JOHN BURROUGHS, COOPER, PROPRIETOR AND TOWN OFFICIER DIED IN NEWTOWN NEW YORK AUG 1678.
JOHN BURROWS A SHIPS COOPER FROM YARMOUTH AGED 28 AND ANN HIS WIFE WAS LICENCED TO GO TO NEW ENGLAND (Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope) HE WAS GRANTED LAND NEAR SALEM HARBOUR WITH AN ADDITIONAL FIVE ACRES GRANTED IN NOVEMEBER 1637. HE IS LISTED IN LAND GRANTS DATED 25 DEC 1637 AS JO. BURROWS WITH TWO IN HIS HOUSEHOLD AND DISAPPEARS FROM THE RECORD IN SALEM AFTER THE FIRST MONTH OF ON THE 25TH OF JANUARY 1644 (The History of Salem by Perley) AND APPEARS ON THE RECORD IN NEW HAVEN COLONY ON THE 3RD OF JULY 1644. THE RECORDS OF THE COLONY AND PLANTATION OF NEW HAVEN 1638-1641--"EDWARD BANNISTER DEMANDED 4£ OF GOODMAN BISHOP ON BEHALF OF JOHN BURROWS WHERE UPON IT IS ORDERED THAT THE SAID GOODMAN BISHOP SHALL PUT IN SECURITY TO PAY MONEY INTO THE COURT, EXCEPT IF HE CAN SHOW CONTRARY (NOTE) GOODMAN BISHOP WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COLONY.
(History) IN 1640 WILLIAM ALEXANDER THROUGH HIS AGENT JAMES FARRET SOLD PART OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND. THE NORTHEASTERN PART (SOUTHOLD) WAS PURCHASED BY NEW HAVEN COLONY AND THE SOUTHEASTERN PART (SOUTHAMPTON) WAS PURCHASED BY MASSACUSETTES BAY COLONY. IN 1640 REV. JOHN (YONGS) YOUNGS 1598-1672 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE REV JOHN DAVENPORT OF NEW HAVEN COLONY IN CONNETICUT CAME BY SHIP FROM SALEM MASSACUSSETTS WITH 13 FAMILIES SOME WHO WERE FROM NORTHFOLK & SUFFOLK ENGLAND AND SETTLED ON THE LAND IN THE NORTH FOLK OF LONG ISLAND SOUND. THE SETTLEMENT WAS FIRST CALLED YENNICOT AND IN 1644 THE NAME CHANGED TO SOUTHOLD. REV JOHN (YONGS)YOUNGS BECAME A MAGISTRATE OF SOUTHOLD UNDER THE GOVERNANCE OF NEW HAVEN COLONY. IN SALEM JOHN YOUNGS WAS A NEIGHBOR OF JOHN BURROWS. NOTE: JESSUPS NECK LAYS DIRECTLY ACROSS THE BAY OF SOUTHOLD. SOUTHOLD WAS KNOWN FOR ITS BOAT BUILDING. IN 1644 THE MERCHANTS OF NEW HAVEN COLONY BEGAN TO COLLECT MONEY TO HAVE A GREAT SHIP BUILT SO THEY COULD ESTABLISH TRADE WITH ENGLAND.
John Burroughs, Newtown Clerk --- Newtown Clerk was instrumental in penning the Newtown Remonstance which led which led to the New York Charter of liberties. It is believed that he was related to the Burroughs family which produced a number of religious figures in the 17th Century. source Greater Astoria Historical Society.
-- There is no history of a Newtown Remonstance only a Flushing Remonstance by Quakers in 1657 written to Peter Stuyvesant director general of New Amsterdam so they could have the freedom to worship this led a New York Charters of Liberty to be written.
John Burroughs was a Cooper and was elected as Town Clerk. It is unknown how many terms he served as town clerk. During the colonial era a town clerk was elected to "keep a record of everyman's house and land" and to present "a fairly written" copy of such was sent to the General Court to be recorded by the secretary of the colony. In today's world Municipal clerk is elected every 5 years.
John Burroughs was elected town clerk of Middleburg New Amsterdam in March 1662 and served one year and five months. source the Register of New Netherland 1626-1674---Middleburg 1655 William Wood, 1659 Thomas Lawrence, Mar 13, 1662 John Burroughs, Sept 1663 James Bradish.
In 1667 Middleburg New Amsterdam was under the allegiance to Charles II of England and renamed Hastings New York. Town officers were elected in the name of his majesty, a clerk, constable and five townsmen. John Burroughs was elected town clerk. (source Annuals of Newtown).
John Burroughs apprenticed with a Master Cooper with agreement with his father or guardian. It is most likely that he received permission to immigrate to Massachusetts Bay Colony as a licenced Cooper through the livery company Worshipful Coopers of London. The livery companies were London's ancient associations and guilds which were styled as Worshipful of a respected trade. It is a mistake by researchers who are not familiar with history to believe that John Burroughs could not be the same man in Salem because he was educated and elected as town clerk- In sixteenth century England tradesmen were often the educated younger sons of the gentry who received very little inheritance because of the primogeniture law that gave almost all of the inheritance to the oldest son. During that time there was a close relationship between the gentry and livery companies, you will find in the records that many who were tradesmen and belonged to Livery companies became government officials in London. It is recorded that John Alden 1598-1687 was a Ship Cooper on the Mayflower and later became assistant governor of Plymouth.
Source. Annuals of Newtown by James Riker pg. 383 John Burroughs the progenitor of this family, was of English birth; early came over to Massachusetts and is found at Salem in 1637.
The birthdate of John Burroughs "1617" was estimated by historian James Riker author of Annual of Newtown from a record of John Burroughs in which he gave a disposition- source The Town Records of Newtown page 73.
May 8, 1667 "The disposition of John Burroughs aged about 50 years who said he, being one of five men chosen to lay out the meadows by the town. I was in the salt marsh when John Laurensons meadow was laid out and his line would have gone over a creek called Hardin's Creek which goes forth into two branches almost at the upland and John Laurenson's meadow was bound by the northernmost part of it through his line would have gone over the creek".
(The third Anglo-Dutch War 1672-1674). Annuals of Newtown by Riker--- Dutch officers were reinstated, and the people received a proclamation. John Burroughs performed his duties and embraced the opportunity to speak of grievances that the townsmen had awhile under the English government. After a peace agreement the providence was restored to the English. On January 1675 Burroughs was summoned to the court of assizes for two letters written reflecting on the grievances against the English government that were the feelings of his townsmen and was censured. There would later be a warrant for his arrest and a sentence to be whipped and imprisoned. Riker-- "Monday Jan 18 arrived at eleven o'clock Mr. Burroughs, then fifty-eight was brought from his cell".
It is evident that when Riker wrote Annuals of Newtown the 1667 record that mentions Burroughs was "about 50" was used to determine that he was "58"years old in 1675 eight years later when he was released from jail- There is a problem is that "about 50" was used to determine his age and there is no certainty of the exact age he may have been.
There are many references in historical texts where it is written that John Burroughs of Newtown was a Cooper who came from Salem, there must be another record besides a passenger record that confirms this. It is the amateur geologists who believe otherwise.
