Person:Richard Sandford (2)

There is no evidence to support a relationship to Richard and Maud (Mainwaring) Sandford of Shropshire (Ancestral File notwithstanding).

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Sanford, Carlton E. Thomas Sanford, the Emigrant to New England: Ancestry, Life, and Descendants, 1632-4: Sketches of Four Other Pioneer Sanfords and Some of Their Descendants in Appendix, with Many Illustrations. (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Co., Printers, 1911)
   1:24-25.

   '... Richard Sanford, to whom we have referred as being the great-grandfather of the emigrant Thomas Sanford, lived in the parish of Stanstead Mountfitchet, in Essex, ... Here, in this border town, he died in the year 1591, as is shown by this now-extant record of burial in the register of the old parish church of Stanstead Mountfitchet:
   "Burialls 1591. Olde Samford buryed 16 of Novem." '

2.   Sanford, Carlton E. Thomas Sanford, the Emigrant to New England: Ancestry, Life, and Descendants, 1632-4: Sketches of Four Other Pioneer Sanfords and Some of Their Descendants in Appendix, with Many Illustrations. (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Co., Printers, 1911)
   1:18.

   'We shall show beyond the possibility of a doubt, that our emigrant ancestor, Thomas Sanford, was not of that Shropshire family.'

3. ↑ Sanford, Carlton E. Thomas Sanford, the Emigrant to New England: Ancestry, Life, and Descendants, 1632-4: Sketches of Four Other Pioneer Sanfords and Some of Their Descendants in Appendix, with Many Illustrations. (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Co., Printers, 1911)
   1:43.

   He was taxed on land in Stansted Mounfitchet in 1566.

4. ↑ Birth year estimated based on estimated birth year of his son Thomas.