Henry Sands, of Boston & Rowley

Henry Sands, of Boston & Rowley

• b abt 1618 England
• d 1651 Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

from Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs ..., Volume 4  edited by William Richard Cutter. Page 1959. Middlesex County.

The surname Sands is of ancient SANDS English origin, and is spelled also Sandes and Sandys. The branch of the family in London and county Hants has borne since the reign of Henry VIII this coatof-arms: Argent a cross raguly and trunked or. Other branches of the family in Wilberton, Isle of Ely, South Pertherton, in county Somerset, Petersham in county Surrey, and in Westmoreland all have the following arms: Or a feese indented (another dancettee) between three crosses crosslet fitchee gules. Crest: A griffin sergeant per fesse or and gules.

Two pioneers of this family came to New England before 1650. James Sands, born at Reading, Berkshire, England, 1622, settled in Taunton, Massachusetts, as early as 1658, and died in Block Island, where he finally located, March 13, 1695; married in England, Sarah Walker; ...

(I) Henry Sands, the other immigrant, was an early settler at Boston. He was dismissed to the gathering of a church at Rowley, November 24, 1639, and was admitted a freeman October 6, 1640. He had a two-acre . house lot in Rowley in 1643. He returned to Boston as early as 1646. He was a shipowner and the records show that he assigned a quarter interest of the ship "Welcome," January 3, 1648-49. He died in December, 1651; his wife Sybil survived him.

Children:

• i. Deliverance, born 1638, baptized January 6, 1638-39, at Boston.
• 2. Samuel, born at Rowley, June 20, 1640.
• 3. Mercy, born at Rowley, March 24, 1642.
• 4. Deliverance, born August, 1644, at Rowley.
• 5. John, mentioned below.

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Ancestors of Jarathamell Bryant

Generation No. 4

• 12. Henry Sands, son of Henry Sandys and Elizabeth Goffe. He married Sybil Unknown.
• 13. Sybil, born Unknown; died Unknown.

Children of Henry Sands and Sybil are:

• 6 i. John Sands, born Unknown; died Unknown; married Patience Gibbons Unknown.
• ii. Deliverance Sands, born Unknown; died Unknown.
• iii. Mercy Sands, born Unknown; died Unknown.
• iv. Samuel Sands, born Unknown; died Unknown.
• v. Deliverance Sands, born Unknown; died Unknown.

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There is nothing to indicate a parent of Henry Sandys. His children were born in the early 1600s, not the 1618 (estimated?) date ascribed. Disconnected August 2015

• The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents by Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918 Published 1900. Page 400.