"John Burwell, in whose posterity in Conn. and New York is the heirship of a large Estate lying in the parish of Bovingdon, in Hertfordshire, England, emigrated to this country about 1685. He inherited the said Estate from his father, whose name also was John, and who died, as appears by the Court Rolls of the Manor of Hemel Hempstead, in which the said Estate is situated, previous to the 30th of May, 1670. When he emigrated he left the Estate in possession of his sister Maria Burwell, in whose hands it remained a number of years.
Upon his arrival in this country, he came to Milford, Conn., from which place he went with others to Greenwich, Conn., with Jeremiah Peck, a native of Milford, and who settled as Pastor of the Church in Greenwich in 1688. John Burwell bought his house lot in Greenwich, Feb. 28th, 1688-9. He there married Hannah Lockwood, daughter of Gershom Lockwood. In the spring of 1688-9 he went to England, and leased the Estate and returned soon after. The next spring he took the small-pox in New York, of which he died in Greenwich, May 1st, 1690. He left one daughter and his wife (a posthumous child died soon after its birth) leaving Hannah his sole heir. At the bottom of the Inventory of the Estate of John Burwell in Greenwich is an entry that 'there is other Estate which remains in foreign parts, which is not known to us.' (The Appraisers.)"
