• Spouse: �VIEL�, Egbert Ludovicus, General [1825-1902] American military officer and engineer
• Daughter: �VIEL�, Kathlyne [1853-?] American genealogist and historian
• Son: �VIEL�, Herman Knickerbocker [1856-1908] American novelist, playwright, author, artist
• Son: �VIEL�-GRIFFIN, Francis [1864-1937] American expatriate poet
• Grandaughter: �VIEL�, Emily [1865-?] American poet and novelist

Eighth child of the Archbishop �Edwin Sandys and his sixth son, was born on September 30, 1572 between eight and nine o'clock at night. His godfathers were Henry, Earl of Huntington, and William Lord Sandes, his godmother, Lady Margaret Tailboies. [The Genesis of the United States, p.992]

Sands Point, Long Island, NY, is named for him.

Comfort Sands (1748-1843) lived far longer than most people of his time and had an illustrious carreer like his brother, the Colonel [John IV, 1737-1811]. ... A substantial businessman, he was a founding director of the Bank of New York in 1784. Comfort was 17 when he was part of a group that burned 10 bales of papers brought over from London. Four years later, he joined an association that vowed not to import goods from Great Britain until the repeal of the Tea Act and the Act imposing duties on glass and paint. In 1774, he was appointed by Congress to be a member of the Committee of 60, to carry out the non-importation resolution. He was subsequently elected a member of the Provincial Congress and served on the Committee of Safety. Although he stayed away from Long Island to avoid capture during the war, he supported the Revolution by serving on various provisional bodies. He also aided the cause [by] using merchant ships that he owned, and lost one vessal to the British that had a cargo worth �10,000. He later accepted an appointment as auditor general of the State of New York, a position he held until his resignation in 1782. [Kent, Joan Gay; Discovering Sands Point; 2000, ISBN 0-9705843-0-X]

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• Son: �SANDS, Robert Charles [1799-1832] American writer and poet
• Brother: �SANDS, Joshua [1757-1835] American soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman

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She was murdered and her body thrown down a well. Her accused murderer, Levi Weeks [1776-1819], a local carpenter, retained a defense team of renowned lawyers in the first recorded murder trial in the United States, the infamous Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800. He was acquitted after but 5 minutes deliberation in a very unpopular decision.

Weeks' defense counsel included �Aaron Burr, �Alexander Hamilton, and �Henry Brockholst Livingston. (Burr and Hamilton, of course, would meet four years later in the most famous duel in American history.)

A sea-faring man, John set up a shipping business about 1696. About 1700 he brought the first seeds or saplings of locust trees from Virginia to Long Island. They proved so hardy and prolific that the name of the locality was changed from Buckram to Locust Valley, which name remains today. Many a sound New England wood fence was founded on the particularly dense and rot-resistant locust posts from trees descended from those introduced by John.

About the year 1796, when America was at war for a few weeks with the French Consulate, Joseph Sands was supercargo on an American vessel when the ship was captured by the French and Joseph was taken prisoner. He was incarcerated in the Conciergerie. The Governor of the prison was an Austrian Major, Mathias Kampfel, whose daughter Maria Theresa, was an attractive girl of fifteen. Joseph promptly fell in love with her. After his release, they were married in Paris in 1801 by Tallyrand, Bishop of Autun. A fellow prisoner was John Vanderlyn, 1775-1852, American artist, b. Kingston, NY, studying in Paris at the time. From the back of a portrait of Joseph Sands is the following:

This crayon [pencil] portrait of Joseph Sands, son of �Comfort Sands, was drawn by [John Vanderlyn] in Paris in 1797, out of gratitude, Joseph Sands having paid the artist's debts and procured his release from a French prison. Joseph Sands left this portrait to his daughter Mary, wife of Francis Griffin. She gave it to Joseph Sands, eldest son of her brother, Charles Edwin Sands of Annandale, Dutchess Co, NY, with the express wish that it descend in the male line of Charles E. Sands' family.

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• Brother: �SANDS, Comfort [1748-1834] American merchant

