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THE  BURRJ^aE  MEMORIJlL. 


A  GEISTEALOGICAL  HISTORY 


DESCENDANTS 


JOHN     BURRAGE, 


WHO    SETTLED    IN    CIIARLESTOWN,   MASS.,   IN    1037. 


By   ALVAII   a.  BURRAGE. 


I  liavp  come 

To  speak  with  lips  that  rather  should  be  dumb; 
For  what  are  words?    At  every  step  1  tread 
The  dust  that  wore  the  footpriuts  of  the  dead, 
But  I'or  wliosc  life  my  life  had   never  known 
Tliis  faded  visture  which  it  calls  its  own. 
Here  sleeps  my  father's  sire,  and  tliey  wlio  grave 
That  earl  er  life  here  found  their  peaceful  tfrave. 
In  days  f;oiie  by  I  songlit  the  hallowed  ffrouu'l, 
Climbed  yon  Iouk  slop.  ;  the  sacred  spot  I  found 
Wliere  all  unsullied  lies  tlio  winter  snow. 
Where  all  untrathered  spring's  pale  violets  blow. 
And  tracked  from  stone  to  stone  the  Saxon  name 
That  marks  the  l)lood  I  need  not  blush  to  claim,— 
Blood  such  as  warnifd  tlie  Pilyrim  sons  of  toil. 
Who  held  from  God  the  charter  ot  the  soil. 

—  Ilulmes. 


BOSTON: 

ALFRED     MUDGE     AND     SON,     PRINTERS, 

No.    34    SCHOOL    STREET. 

1877. 


THE 

NEW  YORK 

PUBLIC  library' 

Astor,  Lenox  and  TiJden , 

Foundations. 

1896 


yc  // 


PREFACE. 


The  writer  first  became  interested  in  genealogical  matters  about  the 
year  1855.  Finding  that  nothing  was  known  respecting  the  ancestors 
of  persons  bearing  his  name,  who  lived  in  New  England  previous  to 
the  nineteenth  centurj^,  he  commenced  making  investigations  and  col- 
lecting materials  for  a  genealogical  histor3'  of  that  branch  of  the 
Burrage  family.  The  result  of  his  labors  appears  in  the  following 
pages.  Owing  to  business  engagements  and  some  public  duties, 
leisure  for  the  arrangement  of  the  materials  and  the  preparation  of  the 
work  was  not  found  until  the  present  time. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  materials  are  so  scant}^  All,  such 
as  they  are,  have  been  gathered  from  public  records  and  the  recollec- 
tion of  persons  now  living.  No  famil}'  histories  or  traditions  have 
been  handed  down  to  enlighten  us  respecting  the  lives  of  the  first  three 
generations  that  dwelt  in  New  England.  The  men  of  that  time  were 
so  engTossed  by  the  difficult  task  of  preserving  themselves  and  their 
generation,  that  they  had  little  time  or  leisure  to  refiect  upon  the 
generations  of  the  past  or  to  think  of  those  of  the  future.  Then  it  is 
probable  that  more  items  of  family  histor}'  would  have  been  preserved, 
had  the  different  generations  continued  to  reside  in  the  same  houses 
or  the  same  towns  lived  in  b}'  their  ancestors. 

It  has  been  deemed  proper  to  give  a  brief  sketch  of  the  heads  of 
families,  and  most  prominent  persons,  of  the  first  nine  generations, 
embodying  the  most  important  facts  gathered  respecting  the  life  and 
character  of  each,  and  in  addition  to  give  a  complete  genealogical 


4  PREFACE. 

record,  as  far  as  is  possible,  of  the  ancestors  and  descendants  of  John 
Barrage,  who  settled  in  Charlestown  in  1637. 

In  some  cases  it  has  been  fonnd  difficult  to  obtain  facts,  owing 
to  lack  of  interest  with  man}'  persons  respecting  their  ancestors  or 
those  with  whom  thej'  are  connected  bj-  ties  of  consanguinity.  The 
author  desires  to  acknowledge  his  obligations  to  Mr.  Ilauiilton  Barrage, 
Mrs.  P^lizabeth  Bradley,  and  Mr.  John  Brisk  Biirrage  for  facts  in 
regard  to  their  respective  branches  of  the  family,  and  to  Mr.  Joseph 
Mills  and  others,  who  have  furnished  valuable  information. 

Boston,  August  15,  1877. 


THE  BURGAGE   MEMORIAL. 


CHAPTEE   I. 

The  name  of  Burrage  first  appeal's  in  the  town  and 
county  records  of  England  in  the  sixteenth  century. 
As  a  surname,  it  lias  undergone  many  orthographic 
changes.  It  is  found  written  in  the  earlier  records, 
Burgh,  Burough,  Borough,  Borage,  Bearadge,  Bur- 
rish,  Beridge,  Burridge,  Burrage,  etc.,  etc.  Respecting 
its  origin,  there  is  room  for  considerable  speculation; 
but  we  are  inclined  to  accept  the  theory  of  the  late 
H.  Ct.  Somerby,  who  w^as  an  expert  in  such  matters,  hav- 
ing devoted  the  greater  part  of  his  life  to  genealogical 
investigations.  AVe  are  indebted  to  him  for  most  of  the 
items  in  these  pages  gleaned  from  English  records.  In 
a  letter,  dated  Dec.  4:,  1858,  he  says,  "The  name  of 
Burrage,  anciently  written  Burgh,  is  local,  and  derived 
from  the  village  of  Burgh,  in  the  county  of  jN^orfolk, 
from  which  place,  at  an  early  period,  branches  of 
the  family  removed  and  settled  in  various  parts  of  the 
country,  where  they  appear  in  ancient  records  as  con- 
siderable landholders." 

In  a  p]-evious  letter  (dated  in  London,  April  2, 1858), 


6  THE   BUKRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

accompanying  copies  of  wills  and  parish  records,  he 
had  written,  "  The  name,  as  you  will  perceive,  is  spelt 
in  every  possible  way,  all  onginating,  no  doubt,  from 
Bui-gh,  which  by  a  roll  of  the  r  sounds  very  like 
Burrage,  and  was  probably  thus  coiTupted."  The  word 
'* burgh"  is  of  Saxon  origin,  and  signifies  a  place  of 
defence  or  security,  whether  it  be  a  mountain,  a  walled 
town,  or  other  place  in  which  a  community  fortify  them- 
selves. It  is  the  appellation  of  man}'  towns  and  several 
old  castles  in  the  counties  of  Suffolk,  Cumberland.  Lin- 
coln, and  Xorfolk,  England. 

In  pursuing  his  investigations,  the  genealogist,  as 
well  as  the  student  of  general  history,  finds  the  field  of 
his  researches  confined  within  comparatively  narrow 
bounds.  He  soon  finds  himself  confronted  by  an  insu- 
perable barrier  to  fuither  progress  in  the  lack  of  intel- 
lectual development  prior  to  a  certain  period,  which 
incapacitated  mankind  from  making  and  preserving  any 
record  of  themselves  or  their  acts. 

Surnames  did  not  become  hereditary  in  England  with 
the  nobility  until  the  fourteenth  century,  and  a  much 
later  period  dated  their  adoption  b\'  the  common  people. 
By  this  circumstance,  and  the  fact  that  there  were  no 
public  records  of  births,  mamages,  and  deaths  previous 
to  the  sixteenth  centuiv.  the  field  of  «:enealoincal 
research  is,  under  the  most  favorable  circumstances, 
restricted  to  narrow  limits.  AVe  can  go  but  a  little 
way  towards  tracing  our  pedigree  to  the  primal  i)air  or 


EARLY  RECORDS  IN  ENGLAND.  7 

to  Mr.  Darwin's  progenitors  of  the  race;  but  while  we 
are  unable  to  trace  the  stream  to  its  source  in  the  wilds 
of  savage  nature,  it  is  an  interesting  and  grateful  task 
to  follow  its  course  as  far  as  we  are  permitted,  to  learn 
all  we  can  respecting  the  men  and  women  whose  blood 
and  temperaments  we  inherit. 

The  registries  of  the  counties  of  Suffolk,  Essex,  and 
[Norfolk  show  that  persons  bearing  the  name  of  Burrage 
w^ere  quite  numerous  in  those  counties,  especially  in 
Norfolk,  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and  were  landholders 
of  considerable  importance.  They  were  generally  styled 
yeomen,  and  evidently  belonged  to  the  great  middle 
class,  to  which  England  is  mainlv  indebted  for  the  emi- 


oI.D   cnURCn   IN  XOKTON   SCBCOURSE,   BUILT   IN  13S7. 


8  THE    lU'UHAGE    MEMORIAL. 

iient  names  in  her  literature  and  the  great  deeds  of  her 
liistory. 

John  Barrage,^  wliose  hneage  it  is  the  purpose  of 
these  pages  to  traee,  was  born  in  Norton  Subcourse,t  Ji 
parish  of  Xorfolk  County  (near  Norwieh),  England. 
According  to  the  i)aiish  records,  he  was  baptized  April 
10,  1(31(3.  The  first  of  his  ancestors  of  whom  we  have 
a  record  was  Kobert  Burrage,  of  Seething,  another  small 
parish,  near  Norton  Subcoursc.  His  wife's  name  was 
liose.  His  will  is  dated  Jan.  2,  1559.  (See  Api)endix 
A.)  lie  had  two  sons,  Kobert  and  Kichard.  Kiehard 
removed  to  Norton  Subcourse,  where,  according  to  the 
]iarish  recoi'ds,  lie  had  ten  children,  seven  sons  and  three 
dauiihters.  There  is  no  record  of  his  mai'ria^re  oi'  of 
his  death.  His  iliiid  son,  Thomas  Burrage,  who  was 
born  Feb.  28,  l.")81,  was  mai-ried  Aug.  19,  K3(K3,  to 
Frances  Dey.  They  had  seven  chikhvn,  five  daughtei'S 
and  two  sons.     John,  the  fifth  child  and  the  eldest  son. 


*  See  Appendix  li,  evideuce  respecting  liLs  identity  and  the  origin  of  tlie 
coat  of  anns  on  title-page. 

t  Norton  Subcourse  is  a  small  parish  (or  village)  situated  about  twelve 
miles  southeasterly  from  Norwich,  which  has  l)een  a  large  place  and  a  city  of 
note  for  more  than  one  thousand  3ears.  hi  King  Canute's  time,  Norwich  was 
a  fishing  town.  It  was  occupied  by  the  lionians  soon  after  the  conquest,  in 
the  forty-sixth  year  after  Christ.  It  is  the  most  ancient  manufacturing  town 
in  England,  and  has  been  noted  for  its  woollen  fabrics  since  the  reign  of 
Ilcnry  I.  The  name  of  Burrage  still  appears  in  its  directory.  (See  Appendix 
C.)  Norton  Subcourse  i.s  described  b}'  the  London  Post-Offlce  Directory  of 
18.53  as  follows  :  "  A  widel)'  .scattered  village,  four  miles  east  from  Loddon, 
is  in  Clavering  Hundreds  and  Union;  contained  in  bs.'jl,  42S  inhabitants.  Its 
area  is  1,h4!)  acres."  The  church,  which  was  built  in  13.S7,  is  dcscril)e(l  in 
Bromtield's  "  llistorj'of  Norfolk  County,"  1730,  as  "a  single  pile  and  thatched, 
with  a  round  tower  and  three  belLs." 


JOHN  BURRAGE   OF   NORTON   SUBCOURSE.  9 

was  baptized,  as  before  stated,  April  10, 1616.  Thomas 
Biirrage  died  March  2,  1632.  By  will,  of  which  he  ap- 
pointed his  wife  executrix,  he  left  the  possession  and 
use  of  all  of  his  property  to  his  wife  during  her  life, 
with  a  proviso  that,  at  her  death,  the  greater  portion 
of  his  estate  should  go  to  his  son  John  upon  the  con- 
dition that  he  should  pay  out  certain  legacies  named,  to 
his  brother  and  each  of  his  sisters.  (See  Appendix  A.) 
It  is  probable  that  John,  who  was  sixteen  years  old 
at  the  time  of  his  father's  decease,  remained  at  home 
assisting  his  mother  in  the  care  of  the  farm,  until  he 
attained  his  majority,  in  the  spring  of  1637.  At  that 
time  the  people  of  England  were  in  a  ferment  upon  the 
great  questions  of  civil  and  religious  freedom,  which 
were  destined  to  create  a  revoluti(m  in  State  and  Church, 
and  produce  a  great  change  in  the  habits  and  industry  of 
the  nation.  Charles  I,  among  other  arbitrary  measures 
for  raising  money,  was  forcing  the  ship-money  tax  upon 
his  subjects.  Appleton's  Cyclopaedia  says,  "  Ship-money 
was  a  tax  which  the  maritime  counties  had  some  time 
paid  in  time  of  Avar,  instead  of  furnishing  ships  for  the 
navy;  this  was  uoav,  in  time  of  peace,  demanded  from 
the  inland  counties  as  well  as  from  the  maritime. 
Through  the  patriotic  efforts  of  John  Hampden,  who 
was  resolved  to  bring  to  a  solemn  hearing  the  great 
controversy  between  the  people  and  their  oppressors, 
towards  the  close  of  the  year  1636,  the  cause  came  on 
in  the  Exchequer  Chamber  before  the  twelve  judges, 


10  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

seven  of  whom  pronounced  against  the  disputant.  The 
only  effect  of  this  decision  was  to  exasperate  the  temper 
of  the  people.  The  decision  placed  the  property  of 
every  individual  at  the  mercy  of  the  crown.  The  per- 
secuted party  felt  that  there  was  no  alternative  but  to 
seek  their  homes  in  other  countries ;  but  an  order  was 
issued  April  6,  1G38,  prohibiting  shipmasters  from 
carrying  passengers  from  the  kingdom  without  special 
license."  Hume,  in  his  "History  of  England,"  says 
respecting  the  decision  of  the  judges:  "Ilambden,  how- 
ever, obtained  by  the  trial  the  end  for  which  he  had  so 
generously  sacrificed  his  safety  and  his  quiet ;  the  people 
were  roused  from  their  lethargy,  and  became  sensible 
of  the  danger  to  which  their  liberties  were  exposed. 
These  national  questions  were  canvassed  in  every  com- 
pany; and  the  more  they  were  examined,  the  more 
evidently  did  it  appear  to  many,  that  liberty  was  totally 
subverted,  and  an  unusual  and  arbitrary  authority  exer- 
cised over  the  kingdom.  Slavish  principles,  they  said, 
concur  with  illegal  practices ;  ecclesiastical  tyranny  gives 
aid  to  civil  usurpation;  iniquitous  taxes  are  supported 
by  arbitrary  punishments,  and  all  the  privileges  of  the 
nation,  transmitted  through  so  many  ages,  secured  by 
so  many  laws,  and  purchased  by  the  blood  of  so  many 
heroes  and  patriots,  now  lie  prostrate  at  the  feet  of  the 
Monarch."  And  hi  Bromfield's  "History  of  Xorfolk 
County,"  we  find  the  following:  "At  this  time  (1634) 
John   Burridge,    Gent.,    of  Norwich,    for   refusing   to 


OPPRESSIVE   ACTS   OF    THE   KING.  11 

pay  5  pounds  assessed  upon  him  towards  the  ship,  was 
committed  to  i)rison,  l3ut  on  payment  was  discharged. 
The  ship-money  was  the  beginning  of  trouble.  At  a 
court,  held  Xov.  19,  it  was  agreed  that  the  mayor  of 
Lynn  and  bailiffs  of  Yarmouth,  who  were  appointed  to 
be  at  ^N'orwich  the  day  following  about  the  business  of 
the  ship,  should  be  entertained  at  the  mayor's  house 
at  the  public  cost,  and  the  justices,  sherilis,  and  alder- 
men were  desired  to  attend  the  business;  the  sum  of 
10  Lbs.  was  allowed  for  that  purpose,  and  15  Lbs. 
more  for  entertaining  the  high  sheriffs  of  ]N'orfolk  and 
Cambridgeshire.  This  was  the  first  ship  of  war  asked 
of  them." 

Again,  the  same  work  says,  "  This  year  (1637)  wheat 
was  about  22  shillings  (about  |5.50)  and  comb  barley, 
16  shillings  (|4.00),  and  hops,  15  Lbs.  (|75.00)  a  hun- 
dred. The  troubles  now  increasing  in  the  church,  by 
means  of  many  schismatical  and  flictious  persons  that 
were  for  innovations  both  in  church  and  State,  many  of 
them  who  could  not  push  on  then*  designs  to  a  crisis  so 
early  as  they  wished,  as  Mr.  Peck,  Mr.  Albee,  Mr.  Ward, 
Mr.  Bridges,  etc.,  being  opposed  in  their  proceedings  by 
Bishop  Wren,  went  voluntarily  beyond  the  sea,  some  to 
Holland,  some  to  I^ew  England,  and  others  to  divers 
places." 

Hume  also  says,  "In  this  year  (1637)  the  Puritans 
restrained  in  England  shii)ped  themselves  off  for  Amer- 
ica and  laid  there  the  foundations  of  a  government  which 


12  THE    BUKKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

possessed  all  the  liberty,  both  civil  and  religious,  of 
which  they  found  themselves  bereaved  in  their  native 
country.  But  their  enemies  were  unwilling  that  they 
should  anywhere  enjoy  ease  and  contentment,  and  dread- 
ing, ])erhaps,  the  dangerous  consequences  of  so  disaf- 
fected a  colony,  prevailed  on  the  king  to  issue  a  proc- 
laiuation  di-barring  these  devotees  access  even  to  those 
iiihospitabU-  deserts.  Eight  ships  lying  in  the  Thames, 
and  riadv  to  sail,  wei-e  detained  by  order  of  the  council; 
and  in  these  were  embarked  -John  llambden,  John  Pym, 
and  Oliver  Cromwell,  who  had  resolved  foi'ever  to  aban- 
don theii-  native  country  and  11}  to  the  other  extremity 
of  the  globe,  where  they  might  enjoy  lectures  or  dis- 
courses of  any  length  or  Ibrni  which  })leased  them. 
The  king  had  afterward  full  leismv  to  repent  this  exer- 
cise of  his  authority. 

"The  bishop  of  Norwich,  b}^  rigorously  insisting  on 
uniforniitv,  had  l)anished  many  industrious  tradesmen 
fi'om  that  city  and  di'iven  them  into  Holland.  The 
Dutch  began  to  be  more  int"nt  on  commerce  than  on 
orthodoxy;  and  thought  that  the  knowledge  of  useful 
arts,  and  obedience  to  the  laws,  formed  a  good  citizen, 
though  attended  with  ei'r(»rs  in  subjects  in  which  it  is 
not  allowable  I'or  human  nature  to  expect  any  positive 
ti'uth  or  cei'taintv.'"' 


CHAPTER  II. 

Such  was  the  state  of  affairs  in  England  when  John 
Bui-rage,  of  Norton  Snbeonrse,  having  arrived  at  "man^s 
estate,"  resolved  forever  to  abandon  his  native  country 
and  "  fly  to  the  other  extremity  of  the  globe."  We  can 
only  conjecture  the  motives  that  impelled  him  to  leave 
kindred  and  his  native  land  for  the  wilds  of  Xew  Eno- 
land,  but  it  is  highly  probable  that  he  was  moved  by  the 
same  considerations  that  influenced  the  great  body  of 
his  countrymen  Avho  emigrated  to  the  Xew  World,  so 
well  stated  in  the  foregoing  quotations.  It  is  quite 
likely  also  that  the  restless,  sanguine  spirit  of  youth 
had  somewhat  to  do  in  determining  his  course. 

We  do  not  know  the  name  of  the  vessel  that  brought 
him  to  America,  nor  with  what  company  he  came,  hav- 
ing been  unable  to  find  his  name  in  any  of  the  preserved 
lists  of  emigrants  who  embarked  for  this  countr}^  The 
fir'st  record  we  find  of  him  here  is  in  the  town  records 
of  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  under  date  of  1637,  as 
follows:    "John  Burrage*  hath  liberty  to  take  John 

*  This  is  the  orthography  uniformly  used  by  him,  as  it  has  been  l)y  the 
desceudants  of  his  son  Thomas.  His  son  William,  after  his  removal  to 
Newton,  appears  to  have  adopted  "  Burridge  "  as  the  manner  of  spelling  the 
name,  and  his  descendants  have  generally  followed  his  example  in  tliat 
resiject. 


14  THE    liUHRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

Charles'  house  lott  by  goodman  Blotts.  Goo'^  Tho"  Line 
liacl  yielded  him  y''  house  lott  before  goo'^  Charles  m  ease 
Elias  Maveriek  did  refuse  it  or  leave  it." 

In  the  same  book,  under  date  of  1638,  in  a  reeord 
of  the  possessions  of  the  inhal)itants,  is  the  following 
description  of  the  house  and  lot  and  other  possessions  of 
John  Burrage:  ^' The  possessions  of  John  Burrage  in 
Charlestown  limits.  One  dwelling  house  &  a  garden 
riatt  situate  in  the  east  side  l)utting  south  east  upon  the 
harbor,  bounded  on  the  uorth  east  by  AV"\  Stitson,  on 
the  north  west  and  south  l)y  Capt.  Sedwiek:  four  acres 
of  earalile  land  by  estimation  more  or  less  situate  in  the 
lin  side  l)utting  east  towaids  ^Slcnotomy  River  Koilh 
west  upon  tlu'  too  Long  bounded  on  t lie  uorth  east  by 
Laruion  PaiTott  Oi  on  the  south  west  by  Will  AYitherell 
@  John  Stratton,  Half  a  mile  Cow  Connnons  Ware  two 
Cow  Commons  l)ought  of  AFr.  Zaehary  Symmes.^  Five 
acres  of  Woodland  more  or  less  situate  in  Mistick  side 
butting  north  east  ui)on  James  Thompson  south  west 
n[)on  the  woodland  bounded  on  the  uorth  west  by  AVill 
Smith,  @  on  the  South  east  by  Henry  Bullock.  This 
live  acres  was  sould  to  lliehard  Lowdon.  Fiften  acres 
of  land  more  or  less  situate  in  water  side  butting  north 
west  ui)on  Geoi'ge  Hutchinson;  south  east  upon  John 
Gould  @  Samuel  Carter,  bounded  on  the  uoi-th  east  by 
Henry  Bullock  (a  on  the  south  west  by  Will.  Smith. 
Two  acres  of  ]\Ieadow  moi-e  or  less  situate  in  the  ^Ivnd 
at  Wilbur  ])oint.'" 


JOHN  BURRAGE  IN  CHARLESTOWN.  15 

He  lived  in  the  liouse  above  described  about  twenty- 
four  years.  In  a  deed  dated  Sept.  29, 1()01,  he  conveyed 
the  premises  to  Richard  Kussell.  They  are  described 
as  follows:  "Containing  one  dwelling  house  and  ware- 
house neer  adjoining  thereto  with  the  garden  grounds 
and  fruit  trees  standing  thereon,  together  with  the  w  harf 
butting  out  to  the  Kiver  side,  the  said  Messuage  being 
bounded  on  the  north  &  on  the  west  by  the  house  & 
ground  of  said  Richard  Russell  &  on  the  east  by  William 
Stitson  and  on  the  south  by  the  street  way  extending 
forth  to  the  sea  side." 

From  this  description,  after  looking  over  the  ground 
with  some  care,  we  conclude  that  the  estate  was  located 
upon  the  territory  now  included  within  the  limits  of  the 
United  States  ^avy  Yard,  near  the  western  entrance  at 
the  foot  of  AVater  Street. 

By  deed  bearing  the  same  date,  Richard  Russell  con- 
veyed to  John  Burrage  an  estate  which  is  described  as 
follows :  "  One  messuage  or  tennenient  sittuate,  lying 
and  being  within  the  bounds  and  limits  of  Charlestown, 
contayning  one  dwelling  house  &  warehouse  next  ad- 
joining thereto,  wdth  wdiarfing  and  land  adjoining  thereto, 
and  is  bounded  with  River  south  west,  Mr.  AVillough- 
bye's  ship-yard  west,  Mr.  Thomas  Starrs  house,  Nathan- 
iel Smith  and  a  shop  still  reserved  to  me  the  said  Richard 
Russell  on  the  north  and  the  common  street  or  land 
east,  being  sometime  the  possession  of  Ralp  Wory  de- 
ceased."    This  trade  appears  to  have  been  simply  an 


16 


THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 


exchange,  one  estate  having  been  bartered  for  the  other. 
The  consideration  named  in  each  deed  is  the  .same, 
namely,  one  hnndred  pounds  sterUng. 


--^ffc^S^#^ 


CHARLESTOWN  FERRY   AJ^D    RKiSlDLNCE   OF   JOHN  BUllRAGK,   1657. 

For  some  time  before  the  year  1657,  Francis  Hudson 
and  John  Buri'age  owned  and  operated  the  feriy  be- 
tween Boston  and  Charlestown.  Hudson  lived  on  the 
Boston  side  on  Hudson's  Point,  where  the  works  of  the 
Boston  Gas  Light  Company  now  stand,  —  the  landiug- 
place  of  the  ferry  on  that  side.  It  is  probable  that  tlie 
landing-place  on  the  Charlestown  side  was  on  the  prem- 
ises first  owned  by  Burrage,  and  that  after  this  exchange 
it  was  transferred  to  his  new  wharf.  Tliis  change  of 
route,  doubtless,  besides  diminishing  the  distance  over 
the  river,  had  the  advantage  of  landing  the  passengers 


HUDSON  AND  BUREAGE,  FERRYMEN.  17 

nearer  to  the  square  or  market-place,  which  was  the 
centre  of  popukxtion  and  busmess.  The  new  location 
was  near  where  the  Charlestown  end  of  the  Charles 
River  Bridge  now  is,  between  the  two  avenues  that 
lead  to  the  Charles  Kiver  and  Warren  Bridges.  The 
first-named  bridge  stands  upon,  or  veiy  near,  the  track 
of  the  old  ferry.  Burrage  resided  in  the  house  bought 
of  Russell  until  his  death. 

The  items  relating  to  him,  to  be  found  in  the  town 
and  county  records,  are  so  few  that  we  are  unable  to 
get  a  very  definite  idea  of  the  occupation  and  mode  of 
life  of  John  Burrage  for  the  first  twenty  years  of  his 
residence  in  Charlestown,  We  know  that  he  was  mar- 
ried about  1639,  but  know  only  the  first  name  of  his 
wife,  —  Maiy.  He  took  the  freeman's  oath,  and  was 
admitted  a  freeman  of  the  commonwealth.  May  18, 1642. 
He  had  qualified  himself  for  this  by  becoming  a  member 
of  the  First  Church  of  Charlestown  on  the  10th  of  the 
same  month.*  His  wife  had  been  admitted  to  the  same 
church  one  year  before.  We  have  found  no  record  of 
the  death  of  his  first  wife;  it  occurred  subsequent  to 
1616  and  previous  to  1651,  In  1654  or  early  in  1655 
he  married  Joanna  Stowers,  daughter  of  Nicholas  and 
Amy  Stowers.     The  Stowers  family  were  of  the  coni- 

*  Under  the  first  charter  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony,  before  a  member  of 
society  could  vote  or  hold  any  public  office  he  must  be  made  a  freeman  (upon 
taking  the  freeman's  oath)  by  the  general  or  quarterly  Court.  To  become 
such  he  was  required  to  produce  evidence  that  he  was  a  respectable  member 
of  some  Congregational  church. 
3 


18  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

pany  of  emigrants  of  whom  Kca'.  INFi*.  ITigginson,  Rev. 
Mr.  Bright,  and  Thomas  Graves,  engineer,  were  mem- 
])ers,  who  arrived  from  England  and  settled  in  Salem 
and  Charlestown  the  last  of  June  or  the  first  of  July, 
1G29.  "With  the  exception  of  Thomas  A\^alford,  a 
blacksmith,  who  had  bulk  and  occupied  a  palisado 
house  upon  the  south  side  ol"  Breed's  (now  Bunker's) 
Hill,  these  emigrants  were  the  first  that  settled  in 
Charlestown.* 

jS'icholas  Stowersf  was  herdsman  foi-  the  settlement. 
His  duties  were  ''to  drive  the  herd  forth  to  their  food 
(to  the  Cow  Connnons)  in  the  main  every  morning 
and  to  bring  I  hem  into  town  every  evening,  and  to  have 
fifty  bushels  of  Indian  Corn  for  kee])ing  the  Milch  Cows 
till  Indian  harvest  be  taken  in/'  lie  was  also  to  have 
the  benefit  of  kt-cping  such  other  cattle  as  came  into 
the  town  during  the  sununer.  Sept.  28,  1G30,  it  was 
ordered  l)y  the  (ieuiTal  Court  "that  those  of  Dorchester 
who  bought  eertayne  Cattell  of  the  ^rerchants  of  Dpr- 

*  Frotliiiiirliain  irivcs  the  following  record  of  the  first  proceedings  of  the 
first  settlers  of  Charlestown  : — • 

"  The  inhabitants  y'  first  settled  in  this  place  and  brought  it  .into  the  denom- 
ination of  an  English  town  was  (were)  as  follows,  viz.  :  Anno,  IDL'S  (1(52!)), 
Ralph  Sprague,  Richd.  Sprague,  William  Sprague,  John  Meech,  Simon  Uoyte, 
Abra  Palmer,  Walter  Tamer,  Nicholas  Stowers,  John  Stickliue,  Tho.  Walford 
(smith),  y'  lived  here  alone  before. 

"Mr.  Graves  who  had  charge  of  the  servts.  of  the  company  of  patentees 
with  whom  he  built  the  great  house  this  year  for  such  of  the  sd.  company 
as  are  shortly  to  come  over  whicli  afterwards  became  the  meeting  house." 

t  Nicholas  and  Amy  Stowers  were  of  the  thirty-five  persons  who  were 
dismissed  from  the  Boston  Church  the  14th  of  the  eighth  month,  1G32,  and 
furnicd  the  First  Church  in  Charlestown.  —  Fruthinyham. 