Source. The founders of Early American families by Merideth Colket Jr. page 55 John Burroughs arrived in Salem with his wife in 1637, 1644 Newton, died Newtown Aug 1678 Cooper, proprietor, town officer.
Source: History of Long Island from its earliest settlement to the present time Volume 1 by Peter Ross page 708--The descendants of John Burroughs of Newtown can trace their genealogy until 1637 when John Burroughs landed in Salem Massachusetts. In 1643 he seems to have settled in Newtown where he occupied a farm that remained intact in the possession of his descendants until about 1835.
JOHN BARROWS OF PLYMOUTH IS NOT THE SAME MAN AS JOHN BURROWS OF SALEM.
THE IDEA THAT JOHN BURROWS OF SALEM MOVED TO PLYMOUTH IS THE SUGGESTION FROM RESEACHER SM WATSON AUTHOR OF "THE MAINE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL RECORD" VOLUME 7 PUBLISHED IN 1884--"THE BURROWES FAMILY" IN WHICH HE STATES "WE FIND NO RECORD OF JOHN BURROWES UNTIL THIRTY YEARS LATER WHEN HE IS RECORDED IN PLYMOUTH. JUDGE DAVIS OF THAT PLACE (note records of 1665/66) SAID THAT JOHN CAME TO THE CAPE THIRTY YEARS BEFORE HE CAME TO PLYMOUTH. SM WATSON MAKES THE SUGGESTION THAT HE COULD HAVE EASILY MEANT SALEM THAT IS 37 MILES FROM CAPE ANN.
NOTE. THE "CAPE" THAT JUDGE DAVIS WAS REFFERING TO WAS ONE OF THE SETTLEMENTS OR PLANTATIONS OF "CAPE COD" ESTABLISHED BY THE PILGRIMS. (HISTORY) THE PILGRIMS FIRST LANDED AT THE TIP OF CAPE COD NOV 1620 BEFORE SAILING TO OTHER DESTINATIONS IN THE AREA. AFTER SOME MONTHS THEY FOUND A SAFE HARBOUR IN AN AREA KNOWN TODAY AS PLYMOUTH WHERE THEY LANDED ON "PLYMOUTH ROCK" THE PILGRIMS AKA SEPRATISTS ESTABLISHED 15 SETTLEMENTS IN THE AREA BESIDES SANDWICH IN 1637 BANSTABLE AND YARMOUTH IN 1639 ON THE CAPE. THE OLDEST TOWN ON THE CAPE IS SANDWICH THAT IS 19 MILES FROM PLYMOUTH ESTABLISHED IN 1637. IT IS MOST LIKELY THAT JOHN BARROWS CAME FROM SANDWICH AND WAS LATER RECORDED IN PLYMOUTH 1665/1666.
AMATEUR BARROW RESEARCH WHO BELIEVES JOHN BARROWS IS THE SAME BURROWS FROM PLYMOUTH WITHOUT RECORDS HAVE CONSIDERED ANN THOMPSON THE FIRST WIFE OF JOHN BURROWS/BORROUGHS OF NEWTOWN TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST WIFE OF JOHN BARROWS OF PLYMOUTH BECAUSE OF THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST VOLUME 80--- THE BIOGRAPHY OF NATHAN AND DEBORAH (BARROWS) FISH PAGE 54/55. JOHN BARROWS BORN ABOUT 1616 MARRIED AN UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN AND HAD SON ROBERT. JOHN BARROWS MARRIED A SECOND TIME IN PLYMOUTH 1665 DEBORAH PROBABLY PRATT.
IN THE 1940's A DESCENDANT OF JOHN BARROWS OF PLYMOUTH ERECTED A MEMORIAL ON HIS GRAVE IDENTIFING HIM AS JOHN BURROWS OF SALEM WITHOUT READING THE HISTORICAL TEXTS OR WITHOUT ANY RECORD THAT COULD VERIFY THAT HE HAD EVER BEEN IN SALEM. A FIND GRAVE MEMORIAL HAS BEEN CREATED FOR JOHN BARROWS OF PLYMOUTH 1609-1691 WITH THE PHOTO OF THIS FALSE MEMORIAL MARKER ALONG WITH A WRONG NARRATIVE.
(NOTE) "John Burroughs m. Joanna Jessup (INCORRECT) this record was published in "New England marriages Prior to 1700" by Clarence Torrey. THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A SOURCE. The source of the book is from references that are predominately family genealogies that are published in genealogy books with NO authentic records. It is often that the researchers of genealogy books do not base their conclusions on actual records but by speculation and often miss important records reaching a conclusion."
John Burrowes a Cooper from Yarmouth England was licenced to work in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and arrived on the same ship Mary Ann in 1637 as Rev John Youngs. In Salem they are recorded as being neighbours. In 1640 the North Fork of Long Island Sound in Northeast Long Island "Southold" was purchased by New Haven Colony and the east Long Island "Southampton" was purchased by Massachusetts Bay colony from William Alexander's agent James Farret.
In 1640 Rev John Youngs of Salem led a group of families of his congregation into Long Island Sound on land purchased by New Haven colony, they called their new settlement Southold. In Salem John Burrows disappears from records after January 1644 and appears on a New Haven record in July 1644.
"In 1634, at Yarmouth, England, Rev John Youngs and his wife, Joan, of St Margarets, Suffolk, were forbidden passage to New England. (History of Puritans Mass Hist. Coll. Vol 4. p 101) Mr. Youngs soon after settled at Hingham, in Norfolk co. abjointing Suffolk, 100 miles northeast of London, and six years later on Oct 21, 1640, he gathered his church anew under the auspices of Rev. John Davenport, minister and Theophilus Eaton, governor of the New Haven Colony, which had just been planted April 18,1638, under a branching oak--a virtual theocracy, the Bible their code of laws ecclesiastical and civil."
John Jessup a merchant adventurer involved in coastal trade would have needed the services of John Burroughs who was a Ships Cooper. John Jessup is mentioned in a letter on April 1, 1637, addressed by John Winthrop the Younger the early governor of Connecticut Colony source. History and Antiquities of Boston page 210. In the letter he came on the barke (sailing vessel) with Mr Harding---source Abandoning America Life stories from early New England page 126, 127 --Mr. Harding was a merchant adventurer who also acted as attorney for a number of clients in New England.
Source. Families of Old Fairfield John Jessup page33-- John Jessup came to Massachusetts and apparently dead by Feb 1637/38 when the general court ordered the present claims--FALSE -
Researchers of the books "The Jessup Family & History of Stamford disagree. ---records indicate that John Jessup was at Newtown Court Dec 1637 and recorded in South Hampton in 1654. It was the assumption of the researcher of Old Families of Fairfield that John Jessup did not return to General Court and had unfinished business settling the estate of John Oldman because his name does not appear on the list of creditors in -Public Records of the colony prior to the colony. (pdf)- This is why John Jessup is said to have died in the year 1637----Matthew Craddock was one of John Oldham's biggest creditors- John Jessup had been in Boston in the adjudication of a case before a court held in Newton Dec 5,1637---Newton Court was the district Court of Watertown- (Oldman's Farm was in Watertown) In the Connecticut record 1641 Oldman's Farm was laid out to Mathew Craddock. John Jessup was an attorney who represented client "Mattew Craddock". John Jessup Sr is recorded in South Hampton Long Island in 1654.
