Richard Cowgill Sands

Richard Sands (aka Sandys) is the son of Stephen Sands and Jane (Cowgill) Sands. On March 8, 1712, in Mount Holly, Brulington County, New Jersey, Richard married Mary Grubb [1]

Per Beatrice Cowgill research, Richard Sands, b 1687, d 1758, m 3 Oct 1712, at Burlington MH, Mary Grubb, Jr. His will dated 7 Jan 1758, Bucks Co., PA wills 2:334, named his wife, Mary, his daughter, Jane, wife of Thomas Bains and his grandchildren, Mary Jones, Richard Sands, Jessie Bains, Phebe Bains, Elizabeth Bains, Stephen Bains, and children of daughter Elizabeth Roberts.

According to his Find A Grave memorial, Richard is buried in the Middletown Friends (Quaker) Cemetery, in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania [2]

will

SANDS, Richard of Bensalem Twp.
January 7, 1758. Codicil February 27, 1758. Proved June 5, 1758.
Wife Mary. Daus. Jane, wife of Thomas Bains, and Elizabeth, wife of Ellis Roberts. Grandchildren, Mary Jones, Richard Sands. Jesse, Phebe, and Elizabeth Baines, children of dau. Elizabeth Roberts, Stephen Bains son of dau. Jane, gd. dau. Mary Jones, 11 acres in Tenure of Peter Jones. Jos. Richardson and Wm. Rodman, exrs. Wit: Wm. Ridge, Wm. Dunkan, and John Driedrick.

Abstracts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Wills, 1685-1785, Book 2, Page 334

Sources

↑ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SANDS/2004-04/1083195385 ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=sands&GSiman=... U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Beatrice Eleanora Cowgill, Cowgill History (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press Inc., 1986), 3.