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Facts and Events
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Thomas Burnham (1617 – June 24, 1688) was a lawyer and colonist, who was born in England and migrated to the American Colonies sometime prior to 1645. He lived most of his adult live in Connecticut where he was a lawyer and a landowner. He was among the earliest puritan settlers in Connecticut, living in Podunk and finally settling in Hartford, Connecticut. He purchased most of the land covered by the current towns of South Windsor, Connecticut and East Hartford, Connecticut. He was the first American ancestor of a large number of Burnhams. He died in Hartford at the age of 69.
References
- ↑ Thomas Burnham, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ 1. Thomas Burnham, Senr., of Hartford, in Burnham, Roderick Henry. Genealogical records of Thomas Burnham, the emigrant, who was among the early settlers at Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. America, and his descendants. (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1884)
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This sketch includes details of his activities as attorney for himself and others and his numerous land transactions which resulted legal actions between him and Bartholomew Barnard and William Pitkin, also of East Hartford.
- ↑ Thomas Burnham, in 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)
1:305.
"Thomas (Burnham), Hartford, rem. to Windsor, after mid. age prob. and d. 1688, leav. Thomas, John, Samuel, William, and Richard (wh. all had fams.) beside four ds. Descend. are very num."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Soughton, Cathy. Thomas1 Burnham of Long Crendon Buckinghamshire, and Hartford, Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 2012)
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Thomas1 Burnham, bp. Long Crendon (Buckinghamshire) 28 Oct. 1619: d. Hartford, Conn., 24 June 1688; m. Conn. ca. 1645 Ann/Anna -----, probably a daughter of Captain Richard1 Wright of Conn. They had ten children, nine of whom married and had children of their own.
- ↑ Harris, Gale Ion. Thomas1 and Anna (Wright?) Burnham of Hartford, Connecticut: A Note on Dubious Dates. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1999)
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"No record of Thomas's age is [was] known (see Ms. Soughton's January 2012 article in The Register). The birth date, 1617, and age at death, 71 years, repeatedly claimed for him apparently are based on a belief that he was the Thomas Burnham, then aged 18, who left from London on 20 November 1635 aboard the Expedition destined for Barbados. This conjecture is unproven and does not account for the later Thomas Burnham 'of Barbados' whose goods on the ketch Susanna were subject to legal action at Boston in October 1671."
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