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John Bourroughs was born in England in about 1617.[1][2][3] He died in 1678[4][3] in Newtown, Queens, New York, which is now the Elmhurst section of Queens.
According to James Riker, "upon his removal to Newtown, [John] became a leading man, and being a skillful penman, a quite rare accomplishment in those days, he filled the office of town clerk for eleven years. He appears to have been a resolute character, and a warm advocate of popular rights..."[5]
He married twice. His first wife is thought to be Joanna Jessup,[3] whom he wed in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. They had four children: Joanna about 1641, Jeremiah about 1642, Joseph about 1644 and Mary about 1649. His second wife was Elizabeth (Pettit) Reed, widow of Thomas Reed, and possibly the daughter of Thomas and Christian (Mellowes) Pettit. John and Elizabeth had a son John Jr. b. 1665 at Newtown.
John Burroughs of Newtown, Queens Co, NY, left a will dated 2 Jul 1678. The will mentioned his wife, son Jeremiah, son Joseph, son John (a minor not yet 21), daughters Joanna Reeder and Mary Burroughs.[6]
His son, Jeremiah Burroughs, was executor, witnesses were Thomas Petit and Gershom Moore. An inventory of the estate of John Burroughs was taken on 29 Aug 1678 in Queens Co, NY.
No certainty exists about John Burroughs's birthplace or year of immigration to the New World. At one point this biography showed an unsourced birth date of December, 1611. The 1617 year comes from a court deposition of 13 August 1667 in which John was "aged about 50 yeres."
Several sources state that John was the man of a similar name found at Salem by 1637.[4][7][8] According to Steve Warling, this was John Barrows Barrow-99 who arrived on the Mary Ann and later lived in Plymouth. Robert Charles Anderson states that this John Burroughs was not seen again after 1644, as does Gale Ion Harris — meaning at a minimum that they find no evidence conclusively showing that he was any man with a similar name appearing in later records. That man was said to be 28 years old in 1637 when "examined" before his passage, desiring to pass to Salem in New England.[9] This would have him 7–8 years older than the man at Newtown, casting serious doubt on their identification as the same man.
Some sources say that before arriving in Salem, he was a member of the Long Parliament, which Oliver Cronwell dissolved. Burroughs emigrated, fleeing religious persecution. [10]
Various online sources state, with no evidence, that John Burroughs's second wife was Elizabeth (Jessup) Reed, the sister of his first wife Joanna. It is then very difficult to explain why she named in her will a sister Hannah Pettit. If Elizabeth were a Jessup, we would need a likely candidate for a Hannah Jessup who married a Pettit, and none presents herself. We would also need an Elizabeth Jessup who married a Reed, and again, we are at a loss. On the other hand, there is a natural reason for how she erroneously became a Jessop -- confusion with John Burrough's first wife, which at some point morphed into the statement that they were sisters.
On 22 January 1657, John Burroughes of the town of "Midle Burrough" petitioned governor Stuysevant. The complaint was that the town had set aside property and erected a house for a minister, and that "some of the town" had given the property to Mr. More for his own use, which would leave the town "destitute." Inferring from the rest of the test, it would seem that the complaint was that the land should have remained property of the town, and not Rev. Moore's property, since if he died the town would no longer have the property and would still have to attract another minister to come and live.[11]
On 12 May 1664, the general assembly at Hartford, Connecticut accepted John Burroughs along with several other Newtown men as freemen.[12]
John was town clerk in Newtown for several years, so he appears many times in the town records just in that role.
On 10 December 1667, John Burrough was recorded plaintiff in a lawsuit against several men charging trespass on the case.[13] One Thomas Stevens testified that "he heard a tuemolt and he looked and he saw goodman Burroughs and his two sonns driving cattle..." He goes on to describe a quarrel between Goodman Burroughs and several other men, one of whom called John "oulde Clarke." These corroroborrates John only having two sons old enough to drive cattle in this year, Jeremiah and Joseph, while son John was only two years old. "Clarke" presumably refers to John's position as town clerk.
In a tax list from September 1675, John appears on the 8th line, shown with two males, land and meadow valued at 40 (surpassed only by three other residents), 1 horse, 4 oxen, 4 cows, 4 yearlings, and 24 sheep (a sheep count surpassed by only one othe resident).[14] Sons Jeremiah and Joseph appear elsewhere in the list, so it seems either 10-year-old son John was old enough to qualify as an addiditional male or else there was another older unknown male in the household.
