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Spouse: Mary NUNN. Children were: George SALTER.
Elizabeth SALTER52 was born in 1621. She was christened on Sep 28, 1621 in Of Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. She has Ancestral File Number NV0F-FH. Parents: George SALTER and Elizabeth MUNNING.
Emery SALTER181 was born in 1563. He was christened on Jul 2, 1563 in , Terling, Essex, England. He was buried on Mar 2, 1563/64. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-80D. Parents: Blaise SALTER and Collett SMITH.
George SALTER181 was born in 1597 in Of, Bildeston, Suffolk, England. He was christened in 1597 in , Bildeston, Suffolk, England. He died Bef 18 1654 Jul in , Dedham, Essex, England. He was buried in , , Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number 8R5K-V6. Parents: Edward SALTER and Mary NUNN.
Spouse: Elizabeth MUNNING. George SALTER and Elizabeth MUNNING were married on Oct 29, 1617 in , Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. Children were: Hannah SALTER, Thomas SALTER, Abigail SALTER, Thomas SALTER, Elizabeth SALTER, Simon SALTER, Theophilus SALTER, Anne SALTER, Samuel SALTER.
Hannah SALTER52 was born in 1630 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. She was christened on Dec 19, 1630 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. She died on Jan 3, 1696. She has Ancestral File Number 8R5K-WC. Parents: George SALTER and Elizabeth MUNNING.
Humphrey SALTER91,231 was born about 1326 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-62G. Parents: Mr SALTER and Mrs SALTER.
Spouse: Mrs-Humphrey SALTER. Children were: Thomas SALTER.
Isolde SALTER91 was born about 1257 in Of, , Shropshire, England. She died after 1305. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-69W. Parents: Thomas DE SELFAC and Mrs-Thomas DE SELFAC.
Joan SALTER79 was born about 1439 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-564. Parents: Johanes SALTER and Anna MONTGOMERY.
Johanes SALTER231 was born about 1407 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He was christened in Of, Rokenden, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-59Q. Parents: Thomas SALTER and Matilda SALTER.
Spouse: Anna MONTGOMERY. Johanes SALTER and Anna MONTGOMERY were married about 1434 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. Children were: Johannes Thomas SALTER, Son SALTER, Joan SALTER.
Johannes SALTER79 was born about 1470 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He was buried between Dec 1532 and Dec . He died Aft 24 1532 Oct. He was christened in Of, Rokenden, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-4BR. Parents: Johannes Thomas SALTER and Isabella CLUDDE.
Johannes Thomas SALTER79 was born about 1437 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He died on Apr 25, 1492. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-50V. Parents: Johanes SALTER and Anna MONTGOMERY.
Spouse: Isabella CLUDDE. Johannes Thomas SALTER and Isabella CLUDDE were married about 1469 in Of, Cuddley, Shropshire, England. Children were: Richard (Robert) SALTER, Roger SALTER, Miss SALTER, Daughter SALTER, Johannes SALTER.
John SALTER91 was born about 1255 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-68P. Parents: Thomas DE SELFAC and Mrs-Thomas DE SELFAC.
Spouse: Mrs-John SALTER. John SALTER and Mrs-John SALTER were married about 1285 in Of, , Shropshire, England. Children were: Mr SALTER.
John SALTER181 was born about 1529 in Of, Terling, Essex, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-7PK. Parents: Richard SALTER and Jane SAMUELS.
Matilda SALTER231 was born about 1372 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-58J.
Spouse: Thomas SALTER. Thomas SALTER and Matilda SALTER were married about 1406 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. Children were: Johanes SALTER, William SALTER, Roger SALTER, Richard SALTER.
Miss SALTER79 was born about 1484 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-4V3. Parents: Johannes Thomas SALTER and Isabella CLUDDE.
Mr SALTER91,231 was born about 1286 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-653. Parents: John SALTER and Mrs-John SALTER.
Spouse: Mrs SALTER. Mr SALTER and Mrs SALTER were married about 1325 in Of, , Shropshire, England. Children were: Humphrey SALTER.
