John Burroughs and Hannah
Husband John Burroughs
Born: 1651-1653 - England Christened: Died: 25 May 1693 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Buried:Marriage: Abt 1679
Wife Hannah
Born: Abt 1655-1658 - Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Christened: Died: 8 Sep 1729 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Buried:
Children
1 F Hannah Burroughs
Born: 1680 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Christened: Died: 5 Mar 1772 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Buried:Spouse: Samuel Allen (1673-1735) Marr: 29 May 1700 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut
2 F Rebecca Burroughs
Born: Jun 1682 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Christened: Died: 1 May 1684 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Buried:
3 M John Burroughs
Born: 10 Aug 1685 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Christened: Died: 14 Feb 1757 - East Windsor, Connecticut Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth Pasco (1685-1715) Marr: 1710 - Enfield, Hartford, ConnecticutSpouse: Sarah Rumerill (1690-After 1757) Marr: Abt 1718 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut
4 F Sarah Burroughs
Born: 1687 - Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Christened: Died: After 1693 Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
John Burroughs of Enfield has commonly been stated in some published genealogies to be a son of Jeremiah Burroughs, of Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. That notion has repeatedly been disproven. Church and estate records of the real John Burroughs, son of Jeremiah Burroughs of Scituate, prove that he died childless as a young man. This was published in the 1915 May Flower Descendant - Vol 17, 1915, pp 186-7. Transcripts of inventory and settlement of the estate of John Burroughs, son of Jeremiah. Estate was divided between John's father and his sisters, though his father died well before him in 1660, drowned, according to the court inquest, by a possessed canoe. John's estate was settled on 7 Jul 1676. There are also the records of the 2nd Church of Scituate, now the 1st Unitarian Church of Norwell, published in NEHGR vol 57, p 84-85, and the inventory published again in NEHGR 7:128. This citation shows his birth, not his death. The records of this church are presented over about 20 installments in serial form, but in a fast search, I could find only baptisms listed. Maybe marriages (or not) records and death records are in there somewhere.
There is also a problem of people confusing John Burroughs and his son John Burroughs. The most authoritative genealogies for the family on the web don't always make it clear which John they are talking about, and the wives are treated as if they were interchangeable.
John served under Capt. Remington as a soldier in King Philip's War and in the Narraganset campaign (NEHG Register, vol 42, p 96). It is not clear which John Burroughs this was. John the son of Jeremiah died in 1676, after these wars. It goes with the version where he was born in Scituate to Jeremiah Burroughs and then died in Enfield in 1693.
Victor Burroughs thinks that most likely he was southwestern England but doesn't cite any specific good reason to think so. He was born in 1651 or 1652, a date range that seems to be accepted though there is never any discussion of how it was arrived at. Usually such dates are calculated from stated ages at various points in time. The first record of him is in Enfield in 1680. He was a very early settler in that town, and received a lot in the second distribution in 1681. Victor speculates that possibly he came as an indentured servant, because that would explain how come no record of his voyage, though actually indentured servants were listed like everyone else and wealthy men like Thomas King of Sudbury often appeared in New England towns with no record of how they got to this country or where they came from (in his case, until mention of him was found in his brother's will in Shaftesbury, England.) He apparently brought his wife Hannah to Enfield with him. He may have married her in England or elsewhere in New England. He could have been fresh from England or have been in New England for some time working off his indenture. His daughter Hannah was his first child, born in Enfield in 1680 or 1681. Birth records in Enfield do not start until atleast 1682. The local records include births of four children, one of whom died, and the three who lived were named in his will.
Victor Burroughs notes that most of the residents of Enfield came from Salem, at the suggestion of teh Peace family. He also writes that "he most likely sailed to Salem Mass. from England as Enfield is an out colony of Salem through Springfield Mass." (That fact is probably part of the source of the notion that he was Jeremy's son.)
After John's death in 1693, Hannah remarried.
John was a Puritan. "He is listed as one of the three men that built the Congregational Church in Enfield." - seems to have been an entire chain of quotes. His religiosity is often confused with that of John Burroughs of Windsor and New London, who was "a liberal supporter" of a single church, the "First Baptist Church of Groton, New London, Connecticut" - which made that other John Burroughs devout and quite possibly Evangelical, and probably Calvinistic, but hardly a Puritan.
From Karen Malcolm's web site: “In 1680, he was one of the first settlers in Enfield, Hampshire, CT located about 15 miles north of Hartford on the Connecticut River. As one of the original proprietors, he was granted a home lot and outland. Town records indicate that in December 1680, John Burroughs was granted the 5th lot south of Perry Land in the south of Enfield and a farm in the East Precinct of Enfield, which was later incorporated as the Township of Somers in 1734. Enfield was an out colony of Salem through Springfield, MA (Victor Burroughs). Enfield was governed by the Springfield, Hampshire, MA Commission until 1693 when it began to control its own affairs. It remained in Hampshire County, MA until 1750 when it became a part of Hartford County, CT.” (Theodora Blanche Burroughs in Lois Ellis’s Genealogy.) His will was dated 1691, Enfield, CT (Hampshire, MA) and was probated on Sept. 2, 1693 at Springfield. " (Theodora Blanche Burroughs in Lois Ellis’s Genealogy). .... (Lois A. Ellis, Genealogy of an Ellis Family…, p. (i)). "
I have the idea that is everything of substance that Theodora Burroughs had to say about John, though this web site does not quote whatever she did or did not write about Hannah.
