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of twenty-one. He was a man of learning and
filled high office in the Colony. He married,
April 8, 1654, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of
Henry Sparhurst, of Bermuda. She died Dec.
6, 1660. This 1, 1872, i,c''fii aged seventy-eight years, months,
twelve days.
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marriage was blessed with chil-
Rev. Baalis Sanford, son cf Capt. Joseph,
was born July 6, 1801, in BiTkley, .Mass.,
and after acquiring his early ed;iiation in the
district schools entered Brown Liiivcrsity, at
dren as follows : Elizabeth, born July 11, 1655 ;
Mary, Aug. 18, 1656; Susanna, July 31, 1658;
and Rebecca, June 23, 1660. John Sanford
married (second) April 11, 1663, Mary, daughter
of Rev. Samuel Gorton, of Warwick, and
widow of Peter Green. To this union were
born: Mary, March 3, 1664; Eliphalet, Feb.
20, 1666; John, June 18, 1672; and Samuel,
Oct 5, 1677.
(III) John Sanford, son of John and third
of the name, was born June 18, 1672. He located
in Taunton, tliat is Berkley, about 1713,
on July 1st of which year he married Abigail
Pitts, born 1689, daughter of Samuel Pitts, of
ried Mary (or Mercy) Phillips (1727-1793).
(V) Capt. Joseph Sanford, of Berkley,
Mass., son of Lieut. George, was a patriot of the
Revolution, serving in 1776 and 1777 in different
organizations and enlisting in 1778 in
the Continental army for a period of nine
months "from the time of their arrival in Fish-
kill," in Capt. Ebenezer Paul's (2d) company.
Col. Edward Pope's (2d Bristol County) regiment
; age seventeen years ; stature, five feet, ten
inches ; complexion, dark ; hair, black ; residence
Berkley. He died in 1634. He was a mason by
trade and also engaged in farming, and now
within the precincts of Fort Warren, in Boston
harbor (where he was stationed for a time during
the war) are a well and a chimney which
show the quality of the work he turned out.
in 1785 he married Eleanor Macomber, 1763-
1845, of the seventh generation from Thomas
Rogers, of the "Mayflower." Four of their
sons were graduated from Brown University,
all of whom became Congregational clergymen.
These were: James, John, Enoch and Baalis.
The third son, Alpheus, died in Taunton, June
Providence, R. I., from which ht; :Taduated in
1823. On Oct. 4, 1827, he was • '.'tn.
He was naturally kind-hearted and .
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to the evil-doer or to the careless id,
indeed, be stern. He was a member of ••A
committee for a longer period than ,' jiie
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else in the town, and held the office w. hman
of that board longer than any otl r,- m-uber,
having been identified with thiv .lo.rd
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almost continuously from 1829 to 1877, \i: h?
reports which emanated from his v-.- pen -9
plete with good sense and useful ;.
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His memory will long be cherished i.
sterling qualities. On March 31, 183
Mr. Sanford was married to Abby Burt, ;::-.>l.
ter of Dean and Polly (Crane) Burt, of ;•;
ley, Mass. Mrs. Sanford, who was a d ^^d
wife and >
mother, survived her ,
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husband, ,
in East Bridgewater in 1885. Nine ch:-' •'-!'
were born to Rev. Mr. Sanford and wi:"; i;
follows: Irene Abby, who died unmai '
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Baalis, mentioned below; William A] den, «.•
was formerly engaged in the dry goods husij..;:. ^
in Brockton, but is now living in Westb. '.• .
Mass. ; Henry Dean, a bookkeeper, who db.:'
in Brockton ; Austin, a graduate of DartmouL-
College, and for a number of years profeivr^r
of English in the Albany (N. Y.) high sch'-'il,
where he died unmarried Dec. 28, 19i' ;
Eudora, who was engaged in teaching foi a
number of years, and died in Boston, unmi
ried, April 25, 1908; Eugene, a bookkeep
in Dorchester; Charles Homer, who conducti