John Burge, of Chelmsford

Biography

Retrieved from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burge-229 on 12 November 2024 and then edited.

John Burge was born in England.[1] about 6 May 1601 in Bridgewater, Somerset, England, seen as the son of Robert Burge(s) and Alice Benbrick.

He emigrated to New England, settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

He married 1st to Rebecca. Rebecca, the wife of John Burge, died on 1 May 1661.

After her death, John Burge removed from Weymouth to Chelmsford. He married his second wife, Mary (Stearnes) Lerned, widow of Isaac Lerned, in Chelmsford on 9 June 1662. The marriage record describes him as "late of Weymouth." Mary died in Chelmsford on 9 January 1663.[2][3]

On 3 July 1667, in Chelmsford, John Burge Sr. married Grissell (Fletcher) Gurney[3] as his third wife and her fifth husband. (Her earlier husbands were Thomas Jewell, Humphrey Griggs, Henry Kibby, and John Gurney, Sr.) She died on 9 July 1669.[2][4]

John Burge, Sr., married Jane Gurne(y) of Dorchester on 6 September 1677 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His son, also named John Burge, was married to Tryall Thayer later that same month, also in Chelmsford.[3][5] Torrey identified Jane Gurney as the fourth wife of this John Burge.[6]

John Burge died in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 22 October 1678.[7]

Children of Rebecca and John Burge:

1. Samuel Burge Abt 1647 - 1728/29. Died unmarried.
2. John Burge Abt 1655 - 1704. Married Tryall Thayer.

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Notes

John Sassomon's sister was a servant of John Burge.

References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHKH-365
2. WikiTree contributors, "John Burge (abt.1601-1678)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burge-229 : accessed 13 November 2024). cites
   1. Entered by William Ramage, Mar 4, 2012
   2. Holman, Mrs. Mary Lovering. "Grissell of the Many Marriages."The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 10 (1933). pages 70-73.
   3. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Chelmsford, Vol. 1, page 194 or Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1914); page 194.
   4. http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Chelmsford/Images/Chelmsfor...
   5. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Dorchester, Vol. 2, page 105.
   6. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. 1, page 247: BURGE, John (-22 Oct 1678) & 4/wf Jane GURNELL/GURNE/ GORNELL? (-4 Apr 1678), w John; 6 Sep 1677; Chelmsford {Weymouth 3:132; Dorchester Hist. 121; Reg. 4:166, 5:400, 40:258, 261; TAG 10:71; Pillsbury Anc. 433, 436; Blake-Glidden 98}
   7. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Dorchester, Vol. 1. Dorchester Deaths, page 29: 1678. John Burge Died October 22d. 78.
   8. John Burge; England Births and Christenings. Name John Burge. Gender Male. Christening Date 06 May 1601. Christening Place BRIDGWATER, SOMERSET, ENGLAND "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWVB-ZJ4 : accessed 24 November 2015), John Burge, 06 May 1601; citing BRIDGWATER, SOMERSET, ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 95,274.
   9. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Name Burge; Arrival Year 1607-1657; Arrival Place America; Source Publication Code 1262; Primary Immigrant Burge. Source Bibliography COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p. Page 52
   10. John Burge (1601 - 1678) on Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61993896/john-burge No burial information. He was the son of Robert & Alice Burge. He married Rebecca Sisly Upham between 1643 - 1648 He married 2nd Mary Stearns on June 9, 1662
3. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Burge_%2816%29 cites
   1. 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:302.[BURGE] "JOHN, Chelmsford, m. 9 June 1662, Mary, wid. of Isaac Larned, eldest d. of Isaac Stearns, as Allen, Hist. of C. 169, tells; and in June 1676, m. Jane, wid. of John Gornell, wh. d. 4 Apr. 1678; and he d. 22 Oct. foll"
   2. Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. (Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, under direction of the town, 1923) 3:131. John Burge had land granted to him in 1643 [if of legal age, born by 1622], d. Dorchester 22 Oct 1678, m. (1) Rebecca ---, m. (2) Chelmsford 9 Jun 1662 Mary (Stearns) Larned, m. (3) Chelmsford 3 Jul 1667 widow Grisell Gurney, m. (4) Chelmsford 6 Sep 1677 widow Jane Gurney. Will dated 1 Jun 1671, mentions elder son Samuel Burge, younger son John Burge, children by wife Rebecca. [see below for better abstractS4]
   3. Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890) 29. John Burge Died October 22'd. [16]78.
   4. Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938) pp. 433-4. [Suffolk Probate 3:319, in poor condition] Will of "John Burg of Chelms[ford]", dated 5 Jun 167[1], proved 4 Nov 1679, mentions "six children of Isa[ac] learned namedly Mary Barron Hannah Farwell william learned Sarah lerned Isack lerned and Bennony lerned", "my too sons ... my elldest son Samuell [double portion] ... my youngest son John".
4. https://nativenortheastportal.com/node/15750 "John Burge (1601 England - 1678) was a selectman for the town (1674-1675) as well as its constable. In the winter of 1675, Burge and two other Chelmsford officials petitioned the Massachusetts General Court about the Wamesit Indians and, in particular, Wibecusit and his wife, who had been living with a family in town during the Wamesits' internment at Deer Island." Find A Grave. Waters, History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 22. 755. Petition of William Underwood, 1675.12.13.00.
5. Margaret Ellen Newell (25 November 2015). Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. < Cornell University Press. > ISBN 978-0-8014-5647-3. < GoogleSearch > "Snippets: "The teenage Pawtucket Indian John Sassamon, who was a servant in the ... "; "[he] was still seeking to free Sassamon's own sister from servitude. She had been "claimed as his servant" by one John Burge ..."