When Peleg Sanford was born on 9 July 1735, in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Captain Ezbon Sanford, was 41 and his mother, Mary Woodward, was 35. He died on 20 April 1756, in Nova Scotia, British North America, at the age of 20.
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The siege of Louisbourg in present day Cape Breton Island started on May 11, 1745. There was already 1500 British troops there soon 200 French arrived to fight them. Many of the fisheries in the area were destroyed which hurt the province. The battle lasted until June 28, 1745, when the French surrendered.
English (Devon): variant of Sandford .
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