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Lieut. Thomas BURNHAM Sr. |
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1623, Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Death |
Jun 1694, Ipswich, Essex, MA |
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Ipswich, Essex, MA618 |
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| Notes for Lieut. Thomas BURNHAM Sr. |
Death date given as 19 May 1694 in Dawers-Gates Ancestoral Lines (2vols np 1931-43) 1:129-30 Mary Walton Feris
"Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine" says: Lieut. Thomas Burnham, one of the brothers of that name who settled at Ipswich, Mass., was a resident of the town known as Chebacco as early as 1636. He was then a youth of thirteen years and continued to reside there until his death at the age of seventy-one years. He was a soldier in the Pequot expedition in 1636-37 and again in the Indian warfare in 1643. He was a subscriber to Major Denison in 1648 and was a corporal and surveyor of high ways in 1662; sergeant in 1664; ensign the following year, and lieutenant in 1683. He was deputy to the general court in 1683-84-85. In May, 1667, he was granted the privilege of locating a sawmill on the Chebacco river, near the Falls, and he became an extensive owner of lands in Ipswich and Chebacco, which he divided between his sons Thomas and James.
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