William Sanford

Bio Bits

• Became a Freeman in May 1706
• When the first school house was built in 1716/1717 it was on land presented to the town by William. He may have been a Schoolmaster?
• He served as Town Clerk of Portsmouth from 1717-1751 and was a Justice of the Peace from 1718-1750.
• William was a member of Society of Freinds (Quakers). May 1751 he and his wife Hope Moved to Dartmouth Massachusetts where his son William had been living for 20 Years.

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Name: William Sanford
Birth: 1679
Source: General Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941. (the Greatest Single Source of Material For Gen. Data For the N.e. Area and For the Period 1600-1800), Vol. 153; p. 74.

Book

• Chute, William Edward. (1894). A Genealogy and History of the Hute [i.e., Chute] Family in America: with Some Account of the Family. Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Available at: Archive.org and Ancestry.com.
  • Name: William Sanford
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 21 May 1676
  • Father: Samuel Sanford - Mother: Sarah Woodell
  • Marriage Date: 1699
  • Spouse: Hope Sisson

Book

• Andrews Moriarty, G. 1989. “President John Sanford of Portsmouth, R. I., and His Family.” In Genealogies of Rhode Island Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, edited by Gary Boyd Roberts, 130–36. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Genealogical Publishing Company. Available at: Ancestry.com:—
  
  • 3. Samuel² Sanford (Pres. John¹), of Portsmouth, born 14 July 1635, died 18 March 1712/13 (Austin, op. cit.).
    
    • He married first, in October 1662, Sarah Wodell, born in October 1644, died 15 Dec. 1680 (Austin, op. cit.), daughter of William and Mary Wodell of Portsmouth; and—
      
    • secondly, 13 April 1686, Susanna Spatchurst, died 13 Nov. 1723 (Arnold’s Vital Records, vol. 4, pp. 36, 89), daughter of William and Elizabeth Spatchurst of Bermuda.
      
  • He was a breeder of horses and sheep for the Barbados market (cf. Sanford Papers, op. cit.), but took little part in public affairs.
    
  • On 25 Feb. 1653/4 he witnessed a Portsmouth deed (Portsmouth Town Records, p. 311) and on 20 Nov. 1653 he receipted for his legacy under his father's will (ib., p.324).
    
  • On 3 March 1656/7 he was received as an inhabitant of Portsmouth (ib., p. 75) and on 18 May 1658 he was made a Freeman of the Colony (Austin, op. cit.).
    
  • On 3 June 1661 he was on a Coroner's inquest at Portsmouth (Portsmouth Town Records, p. 107).
    
  • On 27 April 1670 and on 29 April 1673 he was on a petit jury (ib., pp. 152, 175) and was on a Grand Jury on 14 April 1677 (ib., p. 192).
    
  • On 16 Jan. 1667 his ear mark was entered (ib., p. 275).
    
  • His will, dated 30 April 1709, was proved 13 April 1713. The executrix was his wife Susanna.
    
  • He bequeathed to his daughter Elizabeth Allen, his son John, and his daughter Mary Arnold. He gave 1/ each to his sons William and Samuel “if he be living", and left legacies to his sons Restcome, Peleg, Elisha, Endcome, Esbon, Francis, Joseph, Benjamin and Joshua Sanford and to his daughter Elizabeth (Portsmouth Town Council vol. 2, p. 211; cf. Austin, op. cit., p. 171).
    
    • Children by first wife:…
      
      • v. William, of Portsmouth, b. 21 May 1676; m. 26 Jan. 1699/1700 Hope Sisson, daughter of George Sisson (Arnold, op. cit., vol. iv, p. 36).
        
      • His ear mark was recorded at Portsmouth 1:7 mo.:1703 (Portsmouth Town Records, p, 295).
        
      • He was made Freeman in May 1706 (Rhode Island Colony Records, vol. iii, p. 555), and was Town Clerk of Portsmouth 1717—1751 (Portsmouth Town Records, ib. passim).
        
        • Children:
          
        • 1. Richard⁴ b. 17 March 1700/1.
          
        • 2. Sarah, 6. 12:8 mo.: 1702.
          
        • 3. Mary, b. 16:11:1703.
          
        • 4. Ruth, b. 27 April 1706.
          
        • 5. Elizabeth, b. 2 Aug. 1707.
          
        • 6. William, b. 4 Aug. 1709.
          
        • 7. George, b. 28 Nov. 1711.
          
        • 8. Joseph, b. 2 Sept. 1716.
          
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Source

• Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 – Probates, Vol 16-17, 1758-1762 Available at: Ancestry.com. Vital Data from Original Record posted in Sources.
  • Name: William Sanford
  • Residence Date: Abt 1752
  • Residence Place: Dark Mouth, Bristol, Massachusetts [Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts]
  • Will Date: 11 Feb 1752
  • Probate Date: 4 Nov 1760; Probate Place: Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  • Inferred Death: 1760; Inferred Place: Massachusetts, USA
    • Others Listed – Relationship
    • Sarah Smith – Daughter
    • Elizabeth Smith – Daughter
    • Mary Sanford – Daughter
    • Mary Shirmon – Granddaughter
    • Joseph Sanford – Son
    • Richard Sanford – Son
    • William Sanford – Son