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[add comment] [edit] Family is probably messed up [31 January 2016]I removed the marriage of widow Elizabeth Goodhue yesterday on the grounds of wife Ann, of a different John, d. 1739 making him likely the one that married in 1740, and his will naming wife Elizabeth. I believe that was correct. I placed the will on this page but am unsatisfied with things as they stand. For one thing, the marriage to Sarah Choate calls the groom John 4th, and I cannot find records of four John. John Senr. died 1694, John s/o John Jr. b. 1671, and that accounts for 1, 2, and 3 only? The Burnham Genealogy gives the transcript of the above will and it matches the phrases I was able to see, plus adding the all the missing text. This 1708 will is identified as the will of John, son of Deacon John Sr., the emigrant who d. 1694. He has a son named John. His death record early 1709 "in his 59th year" places his birth about 1650-1. [Note that despite the date of the will (and in the probate file, a bond dated 1708/09, showing he definitely died by then), the Burnham Genealogy on p. 189, says he d. 1716.] The will of John Burnham in 1703/04 identifies his wife as Elizabeth. The testator is presumably the John who m. 1669 [1668 per Burnham Genealogy] Elizabeth Wells. One would expect he was born by 1648 to be of legal age when he married. This would make him John Jr., and hence the father of John b. 1671 who is presumed to be the John 4th who married Sarah Choate. It would appear the John Burnham who died in 1709 was John 3rd, and presumably his son John is John 5th? John 3rd appears to have had a wife named Sarah (i.e., not Sarah Choate, who married John 4th). And of course, this suggests that John 5th was the one who married Anna Choate, since the son of John 4th, born after their marriage in 1693 would only have been 16 at the time of intentions to Anna Choate in 1710. I will slowly try rearranging this piece by piece to see if I can get it to make sense. [Despite the apparent editing errors noted above, it does appear that the Burnham Genealogy has most of this arrangement as I have described it. However, the lack of dates and absence of sources make it hard to rely on it.] --Jrich 18:10, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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