From the above it is unclear whether Lois Ellis's genealogy, cited by Victor Burroughs as a source, is an alternative name for Thodora Burroughs' book on John Burroughs of Enfield, or another book she wrote, or her source for her book.
The other source most cited by Victor Burroughs on this family is Francis Olcott Allen's The History of Enfield Connecticut. From what anyone has dug up for me from that book, it tells us that John Burroughs of Enfield had a daughter named Hannah, and it contains marriage records of the town of Enfield that confirm that Hannah Burroughs married Samuel Allen there in 1700, but does not prove that this Hannah Burroughs was John's daughter.
John Boroughs will dated 1691 probated 28 Sept 1693. Wife not named. court proceedings name widow as Hannah; she presented the inventory. Children John, Hannah, Sarah. (Note that Hannah, probably Hannah Jr., married Samuel Allen Sr.)
4 Apr 1698 Hannah Burroughs witnessed sale of land by Thomas Day Sr of Springfield to William Hulbird; his whle rights, interest and property in Enfield, 12 acre home lot, with buildings. Isaac Gleeson N, Zachariah Booth S, Town St W, commons E.
23 May 1712 John burroughs, wife Elizabeth, 13 acres south field, 2nd div. Samuel Parsons W, Nathaniel Collins E, Hwy or William booth, N, Hwy south.
18 Jun 1715 John Burroughs sold to Israel Phelps 5 acres on the Scantic River. (NOT on the Great River.) Hills west, hills east, Thomas Abbey Sr N, John Pease Jr, S.
5 Aug 1716 John Burroughs sold to Thomas Jones 103 acres at the mountains (?) Benjamin JOnes west, Country road East, commons north and south.
24 Oct 1719, recorded 19 Mar 1727/8; John Burroughs planter sold to Samuel Allyne, 20 acres in south field 4th division. John Pease W, Joseph Sexton E, highway north, Saltonstalls farm S. Note: John is supposed to have settled initially on Saltonstall's farm, I think on the River. It had been settled before Enfield was laid out.
15 Jan 1729/30 rec 24 Apr 1744 John Burroughs, wife Sarah sold to Jhn Rumriel, to Ebenezer Romerial of Freetown.
All rights in 8 1/2 acres of a home lot between Elisha Kibbee's home lot and John Pease's home lot, it being the north half and was set out to our mother Sarah Stiles of Windsor as her thirds in estate of her former husband Simon Rumeriel who was father to Sarah Burroughs.
1 Dec 1731 deed by John Burroughs of Windsor CT, yeoman, wife Sarah daughter of Simon Rumrall
Atleast three different descendants of John Burroughs have had their Y-DNA tested and joined the Burroughs DNA Project, which is adequate to prove that their haplotypes are or point to that of John Burroughs.
Steve Warling at http://johnshepherdfamily.com/ says he has ONE descendant of John Burroughs of Enfield and it matches that of John Burroughs of Newtown NY, below. He gives no further information.
Stever Warling is actually the owner of the Burroughs DNA project. It lists four John Burroughs of Enfield descendants and six Burroughs of Newtown descendants, and they aren't even the same haplogroup. There are some distantly close strays from around the country.
John Burroughs was R1a, of the Norse variety. While most of the distinguishing markers are distinctively Norse, the key YCA II a and b markers look more Eastern or Asian. The difference is small enough for back mutation to occur. The genetic pathway of the markers and subtypes of R1a suggests that the common Norse variety of R1a came directly from the Asian steppes, specifically in a region shared by such groups as the Altai, who also were ancestral to the American Indians, rather than from the seemingly more likely Ukrainian R1a homeland. Such a notion is supported by Norse mythology that says htey migrated from Asia. This would have to be central Asia just east or northeast of the Indo-European homeland. There are problems with stating that R1a and some subtypes of haplogroup Q followed the same path. Maybe haplogroup Q followed the same path to Europe, but it went to America maybe 11,000 years sooner, without taking along R1a, and there is mere overlap in who lived in the Altai region of central Asia between that time and that of the breakup of the Indo-European peoples. However, the INdo-European peoples who developed in their homeland near the Black Sea, moved north and eastward across the steppes, and over the long centuries they interacted extensively with the peoples of central Asia. By the time of Attila the Hun, the Altai Turks' culture was very similar to that of the Indo-European Scythians, who ranged the steppes all the way from the Near East to China. Historians aren't even sure to what degree Scythians and Huns were distinct peoples by that time, though the Huns, who looked MOngolian, seemed to think Scythians were fairer and more technologically advanced than they. We know that the German peoples broke off from their Indo-European roots relatively late in time, and that by Roman times they ranged from the northwestern Russian steppes across Pannonia, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium and Scandinavia. We also know that the Indo-European peoples invaded Europe from the Asian steppes moving from east to west. We do not know their actual routes of migraton.
