Sarah BURNHAM

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He graduated from Harvard College in 1702 and settled in the Ministry at Kensington, Dec. 10, 1712, being ordained the day the church was founded. he drew up an agreement with the Society which provided for the transfer to him of a considerable tract of land and the Society guaranteed fifty acres more which the town of Farmington proposed to give him. The Society was also to build him a house, "the two Loer rooms of which were to be finished before the last day of March that shall be in the year 1710," the remainder within twelve months after, I only finding Glass & nails." His salary for the first four years was to be fifty pounds per annum in grain, "that is to say Wheat, indian corn or Ry"; he was also to receive five pounds in labor and his firewood. The agreement was accepted by the Society June 10, 1709, "provided the above sd. Mr. Burnham at the confirmation of the lands mentioned in the Articles, do give sufficient security to sd. Society." for the full agreement, See Andrews' New Britain, p. 23. He seems to have been an excellent man of business; at any rate, he succeeded in acquiring what was at that time considered wealth. (Hinman's Puritan Settlers.)

His only published work is an Election Sermon entitled, "God's Providence in Placing Men before the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut at Hartford, May 10, 1722. The Day for Electing the Honourable the Governour, the Deputy Governour, & the Worshipful Assistants there. Published by Order of Authority, New London, 1722." (Stiles' Ancient Wethersfield.)

William married Hannah WOLCOTT on 18 May 1704. Hannah (daughter of Hon. Samuel WOLCOTT and Judith APPLETON) was born on 19 Mar 1683/4 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 16 Mar 1747/8. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Thomas Burnham and Anna Wright

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He was Constable in 1692. Belonged to one of the most respectable families of Wethersfield. He drew land in 1694 and received other land by deed of gift from his father. The history of the Burnham Family erroneously gives the date of his marriage as 1681 and the birth of his first child, Elizabeth, eight years later than it should be.

William married Elizabeth LOOMIS on 28 Jun 1681 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Nathaniel LOOMIS and Elizabeth MOORE) was born on 07 Aug 1655 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 19 Nov 1717 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Henry Wolcott and Sarah Newberry of Windsor, Conn.
• Birth: 16 Apr 1656
• Fact 1: 1679, Constable
• Fact 2: 1685, Selectman
• Fact: Oct 1685, Deputy to the General Court

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He settled in Wethersfield where he was a merchant and a constable there in 1679. Samuel was a representative to the General Court in 1685. He owned a large piece of land a mile west of Wethersfield where he built a one room house on a hill. His sons built nearby and the hill became known as 'Wolcott Hill'.

Samuel married Judith APPLETON on 6 Mar 1677/8 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Judith (daughter of Col. Samuel APPLETON and Hannah PAINE) was born about 1652. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He is said to have been of Hertfordshire descent; came to Hartford about 1647 or 8, perhaps from Ipswich. Others of the name went from there to Wenham. A Thomas Burhan aged 18, "imbarqued for the Barbadoes, Nov. 20, 1635, Peter Blackloe, master; took the oath of Allegenance and Supremacie; examined by the minister of the Towne of Gravesend." (N.E. Reg., 14, p. 357) His name first appears on the Colonial Records of Conn., Dec. 7, 1648; was made Freeman, May 21, 1657, having been elected Constable the previous February and Chimney Viewer Feb. 11, 1658/9; was in the list of Freemen at Windsor, Oct. 11, 1669. He was a large land holder and speculator, buying land from the Indians. In June, 1659, he was required "to appear at ye Court in Octbr to answr for his former cariage, complayned of to ye Court," etc. He was a lawyer and an educated man, and this complaint was in regard to one of his cases. He was attorney in 1662, for Abigail Betts, accused of blasphemy. For offending the Court in his successful defense of her, "saving her neck," as the court record has it, he was condemned to "ye prison keep", but the Court dared not attempt to carry this sentence into effect, for fear of an appeal to England. They deprived him, however, of his citizenship, for a time, and prohibited him from acting as attorney except in his own cases. His offense seems to have been that he compelled the Court to try the woman by the English rather than the Mosaic law, which they preferred and were in the habit of using. At the General Court in April, some of his purchase from Tantonimo, Sachem of the Podunk Indians, was set aside, on the ground that the lands were not the Sachem's to sell. His house on the east side of the River, was one of the five fortified and garrisoned during the Indian War, 1675.

Thomas married Anna WRIGHT in 1639. Anna was born in 1620 in England; died on 5 Aug 1703. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was made Freeman in May, 1654; was admitted to the church May 3, 1663 and among the early settlers on the east side of the Great River. He was one of the Troopers under Major John Mason in March, 1657/8; and in 1675, he served as a Dragoon in King Philip's War, being a member of the Windsor troop of horse. He bought a house and lot of John Moses on the west side of the street directly opposite Joseph Loomis, Jr. Increase Mather tells of the overturning of a boat in which Mrs. Loomis and some other women were crossing the river, they having crossed to assist at a confinement. The river was full of ice and they were rescued with great difficulty.