^  nJ  ^  "^7  i   ^  ^^ 


3 


NICHOLAS    STOWEES.  19 

Chester  shall  pay  unto  ISTich:  Stower  9  bushels  of  meal 
or  Indian  Corn  or  9'  of  beans  for  the  keepmg  of  said 
Cattell  according  to  agreem't  made  w'''  him."  Under 
date  of  1639,  the  records  of  the  same  Court  say: 
"K^icholas  Stower  being  chosen  one  of  the  Constables 
of  Charlestown  did  take  his  oath  the  9^*"  of  the  3*^  month 
1639,  before  me  Increase  ]^owell."  ]!*^icholas  Stowers 
and  Amy,  his  wife,  had  four  children,  all  of  whom  were 
married  and  left  descendants.  Their  names  were 
Richard,  Joseph,  Abigail,  and  Johanna.  Abigail  mar- 
ried John  Knight.  IS^icholas  Stowers  died  May  17, 
1616;   Amy  died  in  1667-68.* 

*  The  choice  by  the  children  of  Nicholas  and  Amy  Stower  of  an  adminis- 
trator upon  the  estate  of  their  deceased  parents,  on  file  with  the  will  of 
Nicholas  Stower,  in  office  of  the  clerk  for  the  county  of  Middlesex,  at  East 
Cambridge,  a  heliotype  facsimile  of  which  is  subjoined,  is  as  follows  : 

"  We  whose  names  are  under  written  do  consent  and  make  choise  of  our 
beloved  brother  Samuel  Hayward  to  be  administrator  upon  the  estate  left  by 
our  deere  Mother  Ame  Stower  lately  deceased  acording  to  the  tenor  of  the 
last  will  and  testament  of  our  honored  father  Nicolas  Stower.     Witness  our 

hands  this  IG.  day  of  the  first  month  ICGS 

"JOHN   BURR AGE 

RICHARD    STOWER 

JOHN  KNIGHT  JT  K-  liis  Mark 

JOSEPH   STOWER" 

In  the  records,  the  name  is  sometimes  written  Stowers,  and  sometimes 
Stower. 


CHAPTER   III. 

As  has  been  said,  the  records  furnish  no  infoi-ma- 
tion  respecting-  the  occupation  and  mode  of  hfe  of  our 
ancestor  during  the  first  twenty  years  of  his  residence 
in  Charlestown.  It  is  probable  that  he  cukivated  tlie 
plot  of  ground  Ijy  his  house  and  the  four  acres  of 
"  earablc  land  in  the  lin  side,"  kept  cows  on  the  "  stinted 
Common,""'  cut  grass  on  the  meadow  at  Will)ur's 
Point,  and  chopped  wood  in  his  wood-lot  "on  Mistick 
side."      Probably,  to   vary   the   diet   of  his   family,   he 

*  Frothinsrhatn  says,  "  1637,  the  large  tract  of  land  lying  between  Winter 
Hill  Road  and  Cambridge  was  divided  into  rights  of  pasturage.  A  large 
connnittee  was  chosen  to  do  this,  or  '  to  stint  the  Common,'  who  determined 
the  number  of  '  Cows  Commons '  which  the  one  hundred  and  thirteen  inhabi- 
tants .should  have  in  this  pasture.  The  agreement  was  as  follows  :  '  In  con- 
sideration of  the  straitness  of  the  Common  on  this  side  of  Mistick  Kiver,  it 
was  agreed,  that  all  the  ground  from  the  town  to  Menotomiy  Kiver  that  is 
without  the  enclosures  shall  be  reserved  in  Common  for  such  Cattle  as  are 
necessarily  to  be  taken  care  for  near  home  as  Milch  Cows,  working  Cattle, 
goats  and  calves  of  the  first  year,  and  each  man  to  have  a  propriety  of  the 
same,  according  to  the  proportions  under  written  for  such  Cattle  above 
specified,  either  of  their  own  or  any  they  shall  let  unto  of  the  same  kind, 
and  not  other  ways.'  The  largest  number  any  one  had  was  ten  and  three- 
fourths  Commons ;  the  smallest,  half  a  Cows  Commons." 

In  the  "division  of  the  woods  and  Commons  on  Mistick  syde"in  lfi.^8, 
according  to  the  principles  of  which,  the  quantity  allotted  to  each  individual 
indicates  nearly  his  relative  circumstances  as  to  property,  the  average  num- 
ber of  acres  of  woodland  to  each  person  was  2''>^Vo'  ^^^^  number  of  Cow 
Commons  ij*^Q-  John  Burrage  received  25  acres  of  woodland  and  4i  Cow 
Commons. 


CHARLESTOWN   FERRY.  21 

sometimes  caught  fish  in  the  Charles  and  Mystic  Rivers 
and  the  harbor,  —  one  of  the  things  that  could  be  easier 
done  at  that  period  than  at  the  present  time.  It  is  quite 
likely  that  he  worked  for  hire  in  running  the  ferry  — 
rowing  one  of  the  boats  —  before  he  became  one  of  the 
owners  of  it.  We  do  not  know  the  date  when  John 
Burrage  first  became  a  partner  with  Francis  Hudson  in 
the  ferry;  it  was  between  1648  and  1657.  In  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Colony  liecords,  under  date  of  Oct.  27, 1648, 
Francis  Hudson  and  James  Hayden  are  refei-red  to  as 
"  farmours  of  Charlestown  ferry."  In  the  same  volume, 
under  date  of  May  6,  1657,  is  the  following :  "  In  ans''  to 
the  petiteon  of  Francis  Hudson  &  John  Burrage  in  ref- 
erence to  regulation  of  payments  of  y°  fferry  at  Charles- 
town  the  Court  declares  that  for  sure  payment  the  law 
already  in  force  dated  anno  1648  provides  sufiiciently 
for  y^  case  &  orders  that  in  case  of  change  of  money 
this  Country  Coyne  being  not  in  smaller  pieces  than 
six  pence  &  three  pence  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any 
passenger  to  refuse  to  receive  one  penny  or  two  pence 
in  good  peage*  to  make  their  change  more  easy  and 
ready;  that  constables  in  all  cases  shall  pay  for  their 
own  passage,  and  for  such  as  are  or  shall  be  employed 
in  public  service  by  authority  they  shall  bring  with  them 
a  certifficatt  under  the  hands  of  them  by  whom  they  are 


*  Wampum  peag-ue,  Indian  money,  current  then  and  above  one  hundred 
years  kiter  ainoufj;  the  Eni^lish.  To  the  time  of  the  Revolution,  1775,  a  peage 
or  peague  was  of  the  value  of  the  sixth  of  a  peuuy. 


22  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

employed  w''^  shall  be  payed  by  the  treasury  of  the 
Country  or  County  accordhig  to  order  exprst  in  y*"  Cer- 
tifficatt  to  which  treasurer  its  property  belongs."*  The 
copartnership  of  Hudson  and  Burrage,  which,  as  we 
have  seen,  commenced  previous  to  May,  1657,  continued 
until  the  death  of  the  junior  partner  in  1685. 

At  the  present  time,  in  view  of  the  vast  amount  of 
travel  over  the  two  bridges  that  span  the  river  between 
the  peninsulas,  it  is  difficult  to  realize  that  for  one 
hundred  and  fifty-six  years  after  the  first  settlement  of 

*  The  Massachusetts  Colony  Records  also  have  the  following,  under  date 
of  Oct.  21,  lOGS  :  "  In  anw  to  the  petition  of  Francis  Hudson  &  John  Hurragc 
the  Court  on  hearing  of  the  peticoners  by  their  Connnittee  &  considering  the 
petition,  conceive  that  there  may  be  just  cause  of  complaint  &  some  abate- 
ment may  be  needful,  but  the  rent  of  the  ferry  by  this  Court  is  graunted  to 
the  Colledge  and  the  peticorners  contract  being  with  the  sayd  CoUedge 
therefore  declare  y'  this  case  is  not  proper  for  theire  coguesance."  And  Oct. 
13,  1675,  "Whereas  the  keeping  of  Charles  Towne  ferry  is  a  work  of  publicke 
concern  this  Court  doeth  grant  unto  Francis  Hudson  &  John  Burridge  Sen. 
ferrymen,  that  their  fower  servants  imployed  to  manage  two  boats  be  freed 
from  being  impressed  in  the  Country's  service,  i.  e.  Richd  Burton,  Robert 
Francis,  Jno  Burridge  Junr  &  Jolin  Stride  provided  all  posts  &  messengers 
imployed  in  publicke  service  passe  freely  &  speedily."  And  under  date  Oct. 
7,  1640,  "The  ferry  between  Boston  &  Charlestowne  is  granted  to  the 
Colledge." 

Frothingham  says  of  this  ferry:  "It  was  established  in  1G.31,  when  the 
General  Court  allowed  Edward  Converse  to  '  set  up  a  ferry  between  Charl- 
ton and  Boston,  for  which  he  is  to  have  2d.  for  every  single  person  and  Id. 
a  piece  if  there  be  two  or  more.'  This  lease  was  renewed,  Nov.  9,  1637,  for 
three  years,  for  which  Mr.  Converse  agreed  to  pay  forty  pounds  rent  into  the 
Colonial  Treasury,  and  to  '  set  up  a  convenient  house  on  Boston  side  and 
keep  a  boat  there.'  He  was  allowed  to  exact  the  above-named  fees  '  as  well 
on  lecture  days  as  at  other  times ' ;  and  for  a  horse  or  cow  with  the  '  man 
that  goeth  with  them,  Gd. ;  for  a  goat  Id. ;  a  swine  2d. ;  and  for  passengers 
after  dark  or  before  day-light  in  the  morning,  recompense  answering  to  the 
season,  and  to  liis  pains  and  hazard,  so  it  be  not  excessive.'  In  1040  this 
ferry  was  granted  to  Harvard  College,  which  iu  163'J  had  received  £50 
from  it." 


PUBLIC    MARKETS.  23 

Boston  and  Charlestown  (the  first  bridge  was  built  in 
1786)  the  only  way  of  connnunication  between  the  two 
places  was  by  a  ferry  of  row-boats.  Before  onr  ances- 
tor's decease,  the  business  of  the  ferry  must  have  grown 
to  be  quite  large.  Boston  at  that  time  contained  be- 
tween 5,000  and  6,000  inhabitants,  and  Charlestown 
probably  had  1,500  to  2,000.  Besides,  the  people  of 
Lynn,  Salem,  and  other  towns  on  the  northeastern  shore 
went  by  this  route  when  they  visited  Boston.  There- 
fore, although  the  inhabitants  stayed  at  home  more  and 
spent  less  money  than  people  do  in  these  days  of  rail- 
roads and  steamboats,  the  amount  of  travel  and  traffic 
must  have  been  large  compared  with  the  scant  facilities 
afforded  for  their  accommodation  by  a  ferry  of  that 
kind,  and  it  is  altogether  probable  that  the  proprietors 
had  as  much  business  as  they  could  well  attend  to.* 

In  addition  to  his  duties  at  the  ferry,  Burrage  served 
for  many  years  as  "  clerk  of  the  market."  He  was  first 
elected  to  that  office  at  a  town-meeting  in  1658,  and 
from  that  year  to  1672,  inclusive  (fifteen  years),  he  was 


*  The  following  description  of  Charlestown  and  the  ferry,  by  William 
Wood,  in  a  book  entitled  "New  England's  Prospect,"  published  in  1034,  is 
given  by  Erothingham :  "On  the  North  side  of  Charles  River  is  Charles 
Towne,  Avhich  is  another  neck  of  land  on  whose  north  side  runs  Misticke- 
river.  This  towne  for  all  things,  may  be  well  paralel'd  with  her  neighbor, 
Boston,  being  in  the  same  fashion  with  her  bare  necke,  and  constrained  to 
borrow  conveniences  from  the  Maine,  and  to  provide  themselves  farmes  in 
the  country  for  their  better  subsistance.  At  this  towne  there  is  kept  a  Ferry 
boate,  to  conveigh  passengers  over  Charles  River,  which  betweene  the  two 
townes  is  a  quarter  of  a  mile  over,  being  a  very  deepe  channel.  Here  may 
ride  forty  ships  at  a  time." 


24  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

annually  re-elected  by  the  freemen  of  the  town.  The 
market  was  held  in  what  is  now  Charle.stown  Square. 
It  was  established  by  the  General  Court,  in  1637,  as 
follows:  "Charlestown  upon  their  petition  was  grauntcd 
a  market  to  begin  7'^  of  2'^  month  1637  &  so  to  be  kept 
constantly  upon  the  6"'  day  of  the  week." 

Palfrey  ("History  of  Xew  England,"  Vol.  II,  p.  271) 
quotes  from  Johnson's  "  Wonder- Working  Providence  " 
the  following  description  of  Charlestown  market-place 
in  1650:  "Charlestown  hath  a  large  market  place  near 
the  water  side,  built  round  with  houses  comely  and  fair, 
forth  of  which  there  issues  two  streets  orderly  built  with 
some  very  fair  houses  beautified  with  pleasant  gardens 
and  orchards.  The  t(nvn  consists  in  its  extent  of  about 
a  hundred  and  iifty  dwelling  houses.  Their  meeting 
house  for  Sabbath  assembly,  stands  in  the  market  place 
very  comely  built  and  large." 

The  holding  of  a  public  market  one  day  in  every 
week  was  an  English  custom  that  had  existed  for  many 
years,  and  the  emigrants  brought  it  with  them  to  Charles- 
town.  13ut  it  is  a  singular  circumstance  that  the  settlers 
of  Boston,  who  came  from  the  same,  counties  and  towns, 
did  not  favor  the  custom.  Such  was  their  antipathy  to 
it  that  more  than  one  hundred  years  elapsed  befoi'e  a 
majority  of  the  voters  would  consent  to  the  establish- 
ment of  a  })ermanent  public  market  Avithin  the  limits  of 
the  town. 


PUBLIC   MARKETS.  25 

Drake  quotes  one  Capt.  Uring,  who  wrote,  in  1724, 
as  follows :  "  The  Town  of  Boston  is  plentifully  supplied 
with  good  and  wholesome  provisions  of  all  sorts,  not 
inferior  to  those  in  England.  Though  the  town  is  large 
and  populous,  they  could  never  be  brought  to  establish 
a  market  in  it,  notwithstanding  several  of  their  Govern- 
ors have  taken  great  pains  to  convince  the  inhabitants 
how  useful  and  beneficial  it  would  be  to  'em;  but  the 
Country  People  always  opposed  it;  so  that  it  could  not 
be  settled.  The  reason  they  give  for  it  is,  if  Market 
Days  were  appointed,  all  the  Country  People  coming  in 
at  the  same  time  would  glut  it,  and  the  Town's  People 
would  buy  their  provisions  for  what  they  pleased,  so 
rather  chuse  to  send  them  as  they  think  fit.  And  some- 
times a  tall  fellow  brings  a  turkey  or  goose  to  sell,  and 
will  travel  through  the  whole  town  to  see  who  will  give 
the  most  for  it,  and  it  is  at  last  sold  for  3s.  and  Gd.  or 
4s. ;  and  if  he  had  staid  at  home  he  could  have  earned  a 
Crown  for  his  labor,  which  is  the  customary  ]3rice  for  a 
days'  work.  So  any  one  may  judge  of  the  stupidity  of 
the  Country  People." 

We  can  hardly  agree  with  Drake  when  he  adds: 
"  Thus  if  Capt.  Uring's  statements  be  cori-ect,  as  to  the 
opposition  to  a  Market-house,  and  they  probably  are,  a 
solution  to  the  question  is  obtained,  for  which  the  town 
records  furnish  no  clue."  We  cannot  see  why  the 
"  Town's  People,"  wdio  controlled  the  matter,  should 
have  been  made  stupid  respecting  what  was  foi-  their 


26  THE    HUKKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

interest  by  either  the  "  stupidity  "  or  the  shrewdness  of 
the  "  Country  People  "  as  to  theirs ! 

After  he  ceased  to  act  as  clerk  of  the  market, 
John  Buri-ag-e  was  for  several  years  —  the  records  say 
in  1G74-5,  1()7.j-(),  and  1^(3-7  —  chosen  "Salt  Measurer" 
by  the  town.  It  is  quite  evident  that  he  led  an  active 
life  and  was  a  useful  citizen.  In  l(j()2  and  1004:  he,  in 
c<)nii)any  with  his  sou.  doliii  ]5urra<^e,  Jr.,  shipj)cd  horses 
to  Barl)adoes.  One  of  tliein  is  described  in  the  records 
as  follows:  '•  1  Sorrel  gelding',  flaxen  mane  and  a  wliite 
blase  down  liis  fasc  bought  of  Mr.  Kusscll." 


CHAPTER   ly. 

Thus  it  appears  by  the  records  that,  m  the  period 
from  1656  to  1672,  our  ancestor  was  a  busy  man,  and 
proljably  prosperous  and  contented.  He  had  been 
blessed  with  eleven  children,  eight  of  whom  were  living 
at  the  last-named  date.  Two  of  the  daughters  were 
married.  The  other  children,  three  sons  and  three 
daughters,  probably  lived  with  their  parents.  John,  Jr., 
was  then  old  enough  to  assist  at  the  ferry,  which  he  did, 
as  we  learn  from  the  records.  But  all  the  conditions 
and  affairs  of  life  are  mutable  and  uncertain.  The  last 
days  of  our  Puritan  ancestor  were  doomed  to  be  clouded 
l)y  misfortune.  In  1677  his  eldest  son,  John,  Jr.,  died 
of  the  small-pox,  which  prevailed  extensively  as  an 
epidemic  that  year  and  with  fatal  effects.  Ko  less  than 
ninety-one  persons  are  registered  as  having  died  of  it 
in  Charlestown  during  the  year. 

Then  came  other  troubles.  We  find  recorded  at  the 
Middlesex  Registry  of  Deeds,  with  date  of  Oct.  23, 
1678,  a  deed  by  which  he  conveyed  to  his  son,  William 
Burrage,  who  was  the  eldest  living  child  by  his  last  wife, 
and  who  had  a  few  months  before  attained  his  majority, 
nearly  all  his  real  estate,  —  indeed  all  of  it,  excepting  the 
house  in  which  he  lived.     This  strange  act  is  explained 


28  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

by  certain  papers  on  file  in  the  Probate  Ofiice  of  the 
same  county.  They  are  a  record  of  the  evidence  given 
before  James  Russell,  Judge  of  Probate  in  1()92,  in  a 
hearing  upon  the  petition  of  the  other  children  of  John 
Barrage  to  have  the  deed  made  null  and  void,  on  the 
ground  tliat  the  grantor  was  incompetent  when  it  was 
made.     The  evidence  is  as  follows :  — 

First. —  "The  deposition  of  Francis  Hudson  aged 
seventy-eight  years  or  thereabouts  is  y'  he  was  for  a 
long  time  partner  with  John  Bunage,  of  Charlestown, 
Ferriman,  who  was  a  very  diligent  &  laborious  man 
imtil  he  met  with  the  fall  of  (off)  a  horse  which  was 
about  thirteen  years  before  his  death  which  so  shattered 
his  Brains  that  he  was  never  capable  of  managing  any 
business  after  so  long  as  he  lived,  so  that  I  was  forced 
to  manage  tlu'  whole  aftairs  of  the  Ferry  for  his  wife 
and  family,  and  when  he  was  asked  by  any  passengers 
where  the  ferry  boat  was,  he  would  answer  them  very 
crossly.  Sometimes  he  would  say  she  has  not  been  here 
in  one  thousand  years  &  such  like  answers.  Dated  in 
Charlestown  ye  24  february  169|  Sworn  before  James 
Bussell  ye  Judge  of  Probate  wills  &c.  ye  day  &  year 
above  said  by  ye  said  Francis  Hudson." 

Second. — "Alexander  Logan,  aged  24  years  or  there- 
abouts testified  tliat  having  ocashen  to  discourse  with 
John  Burrage  concerning  his  deed  of  gifte  to  his  son 
'^Villiam  Burrage  a  short  time  after  he  had  sined  the 
deed  of  gifte  to  him,  and  he  then  declared,  that  if  he 


MISFORTUNES    OF   JOHN   BUllRAGE.  29 

had  asined  any  gifte  to  him  it  was  contrary  to  his  minde 
and  it  Avas  altogether  unknown  to  him,  that  is  the  hole 
truth,  and  acorden  to  the  beste  of  my  knolidge  he  then 
declared  it  in  these  words." 

Third. —  "The  testimony  of  Jacob  Hurd  aged  39 
years  or  thereabouts,  testifyeth  &  saith  that  he  was 
present  when  John  Burrage  sined  the  deed  of  gifte  to 
his  son  William  Burrage,  Baring  date  the  23"^  of  oktober 
1678  &  did  before  that  tiem  &  att  that  tiem  &  after  that 
tiem  several  years  aperhend  the  said  John  Burrage 
above  menshend  to  be  a  very  eras !  Braend  Man," 

By  these  papers,  which  have  been  lying  unnoticed  in 
the  Probate  Office  nearly  two  hundred  years,  we  have  a 
history  in  brief  of  a  sad  ftuuily  tragedy.  The  father, 
towards  the  close  of  a  long,  laborious  life,  after  having 
endured  the  privations  and  hardships  encountered  by 
the  first  settlers  in  the  inhospitable  wilderness  and 
bleak  climate  of  JS^ew  England,  meets  with  the  greatest 
calamity  that  can  befall  any  human  being.  From  the 
testimony  of  Francis  Hudson,  it  appears  that  the  acci- 
dent which  occasioned  the  loss  of  his  reason  occurred 
about  1672.  In  1677,  as  we  have  seen,  his  son,  John, 
Jr.,  who,  judging  from  the  records,  was  a  promising 
young  man,  had  died  of  the  small-pox;  and  now,  one 
year  after  that  affliction,  comes  another  trouble  into  the 
unhappy  family.  The  eldest  of  the  two  surviving  sons 
appears  to  have  taken  advantage  of  his  fiither's  mental 
incapacity,  to  get  possession  of  nearly  all  his  property, 


30  THE    BUKUAGE    MEMORIAL. 

and  thus  attempt  to  defraud  the  other  heirs  of  their 
share  of  the  estate;  Hke  Jaeob  of  old,  taking  advan- 
tage of  his  father's  infirmity  to  steal  the  inheritance  of 
his  kin;  supported  in  his  scheme,  perhaps,  as  was  the 
son  of  Isaac,  by  a  partial  and  too  indulgent  mother. 
But  it  is  possible,  since  in  connnon  with  most  women  at 
that  time,  she  could  not  write  (she  always  signed  by 
her  mai'k").  lliat  although  she  joined  her  husl)an(l  in 
signing  the  deed,  she  was  not  aware  of  the  character  of 
the  transaction  to  which  she  became  a  party.  It  is  a 
satisfaction  to  know  that  the  ti'ick  was  but  temporarily 
successful;  that  the  Coui't  tleeided  the  deed  to  be  in- 
valid; and  that  eventuall}^  the  property  was  divided 
among  all  the  rightful  heirs. 

We  also  learn  from  these  ancii'ut  papers  —  from  the 
^' sworn  testimony"  oC  one  who  had  had  a  lifelong  ac- 
([uaiutauee  with  him.  and  had  been  connected  with  him 
as  a  j)artnei'  in  business  thirty  years  —  that  John  Bur- 
rage  was  a  man  of  sterling  character.  We  believe  the 
qualities  asci-ibed  to  him  in  the  words  "  diligent  and 
laborious"  have  been  transmitted  through  six  genera- 
tions of  his  descendants  to  the  present  time.  If  the 
generations  that  are  to  succeed  us  should  not  (oi*  if 
they  should)  be  distinguished  by  more  brilliant  charac- 
teristics, may  these  solid  qualities  ever  remain  their 
heritage ! 

*  See  Appendix  M. 


CHAPTER  Y. 

Jonisr  BuRRAGE  died  Oct.  19,  1685.  His  yoimg-est 
son,  Thomas,  then  twenty-two  years  old,  administered 
upon  the  estate  of  the  deceased,  which  was  not  finally 
settled  and  distributed  until  May  2,  1694.  His  widow, 
Joanna  Burrage,  died  Dec.  25, 1689.  ^The  inventory  of 
the  property,  dated  Dec.  15, 1685,  amounts  to  £287  lis. 
Od.,  less  debts  of  the  estate  of  £41  5s.  9d.,  leaving  a  bal- 
ance of  £24:6  8s.  3d.  above  indebtedness.  This  included 
all  the  property  that  had  been  conveyed  to  William 
Burrag-e,  which  conveyance  the  Court  had  decided  to 
be  null  and  void.  This  sum  was  quite  considerable  for 
the  time,  when  the  relative  value  of  property,  measured 
by  the  currency  of  the  day,  was  probably  five,  if  not 
ten,  times  as  great  as  at  present. 

The  inventory  of  household  articles  (see  Appendix 
D)  is  interesting,  as  giving  a  glimpse  into  the  manner 
of  living  in  those  days.  The  furniture  would  seem 
adequate  for  the  comfort  of  a  family,  even  now,  not- 
withstanding tallow  candles  and  pine  knots,  instead  of 
gas,  sufficed  for  furnishing  light;  that  water  for  the 
household  was  drawn  from  a  well,  instead  of  coming 
into  the  house  by  an  aqueduct  from  Mystic  Lake,  and 
the  spinning-wheel  stood  in  the  place  now  occupied  by 


32  THE    BUKRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

the  i)i;nio,  wliile  white,  sanded  floors  showed  in  ])laec  of 
carpets.  It  will  be  remembered  that  this  was  during' 
the  reign  of  King  James  II,  but  tifty-five  years  after 
the  fii'st  settlement  of  Charlestown  and  Boston  by  the 
ll]nglish.  The  whole  country,  excejiting  a  few  towns, 
was  a  w^ilderness,  without  roads  or  bi'idges  and  most  of 
the  other  conveniences  that  are  now  deemed  public 
necessities.  The  items  of  "pillion  and  cloth"  indicate 
the  maiiiR'r  in  which  our  ancestress  and  her  daughters 
were  wont  to  tra\cl  when  they  visited  each  othei*  at 
their  respective  homes  in  ( "harlestown,  Lynn,  and 
Billerica. 

From  other  sources  we  get  glimpses  of  the  customs 
and  mode  of  life  in  the  Puritan  Commonwealth  at  that 
time.  In  the  Middlesex  Court  files,  under  date  of  April 
19,  IGOO,  is  the  following:  "John  Burrage  petitions  to 
be  exempt  from  the  watch."  April  17,  1()()-!:  Testi- 
mony,—  "John  Burrage  aged  forty  five  years  or  there- 
abouts, (lid  know  Mr.  lloberts  the  Cooper  that  lived  in 
Mr.  Avery's  house."  April  17,  1G67:  "Complaint  of 
Thomas  Line  against  his  servant  John  Stratton,  and 
Goodman  Burrage  against  the  same,  that  on  election 
day  he  was  at  John  Harris  his  house  playing  at  nine 
pins  and  cudgells  with  Sam.  Frothingham  &  Christopher 
Goodwin  tt  others.  Good.  Penticost  named  as  sister  of 
his  had  died  was  his  excuse."  August,  1GG8:  "Testimony 
of  John  Burrage  (Jr.)  aged  twenty  two  years.  Saw 
Sarah  Largin   coming  out   of  the   Pink's   boat   on  the 


SUMPTUARY  LAWS.  33 

sibbath  day."  Dec.  20,  1671:  "Testimony  of  Johanna 
Bnrrag-e  aged  about '47  years  in  case  of  widow  Bell  v.s. 
John  Jones  for  deffiimation  of  character."  Frothins;- 
ham's  "History  of  Charlestown"  says:  "As  early  as 
1634,  Oct.  13,  it  was  ordered  that  none  be  permitted  to 
sit  down  and  dwell  in  this  town  without  the  consent  of 
the  town  first  obtained";  and  Feb.  21,  1637,  "that  no 
freeman  should  entertain  any  in  their  houses  but  to  give 
notice  thereof  at  the  next  town  meeting,"  and  "  none 
that  are  not  free  should  entertain  any  without  the  con- 
sent "  of  three  of  the  selectmen.  This  year  the  General 
Court  passed  a  law  providing  that  none  from  abroad 
should  reside  in  any  town  without  the  consent  of  one  of 
the  counsel  or  two  of  the  magistrates,  under  penalty  of 
one  hundred  pounds ;  and  the  next  year  a  more  stringent 
municipal  order  of  the  town  (April  3,  1638)  provides 
that  "no  freeman  shall  entertain  any  person  or  persons  at 
their  houses,  but  to  give  notice  to  the  townsmen  (select- 
men) within  fourteen  days;  and  such  as  are  not  free, 
not  to  entertain  any  at  all  without  consent  of  six  of  the 
men  deputed  for  the  town  affairs ;  and  these  to  acquaint 
the  town  therewith  at  their  next  meeting  upon  penalty 
of  ten  shillings  for  every  month  that  they  keep  them 
without  the  town's  consent;  and  the  constable  is  to  see 
this  order  observed  from  time  to  time,  and  to  gather  up 
the  aforesaid  fines  by  way  of  distress."  Nor  was  this, 
by  any  means,  a  dead  letter:  this  year  Faintnot  Wines 
and  I^icholas  Stowers  were  fined  "  ten  shillings  a  piece 

5- 


34  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

for  receiving  inmates  without  license  from  the  town." 
HospitaUty,  for  a  long  tiiiu',  continiu'd  to  be  an  expen- 
sive virtue.  In  103.")  the  town  voted  "that  whoever 
had  been  warned  forty-eight  hours  before  a  town  meet- 
ing, and  shall  fail,  unless  the  occasion  be  extraordinary, 
shall  forfeit  and  i)ay  18d.";  in  163(5,  that  a  committee 
"  settle  the  rates  of  all  workmen,  laborers,  and  servants' 
wages,  and  for  cart  and  boat  hire";  also  a  fine  of  os. 
"  for  every  tree  felled  and  not  cut  up,"  and  at  the  end  of 
six  days  "  that  any  other  might  cut  up  the  tops  and  take 
the  tree";  and  in  1037  that  the  ^vllarves  should  be,  on 
pain  of  10s.,  kept  clear  of  timl)er  and  firewood,  that  hay 
and  otlicr  things  miglit  l)e  landed,  whieli  were  to  remain 
not  above  two  days  after  landing  upon  pain  of  12d.  each 
day";  and  in  1038,  "that  no  inhal)itant  sell  his  estate  to 
a  foreigner  without  consent  of  the  town";  for  doing 
which  Robert  Hawkins  Avas  fined  19s.,  which  was  levied 
by  distress.* 

Under  date  of  1618  the  Records  say:  "It  was  voted 
that  if  any  man's  fence  bee  downe  or  insufficient  theye 
shall  forfeit  for  each  offens  12'\  And  iff  any  shall  leave 
oi)en  any  Gates  or  Barrs  of  the  field  they  shall  forfeit 
for  each  ofFens  two  shillings  six  pence  besides  paying 
for  all  dama2:es." 


*  The  excuse  for  these  suraptuan'  and  arbitrarj-  laws  must  be  fouud  in  the 
opinions  then  universally  held  respecting  the  proper  functions  of  government, 
and  the  desire  of  a  people  who  had  fled  from  oppression  and  persecution  to 
fortify  their  infant  Commonwealth  against  enemies  of  every  kind,  to  the  end 
that  the  freedom  for  which  they  had  become  exiles  from  their  native  land 
might  be  preserved  for  themselves  and  their  posterity. 


