Joshua Burr (1741 - 1824)

Born 12 Aug 1741 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Died 27 Oct 1824 at age 83 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA

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Biography

Joshua was born in 1741 at Rehoboth in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the son of David Burr and Sarah Turner.^[1]

Joshua married Elizabeth Thayer at Providence, Rhode Island in 1770.^[2]

Joshua died in 1824 at Providence.^[3]

Research Notes

Joshua appears as head of household in Providence in the 1774 census of Rhode Island^[4]. His household distribution and inferred attributions are

• one white male over 16: Joshua
• one white female over 16: Elizabeth
• one white female under 16: unknown

He appears again in 1776 and then in 1782 in the censuses at Providence. In 1782, the household shows one boy and two girls under 16 years old, so it would seem he had several children.

Sources

1. ↑ Arnold, VR of Rehoboth: Page 568
2. ↑ Arnold, VR of R.I.: Vol. 10, Page 158
3. ↑ The Newport Mercury of 30 October 1824 — "Died, At Providence on Wednesday, Mr. Joshua Burr, aged 85 years."
4. ↑ 1774 Census

• Arnold, James. Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1897)

• Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. , Providence, R.I., 1891)

• 1774 Rhode Island Census, Providence, Page 7, Entry 8 — Joshua Burr; citing transcription by Cherry Fletcher Bamberg in Rhode Island Roots 31 p.75, June 2005.