Andrew Sanford, Sr.

Andrew Sanford, Sr BIRTH 11 Nov 1617 Stansted Mountfitchet, Uttlesford District, Essex, England DEATH 6 Sep 1684 (aged 66) Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA BURIAL Non-Cemetery Burial MEMORIAL ID 155743473

grave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=155743473

Andrew Sanford was born 1 November 1617 in Stanstead, Essex, England and died September 1684 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut.

Parents: Ezekiel Sanford (1586 - ~1683) and Rose Warner (1588 - )

Married

1. abt 1640 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut to Mary (b. after 1620 - d. aft. 13 June 1662). The name of her parents are not known. She was convicted for witchcraft. 5 children.
2. after 13 June 1662 to Hester Wakefield (b. bef. 1635-). 7 children.

Indicated for Witchcraft

He settled in Hartford, CT., 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, CT. in 1667, and married a second time. He had five children by his first wife and seven by his second wife.

Links

• http://www.bementfamily.com/webged/bement.wbg/wga48.html

Sources

• History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus, c., 1930, pp. 516-517