SUPERSTITION   AND   INTOLERANCE.  35 

In  1641  the  town  voted  "  that  whosoever  should  kill 
any  wolf  within  the  ^JsTeck  or  any  part  of  the  Milch-Cow 
Common,  shall  receive  from  the  Constable  of  the  town 
ten  shillings  for  each  wolf  killed." 

In  1648  Margarett  Jones,  of  Charlestown,  was  in- 
dicted for  being  a  witch,  found  guilty,  and  executed  — 
hanged  —  in  Boston,  June  15.  She  was  charged  with 
"having  such  a  malignant  touch  that  if  she  laid  her 
hands  on  man,  woman,  or  child  in  anger,  they  were 
seized  presently  with  deafness,  vomiting,  or  other  sick- 
ness, or  some  violent  pains."  Winthrop  says,  "  The 
husband  of  the  woman,  after  she  was  executed,  had 
taken  passage  in  a  ship  w4iich  lay  in  Charles  River, 
bound  to  Barbadoes,  well  ballasted,  but  with  eighty 
horses  on  board;  and  being  observed  to  roll  on  a 
sudden,  as  if  she  would  have  overset,  an  officer  was 
sent  wdth  a  warrant  to  apprehend  the  man;  and  after 
he  was  committed  to  prison  the  ship  ceased  her  rolling, 
which  it  is  said  was  never  rencAved  afterwards." 

We  do  not  know  that  our  ancestor  took  any  part  in 
this  sad  tragedy ;  but  he  probably  witnessed  it,  and  very 
likely  sympathized  with  the  government  in  its  action. 
Such  was  the  effect  of  superstition,  the  fruit  of  a  vicious 
theology  engrafted  on  the  religious  sentiment,  that  the 
belief  in  witchcraft  was  almost  universal  at  that  time. 

Two  years  previous  to  this,  the  town  of  Lynn,  Eng- 
land, voted  "  that  Alderman  Thomas  Rivett  be  requested 
to  send  for  Mr.  Hopkins,  the  witch  discoverer,  to  come 


36  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

to  Lynn,  and  his  charges  and  recompense  to  be  bourne 
by  the  town."* 

Jolm  liurrage  could,  probably,  have  witnessed  from 
his  residence,  which  looked  out  upon  the  river,  the  roll- 
ing of  the  "bewitched"  ship  if  it  had  occurred;  but 
Drake  intimates  that  the  cause  of  the  alleged  rolling 
(or  of  the  alley  at  ion)  was  that  there  was  some  question 
about  Jones's  abiUty  to  i)ay  his  passage;  hence  some 
unseen  spirit  tronliled  the  ship  uutil  an  officer,  with  a 
wan-ant  IVoiii  the  ("oiiil,  had  taken  the  impecunious 
husband  of  the  iinroiluiiatc  victim  of  a  l)igoted  and 
cowardly  superstition  from  the  ship  to  prison. 

Intolerance,  a  kindred  vice,  was  as  prevalent  and 
universal  at  tliat  time  as  was  superstition.  "The 
8inn)le  Col)l)k'r  of  Agawam,"  a  famous  book  at  the 
time  (1G47),  said,  "lie  that  is  willing  to  tolerate  any 
religion  or  discrepant  way  of  religion  besides  his  own, 
unless  it  be  in  matters  merely  indifterent,  either  doubts 
of  liis  own  or  is  not  sincere  in  it."  The  author  (Rev. 
Mr.  AVard)  also  said,  in  1645,  "  To  authorize  an  untruth 
l)y  a  toleration  of  State  is  to  build  a  sconce  against  the 
walls  of  heaven,  to  battle  God  out  of  his  chaii-."  Tol- 
eration was  generally  preached  against  by  the  Puritan 
clergy  as  a  sin  in  rulers,  which  would  bi'ing  down  the 
judgments  of  heaven  on  the  land. 

"  Let  Men  of  God  in  Conrt  and  Chnrches  watch 
O'er  such  as  do  a  toleration  hatch," 

*  Frothingham,  from  "  Ricliards'-s  Lyuii,"  Vol.  II.  p.  724. 


PRIVATE   JUDGMENT.  37 

is  a  quotation  from  verses  found  in  Kev.  Mr.  Dudley's 
pocket-book,  which  expresses  the  sentiment  of  the  time. 
Tlius  the  Puritans,  the  Protestants  of  Protestants,  who 
for  conscience'  sake  had  fled  from  persecution,  when 
they  attained  power,  adopted  the  very  dogma  upon 
which  their  great  enemy  and  persecutor,  the  Romish 
Church,  had  founded  the  Inquisition  with  all  its  horrors. 
Happily,  it  is  impossible  for  men  or  communities  "to 
escape  the  consequences  of  their  first  principles."  The 
doctrine  of  the  right  of  private  judgment  in  matters 
of  religion,  upon  which  the  Protestant  Peformation 
was  based,  and  upon  which  the  pohty  of  the  Puritans, 
both  ecclesiastical  and  civil,  was  founded,  has  borne 
and  is  still  bearing  its  legitimate  fruits  in  emancij^ating 
the  human  mind  from  the  arbitrary  bonds  of  civil  and 
sacerdotal  authority,  and  consequently  inciting  to  the 
investigation  of  all  problems  involving  the  welfare  of 
mankind.  To  the  influence  of  this  principle  is  the 
world  indebted  for  the  experiment  now  on  trial  in 
America  of  "  a  government  of  the  people  by  the  people 
and  for  the  people."  May  virtue  and  education  become 
so  prevalent  in  all  sections  of  our  beloved  country  as  to 
insure  the  success  of  the  experiment  in  the  perpetuation 
of  the  Pepublic! 


CHAPTER  YI. 

At  the  decease  of  our  emigrant  ancestor,  there  were 
l)ut  two  of  his  male  descendants  left  to  perpetuate  the 
name  of  Burrage,  viz.,  his  sons  AVilliam  and  Thomas. 
In  the  county  records,  between  the  years  1(377  and 
1090,  William  Bmrage  is  called  ^' a  Mariner."  His 
name  appeal's  in  a  j)i(runinaiy  list  i)repared  by  Con- 
stable Greenwood,  for  the  use  of  the  assessors  of  taxes 
in  Boston,  in  1()74;  it  also  a})pears  in  a  list  of  the 
inha])itants  of  Boston,  in  KJO.").  By  the  town  records, 
we  learn  that  three  of  his  children,  Elizabeth,  John,  and 
Sarah,  were  born  in  Boston.  We  have  found  no  record 
of  liis  marriage,  and  do  not  know  the  maiden  surname 
of  his  wife,  Sarah.  It  seems  pi'obable  that  he  com- 
menced going  to  sea  when  quite  young,  and  that  he 
continued  to  follow  the  occupation  of  a  sailor,  having 
his  residence  in  Boston,  sailing,  perhaps,  between  that 
port  and  Barbadoes  and  other  of  the  AVest  India 
Islands,  until  he  removed  to  Xewton.  We  do  not 
know  the  date  of  his  removal.  Under  date  of  Xov. 
15,  1714,  ^'William  Burridge  of  Xewton  Husbandman" 
received  from  Ebenezer  Williams  a  deed  of  thirty-three 
acres  of  land,  with  house  and  barn  thereon,  situated  in 
Xewton.     The  consideration  was  J£115.     A  year  later, 


JOHN   BURGAGE   OF   NEWTOX.  39 

he  mortgaged  the  premises  to  Ephraim  Wlieeler  for 
£200,  from  which  it  appears  that  he  got  a  good  bargain 
in  the  pnrchase,  or  Mr.  Wheeler  was  content  with 
rather  poor  security.  He  died  in  1720.  The  inventory 
of  his  estate  amounted  to  £139  4s.  6d.  (See  Appen- 
dix E.)  He  left  five  daughters,  but  ouly  one  son, 
John,  to  continue  the  male  line  in  his  branch  of  the 
family. 

John  Burrage  was  twice  married,  and  reared  a  large 
family  in  Xewton.  We  do  not  find  that  he  held  any 
office,  save  that  of  constable  (and  highway  surveyor) ; 
but  judging  by  what  we  glean  from  the  town  and 
county  records,  we  conclude  that  he  was  a  thrifty  and 
respected  citizen.  He  died  in  1765,  leaving  an  estate 
appraised  at  £280  Is.  8d.  The  early  town  records  of 
Newton  were  so  poorly  kept  that  it  is  difficult  to  get  a 
complete  list  of  his  children,  and  we  are  not  absolutely 
sure  that  we  have  succeeded  in  doing  so.  In  a  preface 
to  the  town  book,  the  committee  chosen  by  the  town  to 
copy  the  old  records  of  births,  deaths,  and  marriages, 
say :  "  They  were  so  poorly  kept  that  it  is  not  probable 
that  more  than  half  of  the  deaths  in  the  town  were 
recorded,  and  the  records  of  births  are  about  as  incom- 
plete. When  they  could  make  up  the  deficiency  from 
other  towns  and  in  Boston,  they  have  done  so."  Some 
of  his  descendants  remained  in  i*^ewton  until  about  1825; 
some  lived  in  that  part  of  Dedham  which  afterwards 
became  Dover;    others  went  to  Concord,  Lunenburg, 


40  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Medforcl,  etc.     An  account  of  them  will  be  given  on  a 
subsequent  page. 

Thomas  Burrage,  the  other  surviving  son  of 'the 
emigrant,  removed,  probably  at  an  early  age,  to  Lynn, 
where  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  carpenter's  trade.  He 
was  married,  in  Lynn,  to  Elizabeth  Breed,  of  that  place, 
'NoY.  20,  1(387.  By  her  he  had  seven  children,  two 
sons  and  five  daughters.  She  died  in  1709,  and  he 
maiM-ied,  in  1710  or  1711,  Elizabeth  Davis,  the  widow 
of  Kobei-t  Davis,  of  Dunstable.  There  is  abundant 
evidence  that  he  was  a  man  of  sterling  character  and  of 
considerable  influence  in  his  adopted  town.  The  town 
records  say  that,  in  1002,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the 
overseers  of  '•Kumney  Marsh."  In  1691:  he  was  one  of 
three  that  "  were  chosen  for  y*"  Jury  tryalls."  In  1695 
he  was  chosen  by  the  town  one  of  the  constables.  In 
1698  the  town  again  chose  him  one  of  (the  two)  "over- 
seers and  hawards  of  Rumney  Marsh."  In  1703  he 
w\as  chosen  one  of  the  four  "  tithing  men  for  the  en- 
sewing  year — as  the  law  directs";  and  to  the  same 
"office"  several  years  subsequently.  He  became  a  dea- 
con of  the  church  previous  to  1712,  when  "Deacon 
Thomas  Burrage"  was  chosen  one  of  the  "Selectmen," 
to  which  office  he  was  several  times  re-elected.  He 
w\as  often  chosen  by  the  town  to  serve  on  committees 
where  the  exercise  of  discretion  and  good  judgment 
was  required. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  Lynn  town  records 


THOMAS  BURRAGE  OF  LYNN.  41 

are  interesting  as  showing  the  contrast  between  the 
Lynn  of  that  time  and  the  Lynn  of  to-day:  "March  8"', 
1G97,  the  town  did  vote  that  every  householder  in  the 
town  should  sometime  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  May 
next  kill  or  cause  to  be  killed  twelve  blackbirds,  and 
bring  the  heads  of  them,  at  or  l^efore  the  time  aforesaid, 
to  Ebenezer  Stocker's,  or  Samuel  Collins  or  Thomas 
Burrage's  or  John  Go  wing's  who  are  appointed  and 
chose  by  the  town  to  receive  and  take  account  of  the 
same,  and  take  care  that  this  order  shall  l^e  duly  pros- 
ecuted ;  and  if  any  householder  as  aforesaid  shall  refuse 
or  neglect  to  kill  and  bring  the  heads  of  twelve  black- 
birds, as  aforesaid,  every  such  person  shall  pay  three 
pence  for  every  blackbird  that  is  wanting  as  aforesaid, 
for  the  use  of  the  town."  The  town  also,  in  1698, 
allowed  twenty  shillings  for  killing  a  wolf  and  two  shil- 
lings for  killing  a  fox*  "March  5,  1715.  Voted  that 
Mr.  Lovejoy  John  Porter  &  Deacon  Burrage  view  y*" 
Meeting  house  &  Report  what  they  think  best  to  enlarg 
seats."  "  Sept.  2(3,  1717.  Voted  that  Deacon  Burrage 
hath  liberty  to  set  up  a  pew  on  the  south  side  of  the 
Meeting  house  next  the  men's  shares  &  begin  at  the 
window  at  the  back  part  of  the  squar  of  the  pew  for- 
merly granted  Henry  Collins  soe  to  come  upon  a  squar 
forward  so  far  as  to  leave  a   passable   alleway  as  the 

*  Between  the  years  1698  and  1722  there  were  killed  in  Lynn  AVoods  and 
on  Nahant,  four  hundred  and  twenty-eight  foxes,  for  which  the  town  paid 
two  shillings  each.  In  1720  the  town  voted  to  pay  no  more  for  killing 
them. —  Lewis. 

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42  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Committy  for  the  Meeting  hous  shall  order,  provided  he 
maintain  the  glass  windo\y  against  the  pew/' 

It  was  in  1692,  five  years  after  the  marriage  of  Thomas 
Bun-age  and  Elizabeth  Breed,  tliat  the  ealamitous  delu- 
sion of  the  Salem  witchcraft  prevailed.  The  following 
extracts  from  Lewis's  -'History  of  Lynn''  show  how^  that 
town  suffered  from  it :  ^'  Seven  of  the  persons  arrested 
belonged  to  Lynn.  Thomas  Farrar  was  brought  before 
the  Court,  at  Salem,  May  IS,  and  sent  to  prison  at 
Boston,  where  he  was  kept  until  November  2,  more 
than  five  months.  lie  was  an  elderly  man,  and  his  son, 
Thomas  Farrar,  Jun.,  was  one  of  the  Selectmen  this 
year.  He  lived  on  Xahant  Street,  and  died  February 
23,  1094.*  The  following  is  the  testimony  against 
Thomas  Farrar:  'The  deposition  of  Ann  Putnam  who 
testifieth  and  saith;  that  on  the  8'^  of  May,  1692,  there 
appeared  to  me  the  apperishon  of  an  old  gray  head  man, 
with  a  great  nose,  which  tortored  me  and  almost  choaked 
me  and  urged  me  to  Avrit  in  his  book;  and  I  asked  him 
what  was  his  name,  and  from  whence  he  came,  for  I 
would  complain  of  him;  and  people  used  to  call  him  old 
father  pharoah ;  and  he  said  he  was  my  grandfather  for 
my  fiither  used  to  call  him  father;  but  I  told  him  I  would 
not  call  him  grandfather  for  he  was  a  Avizzard  and  I 
Avould  complain  of  him,  and  ever  since  he  hath  afflicted 
me,  and  almost  choaking  me,  and  urging  me  continewally 

*  See  on  pasc  47  how  some  of  us  are  probably  couuected,  by  ties  of  coii- 
sauKuinity,  with  this  victim  of  the  delusiou. 


THE   SALEM  WITCHCRAFT   DELUSION.  43 

to  writ  in  his  book.'  On  evidence  like  this  people  were 
taken  from  their  homes  and  imprisoned  more  than  half 
a  year"  —  he  might  have  added,  and  many  were  hanged. 
"  The  first  thing  which  opened  the  eyes  of  the  prose- 
cutors, was  the  crying  out  against  the  Rev.  Jeremiah 
Shepard,  minister  of  the  church  at  Lynn,  as  a  wizard! 
Everybody  saw  the  absurdity  of  the  charge,  and  the 
Court  were  convinced  that  if  the  matter  went  much 
farther  themselves  might  not  be  safe." 

By  this  and  another  item  from  the  same  History, 
which  follows  below,  it  will  be  seen  that  our  Pnritan 
ancestors  were  still  in  Lynn,  as  in  Charlestown,  in  1G48, 
dominated  by  those  twin  scourges  of  mankind,  super- 
stition and  bigotry.  It  says,  "1694  the  Society  of 
Friends  having  increased,  Mr.  Shepard  became  alarmed 
at  their  progress,  and  appointed  the  nineteenth  of  July 
as  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer,  that  the  spiritual  plague 
might  proceed  no  further."* 

Deacon  Thomas  Burrage  died  March  11,  1717,t  in 

*  The  same  work  saj^s,  "lu  1708,  a  fast  was  held,  23d  June,  and  prayers 
offered  for  deliverance  from  the  devastations  committed  by  insects  on  fruit 
trees.  They  appear  to  have  been  caterpillars  and  canker-worms.  And  we 
had,  in  1863,  another  grievous  instance  of  the  destruction  that  ma,y  l)e  accom- 
plished through  the  combined  industry  of  those  voracious  little  spoilers. 
But  tliis  unbelieving  generation,  instead  of  resorting  to  pra5^ers  and  fasting, 
resorted  to  burning  brimstone  and  other  stifling  appliances." 

t  Old  style,  in  which  the  year  commenced  March  25.  From  the  fourteenth 
century  till  the  change  of  style  in  1752,  the  year  began  at  March  25.  After 
this  change  was  adopted,  events  that  had  occurred  in  January,  February,  or 
before  March  25,  in  the  old  legal  j'ear,  would,  according  to  the  new  arrange- 
ment, be  reckoned  in  the  next  subsequent  year.  Hence  the  date  was  some- 
times written  thus  :  "March  11,  1717-18."  This  explains  and  reconciles  the 
diite  of  Deacon  Barrage's  death  and  the  date  of  the  vote,  September,  1717, 
giving  him  liberty  to  set  up  a  pew  in  the  church. 


44  THE   BURKAGE   MEMORIAL. 

the  fifty-fourth  yenv  of  his  age.  His  sons,  John  and 
Thomas,  were  appointed  executors  of  his  will.  The 
inventory  of  his  estate  amounted  to  ,£552,  14s.  Od. 
(See  Appendix  E.)  It  appears  that  but  one  of  his 
daughters  Avas  married.  Joanna  nuirried,  about  1712, 
Daniel  Mansfield,  of  Lynn,  who  was  a  prominent  man 
in  the  town's  affairs  for  many  j^ears,  and  appears  to 
have  been  a  successful,  energetic  citizen.  By  him  she 
had  eight  children,  —  one  son,  named  Thomas,  and 
seven  daughters. 

John,  the  eldest  son  of  Deacon  Thomas  Burrage, 
married,  Jan.  1,  1718,  Mehitable  Largin,  and  had  one 
son,  John,  and  seven  daughters.  It  appears  from  the 
records  that  he  was  much  respected  by  his  fellow- 
townsmen,  having  been  selected  for  many  offices  of 
trust  and  responsibility.  Mai-ch  4,  1722,  he  was  chosen 
clerk  of  the  market.  Previous  to  1732  he  was  chosen 
a  deacon  of  the  church,  taking  the  place  that  his  father 
had  filled  befin'e  him.  lie  was  also  frequently  chosen 
to  serve  on  important  committees,  and  was  sealer  of 
weights  and  measures.  Deacon  John  Burrage  died 
May  15,  17G1,  aged  sixty-seven  years.  There  is  no 
record  in  the  Probate  Ofl&ce  of  Essex  County  of  a  will 
by  him,  or  of  any  administration  on  his  estate.  It  is 
probable  that  he  disposed  of  his  property  to  his  heirs 
before  his  decease.*     His  only  son,  John,  was    never 


*  Additioual  evideuce  that  this  was  the  case  is  fouud  in  the  fact  that  in 
1704:  letters  of  admiuLstratiuu  weix-  granted  to  Jolin  Ijurrai^e,  Jr.,  upon  the 


JOHN   BUKRAGE   OF   LYNN.  45 

married,  hence  the  family  name  was  continued  no  fur- 
ther by  this  bi-anch  of  Deacon  Thomas  Burrage's 
family;  and  of  the  seven  daughters,  only  one  was 
married.  She,  Lydia,  was  twice  married:  first,  to 
Zaccheus  i^orwood,  by  whom  she  had  one  son  and  two 
daughters.  The  son,  Jonathan  Norwood,  graduated  at 
Harvard  University,  1771.  His  death,  March  18,  1782, 
was  caused  by  his  falling  from  his  horse;  he  was  a 
physician.  After  the  decease  of  her  first  husband,  she 
married  Josiah  Martin,  of  Lynn.  Lewis  and  ^ewhall's 
"  History  of  Lynn  "  says,  "  For  many  years  the  tavern 
in  Saugus  was  kept  by  Zaccheus  ]N"orwood,  and  after 
his  death  by  his  widow,  who  married  Josiah  Martin, 
who  then  became  landlord,  as  tavern-keepers  were  then 
called.  In  1775  he  enlisted  in  the  wai-,  and  Mr.  Jacob 
J^^ewhall  then  took  the  tavern,  which  he  kept  through 
the  Revolution  and  until  the  year  1807." 

Although  this  John  Burrage,  Jr.,  did  not  marry,  and 
in  this  respect  failed  to  follow  the  traditions  and  exam- 
ple of  the  men  in  the  Burrage  line  before  (and  since) 
his  time,  in  all  other  respects  he  seems  to  have  fully 
maintained  the  reputation  of  the  family  name.  He,  too 
(in  1771),  was  chosen  deacon,  and  under  date  of  1776 

estate  of  his  sister,  Meliitable  Burrage,  wlio  died  in  17.59,  nearly  two  jears 
before  the  decease  of  her  father,  and  the  iuventoiy  of  lier  estate,  showing  tliat 
she  held  in  her  own  right  considerable  property'  for  a  single  woman  in  those 
days.  The  inventory  (see  Appendix  H)  is  interesting,  as  an  indication  of 
female  taste  at  that  period.  It  shows  that  the  deceased  was,  in  some  respects 
at  least,  a  true  daughter  of  live.  It  will  be  seen  that  the  items  of  clothing 
and  jeW'Clry  comprise  more  than  one  half  of  her  whole  estate. 


46  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

wa-i  chosen  town  treasurer,  whicli  office  he  filled  until 
his  death,  in  1780.  His  name  appc?ars  on  the  nuister 
rolls  in  the  State  archives  as  one  of  "the  fourth  foot 
Company  of  ^lilitia  in  Lynn  who  marched  to  Concord 
on  the  19'^  of  April  1773"  (the  battle  of  Lexmgton), 
and  doubtless  he  participated  in  the  conflict.  Lewis 
says,  "On  receiving  the  intelligence  that  the  troops 
had  left  Boston,  many  of  the  inhabitants  of  Lynn 
immediately  set  out,  without  waiting  to  be  organized 
and  with  such  weapons  as  they  could  most  readily 
procure.  .  .  .  The  English  troops  arrived  at  Lexington 
a  little  before  five  in  the  morning,  when  they  fired  n\)(>n 
Xhv  inhabitants  assembled  in  ai'ins  before  the  meeting- 
house, and  killed  eight  men.  .  .  .  The  people  from 
Lynn  met  them  on  their  return  (from  Concord),  and 
joined  in  firing  at  them  from  the  walls  and  fences. 
The  English  had  sixty-five  men  killed;  the  Americans, 
fifty.  Among  these  were  four  men  from  Lynn,  who 
fell  at  Lexington.''  Deacon  John  Bunage.  Jr.,  in  his 
will,  is  styled  "Wheelwright.'"  His  will  and  the  inven- 
tory of  his  estate,  which  amounted  to  £*2,7.>1  Os.  lOd., 
are  interesting  documents.  (See  Appendix  G.)  For 
that  time,  and  for  a  man  of  only  fifty  years,  his  estate 
was  quite  large.  In  its  reduction  "to  paper  Money 
at  the  Currant  Rate  of  exchange  at  60  for  one,"  we 
see  to  what  a  low  point  Continental  ^^aper-money  had 
then  fallen,  and  have  a  striking  illustration  of  the 
operation  and  efliect  of  the  system  of  an  irredeemable 


THOMAS   BURRAGE,  JR.,  OF   LYNN.  47 

paper    currency    issued   and   made    a   legal   tender  by 
government. 

Thomas,  the  yonngest  son  of  Deacon  Thomas  Bur- 
rage,  married,  Jan.  30,  1722,  Sarah  ^N'ewhall,*  of  Lynn, 
by  whom  he  had  eleven  children,  five  of  whom  were 
sons.  He  follow^ed  the  trade  of  his  father,  that  of 
carpenter  and  joiner,  or  "  housewright."  Although  he 
never  became  a  deacon,  and  as  far  as  appears  by  the 
records  was  not  an  ofiice-holder  of  any  kind,  there  is 
ample  evidence  that  he  was  a  respected  and  thrifty  man 
and  a  good  citizen.  He  died  in  1759.  Of  his  eleven 
children,  only  five  survived  him,  viz.,  William,  Josiah, 
Abijah,  Desiah,  and  Susannah.  His  first  wife,  Sarah, 
died  May  14,  1749,  and  he  married,  l^ov.  15,  1750, 
Anna  Wayte,  of  Maiden.  She  survived  him  many 
years.  The  first  wife  was  the  mother  of  all  his  children. 
His  will,  dated  Dec.  8,  1759,  is  quite  an  elaborate  docu- 
ment. (See  Appendix  F.)  The  inventory  of  his  estate 
amounted  to  £721  3s.  lOd.,  —  a  goodly  sum  for  that  time. 
He  appointed  his  sons  "William  and  Josiah  executors. 
Abijah  was  then  a  minor,  and  during  his  minority  was 

*  She  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Newhall,  who  was  a  sou  of  Thomas  New- 
hall,  Jr.,  the  first  white  persou  boru  in  Lyuu,  and  who  was  the  sou  of  Thomas 
Newhall,  Sr.,  who  came  from  England  and  settled  in  Lyuu  in  1030.  Joseph 
Newhall  was  born  Sept.  22,  1658.  He  married  Susanna,  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Farrar,  in  1678,  and  settled  in  Lynnfleld.  This  Thomas  Farrar,  the  grand- 
father of  Thomas  Burrage's  wife,  was,  doubtless,  the  one  accused  by  Ann 
Putnam  of  beiug  a  wizard,  having  a  great  nose,  etc.,  in  the  time  of  the  Salem 
witchcraft  delusion.  Sarah  was  the  youngest  of  eleven  children.  Her  fathir 
perished  in  a  violent  northeast  snow-storm  on  the  30th  of  January,  1705,  whju 
she  was  one  year  old. 


48  THE   BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

put  under  the  guardianship  of  Theophihis  Breed.  Only 
two  of .  his  daughters  were  married:  Desiah  mari-ied 
Edmond  Whittemore,  and  had  four  children,  —  two 
sons  and  two  daughters;  Susannah  married  Stephen 
Waitt,  of  Maiden.  The  three  sons,  William,  Josiah, 
and  Abijah,  all  became  cordwainers  (shoemakers), 
wdiich  fact  is  an  indication  that  Lynn  was  then  begin- 
ning to  make  a  specialty  of  the  business  that  has  since 
grown  to  such  large  proportions  in  the  place  that  the 
scattered  village  planted  on  a  sandy  beach,  amid  the 
marshes  through  which  the  Saugus  River  flows  to 
the  sea,  has  become  a  city,  containing  moi-e  than  32,000 
inhabitants.  WilHam,  tlie  eldest  son,  remained  in  Lynn 
l)ut  a  few  years  after  his  father's  decease. 


CHAPTER    yil. 

The  records  say  "William  Burrage,  of  Lynn,  and 
Phebe  Barrett,  of  Maiden,  were  married  March  20, 
1760."  In  the  spring  of  1767  he  removed  to  Leominster, 
where  he  bought  of  "Joseph  Darby,"  for  £144:  13s.,  a 
farm  of  about  sixty  acres.  It  was  situated  in  the  easterly 
part  of  the  town,  on  the  eastern  slope  from  the  valley  of 
the  ^^Nfashua  River  (north  branch).  He  resided  there, 
following  the  occupation  of  farmer,  and  shoemaker  and 
cobbler  for  his  neighbors,  until  his  decease.  He  had 
eleven  children,  six  sons  and  five  daughters;  only  four 
of  whom  survived  him,  viz.,  Thomas,  William,  Josiah, 
and  Anna.  He  died  Sept.  23,  1820,  at  the  ripe  age  of 
eighty-nine  years, —  a  longer  life- by  twenty  years  than 
any  of  his  ancestors,  of  whom  we  have  a  record,  lived. 
Several  of  his  grandchildren,  now  living,  have  a  clear 
remembrance  of  him  and  of  his  wife,  their  grandmother. 
They  speak  of  him  as  having  been  of  a  mild  disposition 
and  remarkably  conscientious.  He  was  diligent  and 
frugal  in  his  habits,  was  a  good  neighbor  and  a  respected 
citizen.  In  size  he  was  rather  below  the  average,  and 
during  the  last  years  of  his  life  his  form  was  much 
bowed  by  age. 

His  wife  survived  him  nearly  two  years.     She  died 

7 


50 


THE   BURKAGE   MEMORIAL. 


May  22,  1822,  aged  eio^lity-tAvo  years.  It  is  said  that 
she  ])ossessed  miu-h  i'oree  of  eliaraeter;  that  her  talent 
and  aptitude  for  business  was  superior  to  her  husband's, 


nOrSE   IN    LEOMINSTER 
BOfGIIT   BY   W.M.  DlRRAGEIN  1767,  AND  IN   WHICH  UE   DIED  IN   1820. 


and  that  liis  moderate  success  in  retaining  his  patrimony 
and  supporting  and  rearing  a  large  family  was  largely 
due  to  her  efforts. 

AVhen  they  removed  to  Leominster  they  had  three 
childi'en,  Sarah,  Thomas,  and  Phebe,  Avho  were  l)orn  in 
Lynn.  Leominster,  at  that  time,  had  been  an  incorpo- 
rated town  but  twenty-seven  years.  There  were  but 
few  roads  or  l)ridges,  and  but  a  small  })ortion  of  the  land 
had  been  eleai'cd  of  "'the  forests  primeval'"'  and  made  fit 


WILLIAM   BURR  AGE   OF   LYNN   IN   LEOMINSTER. 