John Jessup's widow married John Whitmore FALSE- The reason some researchers call the Widow Whitmore the mother of Edward Jessup is this Stamford Court record; A testimony dated 25th of March of 1657. "Edward Jessup brought Joseph Mead of Stamford his agent and employed him did mark this mare for him as witness who did now affirm in upon oath that Edward Jessup and his mother Widow Whitmore went from Stanford to live elsewhere.
These books claim that the Widow Whitmore was the mother of Edward Jessup. The Families of Old Fairfield, Frances Whitmore of Cambridge 1625-1585, Whitmore Genealogy by Frances Whitmore.
The researchers of these books claim that Widow Whitmore was the mother-in-law of Edward Jessup.
Edward Jessup of West Farms-this record is to be in reference to his mother-in-law, as it was only nine years later after his 1657 testimony that Edward Jessup wrote his 1666 Will in which he mentions a married daughter and grandchild and very young children and young widow.
The Wetmore Family of America and its collateral branches biographical and historical notes; from the records we conclude then that John Whitmore had a son John aged 18 before 1648 and a daughter who married Edward Jessup.
The New England Register Volume 26 published 1872--John Jessup and Edward Jessup were of Stamford about 1642, and the name has since continued. Possibly they were descended from Frances Jessup of Leyton, or some other branch of the Broomhall stock. The only item is given in introduction to the Wetmore Family p-2 (1657 testimony) "Edward and his mother the Widow Whitmore went from Stamford to live elsewhere they left two mules in his charge. This was the Widow of John Whitmore of Stamford but whether he was Edwards mother or mother-in-law cannot be determined.
The reason this cannot be determined is because in ancient records nephew and niece are called cousins and in laws are called mother and fathers.
Fairfield Families- John Jessup had a daughter who married John Burroughs he was at Salem in 1637. Called brother-in-law in the will of Edward Jessup who gave a legacy (bequest) to his cousin (niece) Joanna Burroughs (Note) Joanna Jessup was named after her grandmother---
This is an assumption of this researcher that because of Joanna Burroughs was given a bequest she must be named after her grandmother---There are no records that represent the first name of Widow Whitmore. In the records she is known as Good Wife Whitmore or Widow Whitmore. There is no such person!
In Edward Jessup's 1666 Will he called John Burroughs brother-in-law, and, in the records, it is known that John Burroughs married Elizabeth the widow of Thomas Reed who gave birth to a son in 1665. The birth was announced in Newtown court. This would prove that she was the sister of Edward Jessup. Elizabeth died three months after her husband. In her 1678 Will she gave a bequest to her sister "Hannah Pettit" the wife of Thomas Pettit who was named one of the executors of her husbands Will. Thomas Pettit married Hannah the widow of John Moore II this is also recorded in the Newtown records.
The reason that Joanna Burroughs the daughter of John Burroughs was called cousin (niece) was because she married John Reeder Jr. in 1665 the son of John Reeder Sr. & Margaret (Jessup?) second wife Samuel Toe. Note Edward Jessup is recorded with these families during the Peach Tree Massacre of 1655 in Annuals of Newtown.
In the "Town Records V 1&2 1630 1652, available on microfilm at the family search building in Utah. John Burrowes was witness to a court action against another settler in 1649 and in 1652 Widow Whitmore sold property that was witnessed by John Burrows.
John Burrowes married Ann Thompson on Aug 31, 1634, in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England issue Joseph, Joanna, Jeremiah & Mary Burroughs. (note) the name of daughter Joanna was a combination of her father and mothers first names. Widower John Burroughs married Elizabeth Jessup the widow of Thomas Reed issue John Burroughs b. 1665
John Burroughs Will is dated, July 2, 1678, and names all of his children. he was buried in the burial grounds of his estate in West Riding in the providence of New York. The old cemetery no longer exists, cement was laid, and buildings now cover what was once the old cemetery located near 94th street and Alstyne and Corona avenues, it was earmarked as a private cemetery under a last Will and Testament admitted to probate on January 3, 1821. The cemetery is noted to have been once part of the estate that belonged to the Burroughs family who settled in Middleburg Amsterdam later known as Newtown New York.
John Burrowes of Salem disappears from the records in Salem and appears in the records of New Haven July 1644. Note Rev Youngs the neighbour of John Burrowes received permission to establish a plantation on land that New Haven Colony had purchased from James Farret and the settlement was named Southold in 1644-- some of its residents had removed to Middleburg in New Amsterdam.
In 1644 the local merchants of New Haven colony began to pool their resources in an attempt to build a great ship to England. There would be work for a Ships Cooper. A record of John Burrows of Salem on July 4, 1644, in the Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven 1638 to 1649
New Haven Colony towns consisted of New Haven, Milford, Bradford, Stamford, Southold and outposts in New York & Delaware. New Haven Colony was established as a joint stock company by Rev John Davenport a former Vicar of the church "St Stephen's in the Jewry" and his parishioners who were London merchants. Some had sold everything they owned to finance the colony.
The colony had five sea ocean worthy ships for coastal trade and were planning to build a larger ship for trade with England (note) Stamford Connecticut is next to the Rippowam river that flows into Stamford harbour and then out to the Atlantic Ocean.
New Haven Colony built an ocean worthy ship of 80 tons. Before the building of the great ship the colony had but five small ships for coastal trade. The ship was to be captained by George Lambert of New Haven a merchant gentleman and sea captain. The ship set sail for England 1646 with the last of the resources of New Haven never to return. A year and a half later during a thunder shower that moved over the harbour an apparition of the ship appeared witnessed by many. This inspired the poem "The Phantom Ship" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
After the Great Ship was lost at sea it created a big financial loss for the colony. New Haven colony was a disappointment for those who had invested in the Joint Stock Company. The settlers of Stamford Ct. found the soil rocky and too difficult to farm and the location not suitable for trade to make any large profits.
Many moved and settled in the English & Dutch territories of Long Island. John Burroughs settled at the Dutch outpost in Long Island they called Middleburg New Amsterdam that was later known as Newtown NY.
In 1652 Director Stuyvesant of the West India Company gave a land grant to a group of English men from the English Colonies to establish an English settlement called Middleburg in New Amsterdam.
