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Everett Deyo Stearns and Georgiana P. Sands

Husband Everett Deyo Stearns
 
         Born: 5 Oct 1851 - Dutchess Co., NY
   Christened: 
         Died: 13 May 1880 - Conway, Franklin, MA
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage: 26 Oct 1874 - New York, NY
Events

1. Occupation: Baptist clergyman.

Wife Georgiana P. Sands
 
         Born: 28 Jun 1856 - New York ¹
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Elisha Sands (1830-1868)
       Mother: Mary Wilton (1829-1874)
Children

1 F Edith May Stearns
 
         Born: 7 Jun 1875 - Pawling, Dutchess, NY
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
2 M Harold Everett Stearns
 
         Born: 14 May 1876 - Pine Plains, NY
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
3 M James Bruce Stearns
 
         Born: 23 Feb 1878 - Conway, Franklin, MA
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
4 F Florence May Belle Stearns
 
         Born: 2 Jan 1880 - Conway, Franklin, MA
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
Gideon Sands and Mary Sands

Husband Gideon Sands
 
         Born: 22 Oct 1729 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
   Christened: 
         Died: 20 Apr 1770 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
       Buried: Sands Family Cemetery , Sands Point, NY
 
       Father: John Sands (1683-1763)
       Mother: Catherine Guthrie (1690-1769)
 
     Marriage: 10 May 1752 - Oyster Bay, LI, NY ²
Events

1. Occupation: Farmer.

Wife Mary Sands
 
         Born: 17 Apr 1733 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
   Christened: 
         Died: 28 Jul 1793
       Buried:  - Sands Family Cemetery, Sands Point, Long Island, NY
 
       Father: Edward Sands (1691-1746)
       Mother: Mary Cornell (1703-1762)
 
 Other Spouse: William Sutton (1734-1780) - 18 Apr 1779 - St. George's Church, Hempstead, LI, NY ³
Events

1. Probate: 13 Aug 1793, Westchester County, NY.

Children

1 F Sybil Sands
 
         Born: 27 Aug 1753
   Christened: 
         Died: 7 Dec 1803
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: John Davis (      -      )
2 F Catherine Sands
 
         Born: 15 May 1756
   Christened: 
         Died: 27 Mar 1832
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: John Sands (1738-1811)
         Marr: 7 Mar 1776 - St. George's Church, Hempstead, LI, NY ⁴
3 M Edward Sands
 
         Born: 16 Feb 1759 - Cow's Neck, Long Island, NY
   Christened: 
         Died: 23 Oct 1807 - Manhattan, NY ⁵
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Jane Hart (1763-1831)
         Marr: 20 Oct 1783
4 F Mary Sands
 
         Born: 29 May 1762
   Christened: 
         Died: 1 Aug 1778
       Buried: 
 
5 M John Sands
 
         Born: 17 May 1765
   Christened: 
         Died: 1 Feb 1807
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Esther Palmer (1762-1826)
General Notes: Husband - Gideon Sands

Gideon was a slave owner. In his will, dated April 8, 1770, he bequeaths his negro boy, Jake, to his son Edward. Brother Benjamin Sands and Richard Sands, the executors of his will, sold his farm on the bottom of the Cow-Neck Turnpike. Unlike his brothers, Gideon was not active in the Revolutionary War. As I have established that his mother in law, Mary (Cornell) Sands, was a Quaker, I am wondering whether Gideon was a Quaker sympathizer.

For more on Gideon, see the entry for Mary's second husband, William Sutton.

General Notes: Wife - Mary Sands

Mary moved to Mamaroneck some time after her marriage, in Hempstead to William Sutton in 1779. She would have had to move because Gideon' s will required the sale of the Sands Point farm stock upon her remarriage . This sale would have provided her funds to buy a farm in Mamaroneck . As discussed under her 2^nd husband’s entry, William, had family there. In addition, her brother, Richard, was married to Deborah Griffin , daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Disbrow) Griffin, of Mamaroneck, and resided there. Her son, John, also, was a Mamaroneck resident. Her daughter, Sybil, and her husband, John Davis, also resided there.

