admin Saffords of New York
Following are the names and residences of Saflords, heads of families, who were residents of New York city, 1800-1851, according to the New York city directories of those years.
1818 – Joseph, mariner, 64 Pump Street.
1827 – Joseph, mariner, 113 Forsyth Street.
1828 – Joseph, mariner, 30 Suffolk Street.
1829 – Joseph, mariner, 82 Suffolk Street.
1830 – Nancy, widow of Joseph, 43 Chapel Street.
1831-2- Jabez E., mariner, 96 Willett Street.
1834-5 – David, 9 Maiden Lane, house, 6 Dey Street.
1837 – Jabez E., lumber merchant, West Street near Leroy Street.
1838 – Jabezj R, linnber merchant. West Street near Clarkson Street.
1839-40 – Jabez E,, lumber merchant, 33 Charlton Street.
1839- David, 20 Bleeker Street.
1841-42- Nathaniel, flour merchant, 107 Broad Street, house 155 Macdougal Street.
1842- John L., flour merchant, 107 Broad Street.
1844- E. W., leather merchant 11 Jacob Street, boards 14 Beekman Street.
1845- E. W., leather merchant, 9 Jacob Street, boards 78 Beekman Street.
1845 – John L., commission merchant, 23 Coenties Slip, house 15 University Place.
1845 – John, commission merchant, 60 Pine Street.
1847 – John, Jr., commission merchant, 60 Pine Street, house, 21 West Washington Place.
1848 – Catherine A., widow, James D., 120 Twelfth Street.
1848 – John, Jr., commission merchant, 60 Pine Street.
1848 – Nathaniel, commission merchant, 60 Broad Street.
1848 – Nathaniel, lumber merchant, house, 152 West 21st Street.
1849 – Catherine A., widow, James D., 203 Sixth lAvenue.
1849 – John Jr., commission merchant, 33 Broad Street, boards, London Terrace, 15 West 23rd Street.
1849- E. W., accountant. 46 Ferry Street, boards 90 Qiff Street.
1850 – E. W., accountant, 46 Ferry Street, boards 236 East Broadway.
1850- E. W., leather merchant, 17 Ferry Street, boards 90 Cliff Street.
1850 – Catherine A., widow, James D., 185 Sixth Avenue.
1851 – Catherine A., widow, James D., 185j Sixth Avenue.
1850-51 – George E., medicines, curtain fixtures, 78 Anthony Street, boards Mansion House.
1850 – Nathaniel, commission merchant, 30 Front Street, house, Brooklyn.
1850 – John Jr., commission merchant, 71 Pine Street.
1851 – John Jr., commission merchant, 19 Beaver Street, house, 15 London Terrace, West 23rd Street.
1851 – E. W., leather merchant, 33 Spruce Street, boards 90 Cliff Street.
These conveyances of real estate from and to Saff ords are recorded in the office of the register of deeds. New York city.
GRANTORS
Jabez E., and others to Jesse K. Weeks, December 27, 1838.
Jabez E., trustee, to John D. Wolf, February 19, 1838.
Jabez E., trustee, to John G. Tibbets, April 21, 1838.
Jabez E., trustee, to Henry H. Dexter, March 11, 1839.
Jabez E., trustee, to Mary Coit, March 11, 1839.
Jabez E., trustee, to Mathias B. Ward and others, March 11, 1839.
GRANTEES.
Jabez E., from William A. Coit, September 16, 1837.
Jabez E., from Stephen Cambreling, master in chancery, November 15, 1837.
Catherine A., from Thomas Moore, September 28, 1852.
Joseph Safford, mariner, was living in 1818 at 64 Pump Street with Henry Purdy, whose residence had been there for several years preceding. He married Ann or Nancy Purdy, bron in 1795, a daughter of Henry Purdy, and died in 1829 or 1830, his widow appearing in the directory of 1830, at 43 Chapel Street. The widow Saffordsoon married again, her second husband being Henry T. Gray, a shipping merchant of New York City, who died in 1852. She had several children by her first husband and possibly also by her second husband.
Letters of administration in the Surrogates office New York city.
December 10, 1853, to Chester Safford, on the estate of his deceased son, George R. Safford.
May 7, 1869, to Henrietta F. Safford, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on the estate of her deceased husband, John J. Safford, of Orange, N. J., who left an estate in New York.
SOURCE: Vol, 4, No 5, May 1914 Genealogy: a journal of American ancestry