The Dutch allowed English settlers to profit in Trade with the condition they use Dutch India Company ships. On Maspeth Creek near were they settled the Dutch had a trading house where several valuable cargos of beaver and other sins were shipped form the area. The Dutch also established a centre for milling building Tide mills along Newtown Creek and Maspeth Creek and their tributaries that served as a centre of Trade in New Amsterdam. ----
Salem History
The Mary Anne, Master Goose, sailed 1637, departed England. 10-15 May 10-15 May 1637, examinations of passengers to England on the Mary Ann, Mr. Goose--
**Borowe John 28, Cooper from Yarmouth bound for Salem. **Borrowe Anne, 40 (18?)
** Yongs, John, 35, Minister from St Margarets, Ipswich, Suffolk, bound for Salem (sidelined "This man was forbidden passage by the commissioners and did not depart from Yarmouth)
In 1637 John Burrows was received as an inhabitant and allotted five acres. Mr. John Young is appointed Ben Felton's 10 acres at Base River and Ben Felton is to have another 10 acres near the south side of Darby Fort. John Burrows was issued another 10 acres of Land. In the first month of 1644 it was ordered that John Burrowes shall be surveyor for fences in the field where Williams is. There are no more records of Burrows in Salem after Jan.1644 he then appears in the New Haven colonial records July 1644
John Burroughs of Newtown Will dated 1678 Gershom Moore and Thomas Pettit executors. Thomas Pettit m second the widow of John Moore Jr. John Moore Jr. & Gershom Moore were the sons of Rev. John Moore.
Source; History of Salem. John Moore was here as early as 1636 and as late as 1643, his family consisted of his wife and three children.
Source; The history of the town of Southampton east of canoe place; besides those already as "undertakers" the following appear in town records prior to 1644. A John Moore appears on this record while a John Moore disappears from the records of Salem in 1643.
Rev. John Moore recorded is Southampton L. I. & licenced to minister in New Netherlands in Hempstead & Middleburg (Newtown) with his second wife is Margert Howell. Gershom Moore the son of Rev John Moore was named as one of the executors of John Burroughs Will.
....In 1640 Rev. John Yongs with a group of families from Salem immigrated to the Long Island Sound and established a church and the settlement they called Southold. This was on land that New Haven Colony purchased from James Farret . In the history it says that inhabitants were mostly craftsmen. Southold would be known for its boat building.
Thomas Moore was the son of Widow Moore (Salem Church records first name Ann). She was the widow of Thomas Moore Sr. and pursued the vocation of mid-wife. Thomas Moore was a ship carpenter according to History of Southold; Thomas & wife Margert are recorded in Southold L.I. (source; Thomas Moore Home Lot/Samuel Landon House in Southold L.I.)
The New Haven Colony was a joint stock venture. In 1644 many of the merchants who had arrived from London began to pool their money to build a large ship so they could trade with England- The great ship was lost at sea on its maiden voyage in 1646. This was a substantial loss for the colony. Many moved and resettled in the Dutch & English settlements of Long Island.
The Scudder Association "At least four other persons at Middleburgh had lived in the locations where John and Mary Scudder had lived prior to moving to Middleburg. Those were John Burroughs who had lived in Salem Massachusetts. Also, John Ketcham and Edward Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson all of whom were at Southold with John and Mary Scudder".
Burroughs research believes that John Burroughs may have related to the Rev. Jeremiah Burroughs.
John Burrowes/Burroughs came from the Great Yarmouth that was 52 miles from Suffolk where Rev Jeremiah Burroughs was pastoral assistant and 33 miles from St Margarets Church in Tivetshall where he was rector in 1631. In 1632 the Act of Unity became law that made Puritan worship illegal Rev. Jeremiah Burroughs sought refuge in the Puritan church at Leiden in Amsterdam in the Netherlands where he became teacher. The former Vicar John Davenport of Stephens Jewry in London also sought refuge in the same church in Amsterdam. In 1637 he founded the New Haven Colony with the parishioners of his church-- John Burrows is recorded there in July 1644 and had a son named Jeremiah.
July 7, 1678, Will of John Burroughs
I John Burroughs of Newtowne vpon Long Island in the west Riding of Yorke Shire doe make this my last Will & Testament as Followeth I being in perfect Sence & memorie but weake in body not knowing how it may please god to deale with mee thought meet to seet in order my house before I goe hence & bee noe more seene..
first I Commend my Soule into the hands of god - my faithfull Creator my Saviour & redeemer:
2ly when it shall please god to call mee out of this world, I Committ my body to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buryed in comely & desent manner,
3ly My minde & Will is that all my debts that are due of wright to any man be truely paid,
4ly my Will is that affter funerall charges & my debts paid, then I doe give vnto my son John Burroughs, my now dweeling house barne and orchard & out housing with all the land from my house north-ward to the highway which goes through the field with all my meadow before my house on the South Side of the highway, Also I doe give him a Small Island of Salt marsh lying by the vpland about two Acres fenced with a ditch on the one Side and a Creeke one the other in forsters necke, and all to remaine in the hands of my beloved wife till hee be one & twenty yeares old, But if my beloved son John Burroughs shall dy before hee be one & twenty that then the said housing & Land shall be my beloved Sons betweene Jeremiah & Joseph Burroughs but not to dispossess my beloved wife during the time of her widdowhood but if shee marry then her husband must provide for her as I have done:
5ly My Will is that my beloved Son Jeremiah shall have all my land lying on the north Side of the highway goeing crose the field all my land with in the field with all my rights of meadow at the South of Sellers neck:
6ly My minde & Will is that my beloved Son Joseph Burroughs, shall have my twenty Acres peece of Land lying on the East Side of the highway goeing along without the field and another peece of Seven Acres & a halfe most of it being new fenced lying at the reare of the field, with all my Salt marsh except that Island I have given before to my Son John John Bourroughs it lyeth in fosters neck betweene Caleb Leverich meadow and Sara Haise;
7ly My minde & Will is that all my other goods within dores or without shall be Apprized & then devided into three parts, And my two beloved daughters namely Joanna Reder & Mary Burroughs & my beloved wife to have one full third part if those thirds amounte not to more then thirty Six pounds, but if it amounte to any quantetie more, then the same to be divided betweene my two Sons & my two daughters aforesaid; And that is my minde & will disclaming all other wills Gifts or Grants formerly I have herevnto made my beloved Son Jeremiah Burroughs whole & Sole Executor of the same requiring him to performe all things herein faithfully in wittness herevnto I haue sett my hand and seale this 7 of July in the yeare of our Lord God 1678
John Burroughs
a seale
Signed Sealed
in the presence of vs
Gershom Moore
Thomas Pettit
Further I doe Appointe my beloved friends Gershom Moore & Thomas Pettet to be my overseers to see that my Son Jeremiah doe performe all things I have written in my Will;
John Burroughs
Page 219.—John Burrough, Newtown; Leaves to son John "my new dwelling-house and orchard, and out-housing, with all the land from my house northward to the highway which goes through the field, with all my meadow before my house at the south side of the highway. Also a small island of salt meadow lying by the upland, about 20 acres with a ditch on one side and the creeke on the other, lying in Foster's Neck." But the said lands are to remain in the hands of his wife till his son John is twenty-one.
If he die they are to go to sons Jeremiah and Joseph, but they are not to be sold during his wife's widowhood. "But if she marry again, then her husband must provide for her as I have done." Leaves to son Jeremiah all land on the north side of the highway, going across the field, "and my right of meadow at the sout of Seller's neck." Leaves to son Joseph "my 20 acres of land on the east side of the highway going along outside the field, and another piece of 71- acres at the rear of the field," with all my salt meadows, except the island I have given to John. It lyeth at Foster's neck, between Caleb Leveritts and Sarah Haise. Legacies to daughters Joanna, Reder, and Mary Burroughs. Makes son Jeremiah executors.