Mary's will, dated 1793, recites that she is a Mamaroneck resident and disposes of her land and buildings there. The will is witnessed by Giles Seaman, who was, probably, a next door neighbor. Mary left most of her land to her son, John, who was, also, living in Mamaroneck. When John died in 1807, his executors sold his land. The deed, Liber 30, pg. 263, mentions that the adjoining landholder was Giles Seaman. According to this deed, this farm was 8 acres in size and bordered on two sides by the Westchester Turnpike (now US 1 - W. Boston Post Rd.) and the Old Boston Post Rd. The third border of the farm was the land of Giles Seaman. Seaman is mentioned in "History of Westchester County, New York" by J. Thomas Scharf, Vol. 1 pt. 2 (1886) as a Quaker who owned the site of the John Richbell cemetery and was himself buried there (the land is described as later owned by Thomas L. Rushmore). From this information, the locations of both the Sands and Seaman farms are readily apparent (the Richbell cemetery is now in Harbor Island Park just off Rushmore Ave.). However, there was, possibly, a second Sands property in Mamaroneck, since Mary's son, John, may have been living there before she bought her farm (as described below). As John married Esther Palmer, they may have been living on property located on what is now Sand St. (formerly Sands St.), just off Palmer Ave. The property could have been provided to him by his wife's family. According to the Scharf book mentioned above, the Palmer family were significant land owners in this area and provided the site of the first Quaker meeting house. However, based upon the 1790 census, I think that John and his wife had moved in with Mary by that time.

Mary's will recites that she got her land in Mamaroneck from Bartholemew Haddon (there is no deed in the Westchester Archives). This is, presumably, a reference to Bartholemew Haddon, the younger, son of Job Hadden, who was married to Sarah Guion. She was the daughter of John Guion and Anna Hart (NYGBS Record Jan. 1920 pg. 26-27). Anna's brother was James Hart, the father of Jane, who married Mary's son, Edward. This suggests that Edward met his wife through his mother's Westchester contacts. As Edward married Jane Hart in 1783, this suggests that his mother was already in Mamaroneck by that date.

For more on Mary, see the entry for her second husband, William Sutton

My article on William will be published in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Record in April 2025, Vol. 156, No. 2. The article omits my theory (which I was unable to sufficiently support to satisfy the Editor) that Mary must have moved to Mamaroneck during the war since her son, Edward, married local resident Jane Hart in 1783, and that she, likely, moved there to care for William’s children. I think the odds favor William’s son, William Ritchie, as the male under age 16 in her household in the 1790 census. Although he is mentioned in William’s 1775 will, he could have been 15 in 1790. None of Mary’s other children or grandchildren are likely candidates of the right age and sex. Edward’s son, Hart, was born in Manhattan and would have been living there in 1790 and, although Mary’s daughter, Catherine, had a male child, Gideon, born in 1777, Mary’s will describes her daughter Catherine as a Long Island resident.

I have placed Mary’s burial location as the Sands Family Cemetery on Sands Point, Long Island. I base this upon Comfort Sands' manuscript “Descent of Comfort Sands and of his Children, with Notes on the Families of Ray, Thomas, Guthrie, Alcock, Palgrave, Cornell, Dodge, Hunt, Jessup (New York 1886) pages 10, 14-15,18-20 . However, although there are gravestones in that cemetery for both of her husbands, Gideon Sands and William Sutton , there is no gravestone for Mary. Josephine C. Frost’s 1912 transcription of the Cemetery Inscriptions, pg 1, also, does not list Mary.

I have, recently, begun working with the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society (the “CNPHS”) in an effort to preserve this historic cemetery. In recent years they have learned much and done much to this end. When I first began visiting the cemetery almost 20 years ago, this is what it looked like. Here is what it looks like now. Considerable effort and expense has been necessary for the CNPHS to do its preservation work. This survey , which they commissioned, reflects some of the problems they have faced. The cemetery is surrounded on three sides by the property of a large landholder and the fourth side, Backus Lane, is a private drive with a locked gate, belonging to a home owners’ association, and is the access point for the cemetery. In addition, there is no parking allowed on Sands Point Rd., near the gate. The CNPHS learned that the Sands family has an easement along part of Backus Lane for access to the cemetery, and it obtained the authorization of a large number of Sands descendants to act as their representative. The home owners’ association has accepted CNPHS as a representative of the Sands family entitled to access to the cemetery via Backus Lane and it is using Backus Lane for cemetery preservation purposes. For this reason, I highly recommend that any family member interested in preserving this cemetery make a donation to the CNPHS for that purpose. It is a charitable society supported solely by private donations.

