This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4FFBAIB/1043.1 Message Board Post: Suzi: Your Thomas Sanford is a Junior. His father was Thomas Sanford but was not, as Carlton Sanford speculated, the Thomas Sanford Jr. son of Thomas and Amy, Hartford, CT. You will find that comment in Sanford's book about pages 1248/9. I think. Thomas (the elder) was a squatter in a town later named Weybridge, Vermont. The surveyor found him living there with house and fields in cultivation in 1774. I do not know when Thomas Jr. was born, nor where. I suspect Pittsfield or maybe even in New York. My 3rd ggf, Ira Sanford was the first child born in Weybridge about 1783. My search has been for Thomas. He has incorrectly been identified as the son of Thomas and Amy of Hartford. His wife has been identified as Suzannah Palmer. Those two did live and die in Hartford and it's all documented. I have never discovered Thomas' wifes name. I have never been able to find where he was born. In my searchings I believe both died and are buried in an area called Black Lake, in the town of Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence County, New York. Thomas' first daughter was Elizabeth and everything I have seen records her as having been born in Hartford, CT, 1762. I have my doubts about her place of birth. Her brother, Robert, was born in Horseneck, New Jersey, 1764. That place was renamed Caldwell in 1789. He stated that in his application for a Revolutionary War pension. Thomas Jr. and Lucy Kellogg were married in 1795 in Weybridge, Vermont. He and his father bought considerable property there in the years prior to 1800. One particular piece was property owned by the widow of the governor of New Hampshire, the man who arranged for many land grants in the area we now call Vermont. I am still looking for Thomas Sanford's place of birth and the name of his wife and, of course, his parents and on and on. Please let me know if I can be of any further help.