JOHN BURROUGHS, COOPER, PROPRIETOR AND TOWN OFFICIER DIED IN NEWTOWN NEW YORK AUG 1678.
JOHN BURROWS A SHIPS COOPER FROM YARMOUTH AGED 28 AND ANN HIS WIFE WAS LICENCED TO GO TO NEW ENGLAND (Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope) HE WAS GRANTED LAND NEAR SALEM HARBOUR WITH AN ADDITIONAL FIVE ACRES GRANTED IN NOVEMEBER 1637. HE IS LISTED IN LAND GRANTS DATED 25 DEC 1637 AS JO. BURROWS WITH TWO IN HIS HOUSEHOLD AND DISAPPEARS FROM THE RECORD IN SALEM AFTER THE FIRST MONTH OF ON THE 25TH OF JANUARY 1644 (The History of Salem by Perley) AND APPEARS ON THE RECORD IN NEW HAVEN COLONY ON THE 3RD OF JULY 1644. THE RECORDS OF THE COLONY AND PLANTATION OF NEW HAVEN 1638-1641--"EDWARD BANNISTER DEMANDED 4£ OF GOODMAN BISHOP ON BEHALF OF JOHN BURROWS WHERE UPON IT IS ORDERED THAT THE SAID GOODMAN BISHOP SHALL PUT IN SECURITY TO PAY MONEY INTO THE COURT, EXCEPT IF HE CAN SHOW CONTRARY (NOTE) GOODMAN BISHOP WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COLONY.
(History) IN 1640 WILLIAM ALEXANDER THROUGH HIS AGENT JAMES FARRET SOLD PART OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND. THE NORTHEASTERN PART (SOUTHOLD) WAS PURCHASED BY NEW HAVEN COLONY AND THE SOUTHEASTERN PART (SOUTHAMPTON) WAS PURCHASED BY MASSACUSETTES BAY COLONY. IN 1640 REV. JOHN (YONGS) YOUNGS 1598-1672 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE REV JOHN DAVENPORT OF NEW HAVEN COLONY IN CONNETICUT CAME BY SHIP FROM SALEM MASSACUSSETTS WITH 13 FAMILIES SOME WHO WERE FROM NORTHFOLK & SUFFOLK ENGLAND AND SETTLED ON THE LAND IN THE NORTH FOLK OF LONG ISLAND SOUND. THE SETTLEMENT WAS FIRST CALLED YENNICOT AND IN 1644 THE NAME CHANGED TO SOUTHOLD. REV JOHN (YONGS)YOUNGS BECAME A MAGISTRATE OF SOUTHOLD UNDER THE GOVERNANCE OF NEW HAVEN COLONY. IN SALEM JOHN YOUNGS WAS A NEIGHBOR OF JOHN BURROWS. NOTE: JESSUPS NECK LAYS DIRECTLY ACROSS THE BAY OF SOUTHOLD. SOUTHOLD WAS KNOWN FOR ITS BOAT BUILDING. IN 1644 THE MERCHANTS OF NEW HAVEN COLONY BEGAN TO COLLECT MONEY TO HAVE A GREAT SHIP BUILT SO THEY COULD ESTABLISH TRADE WITH ENGLAND.
John Burroughs, Newtown Clerk --- Newtown Clerk was instrumental in penning the Newtown Remonstance which led which led to the New York Charter of liberties. It is believed that he was related to the Burroughs family which produced a number of religious figures in the 17th Century. source Greater Astoria Historical Society.
-- There is no history of a Newtown Remonstance only a Flushing Remonstance by Quakers in 1657 written to Peter Stuyvesant director general of New Amsterdam so they could have the freedom to worship this led a New York Charters of Liberty to be written.
John Burroughs was a Cooper and was elected as Town Clerk. It is unknown how many terms he served as town clerk. During the colonial era a town clerk was elected to "keep a record of everyman's house and land" and to present "a fairly written" copy of such was sent to the General Court to be recorded by the secretary of the colony. In today's world Municipal clerk is elected every 5 years.
John Burroughs was elected town clerk of Middleburg New Amsterdam in March 1662 and served one year and five months. source the Register of New Netherland 1626-1674---Middleburg 1655 William Wood, 1659 Thomas Lawrence, Mar 13, 1662 John Burroughs, Sept 1663 James Bradish.
In 1667 Middleburg New Amsterdam was under the allegiance to Charles II of England and renamed Hastings New York. Town officers were elected in the name of his majesty, a clerk, constable and five townsmen. John Burroughs was elected town clerk. (source Annuals of Newtown).
John Burroughs apprenticed with a Master Cooper with agreement with his father or guardian. It is most likely that he received permission to immigrate to Massachusetts Bay Colony as a licenced Cooper through the livery company Worshipful Coopers of London. The livery companies were London's ancient associations and guilds which were styled as Worshipful of a respected trade. It is a mistake by researchers who are not familiar with history to believe that John Burroughs could not be the same man in Salem because he was educated and elected as town clerk- In sixteenth century England tradesmen were often the educated younger sons of the gentry who received very little inheritance because of the primogeniture law that gave almost all of the inheritance to the oldest son. During that time there was a close relationship between the gentry and livery companies, you will find in the records that many who were tradesmen and belonged to Livery companies became government officials in London. It is recorded that John Alden 1598-1687 was a Ship Cooper on the Mayflower and later became assistant governor of Plymouth.
Source. Annuals of Newtown by James Riker pg. 383 John Burroughs the progenitor of this family, was of English birth; early came over to Massachusetts and is found at Salem in 1637.
The birthdate of John Burroughs "1617" was estimated by historian James Riker author of Annual of Newtown from a record of John Burroughs in which he gave a disposition- source The Town Records of Newtown page 73.
May 8, 1667 "The disposition of John Burroughs aged about 50 years who said he, being one of five men chosen to lay out the meadows by the town. I was in the salt marsh when John Laurensons meadow was laid out and his line would have gone over a creek called Hardin's Creek which goes forth into two branches almost at the upland and John Laurenson's meadow was bound by the northernmost part of it through his line would have gone over the creek".
(The third Anglo-Dutch War 1672-1674). Annuals of Newtown by Riker--- Dutch officers were reinstated, and the people received a proclamation. John Burroughs performed his duties and embraced the opportunity to speak of grievances that the townsmen had awhile under the English government. After a peace agreement the providence was restored to the English. On January 1675 Burroughs was summoned to the court of assizes for two letters written reflecting on the grievances against the English government that were the feelings of his townsmen and was censured. There would later be a warrant for his arrest and a sentence to be whipped and imprisoned. Riker-- "Monday Jan 18 arrived at eleven o'clock Mr. Burroughs, then fifty-eight was brought from his cell".
It is evident that when Riker wrote Annuals of Newtown the 1667 record that mentions Burroughs was "about 50" was used to determine that he was "58"years old in 1675 eight years later when he was released from jail- There is a problem is that "about 50" was used to determine his age and there is no certainty of the exact age he may have been.
There are many references in historical texts where it is written that John Burroughs of Newtown was a Cooper who came from Salem, there must be another record besides a passenger record that confirms this. It is the amateur geologists who believe otherwise.
