This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sanford, Lewes, Warner, Burrows, Purchase, Whepley, Wakelee, Stevens, Jerome, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4FFBAIB/1036.4 Message Board Post: This is what I have on file but as Dave Dickman says there is controvery on the ancestors of David Ancestry Chart of David Sanford ------------------------------- +--+ 5-Thomas Sanford,b.1556,d.6 Apr 1597 +--+ 4-Ezekiel Sanford,b.20 Feb 1585,d.1683 | +--+ 5-Mary Mellett Lewes,b.1560-1563,d.19 Aug 1620 +--+ 3-Ezekiel Sanford II,b.26 Dec 1612,d.5 Sep 1678 | | +--+ 5-John A Warner,b.1563,d.16 Jul 1614 | +--+ 4-Rose Warner,b.1583,d.??? | +--+ 5-Mary Purchase,b.1556-1568,d.12 May 1627 +--+ 2-Thomas Sanford,b.2 May 1675,d.20 May 1757 | | +--- 4-Henry Whelpley,b.Abt 1607,d.1662 | +--+ 3-Rebecca Whelpley,b.Abt 1647,d.1697 | +--- 4-Mary,b.Abt 1622,d.??? --+ 1-David Sanford,b.Dec 1711,d.1767 | +--- 3-James Stevens,d.??? +--+ 2-Hannah Middlebrook Stevens,b.8 Apr 1679,d.18 May 1755 +--- 3-Mary Wakelee,d.??? "David Sanford bap. Feb.24, 1711-12, Fairfield, Ct.; m. Jan.29, 1736 Patience Burrows in Stratfield, Ct., and paid the minister 10s. He was of Wallingford, Ct., (Meridan), where they joined the church, Dec. 31 1737. Was mentioned in his father's will. On Mar.27, 1738-9, David amd his wife, Patience, of Wallingford, quit claimed all their rights in the Burrows farm in Wallingford "near the stone house" to Timothy Jerome. There is an abundance of evidence that David, wife and fanily emigrated to Warwick, N.Y., and in about 1764. In fact, it is well known that they did. The sons, David, John, and Ezra appear in the U.S. Census of Warwick, taken in 1790. The descendants of the son Ezra, now residing in Warwick, have a memorandum that this David was a son of Samuel, who was a son of Samuel, of Thomas, the pioneer, but they can furnish no proof of the line, nor are they certain of it. James A. Kibble, a most reliable gennealogist, doubted from the first this line of descent, and, after searching diligently for the purpose at Fairfield, Wallingfrod, Stratford, &c, became not only satisfied but convinced that this David was really and in fact a son of Thomas, who was a sone of Ezekiel of Thomas, the pioneer. Several minor incidents as well confirm this lineage." -from Thomas Sanford, by Carlton B. Sanford