Sarah (Thorpe) Hanford (abt. 1748 - 1811)

Descendants

Died 10 Mar 1811 at about age 63 in Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick

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Biography

Sarah Thorpe was born in America about 1748. She married Lt Josiah Wheeler. He died at New York in 1782. Sarah and her three children, Josiah, Sarah and Zolman, arrived in New Brunswick in Aug 1783. She married, as his third wife, Capt. Thomas Hanford on Feb 29, 1784 and had two more children. This is her testimony in her American Loyalist Claim, submitted Jan 27, 1787.

Children of Sarah Thorpe and Josiah Wheeler

Sarah and Josiah had the following children:^[1]

1. Josiah, b. 1766; recorded on a land petition, Saint John with his brother, Zalmon^[2]
2. Sarah, b. 1770
3. Zalmon, b. abt 1773 at Fairfield, Connecticut; d. 10 Mar 1845, Carleton, St. John, New Brunswick;^[3][4] married and settled in Saint John

Last Will and Testament of Thomas Hanford, son of Capt. Thomas Hanford, Sr.

HANFORD

Given Names Thomas

Date of Will 1795-01-14

Date Will was proved 1795-04-07

Was an inventory completed? No

County Saint John

Parish City of Saint John

Probate is for a woman? No

Abstract references a vessel? No

Abstract City of Saint John, St. John County, "late Bookkeeper to James HAYT." Will dated 14 January 1795, proved 7 April 1795. Entire estate to step-mother Sarah HANFORD, widow of my late deceased Father, and my two half brothers (her sons by my Father) James and Charles HANFORD. Step mother Sarah HANFORD sole executrix. Witnesses: Robert ANDREW, Silvanus WHITNEY, William CLARK. On 2 April 1795 Sarah HANFORD renounced executorship, requesting that James HAYT, merchant, of Saint John, be appointed administrator. James HAYT duly sworn as administrator on 20 August 1795.

Children of Sarah (Thorpe) Wheeler and Thomas Hanford

1. James Thorpe 5; b. Wednesday, April 20, 1785; bap. by Rev. Mr. Cook at the city of St. John, New Brunswick, Sept. 25, 1785; Mr. Munson Jarvis, godfather
2. Isaac Charles 5; b. May 13, 1787; bap. July 8, 1787 by Rev. Mr. Clarke in the city of St. John, New Brunswick, Stephen Hoyt, godfather

Capt. Thomas Hanford, Sr., was lost in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with four others: Josiah Wheeler, Gough, Wall Whitney and a boy, on their passage from St. John to Quebec in the sloop Huron, Oct. 1793.

The widow, Sarah, died at St. John, New Brunswick, March 10, 1811 at the age of 63.^[5] Son, Thomas, died at St. John, Jan. 1795.^[6] Son, Elnathan, died in Connecticut. Son, Isaac Charles, perished in a hurricane in the brig Blucher on the way to St. Thomas from Jamaica, August 1822. [Filled in by last surviving son James Thorpe Hanford, in 1858.]

Sources

1. ↑ New Brunswick Genealogical Society First Familes: WHEELER: Josiah Wheeler of Fairfield, CT; d. 1782; m. Sarah : accessed 28 Feb 2022
2. ↑ Provincial Archives of New Brunswick : Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 (RS108) WHEELER, Josiah; Saint John
3. ↑ Provincial Archives of New Brunswick : Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics Zalmon Wheeler
4. ↑ Provincial Archives of New Brunswick : Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997 (RS686) WHEELER, Zalmon; Saint Martins Parish, Saint John, New Brunswick; 1815-04-27
5. ↑ Provincial Archives of New Brunswick : Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics Sarah widow of Thos. HANFORD
6. ↑ Provincial Archives of New Brunswick : Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835 Hanford, Thomas

• Augustus C. Golding (1936) Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hanford Vol 1 - Six Generations, Norwalk CT, p. 24
• Sarah Thorpe Hanford Find A Grave: Memorial #222181682
• Atlantic Loyalist Connections Sarah Hanford Wheeler’s loyalist claim : (AO 12, volume 1, p. 248, originals, The National Archives, UK) : accessed 28 Feb 2022
• The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies Memorial of Sarah Wheeler : Great Britain, Public Record Office, Headquarters Papers of the British Army in America, PRO 30/55/4461.
• The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies A History of the Prince Of Wales' American Regiment - Part 6 of 7