Source. The founders of Early American families by Merideth Colket Jr. page 55 John Burroughs arrived in Salem with his wife in 1637, 1644 Newton, died Newtown Aug 1678 Cooper, proprietor, town officer.
Source: History of Long Island from its earliest settlement to the present time Volume 1 by Peter Ross page 708--The descendants of John Burroughs of Newtown can trace their genealogy until 1637 when John Burroughs landed in Salem Massachusetts. In 1643 he seems to have settled in Newtown where he occupied a farm that remained intact in the possession of his descendants until about 1835.
JOHN BARROWS OF PLYMOUTH IS NOT THE SAME MAN AS JOHN BURROWS OF SALEM.
THE IDEA THAT JOHN BURROWS OF SALEM MOVED TO PLYMOUTH IS THE SUGGESTION FROM RESEACHER SM WATSON AUTHOR OF "THE MAINE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL RECORD" VOLUME 7 PUBLISHED IN 1884--"THE BURROWES FAMILY" IN WHICH HE STATES "WE FIND NO RECORD OF JOHN BURROWES UNTIL THIRTY YEARS LATER WHEN HE IS RECORDED IN PLYMOUTH. JUDGE DAVIS OF THAT PLACE (note records of 1665/66) SAID THAT JOHN CAME TO THE CAPE THIRTY YEARS BEFORE HE CAME TO PLYMOUTH. SM WATSON MAKES THE SUGGESTION THAT HE COULD HAVE EASILY MEANT SALEM THAT IS 37 MILES FROM CAPE ANN.
NOTE. THE "CAPE" THAT JUDGE DAVIS WAS REFFERING TO WAS ONE OF THE SETTLEMENTS OR PLANTATIONS OF "CAPE COD" ESTABLISHED BY THE PILGRIMS. (HISTORY) THE PILGRIMS FIRST LANDED AT THE TIP OF CAPE COD NOV 1620 BEFORE SAILING TO OTHER DESTINATIONS IN THE AREA. AFTER SOME MONTHS THEY FOUND A SAFE HARBOUR IN AN AREA KNOWN TODAY AS PLYMOUTH WHERE THEY LANDED ON "PLYMOUTH ROCK" THE PILGRIMS AKA SEPRATISTS ESTABLISHED 15 SETTLEMENTS IN THE AREA BESIDES SANDWICH IN 1637 BANSTABLE AND YARMOUTH IN 1639 ON THE CAPE. THE OLDEST TOWN ON THE CAPE IS SANDWICH THAT IS 19 MILES FROM PLYMOUTH ESTABLISHED IN 1637. IT IS MOST LIKELY THAT JOHN BARROWS CAME FROM SANDWICH AND WAS LATER RECORDED IN PLYMOUTH 1665/1666.
AMATEUR BARROW RESEARCH WHO BELIEVES JOHN BARROWS IS THE SAME BURROWS FROM PLYMOUTH WITHOUT RECORDS HAVE CONSIDERED ANN THOMPSON THE FIRST WIFE OF JOHN BURROWS/BORROUGHS OF NEWTOWN TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST WIFE OF JOHN BARROWS OF PLYMOUTH BECAUSE OF THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST VOLUME 80--- THE BIOGRAPHY OF NATHAN AND DEBORAH (BARROWS) FISH PAGE 54/55. JOHN BARROWS BORN ABOUT 1616 MARRIED AN UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN AND HAD SON ROBERT. JOHN BARROWS MARRIED A SECOND TIME IN PLYMOUTH 1665 DEBORAH PROBABLY PRATT.
IN THE 1940's A DESCENDANT OF JOHN BARROWS OF PLYMOUTH ERECTED A MEMORIAL ON HIS GRAVE IDENTIFING HIM AS JOHN BURROWS OF SALEM WITHOUT READING THE HISTORICAL TEXTS OR WITHOUT ANY RECORD THAT COULD VERIFY THAT HE HAD EVER BEEN IN SALEM. A FIND GRAVE MEMORIAL HAS BEEN CREATED FOR JOHN BARROWS OF PLYMOUTH 1609-1691 WITH THE PHOTO OF THIS FALSE MEMORIAL MARKER ALONG WITH A WRONG NARRATIVE.
(NOTE) "John Burroughs m. Joanna Jessup (INCORRECT) this record was published in "New England marriages Prior to 1700" by Clarence Torrey. THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A SOURCE. The source of the book is from references that are predominately family genealogies that are published in genealogy books with NO authentic records. It is often that the researchers of genealogy books do not base their conclusions on actual records but by speculation and often miss important records reaching a conclusion."
John Burrowes a Cooper from Yarmouth England was licenced to work in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and arrived on the same ship Mary Ann in 1637 as Rev John Youngs. In Salem they are recorded as being neighbours. In 1640 the North Fork of Long Island Sound in Northeast Long Island "Southold" was purchased by New Haven Colony and the east Long Island "Southampton" was purchased by Massachusetts Bay colony from William Alexander's agent James Farret.
In 1640 Rev John Youngs of Salem led a group of families of his congregation into Long Island Sound on land purchased by New Haven colony, they called their new settlement Southold. In Salem John Burrows disappears from records after January 1644 and appears on a New Haven record in July 1644.
"In 1634, at Yarmouth, England, Rev John Youngs and his wife, Joan, of St Margarets, Suffolk, were forbidden passage to New England. (History of Puritans Mass Hist. Coll. Vol 4. p 101) Mr. Youngs soon after settled at Hingham, in Norfolk co. abjointing Suffolk, 100 miles northeast of London, and six years later on Oct 21, 1640, he gathered his church anew under the auspices of Rev. John Davenport, minister and Theophilus Eaton, governor of the New Haven Colony, which had just been planted April 18,1638, under a branching oak--a virtual theocracy, the Bible their code of laws ecclesiastical and civil."
John Jessup a merchant adventurer involved in coastal trade would have needed the services of John Burroughs who was a Ships Cooper. John Jessup is mentioned in a letter on April 1, 1637, addressed by John Winthrop the Younger the early governor of Connecticut Colony source. History and Antiquities of Boston page 210. In the letter he came on the barke (sailing vessel) with Mr Harding---source Abandoning America Life stories from early New England page 126, 127 --Mr. Harding was a merchant adventurer who also acted as attorney for a number of clients in New England.
Source. Families of Old Fairfield John Jessup page33-- John Jessup came to Massachusetts and apparently dead by Feb 1637/38 when the general court ordered the present claims--FALSE -
Researchers of the books "The Jessup Family & History of Stamford disagree. ---records indicate that John Jessup was at Newtown Court Dec 1637 and recorded in South Hampton in 1654. It was the assumption of the researcher of Old Families of Fairfield that John Jessup did not return to General Court and had unfinished business settling the estate of John Oldman because his name does not appear on the list of creditors in -Public Records of the colony prior to the colony. (pdf)- This is why John Jessup is said to have died in the year 1637----Matthew Craddock was one of John Oldham's biggest creditors- John Jessup had been in Boston in the adjudication of a case before a court held in Newton Dec 5,1637---Newton Court was the district Court of Watertown- (Oldman's Farm was in Watertown) In the Connecticut record 1641 Oldman's Farm was laid out to Mathew Craddock. John Jessup was an attorney who represented client "Mattew Craddock". John Jessup Sr is recorded in South Hampton Long Island in 1654.
