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About James Sandilands
JAMES SANDILANDS
SANDILANDS
JAMES WILLIAM SANDILANDS/ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM FR98 (FR98) M
28/02/1647 694/ 10 93 Mid Calder
Biography
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James Sandilands was born in Scotland.
James Sandilands was a Pennsylvanian.
James Sandiland (also spelled Sandeland, then changed to Sandlin) was born in 1646 in Hilderston, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. He was Christened on Feb 28,1647 in Mid Calder, Midlothian, Scotland. He immigrated to the American Colonies by 1664 as he married Annika “Anna” Jergensen Kyn in Upland, Delaware, British Colonial America.
He was a prosperous merchant and notably one of the few non-Swedes living in the New Swedish settlement along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania in the 1660s.
Their seven children are:
- James (1664-1706)
- Eleanor (abt.1669-)
- Catherine (1671-1720). m. Jasper Yeates (1670-1720)
- Christian (1672-1694)
- Mary (abt.1674-) m. Maurice Trent (-1697), Robert French (-1713), and Robert Gordon.
- Jonas (1678-1730)
- Lydia (1680-1694)
He is buried 11 April 1692 at St Paul's Episcopal church, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. His widow, Anna, remarried to Peter Baynton (-abt.1710) (an English immigrant) and they had a daughter, Rebecca (Baynton) Weston (abt.1693-). Anna was buried with James after her death however, and "An elaborate slab of gray sandstone was located opposite the pulpit" to mark their last resting place. [1]
The Swedish Colonial Society research information: by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig
Anna Keen was married about 1668 to James Sandelands, an English soldier of Scotch birth who obtained a 200-acre patent on Upland Creek on 4 Aug. 1668 and his discharge from the army in 1669. He died in Chester, 12 April 1692, survived by his wife, two married daughters (Eleanor, wife of George Foreman, and Catharine, wife of Jasper Yeates) and five minor children: Christian, Mary, James, Jonas and Lydia. Anna then married Peter Baynton (English) in 1692 and had an additional child, Rebecca, born c. 1693/4. Her second husband deserted her and returned to England. Anna was buried 5 Oct. 1704 at St. Paul’s Church in Chester, beside her first husband.
Genealogy
Pedigree Published by MyHeritage
James Sandilands was born on month day 1646, at birth place, to William of Hilderstoun Linlithgowshire. Sandilands and Elizabeth Sandilands (born Murray). William was born in 1600, in Caldour Castle, Mid Calder, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. Elizabeth was born in 1615, in Hilderstoun, Scotland. James had 2 sisters: Elizabeth Sandilands and one other sibling. James married Anna Annika Sandilands (born Keen Kyn) at marriage place, Delaware. Anna was born in 1639, in Oxford, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They had 7 children: James Sandilands, Eleanor Foreman (born Sandelands) and 5 other children. James passed away on month day 1692, at age 46 at death place, Pennsylvania. MyHeritage
“ Anna Jurgensen Kyn/Kühn/Keen was married about 1668 to James Sandilands, an English soldier of Scotch birth who obtained a 200-acre patent on Upland Creek on 4 Aug. 1668 and his discharge from the army in 1669. He died in Chester, 12 April 1692, survived by his wife, two married daughters (Eleanor, wife of George Foreman, and Catharine, wife of Jasper Yeates) and five minor children: Christian, Mary, James, Jonas and Lydia. Anna then married Peter Baynton (English) in 1692 and had an additional child, Rebecca, born c. 1693/4. Her second husband deserted her and returned to England. Anna was buried 5 Oct. 1704 at St. Paul's Church in Chester, beside her first husband.”….excerpted …. *Addendum: Of note, several sources record him as having died in Pennsylvania so there is a question as to whether he “returned to England”….” Peter Baynton, born in Bedminister, nr. Bristol, England, and died in Pennsylvania”….. The Descendants of Joran Kyn, by Gregory B. Keen, published 1913, p. 17-21
Further, the baptismal record of their son James Sandilands indicates his mother’s name as “Elizabeth Cunningham”:
““ James Sandilands, Feb 28,1647. [Christening Record; Mid Calder, Midlothian Scotland; Father: William Sandilands, Mother: Elizabeth Cunningham]].
Funeral Headstone for James Sandilands, merchant in colonial Chester, Pennsylvania. St. Paul's Church, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA on 31 Dec 1883.
Source: Henry Graham Ashmead - History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania < link >
References
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCP8-CLQ
- For more info: http://www.moviedesign.com/plauche/D0001/I252.html
- WikiTree contributors, "James Sandilands (1646-1692)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sandilands-33 : accessed 18 February 2024).
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James Sandilands's Timeline
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February 28, 1647
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Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland
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February 28, 1647
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1664
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Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States
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1669
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Upland, New Sweden
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January 26, 1671
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Upland, New Sweden
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1672
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Upland, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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1678
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Upland, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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1680
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Upland, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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1682
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Upland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States
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