As one can see from the above mention survey, the original cemetery dimensions in the will of John Sands II , who bequeathed the cemetery to the family in perpetuity, was larger than its current dimensions. The gravestones of Gideon Sands and William Sutton and Gideon and Mary Sands’ daughter Mary Sands , run in a line towards a hedge on the right side of the cemetery as viewed from Backus Lane. Could Gideon and William’s wife Mary’s grave be where that hedge is now?

General Notes: Child - Sybil Sands

Her mother, Mary left some of her land in Mamaroneck to Sybil.

General Notes: Child - Edward Sands

An Edward Sands was a Surgeon's Mate in the 4th NY from 17th August to December 1775 according to "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army" by Francis Bernard Heitman. I can't eliminate the possibility that this was another Edward Sands but it seems likely that it was this one, as he would have been 16 in 1775 and many of his relatives were active in the Continental Army at this time (see "History of the Sands Family" in the Cow's Neck Peninsula Historical Society Bulletin, October 1968). See the entry of his grandmother, Mary (Cornell) Sands as to her Quaker religion. Although Quakers do not believe in serving in a combat role in war, they do serve in medical roles. Thus, Edward having served as a Surgeon's mate could be the result of Quaker influence. According to Manhattan directories, he was a ship's carpenter at 37 Roosevelt from 1791 to 1793. One possible way that he could have learned this skill is from the neighboring Sutton family on Cow Neck. My article on Edward’s mother’s second husband, William Sutton, points out that William’s brother, Robert Sutton, inherited his land on Cow Neck from his uncle, Robert Sutton, who was a Shipwright. In 1794 he moved to 43 Roosevelt and added grocer to his profession . In 1795 he was just a grocer at the same address. In 1796 he moved to 68 James St. in Manhattan, where he remained until his death. His estate inventory shows that he owned two framed houses (valued at $1500 ) at 68 James St. at the time of his death. Widow, Jane, was still living there in 1809 according to the 1809 Directory. This property, evidently, passed to his son, Elisha, who improved it. At the time of his death in 1860, it is described as a four story brick house and lot on the N.W. corner of James and Oak Streets with frame house on the rear. This property, presumably, included the shop, with the address of 71 James Street where Hart's sons Edward and Charles operated a pharmacy. The house no longer exists and is in an area which is now a large project called the Governor Alfred E. Smith Residential Houses. Elisha passed the property to his wife, who, evidently, disposed of it. Edward was the first member of this branch of the Sands family to move to Manhattan from Sand's Point. He and his sons and grandsons lived and worked on the Lower East Side just north of the South St. Seaport.

The will of Edwards' mother, Mary, recites that she got her land in Mamaroneck from Bartholemew Haddon (there is no deed in the Westchester Archives). I believe this to be the Bartholemew Haddon who was married to Sarah Guion. She was the daughter of John Guion and Anna Hart (NYGBS Record Jan. 1920 pg. 26-27) . Anna's brother was James Hart, the father of Jane, who married Edward. In addition, Bartholemew is the son of Job Haddon, whose wife, Elizibeth Griffin, is the sister of Deborah Griffin, Edward's mother's sister in law. This suggests that Edward met his wife through his mother's Westchester contacts. As Edward married Jane Hart in 1783, this suggests that his mother was already in Mamaroneck by that date. As related in the entry for his mother's second husband, William Sutton, Jane's father, James Hart's farm was on Budd's Neck, right across the Mamaroneck harbor from his mother's farm.

General Notes: Child - John Sands

John's mother bequeathed most of her property, including her land in Mamaroneck to him. his will. Regarding his slaves, see the entry for William Sutton .

James Sands and Sarah Walker

Husband James Sands ⁶
 
         Born: 1621/1622 – Winwick, Lancashire County, England
   Baptized: 3 March 1621/1622 St. Oswald’s Church, Winwick, Lancashire (now Cheshire) County, England
         Died: 13 Mar 1695 - Block Island, Washington County, Rhode Island
       Buried: After 13 Mar 1695 - Block Island, Washington County, Rhode Island
 
     Marriage: 1645 - Portsmouth, RI
Events

1. Occupation: Housewright 1637-1647; Husbandman specializing in sheep raising, 1647-1695; Block Island Constable 1663-4, Deputy from Block Island to the General Assembly 1665, Commander of the Block Island Militia 1675-1678

Wife Sarah Walker
 
         Born: 1630/31 – Butley Township, Chesire County, England
   Baptized: 6 March 1630/31, Prestbury Parish, Chesire 
         Died: 1709 - Block Island, RI
       Buried:  - Block Island, Rhode Island
 
       Father: John Walker (1606-1647/8)
       Mother: Katherine Barboure(1609-1654)
Events

1. Occupation: doctor/midwife.
Genealogical information about Sarah comes from Ted Sands’ book and the authorities cited therein. See footnote 6 below.