R1a evolved in or near the Indo-European homeland during or soon after the time when the Indo-European people formed, adn travelled with them to key subsets of the places wehre Indo-European peoples went; specifically to Scandinavia, and to India. It is present elsewhere at low levels everywhere INdo-European peoples have ever gone, especially Europe, and some places where they have not in any numbers, like China and Japan. It remains most concentrated in eastern Europe and western Russia. David Faux has reported on the DNA-GENEALOGY list at Rootsweb that certain continuities and differences in certain markers, YCA II a and b among them, support thinking that these mutations took place either during the migration from Asia or after arriving in Norway. Norse R1a is a very high proportion of the people of Norway. Not that all the evidence has been considered. I found the Norse haplotype most common in Eastern Europe and Western Asia by my YHRD search, which possibly importantly has no way to search by advanced markers like YCA II a and b.
The Norse haplotype of R1a is present at low levels in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Belgium, and could have reached its relatively high percentage in Britain of 5% according to my search of that haplotype in YHRD, partly by contributions from those areas. Other R1a haplotypes are present in Britain regionally and at lower numbers that are more likely to have come from eastern Europe by one path or another. Jewish R1a haplotypes are among those.
People of British descent who are Norse R1a are usually told that they are descended from Vikings. They are specifically probably descended from Norse Vikings. Norse Vikings colonized much of Scotland and northern and western Ireland, and other smaller areas of Britain, as well as places in France, Italy and Russia and elsewhere. Normans are commonly thought of as Norse and sometimes DNA from their parts of England, like East Anglia, supports that, but historical sources describe it as more likely that the founders of Normandy were primarily Danes, albeit headed by a more likely Danish than Norwegian chieftain who put together a rag tag army from all over a large region. He conducted military campaigns in northeastern Asia and would have crossed paths with Norse Vikings. The common soldiers who followed Normans to England are little more likely to be genetically similar to the people of Norway than anyone else in coastal northwestern France.
If John Burroughs' male line ancestor was from Norway, he may or may not have been a Viking. The Norwegian people were driven by population pressures, and their leaders by power struggles within the nobility that often drove them to seek their fortunes or begin new communities elsewhere; it was really a similar movement in many ways ot the colonization of North America. They sought new land to colonize and colonized much of the territory they invaded. Sparsely occupied places like Greenland and central Russia became theirs. With them came tradesmen, craftsmen, and merchants, and the Vikings themselves were often farmers during the growing season. Another descendant of Norse Vikings, Edmund Rice, acted exactly as his ancestors did when he took groups of followers to found new communities each time he didn't get along in the old one, and whose eye seemed so often to see increased opportunity in going elsewhere. Not every Norwegian colonist was a wanderer with a belligerent, grumpy, and rootless temperament, many, like John Burroughs, found some place they wanted to be, settled down, and stayed there, contributing to the new community.
DYS 393 13
DYS 390 25 ***
DYS 19 15 (1 16) ****
DYS 391 11 ****
DYS 385a 11 *
DYS 385b 14 *
DYS 426 12
DYS 388 12 *
DYS 439 10 ***
DYS 389 i 13 *
DYS 392 11 ***
DYS 389 ii 30 (1 32) *
DYS 458 15
DYS 459a, b 9, 10 (1 10,10)
DYS 455 11
DYS 454 11
DYS 447 23
DYS 437 14
DYS 448 20
DYS 449 33
DYS 464 a-d 12, 14, 15, 17 *
DYS 460 11
GATA H4 11
YCA II a, b 19, 23 ****
DYS 456 16
DYS 607 16
DYS 576 15
DYS 570 17
CDY a, b 34, 39 (1 39, 40)
DYS 442 12
DYS 438 11
General Notes (Wife)
Ancestry of Edgar Rice Burroughs has Hannah successively married to John Burroughs, then after his death in 1693, to William Booth, on 30 Aug 1693; then on 29 May 1700, to Samuel Allen. She was born ca 1659 and died 8 Sep 1729 age 71, in Enfield CT. This book also gives teh garbled account of John Burroughs of Enfield's ancestry. Same book has her daughter Hannah probably married William Booth.
Hannah probably witnessed a will in 1698 as Hannah Burroughs. 31 May 1694 Thomas Day, Sr and wife Sarah of Springield sold William Hulbird my whle rt interest in property in Enfield. on 4 Apr 1698 Williah Hulbird sold this property to John Prior. Hannah Burroughs was witness (she lived nearby) - AND she evidentlyhad NOT remarried in 1693, or else her 18 year old daughter was the witness.
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