen. B 30, 32
Asbury, Bishop. 109
Aston, Rev. Henry.
II4
Atwill, Rev. William
106
Bailey, Thomas
14
Baker, Thankful. 206
Baldwin, Abraham.
55
Rev. Burr 91
Ruth
.149
Banks, Edward
1.44
George
143
Jesse
108, IIO, 126, 196, 21I
Hint.
210
Joanna
.195, 212, 220
Joseph
88, 92, 96
Mabel
.218, 22I
Mary
.215
Philena
198
Sarah
196
196
Seth
.77,
I43
Bangs, Nathan Rev.
64
Barlow, Aaron Col .. . 55, 64, 125, 149, 197 Bette .217
Daniel
219:
Elnathan
. 214, 215, 22I
Ephraim
34
Gershom
33
Joel
55, 64, 89, 146, 158
Nathaniel
25, 77
Ruhamah
. 195
Samuel
64, 216
218
Thomas
147
Barnes, Rev. S. II6
Barnett, A. G.
.183
Barr, James T.
.217
Bartlett, Abigail.
Anne
.207
Rev. Charles IIS
Daniel C.
David
150
Eunice
208
Flora
218
Rev. Jonathan. .. 37, 90, 107, 124, 210 Lucretia
2II Rev. Nathaniel. . 9, 37, 42, 45, 54, 88, 90, 134, 146, 194. Russell .
25, 65, 205
Bartram, Aaron
I26
Anne .
214, 217
Charity
.207
Daniel
David
65, 108, 197
195, 220
David S. 143, 145
Eli
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.