Children

1 M John Sands
 
         Born: 1649 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 15 Mar 1712 - Cow Neck, Nassau, Long Island, New York
       Buried:  - Cow Neck, Nassau, Long Island, New York
 
       Spouse: Sybil Ray (1665-1733)
         Marr: Abt 1682 - Block Island, RI
2 F Sarah Sands
 
         Born: 1651 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1726 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Nathaniel Niles (1642-1727)
         Marr: 14 Feb 1671 - Block Island, RI
3 M Samuel Sands
 
         Born: 1656 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1730 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Dorothy Ray (1669-1714)
         Marr: 1689 - Newshoreham, Newport, RI
 
       Spouse: Elisabeth Lessitt (      -      )
         Marr: 1 Nov 1704
4 M James Sands
 
         Born: 1662 - Block Island, Rhode Island
   Christened: 
         Died: 1732 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Mary Cornell (1679-After 1728)
         Marr: 1697 - Block Island, RI
5 F Mercy Sands
 
         Born: 1665 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1 May 1741
       Buried:  - Raymond Hill Burying Ground, Montville, CT ⁷
 
       Spouse: Joshua Raymond (1660-1704)
         Marr: 29 Apr 1683 - Block Island, RI
6 M Edward Sands
 
         Born: 1672 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 14 Jun 1708
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Mary Williams (      -      )
General Notes: Husband - James Sands

In about 1639 or 1640, James, about 18 years old and his 27- or 28-year-old brother John, housewrights, arrived in either Plymouth or Boston, Massachusetts and set out for Portsmouth, RI, having heard that the town was in need of housewrights after John Lutner, carpenter, left Portsmouth. This new account of how a very young James arrived from England is based upon extensive research included with footnoted sources in Ted Sands’ new book (see footnote 6 below). Traditionally, James was thought to be from Reading, Berkshire, England. Ted Sands traced this idea back to a letter written by John Sands IV in 1808 in which he stated that his father, John Sands III, was told by Simon Ray that James came from Reading, Berkshire. Through the extensively digitized parish records for England on Findmypast.com, supplemented by onsite research by his collaborator, Denise Harman, Ted Sands was able to search far and wide for a James Sandes or Sandys born in 1621/22. Eventually, he came upon a James Sandes of Winwick, Lancashire, whose grandfather, James Sandes, was from Ridding, Lowick, Lancashire. Once he started to focus on this family, many mysteries about James began to fall into place, including how he traveled from England as such a young man and how he was connected to the group which purchased Block Island. He, also, provided some credibility for the account that, in 1642, James was in what is now New York with Anne (Marbury)Hutchinson. According to James’ account to his grandson, Rev. Samuel Niles, James and a partner (which Ted Sands contends was his brother John Sands) was employed by Hutchinson as a carpenter to build her house in the Pelham Bay area. Ted Sands has put together a number of pieces of evidence that support his theory that John Sands was an experienced housewright and that James worked with him first in Lancashire and then in Rhode Island. According to Niles, Indians approached James while he was working on the Hutchinson house in the Pelham Bay area and signed that they should leave. He and his partner decided to leave but Anne Hutchinson decided to stay. After he and his partner left and returned to Rhode Island he regarded this incident as a narrow escape when he heard that Hutchinson and her family were massacred. (See "Niles' History of the Indian and French Wars", Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1861), pages 192-201). (This account is at the Niles link above). The site of this massacre was likely near the current site of Coop City in the Bronx. See "The Site of Anne Hutchinson's Massacre" by Lemuel A. Welles in the April 1929 edition of the NYGBS Record. He returned to Portsmouth, Rhode Island where he gained grants of land on 5 October 1643 and eventually shifted from carpentry to husbandry specializing in the raising of sheep. Ted Sands’ theory that James had been an apprentice housewright to his brother, John, could explain why James was, apparently, literate. In England at that time, only about 30% of adult men were literate. See Ordinary People's Literacy in Seventeenth Century England . However, an apprenticeship system run by building trade guilds was still operating. See The Rise and Decline of Guilds . Reading, writing and advanced mathematics were taught apprentices for building trades. See Technical Education Matters .

