Person:John Burnap (1)

Name	John Burnap
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	29 Jun 1708	Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	18 Apr 1732	Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Ruth Smith
Death^[2]^[3]	Bef 8 Mar 1762	Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1912)
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Burnap, John, s. of Lieut. Joseph and Tabatha, [born] June 29, 1708.
↑ Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014)
Case 3603 John Burnap 1762.

5 Apr 1762 (warrant 8 Mar 1762): Inventory of Deacon John Burnap Late of Reading: £200-8-4, by Joseph Frie, David Damon, Abraham Shelden.
23 Aug 1762: Bond of Ruth Burnap Widow of Reading as aministrat'x of her late husband John Burnap late of Reading Deceased Intestate.
[from 3604]
23 Aug 1762: Bond of Ephraim Pratt Tanner of Reading as guardian of Samuel (at his own Election) in the sixteenth year Son of Deac'n John Burnap Late of Reading deceased.
↑ Source:Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. Burnap-Burnett Genealogy, p. 79, assumes John died "after April, 1777" because of a deed executed with wife Ruth, but upon careful reading it is clear the deed is his son John with his mother Ruth, so Belknap is clearly wrong. (The deed is abstracted on his son's page, Middlesex vol. 97, p. 10.) Belknap also mentions the guardian file for the son Samuel, but apparently missed the description that labelled Samuel as the "son of Deac'n John Burnap ... deceased".