James Sandilands (1646 - 1692)

Born 28 Feb 1646 in Hilderston, Linlithgowshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Annika Jurgensen (Kyn) Baynton — married 1664 (to 1692) in Upland, Delaware, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 12 Apr 1692 at age 46 in New Sweden Upland, Chester, Pennsylvania

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Biography

James Sandilands was born in Scotland.

James Sandilands was a Pennsylvanian.

James Sandiland (also spelled Sandeland, then changed to Sandlin) was born in 1646 in Hilderston, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. He was Christened on Feb 28,1647 in Mid Calder, Midlothian, Scotland. He immigrated to the American Colonies by 1664 as he married Annika “Anna” Jergensen Kyn in Upland, Delaware, British Colonial America.

He was a prosperous merchant and notably one of the few non-Swedes living in the New Swedish settlement along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania in the 1660s.

Their seven children are:

1. James (1664-1706)
2. Eleanor (abt.1669-)
3. Catherine (1671-1720). m. Jasper Yeates (1670-1720)
4. Christian (1672-1694)
5. Mary (abt.1674-) m. Maurice Trent (-1697), Robert French (-1713), and Robert Gordon.
6. Jonas (1678-1730)
7. Lydia (1680-1694)

He is buried 11 April 1692 at St Paul's Episcopal church, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. His widow, Anna, remarried to Peter Baynton (-abt.1710) (an English immigrant) and they had a daughter, Rebecca (Baynton) Weston (abt.1693-). Anna was buried with James after her death however, and "An elaborate slab of gray sandstone was located opposite the pulpit" to mark their last resting place. ^[1]

The Swedish Colonial Society research information: by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig

Anna Keen was married about 1668 to James Sandelands, an English soldier of Scotch birth who obtained a 200-acre patent on Upland Creek on 4 Aug. 1668 and his discharge from the army in 1669. He died in Chester, 12 April 1692, survived by his wife, two married daughters (Eleanor, wife of George Foreman, and Catharine, wife of Jasper Yeates) and five minor children: Christian, Mary, James, Jonas and Lydia. Anna then married Peter Baynton (English) in 1692 and had an additional child, Rebecca, born c. 1693/4. Her second husband deserted her and returned to England. Anna was buried 5 Oct. 1704 at St. Paul’s Church in Chester, beside her first husband.

Sources

• https://colonialswedes.net/kyn/

1. ↑ History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Vol I Chapter VIII, Chester.

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
• "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTT8-MD7 : 12 February 2020), James Sandilands, Feb 28,1647. [Christening Record; Mid Calder, Midlothian Scotland; Father: William Sandilands, Mother: Elizabeth Cunningham]]
• "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBBJ-882 : 12 February 2020), James Sandilands in entry for Sandilands, 1686.
• "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Deaths and Burials, 1856-1971", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CY8-7MB1 : 12 January 2021), James Sandelands, 1692.
• Jordan, John W. "Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania : genealogical and personal memoirs." vol. 5, Lewis Pub. Co., 1934
• James Sandilands birth, marriage, father in law, death and other information found starting on page 37 of the book "Some Sandlin Descendants"…book written by J.C. Weeks

See also:

• Find A Grave
• Ancestry Profile 1
• Ancestry Profile 2

Research Notes

Notations on James Sandiland and wife Anna (Kyn) Sandiland:

"James Sandilands and his wife, Anna, were prominent in the early history of the colony. Part of St. Paul's Church was erected over their graves and an elaborate slab of gray sandstone was located opposite the pulpit marked their last resting place", according to the book History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Vol I Chapter VIII, Chester.

"James Sandilands was born Feb. 28, 1646 in Scotland most likely Hilderstown. That was where his parents were born. His parents were William Sandilands b. 1620 in Hilderstown, Scotland.”….. excerpted

Land Grant of James Sandiland:

"On 13 June 1670 he had a grant of land in Delaware county Pennsylvania. Located in Upland County, now Chester Co, it was bounded on the SW by the kill, one the NE by lands of Neils Lawson, on the E by land of Jurian Keen (Anna Keen‘s father and his father-in-law), and N and W by lands of Niels Matson. The land consisted 5 acres……excerpted from “The History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania” by George Smith M.D. 1862.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Jim Bowers for creating WikiTree profile Sandilands-33 through the import of Bowers Family Tree.ged on Jul 7, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jim and others.