51 


for  tillage  *  The  dwellings  were  of  the  humhlest  de- 
scription. All  articles  of  clothing  were  home-made. 
The  men  tilled  the  land,  cnt  down  and  drew  the  fnel  to 
the  house,  built  roads,  raised  flax  in  the  fields  and  wool 
from  their  sheep,  and  ever  sturdily  contended  with  the 


Li:(iMl.\.-l'i:u    COMMON,    1830. 


elements  for  the  subsistence  of  themselves  and  their 
ftnnilies ;  while  the  women  did  their  full  share  in  the 
work,  by  spinning  and  weaving  the  flax  and  wool  pro- 
cured by  the  men  and  making  them  into  garments  to 
clothe  the  whole  family,  besides  attending  to  the  care 


-7>0t 


*  B3'  a  census  of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  taken  in  *S^-G5,  two 
years  before  the  period  alhuled  to,  it  appears  that  tliere  were  in  Leominster  at 
that  time,  104  liouses,  107  families,  and  74o  inhabitants.  In  17i)0  the  number 
of  inhabitants  was  1,181) ;  in  IScO  there  were  1,48G,  and  in  1820  1,71)0  iuha])itants 
in  the  town.  In  1830,  at  the  time  in  which  Leominster  town  common  and  the 
meeting-house  of  the  First  Congregational  Society  (built  in  1823)  are  repre- 
sented in  the  subjoined  cut,  there  were  1,8(12  inhabitants,  and  the  valuation  of 
the  property  in  the  town  was  $386,468.  Since  the  advent  of  railroads  and 
the  introduction  into  the  town  of  manufactures,  especially  during  the  last 
fifteen  years,  the  growth  has  been  much  more  rapid.  In  1875  the  population 
had  increased  to  5,201.  By  the  report  of  the  assessors  of  the  present  year, 
tlie  number  of  polls  assessed  is  1,603,  Avhich  indicates  that  the  population  at 
present  is  ))etween  6,000  and  7,000.  The  num))er  of  dwelliug-houses  is  1)65, 
and  the  total  valuation  of  the  property  .$3,775,1)81. 


52  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

and  nurture  of  the  ehildren,  the  preparation  of  the  food, 
and  performing*  tlie  otlier  numerous  duties  of  a  house- 
hold.* Candor,  however,  compels  the  remark  that  the 
men  and  women  of  that  day  were  able  to  do  all  this 
because  the  wants  to  be  provided  for  were  few  and  sim- 
ple; that  all  their  lal)or  would  have  failed  to  support 
them  in  the  style  of  living  now  prevalent  in  ^ew  Eng- 
land; that  they  would  have  l)een  as  unsuccessful  in 
attempting  to  "livr  biyoiid  thi'ir  moans"  as  are  some  of 
their  descendants  at  thr  pi'escnt  time.  The  conditions 
of  life  and  of  livin;.;-  change  fi'oin  age  to  age,  but  the 
laws  that  govern  them  are  unchangeable.  A  Avise 
economy  and  living  icitliui  one's  income  while  in  vigor- 
ous health  are,  as  they  ever  were,  the  only  sure  guaran- 
ties of  security  and  independence  in  sickness  and  old 
age. 

To  return  to  tlie  members  of  tlie  family  still  remain- 
ing in  Lynn.  As  has  been  said,  William  had  two 
brothers,  Josialit  and  Abijah,  who  survived  their  father. 
About  177.")  Josiah  married  Susanna  Kamsdell,  by  whom 
he  had  one  child,  a  son,  named  Josiah.  From  an  early 
age  he  had  at  times  been  subject  to  insanity,  and  his 
marriage  was  delayed  for  several  years  on  that  account. 
After  his  marriage  he  had  a  recurrence  of  the  malad}, 
and  lived  but  a  Uttle  more  than  a  year  subsequent  to 


*  See  Appendix  M. 

t  Josiah  Barrage  was  sometimes  styled  cordwaiuer  and  sometimes  glazier 
iu  the  records. 


JOSIAH   BURRAGE   OF   LYNN.  53 

that  event.  Under  date  of  Feb.  18,  1771,  the  Probate 
Judge,  m  answer"  to  a  petition  from  the  selectmen  of 
Lynn,  appointed  his  uncle,  John  Burrage,  to  be  his 
guardian.  April  2  of  the  same  year,  under  order  of 
the  Court,  "an  inventory  of  the  Estate  of  Josiah  Bur- 
rage  of  Lynn  a  Person  Non  Compos  Mentis  was  taken 
by  John  Mansfield  Benj  Xewhall  and  Holden  Johnson." 
It  consisted  of  a  dwelling-house,  half  a  barn,  furniture, 
heel-maker's  tools,  joiner's  tools,  half  a  house,  land,  live 
stock,  etc.,  and  amounted  to  ^303  Is.  8d.  There  is  also 
a  copy  of  a  receipt  from  Josiah  Burrage,  dated  April  3, 
1775,  for  i£303  Is.  8d.  in  full  from  John  Burrage  for  his 
interest  committed  to  him  as  his  guardian,  witnessed 
by  Thcophilus  Breed  and  Susannah  Burrage.  He  died 
in  1776,  at  the  age  of  forty  years.  His  widow  survived 
him  thirty-five  years.  She  died  1809,  and  was  the  last 
person  of  the  name  of  Burrage  that  resided  in  Lynn. 
His  son,  Josiah,  died  in  the  year  that  he  attained  his 
majority,  Dec.  30,  1797.  We  have  evidence  that  his 
loss  was  acutely  felt  by  his  mother,  and  that  she  deeply 
mourned  his  death,  from  one  who  lived  with  her  at  the 
time,  and  from  an  inscription  on  a  monument  erected  to 
his  memory  in  the  old  cemetery  in  Lynn,  which,  not- 
withstanding its  quaintness,  is  quite  pathetic.  (See 
Appendix  I.) 

As  has  been  said,  Abijah  Burrage,  who  was  the 
youngest  son  of  Thomas  and  the  youngest  grandson  of 
Deacon  Thomas  Burrage,  was  never  married.     He  died 


54  TIIF   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

in  1780,  at  the  age  of  thirtj^-five  years.  The  inventory 
of  his  estate  amounted  to  £230  lis.  4d.,  and  was  re- 
dueed  to  paper-money  at  the  "  Currant  rate  of  Exchange 
at  75  for  one."  A  copy  of  this,  also,  is  given  (see 
Appendix  J),  as  a  matter  of  interest  in  showing  the 
approximate  market  price  of  certain  articles  at  that 
time,  and  as  indicating  the  manner  of  living  in  I^ew 
England  then. 

It  will  he  seen  that  after  the  death  of  his  hrothers, 
Josiah  and  Ahijah,  AVilliam  Burrage  was  the  only 
surviving  gi'andson  of  Deacon  Thomas  Bun-age,  who 
bore  the  family  name.  But  for  him  that  branch  of  the 
family  would  then  have  become  extinct.  The  change  of 
location  from  the  sea-coast  to  the  hills  and  valleys 
of  Leominster  seems  to  have  had  a  salutary  effect  u})()n 
the  family  stock,  so  that  at  the  present  time  the  danger 
of  its  running  out  appears  very  remote. 

The  three  generations  of  Bun-ages  who  resided  in 
Lynn  from  1G87  to  1800  lived  upon  the  Common,  now 
called  the  Old  Common.  We  think  they  all  lived  on 
the  north  side.  Thomas,  the  son  of  Deacon  Thomas, 
lived  on  the  north  side,  a  few  rods  east  of  the  centre 
of  the  Common,  where  the  meeting-house  stood.  We 
think  his  father  and  his  brother  John,  to  whom  the 
homestead-house  was  bequeathed,  lived  on  land  adjoin- 
ing his  on  the  westerly  side,  which  was  probably  opjK)- 
site  the  church,  or  a  little  west  of  that  position.  (Sec 
cut.)      The  Couunou  is  now  about  half  a  uiilc  iu  length 


THE  OLD  TUNNEL  CHURCH.  55 

and  ten  to  twenty  rods  wide.  The  meeting-house  is 
thus  described  in  Lewis's  "  History  of  Lynn " :  "  1682. 
The  meeting-house  Avas  this  year  removed  from  Shepard 
Street  to  the  centre  of  the  Common  and  rebuilt;  it  was 
fifty  feet  long  and  forty-four  wide ;  it  had  fokling-doors 
on  three  sides,  without  porches.  The  top  of  each  door 
was  formed  into  two  semicircuhir  arches;  the  windows 
consisted  of  small  diamond  panes,  set  in  sashes  of  lead ; 
the  floor  was  at  first  supplied  with  seats,  and  pews  were 
afterward  separately  set  up  by  individuals,  as  they 
obtained  permission  of  the  town.  By  this  means  the 
interior  came  at  length  to  present  a  singular  appear- 
ance. Some  of  the  pews  were  large,  and  some  small; 
some  square,  and  some  oblong;  some  with  seats  on 
three  sides,  and  some  with  a  seat  on  one  side;  some 
with  small  oak  panels,  and  some  with  large  pine  ones; 
and  most  of  them  were  surmounted  by  a  little  balus- 
trade, with  small  columns,  of  various  patterns,  accord- 
ing to  the  taste  of  the  proprietors.  Most  of  the  square 
pews  had  a  chair  in  the  centre,  for  the  comfort  of  the 
old  lady  or  gentleman,  the  master  or  mistress  of  the 
family  by  whom  it  was  occupied.  One  pew,  occupied 
by  black  people,  was  elevated  above  the  stairs  in  one 
corner  near  to  the  ceiling.  The  galleries  were  extended 
on  three  sides,  supported  by  six  oak  columns,  and 
guarded  by  a  turned  balustrade.  They  were  ascended 
by  two  flights  of  stairs  —  one  in  each  corner  —  on  the 
south  side.     The   pulpit  was  on   the   noi'th   side,  and 


56 


THE   BURRACE   MEMORIAL. 


sufficiently  large  to  contain  ten  persons.  The  top  of 
the  room  was  unceiled  for  many  years,  and  exhil)ited 
enormous  beams  of  oak,  ti-avei-sing  the  roof  in  all 
directions.  Tiie  hglit  from  the  diamond  windows  in 
the  gables,  shining  down  upon  the  great  oak  beams, 


LYNN    CUMMU>',  OLD    11  XXEL   MKK  llNG-lIOLftE,  jVXD   BUURAGE 
U0MESTEAD3,  1750. 

presented  quite  a  picturesque  appearance.  The  roof 
presented  four  iiediments,  and  was  surmounted  by  a 
cupola,  with  a  I'oof  in  the  form  of  an  inverted  tunnel. 
It  had  a  small  bell,  which  was  rung  by  a  rope  descend- 
in"-  to  the  centre  of  the  room.  The  town-meetings 
continued  to  be  held  in  this  house  till  1806.  It  was 
universally  known  as  the  (Jld  Tunnel  Meeting-IIouse, 
and  remained  on  the  C<nnmon  till  1827." 


LAND   IN   LYNN.  57 

Such  was  the  edifice  that  our  ancestors  looked  out 
upon  every  morning,  and  to  which  they  repaired  on 
Sundays  to  listen  to  the  sermons  of  Rev.  Mr.  Shepard, 
Kev.  Mr.  Whiting,  or  the  Rev.  Mr.  Henchman,  or  Rev. 
Mr.  Treadwell,  according  to  the  generation  to  which 
they  belonged.  Deacon  Thomas  Burrage  (the  carpen- 
ter), who  had  liberty  to  set  up  a  new  pew  in  place 
of  his  old  one,  in  1717,  probably  did  the  work  of  making 
the  pew  himself,  and  doubtless  set  up  several  for  other 
members  of  the  chuix-h. 

Besides  the  land  connected  with  their  houses  by  the 
Common,  they  owned  many  outlying  tracts  at  Rumney 
Marsh,  Black  Swamp,  Tomlin's  Swamp,  Farrington's 
Pasture,  Rail  Hill,  and  Fox  Hill,  Dungeon  Pasture, 
etc.,  and  at  Nahant.  The  whole  number  of  acres 
named  in  the  inventory  of  Thomas  Burrage's  estate  (in 
17(30)  was  one  hundred  and  twenty-three,  in  thirteen 
different  lots.  In  the  estate  of  John  Burrage,  inven- 
tory dated  1780,  there  were  two  hundred  and  sixty 
acres,  in  seventeen  different  lots.  As  a  general  thing, 
the  soil  of  Lynn  is  light.  We  have  but  little  doubt  that 
William  l^urrage  found  his  new  farm  in  Leominster 
more  productive  than  the  one  he  left  in  Lynn. 


CHAPTER   YTII. 

AVe  have  now  arrived  at  tliat  period  in  the  history  of 
the  En<2,-li8h  Colonies  in  Anieriea  wlien,  l)y  tlie  natni'al 
operation  of  the  ])i'inciples  l)ronii'ht  to  these  shores  by 
the  refug'ees  from  j)olitieal  tyi'anny  and  I'eligions  pei'se- 
cntion,  a  eonllict  was  to  take  i)hiee  l)etween  the  aneient 
and  tlien  (h)niinant  (h»,uMna  that  kings  and  priests,  or  a 
select  lew,  are  dlcii/r///  appointed  to  absolntely  direct 
and  govern  tlie  peopK',  and  the  new  idea  ^vhi(•ll  aHirms 
the  cquarity  of  all  men  befoi'e  the  law,  the  right  of  pri- 
vate judgment,  and  that  all  who  are  taxed  to  support 
government  are  entitled  to  a  voice  in  its  management. 

It  is  gi'atifying  to  know  that  at  this  ci-isis  the  pos- 
tei-ity  of  oui-  emigrant  ancestor  did  their  part  towards 
upholding  and  defending  the  princi})les  for  which  he 
saeritieed  so  much. 

Upon  the  muster-rolls  of  the  soldiers  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary War  in  the  State  archives  are  the  names  of  ten 
of.  his  descendants.  Five  enlisted  for  three  years  or 
during  the  war,  three  of  whom,  at  least,  died  in  the 
service;  two  others  served  in  the  militia  from  one  to 
t\vo  years;  the  others  served  only  as  "alarm"  oi'  "min- 
ute" nien.  I'he  five  last  named  were  a  ])ai't  of  the 
militia  only,  and  did  not  belong  to  the  '' Continental"  or 


LEXINGTON   ALARMS.  59 

regular  army.  Three  of  the  ten  were  at  the  battle  of 
Lexinglon;  three  served  at  the  fortifieation  of  Dor- 
chester Heights  Avhen  the  British  were  driven  out  of 
Boston;  and  one  of  them,  Thomas,  was  with  the  army 
at  Cambridge  when  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  was 
fought.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  there  were  not  at  the 
time  of  the  Revolutionary  War  more  than  fourteen  able- 
bodied  men  of  the  Burrage  name  and  family  in  Massa- 
chusetts, it  may  be  said  that  it  furnished  its  full  quota. 
The  list  as  taken  from  the  muster  rolls,  in  the  order 
of  time,  is  as  follows:*  First,  those  under  the  head  of 
"  Lexington  Alarms." 

1.  "A  Roll  of  the  fourth  foot  Company  of  Militia 
in  Lynn  Avho  marched  to  Concord  on  the  19^''  of  April, 
1775,"  in  Avhich  is  the  name  of 

"John  Burrage,  Private  —  time  of  service 

2  days,  pay  -  2  10^ 

Travel  46  miles  @  l'^  3  10 

2.  "A  Muster  Roll  of  the  several  pursons  that 
marched  from  Xewton  to  head  quarters  at  Camloridge 
on  the  nineteenth  day  of  April  A.  D.  1775,  on  the 
Alarm,  under  the  command  of  Amariah  Fuller  Capt.," 
in  which  is 

"  Ephraim  Burridge  Private,  miles  out  28,  Days  1  —  ex- 
pense for  travel  0-2-4     Total  0-3-9." 

*  These  extracts  are  coi)ied  verbatim  from  the  muster  rolls  iu  the  St:ite 
a  rchives. 


60  THE    BURKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

3.  ^'Tn  tlie  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Comity 
of  Sutfolk  — 

"A  Koll  made  up  ])y  Capt.  Ebcnezer  Battle  of  Ded- 
ham  fourth  parish,  from  19"^  of  April  1775  to  20^*^  of 
December  1775 ''  in  which  is  the  name  of 
"  Thomas  Burridge  —  Days  5,  Miles  40f  0-10-4  " 

4.  ''A  Pay  Pole  foi-  Capt.  Xalhaniel  Carter's  Com- 
pany in  C<»1.  .V  hi  jail  Stearns"'  Pegiment  of  Militia  in  the 
County  of  AVorcester,  and  State  of  Massachusetts  Bay 
that  Marclit  to  Williams  town  on  an  .Vlarm  August  ye 
22:  1777  by  order  ol'  lirigidier  General  Jonathan  War- 
ner mulcr  the  cominand  ol"  Major  Ebcnezer  Bridge  in 
the  Service  of  the  I'nitcd  States."     On  the  roll  is 

"William  Burrage-  —  Eleven  days,  Xnml)er 
of  miles  from  home  111,  Milage  out  and 
home  0-  9:3 

Wages  0-14:8" 

The  roll  sworn  to  before  Thos.  Legate,  Justice  of 
the  Peace. 

*  The  writer,  a  grauLlsoa,  reineint)ers  that  hi.s  father  used  to  rehite  the  cir- 
cumstauce  of  his  father  having  marched  with  the  Leominster  Company  of 
Militia  upon  the  "  Ahirm"  and  call  for  more  troops  previous  to  the  battle  of 
Bcnniuirtou.  The  tradition  was,  that  when  the.v  had  proceeded  as  far  as 
"  the  Mountain,"  the)' were  met  by  a  messenger  who  informed  them  of  the 
result  of  the  liattle  and  told  them  their  services  were  not  needed,  whereupon 
they  turned  back.  The  battle  occurred  on  the  10th  of  August.  The  enemy 
did  not  appear  before  Bennington  until  the  13th.  There  were  no  telegraphs 
or  railroads  then,  and  it  is  probable  that  the  call  did  not  reach  Worcester 
County  before  the  IGth,  the  day  of  the  battle.  The  troops  did  not  start  until 
the  22d,  and  could  not  have  an-ived  at  Williamstown,  where  the  messenger 
met  them,  before  the  27th. 


DORCHESTER   HEIGHTS.  61 

Secondly,  those  of  the  militia  who  were  called  out  to 
take  possession  of  and  fortify  Dorchester  Heights, 
March  4,  1776,  when  Washington,  l)y  having  this 
done,  compelled  the  British  to  evacuate  Boston,  and 
leave  the  soil  of  Massachusetts,  which  has  not  since 
been  trod  by  the  foot  of  a  foreign  foe. 

1.  "A  Pay  Rool  made  up  by  Capt  Eben""  Battle  in 
Col.  Mcintosh's  Regiment  for  Rations,  Milage  &  service 
in  taking  possession  of  Dorchester  hill  and  fortifying  it 
March  1776." 

"  Thomas  Burrage  six  days  service  made  up 

after  the  Continental  establishment        £0     8     0 

Milage  out  and  home  30  miles  @  one  penny 

per  mile  0     2     6 

3  days  Rations  @  7"^i  per  Ration  0     1  lOi 


Total  0  12  4|" 

"  2.  A  Muster  Roll  for  the  Company  of  Militia  of 
I^ewton  under  the  Command  of  Capt.  Amariah  Fuller, 
In  Coll!  Thatcher's  Regiment  who  was  called  into  pub- 
lic Service  March  1^^  1776 

Samuel  Burridge  Jr.  miles  travelled  22  @  l'^  0-  1-10 
No.  of  Rations  3  1-1^2 

Time  of  service  5  Days  —  wages  G-  8 


Whole  amount  £0-10-4 J" 


62  TUE    BURKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

Tklrdlij^  those  who  were  ealled  out  and  marehed  to 
Boston,  Dec.  9,  1776,  prol)ably  l\v  ^'an  Ahirni"  oeea- 
sioned  by  intelligence  that  a  lai-ge  body  of  British 
troops  had  left  Xew  York  in  a  large  ileet  of  shii)S 
and  ti'anspoi'ts  and  were  passing  through  Long  Island 
Sound.  It  })i'oved  tlial  thrir  destination  was  Xew 
])()rt,  K.  T.,  where  they  arrived  Dee.  7,  and  AVent  no 
further. 

"A  ]\[uster  Ivoll  of  the  Men  that  marched  By  order 
of  Council  to  join  Col"  Crafts  liegt.  at  Boston  Dec.  9, 
1776  under  the  Coininand  of  Joseph  Craft  First  Leiut. 
the  said  officer  and  soldici-s  received  Kations  but  for 
one  oi'  the  days  made  u[)  in  this  IJoll.'' 

^' Ephraim  Burrage,  Xo.  of  days  in  service  5, 
Xo.  of  Rations  —  ().2-t  Whole  amount 
of  Wages  and  Rations  0.-9-0 

John  Burrage,  Xo.  of  da3^s  in  service  5.  Xo. 
of  Rations  —  0.2—1.  AVholc  amount  of 
Wages  and  Rations  0-9-0" 

These  were  doubtless  from  XcAvton.  The  following 
l)roi)erly  belongs  in  this  place:  — 

"Return  of  Prisoners  sent  from  Xew  York  in  Cartel 
Brig,  Rising  Empire,  Godfrey,  Comander."  On  Ixick 
of  the  paper  is  the  following:  — 

^'List  of  Prisoners  Brouu'lit  in  the  first  Cartel  from 


THOMAS   BURRAGE   A   PRISONER.  63 

Road  Island."  Among  them  is  the  name  of  "  Thomas 
Burrag-e"  Dated  "Providence,  Jan^' 18,  1777  Signed 
John  Ayres." 

We  do  not  know  hoAv  it  happened  that  Thomas  Bnr- 
rage  became  a  prisoner,  whether  he  was  in  some  way 
gobbled  np  by  the  British  troops  when  they  evacuated 
Boston,  and  was  carried  to  Xew  York,  which  might 
have  been  the  case,  since  he  marched  with  the  American 
troops  to  fortify  Dorchester  Heights,  or  whether  he  Avent 
with  his  brothers,  John  and  Ephraim,  npon  the  call  on 
the  "  Alarm,"  Dec.  9,  1776,  to  Rhode  Island,  and  was 
captnred  thei-e.  Bancroft,  in  speaking  of  the  move- 
ment of  the  British  fleet  and  troops  that  cansed  this 
"Alarm,"  says,  "The  Island  of  Rhode  Island  could 
offer  no  resistance;  the  American  armed  vessels  that 
were  in  the  bay  went  np  to  Providence  for  shelter."  It 
is  possible  that  some  of  the  Massachusetts  militia  called 
out  on  that  occasion  were  on  one  of  these  American 
armed  vessels  that  did  not  retreat  in  season,  and  thus 
fell  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy. 

All  of  those  named  thns  far,  except  the  John  Burrage 
last  mentioned,  belonged  only  to  the  militia  or  "  minnte 
men,"  and  were  not  in  the  regnlar  Continental  service. 
AVe  find  one  more  mention  of  Samuel  Burrage,  Jr., 
viz.,  in  an  "Abstract  of  Rations  dne  Capt.  Phillip 
Thomas's  Company  in  Col.  Marshall's  Regiment  in  the 
Continental  Service  to  March  25,  1777 


64  THE    BUKRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

Samuel  Biirridge  from  Febrnaiy  G"',  days  48 

@  Of     Whole  sum  £1  5  7J 

Rations  rec'd     Sum  due  £1  5  7) " 

This  is  tlie  la-^t  we  ean  finil  respecting  liim.  Tt  is 
quite  prol)al)l('  thai  he  died  in  the  service;  lie  may  have 
died  at  home,  but  the  JSTewton  town  records  are  so 
defective  that  we  cannot  tell  whether  that  was  the  case 
or  not. 

The  other  five  found  on  the  rolls  a])])ear  to  have 
served  during  the  wai'  ov  until  they  died  in  the  service. 
Their  names  were,  AVilliam  Burridge,  of  Concord;  Sim- 
eon Burridge,  of  Concord ;  John  Buri'idge,  of  Concord ; 
flohu  Burridge,  of  Xewton;  John  Burridge,  of  Brain- 
tree. 

We  will  give  what  a[)[)ears  on  the  muster  I'olls  re- 
specting each  of  them:  — 

1.  "Eight  months  service  ITTo  —  John  Burridge,  of 
Concord,  William  Burridge  do  do  in  Capt.  Joseph 
Butlers  Company  in  Col.  John  Xixon's  Kegt.  John 
Burridge,  of  Xewton,  in  Capt.  Xathan  Fuller's  Com- 
pany, in  Col.  Thomas  Gardner's  (Col.  Bond)  Regt." 

2.  "A  list  of  Capt.  Gideon  Parker's  Company  in  the 
Regt.  of  Col.  Moses  Little:  William  Burridge  Xo.  10 
inlisted  Jan.  1,  1776;  John  Burridge  Xo.  14  inlisted 
Jan.  1,  1776." 

3.  "Muster  Roll  of  Capt.  Elisha  Brown's  Company 
in  Col.  Josiah  AVhitnev's  Regt.,  in  the  Colony  service 


SOLDIERS  IN  COXTINENTAL  ARMY.  (35 

fi'om  the  time  four  days  next  preceding  their  March,  to 
the  first  day  of  August  ii.  D.  1776.  Camp  at  Hull, 
Oct.  21,  1776  John  Bnrridge  —  began  service  June  ye 
13,  Service  1  month  8  days.     Advanced  pay  £2-0-0. 

Total  £3-1-0 

Deduction  2-0-0 


Eemains  £1_4_0" 

4.  "Abstract  of  Rations  Rec'd  and  due  Capt.  Phillip 
Thomas  his  subalterns  &  in  Col.  Thomas  Marshall's 
Regt.  in  the  Continental  service  from  Dec.  3,  1776  to 
February  7, 1777  inclusive.  Together  with  their  subsist- 
ence from  Boston  to  Bennington  being  220  miles  allow- 
ing eleven  days  for  their  march  thither.  William  Bur- 
ridge  entered  the  service  Dec.  11.  l^o.  of  Days  58  — 
1  Ration  @  6}/ — Amount  £1-11-5.  Simeon  Burridge 
entered  the  service  Dec.  12  Ko.  of  Days  57.  'No.  of 
Rations  1  @  6|'^— Amount  £1-10-10|." 

5.  "A  Pay  Rool  of  Capt.  Thomas  ^N'ewcomb,  in 
Col.  Eben  Thayer's  Regnft  of  new  levies  from  the 
County  of  Suftblk  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
Raised  for  three  months  to  Reinforce  the  Continental 
army  1780 — a  part  of  the  Company  stationed  at  West 
Point  &  part  at  Rhoad  Island.  John  Burridge,  Com- 
mencement of  pay  July  28,  terme  of  Discharge  Oct. 
30,  —  time  of  service  3  months  6  days  —  Days  allowed 
to  return  homs  20  —  Miles  per  day  3  —  Establishment 


(j(j  THE    BUHRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

per  month  £2-0-0  Total  wages  —  .£6-8-0  —  Rations 
£l)-V2-{)     Milage  @  1*^  per  mile  —  £0-5-0/' 

(5.  "A  Keturn  of  Men  raised  for  thi'ee  years  from 
Dec""  2"*  1780— Surtblk  &  Essex  Counties  John  Bur- 
ridge,  Braintree     AVhen  i-aised,  30  Dee'  1780." 

Then  in  tlic  cohimns  ol"  eiTtilicates  ol"  linal  settle- 
ments arc  the  Inllowing  interesting  (locunients:  — 

"Will'"  Bun-age  ])rivat('  of  Concord  in  the  Coll?  Co. 
Col.  Marshall  lieginicut.     Died  Jan.  12,  1778. 

Cii. 

By  his  service  frcnn  Jan.  1.  1777  to  Jan.  12, 
177S  is  12  mo"  12  d.iys  (ai  40  S.  ])er 
month.  For  ^hieh  the  nominal  sum 
has  been  paid  him  by  the  Continent  £21.-10-0 

By  Delay  &  luV  5     5  5 

£30  _l_5 

Dr. 

To  Cash  paid  him  from  Proceeds  of  Lottery 

£:30_()_()  value  0-18.5 

To  his   proportion   of   small    stores    at   the 

Camp  at  the  regular  prices  0-18-9 

To  12  months  11  days  wages  paid  him  by 
the  Continent  (a^  -40  S.  i^er  month  21— 
14-8  value  12-15-  5 

Dee.  31     To  Ballanee  15  -8-10 

£30  -1  -.5 


CERTIFICATES   OF   FINAL   SETTLEMENTS.  67 

3yr^— The  above  Ballance  £15-8-10  mul- 
tiplied by  32}  to  make  good  the  Depri- 
ciation,  is  in  Currant  Money  £501-17-0 

Certified  20,  Jan.  1785. 

Simeon  Burridge  Private,   of  Concord  in  the   Coll" 
Comp.  Col.  Marshall's  Kegt.     Died  March  7,  1778. 

Cr. 

By  His  service  from  Jan.  1,  1777  to  March 

7"^  1778  is  14  months  7  days  @  40  S. 
per  month  for  which  the  nominal  sum 
has  l)een  paid  him  by  the  Continent  £28  -9-4 

By  Delay  &  Int^  5     8-8 


£33-18-0 


Dr. 


To  Cash  paid  him  from  Proceeds  of  State 

Lottery  £30  value  0  18-5 

1  Shirt  —  1  pair  Shoes  —  1  pair  Hose  sup- 
plied by  the  State  at  regulated  prices  1-  4-4 

To  14  months  7  days  wages  paid  him  by  the 
Continent  @  40  S.  per  month  £28-9-4 
value  13-11-8 

His  proportion  of  small  stores  at  regulated 
prices  deducting  what  he  had  paid  to- 
wards them  1-1-11 

To  Ballance  17-1  -8 

£33-18-0 


68  THE    BUIJUAGE   MEMORIAL. 

The  above  Ballaiiee  £17-1-8  multiplied  ])y 
32]  to  make  good  the  Depreeiatioii,  is 
in  Currant  Money  £555-4-8 

John  Burridge  Private  of  Coneord  in  Major's  Comp'y 
Col.  Wesson's  Regt. 

Cif. 

By  his  serviee  from  Jan.  1,  1777  to  Dec.  30, 
1770  —  30  months  (a^  10  S.  pi'i*  month 
lor  which  the  nominal  sum  has  been 
paid  him  l)y  the  ('outinent  72-  0-  0 

Dk. 

To  Cash  paid  him  fi'(nn  Proceeds  of  Lottery 

£30-0-0  value  1-17-  5 

To  3  shirts  —  3  pair  Shoes  —  3  hose  supplied 

by  the  State  at  the  regulated  prices  3-13-  0 

To  his  proportion  of  small  stores  delivered  in 
Camp  at  regulated  prices,  deducting  the 
value  of  what  he  has  paid  towards  them        2-1(3-  3 

To  36  months  wages  paid  him  by  the  Conti- 
nent at  40  S.  per  month  £72-0-0  \  alue      17-19-  6 

IST'J. 

Dec  31     To  Ballanee  -15-13-10 


£72-  0-  0 
The  above  Ballanee   £45-13-10  multiplied 
by  32 1^  to  make  good  the  Depreciation 
is  in  Currant  Money  £1481-11)-  7 

Certified  28"'  June  1780. 


