(Elizabeth Brady daughter of Ruben Brady and wife of David Sands)
The house (c. 1820) of David and Elizabeth Sands still stands on the corner of Route 120 ( Quaker Road) and Hardscrabble Road in Chappaqua, NY (town of New Castle).
Ruben and Elizabeth (Kniffin) Brady (the parents of Elizabeth Brady Sands) are buried in the small Allen Burying Ground which is almost directly across the road from the “Sands House”.
The address is 694 Quaker Road.
This house, while old, is not the original. However it is built on a very old site.
The original house was one of the rather few houses shown on the 1797 map of New Castle by William Adams. He shows the name Brady beside it.
Early town minutes also refer frequently to a John Brady Jr. in this area….as do neighbor deeds, such as the Abel Weeks deed of 1767. (This house was one of TWO Brady houses in the area, the other being that of Jesse Brady.)
The original old house, according to many local legends, was the one at which Major Andre is said to have stopped to ask directions, after having come down Old Millwood Road, and before proceeding down Hardscrabble on this southward trek. The seems a very believable story in view of the strategic position of the house right at the crossroads.
Unfortunately the original house burned, and later another one was erected on the same site.
There are no deeds on file for the property in the very early days. However, we do know that it went to the David Sands family, and that he (David) had married a daughter of the Brady family, namely Elizabeth. She was his first wife, his second was Phebe.
The Sands were an old Quaker family who had emigrated to this area from Long Island, where the well known Sands Point is named after them.
In 1838, David Sands (and his second wife, Phebe) sold the property to Carpenter Hyatt. At that time the farm consisted of a large farm, approximately 60 acres plus various buildings…..
(By a curious coincidence, both David Sands and Carpenter Hyatt, according to the "New York Quaker Records" written by historian John Cox, were deprived of their membership in the Society of Friends because they married non-Quakers.)
Source: "The Early Quaker Hamlet of Old Chappaqua"
prepared by the Chappaqua Historical Society (1972)