Mrs SALTER91,231 was born about 1295 in Of, , Shropshire, England. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-618.
Spouse: Mr SALTER. Mr SALTER and Mrs SALTER were married about 1325 in Of, , Shropshire, England. Children were: Humphrey SALTER.
Mrs-Humphrey SALTER231 was born about 1338 in Of, , Shropshire, England. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-5XN.
Spouse: Humphrey SALTER. Children were: Thomas SALTER.
Mrs-John SALTER91 was born about 1259 in Of, , Shropshire, England. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-64V.
Spouse: John SALTER. John SALTER and Mrs-John SALTER were married about 1285 in Of, , Shropshire, England. Children were: Mr SALTER.
Richard SALTER231 was born about 1413 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-5QF. Parents: Thomas SALTER and Matilda SALTER.
Richard SALTER79,181 was born about 1501 in Of, Rokenden, Shropshire, England. He died in 1538/39. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-7G4. Parents: Richard (Robert) SALTER and Anna PIGOT.
Spouse: Jane SAMUELS. Richard SALTER and Jane SAMUELS were married about 1526 in Of, Langford Hall, Essex, England. Children were: Blaise SALTER, John SALTER.
Richard SALTER181 was born about 1566 in Of, Battisford, Suffolk, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-898. Parents: Blaise SALTER and Collett SMITH.
Richard (Robert) SALTER79 was born about 1480 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He died on May 5, 1545. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-4LF. Parents: Johannes Thomas SALTER and Isabella CLUDDE.
Spouse: Anna PIGOT. Richard (Robert) SALTER and Anna PIGOT were married about 1500. Children were: Richard SALTER, Thomas SALTER, Rosa SALTER, Robert SALTER, Daughter SALTER.
Robert SALTER79 was born about 1513 in Of, Rokenden, Shropshire, England. He was christened in Of, Little Hales, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-77N. Parents: Richard (Robert) SALTER and Anna PIGOT.
Robert SALTER181 was born in 1563. He was christened on Feb 2, 1563/64 in , Battisford, Suffolk, England. He was buried on Mar 23, 1574. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-81L. Parents: Blaise SALTER and Collett SMITH.
Roger SALTER231 was born about 1411 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-5KD. Parents: Thomas SALTER and Matilda SALTER.
Roger SALTER79 was born about 1482 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He died in Feb 1548/49. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-4D6. Parents: Johannes Thomas SALTER and Isabella CLUDDE.
Rosa SALTER79 was born about 1511 in Of, Rokenden, Shropshire, England. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-4Q8. Parents: Richard (Robert) SALTER and Anna PIGOT.
Samuel SALTER52 was christened on Mar 31, 1633 in Of Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. He was born in 1633 in Of, Dedham, Essex, England. He died after 1660. He has Ancestral File Number NV0F-K6. Parents: George SALTER and Elizabeth MUNNING.
Simon SALTER52 was christened on Jun 25, 1626 in Of Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. He was born in 1626. He died on Oct 8, 1635. He was buried on Oct 8, 1635. He has Ancestral File Number NV0F-GN. Parents: George SALTER and Elizabeth MUNNING.
Son SALTER79 was born about 1435 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-4ZP. Parents: Johanes SALTER and Anna MONTGOMERY.
Theophilus SALTER52 was christened on Jun 1, 1628 in Of Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. He was born in 1628. He died after 1660. He has Ancestral File Number NV0F-HT. Parents: George SALTER and Elizabeth MUNNING.
Thomas SALTER231 was born about 1368 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-5ZV. Parents: Humphrey SALTER and Mrs-Humphrey SALTER.
Spouse: Matilda SALTER. Thomas SALTER and Matilda SALTER were married about 1406 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. Children were: Johanes SALTER, William SALTER, Roger SALTER, Richard SALTER.
Thomas SALTER79 was born about 1509 in Of, Rokenden, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-6XT. Parents: Richard (Robert) SALTER and Anna PIGOT.
