Excerpt from Memoir of the Rev. Joseph Sanford, A. M: Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
The rev. Joseph sanford was born on the sixth day of February, 1797. He was the youngest of three children. His parents were originally from the town of Southbury, Fairfield county, Connecticut. His father was the son of Joseph and Ann Sanford. His mother was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Strong, all of Southbury, Connecticut. It is believed that both his father and his grandfather were soldiers in the memorable war which resulted in the estab lishment of the independence of our beloved country. His parents, a few years after their marriage, removed from Connecticut to Vermont, where the subject of these memoirs was born. Shortly after that event they removed to Sara toga county, in the state of New York, where they continued to reside until July 1816, when they again removed, and settled in Cayuga county, in the same state. They were both, there is good reason to believe, savingly acquainted with the Lord Jesus Christ, and they carefully instructed their children in the principles of the Christian religion. His father died in the year 1826; his venerable mother is still living.
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