John Jessup's widow married John Whitmore FALSE- The reason some researchers call the Widow Whitmore the mother of Edward Jessup is this Stamford Court record; A testimony dated 25th of March of 1657. "Edward Jessup brought Joseph Mead of Stamford his agent and employed him did mark this mare for him as witness who did now affirm in upon oath that Edward Jessup and his mother Widow Whitmore went from Stanford to live elsewhere.
These books claim that the Widow Whitmore was the mother of Edward Jessup. The Families of Old Fairfield, Frances Whitmore of Cambridge 1625-1585, Whitmore Genealogy by Frances Whitmore.
The researchers of these books claim that Widow Whitmore was the mother-in-law of Edward Jessup.
Edward Jessup of West Farms-this record is to be in reference to his mother-in-law, as it was only nine years later after his 1657 testimony that Edward Jessup wrote his 1666 Will in which he mentions a married daughter and grandchild and very young children and young widow.
The Wetmore Family of America and its collateral branches biographical and historical notes; from the records we conclude then that John Whitmore had a son John aged 18 before 1648 and a daughter who married Edward Jessup.
The New England Register Volume 26 published 1872--John Jessup and Edward Jessup were of Stamford about 1642, and the name has since continued. Possibly they were descended from Frances Jessup of Leyton, or some other branch of the Broomhall stock. The only item is given in introduction to the Wetmore Family p-2 (1657 testimony) "Edward and his mother the Widow Whitmore went from Stamford to live elsewhere they left two mules in his charge. This was the Widow of John Whitmore of Stamford but whether he was Edwards mother or mother-in-law cannot be determined.
The reason this cannot be determined is because in ancient records nephew and niece are called cousins and in laws are called mother and fathers.
Fairfield Families- John Jessup had a daughter who married John Burroughs he was at Salem in 1637. Called brother-in-law in the will of Edward Jessup who gave a legacy (bequest) to his cousin (niece) Joanna Burroughs (Note) Joanna Jessup was named after her grandmother---
This is an assumption of this researcher that because of Joanna Burroughs was given a bequest she must be named after her grandmother---There are no records that represent the first name of Widow Whitmore. In the records she is known as Good Wife Whitmore or Widow Whitmore. There is no such person!
In Edward Jessup's 1666 Will he called John Burroughs brother-in-law, and, in the records, it is known that John Burroughs married Elizabeth the widow of Thomas Reed who gave birth to a son in 1665. The birth was announced in Newtown court. This would prove that she was the sister of Edward Jessup. Elizabeth died three months after her husband. In her 1678 Will she gave a bequest to her sister "Hannah Pettit" the wife of Thomas Pettit who was named one of the executors of her husbands Will. Thomas Pettit married Hannah the widow of John Moore II this is also recorded in the Newtown records.
The reason that Joanna Burroughs the daughter of John Burroughs was called cousin (niece) was because she married John Reeder Jr. in 1665 the son of John Reeder Sr. & Margaret (Jessup?) second wife Samuel Toe. Note Edward Jessup is recorded with these families during the Peach Tree Massacre of 1655 in Annuals of Newtown.
In the "Town Records V 1&2 1630 1652, available on microfilm at the family search building in Utah. John Burrowes was witness to a court action against another settler in 1649 and in 1652 Widow Whitmore sold property that was witnessed by John Burrows.
John Burrowes married Ann Thompson on Aug 31, 1634, in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England issue Joseph, Joanna, Jeremiah & Mary Burroughs. (note) the name of daughter Joanna was a combination of her father and mothers first names. Widower John Burroughs married Elizabeth Jessup the widow of Thomas Reed issue John Burroughs b. 1665
John Burroughs Will is dated, July 2, 1678, and names all of his children. he was buried in the burial grounds of his estate in West Riding in the providence of New York. The old cemetery no longer exists, cement was laid, and buildings now cover what was once the old cemetery located near 94th street and Alstyne and Corona avenues, it was earmarked as a private cemetery under a last Will and Testament admitted to probate on January 3, 1821. The cemetery is noted to have been once part of the estate that belonged to the Burroughs family who settled in Middleburg Amsterdam later known as Newtown New York.
John Burrowes of Salem disappears from the records in Salem and appears in the records of New Haven July 1644. Note Rev Youngs the neighbour of John Burrowes received permission to establish a plantation on land that New Haven Colony had purchased from James Farret and the settlement was named Southold in 1644-- some of its residents had removed to Middleburg in New Amsterdam.
In 1644 the local merchants of New Haven colony began to pool their resources in an attempt to build a great ship to England. There would be work for a Ships Cooper. A record of John Burrows of Salem on July 4, 1644, in the Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven 1638 to 1649
New Haven Colony towns consisted of New Haven, Milford, Bradford, Stamford, Southold and outposts in New York & Delaware. New Haven Colony was established as a joint stock company by Rev John Davenport a former Vicar of the church "St Stephen's in the Jewry" and his parishioners who were London merchants. Some had sold everything they owned to finance the colony.
The colony had five sea ocean worthy ships for coastal trade and were planning to build a larger ship for trade with England (note) Stamford Connecticut is next to the Rippowam river that flows into Stamford harbour and then out to the Atlantic Ocean.
New Haven Colony built an ocean worthy ship of 80 tons. Before the building of the great ship the colony had but five small ships for coastal trade. The ship was to be captained by George Lambert of New Haven a merchant gentleman and sea captain. The ship set sail for England 1646 with the last of the resources of New Haven never to return. A year and a half later during a thunder shower that moved over the harbour an apparition of the ship appeared witnessed by many. This inspired the poem "The Phantom Ship" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
After the Great Ship was lost at sea it created a big financial loss for the colony. New Haven colony was a disappointment for those who had invested in the Joint Stock Company. The settlers of Stamford Ct. found the soil rocky and too difficult to farm and the location not suitable for trade to make any large profits.
Many moved and settled in the English & Dutch territories of Long Island. John Burroughs settled at the Dutch outpost in Long Island they called Middleburg New Amsterdam that was later known as Newtown NY.
In 1652 Director Stuyvesant of the West India Company gave a land grant to a group of English men from the English Colonies to establish an English settlement called Middleburg in New Amsterdam.