CERTIFICATES   OF   FINAL   SETTLEMENTS.  69 

John  Burrage,  Private  of  ISTewton  in  Capt.  Watson's 
Comp'y  Col.  Wesson's  Kegt. 

Cr. 
By  his  service  from  Api-il  1, 1777  to  May  20, 
1778  is  13  Months  20  Days  at  40  S.  per 
month  for  which  the  nominal  sum  has 
heen  paid  him  by  the  Continent  £27-6 : 8 

Died  May  20,  1778. 

I  do  Certify  that  the  above  John  Burrage  inlisted 

During  the  war. 

J.  W.  Wesson^  Col. 
Certified  21  April  1781-xx 

Dr. 

To   Cash  paid   him   from  the   Proceeds  of 

State  Lottery  £30.-0-  value  2-  8-  7 

To  2  Shirts — 2  pair  Shoes,  2  pair  Hose  sup- 

phed  by  the  State  at  the  regulated  prices       2-  8-  8 

To  His  proportion  of  small  stores  delivered 
in  Camp  at  regulated  prices,  deducting 
the  value  of  what  he  paid  towards  them       1-  2-  0 

To  Bounty  of  £24-0-0  paid  him  by  or  in 
behalf  of  the  town  of  Newton — ^N^ot 
charged—  0-  0-  0 

To  13  months  20  days  wages  paid  him  by 
the  Continent  at  40  S.  per  month  £27- 
6-8  value  8-18-  7 

1770. 

Dec.  31     To  Ballauce  ^2-^-10 

£27-  6-  8 


70  THE   BUKRAGE   ME:M0HIAL. 

The  above  Ballancc  — 12-8-10  multiplied  by 
321  to  make  good  the  Depreciation  is  in 
Currant  Money  £404-7-1 

JoJiu  Burridge  Private  of  Afhol^  in  Ca])t.  J.  Blaneh- 
ard's  Com])V, —  Col.  Wesson's  Kegt. 

Ck. 

By  ihe  Depreciation  on  the  Delay  of  Pay- 
ment of  his  wagi's  to  the  'H"'  of  Decem- 
ber 1779  £'5-14-  5 

By  Interest  on  the  above  Sum  from  Jan.  1"^ 

to  Dec.  31,  1780.  0-10 

By  his  service  from  the  1  Day  of  JanV  to 
the  14.  Day  of  May  1780,  is  4  :M()nths 
14  Days  at  40  S.  i)er  month  8-18-  8 

£14-1<)-11 

♦  There  is  no  such  name  on  the  town  records  of  Athol.  This,  doubtless, 
is  tlie  same  John  Burrld,i;e  wlio  subsequently  enlisted  from  Braiutree  in  Capt. 
Newcomb's  company,  Col.  Thayer's  refjiment.  We  were  for  a  long  time 
greatly  puzzled  by  his  case,  n  appeared  that  he  was  married  in  Braintree, 
Mass.,  in  1779,  to  Mary  Spear,  of  that  place,  and  lived  there  after  the  close  of 
the  war  till  17S0,  and  had  rive  children;  but  we  could  not  ascertain  whence 
he  came,  or  whither  he  went  after  17S<).  Finally  a  clew  was  found  while  look- 
ing over  the  pension  list  at  the  State  House,  in  a  record  of  a  pension  granted 
him  in  1850,  on  application  of  his  dnnijhtn-  Salhj  Thmjcr,  Wist  L'niiihiJjih,  Vt. 
It  was  then  discovered  that  some  of  his  descendants  now  reside  in  Braintree, 
Vt.,  to  which  place  he  removed  from  Braintree,  Mass.,  soon  after  1781).  Mr. 
Charles  Burridge,  of  Braintree,  Vt.,  a  grandson,  writes  that  "there  is  a  tra- 
dition in  their  family  that  his  grandfather  came  from  England.  When  a 
young  man,  not  of  age,  was  pressed  into  service  in  the  war  between  England 
and  America,  but  was  secretly  taken  l)y  his  father  and  shipped  to  America, 
and  that  he  changed  his  name  from  Burroughs  to  Burridge  on  board  ship  and 
always  went  by  that  name  afterwards  "  Thus,  at  leiiglh,  was  our  failure  to 
find  any  trace  of  hi:u  either  in  the  town  or  county  records  of  Massachusetts 
accouuteil  for. 


DIED   IN   THE   SERVICE.  71 

Dr. 
To  Cash  paid  by  United  States  on  Account 

of  his  wages  for  the  year  1780  0-  2-  7 

To  Amount  of  small  stores  delivered  in  Camp 
g-  at  the  prime  Cost  and  charges  of  Trans- 
"     portation  0-  1-  8 

Dec  31     To  a  certificate  for  the  balance  11:-15-  8 


£14-19-11" 


In  another  book  are  the  following  entries :  — 

"John  Burrage  Kewton  —  9'''  Eegt.  Time  of  inlist- 
ment,  During  the  war  —  Time  of  service,  13  months  20 
days  —  Capt  AVatson. — Dead." 

"  W"  Burridge  lO''^  Regt.  Time  of  inlistment  3  years. 
Time  of  service,  12  months  12  days — Residence  Con- 
cord—CoL  Co.  — Dead." 

"  Simeon  Burrage  10'^  Regt.  Time  of  inlistment,  3 
years.  Time  of  service  14  months  7  days — Residence, 
Concord  Col.  Co.     Dead." 

"John  Burrage  9^'"  Regt.  Bounty  received  in  land 
or  money  $50. —  Time  of  inlistment  3  years.  Time  of 
service  40  months  14  days.  Residence  Concord.  Com- 
mander Major  Co." 

These  are  the  same  persons,  it  will  be  seen,  that  are 
named  in  the  certificates  of  final  settlements. 

It  is  not  known  where  William,  Simeon,  and  John  died, 
or  what  were  the  circumstances  attending  their  decease, 
but  the  respective  dates  of  their  deaths  are  sus'arestive. 


72  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

William  and  Simoon,  Avho  were  brothers,  and  both  in 
the  10th  Keg't.,  died  in  the  winter  of  1778,  —  one  Jan. 
12,  the  other  Mareh  7,  —  and  their  eonsin,  John,  in 
the  9th  Keg't.,  died  on  the  20th  of  the  following  Ma}^ 
It  seems  probable  that  they  were  all  in  Washington's 
army,  in  winter  quarters  at  Valley  Forge,  in  this  the 
darkest  period  of  the  war,  and  that  the  exposure  and 
excessive  sufferings  of  the  soldiers  during  that  terrible 
Avinter  were  the  cause  of  their  death.  Bancroft  says, 
"As  his  (Washington's)  men  moved  towards  the  spot 
selected  for  their  winter  resting  place,  they  had  not 
clothes  to  cover  tlieir  nakedness,  nor  blankets  to  lie  on, 
nor  tents  to  sleep  under.  F(K'  the  want  of  shoes,  their 
marches  through  frost  and  snow  might  be  traced  by  the 
blood  fiom  their  feet,  and  they  were  almost  as  often 
without  provisions  as  with  them.""  On  the  23d  of  De- 
cember, 1777,  Washington  wrote,  "Men  are  confined  to 
hospitals  or  in  farmers"  hcnises  for  want  of  shoes.  We 
have  this  day  no  less  than  two  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  ninety  men  in  camp  unfit  for  duty,  because  they  are 
barefoot  and  otherwise  naked.  Our  whole  strength  in 
Continental  troops  amounts  to  no  moi-e  than  eight  thou- 
sand two  hundred  men  in  camp  fit  lor  dut}-.  Since  the 
fourth  instant,  our  numlK'rs  fit  for  duty  from  hardship 
and  exposure  have  decreased  nearly  two  thousand  men. 
JS'umbers  still  are  obliged  to  sit  all  night  by  fires."' 
"Even  so  late  as  the  lllh  of  Fel)ruary,  Dana,  one  of  the 
committee  (sent  by  Congress  to  investigate  the  state  of 


HONOR   TO   THE   COMMON    SOLDIERS.  73 

aifairs)  reported  tliat  men  died  for  the  want  of  straw 
or  materials  to  raise  them  from  tlie  cold,  wet  earth." 

It  is  no  wonder  that  men  exposed  to  snch  hardships 
died;  the  marvel  is  that  any  should  have  survived  them. 
All  lionor  to  those  sturdy  men  of  our  family  stock  who, 
though  but  common  soldiers  in  the  ranks,  devotedly 
endured  such  hardships  and  faced  death  at  every  turn 
to  give  liberty  to  their  country  and  a  re})ublic  to  man- 
kind! Especial  honor  and  homage  to  the  memory  of 
the  three  who  died  in  the  service!  They  are  not  men- 
tioned in  history;  their  names  are  not  engraven  on 
enduring  monuments  of  stone ;  they  left  no  posterity  to 
piously  preserve  the  remembrance  of  their  heroic  vir- 
tues; and  had  it  not  been  for  the  business  records  of  the 
army  in  the  State  archives,  their  names  would  have  been 
consigned  to  oblivion.  Yet  to  such  as  they  are  we 
indebted  for  the  establishment  of  our  beloved  country, 
with  its  free  and  beneficent  institutions,  and  again  for 
its  salvation  in  the  late  war  of  the  Kebellion.  While 
their  spirit  remains  to  animate  the  hearts  of  her  people, 
the  Republic  will  endure. 


10 


CHAPTER    IX. 

It  lias  Ix'cn  said  thai  .loliii  liui-i-au-c.  of  Xcwlon,  \W. 
son  (if  Williaiii,  and  ^i-andson  of  tlu'  fmi,L;M'anl,  John 
Bun'a;>X',  was  twici-  111:11  riL-(l.  Ills  first  wife,  to  whom  he 
was  niai-ricd  Oct.  9,  17IS.  was  Lydia  Ward,  of  Xuwtoii, 
(Iaii_L;-liti'r  of  Deacon  Ivicliard  Ward.  liy  licr  lie  ])rob- 
al)ly  had  two.  and  perhaps  three,  eliihh'en,  viz.,  Lydia 
and  Williaiii  and  possibly  John,  l^ut  as  the  dates  of 
tlie  births  of  his  children  are  not  on  tlie  Xewton  records, 
it  is  impossible  to  determine  whether  two  only  or  three 
of  them  wi-re  by  his  first  marriage.  She  died  in  1724, 
and  on  the  '2~){h  of  January,  1725,  he  married  Sarah 
Smith.  By  this  marriai;-e  he  had  three  sons,  Samiiid, 
Thomas,  and  Ei)hraim,  and  three  dangliters,  Sarah, 
]\rary,  and  Anna.  He  lived  at  first  on  tlie  Dedham  road, 
now  Centre  Street,  between  Xewtoii  Corner  and  Xewton 
Centre.  In  173.3  he  ])oniihl  a  farm  of  eighty  acres  and 
bnilt  him  a  honse  npon  it.  in  that  })art  of  the  town  now 
called  Xewtonville,  a  short  distance  south  of  where  the 
depot  of  the  Boston  and  .Vlbany  Jiailroad  stands,  on 
the  road  leading  to  Xewton  Centre.  The  farm  joined, 
or  nearly  so,  the  farm  iij)on  which  the  house  whei'e 
General  Hull  once  lived,  now  occupied  by  Ex-Govei'uor 
Clartin,  stands.     His    sons    Samuel  and  Ephraim   lived 


CHILDREN   OF   JOHN   BUREAGE,   NEWTON.  75 

near  him.  AYilliam,  until  he  removed  to  Concord,  lived 
on  the  Dedham  road,  now  Centre  Street,  in  what  is  now 
^N'ewton  Corner,  so  called;  and  Thomas,  at  the  age  of 
thirty-four,  removed  to  Dedham,  in  that  part  subse- 
quently incoi-jiorated  in  the  town  of  Dover. 

William,  who  we  suppose  to  have  been  the  eldest  son 
of  John  Burrag-e,  married,  Dec.  13,  1744,  Hannah 
Osland,  of  Xewton.  He  was  a  farmer.  In  1756  he 
sold  his  farm  in  jSTewton  and  bought  one  in  Concord, 
Mass.,  to  which  place  he  removed  wnth  his  family  in 
that  3'ear.  He  died  there  in  17(33,  leaving  four  sons, 
AVilliam,  Simeon,  Jonathan,  and  John,  and  two  daugh- 
ters, Lydia  and  Hannah.  Three  of  the  sons  served  in  the 
war  of  the  Kevolution  and  two  of  them  died  in  the  ser- 
vice.    Jonathan  and  John  settled  in  Lunenburg,  Mass. 

Samuel,  who  was  probably  the  third  son  of  John, 
resided  in  Xewton  luitil  his  decease,  in  1793.  He  was 
called  "a  weaver."  He  married,  Oct.  31,  1754,  ]Mary 
Draper,  of  Dedham,  and  had  one  son,  Samuel,  Jr.,  who 
did  not  survive  him,  and  two  daughters. 

Thomas,  the  fourth  son  of  John,  Ijought  a  ftirni  in 
Dedham  in  17(35,  removed  thei'e,  and  was  married  in 
November,  1767,  to  Abigail  Fisher,  of  Medfield.  He 
had  five  children;  two  sons,  John  and  Obed,  and  three 
daughters,  A])igail,  Kezia,  and  Anna.  John  remained 
in  Dover.  Obed,  in  1810,  removed  to  Templeton,  Mass., 
where  he  resided  until  1849,  when  he  went  to  Shrews- 
l)urv,  where  he  died  in  1850. 


76  THE   BUHKAliE    MKMoHlAL. 

AVliiU'  hv  lived  in  XrAvton.  Tlioinas  "Burrnuv  was 
styliMl  in  tliL'  ck'L'ds  in  which  his  name  appears,  "weaver"; 
after  his  removal  t<>  De«lham  he  was  called  ''Ilnshand- 
man."  Il  ap[)ear>  that  three,  if  not  more,  of  tlu'  sons 
of  John  were  weaver->.'^  W  i-  do  not  know  how  the 
business  was  eondneted.  hnt  il  \\a>.  of  eonrse.  done  hy 
hand-loom-.  At  that  time,  as  has  heen  said  in  another 
place.  mo->t  all  the  fahrics  n>ed  for  clothing'  wei'e  home- 
made. /.  t.  -])nn  and  woven  hy  hand  from  lln'  raw 
material,  either  wo<il  or  tlax.  i-ai>i'd  on  the  farm.  It  is 
prohahle  that  the  men  who  followed  it  as  a  trade  either 
went  Irom  hon<e  to  hon-e.  workinii"  l»y  the  day.  or  to(dv 
the  \arn  to  tluir  o\\  n  hou'^es  or  >hop>  and  wove  the 
cloth  for  a  certain  prict-  ]>er  yard.  If  we  are  to  judii'e 
by  tin-  apparent  results.  i)ecuniai-ily,  to  those  who  fol- 
lowed the  occuj)ation.  we  nnr^t  conclude  that  it  was  not 
a  very  proHtahle  hn-^ini'ss,  —  that  farnfmi;"  ]»aid  hettt'r. 
The  cause  of  thi>  is  to  he  found.  ])ri»hal)ly,  not  in  foreiii'n 
competition  from  the  ahsence  of  a  tarilf,  nor  in  the  ex- 
cessive amount  of  labor-saving  machinery  in  the  coun- 
try, but  in  tlu'  competition  of  the  incbisti'ious  wonu'U, 
the  wives  and  (hm«;hters  of  the  farmers;  and  the  fact 
that  the  demand  for  the  articles  manufactured  was  c<mi- 
l)aratively  limited.  owin«j^-  to  the  simjtie  and  Irniial  habits 
of  the  people,  and  the  sui)enor  durability  of  the  fabrics, 
whose  strength  was  not  impaired   by  excessive  heating, 

*  The  fatlKT  is  also  stvlotl  "  weaver"  in  a  deed  dated  1724. 


HOME-MADE   CLOTHS.  77 

Bhearinf^,  oi-  flofking  to  give  them  a  meretricious  smooth- 
ness and  fini>h,  as  is  done  to  a  Uirge  extent  in  inaiiiifac- 
turing  u  itli  the  improved  machinery  of  tlie  }ji'esent  time. 
Tiiomas  Barrage  appears  to  have  been  an  industrious, 
l)atriotic,  and  worthy  citizen.  He  died  suddenly  wliilc 
at  work  on  the  highway  —  repairing  roads  —  in  ITUU,  at 
the  age  of  sixty-nine  years. 

Epln-aim  Bun-age,  the  fifth  son  of  Joliu.  mat  i  led,  in 
IKu,  EIizal)eth  Sever.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  lived  in 
Xewtoii  iiiilil  ITllO.  whr-n  lie  bonglit  a  fai-in  in  Shirley 
and  I'cmoved  to  that  town,  where  he  resided  until  ]i\< 
decease,  in  180.'>.  He  left  two  children,  Andi-ew  and 
l^etsey,  who,  after  the  death  of  tlieii-  father,  removed 
witli  Iheir  mother  to  AValtham.  Xeither  of  tliem  mar- 
ried. 

Of  John,  Ji'.,  the  other  son,  we  know  but  little.  In 
1747  he  witnessed  the  signatures  of  his  father  and 
mother  to  a  deed,  and  in  1706  joined  his  brothers  in 
signing  a  release  of  all  claim  upon  his  father's  estate. 
In  that  instrament  he  is  styled  "weaver."  We  find  no 
conveyances  to  him  or  by  him  recorded,  nor  do  we  find 
any  record  of  his  mai-riage.  Doubtless  he  is  the  John 
Burrage,  fi'om  Xewton,  who  died  in  the  Continental 
service  in  1778,  although  he  must  have  been  past  the 
maximum  age  fixed  by  Congress  for  military  duty. 

Lydia,  the  eldest  daughter,  married,  Jan.  17,  1745, 
Archibald  Smith,  of  Xeedham,  who  prolniljly  afterwards 
removed  to  Concord,  as  in  deed  of  r>.ee  to  Wm.  Burrage, 


78  THK    BUKRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

1 ".")().  land  of  Arcliihald  Siiiith  is  rcrcn-od  to  \n  dosoril)- 
inu"  tlu'  hounds.  ^Vnothcr  dauiihtcT,  Sarah,  iiiaiTicd 
Benjamin  Adams,  of  Newton.  There  is  no  reeord  of 
the  inai-ria<2:c  of  Marv,  thi-  third  dau:j,htei-.  Anna,  tlie 
f. )Ui-th  (hiunhter,  was  not  niari'ied.  She  dic-d  in  Newton, 
April  (J,  1825.  Slie  wa»  the  la>t  ol'  tlie  (K'sccndants  of 
^ViUiani  l>uri'aL:-e  tliat  lived  in  Newton.  We  do  not 
know  ol'  anv  other  liaxinLi'  TinimI  in  thai  place  ^inee  the 
close  of  the  last  centni'v,  hut  the  name  has  been  rej)- 
rcsented  there  during-  the  la>t  ten  or  fifteen  years  by 
some  of  the  de>-ecndants  of  his  hfolher  Thomas.  At 
present  there  are  four  lamilies  li\in;;-  in  Newton  who 
trace  their  ])edijrree  to  Thc^nns  Barrage  and  Elizabeth 
Breed,  «if  Lvnn,  KJST. 


CHAPTER    X. 

Thomas  Burrage,  of  Leominster,  the  eldest  son  of 
William  Bnrrage,  formerly  of  L^nn,  when  abont  twen- 
ty-six years  of  age,  removed  to  Templeton,  Mass.,  then 
a  very  sparsely  settled  township,  where  he  bought  a 
tract  of  wild  land  and  set  to  work  to  clear  oif  the  trees 
and  make  it  fit  for  tillage  and  a  dwelling-place.  His 
industry  and  self-denial  Avere  such  that  he  was  soon 
able  to  erect  a  dwelling-house,  and  having  induced  Miss 
Abigail  Fairbanks,  of  Templeton,  to  become  a  partner 
with  him  in  his  "enterprise,"  the  twain  were  married 
Aug.  21,  1791,  and  connnenced  house-keeping.  They 
had  twelve  children,  four  sons  and  eight  daughters,  all 
born  in  Templeton.  He  resided  there  until  the  spring 
of  1820,  when  his  parents  having  become  infirm  from 
old  age,  he  returned  to  the  homestead  at  Leominster  to 
cultivate  the  farm  and  filially  care  for  the  old  people 
while  they  lived.  He  resided  there  until  his  decease, 
which  occurred  Oct.  10,  1828.  His  wife  survived  him 
thirty-four  years.  He  was  an  industrious  man  and  of  a 
genial,  social  disposition.  He  appears  not  to  have  had 
so  much  business  faculty  as  his  brothers  William  and 
Josiah,  but  possessed  quite  as  much  intellectual  ability 
and  had  more  taste  for  reading  and  metaphysical  inves- 


80  TIIK    BUKRACJK    MEMORIAL. 

ti*^ation<.  Sovon  of  h\<  cliildrcn  survived  him;  only 
one  of  liis  sons,  Jonatlian,  was  married  and  left  posterity. 

Jonathan  l^nrraiii'  was  hoi-n  in  Temijleton,  March  18, 
1805.  lie  was  thiicc  marrif(l,  and  had  nine  children. 
(See  "Genealo;^}  .")  \\  hm  a  youni;-  man  he  learned 
the  ti'ade  of  house  ])aintci"  and  followed  it  several  years; 
siibsef[ni'ntly  cnn'a^rd  in  tin-  manufaclniv  of  bellows  at 
Filclihnru;  afterwards  left  that  and  went  into  tlu'  hnsi- 
iiess  of  mannfact m'inu'  vaiaiish.  For  the  iirst  ten  or 
fifteen  yeaiN  after  hi-  lir-t  man'ia,u-e.  he  r^-sided  in  Fitch- 
hiu*"*;  then  removed  to  ( "amhrid^'e.  While  there  the 
homestt'ad  in  Leominster  of  hi^  uneU',  ^\'iliiam  I^urrage, 
wlio  had  deeea-^t'd,  wa-^  olfered  for  sale  by  the  executor; 
he  i)nrehasi'd  it  and  nanoved  his  family  there.  The 
transaction  pioxcd  an  nnfoi-tnnate  one.  As  a  residence 
it  was  too  far  from  his  bnsine-s,  which  was  still  at  Cam- 
bridge, and  not  having  either  the  requisite  experience 
or  time  to  cultivate  the  iarm.  that  Itecame  rhifjl//  fridtful 
of  expense,  so  after  li\ing  there  four  or  five  yeai"s,  he 
was  obliged  to  give  it  up  and  I'etui'u  to  Cambridge. 
Subsequently  he  remo\ed  to  Koxbury,  where  he  died  in 
1854:.  lie  was  a  very  industrious,  kind-hearted,  honest 
man,  and  possessed  the  easy,  genial,  and  sanguine 
temperament  of  his  father. 

Respecting  the  daughters,  Sena  married,  1820,  her 
cousin,  John  Burrage,  and  had  one  child,  John  Milton 
Burrage.  She  died  March  11,  1824.  Abigail  man-ied, 
Oct.   1,  1818,   Horace  Xcwton,   of  Fitchbui-g,  and   had 


DEACON   WILLIAM   BURRAGE.  81 

three  sons  and  one  dang-hter.  She  died  in  1850.  Har- 
riet married,  'Nov.  26,  1829,  Leonard  Battis,  and  had 
three  daughters  and  one  son.  She  and  her  husband 
now  Hve  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  Mary  married.  May  26, 
1825,  her  cousin,  Emory  Burrage.  They  resided  on  the 
homestead  farm  of  their  grandfather,  and  cared  for  liei" 
parents  while  they  lived.  In  1872  they  sold  the  farm 
and  moved  into  and  occupied  a  part  of  the  house  in 
which  his  mother  lived  in  the  ISTorth  Village,  and  after 
her  decease  bought  the  house.  They  still  reside  there. 
Adeline  married,  May  30,  1830,  David  Child,  of  Tem- 
pleton,  and  had  six  children.  She  died  in  1811.  Iler 
husband  married,  June  29,  1812,  her  sister  Joan.  Joan 
died  in  1813;  she  had  no  children.  Sophronia  married, 
l^ov.  2,  1835,  James  Cutter,  by  Avhom  she  had  two 
children.     She  died  in  1811. 

William  Burrage,  the  second  son  of  William  Burrage, 
of  Lynn,  was  apprenticed  at  an  early  age  to  Benjamin 
Hawks,  a  tanner,  in  Leominster.  After  having  finished 
his  apprenticeship,  when  about  twenty-two  years  old,  he 
commenced  the  tanning  and  currying  business  for  him- 
self, in  a  very  small  way,  in  the  north  part  of  the  town. 
He  began  with  no  other  capital  than  health,  strength, 
and  an  indomitable  resolution  to  succeed.  But  from 
the  first,  his  great  industry,  frugality,  and  good  judg- 
ment insured  his  success,  and  he  steadily  gained  in 
worldly  goods,  and  in  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his 

fellow-townsmen. 

11 


82  THE    BUHKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

In  1814  be  was  clioscn  a  deacon  of  the  First  Congrc- 
gational  Cbnrcb,  —  tbc  only  clnn'cb  tben  m  the  town, — 
and  I't'tained  tlic  ofKcf  nntil  his  di-atb,  in  1844.  He  was 
many  times  cliosen  to  iili  offices  of  ti'ust  and  responsi- 
Ijility.  and  at  tlic  time  of  his  decease  was,  l)y  virtue  of 
his  sterling  charactei',  as  wi-ll  as  by  his  wealth,  one  of 
the  most  ])i'oininent  citizens  in  ihi'  town.  ITe  was  twice 
mari'ie(l.  Fir-t,  Fel).  '2.  171>1\  to  Mai'v  'loslin,  of  Leom- 
inster, by  wlidiii  he  had  six  childi-eii.  viz.,  William, 
J'olly,  Leonai'd,  Fhirsa,  William,  and  Caroline.  She 
died  Dec.  11),  ]S2().  .Imic  iM,  1821,  he  mamed  Roxanna 
Sandei>on.  of  Laiica>tei'.  liy  hei"  he  had  eight  childix'n, 
five  of  whom  sui'\i\ed  him,  viz.,  (icorge  Sanderson, 
\\'illiam  F..  Maiy  Jane,  Chai-Jes  W.,  and  ^Mai'tba  Ann. 
Of  the  ehildi'en  by  the  first  wife,  three  only  lived  to  be 
married,  viz.,  J^eonard.  Fliii'sa,  and  AVilliam.  AN  illiam 
mari-ie(l,  June  1,  1S24.  Mary  Ann  liicbai'dson,  of  Leom- 
inster, b\'  whom  he  had  one  child,  Marv  Caroline. 
He  died  in  ISlJ.I.  Fhirsa  mai-ried  Thomas  Stearns,  of 
Leominster,  in  1S17,  and  died   in  1810. 

Leonard  married,  Aj)ril  l.^  1819,  Mira  ^Vllen,  of 
Leominster.      They  have  had   no  children. 

lie  learned  the  trade  of  tanner  and  cnrrier  in  his 
father's  shop,  and  soon  after  attaining  his  majority  was 
admitted  to  an  intei-est  in  the  bnsiness  with  his  father, 
and  a  few  years  afterward  bonght  the  yard  and  sho]) 
and  carried  on  the  Inisiness  alone  nntil  some  years  latci', 
when    he   took   into  partnership   with   him  his  cousin, 


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h.  1797. 


CAPT.  LEONARD  BURRAGE.  83 

George  S.  Bun-age.  To  their  business  of  tanning  and 
currying  leather,  which  had  greatly  increased,  they 
added,  about  the  year  183G,  that  of  manufacturing  shoes 
for  the  Western  market.  This  business,  which  has  now 
grown  to  such  enormous  proportions,  was  then  in  its 
infiuicy.  In  18J4,  after  fourteen  or  fifteen  successful 
years,  they  dissolved  the  copartnership  and  left  the 
business. 

The  same  qualities  which,  in  the  fiither  of  Capt. 
Leonard  Burrage,  insured  success  and  a  good  name, 
were  inherent  in  and  performed  the  same  service  for  the 
son.  From  his  youth,  his  abilities  and  high  character 
commanded  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  who  knew 
him.  He  has  been  the  recipient  of  many  tokens  of 
esteem  and  confidence  from  his  fellow-citizens  of  Leom- 
inster. When  a  young  man  he  was  promoted  to  the 
office  of  captain  in  the  company  of  militia  of  which  he 
was  a  member, —  a  greater  mark  of  distinction  at  that 
time  than  it  has  ])een  since,  23roof  of  which  is  found  in 
the  fact  that  those  who  received  the  title  at  that  period 
usually  retained  it  so  long  as  they  lived.  For  many 
years,  he  was  annually  chosen  moderator  of  the  town- 
meetings  and  served  on  the  school  committee,  board  of 
selectmen,  and  in  other  positions  of  trust  and  responsi- 
bility, and  ably  represented  the  town  in  the  General 
Court  in  the  years  1833,  1843,  1814,  and  1845.  Capt. 
Burrage  and  his  excellent  and  greatly  esteemed  wife 
still  reside  in  the  house  in  which  they  have  lived  to- 


84  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

gethei-  more  than  half  a  ceiitui-y,*  enjoying  a  greon  old 
age,  the  crown  of  temperate  and  well-spent  lives, 

George  Sanderson  Burrage,  the  eldest  son  hy  the 
second  wife,  was  twice  married.  First,  A})ril  "2,  1844, 
to  Martha  G.  Phelps,  of  Leominster,  by  whom  he  had 
three  children.  She  died  Ang.  G,  1849;  and  he  mai-ried, 
Jan.  1,  18.")  1,  Anrelia  Chamberlain.  15y  his  second 
marriage  he  had  five  children.  Soon  after  his  first 
marriage  he  removi-d  to  Aslil)nrnham  and  bonght  a  large 
ti'act  of  woodland  in  tliat  town.  His  brothers,  William 
F.  and  Chai'les  AV.,  afterward  became  associated  with 
him  in  the  building  of  a  factory  and  the  mamiftictnre  of 
chairs,  tlu-re  Ix'ing  a  good  watii'-prix  ilege  on  the  land 
])ur(hasc(l.  For  st'xcral  yt-ars  tlu-  bi'others  carried  on 
(juite  a  large  business,  ;nid  gatlu'rc(l  so  much  of  a  village 
around  thcii-  woi'ks  that  the  jj'eneral  <rovernment  made 
the  place  a  post  station,  with  the  name  of  ^'Burrage ville." 
But  the  enterpi'ise  did  not  pi'ove  a  snccess,  and  was 
eventually  abandcmed  by  all  the  brothers.  About  the 
year  1801  he  removed  to  Xai)a  City,  California,  where 
he  became  engaged  in  the  business  of  gi-ai)e  raising. 
He  died  there  May  1(5,  187(),  at  the  age  of  fifty-three 
years.  It  may  be  said  of  hiui  that  he  was  ambitions, 
industrious,  honest,  and  of  more  than  ordinary  intelli- 
gence; but,  as  is  sometimes  the  case,  he  seemed  doomed 
by  the  Fates  not  to  meet  with  success  commensurate  to 
his  ambition,  his  worth,  or  his  ability. 

