Robert Sanford
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Abel Phelps ← Joseph Phelps ← Mary Collier ← Elizabeth Sanford ← Robert Sanford
In brief
Born about 1615 in England. About 1634: Arrived in America. He died about 1676 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Family
Children
- Zacahriah Sanfordb. Abt. 1644m. Sarah Willettd. 1714, in Hartford, Connecticut
- Elizabeth Sanford · in this lineb. February 19, 1645/46, in Hartford, Connecticutm. Joseph Collier, 1667d. February 6, 1695/96
- Ezekiel Sanfordb. March 13, 1648, in Hartford, Connecticutm. Hannah Mitchell around 1679d. February 1716, in Bridgehampton, Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
- Mary Sanfordb. Abt. 1650m. John Campd. Abt. 1726
- Sarah Sanfordb. c. 1652m. William Paine in 1678
- Robert Sanfordb. Abt. 1656m. Mary Pratt around 1686d. June 19, 1728, in Hartford, Connecticut
- Hannah Sanfordm. John Pratt
- Abigail Sanford
Siblings
- Joanna ____m. Richard Westcottm. Nathaniel Baldwinm. Thomas Skidmore
Life story
A Hartford Leather Sealer
Robert Sanford was baptized November 1, 1615, in Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex, England, and emigrated to America around 1634, settling in Hartford, Connecticut, where he served for decades in a variety of civic inspection posts — chimney inspector, fence viewer, and repeatedly as leather sealer, certifying the quality of tanned hides sold in the town. He held property in both Hartford and Windsor and was granted eighty acres of undivided land by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1672. In his undated will, Robert left his wife the estate for her lifetime, after which his house and orchard were to go to his son Zachariah and his Hartford home to his son Robert. He died around 1676; his estate was appraised at 414 pounds.
Sources (3)
- John F. Camp and N. Grier Parke, The Ancestry and Descendants of Frederick Tracy Camp & his wife Marion Fee (Vancouver, Washington: John F. Camp Jr., 1961); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ancestrydescenda00camp : accessed 21 July 2026).
- Grover Merle Sanford, The Sandford/Sanford Families of Long Island (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., 1975); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/sandfordsanfordf00sanf : accessed 21 July 2026).
- Lucien C. Warner and Josephine Genung Nichols, The Descendants of Andrew Warner (New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1919); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/descendantsofand00warn : accessed 21 July 2026).