The Dutch allowed English settlers to profit in Trade with the condition they use Dutch India Company ships. On Maspeth Creek near were they settled the Dutch had a trading house where several valuable cargos of beaver and other sins were shipped form the area. The Dutch also established a centre for milling building Tide mills along Newtown Creek and Maspeth Creek and their tributaries that served as a centre of Trade in New Amsterdam. ----
Salem History
The Mary Anne, Master Goose, sailed 1637, departed England. 10-15 May 10-15 May 1637, examinations of passengers to England on the Mary Ann, Mr. Goose--
**Borowe John 28, Cooper from Yarmouth bound for Salem. **Borrowe Anne, 40 (18?)
** Yongs, John, 35, Minister from St Margarets, Ipswich, Suffolk, bound for Salem (sidelined "This man was forbidden passage by the commissioners and did not depart from Yarmouth)
In 1637 John Burrows was received as an inhabitant and allotted five acres. Mr. John Young is appointed Ben Felton's 10 acres at Base River and Ben Felton is to have another 10 acres near the south side of Darby Fort. John Burrows was issued another 10 acres of Land. In the first month of 1644 it was ordered that John Burrowes shall be surveyor for fences in the field where Williams is. There are no more records of Burrows in Salem after Jan.1644 he then appears in the New Haven colonial records July 1644
John Burroughs of Newtown Will dated 1678 Gershom Moore and Thomas Pettit executors. Thomas Pettit m second the widow of John Moore Jr. John Moore Jr. & Gershom Moore were the sons of Rev. John Moore.
Source; History of Salem. John Moore was here as early as 1636 and as late as 1643, his family consisted of his wife and three children.
Source; The history of the town of Southampton east of canoe place; besides those already as "undertakers" the following appear in town records prior to 1644. A John Moore appears on this record while a John Moore disappears from the records of Salem in 1643.
Rev. John Moore recorded is Southampton L. I. & licenced to minister in New Netherlands in Hempstead & Middleburg (Newtown) with his second wife is Margert Howell. Gershom Moore the son of Rev John Moore was named as one of the executors of John Burroughs Will.
....In 1640 Rev. John Yongs with a group of families from Salem immigrated to the Long Island Sound and established a church and the settlement they called Southold. This was on land that New Haven Colony purchased from James Farret . In the history it says that inhabitants were mostly craftsmen. Southold would be known for its boat building.
Thomas Moore was the son of Widow Moore (Salem Church records first name Ann). She was the widow of Thomas Moore Sr. and pursued the vocation of mid-wife. Thomas Moore was a ship carpenter according to History of Southold; Thomas & wife Margert are recorded in Southold L.I. (source; Thomas Moore Home Lot/Samuel Landon House in Southold L.I.)
The New Haven Colony was a joint stock venture. In 1644 many of the merchants who had arrived from London began to pool their money to build a large ship so they could trade with England- The great ship was lost at sea on its maiden voyage in 1646. This was a substantial loss for the colony. Many moved and resettled in the Dutch & English settlements of Long Island.
The Scudder Association "At least four other persons at Middleburgh had lived in the locations where John and Mary Scudder had lived prior to moving to Middleburg. Those were John Burroughs who had lived in Salem Massachusetts. Also, John Ketcham and Edward Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson all of whom were at Southold with John and Mary Scudder".
Burroughs research believes that John Burroughs may have related to the Rev. Jeremiah Burroughs.
John Burrowes/Burroughs came from the Great Yarmouth that was 52 miles from Suffolk where Rev Jeremiah Burroughs was pastoral assistant and 33 miles from St Margarets Church in Tivetshall where he was rector in 1631. In 1632 the Act of Unity became law that made Puritan worship illegal Rev. Jeremiah Burroughs sought refuge in the Puritan church at Leiden in Amsterdam in the Netherlands where he became teacher. The former Vicar John Davenport of Stephens Jewry in London also sought refuge in the same church in Amsterdam. In 1637 he founded the New Haven Colony with the parishioners of his church-- John Burrows is recorded there in July 1644 and had a son named Jeremiah.
July 7, 1678, Will of John Burroughs
I John Burroughs of Newtowne vpon Long Island in the west Riding of Yorke Shire doe make this my last Will & Testament as Followeth I being in perfect Sence & memorie but weake in body not knowing how it may please god to deale with mee thought meet to seet in order my house before I goe hence & bee noe more seene..
first I Commend my Soule into the hands of god - my faithfull Creator my Saviour & redeemer:
2ly when it shall please god to call mee out of this world, I Committ my body to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buryed in comely & desent manner,
3ly My minde & Will is that all my debts that are due of wright to any man be truely paid,
4ly my Will is that affter funerall charges & my debts paid, then I doe give vnto my son John Burroughs, my now dweeling house barne and orchard & out housing with all the land from my house north-ward to the highway which goes through the field with all my meadow before my house on the South Side of the highway, Also I doe give him a Small Island of Salt marsh lying by the vpland about two Acres fenced with a ditch on the one Side and a Creeke one the other in forsters necke, and all to remaine in the hands of my beloved wife till hee be one & twenty yeares old, But if my beloved son John Burroughs shall dy before hee be one & twenty that then the said housing & Land shall be my beloved Sons betweene Jeremiah & Joseph Burroughs but not to dispossess my beloved wife during the time of her widdowhood but if shee marry then her husband must provide for her as I have done:
5ly My Will is that my beloved Son Jeremiah shall have all my land lying on the north Side of the highway goeing crose the field all my land with in the field with all my rights of meadow at the South of Sellers neck:
6ly My minde & Will is that my beloved Son Joseph Burroughs, shall have my twenty Acres peece of Land lying on the East Side of the highway goeing along without the field and another peece of Seven Acres & a halfe most of it being new fenced lying at the reare of the field, with all my Salt marsh except that Island I have given before to my Son John John Bourroughs it lyeth in fosters neck betweene Caleb Leverich meadow and Sara Haise;
7ly My minde & Will is that all my other goods within dores or without shall be Apprized & then devided into three parts, And my two beloved daughters namely Joanna Reder & Mary Burroughs & my beloved wife to have one full third part if those thirds amounte not to more then thirty Six pounds, but if it amounte to any quantetie more, then the same to be divided betweene my two Sons & my two daughters aforesaid; And that is my minde & will disclaming all other wills Gifts or Grants formerly I have herevnto made my beloved Son Jeremiah Burroughs whole & Sole Executor of the same requiring him to performe all things herein faithfully in wittness herevnto I haue sett my hand and seale this 7 of July in the yeare of our Lord God 1678
John Burroughs
a seale
Signed Sealed
in the presence of vs
Gershom Moore
Thomas Pettit
Further I doe Appointe my beloved friends Gershom Moore & Thomas Pettet to be my overseers to see that my Son Jeremiah doe performe all things I have written in my Will;
John Burroughs
Page 219.—John Burrough, Newtown; Leaves to son John "my new dwelling-house and orchard, and out-housing, with all the land from my house northward to the highway which goes through the field, with all my meadow before my house at the south side of the highway. Also a small island of salt meadow lying by the upland, about 20 acres with a ditch on one side and the creeke on the other, lying in Foster's Neck." But the said lands are to remain in the hands of his wife till his son John is twenty-one.
If he die they are to go to sons Jeremiah and Joseph, but they are not to be sold during his wife's widowhood. "But if she marry again, then her husband must provide for her as I have done." Leaves to son Jeremiah all land on the north side of the highway, going across the field, "and my right of meadow at the sout of Seller's neck." Leaves to son Joseph "my 20 acres of land on the east side of the highway going along outside the field, and another piece of 71- acres at the rear of the field," with all my salt meadows, except the island I have given to John. It lyeth at Foster's neck, between Caleb Leveritts and Sarah Haise. Legacies to daughters Joanna, Reder, and Mary Burroughs. Makes son Jeremiah executors.
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