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Mary Sanford (Gorton)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Gorton, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: January 07, 1731 (87)
East Greenwich, Kings County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Gov. Samuel Gorton, 5th President of Providence and Warwick and Mary Gorton
Wife of Peter Greene and Captain John Sanford
Mother of Mary Thomas; Eliphal Eliphalet Akin; John Sanford and Samuel Sanford
Sister of Samuel Gorton, II; John Gorton; Mahershallalhashbaz Coles; Elizabeth Crandall; Elnathan Gorton and 6 others

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About Mary Sanford

She was the widow of Peter Greene

Had no children with her first husband Peter Greene.



Wife of Peter Greene — married about 1657 [location unknown]

Wife of John Sanford — married 17 Apr 1663 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

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Mary (Gorton) Sanford (abt. 1643 - 1688)

Mary Sanford formerly Gorton aka Gree

Born about 13 Oct 1643 in Gorton, Lancashire, England

Daughter of Samuel Gorton Sr. and Mary (Maplet) Gorton

Sister of Samuel Gorton, John Gorton, Mahershalalhashbaz (Gorton) Coles, Sarah (Gorton) Mace, Elnathan Gorton, Anna (Gorton) Warner, Susannah (Gorton) Barton, Elizabeth (Gorton) Crandall and Benjamin Gorton

Wife of Peter Greene — married about 1657 [location unknown]

Wife of John Sanford — married 17 Apr 1663 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Mother of Mary (Sanford) Thomas, Eliphal (Sanford) Akin, John Sanford and Samuel Sanford

Died 1688 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island

Gorton-43 created 7 Feb 2011 | Last modified 30 Jun 2020

Biography

Had no children with her first husband Peter Greene.

Samuel Gorton http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=1050f0ee-8433-40b7-a0f...
From The Great Migration on John Sanford http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=d408fb7c-6ea9-4de2-99c...
Name

Mary Gorton[1][2][3]
Marriage

27 APR 1663 to John Sanford[4]
Death

Date: 1688[5]
1687/1688 East Greenwich, Washington, Rhode Island
Burial

1731 Rhode Island
Sources

Gorton, Adelos. The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton, (Philadelphia. George S. Ferguson Co. 1907)
S944: Genealogy of one branch of the Peckham family of Newport and Westerly, R.I, Page 68
Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1903) Page 56, 62, 63
Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence, R.I., Narrangansett Historical Pub. Co., 1893) Vol. 4 Newport County.
Page 25: "1-112 Greene, Mary (widow), and John Sanford, April 17, 1663"
Page 36: "1-112 Sanford, John, of John, dec., and Mary Greene, widow of John, 2d son of John, of warwick, dec., and 2d dau. of Samuel Gorton, April 17, 1663"
Ancestral File Number: 9WCH-TN
Hanaford, Mary Elisabeth Neal. Family Records of Branches of the Hanaford, Thompson, Huckins, ... and Allied Families (Rockford, Ill., 1915) Page 266
Footnotes

↑ Clarke: Page 56
↑ Clarke: Page 62
↑ #S944: Page 68
↑ Clarke: Page 62
↑ Clarke: Page 63

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Mary Sanford's Timeline

1643
October 13, 1643
Gorton, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
1664
March 30, 1664
Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
1666
February 20, 1666
Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, British Colonial America
1672
June 18, 1672
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
1677
October 5, 1677
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
1731
January 7, 1731
Age 87
East Greenwich, Kings County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Colonial America
1916
February 25, 1916
Age 87
March 1, 1916
Age 87