Sanford, Jonah, 1790-1867

found: Richards, J. In Assembly, February 11, 1828. Report of the commissioners, relative to a road from Lake Champlain to Hopkinton, 1828:p. 2 (Jonah Sanford; commissioner)

found: Sanford, C.E. Thomas Sanford, 1911:p. 451, etc. (Jonah Sanford; served in War of 1812; justice of the peace, 1818-40; lawyer; supervisor, Hopkinton, N.Y., 1823-26; appointed a commissioner by act of legislature to lay out a state road, 1827; mem., N.Y. State Assembly, 1829-30; mem., 21st Congress, 1830-31; mem., N.Y. State Militia; judge, court of common pleas, 1831-37; served in Civil War; b. 11/30/1790; d. 12/25/1867)

found: Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress, viewed online, July 10, 2017(SANFORD, Jonah, (great-grandfather of Rollin Brewster Sanford), a Representative from New York; born in Cornwall, Vt., Nov. 30, 1790; attended the district schools; moved to Hopkinton, N.Y., in 1811; enlisted as a volunteer and participated in the battle at Plattsburg, Sept. 11, 1814; appointed justice of the peace in 1818 and served for twenty-two years; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Franklin County; supervisor of Hopkinton 1823-1826; commissioned a captain of Volunteer Cavalry in 1827; promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1828, colonel in 1831, and brigadier general of State militia in 1832 and 1833; member of the State assembly in 1829 and 1830; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr., and served from Nov. 3, 1830, to Mar. 3, 1831; judge of the court of common pleas 1831-1837; delegate to the convention to revise the State constitution in 1846; became a Republican upon the formation of that party in 1856; raised a regiment during the Civil War and was elected its colonel; died in Hopkinton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., on December 25, 1867; interment in Hopkinton Cemetery)