Richard Sanger

Abt 1620 - 1691  (~ 71 years)

• Name	Richard Sanger
  Birth	Abt 1620  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	20 Aug 1690	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Death	20 Aug 1691	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I30819	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family	Mary Rannals
  Children	+ 1. Richard Sanger,   b. 22 Feb 1667   d. 1 Apr 1731, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F18300	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in 1638 on the Confidence, a servant of John Roaff of Melchet Park, Wiltshire. "Richard Sanger, if not a German by birth had a German name, denoting minstrel, which did not occur in England much earlier than his day, and which has not in the English world yet become common. In Germany it may be more ancient than Sangerhausen. Richard Sanger, the progenitor of the New England Sangers, embarked April 1638, at South Hampton, settled as a blacksmith at Sudbury, 1646, took the oath of fidelity 1647, removed 8, (9mo.) 1649, to Watertown, where he died, Aug. 20, 1690, leaving an estate, the inventory of which, though humble in amount, shows that he had, for his day, the ordinary comforts and conveniencies of life. To him and his two adult sons, with three others, was intrusted, during Philip's war, the charge of guarding the mill at Watertown." [Abner Morse, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1604] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston by Henry Bond. Second edition. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860. [S4826] "Passengers for New England, 1638." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2:108, Jan 1848. [S4825] The Genealogy of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, by the Names of Adams, Bullard, Holbrook, Rockwood, Sanger, Wood, Grout, Goulding, and Twitchell by Abner Morse. Boston, 1857.