History of Fairfield County, Connecticut

Sanford, born Sept. 17, 1741 ; married Rachel Coley. Lois Sanford, born Sept. 14, 1743; married Joseph Lyon. Tabitlia Sanford, born Feb. 28, 174C. Hul- dah Sanford, born April 25, 1748. Ephraim Sanford, Jr., born May 25, 1750. Augustus Sanford, born July 12, 1753; died 1788. Esther Sanford, born April 24, 1755 ; died early. The following are the Newtown Sanfords, most of them descended from Samuel Sanford, second son of Thomas and Sarah Sanford, of Milford, Conn. : Samuel Sanford, born April 30, 1643 ; died 1691. Hannali Brinson, born ; married April 16, 1674. Children: Hannah Sanfiird, born Feb. 2, 1675; mar- ried James lliglit (as sijelled in the record). Thomas Sanford, born Sept. 29, 1678; died March 3, 1679. Samuel Sanford, born March 12, 1680 ; married Eas- ther Baldwin, daugliter of Nathaniel Baldwin, and sii?ter to Ester Baldwin, who married his cousin, Samuel Sanford, of Milford. Sarali Sanford, born July 10, 1682. Mary Sanford, born April 16, 1685; died Feb. 2, 1703. Thomas Sanford, born May 4, 1687 ; married Rebecca Barry, of Farmington ; died 1730. (See will in New Haven, probated Nov. 4, | 1730.) Samuel Sanford, born March 12, 1680; married Eastlier Baldwin, 1683; went to Newtown in 1711. Children: Nathaniel Sanford, born Dee. 3, 1702; mar- ried Elizabeth Seeley ; died April 14, 1768. Samuel Sanford, born April 1, 1704 ; died May 7, 1750. Ebon- j orer Sanford, born Feb. 22, 1705; died Aug. 2, 1718. Esther Sanford, born Feb. 10, 1707. John Sanford, born Oct. 17, 1709; died April 14, 1785. Daniel San- ford, born Nov. 1, 1711. Stephen and Moses Sanford, born 1713. .Job Sanford, born Jan. 10, 1715. Han- nali Sanford, born Jan. 6, 1717. Rachel Sanford, born June 13, 1720; married Ebcn Booth. Nathaniel Sanford, born Dec. 3, 1702; married Elizabeth Seeley, Oct. 16, 1728; died April 14, 1768. Children : Natlian Sanfor<l, born Sejit. 8, 1729. Abel H. Sanford, bai>ti7.ed March 25, 1733. Ruth Sanford, l>aptized May 12, 1737. Esther Sanford, baptized May 27, 1744. Samuel Sanford, born April 1, 1704; married Han- imh Gilliert, June 16, 1731; died March 7, 1758. Children: Tlionia.s Sanford, born JIarch 3, 1732. Amos Sanford, born Ot. 18, 1733. Mary Sanford, born 1735. James Sanford, born 1736. Hannah San- ford, born 1740; died March 4, 1758. Sarah Sanford, born 1738; married Jonah Piatt. Samuel Sanford, born 1743; married Abiah Dunning, and second wife, Charily Bristol. Lois Sanford, born 1750; married Samuel Stevens. Amos Sanford, born Oct. 18, 1733. Mary Clagston, born ; married Jan. 13, 1757. Children: David Sanford, born Nov. 9, 1757. Betsey Sanford, bom March 23, 1759. Caleb Sanford, born Aug. 22, 1761. Ezra Sanford, burn May 8, 17ti3. John Sanford. Samuel Sanford, born 1743; died Nov. 26,1817; married, Aug. 19, 1765, Abiah Dunning, born . Children: Annett Sanford, born March 12, 1766. Isaac Sanford, born Feb. 2, 1768 ; married Anna Bristol. Josiah Sanford, born Sept. 6, 1769 ; died 1780. Betsey Sanford, born Sept. 26, 1771 ; married Downs. Sarali Sanford, born July 26, 1773 ; married Thomas Lyon. Joel Sanford, born March 23,1775. Ruah Sanford, born 1777 ; died 1779. Ruah Sanford, born Dec. 1, 1779; married James Bennett. Azubah Sanford, born June 3, 1781 ; married Andrew Winton. Artimisia Sanford, born 1783 ; married Eli Winton. Abigail Sanford, born 1785 ; died 1792. Second marriage : Samuel Sanford, born 1743 ; married widow Cliarity (Foot) Bristol. Children: Abiah Ann Sanford, born Feb. 10, 1790; died JIarch 13, 1861. Josiah Sanford, born June 9, 1793; died July 26, 1851. Philo Sanford, born July 11, 1796; died Feb. 23, 1873. Jonathan Sanford settled on Walnut Hill, in New- town or Sand Hook ; he was grandson of Ephraim Sanford, son of Tlioma.s and Sarah Sanford, of Mil- ford. The following is the record. Ephraim Sanford, born May 17, 1646; married Mary I'owell, daughter of Thomas Powell, New Haven, Nov. 18, 1669. Children: Mary Sanford, born Sept. 28, 1670. Samuel Sanford, born Jan. 26, 1672; died early. Samuel Sanford, born May 9, 1674. Ephraim Sanford, Jr., born May 11, 1677; died April 17, 1728. Thomas Sanford, born Jan. 29, 1679; died April, 1713. Nathaniel Sanford, born Oct. 10, 1682; died 1747. Zachariah Sanford, born March 14, 1686; died 1713. Samuel Sanford, born May 9, 1674; married Ester Baldwin, born Nov. 14, 1676, eldest daughter of Na- thaniel Baldwin. Children: Hannah Sanford, burn June 28, 1696; married Joseph Gunn. Samuel >:iii- ford, born May 29, 1698 ; married Abigail Holbr.M.k. Joseph Sanford, born July 5, 1701; married ilary Clark; settled in Litchfield. Mary Sanford, born July 5, 1702; married Jonah Northuji. Jonathan Sanford, born July 13, 1704; married Hannah Piatt; settled in Newtown. Stephen Sanford, born Nov. 20, 1706. David Sanford, born May, 1708; died 1708. David Sanford, born Sept. 8, 1709; married Rachel Str^' died Jan. 16, 1751. Esther Sanford, born No\ 171 1 ; married Samuel Bristol. Abigail Sanford, born Oct. 14, 1714; married Pierson. Elizabeth San- ford, born Dec. 13, 1716. Jonathan Sanford, born July 13, 1704, settled in AValnut Hill, Sandy Hook, Newtown ; married Phcbe I'latt, July 8, 1725. Children: I'hebe Sanford, born Aug. 1, 1726. Hannah Sanford, born Aug. 27, 1827. Second marriage ; Jonatlian Sanford, born .Tulf 13, 1704; married Hannah Piatt, born 1705, died July 8, 1775. Children: Jonah Sanford, born ; died Sept. 8, 1788. Solomon Sanford, born ; died Feb. 23, 1784. Jonathan Sanford Jr., born March 20, 1737; died May 1, 1807. Jonathan Sanford, Jr., born March 20, 1737. Chil- dren : Salmon Sanford, Huldali Sanford. I jE<yryv^ ^^^.r^ NEWTOWN. 