Sarah Burr

• "[John Burr] Married Sarah Fitch, dau. of Thomas of Norwalk, who was mother of his children ..." (1)
• Will of John, Sr., 19 Mar. 1693/4; wife Sarah; son John (Exec'r), homelot I dwell upon, formerly Strickland's and Pinkney's; son Samuel, farm in the woods, and four years in College; son Jonathan, land in the new field, formerly Westcott's and Joseph Bishop's; son David, homelot I bought of John Cable; dau. Mary, £100 at 18 or marriage; dau. Deborah, the same; dau. Sarah already portioned; bro. Nathaniel Burr and cousin Peter Burr, overseers; I have not rec'd from my father Fitch my wife's portion. Witnesses: John Edwards, Eliphalet Hill. Inv. 5 Nov. 1694. (1)
• Thomas/Anne Reeve Fitch had a son Thomas b:1612 married Ann Stacey - had a daughter Sarah b: 1637 married 3 Dec 1674 to John Burr, Jr. b:1633 son of Jehu and Elizabeth Cable. He was nearly 40 yrs. old when he married but they had 10 children. (2)

Sources

1. John Burr, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932), 1:121-22.
2. Which Sarah Fitch did John Burr Marry?

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Biography ==Sarah Fitch, daughter of Thomas Fitch and Ann Stacie, married John Burr, son of John Burr of Fairfield, CT.

Sarah and John's daughter Sarah, married Jun 29 1692, Rev. Mr. CharlesChauncey, grandson of President Charles Chauncey, second president ofHarvard College, and their son Samuel Chauncey, was for many years Master of the Charlestown, Mass Grammar School.

Sources

<references />* Roscoe Conkling Fitch, A History of the Fitch Family (College of Arms, London, England. Haverhill, Mass.: Record Pub. Co., 1930) Vol. 1, Page116.

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