John Burr (abt. 1669 - 1741)

Born about 1669 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut

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Descendants

Died 5 May 1741 at about age 72 in Wintonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut

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HIs birth is estimated 25 years before the birth of his first child.

Biography

This profile, through its gedcom import, gives a birth date for John of 12 May 1670, with no other source mentioned. Lines (following) gives a date of March 1670. All genealogies reviewed agree on the year 1670, but none provide a specific source.

John married Sarah [ ], with no surname nor date of birth. (See Research Note below)

Children of John and Sarah [ ] Burr:

• John, baptized 3 December 1693 - died young.
• John, baptized 8 December 1695 - married [[Root-348|Mary Root]
• Stephen, baptized 27 August 1699
• Noahdiah, baptized 21 December 1701 - married Hannah Gilbert or Gillette
• "Daughter", baptized 12 May 1706 - possibly Sarah - married 1) Joseph Gillette Jr; married 2) Jonathan Sedgwick
• Eunice, baptized 5 January 1706/7 - married Samuel Case
• Miriam, baptized 31 October 1708 - married Nathaniel Case
• Ebenezer, baptized 20 July 1712 - married 1) Hepzibah Brown; married 2) Reliance
• Thankful, baptized 20 July 2012 - married Ephraim Brown
• Lucy, baptized 21 March 1714 - died young
• Gideon, baptized 20 November 1715 - married Eunice Loomis or Hannah Edwards
• Nathaniel, (no date given) - married Hannah Loomis^[1]

On 5 May, 1741, "Dyed John Burr ag^d about 71 years," in Wintonbury, Hartford County.^[2] His Find A Grave memorial recites that he is buried in Old Wintonbury Cemetery, Bloomfield, Hartford County.^[3]

Research Note

• RE: wife's last name. Both Lines and Todd^[4] name spouse Sarah with no surname, no birth date, and no marriage date given.
• Confused Genealogy. This profile originally showed [[Root-348|Mary Root] as John's wife; as stated herein, John's wife was actually named Sarah, with no LNAB. Further, the profile also showed son named John Burr (Burr-262), married to Tabitha Loomis. In actuality, Burr-262 is the grandson of the John Burr of this profile. The missing link is also named John Burr, and there was no profile for him. It has now been created for: [[Burr-1655|John Burr Jr.]. "Junior" is used because he is so referred to as the father in the baptism record of Burr-262.

1. Mary Root is actually the wife of John Jr,
2. The omission of Burr-, is possibly due to the confused profile of family of John Burr as set forth in Todd. In it, he conflates the children of John Burr Sr. and John Burr Jr. into one set of siblings. He omits the real John Burr Jr, and names John the grandson as John Jr.

These errors are corrected in the genealogy set out in Lines, referred to herein.

Sources

1. ↑ Lines, Donald Jacobus; Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut (Baltimore, Maryland; Genealogical Publishing Co.; 2001), page 128. Snippet available from Google Books John Burr.
2. ↑ Wintonbury Church Records, (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. [Online database accessed May 22, 2017: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11741/296/23484545/ Volume 71, page 296.)
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 7 May 2017), Memorial #37814086 for John Burr (1670 - 1741).
4. ↑ Todd, Charles Burr; A General History of the Burr family, with a genealogical record from 1193 to 1891 (New York, Charles Burr Todd, 1891). Available through Internet Archive: (https://archive.org/details/ageneralhistory01toddgoog) 4th Edition (1902.) Page 244.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WB-VMQ : 7 January 2020), John Burr in entry for Ebenezer Burr, 1712.
• "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7B-NDBG : 21 September 2019), John in entry for Thankfull Burr, ; citing Birth, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272224.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WB-J5P : 7 January 2020), John Burr in entry for Gideon Burr, 1715.

Acknowledgement

WikiTree profile Burr-261 created through the import of Putnam2-1_2010-01-02_2011-02-16_2011-10-11.ged on Oct 12, 2011 by John Putnam.