Mary Sanford

From "The Autobiography of John Sanford Barnes" Chapter 1

My grandfather, the father of my mother, Francis Alexander Sanford - was born and lived in Virginia, Westmoreland County, where he owned a plantation and numerous slaves. Here my mother, Charlotte Adams Sanford was born, the second of a numerous family of children - all born upon the Virginia plantation. She was named for her mother, whose maiden name was Charlotte Adams, a descendant of an Adams who was related to the Adams family of New England.

The eldest of these children was John Francis Adams Sanford for whom I was named, and who was the nominal defendant in the famous Dred Scott case - of him I shall speak hereafter - as he was perhaps the only one of my forebears who ever reached a place of distinction in the history of the country.