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About Dea. John Burnham, of Ipswich
Not the same as his nephew, John Burnham who married Elizabeth Burnham
Dea. John Burnham, of Ipswich arrived 1737. His brothers Thomas Burnham, of Ipswich and Robert Burnham, of Ipswich arrived after 1640. Parents unknown. They were not passengers of the Angel Gabriel in 1635. They were not the children of Mary Burnham & Robert Burnham.
John married Mary Burnham. Thomas married Marie ‘Mary’ Burnham. Robert married Frances Burnham.
Biography
John Burnham was known as Deacon John Burnham, Sr. He joined the Pequot Expidition in 1637. In 1639, Ipswich granted him land for his services as a soldier in that expedition. He was Deacon of the Church at Chebacco. He became owner of a large tract of land lying in the east side of what is now known as Haskell's Creek. He died upon his farm. Ebenezer, his grandson, removed to Windham Co., Connecticut Others removed to New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont. John, Robert and Thomas emigrated to America, were shipwrecked to Sacerehock, Pemaquid Bay, on the coast of Maine. John and Thomas spent the greater portion of their lives at Ipswich, Essex ,Massachusetts.
Family
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-404213
Very little is known about Mary ____, the wife of John Burnham. According to Elizabeth Puckett Martin, [1] "We know nothing of her parentage." Martin even speculates that John Burnham may have had two different wives named Mary because of the 12 year gap between the births of his first two children,
- Mary Burnum jr. and
- John Burnum jr m. Sarah Graves and the three younger children,
- Josiah Burnham, m. Abigail Varney
- Anna Burnham, m. John Low, and
- Elisabeth Burnham, m. 1) Thomas Kinsman 2) Isaac Rindge
Disputed origins
Removed birth of 06/14/1617 at Norwich.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burnham-39
It is clear from the information in this biography that Robert Burnham and Mary Andrews are not the parents of this John Burnham, so they have been removed. Please do not attach them to him again.
Biography
In The Great Migration Directory, page 50, Anderson indicates that John Burnham's origins are unknown. In addition to the Ipswich town records, and the Robert Andrews article in The Great Migration, Anderson suggests as a reference, Elizabeth Puckett Martin's, Deacon John Burnham of Ipswich and Ebenezer Martin of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, with Some of their Descendants (Baltimore 1987) as an additional reliable source for information about John Burnham.
The first chapter of Martin’s book gives background information about early Ipswich. The second chapter provides a great deal of information about John Burnham’s life in Ipswich. Martin also explains that a 19th century genealogy by Roderick Burnham assumed that John and his two brothers, Thomas Burnham and Robert Burnham were the sons of Robert and Mary (Andrews) Burnham, and that John was born in 1618 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. After considerable research Martin concluded that the three men were brothers, but were not sons of Robert Burnham and Mary Andrews. Martin also goes to great length to explain that the three did not arrive on the Angel Gabriel, and that their supposed uncle Robert Andrews was not the captain of the Angel Gabriel. It is, however, clear from the records that there was some relationship between Robert Andrews and the three brothers, but the relationship has not been discovered.
Very little is known about John’s wife, Mary ____. According to Martin, "We know nothing of her parentage." Martin even speculates that John Burnham may have had two different wives named Mary because of the 12 year gap between the births of his first two children, Mary Burnum jr. and John Burnum jr and the three younger children, Josiah Burnham, Anna Burnham, and Elisabeth Burnham.
On page 10, Martin’s book documents 4 different depositions given by John Burnham that provide 4 possible years of birth, from 1613 to 1616. She wonders, “Was the court clerk imprecise, or the subject himself careless?”
John made his will on 1 March 1694, but it was not recorded in probate records.
Deacon John Burnum Sr. died 5 November 1694 in Ipswich. [2]
DNA
Two Y-DNA tester self-report as being a direct descendant of John. Six others report as being a descendant of either Thomas Burnham or Robert Burnham. The common haplogroup for all eight testers is E-FTD19794, which is currently estimated to have formed about 1587. [3]
Older data
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- 'Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of ..., Volume 1 By William Richard Cutter
- http://books.google.com/books?id=OU0k2d8nl3IC&pg=PA660&lpg=PA660&dq...
- Pg. 659
- In America the name Burnham is found very early in the records of both Massachusetts and Connecticut. Lieutenant Thomas Burnham, of Ipswich, served in the Pequot expedition of 1636-37. From the best information obtainable it appears that three brothers, 'John', Thomas and Robert Burnham, sons of Robert Burnham and Mary Andrews his wife, of Norwich, Norfolk county, England, came to America in the early part of the year 1635, in the ship "Angel Gabriel," in charge of their maternal uncle, Captain Andrews, master. They were wrecked on the coast of Maine, and with the freight thrown overboard at the time of the disaster was a chest belonging to the boys, which contained many of their valuables. After his ship had been wrecked Captain Andrews went to Chebacco (Ipswich), taking the boys with him, and settled there. John and Thomas Burnham, only boys, served with others of the colonists in the expedition against the Pequot Indians, and when grown to manhood they remained at Chebacco and became freemen there.
- Pg. 660
- . . . . 'John Burnham was appointed deacon of the church at Chebacco. He became the owner of a large tract of land lying on the east side of what afterward became known as Haskell's creek. In later years many of his descendants went from Chebacco to other places. His grandson, Ebenezer Burnham, settled at Windham, Connecticut, and himself became progenitor of a large family of descendants. Others of John's family settled in New Hampshire and Maine.
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Sources
- WikiTree contributors, "Mary (Unknown) Burnham (abt.1625-bef.1694)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-404213 : accessed 21 January 2024).
- Elisabeth Puckett Martin, Deacon John Burnham of Ipswich and Ebenezer Martin of Rehoboth, Massachusetts with Some of their Descendants, Gateway Press, 1987, pages 10 and 18.
- https://mhollick.typepad.com/slovakyankee/burnham-family/
- https://mhollick.typepad.com/slovakyankee/2010/08/angel-gabriel-the...
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Dea. John Burnham, of Ipswich's Timeline
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1613
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England
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| 1637 |
1637
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Age 24
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Pequot Expedition, Ipswich, MA, United States
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1650
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Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States
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1651
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Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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May 9, 1662
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Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1664 |
April 24, 1664
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Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1666
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Chebacco, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts
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