Person:Thomas Burges (2)

THOMAS BURGESS BORN IN ENGLAND SETTLED IN 1637 IN THAT PART OF SANDWICH NOW CALLED SAGAMORE DYED FEB Ye 13 1685 AGED 82 YEARS

THIS STONE ERECTED IN 1917 BY BURGESS DESCENDANTS FOR BROKEN ORIGINAL

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...The origin of the name of Burgess will not admit of controversy. It is a title , civil or official. The inhabitant or representative of a Burgh or Borough is a Burgess. In England, the orthography of the name is well preserved , both in Church and State, and may easily be traced back for three or four centuries; but in this county(USA) it has been corrupted into Burghess, Burges, Burgis, Borgis, Burge, Burg. The ancestral line of Thomas in Thomas in England and the date of his migration to this country(USA) , cannot yet be ascertained with full confidence. It appears that he arrived in Salem with a young family not far from 1630, and lodged for a time at Lynn. A section of land was assigned to him, in that part of Plymouth called Duxbury, July 3,1637. This section of land, being forfeited by his removal to Sandwich in the same year, was assigned to Nicholas Robbins, November 5, 1638, who made to the former occupant some remuneration for fences and culture. In the settlement of Sandwich, Thomas Burgess became associated with Edmund Freeman, Henry Feake, Richard Chadwell, William Almy, Thomas Tupper, William Wood, Edward Dillingham, John Carman, George Knott, and Thomas Dexter." "He was," says Dr. Savage,"a chief man of them" "In the Church, instituted in 1638, under the pastoral care of William Leverich, he was an original member. In process of time he became a large landholder, and with advancing age he was called Goodman Burgess. He served the town in every office, humble or honorable, from road-surveyor to deputy to the Court at Plymouth, for several successive years. There is a charm in the fact that the patriarchal estate has never been alienated from the family. Benjamin,--the founder of the commercial house of Benjamin Burgess & Sons, Boston, --a lineal descendant of the sixth generation, held it in his possession, and in 1863, could point out the old cellar in which Thomas stored his fruits, and the bubbling fountain from which he drank for forty-eight years,--dying ,February 13, 1685, aged eighty-two years. His grave was honored with a monumental slab, imported from England." " This was the only monument," says Amos Otis,Esq., " set up for any pilgrim of the first generation." " Dorothy, his wife, died Feb. 27, 16

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)
   1:302.

   THOMAS, Lynn, rem. 1637, to Sandwich, with fam. there may have add. to the ch. carr. with him only Joseph, and perhaps Jacob. He was of the chief men, rep. 1646 and after; d. 27 Feb. 1685, presum. to be 82 yrs. old. His d. Elizabeth m. 12 Feb. 1652, Ezra Perry. THOMAS, Sandwich, s. prob. eldest, of the preced. perhaps b. in Eng. m. 8 Nov. 1648, Elizabeth Basset, d. of William, one of the first comers, was divorc. 10 June 1661, and rem. to R. I. and at Newport was resid. 1671, hav. w. Lydia.

2.   Turner, Hollis. The history of Peru, in the county of Oxford and state of Maine, from 1789 to 1911: residents and genealogies of their families, also a part of Franklin plan. (Augusta, Me.: Maine Farmer Pub. Co., 1911)
   page 70.
3.   Robert Paine Carlson, Writer Role: compiler. 17th, 18th & 19th Century Cape Cod Gravestones, Url: http:/www.capecodgravestones.com/index.html
   "THOMAS BURGESS BORN IN ENGLAND SETTLED IN 1637 IN THAT PART OF SANDWICH NOW CALLED SAGAMORE DYED FEB Ye 13 1685 AGED 82 YEARS THIS STONE ERECTED IN 1917 BY BURGESS DESCENDANTS FOR BROKEN ORIGINAL".
4. ↑ Burgess, Barry Hovey. Burgess Genealogy, Kings County, Nova Scotia Branch, Second Publisher: Genealogy.com, Second Address: Fremont, California. (Chas. E. Fitchett, New York, 1941)
   page 4.