*  Since  their  marriage,  flfty-eiglit  years.  See  liellotype  view  of  liouse 
subjoiued. 


CHILDREN   OF   DEACON   WILLIAM   BURRAGE.  85 

William  F.,  the  second  son  by  the  last  marriage,  mar- 
ried, July  25, 1859,  Eveline  Lawrence.  They  had  three 
children.  As  has  been  said,  he  joined  his  brother, 
George  Sanderson,  in  the  Burrageville  enterprise,  but 
sold  out  his  interest  before  the  business  was  closed  and 
returned  with  his  family,  a  few  years  later,  to  Leomin- 
ster, where  he  died,  ^ov.  11,  1873,  shortly  after  his 
return  from  California,  to  which  place  he  had  made  a 
iourney  the  previous  year  on  account  of  his  health, 
which  was  then  much  impaired,  and  to  visit  his  brothers 
there.  He  was  a  valuable  citizen,  a  man  of  excellent 
judgment,  and  a  good  specimen  of  the  practical,  com- 
mon-sense Xew-Englander. 

Charles  W.,  the  third  son  by  the  second  marriage, 
left  Ashburnham  before  the  business  was  closed  up,  and 
removed  to  ^ew  Haven  about  18G0.  He  there  adopted 
the  profession  of  civil  engineer.  After  remaining  there 
several  years,  he  removed  to  Portland,  Oregon,  where 
he  now  resides  in  good  cii-cumstances  and  much  re- 
spected. ^OY.  30,  1851,  he  married  Sarah  J.  Hills,  of 
Leominster.  They  have  had  three  children,  all  sons. 
One,  Edward  H.,  was  born  in  Ashburnham;  another, 
William  H.,  was  born  in  jS^ew  Haven;  the  other,  Chas. 
F.,  in  Portland",  Oregon.     They  are  all  living. 

Of  the  two  daughters  who  survived  their  father, 
Mary  Jane,  who  was  a  very  amiable  and  attractive  per- 
son, a  young  lady  of  great  promise,  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-two  years.  Martha  Ann,  married  Feb.  16, 1859, 
Porter  M.  Kimball.     She  died  ^N^ov.  4, 1863,  leaving  one 


86  THE    BUKHAGE    MEMORIAL. 

fliild,  an  infant,  wliich  died  soon  after  tlu'  death  of  its 
niotlier;  and  tlie  lmsl)and  and  fatliei*  snrvived  the  death 
of  his  wife  and  ehild  but  a  few  months.  Both  Avere 
niueh  respeeted  and  esteemed  h}'  a  hn-ge  eirelc  of  friends, 
and  tlieir  h)ss  was  greatly  deplored  by  the  community 
in  which  they  had  lived. 

Anna,  the  only  one  of  the  daughters  of  AVilliam  Bur- 
rage,  of  Lynn,  who  survived  liim,  was  married  May  5, 
1810,  to  Benjamin  Carter,  of  Leominster.  For  several 
years  after  their  marriage,  Anna  and  her  Inisband  lived 
with  her  parents,  caring  for  them  in  tlieir  old  age  and 
carrying  on  the  farm.  I'pon  the  decease  of  his  father, 
her  husband  and  his  bi-other  donalhan  built  a  dwelling- 
house  on  that  ])orti(tii  of  the  i'arm  which  was  their  in- 
heritance. Their  land  adjoined  her  father's  farm  and 
also  that  of  lu-r  brother  fJosiah.  In  the  spi'ing  of  1820 
they  moved  into  their  new  house,  their  place  at  the 
homestead  being  tilled  In  her  brother  Thomas  and  his 
i'amily.  who  at  this  time,  as  has  been  mentioned  else- 
where, leturned  from  Templeton.  In  this  house  they 
resided  as  long  as  they  lived.  They  had  no  children. 
She  died  March  12,  18ol.  ller  husband  died  several 
years  before  that  time.  She  was  an  industrious,  patient, 
conscientious,  kind-hearted  woman  of  the  old  school. 
Some  of  her  nephews  still  have  a  vivid  and  grateful 
rememl)rance  of  the  toothsome  ai)ple-pie  and  big  dough- 
nuts she  used  to  dispense  to  them  with  a  libi  lal  hand 
Avhen  they  called  at  "Aunt  Anna's"  on  their  way  to  or 
from  the  district  school. 


CIIAPTEE   XL 

JosTAii  BuRRAGE,  the  third  son,  remained  at  home, 
helping  his  fiither  to  cany  on  the  home  farm  and  work- 
ing a  portion  of  the  time  for  the  neighboring  farmers 
for  wages  nntil  the  thiitieth  year  of  his  age.  In  that 
yeai',  March  7, 1800,  he  married  Euth  Kilbnrn,  a  daugh- 
ter of  William  Kilbnrn,  of  Lunenburg,  a  descendant  of 
George  Ivilbnrn,  who  came  from  Wood  Ditton,  England, 
in  1635,  and  settled  in  Eowley,  Mass.,  in  1640.  William 
Kilbnrn  removed  from  Eowley  to  Lunenburg  in  1767, 
the  same  year  that  William  Burrage  went  from  Lynn 
to  Leominster.  During  the  first  year  after  their  mar- 
riage the  young  couple  lived  in  a  hired  house  about  a 
mile  northeast  of  the  homestead  of  his  father,  on  the 
Shirley  Yillage  road,  on  which  her  father's  homestead 
w\as  situated,  at  a  distance  easterly  of  about  two  miles 
from  her  new  home.  But  for  several  years  before  his 
marriage,  Josiah  had  had  his  eye  on  the  intervale  farm 
which  joined  the  homestead  on  its  western  and  southern 
boundaries,^  owned  by  one  Jonas  Fiske,  who  was  hardly 

*  This  farm  is  boimded  westerly  and  soutliwesterly  by  the  Nashua  River, — 
a  somewhat  uncertain  and  movable  boundary,  since,  owiug  to  the  alluvial 
character  of  the  soil,  it  is  constantly  undermining  its  banks  on  either  side 
and  thus  changing  the  location  of  its  channel.  The  farm-house  is  situated  on 
the  slope  to  the  river  (on  a  natural  terrace)  about  midway  between  the  river 
and  the  homestead  of  his  father,  purchased  in  1767.  The  farm  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  Alvah  A.,  the  twelfth  child  of  Josiah  and  lluth  K.  Burrage. 


88 


THE   BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 


BIUTIII'LACE    OF    MRS.    KUTH    KILBUUX    BIRK.VGE,    1780. 


capable  of  carrying  it  on,  and  tlu'reforc  somewhat  in- 
clined to  sell  it.  Tlie  difKculty  wa.s  in  getting  the  means 
to  make  the  purchase.  lie  probably  had  saved  of  his 
earnings,  up  to  that  time,  five  or  six  hundred  dollars, — 
barely  enough  to  pay  for  stock  and  tools  for  a  farm  and 
the  scanty  furniture  of  his  dwelling.  But,  luckily,  his 
brother  AVilliam  offered  to  become  jointly  responsible 
with  him  for  the  purchase-money,  and  in  the  spring  of 
1801  (the  deed  is  dated  Api-il  20,  1801)  the  form  of 
eighty  acres,  with  the  buildings  thereon,  and  thii'ty-six 
acres  and  thirty-two  rods  of  land  l^esides,  was  conveyed 
to  Josiah  Burrau;e  and  William  Ibii-raue  for  the  sum  (»f 
$3,000.  So  the  young  man  of  thirty-one  and  the  young 
woman  of  twenty-one   years   moved    on  to  llieir  farm. 


HOMESTEAD    OF   CATT.   J08IAH   BUREAGE.  89 

cheerfully  assumed  their  new  duties,  and  bravely  faced 
the  contingencies  of  the  future.  When  we  reflect  that 
the  relative  value  of  money  at  that  time  w^as  more  than 
double  wdiat  it  is  now,  that  the  interest  pa3'able  on  the 
debt  incurred  was  fifty  cents  a  day,  and  that  it  had 
been  decreed  that  they  w^ere  to  rear  thirteen  childi*en  of 
their  own  on  the  farm,  we  get  some  idea  of  the  nature 
of  the  contingencies  that  then  and  there  confronted 
them,  and  can  partially  realize  the  magnitude  of  the 
task  undertaken  by  the  coiu'ageous  young  couple.* 

They  lived  on  the  farm  until  1846,  —  forty-five  years. 
During  that  time,  fifty  to  seventy-five  acres  of  land 
were  added  to  the  original  purchase;  another  bai'n,  a 
cider-mill,  and  other  out-buildings  w^ere  erected;  the 
house  was  enlarged  by  an  addition  and  completely 
finished  in  modern  style  ;t  the  wdiole  paid  for,  and  the 
farm  thus  entirely  freed  from  debt.  Yet  all  this  was 
but  subsidiary  —  only  an  accompaniment  —  to  the  mc- 

*  The  products  of  a  farm  at  that  time  were  sold  at  very  low  prices  com- 
pared with  the  preseut  prices  of  tlie  same  articles.  The  best  cord- wood  was 
but  S2.50  to  $3.00  per  cord,  delivered  at  the  door  ;  pork,  6  cts.  per  lb. ; 
butter,  8  to  12  cts.  per  lb. ;  potatoes,  20  to  25  cts.  per  bush.  ;  eggs,  8  to  12 
cts.  per  dozen,  etc.  The  highest  price  paid  for  labor  was  .$1.00  per  day  in 
haying  time,  or  §10.00  to  .$15.00,  and  board,  per  month,  for  the  year.  Under 
such  circumstances,  when  a  dollar  stood  for  so  much,  and  it  required  the 
equivalent  of  two  bushels  of  potatoes  or  four  pounds  of  the  best  butter  to 
pay  one  day's  interest  on  the  debt  of  the  farm,  the  outlook  for  being  able  to 
support  a  family  and  pay  the  principal  must  have  been  rather  discouraging. 
(See  Appendix  M.) 

tThe   subjoined   cut  represents  the  homestead   of  Capt.   Burrage   as   it 
appeared  at  the  period  between  1830  and  1846.     It  was  engraved  by  Kussell  & 
Bichardson  from  an  oil  painting  by  a  young  artist  by  name  of  Burridge,  an 
Englishman,  painted  in  1846-47. 
12 


90 


THE    nrHRAGE    MEMOHIAT, 


CAPT.    JOSIAII   BURRAGE.  91 

mcntous  worlv  of  rearing  thirteen  ehildren  to  become 
worthy  men  and  women. 

It  is  a  remarkable  circumstance  that  during  the  forty- 
five  yeai's  that  Josiah  and  Ruth  Burrage  resided  in  the 
house  in  which  they  reared  thirteen  chiklren,  twelve  of 
whom  were  born  there,  death  did  not  once  cross  the 
threg;hold  of  then-  home;  that  during  that  long  period, 
though  so  many  commenced  their  existence  within  its 
walls,  no  one  died  beneath  its  roof. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  did  not  adopt  the  narrow, 
selfish  policy  of  keeping  his  sons  at  home  to  help  him 
cultivate  the  farm  and  pay  off  the  debt  when  it  was 
against  their  intei-est,  but  from  the  first  consented  to 
their  leaving  him  Avhen  it  appeared  that  it  would  be  for 
their  advantage.  Hence  it  happened  that  when  he 
had  i-eached  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  and  the 
infirmities  of  old  age  had  impaired  his  strength  and 
incapacitated  him  (and  his  wife)  from  carrying  on  the 
farm,  he  found  himself  alone,  with  no  son  to  take  his 
place  at  the  plough,  nor  daughter  to  assist  her  mother 
in  the  house.  Therefore,  by  the  advice  of  his  children, 
he  sold  the  homestead  to  Mr.  Farwell,  the  husband  of 
his  youngest  daughter,  Elizabeth,  and  removed  to  the 
North  Village,  about  one  mile  up  the  river.  lie  had 
previously  erected  a  dwelling  there  on  a  lot  of  land 
purchased  of  his  son,  George  S.,  who  had  himself 
built  a  house  for  his  own  residence  on  an  adjoining  lot, 
both  houses  being  on  the  site  of  a   dwelling  and  shop 


92  THE   BUKllAGE   MEMORIAL. 

bclongin<^  to  George  S.,  destroyed  by  fire  the  ])revions 
year.  He  resided  in  this  house  until  his  decease,  which 
occui'rcd  Xov.  5,  1856,  two  montlis  and  twenty  days 
aCter  the  eighty-sixth  anniversary  ul"  his  birth.* 

Capt.  Josiah  Burrage  was  a  good  type  of  the  okl- 
tinie,  sturdy,  honest,  thrifty  Xew  England  farmer. 
Without  brilliant  intellectual  endowments,  he  possessed 
in  an  eminent  degree  the  solid  ([ualities  of  sound  com- 
mon-sense, good  judgment,  and  stability  of  character, 
lie  ever  acted  on  the  (^oIiKmi  Ivule  ol"  treating  others  as 
he  would  that  they  should  treat  him;  was  a  kind  ncigh- 
l)oi',  a  ii'i'od  citizen,  alwass  tal<inir  a  deep  interest  in 
])ul)lic  affairs,  and  ever  held  the  respect  and  esteem 
of  his  fellow-townsmen.  Having  little  taste  or  leisure 
lor  j)ublic  service,  he  held  but  few  public  offices. 


*  Hj'  will,  he  left  his  estate  to  his  wife  diirins  her  life,  directing  that  so 
niiicli  of  it  as  remained  after  her  deeease  should  be  divided  equally  among 
those  of  his  ehildreu  or  their  heirs  livins;  at  the  time  the  will  was  made.  At 
the  end  was  the  followiu'r  clause:  "If  there  is  a  residue  of  m^-  estate  left 
after  the  decease  of  my  wife  and  the  payment  of  all  expenses,  I  re<iuest  my 
children  to  fiive  to  each  of  my  graudchildreii  a  large  IJible  "  The  executors 
fulHUed  the  l)e(|uest,  Sept.  1,  1875,  presenting  to  each  of  the  forty-four  grand- 
children then  living  a  IMble,  with  the  following  inscription  printed  upon  the 
lly-l'jaf:  — 

BEQUEA  Tin: I) 

TO 

itY  nis  (oi;  iir.i;)  (;i:an"I>iatiii;i:. 

JOSIAH    BURRAGE, 

i.i:<iMiNSTi:i;,  mass. 

N  < )  \- 1-:  M  U  K  K    5  ,     1  iS  J  (i . 


Ut<iLi;sT    H'l.ni.l.KO    SKIM.    I,    IS 


JEt.  80. 


^a/i/    ^ad'taA    cSu'iiiZ^e. 


h.  1770. 


CAPT.    JOSIAH   BURRAGE.  93 

About  the  year  1800  —  the  year  of  his  marriage  — 
he  was  chosen  captain  of  the  "JN^orth  Company"  of 
Light  Infantry  of  his  native  town,  —  the  same  that  his 
nephew,  Leonard  Burrage,  was  chosen  to  command 
some  twenty  years  hiter.  He  hekl  the  office  several 
years,  and  retained  the  title  as  long  as  he  lived.  At 
that  time  such  an  office  was  deemed  important  and 
held  in  high  esteem.  The  person  chosen  to  it  became 
a  member  of  the  small  aristocratic  circle  which  then 
existed  in  every  country  village,  composed  of  the  min- 
isters, the  lawyers,  the  doctors,  the  ti'aders,  and  the 
commissioned  officers  of  the  militia.  These,  in  legal 
documents  and  on  public  occasions,  were  styled  "  gen- 
tlemen," whereas  the  rest  of  mankind  were  called 
yeomen,  or  l)y  the  name  of  their  occupation. 

JSText  to  a  sound  judgment,  Capt.  Burrage,  with 
his  untiring  industry,  was  doubtless  indebted  for 
his  success  as  a  farmer  and  bread-winner  for  his 
children  to  an  exceedingly  compact,  hardy,  and  vig- 
orous physical  organization.  When  an  old  man, 
he  used  to  say  that  he  had  never  experienced 
the  sensation  of  fatigue;  yet  from  his  youth  until  he 
reached  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  he  probably 
averaged  fourteen  or  fifteen  hours  a  day  of  hard  work. 
In  the  summer  he  rose  at  dawn  and  continued  work 
until  the  sun  had  disappeared  behind  the  Monoosnock 
Hills,  and  from  the  intervale  the  plaintive  notes  of 
the  whippoorwill    heralded   the  approaching  shades  of 


94  THE    lUHKACJK    MEMOIUAL. 

night.  Tn  the  Avinter  he  would  leave  his  hed  two  or 
three  hours  ])efore  sunrise,  and,  after  dressing',  make  a 
fire  in  the  kitehen,  fill  the  teakettle  and  hang-  it  on 
the  ci-ane  in  the  fii-e]ihice,  then  go  to  the  harn  and 
^'rodder"  his  oxen  and  the  other  fifteen  or  twenty  eattle. 
Meanwhile,  his  wife  would  lisc  and  ])repare  breakfast, 
which  was  always  eaten  by  candU'-light.  After  bi'eak- 
fast,  he  would  yoke  the  oxen,  hai'uess  them  to  the  cart 
or  sled,  take  his  dinner  i)ut  up  in  a  small  tin  pail,  and 
about  an  hour  before  the  sun  was  u[)  start  foi'  the  wood- 
lot,  which  Avas  about  two  miles  from  the  house.  Ujion 
his  arrival  there,  he  would  i)i'oceed  to  put  on  a  load  of 
wood  from  a  large  pile  that  had  l)een  cut  the  previous 
winti'r  and  spring,  and  carry  it  to  tlie  ceutiv  of  Laneas- 
ter  A'illage  or  to  Leominster,  each  being  three  or  four 
miles  distant  from  the  Avood-lot.  The  day's  woi'k  was 
nsually  tlie  calling  of  two  loads,  of  a  eord  eaeh,  and 
the  return  home,  travelling  twelve  to  sixteen  miles  with 
an  ox-team,  besides  loading  and  unloading  the  wood, 
lb'  would  reach  home  two  or  thi-ee  houi's  after  sunset, 
put  u[)  and  feed  his  team,  eat  a  hearty  supper,  which  he 
would  find  prepared  for  him  by  his  good  wife,  and  go  to 
bed,  to  rise  the  following  morning  to  go  through  the 
same  programme.  This  was  done,  usually,  whether  the 
weather  was  favorable  or  unfavorable,  mild  or  extremely 
cold.  J  le  often  came  home  with  his  feet  partially  frozen. 
lie  received  for  the  wood,  delivered,  if  it  was  pine, 
$2.oO,  or  if  it  was  hai-d  wood,  $3X)0  per  cord. 


cmu/Ji 


h.  17  so. 


UMiZi^-e 


T 


RUTH    (KILBURN)    BURRAGE.  95 

He  did  not  believe  in  the  eight-and-ten-hours-a-day 
notions  of  the  present  time.  Indeed,  he  eonld  not  have 
snpported  his  family  and  paid  for  his  farm  by  the  hibor 
of  ten  honrs  a  day.  He  beUeved  fully  in  the  mission  of 
work.  Before  they  left  home,  except  during  the  three 
or  four  months  of  the  year  they  attended  school,  his 
sons,  from  the  time  they  became  large  enough  to  drive 
the  cows  to  pasture,  drop  corn,  "ride  horse  to  plough," 
or  pick  stones  from  the  mowing  land,  wei'e  required  to 
work  steadily  and  continuously.  To  this  discipline  of 
steady  work  at  that  time  they  are  doubtless  indebted 
for  whatever  success  they  have  achieved  since. 

Ruth  (Kilburn)  Burrage  survived  her  husband  nearly 
nineteen  years.  She  died  May  1,  1875,  at  the  age  of 
ninety-four  years  six  months  seventeen  days,  retaining 
her  mental  faculties  in  remarkable  clearness  to  the  last. 
In  many  respects  she  was  a  remarkable  woman.  Born 
before  the  close  of  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  her  life, 
which  nearly  spanned  a  centuiy,  though  in  humble 
station,  was  an  eventful  one.  As  her  husband  was  a 
good  specimen  of  the  old-time  ]^ew  England  farmer,  so 
was  she  a  good  example  of  the  old-time  farmer's  wife. 
Mariied  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years,  she  cast  her  lot 
with  one  who,  like  herself,  possessed  no  wealth  but  that 
of  a  brave  and  loving  heart,  good  health,  and  an  indom- 
itable resolution.  During  the  first  twenty-five  years  of 
her  married  life  she  bore  thirteen  children,  took  care  of 
them  in  health  and  sickness,  prepared  all  the  food  for 


96  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

the  family,  which  usually  included  one  or  more  hired 
laborers,  made  butter  and  cheese,  spun  yarn  from  wool 
and  flax,  made  the  clothing  of  the  younii-er  children, 
and  did  the  mending  for  all  the  family,  besides  doing 
the  numerous  other  things  required  in  a  farmer's  house- 
hold. She  had  but  little,  if  any,  help  in  the  house,  save 
when  her  childi'en  wei'e  born,  until  hei'  daughters  became 
old  enough  to  assist  her. 

'^^rhns,  until  she  left  the  (arm,  she  ])robably  averaged 
more  houi's  of  labor  each  day  than  even  her  husband 
did.  .\nd  yet  her  physical  organization,  although  })()s- 
sessing  givat  \  itality,  was  never  robust  like  his.  Unlike 
him,  she  was  oClm  comi)elled  to  confess  that  she  was 
tired,  llcf  mind  was  characterized  by  keen  perceptive 
l)owers  and  a  vei-y  ivtentive  memory.  V\)  to  the  last 
year  of  her  lile,  she  was  always  ready  to  illustrate  by 
somi'  anecdote  or  story  of  former  years  any  subject 
that  chanced  to  come  u[)  in  conversation. 

Although  naturally  reserved  and  undemonstrative 
upon  the  subject  of  ivligion,  as  upon  all  matters  in 
which  her  personal  leelings  were  profoundly  intei'csted, 
she  possessed  a  deeply  religious  nature.  In  theolog}-, 
she,  as  well  as  her  husband,  was  liberal  and  tolerant  of 
the  opinions  of  others,  —  believing  that  Avhatever  may  be 
tluir  ci-eed,  and  in  spite  of  any  intellectual  belief,  it  will 
ever  be  well  with  those  who  mean  I'ight  and  do  right, 
and  the  reverse  with  those  who  mean  evil  and  do  evil.* 

*  See  Appendix  K. 


CHAPTER    XII. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  a  fuller  history  of  the  fami- 
lies descended  from  John  Biirrage,  of  Newton,  cannot 
he  given,  hut  circnmstances  have  rendered  it  impossible 
to  give  more  than  the  bare  outline  in  most  cases. 

As  has  been  said,  his  son,  "William,  married  Hannah 
Osland  in  1744,  and  in  1756  removed  to  Concord,  Mass., 
where  he  died  in  1763,  two  of  his  sons,  Jonathan  and 
John,  subsequently  settling  in  Lunenburg.  Jonathan 
married,  probably  in  1776,  Sally  Barthrick.  They  had 
two  sons  and  six  daughters. 

William,  the  eldest  son,  married  Sophia  Ellis,  and  had 
three  sons  and  two  daughters.  One  daughter  has  de- 
ceased; the  other  children,  William  H.,  Simeon,  Hannah, 
and  John  B.,  are  now  living  in  Petersham,  Mass. 

Jonathan,  Jr.,  the  other  son,  married  Hannah  Keeser, 
by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and  five  daughters.  John, 
the  eldest  son,  married  in  Lunenburg,  and  had  two  chil- 
dren. He  died  in  1848.  Artemas  P.,  the  other  son, 
resides  in  Lunenburg  unmarried.  Three  of  the  daugh- 
ters were  married  in  Lunenburg. 

John,  the  other  son  of  William  Burrage,  of  Concord, 
who  settled  in  Lunenburg,  married.  May  10,  1781,  Lois 
Barthrick,  a  sister  of  Sally,  his  brother  Jonathan's  wife. 

13 


98  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

(Tradition  says  they  were  married  by  Parson  Adams, 
of  Lunenburg,  at  his  house,  and  that  the  house  was  soon 
after  destroyed  by  fire  and  the  parish  i-eeords  whieh 
Avere  kept  there  all  consumed.)  They  had  six  sons, 
Thomas,  John,  James,  Joseph,  Marthi,  and  AVilliam, 
and  one  daughter,  Betsey. 

Thomas,  when  al)()ut  twenty-seven  years  of  age, 
mijjrrated  to  Pennsvlvauia  and  settled  in  West  Town, 
Chester  County,  in  tliat  State,  wlu'i'c  lie  mai-i'ied,  about 
the  year  1810,  Ilaiuiah  Yearsley.  She  died  soon  after 
giving  bii'th  to  a  daughter,  named  Elizabeth,  and  Dee. 
31,  1SIl\  Ik-  iiiai-ried  Mary  Howell.  By  her  he  had 
four  ehildirn,  viz.,  Thomas  II.,  Mary  Ann,  John,  and 
llannali.  Sin-  difd  in  ISH).  In  June,  1823,  he  married 
Hannah  Paul,  who  died  in  al>(»ut  a  year,  leaving  one  son, 
AVilliam.  His  fourtli  marriage  seems  to  have  proved 
unfortunate  from  some  cause  other  than  that  of  death. 
lie  mai-ried  a  ^Fi-s.  Kenshaw,  from  whom,  after  a  short 
time,  he  obtalittd  a  divorce.  It  appears  that,  notwith- 
standing his  matrimonial  experiences,  he  still  remained 
a  devotee  of  Hymen  and  mari'ied  again,  his  fifth  and 
hist  wife  being  a  Mrs.  Child. 

About  the  year  1820  he  took  a  contract  to  build  a 
section  of  the  Delawai-e  and  Chesapeake  Canal.  Sub- 
sequently he  bought  a  schooner  or  sloo])  on  which  he 
went  as  master  in  the  coasting  trade  for  several  years. 
After  his  marriage  to  Mrs.  Kenshaw,  he  went  into  the 
hotel  business;    kept   the   Arch   Street    House,  then   a 


CHILDREN   OF   SERGT.    JOHN   BURRAGE.  99 

hotel  OH  Point  Road,  and  lastly,  the  Branch  Town 
Hotel,  in  Philadelphia.  Dnring  a  portion  of  this  time 
he  was  also  engaged  as  cattle  drover,  with  two  partners, 
one  of  whom  lived  in  Penn  Yan,  ]^.  Y.  About  the 
year  18-t3  he  removed  to  Penn  Yan,  with  his  son,  John, 
who  kept  a  hotel  in  that  place  a  short  time.  They  then 
removed  to  Elgin,  111.  But  the  climate  there  not  agree- 
ing with  them,  they  soon  returned  to  the  State  of  j!^ew 
York.  The  California  gold  fever  was  then  at  its  height, 
and  they  were  induced  to  join  their  means  to  engage  in 
gold  digging,  and  Jolin  went  to  the  mines.  He  stayed 
a  short  time,  made  some  money,  and  then  returned  and 
bought  a  farm  near  Palmyra,  ^.  Y.,  where  he  and  his 
father  lived  until  then'  decease.  John  died  al)out  the 
year  1858;  his  father,  Thomas,  died  Oct.  13,  1860,  in 
the  seventy-ninth  year  of  his  age. 

John,  the  second  son,  married,  Feb.  13, 1812,  Rebecca 
Greenleaf,  of  Medford.  They  had  two  children,  a  son 
and  a  daughter,  who  died  Avithout  issue. 

James,  the  third  son,  when  a  young  man,  went  to 
Detroit,  Mich.,  where  he  married  Sarah  Maynard,  who 
died  soon  after  hei'  marriage.  Subsequently  he. removed 
to  Pennsylvania,  and  became  a  mariner.  The  latest 
intelligence  received  from  him  by  his  friends  in  Mas- 
sachusetts was  by  letters  from  him  and  his  brother, 
Thomas,  dated  Jan.  25  and  Feb.  3,  1812,  which  said 
that  he  was  building  a  vessel  in  which  he  intended  to 
go  to  Boston  the  next  autumn.  It  is  conjectured  that 
he  was  lost  at  sea. 


100  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Joseph,  the  fourth  son,  married,  in  1814,  Lydia,  the 
daughter  of  Deaeon  Ward  Jackson,  of  Boston.  He 
settled  in  Cambridge,  and  for  fifteen  years  was  collector 
of  tolls  on  the  Cambridge  or  West  Boston  Bridge. 
Subsequently,  he  went  into  tlie  lumber  busmess  with  a 
Mr.  Bowman,  under  the  fii'in  name  of  Burridge  &  Bow- 
man, and  continued  the  business  and  the  connection  till 
shortly  befoi-e  his  decease.  He  had  two  sons  and  five 
daughters,  only  two  of  whom  are  now  living,  viz.,  Waid 
J.  and  Caroline  Y.  lie  died  in  18()8,  aged  eighty  years. 
He  was  an  honest  man  aud  a  much-respected  citizen; 
was  chosen  by  the  town  of  Cambridge  to  serve  on  its 
J^oard  of  Selectuicn  iu  the  years  1835,  1836. 

Mai-tin,  the  liltli  son,  married,  in  1816,  Eliza  Withing- 
ton,  of  Medford,  l)y  whom  he  had  three  sons  and  two 
daujrhters.  Both  the  daughters  and  two  of  the  sons 
Avere  married  in  Medford,  whei-e  one  son  and  one  daugh- 
ter still  reside;  the  others  have  died.  His  first  wife 
died,  and  in  181:0  he  married  Hannah  Tratt.  Mr.  Bur- 
rage  has  always  followed  the  occupation  of  a  gardener, 
as  did  his  father  before  him.  He  has  the  i-ecord  of  an 
honest,  industrious  man  and  a  good  citizen. 

William,  the  youngest  son,  married,  in  1822,  Elizabeth 
l!^ixon,  by  whom  he  had  one  child,  John  Q.  A.  Bur- 
rage.  He  lives  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  where  he  is  in  the 
employ  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  Company. 
John  Q.  A.  Burrage  married.  May  10,  1819,  in  Boston, 
Sai-ah   L.  Thayer.     He  also  lives  in  Lawrence,  and  is 


SEKGT.  JOHN  BURRAGE.  101 

in  the  service  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Raih-oad  Com- 
pany. 

Betsey,  the  only  danghter,  married,  Ang.  11,  181-1, 
David  Bncknam,  of  Medford.  They  had  one  child, 
Elizabeth,  who  married.  May  23, 1834:,  John  P.  Bradley. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bradley  have  had  three  childi-en.  They 
reside  at  I^ewton  (Upper  Falls) . 

