John Burrill (1694 - 1754)

Born 19 Feb 1694 in Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Humphrey) Burrill — married 8 Jan 1717 in Weymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 26 Jan 1754 at age 59 in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

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Disambiguation

Not to be confused with Lt John Burrell born 1696, son of Ephriam and Lydia (Rogers) Burrell

Biography

John Burrill was born 19 Feb 1694 in Weymouth. He is the son of John Burrill and Mercy Alden.^[1][2]

He married Mary Humphrey 8 Jan 1716 [1716/7] in Weymouth.^[3]

Capt. John Burril passed away 26 Jan 1754 in Abington, Massachusetts Bay, in his 60th year.^[4] His gravestone at the Maplewood Cemetery in Rockland, Plymouth, Massachusetts, spells his surname Burrell.^[5]

In the name of God, Amen: this twenty Eighth day of January, AD 1754. I John Burrel of Abington in the county of Plimouth and provintes of the Masashusets Bay in New England Yeoman;... to my well Beloved wife ... to my son Thomas Boarrel ... to my sons John Burrel, Joseph Burril, Abr^a Burrell and Humphrey Burrel ... my son John Burrel my soul Exec^r[6][7]

Additionally, Capt. John Burrill was a slaveholder. His will bequeaths his wife a Black child named Priscilla.^[8] Priscilla is later freed in the 1771 will of John's widow Mary.^[9] Burrill also enslaved a Black woman named Dina who married an enslaved man named Tobias in Weymouth in 1741.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1910) Vol. I, p.68
2. ↑ "Early Records of Weymouth." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4: 171
3. ↑ Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850]] (The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1910) Vol.2. p. 41
4. ↑ Vital Records of Abington Massachusetts to the Year 1850 Vol II- Marriages and Deaths. (Boston: NEHGS, 1912)
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #84794670 Maplewood Cemetery, Rockland, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
6. ↑ Probate Records, 1686-1903; With Index and Docket, 1685-1967; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Plymouth County); Probate Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts. Notes: Probates, Vol 13, 1751-1755 Accessed at Ancestry ($)
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-6DM8 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1751-1755 vol 13 > image 131-132 of 298; State Archives, Boston.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-6DM8 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1751-1755 vol 13 > image 131-132 of 298; State Archives, Boston.
9. ↑ Mary (Humphrey) Burrill (1698-1771)
10. ↑ Weymouth (Mass.). (1910). Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Boston, Mass.: Publ. by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

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