Person:Thomas Burrus (1)

Will Extract

Will of Thomas Burrus dated 2 Oct 1788, proven 23 Mar 1789 listed as children Thomas, William Tandy, Roger Tandy, Mourning, Fanny, Dau Mildred Embree, dau Elizabeth Brockman, dau Sarah Tribble, dau Jane Quisenberry, dau Frances Tandy Bush, grandchildren by last name Perry, wife Frances. [Source: GENEALOGIES of KENTUCKY Families].

Notes

Thomas Burrus served as a private (before the battle of the Meadows) in George Mercer's company (Company M) during the Fort Necessity campaign of the French and Indian War (Col. Geo. Washington's regiment). He was wounded by an Indian tomahawk (in the head) as reported in the Maryland Gazette (Annapolis) 2 Oct 1755. T. Burris fought at Braddock's defeat in 1755.

He later was to exasperate George Washington by "some sharp practices" in horse-dealing. Evidently T. Burris rode a mare which had originally belonged to an officer who was killed, Washington wanted to sell the horse and give the money to the officers family; the horse was eventually taken to Washington's Bullskin Plantation. Burris had ridden the horse from "Alexandry" to Fort Loudoun. In 1757 T. Burris was paid ten pounds by the Colony of Virginia as a "recompence for the loss of his arm in the service of his country" (J.H.B. 1752-1758, page 478). In 1757-1758 Burris was a messenger or courier who delivered letters to and from George Washington and members of his command. Thomas Burris received two grants of land in Kentucky: #549 and #552. Each was for 1,000 acres in Fayette county, KY on 2-mile Creek and both were dated 1 Mar 1784.

Citations

http://genforum.genealogy.com/burris/messages/3034.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0070/g0000087.html

1. ↑ International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
2.   Ancestry.com - OneWorldTree (discontinued in 2013): - extremely unreliable source.

   http://records.ancestry.com/Thomas_Burris_records.ashx?pid=133074366

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   THOMAS BURRUS 1722–1788:
   THOMAS BURRUS was born about 1722, in Norfolk County, Virginia, according to one
   source. Another says King William County. Thomas served in Captain George Mercer's ⁹⁷ Company of Virginia Regiment under Colonel George Washington in the French and Indian War. He fought at the Battle of the Meadows in 1754, and was listed at Wills Creek on 9 July 1754, just after the battle, as one of the men “fit for duty.” He was on the payroll of the Virginia Regiment and received bounty money for his service. He was also at Braddock's Defeat in 1755, for which he received a pistol and some land. At some point during his service he lost an arm and was awarded £10 on 27 May 1757 for the loss. The reports that he was also ⁹⁸ a soldier in the Revolution are highly doubtful in view of his age and his loss of an arm—the honor belongs to his son Thomas.
   Thomas Burrus is on both the National and Texas DAR Rolls of Honor, unfortunately with conflicting personal data about his non-military service. His year of death is usually given as 1888 in Orange County, Virginia; his will was written 3 October of that year and probated 23 March 1789 in Orange County. The complete text of his will is available. It provides for his ⁹⁹ wife, Frances Tandy, and sons Thomas, William, and Roger Burrus to divide 1,500 acres of land he owned in Clark County, Kentucky, plus other bequests. Five hundred more Kentucky acres were divided among his daughters, except Mourning, who was to receive his Virginia property after the death of his wife. Almost all of those who were left property in Kentucky eventually moved there.
   Thomas Burrus married Frances Tandy (page 41), daughter of Roger Tandy and Sarah
   Quarles, about 1749 in King and Queen County, Virginia. Their children were most prolific, and the names of about 450 of their descendants through their great-grandchildren are known. Their daughter Sarah Ann, who married Andrew Tribble, gave Thomas and Frances 12 grandchildren who married, and they provided at least 110 great-grandchildren. Almost that many more came from the 13 children of daughter Jane and her husband, James Quisenberry.
   “Only” 37 great-grandchildren are know to have come to them through the 13 children of Roger Burrus and Cynthia Mills, the line that includes Lou Draper.
   The wills of Thomas and Frances, along with a number of other sources, provide the names of their children. The will of Frances Tandy Burrus, for example, probated in ^{100 101 102 103} , ,
   Christian County, Kentucky, in January 1817, named sons Thomas, Roger, and William T
   Burrus; Andrew Tribble, son-in-law; daughters Sally Tribble and Frances T Bush; and others: Sally Ellen Burrus, daughter of Roger Burrus, and Joseph Mills Burrus, son of Nathaniel Burrus. William Tandy and Nathaniel Burrus were her executors. Thomas Burrus and Frances Tandy had eleven children, over a hundred grandchildren, and several hundreds of greatgrandchildren.
   Some 450 known members of the first three generations of their descendants
   are included in a chart printed on a single sheet of legal size paper. It is titled simply “Descendants of Thomas Burrus and Frances Tandy.”
   
   ⁹⁷. Revolutionary Ancestors, Texas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
   ⁹⁸. Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt, Virginia's Colonial Soldiers, 1988.
   ⁹⁹. Genealogies of Kentucky Families, Vol A-M
   ¹⁰⁰. Genealogies of Kentucky Families, Vol A-M
   ¹⁰¹. Genealogies of Virginia Families, Tylers Quarterly, Vol I
   ¹⁰². Tharp, J, Descendants of Thomas & Frances (Tandy) Burrus, Box 3165, Auburn, CA 95604, 1993.
   ¹⁰³. Genealogies of Virginia Families, Tylers Quarterly, Vol I
   
   http://burrusfamily.com/documents/burress_original.pdf