Jeffrey Hansford

"The Great Migration, 1634-1635," pp. 205-7, by Robert Charles Anderson:
"EGLIN HANFORD
ORIGIN: Alverdiscott, Devonshire.
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Defence (on 10 April 1635, "Eglin Hanford," aged 46, and "2 daughters, Margaret Hanford," aged 16, and "Eliz[abeth] Hanford," aged 14, along with "Rodolphus Elmes," aged 15, and "Tho[mas] Stanley," aged 16, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the Defence [Hotten 56]).
FIRST RESIDENCE: Scituate.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Egglin Hanford, Mr. Hatherley's sister," was admitted to Scituate church on 21 November 1635 [NEHGR 9:280].
ESTATE: On 24 February 1640[/1?], "Tymothy Hatherley of Scituate" deeded to "Egline Hanford of Scituate aforesaid five acres of land which land lyeth in Scituate on the north side of the Stony Brook the third lot from the brook"; annotated "This land was given to the said Egline Hanford the xxvijth day of September in the year Anno Domini 1634" (the year before her arrival) [PCR 12:71].
BIRTH: Baptized Winkleigh, Devonshire, 8 June 1586, daughter of Robert and Ellinor (_____) Hatherly [M&JCH 18:74] (aged 46 on 10 April 1635 [Hotten 56]).
DEATH: After 17 January 1653[/4?] (when named in the will of her third husband).
MARRIAGE:
(1) By about 1609 _____Downe.
(2) Fremington, Devonshire, 31 March 1611 Jeffrey Hanford, who was buried at Alverdiscott, Devonshire, on 12 May 1626 [Stevens-Miller Anc 485].
(3) Scituate 15 December 1637 Richard SILLIS {1637, Scituate} [NEHGR 9:286].
CHILDREN:
With second husband:
i. SUSANNA HANFORD, b. say 1615; m. (1) by about 1641 JOHN WHISTON {1632, Scituate} [GMB 3:1974-76]; m. (2) by 1665 William Brookes [GMB 3:1975, citing PCR 4:114].
ii. LETTICE HANFORD, bp. Alverdiscott, Devonshire, 8 June 1617 [TAG 17:50; M&JCH 18:74; Stevens-Miller Anc 486]; m. (1) Scituate 8 April 1635 EDWARD FOSTER {1632, Scituate} [GMB 1:690-92]; m. (2) by about 1650 EDWARD JENKINS {1641, Scituate} [Stevens-Miller Anc 486].
iii. MARGARET HANFORD, b. about 1619 (aged 16 on 10 April 1635 [Hotten 56]); m. Scituate 26 September 1636 ISAAC ROBINSON {1631, Plymouth} [NEHGR 9:286 (marriage contract dated 27 June 1636); GMB 3:1590-94].
iv. ELIZABETH HANFORD, b. about 1621 (aged 14 on 10 April 1635 [Hotten 56]); m. by about 1648 NICHOLAS WADE {1638, Scituate} (eldest known child b. about 1648 [Stevens-Miller Anc 487]).
v. Thomas HANFORD, b. say 1623; m. (1) by an unknown date Hannah Newberry, daughter of Thomas NEWBERRY {1634, Dorchester} [Stevens-Miller Anc 487 (evidence not provided)]; m. (2) by 1662 Mary (Miles) Ince, daughter of Richard Miles and widow of Jonathan Ince [Stevens-Miller Anc 487].
ASSOCIATIONS: Eglin (Hatherly) (Downe) (Hanford) Sillis was sister of TIMOTHY HATHERLY {1623, Plymouth} [GMB 2:876-8 1]. In his will of 20 December 1664, Timothy Hatherly made bequests to "Edward Jenkens his wife and children," to "Nicholas Wade his wife and children," to "Susarina the wife of Will[i]am Brookes and her children," to "Timothy Foster ... and to Elizabeth Foster," to "Mr. Thomas Hanford," and to "Fear Robinson now the wife of Samuell Baker ... and to the other three children of Isacke Robinson, John[,] Isacke and Mercy" [GMB 2:879, citing MD 16:158-60, citing PCPR 2:2:34]. He does not state his relationship with these legatees, but they are grouped together, ahead of his stepchildren and other legatees.
COMMENTS: Lettice Hanford clearly preceded her mother and younger sisters to New England, as she was married in Scituate on 8 April 1635, and her sister Susanna may also have come before 1635. How much before 1635 they arrived is not known.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1940 Mary Lovering Holman published "Hanford Items from English Records" [TAG 17:49-50], and in 1948 she published an account of Eglin Hanford and her family [Stevens-Miller Anc 485-89]."