Born ‎ 1609 at Norwich, Norfolk County, Eng., died ‎ 1700‎, 90 or 91 years

Born ‎ 1615 at Norwich, Norfolk, Eng., died ‎between 1622 and 1700 at Ipswich, MA‎, 84 or 85 years

Born ‎ 1617 at Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.---see notes, died ‎ May 19, 1694 at Ipswich, Chebacco Parish, MA‎, 76 or 77 years
See brother John notes for verification of notes. See father's notes for details of shipwreck.

Lt. Thomas Burnham also fought in the Pequot war and other Indian skirmishes even though a boy and when grown became a freeman of Chebacco. He was made a Selectman in 1647; Sergeant of the Ipswich Company in 1644; made Ensign in 1665 and was commissioned as Lieutenant in 1683. He was Deputy to the General Court from 1683 to 1685 and on town committees. In 1667 he was granted the privilege of erecting a saw mill on the Chebacco River. He owned much land both in Chebacco and in Ipswich which was divided between his sons, Thomas and James upon his death.

Care must be taken not to confuse Thomas of Hartford with our Burnham ancestors. This Thomas who was born in 1617 also sailed from Gravesend, England about 1635, for the Barbados and soon after came to Conn., becoming a famous attorney. There are no records to Connect Thomas of Hartford with the other Burnhams. As Caroline Burnham, one of our Burnham cousins, so aptly put it, "Our Thomas Burnham crashed into America. The other one, Thomas Burnham of Hartford, landed safely in one piece." Obviously Thomas could not have been in the places at the same time, but this does not seem to deter those who attribute one Thomas with the deeds of another.

bryant.mills@worldspan reports marriage , 1639, Anna Wright, but all info is in CT., thus I have not entered it

Born ‎ 1618 at Norwich, Norfolk, Eng---see notes. [verification], died ‎ Nov 5, 1694 at Chebacco, Essex, MA {Deacon John}‎, 75 or 76 years. Occupation: ‎ at carpenter;
Baptism: 18 NOV 1930

Endowment: 14 MAR 1932

Sealing to Parents: 24 FEB 1921 LOGAN
Robert Burnham / Mary Andrews
Sealing to Spouse: 07 OCT 1941 SLAKE
Mrs. Mary Burnham
Relative/Proxy:
Thyge C. Gronning
Marriage(s):
Spouse: Mrs. Ruth BURNHAM Disc 643229

Marriage: abt 1638 Place:


Spouse: Mary ANDREWS Disc 643230

Marriage: abt 1646 Place: Ipswich,Essex,Ma?


Spouse: Elizabeth WELLS Disc 643231

Marriage: 9 Jun 1662 Place:









Deacon John served in the Pequot Indian war in 1637 although just a boy and in wars with other Indian tribes. This sprit of patriotism grew and flourished in his descendants, many representatives of the family having been engaged in every war waged by this nation. [Walter Willcutt Burnham in "English Families Genealogical and Memorial" 3rd Series, Vol. IV, Pub. 1915 International Standard Book 354, Ed. 1, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, Date of Import: May 14, 1999, Internal Ref. : 52
[Broderbund Family Archive 1.354.1.13361.22]

Individual: John Burnham
Place: Ipswich, MA
Year: 1638

Primary Individual: Burnham, John

Source Code: 1936

Source Name:
FARMER, JOHN. A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England; Containing an Alphabetical List of the Governours, Deputy-Governours, Assistants or Counsellors, and Ministers of the Gospel in the Several Colonies, from 1620 to 1692; Graduates of Harvard College to 1662; Members of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company to 1662; Freemen Admitted to the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1662; With Many Other of the Early Inhabitants of New-England and Long-Island, N.Y. from 1620 to the Year 1675.... Lancaster, Mass.: Carter, Andrews, & Co., 1829. 352p. Reprinted with additions and corrections by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1964. Repr. 1976, 1983.

Source Annotation:
Excellent directory of the first settlers of New England. Drake's additions and corrections (no. 1666) are found in the G.P.C. reprint and in no. 9151, Tepper, Passengers to America, pp. 468-470.

