Samuel Sands (1656 - 1730)

Born 1656 in Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Ray) Kenyon — married [date unknown] in Block Island, Washington Co., RI

Descendants

Died 1730 at about age 74 in Cowneck, Nassau, New York

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Biography

Samuel was the son of Capt. James and Sarah (Walker) Sands, reportedly born in 1656 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He was named a son of James Sands of Oysterbay, New York in a deposition in a law suit brough by James's brother James Jr. against Nathaniel Dunn of Block Island (a.k.a. New Shoreham), Rhode Island.^[1]

m1. Dorothy Ray (sister of Sybil, wife of John Selleck) ^[2]

m2. Elizabeth ____

• "Austin state that she(Dorothy) married Samuel Sands of Cow Neck, Long Island, N.Y., son of James and Sarah (Walker) Sands; but the present writer has never seen any proof of this alleged marriage..."

Issue: ^[3]

1. Sybil SANDS b, abt. 1688 m. Jonathan Rogers
2. Ann SANDS b. abt. 1685 m. abt 1715 James Ferris b: ABT 1673 in Throgs Neck, Westchester CO., NY.
3. Sarah SANDS b abt. 1697 m. 17 OCT 1713 to Nathan Sellick
4. Mary SANDS
5. Samuel SANDS
6. Margary aka Mercy SANDS b: 1693 in Long Island, New York m. Richard Stillwell

Marriage 2 Elizabeth LESSIT

Married: ABT 1687 in Block Island, Washington Co., RI

Marriage 1 Mary Ray b: 19 MAY 1667 in Block Island, Washington Co., Rhode Island - d: Bef 1698 Cow Neck, LI.

Death: 1716 in Long Island City, Queens County, New York

Will, Abstract of

In the name of God, Amen. December 11, 1713. I, SAMUEL SANDS, of Cow Neck, in Hempsted, in Queens County, on Long Island, alias Nassau Island, yeoman, being very sick. I direct all debts to be paid. I leave to my daughter Sybell, wife of Jonathan Rogers, of New London, Connecticutt, one shilling, she having already received what I design for her. I leave to my daughter Margary, wife of Richard Stillwell, of New York, two bonds of Mr. Richbell Mott, of œ30 each. Also a silver tankard, and œ10, and œ5 due to me from Stephen Johnson, of Staten Island. Also a cow the next spring after my decease. I leave to my third daughter, Anne, œ100, and a Great Looking glass in the Great room, and all the small pictures around it, and two silver spoons marked S. M. and an S. at the top. And a silver tumbler marked S. S. and a bed with curtains and Valences, and 10 sheep and a cow, and she is to have her living on the farm I now live on, while she continues unmarried. I leave to my daughter Sarah, wife of Nathan Sellick, of Stanford, in New England, œ35 in addition to her portion already received. I leave to my daughter Mary, œ100, and a bed with curtains and Valences, and all other apurtenances, and two silver spoons and a silver tumbler, and marked S. M. and S. at the top. Also a Dutch wheel and an Indian boy, and she is to have her living on the farm. My land and stock on Block Island, and my land in New York, are to be sold to pay legacies, if there is any necessity for it. I leave to my dearly beloved wife Elizabeth, œ40 per annum. If there is any dispute about the legacy left to my wife, I give her the use of 1/2 of all my estate for life. I leave to my son, Samuel Sands, all my lands and messuages, to him and his heirs. I make my wife and Mr. Richbell Mott, of Madnan's Neck, executors. ^[4]

His will mentions children (all by 1st wife):

1. Sybell, wife of Jonathan Rogers, of New London, Connecticut
2. Margery, wife of Richard Stillwell of New York
3. Anne, unmarried
4. Sarah, wife of Nathan Sellick of Stanford (Connecticut)
5. Mary
6. Samuel

Sources

1. ↑ Fiske, Jane Fletcher Gleanings from Newport Court Files, 1659-1783 (Boxford, Mass., 1998) Item 143.
2. ↑ Selleck, William Edwin. Selleck and Peck Genealogy (Chicago, 1912) Page 40.
3. ↑ Norman Davis, Westchester Patriarchs, (Bowie, MD, 1988, Heritage Books, Inc.), p. 209
4. ↑ Collections of the New-York Historical Society (New York, 1903) Vol. 35: Abstracts of Unrecorded Wills, Vol. 11, Prior to 1790. Page 16.

• Census of Hempstead, New York, 1698. New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Record, Volume XLV (45), 1914. pp. 54-68. Sands families appear on p. 64.
• Hicks, Benjamin D., editor. Records of the towns of North and South Hempstead, Long island, New York. Jamaica, N.Y.: Long Island Farmer Print, 1896-1904. Several references found in Volume 2, the earliest of which appears to date from 1695.
• Moriarty, G. Andrews. Early Block Island Families - The Ray Family, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1932) Vol. 86, Page 327.