For  sevei'al  years  previons  to  1800,  John  Barrage 
resided  in  Shirley,  probably  near  the  boundary  between 
that  town  and  Lunenburg.  About  the  year  1800  he 
removed  with  his  family  to  Medford,  Mass.,  where  he 
died,  July  20,  1822. 

As  has  been  said,  he  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  the 
Revolution.  Mrs.  Bradley,  a  granddaughter,  says: 
"He  served  nearly  eight  years,  and  it  was  while  at 
home  on  a  furlough  that  he  was  married.  I  have  in 
my  possession  his  roll-book  (he  was  an  orderly  sergeant 
in  Capt.  Cushing's  company),  the  hymn-book  he  carried 
in  his  pocket  through  the  war,  and  $65  of  the  Conti- 
nental money,  in  which  he  was  paid  off  after  the  close 
of  the  war." 

Besides  his  patriotic  record  as  a  soldier,  we  are  so 
fortunate  as  to  possess  testimony  to  Sergt.  Bun-age's 
worth  of  character  from  one  of  his  contemporaiies. 
Mr.  Josiah  Burrage,  of  Cambridge,  recollects  that  soon 
after  he  went  to  Boston  to  live,  about  1828,  Mr.  Francis, 
of  Medford  (the  father  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Francis  and 
of  Mrs.  Lydia  Maria  Child),  who  sometimes  traded  at  the 


102  THE  BUKUAdr:  memorial. 

shop  in  which  he  was  employed,  asked  liiin  one  day  if 
he  was  a  rehition  of  the  hite  John  Barrage,  of  Medford, 
i-emai'lving  that  "  it  would  be  an  honor  to  be,  for  he  was 
a  very  Avoilliy  man,  greatly  respeeted  in  Medford  by 
all  who  knew  him."  He  followed  the  occupation  of 
gardener  while  he  lived  in  Medford. 

Thomas,  the  onlv  other  sou  of  John  Hui'i"a<re,  of 
Xewton,  \\liose  postei'ily  udw  beai-  the  family  name,  as 
has  beeu  said  elst'where.  settled  in  a  part  of  Dedham 
which  afterwai'ds  became  Dover.  All  of  his  five  chi!- 
(li'eu  were  mai'rii'd.      (See  "  (ienealogv.") 

John  r>iii-i-(i<i<.  Ills  eldest  sou,  was  born  Auii".  23, 
lib*).  lie  was  a  fanner,  —  owning  a  farm  in  Dover; 
also  a  carpentei*;  was  a  major  in  the  regiment  of  militia 
of  ^N^orfolk  ("ouuty,  and  ser\  ed  a  short  time  in  the  war 
of  1812  at  one  of  the  forts  iu  Boston  Harbor.  He  was 
one  of  tlie  selectmen  of  Dover  in  1805,  180G,  1807,  and 
1808.  About  IS  14,  when  at  work  uj)on  a  meeting- 
house which  was  being  erected,  he  fell  from  the  build- 
ing at  a  great  height,  and  was  so  seriously  injured  that 
he  was  a  cripple  ibr  the  rest  of  his  life. 

Major  Burrage  appears  to  have  possessed  uuich  force 
of  character,  and  was  respected  in  the  communit}^  in 
which  lir  lived.  June  17,  1792,  he  married  Al)ii;-ail 
l*ratt,  of  Sherboru.  They  had  six  children,  —  two  sons, 
four  daughters.  He  died  Api'il  2)5,  1S.")1.  One  of  his 
sons  died  at  the  age  of  four  years.  The  other  son, 
flohn  Bui'rage,  niarried,  Xoveuiber,  1820,   Xancy  Poor 


^t.  71. 
b.  1806. 


CHILDREN   OF   THOMAS   BURKAGE,    DOVER.  103 

Dana,  of  Dedham.  They  had  seven  children,  —  five 
sons,  two  daughters.  HamiUon  Barrage,  one  of  the 
sons,  resides  in  Lowell,  where  he  is  clerk  of  the  Lowell 
Bleachery  Corporation.  Another  son,  George  Dana 
Burrage,  is  one  of  the  firm  of  Chessman  &  Burrage, 
men's  furnishing  goods,  Boston,  and  resides  in  that 
city. 

Mr.  Burrage  has  followed  his  trade  of  carriage- 
maker  fifty  years.  He  lived  in  Dover  until  1827;  in 
Qnincy  and  South  Braintree,  Mass.,  from  1827  to  1832; 
in  Groton,  Mass.,  from  1832  to  1841;  in  South  Boston, 
from  1844  to  the  present  time.  He  is  a  good  citizen, 
and  has  gained  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the  com- 
munity wdierever  he  has  lived.  That  he  is  an  earnest, 
conscientious,  steadfast  man  of  principle  is  shown  in 
the  fact  that  he  w^as  one  of  the  original  antislavery 
men,  and  has  always  abided  by  the  principles  of  the 
"  Free  Soil "  party,  voting  the  "  Free  Soil "  ticket  when 
there  was  but  one  other  man  in  the  town  brave  enough 
to  obey  his  convictions  in  the  face  of  ridicule  and 
persecution. 

Obed,  the  second  son  of  Thomas  Burrage,  of  Ded- 
ham (or  Dover),  married,  in  1799,  Julia  Leland,  of 
Sherborn.  They  had  two  daughters  and  one  son.  He 
was  at  one  time  a  captain  in  the  militia,  and  retained 
the  title.  About  1810  he  removed  from  D®ver  to  Tem- 
pleton,  where  he  resided  till  1849,  when  he  removed  to 
Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  where  he  died  in  1850. 


104  TIIF   BUKRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Abigail,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas  Burrage, 
married,  in  179G,  Jabez  Baker,  of  Dover.  They  had 
one  son  and  two  daughters.  Iveziah,  the  second 
(hiugliler,  married,  Aug.  22,  1708,  Edward  Simmons, 
of  AVatertown,  afterwards  of  Leominster.  They  had 
thi-ee  daughters,  lie  was  a  paper  manufaetui'er,  and 
carried  on  the  l)usiness  at  the  "Upper  Mill"  in  Leom- 
inster for  many  yeai'S. 

.Vniia.  the  ^^oungest  daughter,  married,  in  1801, 
Lewis  Smith,  of  Dover.  They  had  eight  children, — 
two  sons,  six  danghtei-s.  The  youngest  daughter, 
Catherine  Iv.,  manied  George  Sumner  Burrage,  a  de- 
scendant ol"  Deacon  'i'homas  Burrage,  of  Lynn,  who 
mai-ried  Elizabeth  Breed,  in  1(387.  Thus,  George 
Francis,  the  youngest  son  of  George  S.  Burrage  and 
his  wife  Catherine  K.,  became  the  joint  descendant 
of  the  two  brothers,  AVilliam  and  Thomas,  sons  of 
the  emigrant,  John  Burrage,  and  after  the  lapse  of 
one  hundred  and  fifty  years  the  two  diverging  streams 
were  united  in  one  cuiTcnt  in  his  person. 


CHAPTER   XIII. 

JosiAH  BuERAGE,  of  Leoiiiinster,  and  his  wife,  Ruth, 
were  greatly  blessed  by  a  kind  Providence  in  enjoying 
the  unusual  privilege  of  living  together  in  the  bonds 
of  matrimony  more  than  fifty-six  years,  and  in  surviving 
to  see  all  of  their  thirteen  children  happily  married. 
Such  felicity  is  rarely  vouchsafed  to  husband  and  wife. 

They  had  nine  sons  and  four  daughters.  John,  the 
eldest  son,  w\as  twice  married:  First,  in  1820,  to  his 
cousin,  Sena  Burrage,  by  whom  he  had  one  child,  John 
Milton  Burrage.  She  died  in  1824.  In  1835  he  mar- 
ried Mary  Watson,  of  Cambridge.  By  her  he  had  two 
children,  Charles  Edward  and  Annie  Catherine. 

"When  a  child  he  had  a  severe  sickness,  which  ter- 
minated by  settling  in  one  of  his  legs,  and  so  affecting 
it  as  to  destroy  all  muscular  power  in  the  limb,  so  that 
he  became  a  cripple  for  life,  and  could  walk  only  by  the 
aid  of  crutches.  This  circumstance,  together  w^ith  his 
aptitude  for  reading  and  study,  led  his  parents,  notwith- 
standing their  straitened  means  at  that  time,  to  give 
him  a  liberal  education,  that  he  might  be  fitted  for  the 
practice  of  the  law.  The  studies  to  prepare  him  for 
entering  college  were  pursued  at  the  Groton  and  ^ew 
Ipswich  Academies.     He  also  recited,  while  at  home, 

14 


10(3  THE   BUKKAGE   MEiMOKIAL. 

to  Joscjili  G.  Kendall,  Esq.,  a  graduate  of  Harvard 
College,  who  was  then  praetisiiig  law  in  Leominster. 
He  entered  Brown  I'niversity  in  1821,  and  graduated 
in  182.5. 

Respeeti ng  his  life  at  the  university,  Dr.  Barnas 
Sears,  who  was  a  elassmate,  w^'ites  as  follows,  under 
date  of  May  2."),  1877:*  "]Mr.  John  Burrage  was  a 
classmate  of  mine  duiing  the  years  1821-1825.  The 
class  was,  I  tliink,  the  hugest  that  had  ever  entered; 
and  my  acquaintance  with  the  majority  was  less  inti- 
mate on  tliat  account.  Tf  I  can  trust  to  my  memoi-y 
ioi-  a  j)ii'i()(l  of  more  than  lifty  years,  your  brother  used 
crutclus,  was  rather  shoi't.  with  a  well-formed  head  and 
shoulders,  and  a  somewhat  i)al('  countenance.  I  think 
Ills  lualth  was  not  very  vigorous.  His  lialnts  were 
perfectly  regular;  his  character,  so  far  as  I  knew, 
faultless;  and  his  diligence  and  fidelity  as  a  student, 
quite  uniform.  He  was  rather  serious  than  mirthful. 
Possibly  his  physical  condition  gave  a  slight  tinge  of 
sadness  to  his  life.  It  was  either  so,  or  he  Avas  natu- 
ralh'  more  sedate  than  others.  I  do  not  rememl)er 
hearing  any  of  his  classmates  say  a  word  against  him. 
His  scholarship  was  very  respectable.  If  he  ever  failed 
in  a  recitation,  I  do  not  i-emember  it.  My  relations 
with  him  were  always  pleasant,  and  I  caimot  think  of 
liim  at  tliis  distant  time  without  feelings  of  tenderness. 

*  In  a  kind  note,  roplyin;^  to  a  reciiiest  that  he  would  furnish  such  rcniini- 
isceuces  as  he  might  liave  respecting  his  classmate,  John  Burrage. 


JOHN  BURKAGE,  ESQ.,  NEW  BEDFORD.        107 

If  you  remember  him  as  I  do,  it  will  be  a  i:>lcasiiig-  duty 
to  record  his  worth,  and  doul^ly  so,  from  the  fact  that 
he  was  your  brother." 

After  graduating  he  went  to  Buzzard's  Bay  for  a  few 
months  as  a  teacher  in  the  family  of  Mr.  Cornelius 
Grinnell.  Subsequently  he  went  to  New  Bedford  and 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Williams  &  Warner, 
doubtless  struggling  hard,  meanwhile,  to  earn  enough 
to  meet  his  expenses.  After  a  while  he  opened  an 
office  for  himself,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  com- 
menced the  practice  of  law  in  ISew  Bedford.  He 
remained  there  until  the  spring  of  1843.  At  one  time 
his  business  was  quite  successful,  but  he  was  not  a 
good  collector  of  his  oivn  dues,  lacked  in  the  manage- 
ment of  financial  affairs,  looking  out  for  the  interests 
of  others  more  than  for  his  own;  consequently  it  was 
found,  eventually,  that  the  receipts  were  insufficient  to 
meet  the  expenses  of  his  increased  family.  Hoping 
to  better  his  condition,  and  being  advised  to  the  step 
by  his  brothers,  in  the  spring  of  1843  he  removed  to 
Charlestown.  AVhat  the  result  might  have  been  after 
a  while  it  is  impossible  to  say;  but  at  first,  being  in  a 
new  place  and  among  strangers,  he,  of  course,  found 
matters  worse  than  at  :N'ew  Bedford;  and  the  few 
months  of  his  life  in  Charlestown  must  have  been  a 
period  of  great  mental  anxiety  and  distress.  Early  in 
the  month  of  August  he  Avas  taken  down  witli  malig- 
nant typhoid  fever,  and  'died  on  the  24th  of  that  mouth. 


108  THE   BUKKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

1843,  passing  away  within  fifty  rods  of  the  spot  whci'O 
his  ancestor  and  namesake,  the  emigrant,  had  died,  one 
hundred  and  fifty  3'ears  before. 

^Iv.  Barrage  possessed  a  remarkably  clear,  vigorous 
intellect.  Xotwithstanding  the  physical  disabilities 
under  wliicli  he  lalxtivd,  which  would  seem  an  almost 
insuixM'able  obstacle  to  success,  he  acquired  and  main- 
tainc(l  a  good  jjosition  at  tlu'  bar  of  J5ristol  County. 
lie  was  respected  for  his  high  character  by  all  who 
knew  him.  In  tlic  years  1833,  1834,  having  been 
nominated  by  the  Anti-Alasons  of  Xew  Bedford  for 
representative  to  the  legislatui'c,  he  was  elected,  and 
proved  a  useful  member  of  that  body.  It  may  be 
said  of  him  that  he  was  broad  and  liberal  in  his 
o])ini()ns,  generous-hearted,  extremely  conscientious,  a 
pul)lic-s^)irited  citizen,   (n/   Jionist  Jairiier. 

Emory,  the  second  child,  was  the  only  one  of  the  nine 
sons  who  remained  at  home  to  assist  his  father  on  the 
farm  until  twenty-one  years  of  age.  AVhen  in  his 
twenty-third  year.  May  26,  1825,  he  married  Mary,  the 
daughter  of  his  uncle,  Thomas  Burrage,  and  the  young 
couple  took  up  their  abode  with  her  parents  in  the 
house  bought  by  their  grandfather  in  1767.  As  has 
been  said  before,  they  took  charge  of  the  farm  and 
faithfully  cared  for  the  old  people  as  long  as  they  lived. 
The  farm  was  greatly  impi-oved  under  their  skilful  and 
laborious  admmistration.  When  they  left  it  in  1871  — 
one   liundred   and    four   years    after    their    grandfather 


DEACON   EMORY   BURRAGE.  109 

moved  on  to  it  —  its  real  and  relative  value  was  doubt- 
less more  than  treble  what  it  was  in  1767.  Mr.  Burrage 
was  very  systematic  as  well  as  industrious.  With  him 
"  there  must  be  a  place  for  everything  and  everything 
must  be  in  its  place."  He  proved  as  successful  a 
farmer  as  his  father  had  been  before  him  under  different 
conditions ;  and  in  the  art  and  mystery  of  honse-keep- 
ing  in  a  farm-house,  his  wife  has  had  few  equals.  Her 
butter  and  cheese  were  unsurpassed,  and,  not  to  men- 
tion other  culinary  triumphs,  her  cream-toast  was  for 
many  years  alike  the  despair  of  I'ival  house-keepers  and 
the  delight  of  all  who  had  the  good  fortune  to  partake 
of  it. 

In  1848  Mr.  Burrage  was  chosen  a  deacon  of  the 
First  Congregational  (Unitarian)  Church  of  Leomin- 
ster, the  church  of  which  he  has  been  a  member  from 
his  youth  and  of  which  his  parents  and  grandparents 
were  members  before  him.  He  still  retains  the  office. 
His  fellow-citizens  have  also  testified  their  confidence 
and  respect  by  calling  upon  him  to  fill  other  offices  of 
trust  and  responsibility.  In  thought  he  is  liberal  and 
progressive;  detests  bigotry,  injustice,  and  immoralities 
of  every  kind;  hence  he  has  ever  been  an  earnest  oppo- 
nent of  the  two  great  evils  of  his  day,  slavery  and  in- 
temperance, having  been  an  outspoken  friend  of  the 
temperance  and  antislavery  movements  when  they  were 
unpopular  and  despised. 

Owing  to  infirmities  incident  to  increasing  years,  tlie 


110  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

labor  and  care  of  carrying  on  the  fiii'in  became  so  bnr- 
densome  to  both,  that  in  1871  Deacon  Burrage  and  his 
wife  felt  compelled  to  sell  the  ancestral  acres.  It  is  a 
matter  of  regret  that  none  of  the  family  were  so  circnm- 
stanced  as  to  be  able  to  take  charge  of  the  farm.  The 
only  alteinative  was  to  sell  it  to  the  highest  bidder.  It 
was  bonght  by  Mr.  T.  Dwight  AVood,  of  AVestminster. 
The  old  house,  which  stood  on  the  farm  in  17(57,  was 
toi-u  down  about  IS.'),^  and  replaced  by  a  more  modei'n 
and  convenient  one.  'I'hree  or  four  years  before  he  left, 
Deacon  Hui-i-age  erected  an  addition.  The  appearance 
of  the  [)lace  is  therefore  very  unlike  what  it  was  before 
the  old  house  was  demolished.* 

After  the  sale  of  their  fiirm,  Deacon  Burrage  and  his 
wife  removed  to  the  North  Village,  and  lived  in  a  pai't 
of  the  house  occupied  by  his  mother  and  her  niece,  Miss 
E.  Eunice  Taintei'  (who  had  lived  with  her  so  long  and 
had  so  kindly  ministered  to  her  in  her  declining  years 
that  she  seemed  more  like  a  daughter  than  a  niece). 
Upon  the  decease  of  his  mother,  in  1875,  they  ])ni-- 
chased  the  house  and  lot  of  the  executors  and  still 
reside  there.  Miss  Tainter  lives  with  her  brother, 
Deacon  Elijah  F.  Tainter,  in  Xewton. 

Josiah,  the  third  son,  was  born  July  24,  1801:.  "When 
fourteen  years  of  age  he  went  to  li^•e  with  his  cousin, 
Jeremiah  Kill)urn,  in  Groton,  to  learn  the  hatter's  trade. 


*  The  cut  on  page  50  represents  the  old  house  as  it  appeared  about  1707- 

ISIUJ. 


ALDERMAN   JOSIAH   BURRAGE.  HI 

After  working  at  the  business  about  three  3^ears,  his 
health  faihng,  he  was  compelled  to  leave  it  and  return 
home,  where  he  spent  two  or  three  years  studying  and 
farming.  In  the  winter  of  1824  he  taught  school  for  a 
few  weeks  in  Lunenburg  and  also  in  a  district  in  ^orth 
Lancaster.  While  at  Groton,  he  attended  the  academy 
there  a  part  of  one  term.  About  the  first  of  May,  1824, 
when  nearly  twenty  years  of  age,  he  bravely  set  out 
alone  to  seek  his  fortune  in  Boston ;  being  the  pioneer 
of  those  of  the  family  who  have  since  made  that  city 
their  home,  and  the  first  of  the  name  of  Burrage  to 
connect  himself  with  its  business  since  the  decease  of 
his  emigrant  ancestor,  the  ferryman,  in  1685. 

His  fii^st  experience  is  best  described  in  his  own  words. 
He  says:  "About  the  first  of  May,  1824,  I  went  into  a 
country  store  at  ^NTeponset  Tillage,  Dorchester,  where  I 
stayed  until  February,  1825.  Then  I  went  to  Boston, 
and  tended  in  a  grocery  store  on  Purchase  Street. 
After  remaining  there  one  month  my  employer  got 
drunk  and  I  quit  him;  and  about  that  time  Cousin  Kil- 
burn  started  a  hat  store  on  Hanover  Street,  and  solicited 
my  assistance.  I  remained  in  his  employ  about  three 
months,  when  Cousin  K.  sold  out.  Then  I  went  to  a 
wooden-ware  store,  where  for  three  days  eveiything 
went  on  quietly,  but  on  the  fourth  day  my  employer  got 
crazy  drunk  and  went  at  me  with  an  axe-helve  and  I 
left  him."  He  then  answered,  in  person,  an  advertise- 
ment for  a  book-keeper  by  Mr.  :N'ewell  Bent,  a  hunber 


112  THE    BUEKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

dealer  at  Cambridgeport,  and  let  liimself  immediately 
to  Mr.  Bent  for  the  term  of  six  months  for  his  board,  no 
other  compensation.  Fortunately  he  boarded  in  Mr. 
Bent's  family,  and  thus  became  acquainted  with  Mrs. 
Bent,  who  aCterwai-ds  pi-oved  a  valuable  friend.  At  the 
expiration  of  \hv  six  months,  Mr.  Bent  made  him  a 
pi-esent  of  ten  doUars  and  a  hat  (which  he  got  out  of  a 
bad  debt),  and  advanced  his  wages,  for  the  future,  to 
ten  dollars  a  month  and  board.  After  working  in  this 
way  for  some  time,  Mr.  Bent  had  occasion  to  discharge 
his  foi'cman  on  the  whai'f,  and  re(piested  Josiah  to  take 
his  place  and  still  continue  to  peilbi-m  the  duties  of 
book-keeper,  which  he  consented  to  do;  but  when,  some 
time  later,  the  young  man,  wlio  was  doing  double  duty, 
asked  for  an  advance  in  his  wages,  it  was  refused, 
whereupon  he  left  and  let  hiin^rU"  in  a  grocery  store  in 
Boston  for  iifteen  dollars  a  montli.  This  Avas  in  182S. 
For  tile  three  following  years  he  was  engaged  in  the 
grocery  and  lumber  business  alternately  (being  for  a 
few  months  in  the  employ  of  Burridge  &  Bowman) 
with  wavering  and  doubtful  success.  In  1831,  at  the 
expiration  of  eighteen  months  of  labor  lor  himself  in  a 
lumber  and  grocery  business,  he  found  that  he  possessed 
a  capital  of  three  hundred  dollars,  just  the  amount  he 
had  when  he  went  in  eighteen  months  before.  At  this 
time  Ml-.  Bent,  his  former  employer,  died,  leaving  a  son 
to  continue  the  business  he  left. 

Now  caiii'j   the   reward  of  the  voung   man's  former 


ALDERMAN   JOSIAH   BURRAGE.  113 

faithful  services  and  upright  character.  Mrs.  Bent,  the 
widow  and  mother,  insisted  that  the  young  clerk  who 
had  lived  in  her  family  should  he  found  and  an  offer  of 
an  interest  in  the  business  made  to  him.  She  had  been 
so  favorably  impressed  by  the  young  man's  character 
that  she  was  unwilling  that  her  son  should  associate 
himself  with  any  other  partner.  So  he  went  in  with 
young  Bent  as  an  equal  partner,  under  the  style  of  Bent 
&  Burrage.  Thus  after  striving  seven  years  for  a 
position,  he  obtained  a  firm  foothold.  The  business 
established  by  Josiah  Burrage,  Jr.,  in  1831,  has  been 
continued  by  him  (in  difterent  connections),  on  the 
original  wharf,  to  the  present  time;  although  for  the 
last  two  or  three  years  it  has  been  conducted  by  his 
sons,  Josiah  K.  and  Frederick  E.,  under  the  style  of 
Burrage  Brothers,  he  having  only  a  nominal  interest  in 
the  business.  From  the  first,  Mr.  Burrage  gained  some- 
thing above  his  expenses  each  year,  always  paid  his 
debts  promptly,  and  now  has  a  competency,  the  reward 
of  untiring  industiy,  frugality,  sagacity,  and  fair  dealing. 
He  is  universally  respected  in  the  community,  where  he 
has  resided  fifty  years. 

In  1844  and  1845  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  selectmen 
of  Cambridge,  and  after  its  incorporation  as  a  city 
served  in  the  Board  of  Aldermen  two  years,  1859, 18G0. 
In  1857  he  was  one  of  the  representatives  from  the  city 
to  the  General  Court,  and  has  at  diff'erent  times  been 
chosen  to  fill  various  other  positions  of  trust  and  re- 

15 


114  THE    BURKAGE   MEMORIAL. 

sponsibility.  In  1833  he  married  Abigail  Stiulley,  of 
Leicester.  They  have  had  five  eliildren,  four  of  whom, 
William  Wirt,  Josiali  Killjurn,  Martha  Augusta,  and 
Frederick  Emory,  are  living  and  reside  in  Cambridge. 

George  Sumner,  the  fourth  son  of  Josiali  and  Kuth 
K.  15uii-age,  was  born  Aug.  10,  1806.  When  twelve 
years  of  age,  his  father  a})prentiet'd  him  to  his  uncle, 
William  Burrage,  to  learn  the  business  of  tanniug  and 
currying.  After  serving  the  full  time  of  his  apprentice- 
shi]),  soon  after  he  had  attained  his  majority,  in  1828,  he 
followed  his  brother  Josiali  to  l^ostou,  where  he  at  once 
found  work  in  currying  leather,  and  in  a  short  time  set 
uj)  business  for  himself  lie  i-emaiued  in  Boston  several 
years.  In  1829  or  18)50  his  cousin,  Leonard  l>urrage, 
ha\iiig  ])r()])osed  to  him  to  become  a  ])artiu-r  with  him- 
self in  the  business  at  the  old  shop  in  Leominster,  he 
returned  to  his  nati\c'  town,  and  thenceforth  resided 
there  so  long  as  he  lived.  lie  continued  w^ith  his  cousin 
until  184-1-15,  when  the  copartnership  was  dissolved. 

For  a  few  years,  subsequently,  he  carried  on  the 
manufacture  of  shoes,  but  eventually  gave  it  up,  and 
during  the  last  twenty  years  of  his  life  was  employed  in 
transacting  business  for  the  town  and  his  neighbors, 
and  ill  tilling  a  few  acres  of  land.  He  was  a  sagacious 
business  man.  If  his  ambition  had  been  commensurate 
with  his  ability,  and  his  health  had  been  adequate,  he 
might  have  accumulated  a  large  fortune.  As  it  was,  he 
was  deemed  a  ^'Ibrehan  ^.ed"  man  by  his  neighbors,  and 


GEORGE    SUMNER   BURRAGE.  115 

left  ail  estate  adequate  foi'  tlie  support  of  those  Avho 
were  dependent  upon  him. 

He  was  twice  married.  In  1831  he  married  Catherine 
Richards  Smith,  of  Dover.  They  had  four  children, 
two  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  Adelia  Ann,  the  eldest 
child,  died  Dec.  26,  1857,  in  the  twenty-sixth  year  of 
her  age,  of  consumption,  after  a  long-  and  painful  illness. 
She  was  intelligent,  amiable,  very  conscientious,  and  of 
an  affectionate  disposition.  Her  early  death  was  a  great 
loss  to  the  com'munity  in  which  she  lived  as  well  as  to  a 
large  circle  of  friends. 

George  Francis,  the  only  one  of  the  four  that  survives, 
is  married,  and  lives  in  Boston.  (See  sketch  of  sol- 
diers in  war  of  the  Rebellion.)  The  mother  died  Jan. 
3,  1840.  Mr.  Burrage  married  Martha  Ann  Minot, 
Sept.  15,  1810.  By  her  he  had  three  children,  one 
of  whom  died  in  infancy.  The  youngest  daughter, 
Catherine  S.,  is  married,  and  resides  in  Worcestei-. 
Alfred  H.,  the  youngest  son,  lives  with   his   mother. 

George  Sumner  Burrage  died  suddenly  of  disease 
of  the  heart,  Feb.  25,  1877,  in  the  seventy-first  year 
of  his  age.  His  death  was  deeply  lamented  by  his 
neig-hbors  and  fellow-townsmen,  as  well  as  by  a  large 
circle  of  relatives.  In  him  a  sound  judgment  and 
strong  will  were  united  with  a  kind  heart  and  a  woman's 
tenderness  of  feeling.  His  known  honesty,  kindness, 
and  sound  judgment  brought  many  to  him  for  advice 
when  in  trouble,  and  he  was' often  chosen  by  his  fellow- 


IIG  THE   BURGAGE   MEMORIAL. 

townsmen  to  manage  tlie  nninic-ipal  affairs  of  the  town. 
He  served  on  the  Board  of  Selectmen  for  many  years. 
In  1851  he  represented  the  town  in  the  General  Conrt, 
and  had  the  honor  of  being-  one  of  those  who  first 
elected  Charles  Sumner  to  the  United  States  Senate, 
when  after  many  hallotings  Sumner  was  at  last  chosen 
by  a  luajoiity  of  one.  J  lis  l)i-()ad  and  generous  nature 
and  a  keen  nioial  sciix-  led  liiin  to  engage  earnestly 
in  the  anli>hivi'i'V  and  IciiiiK'i-ance  r(.'foniis,  when  they 
were  first  starlcil  and  wt-re  extremely  uii])o|uilar,  and 
he  could  never  tolerate  injustice,  dishonesty,  or  im- 
j)urity,  wlutlu-r  practised  in  ])ublic  or  private  station. 

AVilliam,  the  lifth  son,  was  born  May  11,  18U8.  lie 
remained  at  home  until  abont  eighteen  years  of  age, 
when  he  went  to  work  in  one  of  the  i)ai)er  mills  in  the 
Xorth  \'illage  of  Leominster.  He  remained  thei-e  one 
or  two  years,  and  then  apprenticed  himself  to  learn  the 
trade  of  tannei'  and  cui'i'ier  at  the  shop  of  his  nncle, 
AVilliam,  and  his  cousin,  Leonai-d  Burrage,  as  his 
brother,  George  S.,  had  done  before  him.  His  time 
expired  in  the  s])ring  of  18)50,  when  he  was  twenty-two 
years  old.  He  then  Avent  to  Boston,  and  worked  for  a 
short  time  for  his  brother,  George  S.,  for  $10  per 
month.  But  a  pi-ominent  leather  dealer,  who  was 
interested  in  a  i)atent  leather-splitting  machine,  desired 
to  get  agents  to  travel  South  and  AVest  to  sell  the 
machines,  and  William  engaged  himself  for  that  woi-k. 
He  was  gone   several    months,  en(bn-ing   great    fatigue 


WILLTAM   EURRAGE,  LEOMINSTER  AND  BOSTON.  117 

and  many  hardships  and  dangers,  travelHng  at  that 
time,  on  land,  being  entirely  by  stage-coaches  or  on 
horseback.  After  his  retnrn  he  was  taken  ill  with  a 
fever,  the  resnlt  of  hardships  and  exposnre.  As  a 
boarding-honse  at  that  time,  as  well  as  now,  was  not 
a  good  place  to  be  sick  in,  his  brother  Josiali  hired  a 
horse  and  chaise  and  carried  the  sick  man  home  to 
Leominster,  a  day's  ride  of  forty  miles,  when  in  a  high 
fever.  The  disease  was  very  severe,  but  a  strong  con- 
stitution and  the  carefnl  nursing  of  his  mother  carried 
him  through  it.  When  convalescent,  he  found  it  would 
take  all  his  money,  to  the  last  dollar,  to  pay  the  doctor's 
bill,  and  the  prospect  appeared  gloomy  enough;  but 
with  renewed  health  came  fresh  courage.  He  again 
bravely  went  to  work  at  his  trade  in  Boston,  and  with 
such  success  that  he  was  soon  able  to  connnence  busi- 
ness for  himself  in  a  small  way,  and  from  that  time 
gradually  but  steadily  increased  his  business  and  im- 
proved his  circumstances.  The  business  of  manufac- 
turing shoes  for  the  Southern  and  Western  markets 
was  then  in  its  inception.  At  first  he  bought  the 
leather  in  its  rough  state,  curried  and  dressed  it,  and 
then  sold  it  to  the  boot  and  shoe  manufacturers ;  then 
he  began  to  furnish  leather  for  boots  and  shoes  to  be 
made  on  his  account;  until,  finally,  he  sold  nothing  but 
boots  and  shoes,  which  were  either  manuftictured  by 
him  or  for  him.  Meanwhile,  both  the  city  and  its 
business   increased  very  rapidly;    and   Mr.  Burrage's 


118  THE    BURGAGE    MEMORIAL. 

capital  increased  with  them,  till  lie  became  one  of  the 
principal  men  in  the  shoe  and  leather  trade. 

