Samuel Burgess (abt. 1678)

Born about 1678 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Unknown) Burgess — married before 1704 in Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

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Biography

Samuel Burgess was probably born in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony where his parents resided by July 1657. His birth year is unknown, but estimated about 1678. He married Elizabeth ________, before the birth of their first child in December 1704.^[1]

Samuel was named in his father's will dated 14 August 1700 in which he made bequests to his eldest son John Burg, son Thomas Burg, his wife Mary, daughter Martha (unmarried), his other three sons Joseph, Samuel and Jacob.^[2]

They had nine children born, all recorded in Yarmouth:^[3]

1. Samuel, b. 1704
2. Patience, b. 1706
3. Elizabeth, b. 1708
4. Abigail, b. 1710
5. Jacob, b. 1712
6. Remember, b. 1714
7. Thomas, b. 1721
8. Martha, b. 1723
9. Keziah, bp. 1727

No probate records for Samuel or his wife are found in Barnstable County Probate records, nor is any death record found for Elizabeth or Samuel in the Yarmouth Vital Records.^[4] There is a death recorded at Yarmouth for a Samuel Burgess in 1753, but it belongs to a different man, based on the probate records. (See Research notes.)

Research notes

At one time this profile showed a death date of 26 September 1753. This is the death date of a different man. The Samuel Burgess of Yarmouth who died in 1753 left a will dated on 08 August 1753 in which he named his wife Mary Burgis, daughter Zerviah Burgis, grandchild Timothy Burgis, sons Thaddeus, Benjamin and Jonathan Burgis.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Burgess, Ebenezer. Burgess Genealogy, Memorial to the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess (Boston, MA: T.R. Marvin Co., 1865), p. 17.
2. ↑ Barnstable County Probate Records Vol. 2:127-30.
3. ↑ Sherman, Robert M. and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Yarmouth, MA to the year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1975, second printing 1993), Vol. 1, p. 165.
4. ↑ Katherine W. Hiam, Burgess Genealogy, Descendants of the Four Sons of Thomas and Dorothy (Waynes) Burgess (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1997), pp. 85-88.
5. ↑ Barnstable County Probate Records Vol. 9:26-27

See also:

• "Matinicus Isle - Its Story and Its People", by Charles A. E. Long, printed by the Lewiston Journal Printshop in 1926. (No mention of this Samuel Burgess found.)

• Burgess, Ebenezer. Burgess Genealogy, Memorial to the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess (Boston, MA: T.R. Marvin Co., 1865). 17.