Rev William 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]

1. Capt William BURNHAM was born on 5 Apr 1705 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was christened on 8 Apr 1705 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 12 Mar 1748/9.
2. Samuel BURNHAM was born on 28 May 1707 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 22 Jan 1708 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
3. Hannah BURNHAM was born on 18 Nov 1708 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 10 Apr 1772 in Farmington, Connecticut.
4. Josiah BURNHAM was born on 28 Sep 1716 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 16 Apr 1800 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
5. Lucy BURNHAM was born on 22 May 1711 in Farmington, Connecticut; was christened on 22 Jul 1711; died on 31 Jan 1797.
6. Abigail BURNHAM was born on 14 Sep 1713 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 9 Oct 1794 in Newington, Connecticut.
7. Sarah BURNHAM was born on 28 May 1719 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 23 Nov 1726 in Farmington, Connecticut.
8. Mary BURNHAM was born on 7 Feb 1722/3 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 22 May 1801 in New Britain, Connecticut.
9. Appleton BURNHAM was born on 28 Apr 1724 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 3 Jan 1779 in Cornwall, Connecticut.

Family/Spouse: Anne FOSTER. Anne died on 20 Jan 1765. [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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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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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• Fact: Son of John and Agnes Loomis of Thaxted, Essex, England

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Excerpt from "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines":
The parents of Joseph Loomis, of New England, were probably John and Agnes Loomis, of Braintree, co. Essex, England. If so, he was their only son and the executor of the father's will in May and June, 1619.......
They remained in England until the spring of 1638 when, on april 11, with their eight children, they embarked at Maldon (the nearest seaport to Braintree) on the "Susan and Ellen" on which their goods also came and arrived in Boston on July 17, following. It is theorized that they spent their first year in this country at Dorchester though proof of that opinion has not yet been found, but in the summer and fall of 1639 the family removed overland to Windsor, Connecticut, probably in the company with the Reverend Ephraim Huet who arried there August 17, 1639.......
Joseph served on a jury on March 2, 1642, and on another in company with NATHANIEL FOOTE in September 1644. On January 6, 1650, he was sued by William Buell for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him...

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"The Hull Family in America": Joseph Loomis, the father-in-law of Lieut. Josiah Hull, before coming to New England, was a woolen draper of Brintree essex County, England, and was married in said county, June 30, 1614, to Mary White, daughter of Robert White and his wife Bridget Alger. He came to America in the ship "Susan and Ellen", leaving England April 1, 1638.....

He was a woolen draper in Braintree, co Essex, Engl., and came in the ship "Susan and ellen," leaving London, april 11, 1638 and arriving at Boston, July 17, 163, as is proved by the deposition of Joseph Hills of Charlestown. (N.E. Reg., 30, p. 459.) He brought with him his sons, Joseph, John, Thomas, Samuel and Nathaniel, and daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, and another who m. Nicholas Olmstead. He is supposed to have come to Windsor, Conn. in company with rev. Ephraim Huit, who arrived there Au. 17, 1639. Feb 2, 1640, he was granted twenty-one acres of land adjoining the Farmington river, and his house was on what was known as the "the Island" because at every freshet it became temporarily an island. Stiles says "This Ancestral Home" has been in perpetual possession of his descendants coming down in an unbroken regular succession to Epaphras Loomis,who sold it to Rev. George Loomis, who in turn sold it to John Mason Loomis. He served twice on the jury of the Particular Court, March 2, 1642/3 and September, 1644.

Joseph married Mary WHITE on 30 Jun 1614 in Messing, Essex, England. Mary (daughter of Robert WHITE and Bridget ALLGAR) was born in 1590 in Shalford, England; was christened on 24 Aug 1590; died on 23 Aug 1652 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He came as a Deacon of the Dorchester church in 1630, (History of Dorchester, p. 68), probably in the "Mary and John." He with Thomas Moore, Rev. John Warham, Roger Williams, Ralph Mousall, and others were made Freemen of Massachusetts, May 18, 1631. He went with Warham to Windsor in 1635 or 6. He has been confused with what seems to have been another John Moore, whose name appears on the Dorchester Records in 1638; he was one of the chief men at Windsor; was on the jury of the Particular Court in October, 1642; Representative at the May session of 1661 and many times after; "Ordayned Deacon Janu 11, 1651," (O.C.R.) and was an excellent and esteemed citizen. At a session of the General Court, held March 13, 1661/2, he and "Scery Daniel Clark" were granted 400 acres to be divided between them. He dealt largely in real estate; farmed; manufactured pike heads and built a ferry about 1671; was a contributor to the Connecticut fund for the relief of the poor in other colonies.

The will of Deacon John Moore shows that he left four daughters and a son John, but as Thomas and Elizabeth Moore are recorded on the Dorchester Records as "children" baptized apparently at the same tie and as Elizabeth is known to have been the daughter of Deacon John Moore, it seem as if Thomas must have been a son of his. (Records of First Ch., Dorchester, p. 149.) Stiles says the wife of John Moore was Abigail and that he married her June 16, 1639, but in the record of John Moore's family in the Old Windsor Church record, we find: Abigail Moore Feb. 14, 1639. then follows: Mindwell, dau. of John Moore, b. 10July 1643. The original looks as if Abigail was interlined after Mindwell had been written. The records says nothing about marriage or wife and the Abigail here recorded was evidently the first child. b. 14 Feb. 1639/40. She was the first child born in Windsor.

John married Abigail UNKNOWN on 16 Jun 1639. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]