At 08:53 PM 6/12/98 -0400, you wrote: > >Any information on this one? > >The Builders of the Nation..Compiled from the National Cyclopaedia of American >Biography..1893 > >Sanford, nathan, was born in Bridgehampton, JY Nov 5, 1777, was educated at >Yale College, became a practising lawyer in New York City and filled a number >of Local offices. From 1803 to 1816 he was U S District Attorney, filling >also during the same period the positions of member of assembly, an member of >the state senate of NY. He was elected US Senator as a Democrat adn served >from 1815 to 1821. He succeded James Kent as Chancellor for the state of New >York, and from 1826 to 1831 was again US Senator. He died in Flushing NY Oct. >17, 1838 > Carlton dedicates over a page to him in his appendix to "Thomas Sanford, the Emigrant." You will find him listed as a descendant of Robert Sanford (Thomas' brother), under "Other Pioneer Sanfords; Robert Sanford (Pioneer)" on pages 1339-40. The entry for Nathan starts as follows: "56. NATHAN[5] SANFORD (Thomas 27, Thomas 16, Ezekiel 4, Robert 1) b. Nov 5, 1777; d. Oct 17, 1838, at Flushing, LI; m. (1) Eliza Van Horn; m (2) Mary E. Isaacs of New Haven, CT; m (3) Mary Buchanan of Baltimore, MD. "His father dying when he was young, he was reared by his mother's people. He attended school in Clinton Academy in East Hampton. He entered Yale College in 1793, where he remained two years. In 1799, he was admitted to the bar in NYC. Early in his career he dropped the first "d" in the name Sandford "to save time," as he put it. In 1800, he was appointed a commissioner in bankruptcy. In 1803 he became the US Attorney for the southern district of NY, which position he held for twelve years ..." Does the Robert Sanford Genealogy have Ezekiel's line? Carlton indicates he moved to Southampton, Suffolk, NY from Hartford, CT as a young man, and added that "d" that Nathan (and some others) later dropped. David L. Dickman Mailto:[email protected] Sanford Descent: Richard, Thomas, Ezekiell, Thomas, Ezekiel, Mary, John Hull, Elijah, Huldah AND Richard, Thomas, Ezekiell, Thomas, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, William AND from William Sanford and Huldah Hull, through both Riley and Charlotte.