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From Jan Binkley:
"About Bathsheba who m. Thomas Everett Sr. -- I've seen the family name as both Sanda and Sands, plus other options (see below). The Brobst web site inputter chose Sanda -- I expect it's one of those handwriting things --
I often can't tell the difference between a final a and a final s in my
own scribbles. The History of the Town of Southampton (Long Island NY)
pub. 1918 says Sands Point was named after the family -- in an article on
a "sea tiger" captured 1853, written by A. R. Sands (with -s). A William
Eardeley supposedly wrote notes on the Sands (-s) family in Long Island.
The Compendium of Am. Genealogy vol VI says James Sands/Sandes/Sandys
1622-1695 b. in England m. Katherine Walker & Sarah Walker (dau. of John
Walker), moved 1635 to Boston, 1640 Portsmouth RI, then to Block Island
NY. Book called Ancient Town of Pelham (p.7-8) said in 1650s this James
as a young man built a house for Anne Walker Hutchinson, religious leader
who left Boston 1637/38. He went to RI 1642, moved to mouth of Hutchinson
River in NY (Eastchester) summer of 1643; was Dep. Gen. Court for New
Shoreham County 1665, asst. warden 1676, Commander of militia in King
Philip's (Indian) War. That gives us 4 possible spelling of the family
name and the suggestion that it's English."
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