Ted Sands also explains how James became part of the deal for the purchase of Block Island. According to "The Real Mystery of Block Island the origins of the Island Colony" by Arthur Kinoy, published by the Block Island Historical Society, 1961, Third Printing 1997, Sands was known in Rhode Island to be a believer in freedom of religion and a friend of Roger Williams. For these reasons he was picked to be a leader of those planning to colonize Block Island. These settlers were chafing under the pilgrims' religious restraints and seeking a settlement which could be claimed by Rhode Island and remote enough to avoid pilgrim interference. The society created on the island did, according to this pamphlet, practice freedom of religion and democratic governance.

Clearly, James was the odd man out among the Block Island settlers. He was from predominantly Quaker Portsmouth, RI whereas the other Block Island settlers were anabaptists from Dorchester and Braintree, MA (James’ own religious inclinations are in dispute but he and his brother were undoubtedly nonconformists to the Anglican or Pilgrim faiths and left Lancashire before being required to sign the Act of Protestation in 1640). When this Massachusetts group first left for Block Island in 1662 James was not with them. He arrived later in 1662 or 1663. Nevertheless, he received a full 1/16 share of the land with the other 15 colonists. There is a stone monument which marks the site of James’ home, which was the settlers’ fort, across the street from the current New Shoreham Town Hall. (The, apparent, strength of James’ house is further support for the theory that he was an experienced housewright). James was prominent in the community and his wife was the local doctor/midwife. He is buried in a public graveyard with a large sand stone slab recording his age and date of death.

To explain how James got hooked up with these Massachusetts anabaptists, Ted Sands has delved into the deal under which these settlers acquired Block Island from former Governor of Massachusetts, Richard Bellingham, Governor Endicott and Major General Daniel Dennison and Major Hawthorne, who had been granted the island by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1658. He has pieced together circumstantial evidence that John Glover a likely family friend of the Sandes in Lancashire, who was also a friend of Bellingham’s, brought James’ brother John Sands (who had been doing building work for the Glover family) into the Block Island deal. Before the deal could be consummated, John Sands died on 28 June 1659 in Charlestown. According to Ted Sands’ theory, James inherited his brother’s interest in the Block Island deal.

Ted Sands’ account of James’ family is far superior to the various speculations that precede it. James has been argued by members of the Sands and Sandys families to be descended from Archbishop Edwin Sandys (1519-1588), based upon family resemblances in their respective descendants. See "Descendants of James Sands of Block Island" compiled by Malcolm Sands Wilson. The archbishop, is said to have joined a group, while exiled to the Continent, which were the forerunners of the Puritans. Indeed, it seems likely that his children were such strong supporters of the colonies, in part, as a haven for nonconformists to the Anglican faith.

Traditionally James has been asserted to be the son of the archbishop’s eighth child by his second marriage, Henry Sandys. This theory is problematic because Henry settled with his second wife, Priscila Chauncy, in County Northamptonshire, where he became Sheriff. According to Cambridge's records, at the time his son, Chauncy, enrolled at Cambridge, in 1621, Henry was already dead. Since James claimed to be born in 1622, Henry seems wrong as James' father by both by geography and age. Speculation about Henry as the father may have been generated by the letters of Adam and John Winthrop between the MA colony and Suffolk, England. The Winthrops were friendly with a Rev. Henry Sandes of Suffolk, who died there in 1626 at 77 years of age, according to his funerary monument in Boxford. Another Sands descendant has pointed out that there was a Henry Sandes, who attended Cambridge in 1569, before the archbishop’s son, Henry, was born. Since the Archbishop' s son, apparently, did not live in Suffolk and died several years before the Reverend Henry Sandes, it appears that there were two Henrys, the Archbishop's son, who attended Oxford, and the Reverend, who attended Cambridge. It was the Reverend who married Elizabeth Goffe, according to the Winthrops. They were, also, acquainted with her brother Edward, who, lived in the MA colony. The Goffes' father has often, mistakenly, been identified as Thomas Goffe, Deputy Governor of the MA colony, but a recent study of Edward's parentage has established that his actual father was Edward Goffe, senior, a clothworker of Groton in County Suffolk. see The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 158, April 2004, pg. 101. The often-repeated identification of Elizabeth Goffe as the third wife of the archbishop’s son, Henry, and mother of James Sands, seems entirely wrong. I have seen no direct evidence that the Reverend Henry Sandes was James' father and it seems unlikely since James claimed to have been born in in 1622, a short time before the Reverend Henry died as an old man.