SANDS, Joshua Ratoon, naval officer, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 13, 1795; son of the Hon. Joshua Sands. He was appointed midshipman in the U.S. navy, June 18, 1812; served under Commodore Chauncey on Lake Ontario, in the action with the Royal George; was transferred to the Madison in April, 1813, and carried orders from Chauncey to the different vessels during the engagement resulting in the capture of Toronto, and also took part in the capture of Fort George. He was attached to the Pike, and served on shore in a battery in 1814, until ordered to the frigate Superior. He was attached to the Washington in the Mediterranean, 1815-18; was promoted lieutenant, April 1, 1818, served on board the Hornet off the coast of Africa, and in the West Indies in 1819; on the Franklin on Pacific coast, 1821-24; on the Vandalia, Brazil, 1828-30; was on recruiting duty, 1830-40; was promoted commander, Feb. 23, 1841, and was at the navy yard, New York, 1841-43. He commanded the Falmouth in the Gulf and West Indies, 1843-45; the Vixen during the Mexican war; took part in the capture of Alverado, Tabasco and Laguna, and was made governor of Laguna. He engaged the castle of San Juan d'Ulloa from Point Horwas in the attack on Vera Cruz; assisted in the capture of Tampico and Tuspan in 1847, and was intrusted with various trophies of war, which he conveyed horse, together with despatches and a letter to the navy department commending his action in the engagements. He commanded the North Carolinas, 1848-50; the frigate St. Lawrence at the World's fair in England, and at Portugal in 1851, and was promoted Captain, Feb. 25, 1854. He commanded the Susquehanna in Central America; in the Mediterranean and in England, 1856; was engaged in laying the Atlantic cable in 1857, and was a member of the expedition to Central America against General Walker's filibusters. He commanded the Brazilian squadron on the flagship Congress, 1859-61; was retired by age limit, Dec. 21, 1861, and was promoted commodore on the retired list, July 16, 1862, and rear-admiral, July 25, 1866. He served as light-house inspector on Lakes Erie and Ontario and the St. Lawrence river, 1862-66, and as port-admiral at Norfolk, Va., 1869-72. He gave the sword and epaulets presented him by the citizens of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the gold snuff box inlaid with diamonds, the gift of Queen Victoria in 1851, to the Historical society of Brooklyn. He was senior officer of the navy on the retired list at the time of his death, which occurred in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 2, 1883. BDNA

He was secretary to his kinsman, Com. Joshua R. Sands, aboard the U.S. Frigate Susquehanna, which in 1857 took part in the laying of the first trans-Atlantic cable, from Ireland to the United States.

He was a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution.

Supposed provisioner of Capt. William Kidd; Following the death of her husband, the wealthy widow bought a large plantation on Fisher's Island, near Mystic. Captain Kidd made the little harbor there his port, alternating this anchorage with Gardiner's Bay. Mercy provisioned him, and boarded a strange lady whom he called his wife for a considerable time. When he was ready to depart, he bade her to hold out her apron, which she did, and he threw in handfuls of gold, jewels, and other precious commodities, until the strings broke, as the wages of her hospitality.

He was one of the "Knickerbocker group", a group which also included Washington Irving, �William Cullen Bryant, James Kirke Paulding, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, Fitz-Greene Halleck, �Joseph Rodman Drake, Lydia M. Child, and Nathaniel Parker Willis. wiki: 

• Father: �SANDS, Comfort [1748-1834] American merchant

Oldest son and first child of Archbishop Edwin Sandys, born on December 28, 1560. He inherited from his father the manor of Ombersley in the county of Westchester. He was Member of Parliament for Ripon, 1586-87, and for Worcestershire, 1609-11. He was knighted at Whitehall on July 23, 1603. He also became a member and shareholder of the Virginia Company in 1612. He became sheriff of Westchestershire in 1618, and Member of Parliament for that county in 1614 and again in 1621-22. He was the ancestor of the barons Sandy of Ombersley, Worcestershire, the most notable one, perhaps, being Samuel Sandys, the first baron, who was born about 1695 and was a grandson of Sir Samuel Sandys of Ombersley, whose son, Edwin Sandys, was his father. His mother was the Baroness Alice Rashout, of Worcestershire. He was noted mainly for his attacks on the government.

• Spouse: �GRIFFIN, Teresa [1832-1906] American author, activist
• Daughter: �VIEL�, Kathlyne [1853-?] American genealogist and historian
• Son: �VIEL�, Herman Knickerbocker [1856-1908] American novelist, playwright, author, artist
• Son: �VIEL�-GRIFFIN, Francis [1864-1937] American expatriate poet
• Grandaughter: �VIEL�, Emily [1865-?] American poet and novelist

• Parent: �VIEL�, Egbert Ludovicus, General [1825-1902] American military officer and engineer
• Parent: �GRIFFIN, Teresa [1832-1906] American author, activist
• Sibling: �VIEL�, Kathlyne [1853-?] American genealogist and historian
• Sibling: �VIEL�, Herman Knickerbocker [1856-1908] American novelist, playwright, author, artist
• Sibling: �VIEL�-GRIFFIN, Francis [1864-1937] American expatriate poet
• Niece: �VIEL�, Emily [1865-?] American poet and novelist

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• Parent: �VIEL�, Egbert Ludovicus, General [1825-1902] American military officer and engineer
• Parent: �GRIFFIN, Teresa [1832-1906] American author, activist
• Sibling: �VIEL�, Kathlyne [1853-?] American genealogist and historian
• Sibling: �VIEL�, Herman Knickerbocker [1856-1908] American novelist, playwright, author, artist
• Daughter: �VIEL�, Emily [1865-?] American poet and novelist
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