Thomas SALTER52 was born about 1618 in Of Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. He died in 1660. He has Ancestral File Number NV0F-DB. Parents: George SALTER and Elizabeth MUNNING.
Thomas SALTER52 was born in 1632. He was christened about 1632 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1J2P-MNM. Parents: George SALTER and Elizabeth MUNNING.
William SALTER231 was born about 1409 in Of, Owestry, Shropshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 1000-5FK. Parents: Thomas SALTER and Matilda SALTER.
Jennie Elizabeth SAMPSON106,107 was born on Mar 31, 1860. She died on Nov 11, 1926.
Spouse: Edwin Ralph HARPUR. Edwin Ralph HARPUR and Jennie Elizabeth SAMPSON were married on Jan 14, 1886. Children were: Anna Ruggles HARPUR.
Sophia SAMPSON died on Sep 22, 1854. daughter of Solomon Sampson and Elizabeth Clark who came from Connecticut to Wayne county, PA in 1845.
Spouse: William W. GLOSSENGER. William W. GLOSSENGER and Sophia SAMPSON were married.
Jane SAMUELS181 was born about 1511 in Of, Langford Hall, Essex, England. She has Ancestral File Number 1000-7NC.
Spouse: Richard SALTER. Richard SALTER and Jane SAMUELS were married about 1526 in Of, Langford Hall, Essex, England. Children were: Blaise SALTER, John SALTER.
Henry SANDS. Parents: James SANDS.
Children were: James SANDS.
James SANDS.
Children were: Henry SANDS.
James SANDS2 was born in 1622. He died in 1695. Capt. JAMES SANDS born in England in 1622, died in America 1695. He came from Reading, Berkshire, England. He followed Ann Hutchinson in her exile on the banks of the Hudson, N. Y., and returned to Rhode Island in 1664. He m. Sarah Walker in 1645 or 1646, dau, of John Walker and Catharine Hutchinson, she d. 1709. Their children were:
John J. b. 1650, m. Sybil Ray, b. 1665, d. 1733,
dau. of Simeon and Mary (Thomas) he d. 1712.
>>>>Sarah m. 1671, Nathaniel Niles, son of John and
Jane, he b. 1642, d. 1723, she d. 1726.
Mercy m. 1683, Joshua Raymond, b. 1644, son of
Joshua and Elisabeth (Smith), she d. 1704.
Capt. James b. 1662, m. 1694, Sarah Cornell, b.
1679, dau. of John and Mary (Russell).
Samuel b. 1666, m. 1699, Dorothy Ray, dau. of
Simeon and Mary (Thomas), he d. 1730.
Edward b. 1672, m. 1693, Mary Williams, dau. of
John and Ann (Alcott), he d. 1708, she d. 1708.
Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. Genealogies of early settlers of Long Island, which includes deeds, wills and records of the early Thomas Powell.
Bibliographic Information: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers. Albany, NY, 1895.
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Since 1784, on the division, it is in the township of North Hempstead.... Sands Point derives its name from the purchase, December 25, 1691: and deed to John Sands (son of Captain James Sands of Block Island) from Richard Cornell, of Rockaway, and his wife of 500 acres of land at Cow Bay, L. I., which included this point. Cornell held under a grant from Governor Dongan in 1686.
Mr. John Sands resided there till his death in 1712: in his house still standing: which remained in his family till about 1765, when it passed to Benjamin Hewlett with the existing family burial-lot.
Rev. Samuel Niles, in his rambling narrative (A. D. 1700) of the Indian wars, describes Block Island during his own residence there (1674-1762). After detailing the completion of his large stone house there by Captain James Sands, adds: "In 1689 the island was captured by French privateers, and on his advice, Mr. Niles. Mr. Sands and family, with some others, 'took our flight into the woods, which were at considerable distance, where we encamped that night. After which the three elder brothers, Captain John Sands, Mr. James and Samuel Sands, removed to Long Island and settled there, each leaving a farm at Block Island, which they stocked with sheep, and came over once a year, at shearing time, on Block Island, to carry off their wool and fit sheep for market at New York.'"
