Martha (Wilbor) Burgess (1684 - abt. 1746)

Born 20 Aug 1684 in Sakonnet, Plymouth Colony, Colony of England

Ancestors

Wife of Timothy Closson — married 16 Jun 1702 in Tiverton, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, British Colonial America

Wife of Thomas Burgess III — married 24 Oct 1707 in Little Compton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about Dec 1746 at about age 62 in Little Compton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Biography

Birth

Martha was born on August 20, 1684.^{[1] [2]}

Marriages and Children

1st Marriage, 16 Jun 1702, Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island to Timothy Closson-203

1. Josiah Closson-117, born October 1, 1703; died about 1760
2. Timothy Closson-205, born July 5, 1705; died after 1774

2nd Marriage, 24 Oct 1707, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, to Thomas Burgess-533; married by Joseph Church-16, Justice

1. John, twin, born August 6, 1708; death unknown
2. Joseph Burgess-538, twin, born August 6, 1708; died September 18, 1768
3. John Burgess-539, born January 10, 1711; died April 4, 1796
4. Mary Burgess-540, born September 18, 1712; died about 1744; married John Wood, May 7, 1730
5. Thomas Burgess-541, born May 25, 1714; died May 19, 1792
6. Martha Burgess-542, born March 28, 1716; death unknown
7. Jacob Burgess-543, born November 11, 1717; died September 18, 1768

Burial

Find A Grave: Memorial #79527038 shows death as Dec 1746

Research Notes

Death (Unsourced)

Martha's death date is unproven and unsourced; FindAGrave memorial may be incorrect. A suggested edit has been sent to the memorial creator.

About 1717

The Owl, Volume 29, Acushnet, Massachusetts, December 1927, Number 1

Page 1680: Thomas Burgess, born about 1603, and wife, Dorothy, in Salem, Massachusetts, 1630; then to Saugus; settled in Sandwich, Plymouth, 1637. Thomas died February 13, 1685. Dorothy died February 27, 1687. They had four sons and one daughter. Son, Thomas Burgess married Elizabeth Bassett on November 8, 1648, divorced June 10, 1661; no children. He married second, Lydia Gaunt, and moved from Sandwich to Newport, Rhode Island. Thomas died after 1687, and Lydia died in 1684. They had one son.

Page 1681: Thomas Burgess of the above, born 1668 in Newport, Rhode Island, married in 1691 to Esther Richmond; they had one son and four daughters. She died November 12, 1706. Thomas married second, widow Martha Wilbur Closson who had two children. Thomas and Martha had four sons and two daughters. Martha died about 1717. Thomas married third, Patience; they had one son and three daughters. Thomas died July 1, 1743, and resided in Little Compton, Rhode Island.^[3]

About 1718 or 1720 (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Little_Compton_Families/A5T3atymDIoC?)hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Little+Compton,+Rhode+Island+Quaker+death+records&pg=PA253&printsec=frontcover

Sources

1. ↑ Sites children and wives of many Clossons. - "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VK1N-2JY : 11 February 2018), Josiah Closson and MM9.1.1/VK1N-2JB:, 1682; citing Tiverton,Newport,Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 908,270. page 68 image 368/871
2. ↑ Little Compton Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891), 182. WILBOR, Martha, of Joseph and Anna [born] Aug. 20, 1684.
3. ↑ The Owl, A Genealogical Quarterly Magazine and official journal of the Wing Family of America Incorporated, founded in 1899 by George W. Wing, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, and edited by him until his death in 1924.

• The Owl, A Genealogical Quarterly Magazine and official journal of the Wing Family of America Incorporated, founded in 1899 by George W. Wing, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, and edited by him until his death in 1924.

• Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Thomas Brownell, 1619 to 1910, page 26 & 49. Compiled by George Grant Brownell, Jamestown, New York, 1910; Martin Merz & Son, Printers, Jamestown, New York. Repository, New York Public Library(http://www.archive.org/details/genealogicalreco00brow3)

• Little Compton Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891), 182. WILBOR, Martha, of Joseph and Anna [born] Aug. 20, 1684.

• Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People. By James N. Arnold, Editor of the Narragansett Historical Register. Volume 4. Newport County. Published by the Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891). Little Compton Intentions and Marriages, Page 16(http://archive.org/details/cu31924098819976)

• Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People. By James N. Arnold, Editor of the Narragansett Historical Register. Volume 4. Newport County. Published by the Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891). Little Compton Intentions and Marriages, Page 56(http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924098819976)

• Find A Grave: Memorial #79527038 shows death as Dec 1746

• This person was created through the import of grant2.ged on 07 February 2011.