moved to Long Island, NY from Block Island, RI with brother around 1691.

Samuel Sands married Dorothy Ray (Theodosia's great grandparents) whose family had come from England to Massachusetts, acquired large land holdings, became officials in the Plymouth Colony, had a brother who married into the family of Roger Williams and had two nieces who married governors of the Province of Rhode Island. Dorothy and her husband Samuel had six children. They also had Native American slaves. It was one of their daughters, Mercy, who married Richard Stillwell (Theodosia's grandparents) around 1708.