Source Page 10-8063-4612-4]

In 1639 Ipswich granted him a large tract of land [8 acres] for his services as a soldier. He subscribed to the compensation of Major Denison in 1648. He sold to Anthony Potter June 1, 1648, a house lot, late of Humphrey Griffin, situated near the water mill; also a house lot containing three acres, lying next to the house of Jacob Burnham. He came into full communion with the church Aug. 19, 16__. He was appointed deacon of the church at Chebacco and became a freeman of Chebacco when grown. He became an owner of a large tract of land lying on the east side of what is now known as Haskell's Creek, which is where he died on 11-5-1694.

Rumor has it that the boys left England to get away from their brother Edward and possibly intended to return to England afterwards; however, his mother and father did come to MA. Another brother, Benjamin, went to India, amassed a fortune which he left to his brothers in the Colonies [the will was contested by Edward and was never settled.]

See father's notes on other details of shipwreck of "Angel Gabriel"

Passenger List For Angel Gabriel 1635:
On the last Wednesday in May, 1635, [May 27th], the ship :Angel Gabriel", a strong ship of 240 tons and carrying a heavy armament of 16 guns swung at her moorings in the King's Road, four or five miles distance of the city. Her destination was Pemaquid. On her deck was "a company of many Godly Christians". some from other ships, bound for New England. The barque, Angel Gabriel, a major disaster in the middle of the "great Migration" was wrecked in a great storm, probably a hurricane, on August 14, 1635 off the coast off Pemaquid Pt., Maine. On Aug. 13 the ship pulled into Pemaquid Bay and laid at anchor. The next day there was such a terrible rain storm which ravaged the coast from Nova Scotia to New York starting in the morning. The Angel was torn to pieces by the savage storm and cast away. Most of the cattle. 1 seaman and three or four passengers died. The other escaped to shore. Among the few personal belongings saved was a chest belonging to the Burnham boys. The tides had been as high as 20 feet.

Some passengers set up tents along the shore and John Cogswell [Coggswell] went to Boston and sought help of a Captain Gallop who commanded a small bark, or barque as it was called then. He took some passengers to Ipswich and made another trip the end of October. The 3 Burnham brothers went to Chebacco, in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, probably with their uncle, Capt. Andrews, and John Cogswell and his family in Capt. Gallop's bark.

According to the "Lighthouses in Maine" one of the passengers was a man who left his wife behind behind planning to send for her after he became established. Although he survived the wreck, his wife was afraid to follow him after what had happened to the 'Angel Gabriel'. He was unable to face the journey back to England so they never saw each other again. A visitor to this site has sent has sent me the information that the man who was separated from his wife was John Baily, who left behind a son Robert and one or more daughters.

Maine PBS did a piece on marine archeology and one of the items discussed was the Angel Gabriel wreck and a quest to find it of some 20 years [1999]. The program suggested a society of an Angel Gabriel descendants might exist.


Passenger list of Angel Gabriel: BF= bound for:
Capt. Robert Andrews, Ship's Master; John Bailey, Sr, a weaver from Chippenham, Eng. BF Newbury; John Bailey, Jr b. 1613; Henry Beck; [Deac. john Burnham; Thomas Burnham; Robert Burnham; Ralph, Mrs. Elizabeth, & Henry Blaidsell of Lancashire, BF York, ME; William Furrier; John Cogswell, 43, Mrs. Elizabeth [Thompson] Cogswell, @ 41, Mary @ 18, William @ 16, John @ 13, Hannah @ 11, Abigail @ 9, Edward @ 6, Sarah @ 3, Elizabeth, infant, from Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire BF Ipswich, MA.; Edward French @ 45 Tailor; Samuel Haines @ 34 apprentice to J. Cogswell, prob. Ipswich, later Dover Point; William hook; Henry Simpson; John Tuttle, Dover, BF Ipswich, later Dover, NH.

THE BURNHAM NAME

This is one of the early New England names, of English origin, among the foremost in New Hampshire [both in point of time and importance], and distinguished in military annals from the earliest colonial period. Not only in military, but in civil affairs it has been pre-eminent, and has furnished leading agriculturists, merchants, clergymen, jurists and legislators to this commonwealth.

