Person:Jehu Burr (13)

The wives of Jehu Burr and John Cable

"John Cable was related in some way to Jehu Burr. First, they were paired in all their migrations. Both first resided in Roxbury, and moved to Springfield in 1636, where both were among the four leading citizens. In contributions made on 13 January 1638 for building a house for Rev. George Moxon and for his maintenance, the largest donations on each occasion were made by William Pynchon, Henry Smith, Jehu Burr and John Cable [SpTR 1:15]. Pynchon and his son-in-law Smith remained in Springfield and were the most prominent citizens in the town for many years to come. Burr and Cable both departed Springfield in 1641 and participated in the founding of Fairfield in that year.

Second, in his will John Cable appointed 'my loving kinsman Jehu Burr and John Burr my overseers.' The connection was probably through the first wife of Cable, or through Burr's wife."^[1]

1. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:306.

   JEHU, Roxbury 1630, came, prob. in the fleet with Winthrop req. adm. as freem. 19 Oct. of that yr. and was sw. 18 May foll. Of his w. the bapt. name is not seen, tho. she was, at the same time with h. mem. of the ch. He was a carpenter, appoint. in 1633, by the Col. governm. to see to "the bridges betw. Boston and Roxbury," wh. suggests interest. queries in our topogr. In 1636 he rem. with Pynchon to the foundat. of Springfield, and for that town, not suppos. to belong to Mass. in 1638, was rep. at Hartford; and soon after went to Fairfield, of wh. he was rep. 1641, 5, and 6, prob. d. soon after. Four s. Jehu, John, Daniel, and Nathaniel, are kn. and perhaps he had not other ch. How easy mistakes occur in read. ancient MS. is well exhibit. in this man's case. Copy from entr. in Col. rec. 1630 and 1631, of his name, print. in my list of freem. as Appendx. to Winthrop II. 361, giv. it John; and the well-practis. eyes of Pulsifer, transcrib. for the Antiq. Soc. of Worcester, and the more scrupulous Paige, in the Reg. of N. E. Hist. Geneal. Soc. III. 90 and 1, were equal. deceiv. and even Felt, wh. had giv. so many yrs. of his life to those rec. fell under the same delusion; while, to immortalize the wrong, it is assert. by Trumbull, in Conn. Rec. I. 12. In read. the sec. and fourth letters of this bapt. name, not one in a thousand experts would be likely to differ from us, as John appears in the reverse proportion to Jehu. Yet from the unusual distinctness of the Roxbury ch. rec. wh. I have examin. and the concur. later ones at Springfield and elsewhere. all doubt is dispel. Trumbull, in Conn. Col. Rec. I. 12. of his text; and the 1835 Ed. of Winthrop's Hist. II. 441, had giv. the true name.

2.   Todd, Charles Burr. A General History of the Burr Family: With a Genealogical Record from 1193 to 1902 (4th Edition). (New York, New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1902)
   1902.

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3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} Jehu Burr, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   ORIGIN: Unknown.
   MIGRATION: 1630.
   CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Jehu Bur" admitted to Roxbury church as member #12, which would be at or soon after the organization of the church in 1632 [RChR 74]. Made second largest contributions (after William Pynchon) to building a house for Rev. George Moxon and for his maintenance, 13 January 1638 [SpTR 1:15].
   FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 80, 366].
   DEATH: Fairfield by 1654 and perhaps earlier [FOOF 1:116].