When Woodward Sanford was born in 1723, in Newport, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Captain Ezbon Sanford, was 30 and his mother, Mary Woodward, was 23. He married Mehitable about 1743, in Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in Newport, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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On July 17, 1723, twenty-eight pirates are hung in Newport, Rhode Island.
The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the United States.
On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
English (Devon): variant of Sandford .
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