Ted Sands does find a connection to the family of Archbishop Edwin Sandys. However, the ancestors in common are not Edwin himself but his grandfather, George Sandes, born in 1460, of Esthwaite Hall and his wife Margaret Curwen. Edwin is the son of George’s son William (1488-1549), and his wife Margaret Dixon and James is descended from George’s son Thomas Sandes (1490-1556). James of Block Island and his brother John’s father was Richard Sandes (1573-1637/8) born in Widness Lancashire and died in Winwick, Lancashire, and his wife Ellen Platt, born in 1580 in Winwick, Lancashire. Richard’s father was James Sandes (1543-1610) born in Ridding, Lowick, Lancashire and died in Widnes, Lancashire and his wife Elizabeth Woodfall, who he married 26 October 1572 in Farnworth, Lancashire. (It is assumed that the reference by Simon Ray to Reading in Berkshire was a confusion with this Ridding in Lancashire). This James Sandes, the Block Island Sands’ grandfather, also had a father named James Sandes (1517-1557), born in Esthwaite, Hawkshead, Cumbria and, later moved to Ridding. This James’ father was the afore mentioned Thomas Sandes (1490-1556) born at Esthwaite and died in Pennybridge, township of Ulverston, Cumbria and his wife whose maiden name was Ascough and who came from Lincoln. Thomas Sandes’ father was the aforementioned George Sandes, born in 1460 of Esthwaite, the grandfather of Archbishop Edwin Sandys.

James Sands of Block Island’s pedigree has been a mystery for so long that I never expected such a convincing and well documented solution and was assuming the only way his parentage would be established is by DNA. With so many people now taking DNA tests, I had hopes. In fact, I believe some Sands and Sandys descendants have taken the test but I have not seen any definitive results.

My UU sermon regarding James’ part in the early American struggle for religious freedom is attached with accompanying readings.

On Block Island there is a metal plaque commemorating the sixteen original English settlors to Block Island (including James Sands) called Settlers Rock .

General Notes: Child - James Sands

Settled at Mantinecock, Long Island. Willed rights in Goshen, Orange county, New York.

General Notes: Child - Mercy Sands

In the History of New London, she was incidentally connected with the famous pirate, William Kidd.

Charles Sciford and Jane Sands

Husband Charles Sciford
 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage: 
Wife Jane Sands
 
         Born: 16 May 1839
   Christened: 
         Died: After 1910
       Buried: 
 
       Father: William E. Sands (1795-1872)
       Mother: Percilla Thomas (1810-1877)
Children

1 M Chester L. Sciford
 
         Born: 1867
   Christened: 
         Died: 1921
       Buried:  - Hancock, Delaware, New York.
 
General Notes: Wife - Jane Sands

Listed as a nurse for a private family on the 1910 census for Hancock , NY.

William Sands and Jerusha Sands

Husband William Sands
 
         Born: 1758
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Richard Sands (1729-1798)
       Mother: Deborah Griffin (1729-1799)
 
     Marriage: 
 
 Other Spouse: Martha Sands (1777-      )
Wife Jerusha Sands
 
         Born: 29 Aug 1766
   Christened: 
         Died: 14 Apr 1795
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Benjamin Sands (1735-1824)
       Mother: Mary Jackson (1740-1778)
Children

John M. P. Thatcher and Katherine S. Sands

Husband John M. P. Thatcher
 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage: 
Wife Katherine S. Sands
 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Robert Alfred Sands (1862-1928)
       Mother: Kate Van Volkenburgh (      -      )
 
       Father: Robert Alfred Sands (1862-1928)
       Mother: Kate Van Volkenburgh (      -      )
Children

Albert Lewis Sherwood and Lavinia Catherine Sands

Husband Albert Lewis Sherwood
 
         Born: 1852 - Brooklyn, New York
   Christened: 
         Died: Abt 1887
       Buried: 
 
       Father: James Manning Sherwood (1812-      )
       Mother: Jane Elizabeth Lamberson (Abt 1822-      )
 
