|
a.
|
Note: ds. Missouri Edition. The American Historical Publishing Company, New York, yr publ?:
"SANDS, James Thomas. Among those who enjoy the satisfaction of having preserved the records of more than one member of his family who particpated in the battles of the Revolutionary Wars, is James Thomas Sands, an ensign in Col. Robert Curry's Battalion of the Philadelphia county Associators in 1777, and his great-great-great-grandfather, John Sands, who served in the Pennsylvania Line until January 1st, 1781. These ancestors of Mr. Sands were descendants of Captain James Sands or Sandys as the name appears to have been originally spelled in England, came to Boston in 1638 and settled on Block Island, in 1665; his father was Rev. Henry Sandes, of Edwin's Hall, the fifth son of Edwin Sandes, Archbishop of York in Queen Elizabeth's reign. The oldest son of the Archbishop, Sir Samuel Sandys, was the owner of a splendid estate, Scrooby Manor; it was leased to Brewster, and here the first Separatist Church was founded................................................ The father of James Thomas Sands was Samuel Gilbert Sands, a native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; he removed to St. Louis is 1837, where he married Miss Ann Maria Wright; he went to California (sic) in 1849, where he died in 1870. Miss Wright was a daughter of Thomas Wright and Comfort Hancock, his wife, of Maryland. Thomas Wright was a grandson of Captain Job Wright of Lieut.-Col. Willet's regiment of New York Troops 1781-2, a descendant of Deacon Samuel Wright, of Springfield, Massachusetts (1639), who was a son of Nathaniel Wright, one of the Assistant Governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1628-30. Comfort Hancock was a daughter of Isaac Hancock, a cousin of Governor John Hancock of Massachusetts, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. James T. Sands was born in St. Louis; he is well-known in business, financial and social circles.............."
Note: Ref: Revolutionary Soldiers and Their Descendants. Genealogical Recor
|