From: "Tristram Dodge and his Descendents in America "
Author: Robert Dodge
Call Number: CS71.D645
A comprehensive, historical and descriptive accounting of Block Island and Cow Neck, Long Island, the original 17th and 18th century settlements of Tristram Dodge and his descendants.
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In May, 1664, Arnold in his History of Rhode Island says: "The first regular assembly, as established by the Charter, met at Newport in May. The affairs of Block Island were definately settled at this session. Three messengers, James Sands, Thomas Terry and Joseph Kent, appeared from the Island to signify their obedience to His Majesty's will."
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Bibliographic Information: Pierce, Ebenezer W. Peirce's Colonial Lists. Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son, 1880
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SANDS (Sandes, Sandys), James (1622-95)
from Eng., 1638, settled at Portsmouth, R I
1640; later at Block Island; dep. Gen. Ct for
New Shoreham Co.. 1665; asst. warden, 1676 cdr
militia co. in King Philip's War; m Sarah, dau
John Walker.
ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM, Frederick Virkus A compendium of family genealogies that includes practically every name distinguished in the early history of the country, Vol. I
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The sixteen settlers entered into possession of their allotments; and here have ever since remained undisturbed by the natives, or the several wars of the colonies and States. When, in 1664, Rhode Island was chartered by Charles II., they elected to become part, and not of Massachusetts; and those settlers, by Delegates James Sands and Joseph Kent took the oaths as Freemen of Rhode Island, as appears hereby:
Rhode Island Colonial Records, 1664-77.
(Prov. 1857), printed by order of the General Assembly, vol. xxi., p. 58. "At a General Assembly of the Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, assembled Rhode Island, the fourth of the third month ("May") so-called, 1664, and in the sixteenth yeare of the raygne of Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, etc.
"Whereas (recital that it hath pleased the King to grant a charter to the colony), wherein Block Island is expressly nominated as part of this colony.
"That by these messengers: James Sands, Thomas Terry, and Joseph Kent, the inhabitants of Block Island have declared unto this Assembly their professed obedience to his Majesty said royal pleasure. (After settling form of government, oaths of allegiance and office to be subscribed and filed), proceeds:
"Whereas Mr. James Sands, of Block Island, being freeman in this Collony or Corporation of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, etc., together with Joseph Kent, of Block Island, hath presented their humble petition to this Court, being the Generall Assembly of this Collony, in behalf of Thomas Terry, Peter George, Simon Raye, William Harris, Samuel Dearing, John Raurbone, John Davies, Samuel Staple, Hugh Williams, Robert Gutney, William Tosh, Tallman Rose, William Carhouse, Tristrome Dodge, John Clark, Joseph Kent, and William Barker; inhabitants and housekeepers at Block Island aforementioned, desiring that the forementioned inhabitants may be admitted freemen of this Collony aforesay ed, and being demanded, if they the said James Sands and Joseph Kent did know that all the forenamed persones weare men of peaceable and good behaviour, and lykly to prove worthy and hopefull members of the Collony, they answered 'Yea,' where upon the Court on caution and instructions given to the sayd petitioners, have accepted and admitted all the sayd inhabitants aforementioned, to be free of the sayd Collony, or soe many as shall give under their hands in writting according to the instructions aforementioned."
From: "Tristram Dodge and his Descendents in America "
Author: Robert Dodge
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James came from Reading in Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims had landed 22 years earlier and in 1642, we know he was at East Chester,Westchester County, N. Y., where he was engaged in building a house
for Mrs. Hutchinson, probably his mother-in-law. He then moved to
Portsmouth, Rhode Island like so many of our ancestors.
In Portsmouth, James Sands had grants of land October 5, 1643, and August
29, 1644; in 1655, he was made a freeman at Portsmouth, R.I.
In just ten years, he had advanced and on May 19, 1657, he became the
Commissioner from Portsmouth at the General Court which was the legislature
at that time of Rhode Island.
