Thomas "Burdges" Burgess^{[1, 2]}

1668 - 1743

• Born	1668	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Will	Y  [2]
  	To wife Patience all household goods, except great and irons and one desk called Father Richmond's desk. Use all of my house except great chamber, use of one half orchard and the garden at eastward of my dwelling house as long as she remains my widow. To son Edward one fourth homestead farm with house he now lives in, that is to say to begin at Bailey's land by the seaside and extend northerly to stone wall on south side of Seaside meadow, so called and from same will north west to sea. To extend to the northwest corner of Little orchard, to highway with buildings. To son Joseph part of my 50 acre lot east of highway called Peckham's lots from ye new wall to creek with buildings except lot already enclosed in northwest corner of said lot, called pasture meadow. To son John the 20 acre lot adjoining Thomas Wilbor's. To son Thomas all part of homestead from not given to son Edward with all buildings, house and part of orchard in 30 acre lot called paretree meadow; if no heirs to be divided between sons Jacob and Nathaniel. To son Jacob 200 pounds; to son Nathaniel my little gun and 200 pounds; to daughters Deborah, Lydian, Abigail, Hester, Mary, Rebecca, Martha, 10 pounds earch; to grandson Thomas Burgess 5 pounds; to other grandchildren 10 shillings each..."
  Died	1 Jul 1743	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2, 4, 5]
  Buried	Old Commons Burial Ground, Meeting House Lane, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
  Notes	"BURGESS GENEALOGY" The origin of the name of Burgess will not admit of controversy. It is a title , civil or official. The inhabitant or representative of a Burgh or Borough is a Burgess. In England, the orthography of the name is well preserved , both in Church and State, and may easily be traced back for three or four centuries; but in this county (USA) it has been corrupted into Burghess, Burges, Burgis, Borgis, Burge, Burg. The ancestral line of Thomas in England and the date of his migration to this country (USA) , cannot yet be ascertained with full confidence. It appears that he arrived in Salem with a young family not far from 1630, and lodged for a time at Lynn. A section of land was assigned to him, in that part of Plymouth called Duxbury, July 3, 1637. This section of land, being forfeited by his removal to Sandwich in the same year, was assigned to Nicholas Robbins, November 5, 1638, who made to the former occupant some remuneration for fences and culture. In the settlement of Sandwich, Thomas Burgess became associated with Edmund Freeman, Henry Feake, Richard Chadwell, William Almy, Thomas Tupper, William Wood, Edward Dillingham, John Carman, George Knott, and Thomas Dexter." "He was," says Dr. Savage,"a chief man of them" "In the Church, instituted in 1638, under the pastoral care of William Leverich, he was an original member. In process of time he became a large landholder, and with advancing age he was called Goodman Burgess. He served the town in every office, humble or honorable, from road-surveyor to deputy to the Court at Plymouth, forseveral successive years. There is a charm in the fact that the patriarchal estate has never been alienated from the family. Benjamin,--the founder of the commercial house of Benjamin Burgess & Sons, Boston, --a lineal descendant of the sixth generation, held it in his possession, and in 1863, could point out the old cellar in which Thomas stored his fruits, and the bubbling fountain from which he drank for forty-eight years,--dying, February 13, 1685, aged eighty-two years. His grave was honored with a monumental slab, imported from England." "This was the only monument," says Amos Otis, Esq., " set up for any pilgrim of the first generation." " Dorothy, his wife, died Feb.27,1687
  Person ID	I1811778	7_families
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2006

  
  

  Father	Thomas Burgess,   b. Abt 1628, Of, Sandwich, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Abt 1687, Of, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
  Mother	Lydia Gaunt,   c. 2 Apr 1636, St. Peters Parish, Gowts, Lincolnshire, England ,   d. Aft Feb 1697, Newport, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Married	1662	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F216012	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Mrs. Patience Burgess,   b. Abt 1685, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Dec 1746
  Married	1721	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
  Children	> 1. Nathaniel Burgess,   b. 17 May 1729, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. 1 Jan 1793, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts   2. Mercy Burgess,   b. 22 Feb 1722, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. 6 Jan   3. Rebecca Burgess,   b. Jun 1725, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Martha Burgess,   b. Apr 1727, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2006
  Family ID	F657957	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Esther Richmond,   b. 1669, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. 12 Nov 1706, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
  Married	1691	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
  Children	1. Edward Burgess,   b. 1692, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Deborah Burgess,   b. 1694, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Jul 1779   3. Esther Burgess,   b. 1696, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. 1764   4. Lydia Burgess,   b. 1700, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Abigail Burgess,   b. 1702, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2001
  Family ID	F708318	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 3	Martha Wilbore,   b. 20 Aug 1684, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	24 Oct 1707	Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
  Children	1. Joseph Burgess,   b. 6 Aug 1708, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. 1789, Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island   2. John Burgess,   b. 10 Jan 1711, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. 4 Apr 1796, Sterling City, New London, Connecticut   3. Mary Burgess,   b. 18 Sep 1712, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Thomas Burgess,   b. 25 May 1714, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. 19 May 1792, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island   5. Martha Burgess,   b. 28 Mar 1716, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. Bef 1724   6. Jacob Burgess,   b. 11 Nov 1717, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island ,   d. 18 Sep 1768, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2001
  Family ID	F708319	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1668 - Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Married - 1691 - Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island Married - 24 Oct 1707 - Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island Married - 1721 - Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island Died - 1 Jul 1743 - Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Buried - - Old Commons Burial Ground, Meeting House Lane, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S306] The Mayflower Descendant, Robert Bowman, (Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Pub. for Clearfield Company, c1989), 14: 108 (Reliability: 2). [S7746] Little Compton families, Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, (Little Compton [Rhode Island] : Little Compton Historical Society, 1967 (College Hill Press : Providence, R.I.). FHL Book #974.56/L2 D3w), FHL Book #974.56/L2 D3w., 131 (Reliability: 3). [S305] Burgess Genealogy - Hiam, Katharine W. Hiam, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997), 6 (Reliability: 2). [S303] Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage, (Boston, 1860-62, reprint Baltimore, 1965). [S11827] Rhode Island: Wills, 10: 357 (Reliability: 3).