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State of Service: CT/VT
Qualifying Service: Major / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Also known as West Claremont Burying Ground, West Part Church Yard
Author: Edwin W. Kingsbery
Judge Sanford Kingsbury (P-230271) was born April 7, 1743 and graduated Yale College in 1763 and Dartmouth College in 1801. On January 9, 1776 he married Elizabeth Fitch, daughter of Captain John and Alice Fitch of Windham. Elizabeth was born October 4, 1743. After his marriage he settled in that part of Windham called Scotland. He relocated to Claremont, New Hampshire about 1780.
He was appointed Second Lieutenant by the General Assembly in 1776 and was appointed Captain in the Third Battalion of State Troops in November, 1776. He was on the staff of General Spencer and later the staff of General Sullivan as Lieutenant-Colonel. He was author of the Muster Roll that was adopted by Congress and he was subsequently appointed Muster Master for the Connecticut troops. He also served as Major at the Fort at Ticonderoga until the end of the war. In the summer of 1781 he served on the northern frontier under the command of General Enos. The regiment was engaged in scouting on the west side of Connecticut.
The English Government had granted 100,000 acres of land on the Island of Cape Breton to 100.izens of Claremont (presumably for services in the old French War) and he was appointed agent for the others to go to Cape Breton and survey and divide the land among its grantees. Accordingly he went and laid out the city of Mira at the head of the Mira River. At the time he completed this survey he and his men were arrested and imprisoned in order to make them swear allegiance to the King of England. Though his men took the oath, he refused, and was kept in prison longer, but, remaining obdurate, was finally released.
Sanford Kingsbury held the offices of Justice of the Peace, State Senator, Councilor, Representative to the Convention for forming a State Constitution and was prominent in town affairs. Also, he was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas citfor the County of Cheshire in 1783. He was made a trustee for Charlestown Academy in 1781. He died in Claremont on November 12, 1833 at the age of 90.
Source: The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. Published 1905
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