... Mr. WILLIAM BURDETTE was also on the Eastern Shore at an early date. That he had a wife before the widow TRAVELLER, is shown by the records. (See N-n i-12. 19 Feby. 1642.)
That he was a widower in 1633 is shown by a very quaint record in which a certain Scovell makes a wager that "Mr. Burdette should never have the widow Sanders." (N-n i-12.) ...
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THOMAS BURDITT, 1050 acs. Northampton Co., 11 June 1658, . 164, (242). Ely. on the seaboard side , Nly. on land formerly belonging unto Francis Stokely, now in possession of William Custis & Sly. on land of William Emiss knowne by the name of Piminoe. Due by virtue of the rights of a patent granted unto his father William Burditt conteyning the sd. quantity & by him deserted.