Benjamin Burgess (1762 - 1853)

Born 19 Jan 1762 in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Hovey) Burgess — married Aug 1788 in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 25 Apr 1853 at age 91 in Woodville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

THE BURGESS FAMILY^[1]

Seth Burgess, the Cornwallis grantee, was a son of Benjamin M.D., and Mercy Burgess, of Dartmouth, Mass., and was b. May 22, 1736. He m. June 5, 1757, Abigail Howe, and in 1760 removed to Cornwallis. He d. there, Jan. 10,1795; his wife d. in 1801. Children:

1. Mary, m. to Eliakim Parker and had 8 children.
2. Thankful, m. to John, son of John and Mercy (Barnaby) Newcomb, and had 11 children, the eldest of whom Abigail, b. Apr. 10, 1781, was m. to Daniel Cogswell.
3. Benjamin, b. Feb. 19, 1762, m. in Aug. 1788, Abigail Hovey. Children:

Mercy, b. May 24, 1789, m. Nov. 9, 1814, to Elias Calkin;

Seth, b. Dec. 23, 1790, m. Feb. 24, 1823, Rebecca Ann Cummings;

Stephen, b. Nov. 2, 1792, m. Mar. 21, 1821, Elizabeth Nesbit;

Abigail, b. June 28, 1795, d. Nov. 15, 1818;

Earl, b. Feb. 10, 1797, m. Jan. 4, 1837, Pamelia Condon;

John b. June 8, 1800, m. Jan. 13, 1837, Hannah Chase, and had 5 children;

Mary, b. Oct. 30, 1802, d. Mar. 18, 1830;

Benjamin, b. Oct. 8, 1804, m. (1) Sept. 23, 1828, Hannah Cummings;

Sarah Alice, b. May 11, 1806, m. to David Condon;

William Forsyth, b. Oct. 15, 1809, m. Sept. 24, 1845, Rachel R. Newcomb.

1. Earl, b. June 18, 1764, d. aged 14.

Sources

1. ↑ A Burgess Genealogy published in 1865, gives further details of the family. In its own name and through intermarriage with the families of Calkin, Chase, Condon, Cummings, Kinsman and Newcomb, the Burgess family has had great prominence in the county.

• Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, M. A., D. C. L., The History of Kings County Nova Scotia (The Salem Press Company, Salem, Massachusetts, 1910; Title page also gives ..... Heart of the Acadian Land - Giving a Sketc), p. 593.