Then, in 1660, in company with others, he purchased Block Island from the
Indians; in 1661, they sailed from Taunton, Massachusetts to Block Island
(called by the Indians, Manisses) and settled there. Block Island is due south of
Rhode Island and due east of Long Island. It is part of New York. The Island
was divided into sixteen shares, his share being one-sixteenth. In March,
1663-4, he was constable on Block Island.
In 1665, James became deputy from Block Island to the General Assembly; the
New York State legislature. He was largely concerned in settling the township,
and was one of the first who petitioned the General Assembly for a charter of
incorporation, which was obtained in 1672, under the name of New Shoreham;
in October 1670, and September 1671, he was tax rater on Block Island; in
1676, he was assistant warden. There is a deed, James Sands to John Sands, his
son, dated November 15, 1690, recorded in the Hempstead New Book of
Record, on pp. 345-61 by Thos. Gildersleeve, Clerk, of the land upon which he
settled when he first came to Block Island. He was buried in the public
graveyard; the stone over his remains, a large recumbent sandstone slab, still in
a good state of preservation, bears the following inscription:
"HERE LYES IN
TVRRED THE BODY
OF MR. JAMES SANDS,
SENIOVR AGED 73
YEARS DEPARTED
THIS LIFE MARCH
THE 13, 1695."
His widow survived him until 1709.
A memoir written by Great-Grandfather James Sands' grandson, Niles, relates much about
great-grandfather's courage, great-grandmother Sarah and relations with the Indians and French privateers on Block Island. It was in part due to the depredations of the French that James Sands' sons decided to move to Cowneck.
A Narrative about James Sands I
by his Grandson
At Block Island, where I was born, some time after the
Island began to be settled by the English, there then being
but sixteen Englishmen and a boy, and about three hundred
Indians, the Indians were wont, some of them, to treat the
English in a surly, lordly manner, which moved the
English to suspect they had some evil designs in hand; and
it being in the time of Philip's war, there was a large stone
house garrisoned erected by James Sands, Esq., one of the
first settlers.
.(Note: James Sands, your 9th Great-Grandfather)
. .The before mentioned James Sands, who was the leading
man among them, entered into a
wigwam, where he saw a very fine brass gun standing, and
an.Indian fellow lying on a bench in the wigwam, probably
to guard and keep it. Mr. Sands' curiousity led him take
and view it, as it made a curious and uncommon appear-
ance. Upon which the Indian fellow rises up hastily and
snatches the gun out of his hand, and withal gave such a
violent thrust with the butt end of it as occasioned him to
stagger backward. But feeling something under his feet,
he espied it to be a hoe, which he took up and improved,
and with it fell upon the Indian. Upon which a mighty
Scuffle ensued, the English and Indians on the outside of
the wigwam closing in one with another; which probably
would have issued in the destruction of the whole English '
party.- . . . Mrs. Hutchinson, who came into this country
under a religious character, probably not very long after
the church at Boston was settled, . went farther
westward to a place called East Chester, now in the eastern
part of the province of New Pork. In order to
pursue her purpose, she agreed with the before-mentioned
Captain James Sands, then a young man, to build her
house, and he took a partner with him in the business.
When they had near spent their provisions he sent his
partner for meat, which was to be fetched at a considerable
distance. While his partner was gone, there came a com-
pany of Indians to the frame where he was at work, and
made a great shout and sat down after some time they
gathered up his tools, put his broadax on his shoulder,
and his other tools into his hands, and made signs to him
to go away. But he seemed to take no notice of them, but
continued in his work. at length one of them said, " Ye-
hah Mumune Ketok," the English of which is Come, let
us go and they went away to the water side for clams
or oysters. After some time they came back and found
him still at work as before. They again gathered up his
tools, put them into his hands as before they had done,
with the like signs moving him to go away. He still seemed
to take no notice of them, but kept on in his business, and
when they had stayed some time they said as before, "Pe-
hah Mumune Ketok and accordingly they all went away,
and left him there at his work, a remarkable instance of
the restraining power of God on the hearts of these furious
and merciless infidels, who otherwise would doubtless, in
their rage, have split his brains with his own axe. But
God had further business for him to do in this world, in
conducting the affairs on Block Island afterwards as
before is briefly related, for many years when the people
there became more numerous. and until his eldest son,
Captain John Sands, a gentleman of great port and
superior power succeeded him. He died in the 72d year
of his age, He was a benefactor;:to the poor; for as his
house was garrisoned - in the time of their fear of the
Indians, as before is
noted, many poor people resorted to it, and were supported
mostly from his liberality. He was also a promoter of
religion in his benefactions to the minister they had there
in his day, though not altogether so agreeable to him as
might be desired, as being inclined to the anabaptist
persuasion. He devoted his home for the worship of God,
where it was attended every Lord's day or Sabbath.