     Marriage: 29 Nov 1876 - Brooklyn, NY ⁸
Events

1. Occupation: 13 Regiment for between 5 and 10 years as of 1886.

Wife Lavinia Catherine Sands
 
         Born: 18 Jul 1853
   Christened: 
         Died: 2 Jan 1932 - Bronx, NY ⁹
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Edward Hart Sands (1821-1874)
       Mother: Lavinia Erwin (1826-1916)
 
 Other Spouse: Ellis P. Burke (Abt 1842-1910) - 24 Apr 1889 - Brooklyn, NY ¹⁰
Events

1. Occupation: mail order.

Children

1 F Grace Lamberson Sherwood
 
         Born: 27 Jul 1877
   Christened: 
         Died: 15 Dec 1897 - Brooklyn, New York ¹¹
       Buried: 
 
2 M Albert Vanhuysen Sherwood
 
         Born: 6 May 1879
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
3 M William Sherwood
 
         Born: 16 Dec 1881
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
General Notes: Husband - Albert Lewis Sherwood

Resided or worked at 21 Barclay St., New York, NY

General Notes: Wife - Lavinia Catherine Sands

In 1888 she was a widow living at 347 Cumberland St., Brooklyn, NY. In the 1930 census she is listed as a patient in the Bronx.

Clarence Granville Sinclair and Mabel Sands

Husband Clarence Granville Sinclair
 
         Born: 3 Apr 1858
   Christened: 
         Died: 16 Nov 1895
       Buried: 
 
       Father: John Tollemache Sinclair 3rd Bt. of Ulbster (1824-1912)
       Mother: Emma Isabella Harriet Standish (1833-1889)
 
     Marriage: 18 Dec 1889 - London, England
Wife Mabel Sands
 
         Born: Abt 1866
   Christened: 
         Died: 1 Nov 1890 - London, England
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Mahlon Day Sands (1842-1888)
       Mother: Edith Minturn (1844-Abt 1870)
Children

General Notes: Husband - Clarence Granville Sinclair

His great great great grandfather, Lionel Tollemache (1708-1770), 4th Earl of Dysart, was the great great grandfather of Rhona Cecilia Emily Tollemache (1857-1940) who married the last Lord of Littleton, Thomas Wood (1853-1933) (see their entries).

William Sands and Martha Sands

Husband William Sands
 
         Born: 1758
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Richard Sands (1729-1798)
       Mother: Deborah Griffin (1729-1799)
 
     Marriage: 
 
 Other Spouse: Jerusha Sands (1766-1795)
Wife Martha Sands
 
         Born: 11 Nov 1777
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
       Father: David Sands (1745-Abt 1812)
       Mother: Clementina Halllock (1746-      )
Children

Joseph Sutton and Mary Sands

Husband Joseph Sutton
 
         Born: Bef 1695
   Christened: 
         Died: Bef 26 Nov 1770 - Rye, NY
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Robert Sutton (Bef 1670-Bef 1725)
       Mother: Hannah (      -      )
 
     Marriage: Abt 1715
Wife Mary Sands
 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
       Father: James Sands (1662-1732)
       Mother: Mary Cornell (1679-After 1728)
Children

1 M William Sutton
 
         Born: 1730
   Christened: 
         Died: 1764
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Dorcas Clapp (1738-      )
         Marr: 1758

Sources

1 Hand written family tree prepared by Charles V. Sands 1880.

2 St. George's Episcopal Church Hempstead, LI Marriage Register.

3 NYGBS Record, July 1883 pg. 128.

4 NYGBS Record, April 1883 pg. 72.

5 Letters of Adminitration issued in NY Cty, Nov. 5, 1807, Liber 10, Pag e 177.

6 “Descendants of James Sands of Block Island” compiled by Malcolm Sands Wilson (privately printed, New York, 1949), Sands, Edward Van V. Sands, “James Sands of Block Island, A Speculative Account of His Ancestry” published by the Block Island Historical Society, privately printed by Curry Printing, Portland, Maine, 2022).

7 NYGBS Record, January 1920 pg. 11.

8 Marriage Certificate #2160, Kings Cty, 1876.

9 Bronx Death Cert. # 88 for 1932.

10 Marriage Certificate #1354, Kings Cty, 1889.

11 Brooklyn Death Certificate 1897 #19849.

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