On 8 January 1675, John Burroughs of Newtown was summoned before the New York Colonial Council with the constable "for two letters reflecting on the government." On 13 January 1675, we was sentenced "to be whipped and imprisoned," and a warrant was issue to the sheriff to carry out the sentence.[15] His son John would only have been around 12, so this must be John the immigrant. It is to be wondered if this sentence was carried out, and if so, if it was related to his death a few years later.
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Categories: English of Colonial Long Island
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https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044010737849?urlappend=%3Bseq=318%3Bownerid=4956489-376
and here he is in Salem
https://archive.org/details/townrecordsofsalv1sale/page/n59/mode/2up
RCA says he is not seen again after 1644. If his gold-standard work finds no connection between that man and John Burroughs of Newtown, there is surely no known evidence to credibly link them beyond the suggestion that they may have been the same.
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Having need of a cooper and a disappearance from Salem around the same time as an appearance in New Haven of a man with a similar common name soon after is, IMO, too speculative to say that they are the same man that should have the same Wikitree profile.
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I wrote out RCA in full in the earlier comment: he is Robert Charles Anderson, one of the most respected professional genealogists of all time. The Great Migration Study Project his his life's work (in collaboration with many others), and you yourself mentioned their newsletter (vol. 9) two comments ago. Wikitree projects were established to help organize collaboration in areas where there are a large number of stakeholders. The PGM project at WikiTree coordinates the profiles of immigrants who came from England to New England by 1640, basically the same group of people that are covered in the Great Migration Study Project.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Puritan_Great_Migration
That they follow RCA unless their is good reason not to is discussed at the very bottom of that page.
John Burrows is in the Great Migration Directory: origin in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, traveled in 1637 on the Mary Anne, then of Salem, not seen after 1644. The sources given are the two I linked in an earlier comment: Hotten, and also the Salem Town Records. For the latter, specifically the transcribed records vol. 1 pages 54, 60, 102, and 128.
For the rest of the evidence in your latest comment:
What evidence is there that Rev. John Moore of Newtown was in Salem? There was a John Moore in Salem, admitted freeman in 1632, and living there until the mid-1640s, having children through that period. He was then definitely not Rev. John Moore of Newtown. There were other John Moore's down in Dorchester and Cambridge, by 1630 and 1636 resp. The one in Dorchester seemingly had a brother Thomas. There is, as far as I know, no reliable evidence that Rev. John Moore of Newtown had a brother Thomas.
Then, John Burroughs lived at Newtown for a long time, so his being friends with Gershom Moore is not a surprise. It does not prove that Gershom's father had migrated to Long Island together with John.
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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Pre-1700_Profiles#Cite_reliable_sources
Elizabeth's will, as reliable as a source as they come, names her sister Hannah Pettit and provides enough support to declare on this profile that Elizabeth was a Pettit, and definitely not a Jessup.
Edward Jessup 1666 Will ...to my brother in Law John Burroughs & Ralph Hunt
Elizabeth was first married to Thomas Reed who owned a 3 acre house lot (History of Milford page 10) Their daughter Mary Reed married Captain Samuel Moore source Annuals of Newtown page 328 Capt. Samuel Moore held several public offices and served as magistrate for a series of years He died July 25, 1717, and his widow whose maiden name was Mary Reed died May 4, 1738 at 87.
If you do the calculation Mary Reed was born 1651 in Milford Connecticut... Therefore Thomas & Christian Pettit could not of been the parents of her mother ELIZABETH because they were still living in Exeter New Hampshire and were not recorded as living in Middleburg until 1660
I do not believe John Burroughs first wife Johanna was a Jessup... this crazy theory came about because her first name "Johanna" as Edward Jessup's mother was Johannah Kerrich ... In Edwards Jessup's will he mentions his Couzen Johanna Burroughs.. in those days this meant niece.. Johanna Boroughs the daughter of John Burroughs and first wife Johanna married John Reeder II the son of John Reeder I & Margaret Jessup who married second Samuel Toe...
There is this connection of the Jessup & Burroughs .. Rev Jeremiah Burroughs Puritan minister in London exiled to Amsterdam... the English reformed Church was established in Leiden Amsterdam Holland.. Edward Jessup's grand father was a English separatist and fled to Amsterdam both his parents were born in Leiden Amsterdam the Pilgrams had a separatist church in Lieden and were living there before they removed to Plymouth.
Anyway, I changed to a different source for the will and included a link where it can be obtained for free.
https://tinyurl.com/ybsez5wv
https://tinyurl.com/ybsez5wv
John Burroughs ( jr. ) , his only child from second marriage ( to Elizabeth Reed, the widow).