Philip Sanford

Philip Sanford

Birth: Sep 9 1743 - Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, British colony

Death: Jan 8 1803 - Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, (thrown from a horse, then died)

Father: Peleg Sanford

Mother: Anna Dennis

Siblings: Thomas Sanford, Isaac Sanford, Peleg Sanford, Samuel Sanford

Married: 1769

Wife: Ruth Gifford b. circa 1750

Children:

• Stephen Sanford, b. July 1770, Westport, Bristol Cty, Mass; m. Nov 25, 1798, Betsey Tillson
• Thomas A. Sanford, b. Jan 15, 1772, Westport, Bristol Cty, Mass; d. Jan 2, 1847, Fall River, Mass; m. Oct 12, 1797, Westport, Mass, Charity Davis Capron.
• David Sanford, b. Sept 16, 1773, Westport, Bristol Cty, Mass; m. Jan 8,1789, Dartmouth, Bristol, Mass, Catherine Ricketson
• Peleg Sanford, b. Nov 28, 1778, Westport, Bristol Cty, Mass; m. Oct 19, 1804, Elizabeth Cornell.
• Anne Brownell (born Sanford), b. Oct 19, 1780, Westport, Bristol Cty, Mass; m. May 22,1801, Westport, Mass, William Brownell.
• Abraham Sanford, b. Jan 17, 1783, Westport, Bristol Cty, Mass.
• Ruth Cook (born Sanford) b. Oct 27, 1784, Westport, Bristol Cty, Mass; d. Dec 7, 1848; m. 1804, David Cook
• Rhoda Gifford (born Sanford), b. Dec 3, 1775, Westport, Bristol, Mass., wife of Thurston Gifford
• Philip Sanford, [Rev], b. April 30, 1787, Westport, Mass; d. April 17, 1869, Westport, Mass; m. 1) Jan 11, 1810, Phebe Castino; m. 2) Feb 12, 1855, Cynthia Gifford

Married: 1798

Wife: Catherine Tripp, b. Aug 25, 1772, East Greenwich, Rhode Island; d. Jan 8, 1803; dau. of Samuel Tripp

Children:

• Samuel Tripp Sanford, b. June 27, 1799, Westport, Massachusetts; He sailed on the whaler "Phenix"; and kept a diary while on board. It is now in the Providence Public Library.
• Squire Sanford, b. May 26, 1801, Westport, Bristol Co, Mass; d. April 13, 1870, New Bedford, Bristol Coy, Mass. He was captain of whaling ships "Phenix", and "John".
• Ray Greene Sanford, b. April 30, 1803, Westport, Massachusetts; d. Oct 30, 1841, at sea.

Sources:

MyHeritage Family Trees - Winnifred Sanford Family Tree in Samuel Silver Research, managed by Samuel Silver

Descendants of John Tripp - http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/e/e/Troy-D-Reed-AR/GENE14-0146.html

"Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHH6-99J

"Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1