Sarah Sands, your 9th Great-Grandmother :
His wife was a gentlewoman of remarkable sobriety and piety, given also to hospitality. She was the only midwife and doctress on the island or rather a doctor, all her days, with very little, and with some, and mostly, no reward at all. Her skill in surgery was doubtless very great, from some instances I remember she told me of.
Mr. Sands had a plentiful estate, and gave free entertainment to all gentlemen who came to the island; and when his home was garrisoned it became a hospital, for several poor people resorted thither, as before is remarked who being driven from their habitations and improvements, could bring but little with them. I heard his wife (who outlived her husband many years) often with admiration express the singular tokens of Gods favorable providence in that time, by increasing remarkably the comforts of life on themselves and the poor that Providence had cast under their care.
I shall give but one remarkable instance more in this digression, with relation to Mrs. Sands, of whom I have been speaking. She had then but one little child, a girl, just able to run about and prattle a little. Her maid had occasion to go into the field on some business and urged that the child might go with her. The mistress denied, and withal telling the maid there was an old well in the field, which the child would be likely to fall into, or some other mischief would happen to her. The maid goes away, and the mother sits down in the doorway, to keep the child out of danger, as they had a mill-pond near the home; and as sewing linen cloth, and wanted a piece that lay on the table on the opposite part of the room, she bid the child to bring it to her. The child went to a door -that led to an inner room, where there was no other passage out, and closing the door, saying, " This, mamma, this she said, No, that, pointing to the cloth. She was busy and thought no more of her child, until one of her neighbors came and said, " The Lord give you patience; your child is drowned" The man came by the child, and saw it floating on the water" in the flume, but took no care of it, but-went up to the home -- whereas if he had taken it out, he might have been a means of preserving its life. Bnt thus it must be in Providence. The mother often lamented her presumption, in pretending to be her child's keeper.
It is time to return to Mr. Sands, where we left him, working on his frame, the Indians being gone, he gathered up his tools, and drew off, and in his way met his partner bringing provisions, to whom he declared the narrow escape he had made for his life. Resolving not to return, and run a further risk of the like kind, they both went from the business.
Captain James Sands had four sons, all living on Block Island, until the island was infested, and plundered twice by French privateers; after which the three elder brothers removed to Long Island, and settled there (from whom I had the narrative of what I am now writing), namely Captain John Sands, Mr.James and Samuel Sands, each of them leaving a farm at Block Island, which they stocked with sheep, and were wont to come once a year at their shearing time on the island, to carry oft their wool and what fat sheep there were at that time, and market at New York. Upon this design they were all coming together, sometime in the beginning of June and as near as I can remember, in the year 1702, one of them bringing a little daughter, about seven years of age, in a new vessel he had built, designing to leave the child with his mother for some time . Sarah Sands the famous doctor I spake of before, who was then living a widow; and several Indian servants were in the forecastle or fore part of the vessel, which was enclosed, but there was no bulk-head abaft, where these gentlemen were sitting together. There was also a quantity of wheat in the hold under the deck, which lay partly at the lower part of the mast as they were sailing down the Sound, as it is called, between Long Island and the mainland, under an easy, pleasant gale of wind, they observed a dark,threatening cloud gathering in the northwest. Apprehending a sudden gust of wind, they pulled down their sails, as they saw at a distance also a rippling of the water and it proved accordingly. But the cloud scattered, and the gust went over, and they hoisted their sails and proceeded in their course as before. After