Walter Le Veutre came to England at the Conquest, in 1066, with William of Normandy, in the train of his German Cousin Earl Warren and was made a lord in 1080, and received the Saxon Village of Burnham, county of Norfolk, as part of his estate. After the Conquest, he assumed the name of Walter De Burnham after the manor, and the estate continued to be held by his descendants until after 1700. The ancient seat, "Burnham Beeches," is mentioned in one of Tennyson's poems.

put here to save info:
Walter had 2 sons, William and Phillip; William had son, Mathew
Phillip had 3 children:
1. William II d. 1246-1260 [documentation staying he was alive part of 1246]
2. Reginald m. Rose Matthew De Gurney
3. Cecilia m. Sir William De Calthorp

Phillips son William II had 3 sons:
Walter, alive 1309
Richard
Phillip II alive in reign of Henry II; there is some reference to Phillip II and possibly his dau. Elizabeth, who m. Henry Parker

James De Burnham d. 1295 had a brother or cousin named Thomas, d. 1303. Thomas had [?] brother Geoffrey [alive in 1321]. Now James had a son Hubert. James wife, it appears, was Alice De Valoenes. Alice had one brother, Robert De Valonoes d. 1282, and 3 sisters: Lucy [her son John De Bois], Jeane, [her son John De Ludham], Hawise [her son John De Gernch]. Robert m. Eve, d. 1293. The father of the above was Nicholas Tregoz.
posted by Iris Miller, Genforum, Regional: Countries: United Kingdom Genealogy

[Broderbund Family Archive 1.354.1.13361.23]

Individual: John Burnham
Place: Massachusetts
Year: 1635

Primary Individual: Burnham, John

Source Code: 1262

Source Name:
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.

Source Annotation:
Date and place of settlement or date and place of arrival. Names not restricted to the Order of Founders and Patriots of America.

Source Page 354, Ed. 1, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, Date of Import: May 14, 1999, Internal Ref. : 48

Born ‎ 1621 at Norwich, Norfolk County, Eng., died ‎ 1691 at Madras, East Indies‎, 69 or 70 years
Benjamin went to India, amassed fortune, left estate to his brothers in Colonies, contested by Edward, but the will was not settled. Apparently Edward was disliked by all his brothers,

Born ‎ Oct 2, 1624 at Norwich, Norfolk County, England---see notes, died ‎ Jun 13, 1691 at died at his brother Thomas's house Chebacco, Ipswich, Essex, MA‎, 66 years
Robert removed to Boston and was one of a company which purchased Dover NH. He erected a garrison house at Oyster River.--See Brother John's notes as to source. Robert came to Ipswich at the age of 11and he removed to Boston in 1644 at the age of 20 and married shortly thereafter.

Source of data: "History of the Town of Durham New Hampshire", 1913, Stackpole, Thomas Meserve.

Was it their intention to settle in America? Or was it just to learn the ways of the sea from their uncle? Whatever their intentions may have been, after the Angel Gabriel was shattered on Maine's rocky coast, Capt. Andrews and his nephews settled in the New World.

Capt. Andrews and the 3 nephews settled at Chebacco, in Mass. Bay on the south side of a river, possibly Chebacco Creeke. Land records show that his house lot adjoined property belonging to Thomas Firman, John Cross, Richard Hoffield, and Thomas Hardy.

The records of Ipswich show that on "3 Sept 1635 Robt Andrews [uncle] licensed to keep an ordinarye [an inn] in the Plantation where he lives during the pleasure of ye court." He was allowed to sell wine by retail, "if he do not wittingly sell to abuse it by drunkeness." This is the earliest reference to a public house in Ipswich.

Robert was a young passenger on his uncle's ship [see John for story]. He and his two brothers and uncle removed to Ipswich, MA., where John and Thomas remained while Robert eventually settled at Oyster River parish.

Robert was born 1614 or 1624 [because he was said to be the youngest son and did not take place in the Pequot Indian War as did John and Thomas who were 17 &18 respectively and the theory is he was too young so the latter date makes more sense.] They were all young and may have come along "for the ride".

Robert was at Boston in 1644 where he married his wife, Frances. He settled at Oyster River Plantation [now Durham, NH, and then a parish of Dover, NH] in 1654 where he owned 200 acres of land originally granted to Ambrose Gibbons. He was a carpenter by trade, and a selectman in Dover for many years.

Children: Robert, Samuel, Elizabeth, Jeremiah, Sarah, Robert. He died at the home of his brother, Thomas, on June 12, 1691.

Born ‎ Apr 10, 1625 at St. Albans, Herts, Eng., died ‎ Mar 27, 1715 at Ipswich, Essex Co., MA‎, 89 years