Robert Stanford, Sr.

Robert Stanford

• aka Sanford
• Birth: about 1644 in Duxbury, Massachusetts [uncertain]
• Death: about 15 May 1721 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts [uncertain]
• Parents: unknown
• Husband of Mary (Howland) Stanford — married 22 Jan 1679 in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony
• Husband of Rebecca (Bartlett) Sampson — married 1691 (to 15 May 1721) [location unknown]

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanford-149. Profile last modified 11 Jan 2020 | Created 12 Dec 2011

Robert Standford/Sanford married first Mary (Howland) Williamson (widow of Timothy) January 22, 1679 at Marshfield, Massachusetts.[1][2][3]

Robert married second Rebecca (Bartlett) Bradford (widow of William) after 1689 and before December 13, 1709.[4]

Robert Stanford first appears in Plymouth Colony in June 1667. He was of Scituate in 1672 and was still there in March 1678/9 when Lydia, wife of Isacke Hanmore, accused him ‘to be the father of the child lately born of her body.’ He was ordered to pay support. Robert was of Marshfield by 6 Jul 1680.

Robert died between between 15 May 1721 and 7 Mar 1721/2 according to this source, although neither the place nor a primary source citation are shown.[5]

Children of Rebecca Bartlett and Robert Stanford, born at Plymouth, were:

1. Robert Stanford, born about 1693. Married Fear Wadsworth.
2. Rebecca Stanford, born about 1695. Married Jonathan Eames.
3. Lydia Stanford, born about 1697. Married Andrew Alden.

Notes

From Wakefield: Rebecka Stanford m. Plymouth 24 Nov. 1713 Jonathan Ames (or Eames) (MD 14:37) and Lydia Stanford m. Duxbury 4 Feb.1713/4 Andrew Alden. If Robert Stanford's first wife Mary Howland was 18 when she married Timothy Williamson, she would have been 45 when she married Robert Stanford and probably too old to have children. Also the name Rebecca suggests that she was named for Rebecca. It is possible Lydia is the child he had by Lydia Hanmore, but Lydia (Stanford) Alden's last child was born 21 Oct. 1731, strongly suggesting she was too old to have been that child. No other Stanford family appears in this area at this time.

Sources

1. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 2, page 1431. < AmericanAncestors >
2. Howland, Franklyn A brief genealogical and biographical history of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland and their descendants, published 1885. Reference page 38. Note, his name is listed as Robert Sanford in this document. < Archive.Org >
3. Starr, Frank Farnsworth, The Williamson and Cobb families : in the lines of Caleb and Mary (Cobb) Williamson of Barnstable, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., published 1896. Hartford, Conn. Reference page 11.
4. Bowman, George Ernest "Bradford Notes" Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) Reference Volume 17 (1915), page 254. < AmericanAncestors >
5. Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H, page 209 (access by subscription)
6. Pane-Joyce Genealogy Robert Stanford https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr05/rr05_141.html#P9933 cites
   1. 31. Susan E. Roser, Mayflower Increasings, Genealogical Publ, Baltimore, 2nd ed. 1995.
7. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCVT-W3J shows Robert Stanford as son of Thomas Stanford and Sarah Jordan of Ipswich MA & with a burial 1709 in Gloucester. Locations do not match.
8. Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850 < AncestrySharing > Robert Standford/Stanford of Plymouth MA to Hugh Cole Jr. of Swanzey, < Bristol County Deeds >. … 30 August 1697. Robert Standford, yeoman, & wf. Rebecca, for L7 sold to Hugh Cole Jr., yeoman …