4S1 Solomon Sanford ; married Midiitablo Nortlnip. Childri'ii : Amos Nortlmp 8anford. OWve Ann Saii- ford. Josiah Sanf'ord. Jerusha 8aiiford. D. C. (iATELV. Dennis C. Oately, s\ii)eriiitende]it of the New York Beltiiis; and Paolcin;: ( 'unipany, situatccl at Newtown, Conn., was born in Roxbiiry, Mass. (now a part of Bo.ston), Aajr. 12, ]S1(>, in tlie same lionse where Men. Joseph Warren, who was l;illed at Hunker Jlill, was liorn. Dennis was aliout twelve years of af;e wlien liis fatlier died, and tlie mother Ijeinj; left with a lartre family Dennis was taken into the family of >~up|dy C. Twin;;, a eommission merchant of lioston, with whom he remained three years, atiendinf; sehool and doing errands, and was commended for his faithfnlness, which in hiter years was testiticd to liy his early benefactor, whom he always reverenced. At the aire of fifteoi he was apprenticed to Lonis A. Lauriatt, a noted French rhemist, but, preferrinir a more active life, a year later he chose the trade of honsewrijiht. He served till he \vas twenty-one with the iirm of .James Sinclair iV ('(j. Being slight of physiipie he <iften lahcjred beyond his strength, but ])ersevcred and learned tin- trade in all its details, finishing up all the idee w(n-k, and olten retained till after the family moved in. As he was careful and painstaking he made many friends among the owners of fine estates about the city of Boston. "Brookline," the fine house of Gen. LynKin,he helped to build, and was the last nuin to leave the premises. In April, 184(>, a gentleman by tlie name of ,7ohu Haskins (an early inventor in rubber), knowing Den- nis from his having worked on his house eight years previous, recommended him to the superintendency of a small rubber factory in Roxbnry. After a few months this company failed, and he was ]daccd as keeper till a new company was Ibrmed, called the " Boston Belting Company," under the firm of Tap- pan, JlelUirney & Cheever, as prineij)al agents. From a beginidng with fifteen men he continued with them till they employed one hundred and forty men. Dur- ing tills time, by carei'ul savings, he built himself a house, where he placed his mother, who eared for him till he married. At the age of thirty-five he was mar- ried to Oline F. Perkins, daughter of William Curtis Perkins, of Maine. His motlicr lived to be nearly ninety-two years of age, and was tenderly cared for by Dennis, who wiW the only surviving child hut one of nine children. April, ISoli, ten years after the " Bos- ton Belting (Jompany" wa.s organized, Jlr. Cheever retired from the firm and went to New York. Mr. Gately received and accepted a liberal offer from the "New York Belting ami Packing Company." It was with reluctance that he left Jlo.xbury, where he had been identified so long, to begin anew among those who looked with .suspicion upon all he did. The intention of the New York Company was to retain Mr. Gately in New York City, where a special jiart of the business was to be carried forwanl in the manufacture of the lighter articles of rubber goods, but difficulties arising at Newtown among the work- men and between the former superintendent and the senior member of the company, made it necessary for Mr. Gately to take the factory at Newtown in charge, and the old factory burning down the first season, the business, after rebuilding, Wits transacted wholly at Newtown. As the years passed on Mr. Gately made several val- uable in.vcntions, which have contributed largely to the advantage of the company in the manufacture of their goods. The company now employ nearly three hundred operatives, doing tlie largest business of the kind in the United States. Mr. Gately 's business career and his present busi- ness and social standing are eminently worthy of con- templation, showing, as they do, what ]iersisteiit atten- tion to details will do. His entire success is due to this characteristic. What he did was well done, fin- ished, and ]iroperly finished. Genial, kind, ami unassuming, this same considerate and painstaking phase of Mr. Gately's character, during twenty-five years' residence in his adoi)ted town, has secured to him the esteem of its citizens, and has conspired in all the degrees and relations of life, whether as son, father, husband, frieml, or citizen, to secure to him respect and alfection. His children are six, — viz.: Caroline Ryder, Ella Catherine, Curtis Perkins, Sarah Dennis, Charles Lincoln, and Harry Grant. LEMUEL FAIRCIIILD CAMP.