Nathaniel married Elizabeth MOORE on 24 Nov 1653/54 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Elizabeth (daughter of Deacon John MOORE and Abigail UNKNOWN) was born about 1633 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jul 1728 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John Moore and Abigail Pinney
• Death: 18 Jan 1719, Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut

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Mrs. Loomis m. (2) John Case of Simsbury and long outlived him. The date of her birth is usually given as 1638, but it was probably tow or three years earlier as Mathew Grant in his church record, gives only three children as born in Windsor to Deacon John Moore, (p. 94 of that record.) She must have been born in Dorchester, where she was baptized before her mother removed to Windsor. "Nathaniell Loomes & Elisabeth more both of Windsor wear 1653 maried Novemb 24, 1653"

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He came to America with his parents and was a member of the Dorchester Church when he was made Freeman at Boston, April 1, 1634; removed to Windsor, 1636. His name appears on the records of the Conn. Colony as early as 1638, when Henry Wolcott the younger, was "chosen to receive for Windsor the Indian con brought in", and to "keepe one exact account of what every man hath," etc. (Col Rec. of Conn., 1, p. 18). In1654, he went to England on business and again in 1671; was an importing merchant; much engaged in public life; is mentioned in the Royal Charter of Connecticut as one of the nineteen prominent men of the colony. He became a member of the House of Deputies at October session, 1660 and served at the March, May, June and August sessions of 1661. At the may session of 1662, he was a member of the House of Magistrates, to which he was annually re-elected till his death. Was of the Council of Military Affairs during King Philip's War. he wrote shorthand and preserved many items of Windsor History. It was he who took notes of a lecture delivered by Rev. Thomas Hooke, May 31, 1638, before the General Court, in which was outlined the Constitution of Connecticut, the first written constitution known to history, and the one which more than any other, formed the basis for the Constitution of the United States. His notebook is now in the possession of the conn. Hist. Society. He gave much attention to fruit culture, was prominent in church matters and left a large estate here and in England. His Wethersfield land went to his sons, Samuel of Wethersfield and Josiah of Windsor.

Henry married Sarah NEWBERRY on 18 Nov 1641. Sarah (daughter of Thomas NEWBERRY and Joane DABINOTT) was born about 1622; died on 16 Jul 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of thomas and Jane Newberry of Dorcester, Mass.

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He became a freeman on 26 Sep 1648 and was Commander-in-Chief in King Philip's War. Samuel was Deputy to the General Court in 1668 under the title of Lieutenant Samuel Appleton, and from 1669-1671 and 1673. He was elected assistant from 1681 to 1686, six years, and was one of the first council under the charter of William and Mary in 1692. A record in the Massachusetts Files in 1675 indicates that "On 24th September ordered, that a commission be issued forth to Captain Samuel Appleton, to command a foot company of 100 men." which was prompted by the Indian war, called King Philip's War, which began that year. Samuel was appointed on 4 Oct. 1675 "Command in Chief, of the army in those parts, by whose industry, skill, and courage," says Hubbard, his neighbour, "those towns were preserved from running the same fate with the rest, wholly or in part so lately turned into ashes." Samuel "did not escape the persecution of Sir Edmund Andros and his tools, probably on account of the freedom of speech, in which he denounced his (Andros) arbitrary assumption of power." He died "after a career of great civil and military distinction." His will dated 12 Apr 1695 was proved 25 May 1696.

Headstone Inscription:

Here Lyeth Buried
ye Body of
Colo Samuel Appleton
Aged 70 Years
Decd May ye 15th
1696

He came from England with his father in 1635 and became a man of the highest repute in the military and civil service. Representative in 1660, and often after until 1681, when he was made an Assistant, in which office he was continued until the over-throw of the King Charles Government in1686. In 1675, he was made Commander-in-chief of the Massachusetts forces in the west against King Philip and for the defense of the frontier towns against the Indians; he was several times successful in repelling them and saving the towns. When hatfield was attacked oct 19, 1675, a bullet passed through his hair and a sergeant was killed at his side. When succeeded by Major Savage, as commander of the forces on the Connecticut River, he was transferred to the expedition against the Narragansetts, commanding all the Massachusetts men in that expedition and at the Great Battle. for his resolute support of the people against the unlawful taxation in 1687 he was imprisoned by Gov. Andros for three months. In the new charter of William and Mary, 1691, he was made one of the council, though he did not retain the office after the following election. He was justice in Quarterly and General Sessions Court, and also of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, (April 11, 1692), for the trial of persons charged with witchcraft. He ably and faithfully performed his diversified duties as legislator and judge and was held in the highest esteem by his contemporaries.

Samuel married Hannah PAINE on 2 Apr 1651 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts. Hannah was born in 1628/29 in Lavenham, co. Suffolk, England; was christened on 11 Feb 1628/29 in Lavenham, co. Suffolk, Englnad; died before 1655/56 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of William Paine and Anna North