John Sanford, President of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Abt 1608 - 1653  (~ 45 years)

• Name	John Sanford  [1, 2]
  Suffix	President of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
  Birth	Abt 1608  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Between 22 Jun 1653 and 20 Nov 1653	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island   [4]
  Death	Between 22 Jun 1653 and 15 Nov 1653	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island   [3]
  Person ID	I23779	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2020

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Webb   d. Aft 14 Jul 1635
  Marriage	Bef 1633  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Samuel Sanford,   b. Bef 21 Jun 1635   d. 18 Mar 1713, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island (Age > 77 years)
  Family ID	F14271	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Bridget Hutchinson,   b. Bef 15 Jan 1619   d. Bef 18 Aug 1698, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age < 79 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1637  [3, 5]
  Family ID	F14283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in on the 3rd or 4th of November, 1631, on the second voyage of the Lyon; among his fellow passengers was John Winthrop, Jr., for whom he had served as a business agent. He had evidently been a well-regarded employee of the Winthrop family for some time before his emigration. First at Boston, then in Portsmouth in 1638. A follower of his mother-in-law Anne Marbury Hutchinson, John Sanford was banished from Massachusetts along with the other Antinomians, and went to Rhode Island where he was a signer of the Portsmouth Compact and later briefly served as President of the colony from 17 May 1653 until his death.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3185] G. Andrews Moriarty, "Notes: Historical Intelligence." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 104:72, Jan 1950. [S4253] John Denison Champlin, "The Ancestry of Anne Hutchinson." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 45:17, Jan 1914; 45:164, Apr 1914. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S3208] President John Sanford of Boston, Massachusetts and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1605-1965, and His Descendants, with Many Allied Families by Jack Minard Sanford. East Aurora, New York, 1965. [S4253] John Denison Champlin, "The Ancestry of Anne Hutchinson." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 45:17, Jan 1914; 45:164, Apr 1914., "in 1637".