a short time the cloud gathered again, and being apprehensive of a like sudden gust, they lowered their sails; and it proved as they expected, and they again proceeded on their voyage with a fair and easy gale. But in a space of time the cloud gathered a third time, and appeared more terrible, threatening an extraordinary tempest; upon which they lowered their sails, as they had twice before. and it proved very terrible, with thunder, lightning rain and wind, with stress and uncommon violence. At length there came a loud clap of thunder with sharp lightning, and struck on the top of their mast; and the lightning ran down into the hold of the vessel to the step of the mast, and then suddenly started upward; and they saw apparently the wheat that lay near the mast fly each way from it, and seemed to disperse; but it soon gathered into a round solid body, as big, or bigger, than a man's fist, and in that form flew to to one side of the vessel, and then broke with an extraordinary loud noise as of hard thunder, and then seemed to scatter; but then gathered into the like form as before, and flew to the other side of the vessel, and broke with the like mighty noise, and dispersed; but gathered the third time, and flew back to the other side, where it made a hole between wind and water, and disappeared. The child, before mentioned, lay all this time asleep, while the lightning passed forward and backward over it, as has been related, without the least hurt, when her father, and uncles with him, that beheld the Lightning in its motions and operations, as plainly as to see from one side of the room to the other, concluded she was struck dead as she lay. Nor were any hurt in the vessel, except these men's eyes were so sore they scarcely could see when they came to the island where I then was, and from them received the narrative, as here is related, of this wonderful salvation God wrought for them.
Sometime in July, 1689, three French privateer vessels came to Block Island. As they were thus become masters of the island, they disarmed the men, and stove their guns to pieces on the rocks, and carried the people and confined them in the home of Captain James' Sands before mentioned, which was large and accommodable for their purpose, and not far from the harbor. This they made their prison. The French came a third time while was on the island, and came to anchor on Saturday, sometime before night; and acquainted us who they and what they intended, by hoisting up their white colors.
None of the people appearing to oppose them, and having at this time my aged grandparents, James Sands and his wife, before mentioned, to take care of, with whom I then dwelt; knowing also that if they landed they would make his house the chief seat of their rendezvous, as they had done twice before, and not knowing what insults or outrage they might commit on them, I advised to the leaving their house, and betaking themselves to the woods for shelter, till they might return under prospects of safety, which they consented to accordingly we took our flight into the woods, which were at a considerable distance, where we encamped that night as well as the place and circumstances would allow, with some others, that for the like reasons fell into our company.
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Spouse: Sara WALKER. James SANDS and Sara WALKER were married WFT Est. 1629-1657.3 Children were: Sara SANDS.
Sara SANDS2 was born in 1654.3 She died in 1726.3 Parents: James SANDS and Sara WALKER.
Spouse: Nathaniel NILES. Nathaniel NILES and Sara SANDS were married on Feb 14, 1670/71.3 Children were: Tabitha NILES.
Deborah SANFORD.
Spouse: Ensign Samuel JONES. Ensign Samuel JONES and Deborah SANFORD were married. Children were: Daniel JONES.
Kandy SANTOLI was born. Parents: Salvatore SANTOLI and Ruthann GLOSSENGER.
Spouse: Jack CLARK. Jack CLARK and Kandy SANTOLI were married. Children were: Larissa CLARK, Samuel CLARK.
Mark SANTOLI was born. Parents: Salvatore SANTOLI and Ruthann GLOSSENGER.
Salvatore SANTOLI.
Spouse: Ruthann GLOSSENGER. Salvatore SANTOLI and Ruthann GLOSSENGER were married. Children were: Kandy SANTOLI, Mark SANTOLI.
SARAH.
Spouse: John SOUTHWICK. John SOUTHWICK and SARAH were married in 1642. Children were: Sarah SOUTHWICK, Mary SOUTHWICK, Samuel SOUTHWICK.
SARAH2,31 was born before 1624.
Spouse: Richard HAUGHTON. Children were: Robert HAUGHTON.
