Person:John Burton (7)

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John Burton
chr.23 Dec 1683 Dent, Yorkshire, England
d.24 Mar 1769 Dent, Yorkshire, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. 15 Jun 1672
  1. Elizabeth Burton1672 -
  2. Agnes Burton1675 - 1754
  3. Alice Burton1678 - 1766
  4. John Burton1683 - 1769
  5. Isabell Burton1684 -
  6. Margaret Burton1685 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 1 Nov 1709
  1. Isabel Burton1710 - 1773
  2. William Burton1712 - 1789
  3. Margaret Burton1714 - 1743
  4. Richard Burton1716 - 1808
  5. Anne Burton1719 - 1743
  6. John Burton1722 - 1753
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Facts and Events
Name John Burton
Gender Male
Christening[3] 23 Dec 1683 Dent, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 1 Nov 1709 Dent, Yorkshire, Englandto Anne Thistlethwaite
Residence From 1710 to 1712 Dent, Yorkshire, EnglandScalegillfoot
with Anne Thistlethwaite
Residence 1737 Dent, Yorkshire, EnglandWarescale
with Anne Thistlethwaite
Will[8] 3 Dec 1764 Dent, Yorkshire, EnglandWarescale
Death[6] 24 Mar 1769 Dent, Yorkshire, England
Burial[1][6][7] 26 Mar 1769 Dent, Yorkshire, EnglandFriends' Burying Ground
Probate[8] 20 Jun 1769
Religion[5] Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)

After he had come "to witness a degree of Experience, and to see the Necessity of Regeneration" he became a minister, about 1709. He travelled in the ministry in England and visited Ireland in 1712 and 1721, and in 1734 visited America. After this he visited Durham, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cumberland and Northumberland, and several times travelled into the South of England and to London; one such occasion, in 1752, was with his sister's son, John Alderson. When he was at home he was very diligent in attending meetings for worship and discipline, and gave good service at funerals and other public occasions. He was very serviceable in Monthly Meeting.

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Testimony

He was of a free, chearful Disposition, and Behaviour, yet properly guarded, being a plain Man, bearing a faithful Testimony against the Pride and Show of the present Age."

From a testimony prepared by his friends we read, 'This little out-of-the-way town was his home throughout his long life. Tho' he had but little learning, yet he was often led forth out of a living poweful Testimony but in matter exceeding copius and pertinent' Note: This gives the impression of a semi-literate backwoodsman who strayed little from his home patch and that, a place of little importance. By the time the testimony was written around his death when aged 87, I suppose this may be how his friends saw him. People who could have said otherwise had most likely died or emigrated from the dale for the Dent area was in decline as is documented by Adam Sedgwick, geologist and native of Dent. Many emigrated to America, others to Australia and many others moved to find employment in the Cotton Industry in the Manchester/Liverpool area.

References
  1. ↑ Benjamin S. Beck. Beck Family History Web (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/benjaminbeck/beck.html). (An electronic record of one family historian's researches, mainly from Quaker sources. Published 2001)
    Binns K13.
  2.   ? Arthur Chamney Leicester. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Leicester Document). (Unpublished Family Tree).
  3. ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast).
  4.   FHSJ
    10:119, 10:179, 10:222, 15:21-25, 25:85.
  5. ↑ Bernard Thistlethwaite. The Thistlethwaite Family. (Headley Bros. (private) 1910).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Monthly Meeting of Sedbergh: Dent, in England. Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
    piece 1547, p. 69.

    'John Burton a Publick friend died the 24th of the 3d Month and was Buried the 26th of the Same 1769'

  7. ↑ Quarterly Meeting of Westmorland, in England. Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837
    piece 1246.

    '26 3 John Burton was buried'

  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 will of John Burton.
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