About  the  year  1845  he  took  into  partnership  his 
brother  Joseph,  and  Mr.  Ilines,  and  for  several  years 
the  business  "was  carried  on  under  the  style  of  AVni. 
Burrage  &  Co.  Subsequently,  when  they  removed 
from  Fulton  Street  to  Pearl  Street,  Mr.  Ilines  left,  and 
Mr.  Hlake  was  taken  into  the  firm,  the  name  of  which 
then  becanu'  liurrage,  Blake,  &:  Burrage.  This  co- 
l)artnership  existed  about  thive  years,  when  Mr.  Blake 
left,  and  ^Fr.  Jolm  (^.  ITt'iiry  1)ecame  a  partner.  Subse- 
quently, ]\Ir.  Bui'i-age's  heaUh  having  become  impaired, 
he  deemed  it  best  to  retire  from  active  business.  He 
therefore  sold  out  his  interest  to  his  bn^ther  Joseph, 
and  ^Iv.  Henry,  who  afterwards  conducted  the  business 
under  the  firm  name  of  Burrage  ct  Henry,  AVilliam 
contributing  a  portion  of  the  ca[)ital  and  becoming  a 
sjK'cial  partner  in  the  lirm.  This  arrangement  existed 
until  his  decease. 

About  1838  ^Fr.  Bun-age,  with  several  other  gentle- 
men,  most  of  whom  were  engaged  in  the  same  business 
as  himself,  obtained  an  act  of  incorporation  as  the 
Shoe  and  Leather  Dealers'  Bank.  He  was  on  its  first 
Board  of  Directors,  and  continued  a  director  of  the 
institution  until  his  decease. 

He  was  twice  mari'ied:  First,  to  Mary  Ann  Jackson, 
of  Koxbury,  :\ray  14,  1835.  She  died  :\Ia]ch  5,  1840. 
They  had  no  children.     In  1841  he  man-ied  Maiy  (iil- 


ALMIEA   BURRAGE.  119 

more  French,  of  Boston.  They  had  two  children,  —  a 
daughter,  Ellen  Rebecca,  and  a  son,  William  Clarence. 
The  daughter  married  Lewis  Dixon,  M.  D.,  and  resides 
in  Worcester;  the  son  married  Edith  D.  Yose,  and  lives 
in  Boston. 

Mr.  Bnrrage  died  suddenly  on  the  night  of  'Nov.  30, 
1859.  His  health  had  not  been  good  for  several  years, 
but  on  the  day  of  his  death  he  visited  his  office  in  town, 
and  did  not  appear  to  be  more  unwell  than  usual. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  possessed  more  than 
ordinary  intellectual  ability.  He  had  keen  perceptive 
powers;  caught  an  idea  quickly;  reasoned  rapidly  and 
acted  promptly;  was  sagacious,  and  an  excellent  judge 
of  men.  While  ever  shrewd  to  look  after  "the  main 
chance,"  he  had  an  exceedingly  kind,  genial  disposition, 
and  an  inexhaustible  fund  of  wit  and  humor,  —  in  short, 
was  a  good  example  of  the  sagacious,  shrewd,  genial 
Boston  merchant  of  that  time.  He  held  public  office 
on  two  occasions:  in  1853  he  was  a  member  of  the 
common  council  of  Boston  from  old  Ward  7;  and 
in  1854,  one  of  the  representatives  from  Boston  to  the 
legislature.  In  his  will  he  bequeathed,  in  fourteen 
legacies,  |26,000  to  sundry  relatives  and  friends,  to 
whom  the  gift  Avas  a  grateful  benefaction.  The  rest  of 
his  estate  was  left  to  his  wife  and  children. 

Alinira,  the  eldest  daughter  and  sixth  child,  was  born 
Feb.  16,  1810.  She  lived  with  her  parents  until  she 
married  James  H.  Marshall,  of  Leominster,  Xov.  25, 


120  THE    BUKRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

1847.  They  liad  one  child,  Charles  Sumner  Marshall. 
After  a  long  and  severe  illness,  from  which  she  ap- 
peared to  be  recovering,  she  died  suddenly  Xov.  10, 
1872,  in  Canada,  where  she  had  gone  eight  or  ten  weeks 
before,  with  her  husband,  on  account  of  his  health. 

She  was  of  a  peculiarly  calm,  equable,  undemonstra- 
tive temperament,  but  possessed  nuich  greater  fortitude 
and  force  of  chafaeter  than  was  suspected  by  those  who 
liad  l)nt  a  pai'tial  acquaintance  with  her  and  the  circum- 
stances of  her  life. 

Sarah  Ann,  the  second  danghter  and  the  seventh 
child,  was  burn  Xov.  9,  1811.  She  married  David  Mc- 
Clui-e,  of  Cambridgeport,  May  lo,  1831.  They  had 
eight  childi-en,  all  of  whom,  save  one,  Ellen  AVatson, 
died  in  infancy  or  childhood.  She  and  her  husband  re- 
sided in  Cambridge  until  hvv  decease.  His  business  was 
tlie  mannfaetnring  of  vai'ni^li  and  chemical  preparations 
of  dilferent  kind-.  There  is  bnt  little  doubt  that  his 
work  over  the  kettles  in  wdiich  the  ingredients  were 
melted  shortened  his  own  life  and  injuriously  affected 
the  health  of  his  wife  and  children.  He  was  an  indus- 
trious, upright,  conscientious  man  and  a  kind  husband. 
Sarah  .Vnn  died  Dec.  11,  1850,  of  consumption,  after  a 
long  and  })ainful  illness,  aged  thirty-nine  years.  A  few 
weeks  before  her  decease,  she  was  taken  to  South  Car- 
olina, with  the  hope  that  she  might  be  benefited  b}*  a 
warmer  climate;  but  the  journey  was  of  no  avail,  it  only 
increased  her  sutferinii's.     hhe  (ijd  on  the  wav  home. 


SARAH   AXX   BURRAGE.  121 

Her  temperament  was  the  opposite  of  that  of  her  sister 
Ahiiira,  being  exceedingly  sprightl}^  and  vivacious.  She 
was  an  excellent  mimic,  and  would  greatly  amuse  her 
friends  when  she  chose  to  personate  certain  eccentric 
individuals.  But  to  her  vivacity  were  united  the  more 
solid  virtues  of  a  gracious  womanhood.  She  was  a  good 
wife,  a  tender  mother,  a  kind,  sympathizing  friend,  a 
conscientious  Chi-istian  woman.  Her  husband  survived 
her  but  a  short  time.  He  died  July  20,  1852,  aged 
forty-nine  years. 

Their  daughter,  Ellen  Watson,  married  Charles  H. 
Stearns,  of  Westminster,  Oct.  14,  1857.  She  died  July 
19,  1861,  leaving  two  children, —  a  daughter,  Addie  L. 
Stearns,  and  an  infant  son.  The  son  died  in  1863. 
Thus  Addie  L.  is  the  only  living  descendant  and  repre- 
sentative of  Sarah  Ann  and  her  husband,  and  their 
eight  children.     She  lives  with  her  father  in  Worcester. 

Joseph,  the  sixth  son  and  eighth  child,  was  born  Xov. 
16,  1813.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  or  eighteen  years, 
he,  following  in  the  footsteps  of  his  brothers  George  S. 
and  William,  left  the  form  and  apprenticed  himself  to 
learn  the  tanning  and  currying  business  at  the  old  shop, 
then  in  charge  of  his  cousin  Leonard  and  his  brothei", 
George  S.  After  serving  the  term  of  his  apprentice- 
ship, he  desired  to  obtain  the  means  to  attend  an  acad- 
emy for  the  purpose  of  getting  a  better  education  than 
he  had  been  able  to  obtain  in  the  public  schools.  So  he 
worked  as  journeyman  until  he  had  accumulated  suffi- 

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122  THE    BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

cient  for  the  ])nr]:)ose,  and  tlien  went  to  tlic  Bolton 
Academy,  kept  by  Master  Fry,  fur  .several  terms,  — 
teachiiig  one  of  the  pnblic  schools  of  Leominster  in  the 
Avinter. 

In  the  spring;-  of  ISoT  he  went  to  Boston,  and  in  com- 
pany with  ]\Ir.  Asa  l*ierce,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Pierce  &  Bun-age,  commenced  llie  business  of  currying 
leather.  lie  nMuained  in  this  connection  until  about  the 
year  184."),  when  he  took  an  interest  in  the  business  of 
his  brother  AVilliam.  and  continui-d  with  him,  as  before 
mentioned,  until  tlu-  (k-ccasL'  of  the  latter,  in  1859. 
After  that  he  can'it'd  on  the  business  with  Mr.  John  Q. 
lleniy,  nndci'  the-  styk-  of  I^urrage  &  Ileni'v,  until  Oct. 
31,  18()G,  wlu'U  tlu'  c<)j)ai-tne'i'ship  was  dissolved,  and  he 
iornu'd  anollu'r  with  Mr.  William  L.  Keed,  a  boot  and 
shoe  manufacturer  of  ^Vbington;  Mr.  I).  B.  Closson 
being  subsequently  admitted  a  ])artuer.  The  firm  name 
was  Burrage  &  Keed.  AVhen  the  copartnership  expired 
by  limitation,  having  decided  to  retire  from  active  busi- 
ness, he  sold  out  his  interest  in  the  stock  to  Heed  & 
Closson,  of  which  iirm  he  became  a  special  partner, 
contributing  a  portion  of  the  ca})itak  This  was  but  a 
few  days  befoi'c  the  great  fire.  The  fii'm  lost  by  the 
fire  their  entire  stock  of  goods,  amounting  to  $60,000. 
They  received  from  the  insurance  but  $31,200,  fifty-two 
])er  cent,  —  although  the  stock  was  fully  covered, — 
leaving  a  loss  of  $28,800. 

Having    a    large    family    of    children,    Mr.    Burrage 


DEACON   JOSEPH   BURR AGE.  123 

deemed  it  wise  to  remove  Avith  them  into  some  place 
more  rural  than  Arlington,  and  therefore  sold  his  house 
there  in  which  he  had  lived  about  twenty  years,  bought 
a  house  and  small  farm  of  fifteen  acres  of  land  in  Pitts- 
ford,  Vt.,  and  in  the  spring  of  1873  removed  there  with 
his  family.  His  estate  was  sufficient  to  support  them 
comfortably  and  respectably  in  their  new  home. 

Mr.  Burrage  was  twice  married:  First,  to  Frances  S. 
Perrin,  of  Montpelier,  Yt.  By  her  he  had  six  children, 
— three  sons,  three  daughters.  The  eldest  son,  Joseph 
Perrin,  graduated  at  Harvard  University,  enlisted  in  the 
Union  army,  and  was  killed  Oct.  28,  1863,  in  the  battle 
of  Lookout  Mountain.  (See  sketch  of  soldiers.)  She 
died  Dec.  26,  1859,  aged  forty-three  years.  In  June, 
1861,  he  married  Mary  E.  Closson,  of  Thetford,  Vt. 
They  had  six  children,  —  three  sons,  three  daughters. 
The  youngest  son  was  born  but  a  fcAV  weeks  before 
his  father's  death,  which  occurred  very  suddenly,  Aug. 
30,  1873,  from  disease  of  the  heart.  He  was  on  a  visit 
to  Boston  for  a  few  days,  partly  for  business  purposes. 
The  night  before  starting  on  his  return,  he  stayed  at 
the  house  of  his  brother,  A.  A.  Burrage,  in  Union 
Park.  At  breakfast  he  appeared  to  be  in  good  health, 
and  seemed  in  excellent  spirits  when  he  left  the  house 
for  the  Fitchburg  Kailroad  Station.  His  son,  William 
T.,  met  him  at  the  cars  to  accompany  him  to  Pittsford. 
Soon  after  seating  themselves  in  the  cars,  immediately 
after  the  train  started,  Mr.  Burrage  suddenly  threw  his 


124  THE   BUUKAGK   MEMORIAL. 

head  back,  gasped,  and  expired  instantaneously,  without 
a  struggle  or  uttei-ing  a  word. 

It  may  be  said  of  Deacon  Joseph  Burrage  that  he 
was  a  good  business  man,  a  kind  luis])and  and  father, 
a  conscientious  Christian,  an  intelligent,  public-spirited 
citizen.  He  was  inr  many  years  deacon  of  the  Ortho- 
dox Congregational  ( "liurcli  in  Arlington,  and  sn])ei'in- 
ten(h'nt  of  the  Sunday  s-hool.  Jle  was  an  eainest 
antislaNcry  man,  a  consistent  advocate  of  tem[)erance, 
and  by  \\\<  ii|)iiiilit .  conscientious  eharactcr  connnanded 
the  respect  ot"  all  wlio  knew  him. 

Johnson  Cai-tcr,  the  sexentli  son  and  ninth  child,  was 
boi-n  Jan.  20,  ^f^^^).  At  the  time  of  his  birth,  Jonathan 
Cartel-  (a  brother  of  I^enjamin)  and  his  wife,  ]\rary 
Johnson,  who  had  been  recent]}'  mai'ried,  lived  in  a 
room  in  the  north  end  of  his  father's  house,  called  "the 
north  I'oom";  thus  it  liap[)encd  that  his  mother,  to 
honor  her  IViend,  Mrs.  Carter,*  named  her  seventh  son 
Johnson  Carter.  Subsequently,  when  the  child  was 
three  or  four  years  old,  Mrs.  Carter,  who  had  no  chil- 
dren, begged  that  he  might  go  to  live  with  her  awhile. 
His  mother  having  by  that  time  no  less  than  eight  of 
his  brothers  and  sisters  on  her  hands,  and  not  know- 

♦Mrs.  Carter  was  a  person  of  mnch  force  of  cliaracter,  very  intelligent, 
kind-hearted,  and  greatly  inspected  by  her  neighbors  and  all  who  knew  her. 
After  the  death  of  her  husband  she  lived  alone  in  the  part  of  the  house  they 
had  forracrl}-  occupied,  supporting  herself  by  cultivating  the  land  that  was 
her  dower  Johnson's  brothers  and  sisters  always  c:illod  h  -r  "  Aunt  Carter,'' 
while  tliey  called  tlu'ir  real  Aunt  Carter,  "Aunt  Anna"  She  died  about  the 
year  1845. 


JOHNSON  CARTER  BURRAGE.  125 

mg  what  the  future  had  m  stoi'e  for  her,  finally  con- 
sented. 

Before  this,  Jonathan  Carter  and  his  wife  had  moved 
into  the  new  house  that  had  been  built  jointly  by  and 
for  him  and  his  brother,  Benjamin,  upon  land  inherited 
from  their  father.  So  one  winter's  day,  the  youthful 
seventh  son  w^as  put  into  a  basket  upon  a  hand-sled, 
and  drawn  by  one  of  his  older  brothers  over  the  snow 
to  his  new  home.  The  now  gray-haired  merchant 
retains  a  vivid  recollection  of  that  exhilarating  half- 
mile  ride.  lie  lived  with  Mrs.  Carter  three  or  four 
years,  probably  till  the  death  of  hei"  husband,  whicli 
occurred  in  1824. 

At  an  early  age  the  lad  manifested  a  predilection 
for  trade ;  so  when  he  w^as  fifteen  years  old  his  father 
found  a  place  for  him  in  the  country  variety  store  of 
George  H.  Hills,  in  the  centre  of  the  town  of  Leom- 
inster. He  remained  there  and  in  other  stores  in 
the  town,  attending  the  district  school  in  the  winter 
months,  until  he  w\as  between  eighteen  and  nineteen 
years  of  age.  He  then  attended  the  Groton  Academy 
one  term,  and  taught  school  during  the  following 
winter  in  a  district  in  the  southwestern  part  of  Lunen- 
burg, called  Hardscrabble. 

After  the  close  of  his  school,  in  the  spring  of  1835, 
his  brothers,  George  S.  and  William,  having  found  a 
situation  for  him  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  woollen- 
ffoods  store  of  A.  &  G.  A.  Kendall,  22  and  24  AVash- 


126  THE    BURKAGE   MEMORIAL. 

ing-ton  Sti'cet,  Boston,  he  went  to  tliat  city.  .Vftcr 
beiiif''  with  the  Messrs.  Kendall  a  little  more  than  ei"h- 
teen  months,  they  decided  to  give  np  the  retail  ])ortion 
of  their  bnsiness  and  move  into  another  street,  which 
Avas  wholly  devote(l  to  the  wholesale  trade;  and  they 
snr})ris('d  the  young  man  l>y  proposing  to  him  that  he 
should  take  the  sIoit  and  cai'ry  on  business  Toi-  hiui- 
self,  at  the  same  tiuic  sliowiug  their  confidence  in  his 
al»ility  and  iulcgi'ity  by  olb'ring  to  give  hiui  all  the 
credit  be  riMpiiiiMl.  lie  was  too  dilHdent  to  undertake 
the  enterprise  alonr,  and  therefoi-e  ("oi'med  a  copartner- 
ship witb  anotber  young  man,  \.  J.  liicbai'dson;  and 
on  the  lltli  ol"  October,  b^.'^O,  a  little  more  than  three 
months  before  his  twenty-first  bii'thday,  the}'  com- 
menced the  business  of  buving  and  selling  woollen 
goods,   under  tbe  style  of  Richardson  S:  Bnrrage.* 

From  the  first  their  l)u-<iness  steadily  increased,  both 
in  ^•obuue  aud  profit,  until  the  year  1845.  Unhapi)ily, 
it  came  to  pass  that  their  great  prosperity  served  to 
disturb  the  equipoise  of  their  minds  and  distract  their 
judgment.  The  Burlington  AVoollen  Mills,  at  Bur- 
lington, Vt.,  having  been  nnsuccessful,  were  put  on 
the  market  to  be  sold  at  less  than  fifty  per  cent  of 
their  cost,  and  Kichardson  &  Bnrrage  w^ere  indnced 
1)V    })arties    interested  to  join  in   Iniying  in  the    prop- 


*  About  Uie  year  1S42  tlicy  rein;>vi'(l  to  a  now  iirauito  warohousc,  erected 
by  Mr.  Jolin  Siininons,  on  Milk  Street,  at  the  corner  of  Tlieatre  Alley,  and 
tlienceforih  discontinued  the  n-tail  business,  scllinj;  at  wliolesale  only. 


JOHNSON  CARTER  BURRAGE.  127 

erty,  upon  the  understanding  that  they  were  to  man- 
age it  and  sell  the  goods  manufactured.  So,  in  1845, 
they  sold  out  and  left  their  jobbing  business,  which 
they  understood  and  were  masters  of,  and  went  into 
the  manufacturing  and  commission  business,  of  which 
they  knew  little  or  nothing, — thus  forsaking  a  cer- 
tainty for  an  uncertainty. 

As  might  have  been  anticipated,  the  new  business 
dragged  from  the  first,  and  proved  inisuccessful,  re- 
sulting in  the  loss,  in  the  course  of  four  or  five  years, 
of  all  they  had  made  during  the  previous  eight  or  nine 
years.  They  were  compelled,  at  last,  to  suspend  pay- 
ment; but  they  eventually  paid  all  their  debts  in  full. 

Mr.  Burrage,  disappointed  but  not  discouraged  by 
his  ill-luck,  with  a  stout  heart  imm.ediately  set  about 
retrieving  his  fortune.  Shortly  after  the  suspension, 
in  1849,  he  formed  a  connection  with  the  firm  of 
James  M.  Beebe  &  Co.,  and  resumed  his  old  business 
of  buying  and  selling  woollen  goods,  and  with  more 
than  the  old-time  success.  He  remained  in  this  con- 
nection fifteen  or  sixteen  years,  when  the  firm  of 
Beebe  &  Co.  dissolved.  He  then,  with  three  or  four 
junior  partners,  took  the  woollen-goods  branch  of  the 
business,  and  for  seven  or  eight  years  carried  it  on 
under  the  style  of  J.  C.  Bui-rage  &  Co.  In  1873,  his 
health  having  become  impaired  by  too  close  application 
to  business,  he  retired  from  trade,  possessing  an  ample 
competency. 


128  THE    BUKRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Mr.  Burrage  was  peculiarly  fitted  by  nature  for  a 
merchant.  He  possessed  good  judgment  as  to  men  oi- 
merchandise,  unswerving  integrity,  affability,  and  untir- 
ing industry  and  perseverance.  He  is  liberal  in  his 
opinions,  gives  freeh'  to  objects  of  chai'ity,  and  is  a 
public-spirited  citizen,  respected  In  all  who  know  him. 

He  married  Emeline  Brighain,  of  Groton,  Xov.  29, 

1838.  They  have  had  six  children.  —  two  sons,  three 
daughters,  —  all  of  whf)n)  are  living.  The  sons  and  two 
of  the  daughters  are  married. 

Martha,  the  third  daughter  and  tenth  chiM  of  Josiah 
and  Kuth  K.  Burrage,  was  born  Feb.  4,  1818.  She 
married  John  Dallinger,  of  Cambridge,  Dec.  6,  1836, 
and  had  two  children, —  Sophia  Elizabeth  Dallinger,  who 
died  in  infancy,  and  AVilliam  AVilberforce  Dallinger, 
who  is  maiTied  and  resides  in  Cambiidge.  She  died  of 
consumption,  after  a  long  and  painful  illness.  May  5, 
1845,  aged  twenty-seven  years,  deeply  lamented  by  her 
relatives  and  a  large  circle  of  friends. 

As  in  person  she  was  the  handsomest  of  her  mother's 
children,  so  was  she  one  of  the  loveliest  in  character. 
She  possessed  a  refined  and  peculiarly  sensitive  nature, 
a  quick,  active  mind,  and  an  aflectionate  disposition. 

Elizabeth  Smith,  the  fourth  daughter  and  eleventh 
child,  was  born  May  2,  1820.     She  married,  Xov.  20, 

1839,  Peter  Farwell,  of  Fitchburg.  They  have  had 
seven  children, —  five  sons, two  daughters, —  five  of  whom 
are  living.     The  eldest  daughter,  Catherine  S.,  married. 


ELIZABETH   SMITH   BUERAGE.  129 

July  10,  18G9,  James  :N".  Steele,  of  Chicago,  and  now 
lives  in  that  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farwell  resided  in 
Leominster  (at  one  time  on  the  homestead  farm  of  her 
father,  as  has  been  mentioned)  until  1870,  when,  all  but 
the  youngest  of  their  childi-en  having  gone  to  Chicago 
to  live,  they  also  removed  to  that  city  and  now  Uve 
there,  their  sons  and  youngest  daughter  living  with 
them.  A\  ith  her  large  family  to  rear  and  care  for,  she 
has  led  a  busy  life.  In  temperament  she  perhaps  more 
nearly  resembles  her  mother  than  did  any  other  one  of 
the  children,  ha\dng  like  fortitude,  equanimity,  and 
faithfulness  in  the  performance  of  every  duty. 

"  She  openeth  her  mouth  with  wisdom  ;  and  in  her 
tongue  is  the  law  of  kindness.  She  looketh  well  to  the 
ways  of  her  household,  and  eateth  not  the  bread  of 
idleness.  Her  children  arise  up  and  call  her  blessed; 
her  husband  also,  and  he  praiseth  her."  In  other  words, 
she  is  a  model  ^ew  England  w^ife  and  mother. 

Alvah  Augustus,  the  eighth  son  and  tw^elfth  child, 
w\as  bom  May  30,  1823.  His  childhood  and  early 
youth,  like  that  of  his  brothers,  was  passed  at  home, 
where,  hke  them,  he  was  required  to  contribute  his 
labor,  however  shght  it  might  be,  towards  cultivating 
the  farm  to  support  the  family.  From  his  sixth  till  his 
eleventh  year,  he  usually  attended  the  district  school 
durino-  the  summer  and  w^inter  terms.  After  he  reached 
the  age  of  eleven  years,  until  he  left  home,  he  only 
attended  during  the  ten  or  tw^elve  weeks  of  the  winter 

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130  THE    BURKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

term."  Wlicn  in  his  sixteenth  year  his  l^rother,  John- 
son C,  proi)Osed  that  he  shoukl  go  into  the  store  of 
Kiehardson  &:  Barrage  to  learn  the  business  of  selling 
woollen  goods,  and  his  father  eonsenting,  he  eagerly 
aecepted  the  proposal.  So  after  the  close  of  the 
winter  term  of  the  district  school,  his  fiither  took  the 
iarm  lunse  and  wagon — tln-iv  were  no  railroads  then 
—  and  carried  him  over  the  Ilai'vard,  Concord,  and  Lex- 
ington lioad  to  Boston;  and  on  the  lOtli  of  February, 
is:;!).  Ir"  entered  upon  a  mercantile  life  in  that  city,  and 
has  ever  since  made  it  his  home. 

He  remained  with  Richardson  &  Burrage  until  they 
-old  out  their  jobbing  business.  He  first  received  a 
-alaiy  as  salesman  in  1844,  the  year  he  became  of  age.t 
It  was  .S4.10,  AVith  this  he  supported  himself  and  laid 
u])  i<:V.K  JMie  next  year  his  salary  was  advanced  to 
.S<)<M).  At  the  end  of  184.3,  his  accunudated  capital  was 
.Sl^-).  From  that  time  for  twenty  years  or  more,  some- 
thing was  added  to  it  each  year. 

Messrs.  Arthur  AVilkinson,  Joshua  Stetson,  and  F.  AV. 
Xewton  had  formed  a  copartnership  for  the  purpose  of 
buving  the  stock  and  stand  of  Kichardson  &  Buo-age 


♦  The  first  winter  after  he  went  to  Boston,  when  sixteen  years  of  age,  he 
returned  home  and  attended  the  district  school  ten  or  eleven  weeks.  This 
was  the  extent  of  his  school  advantages. 

t  Up  to  thi?i  time  he  had  received  for  his  services  only  his  board  and 
clothes,  which  had  cost  per  annum  sums  varying  from  8250  the  first  year  to 
.?;^7.3  the  fifth  year.  When  he  went  to  Boston  to  cjmmence  his  business 
career,  his  worldly  goods  consisted  of  one  suit  of  clothes  and  fifty  cents  in 
cash. 


ALVAH  AUGUSTUS  BUERAGE.  131 

and  continuing  the  business.  To  secure  the  services  of 
one  who  Avas  acquainted  with  the  customers,  they  offered 
Alvah  A.  a  small  interest  in  the  business  and  a  partner- 
ship in  the  firm.  So  on  the  1st  of  January,  1846,  he 
commenced  business  for  himself  as  one  of  the  firm  of 
"VYilkinson,  Stetson,  &  Co.  He  retained  this  connection 
for  nearly  seven  years,  leaving  it  in  October,  1852. 
Upon  the  1st  of  January,  1853,  he  formed  a  copartner- 
ship with  !Noble  H.  Hill,  his  brother,  Charles  H,  Bnrrage, 
and  Chas.  J.  Danforth,  under  the  style  of  Hill,  Bnrrage, 
&  Co.  This  connection  continued  for  six  years;  the 
firm  dissolved  in  December,  1858.  The  two  brothers 
then  took  in  two  other  partners  and  continued  the  busi- 
ness under  the  style  of  Bnrrage  Brothers  &  Co.  Under 
this  name,  with  difi'erent  partners,  they  carried  on  the 
business  for  fifteen  years,  until  Dec.  31,  1873,  when  the 
copartnership  was  dissolved  and  Alvah  A.  Bnrrage  re- 
tired from  active  participation  in  trade.*  A  little  more 
than  a  year  before  this  event,  on  the  9th  and  10th  of 
:N'ovember,  1872,  occurred  the  disastrous  conflagration 
in  Boston,  which  destroyed  about  one  half  of  the  busi- 
ness  portion   of   the    city,   and   property  estimated  at 


*  Wilkinson,  Stetson,  &  Co.,  while  Mr.  Barrage  was  a  partner,  occupied 
the  store  in  Milk  Street  to  which  Richardson  &  Barrage  had  removed  in  1842. 
Hill,  Barrage,  &  Co.'s  store  was  the  hall  and  chamber  of  the  old  "  Jnlien  Hall " 
building,  at  the  corner  of  Milk  and  Congress  Streets.  Barrage  Brotliers  &  Co. 
at  first  occupied  the  chambers  of  the  granite  and  brick  warehouse  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Franklin  and  Hawley  Streets,  Nos.  33,  35,  and  37  Franklin  Street. 
Subsequently,  during  1871  and  1872,  until  the  fire,  they  occupied  the  lower 
floor  and  basement  of  the  same  building. 


132  THE    BURKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

seventy  or  eig:hty  million  dollars.  All  of  the  Bnrrages 
doinii:  bnsiness  in  Boston  lost  heavily  l)y  the  fire. 
Bnrraii'e  Brothers  &  Co.  had  a  stoek  on  hand  of  about 
^245,000,  all  of  whieh,  save  about  )?1,400,  was  destroyed. 
They  received  lioni  insurance  about  J^144,000,  leaving 
a  loss  of  about  $100,000.  J.  C.  Burrage  &  Co.  had  a 
stock  of  about  8100,000.  Avliicli  was  cntii-ely  destroyed. 
They  received  from  insurance  about  .$11:0,000,  leaving  a 
loss  of  about  SrAOOO. 

As  has  been  said  elsewhere,  Reed  &  Closson,  with 
whom  fTost'i)h  Burrau-e  was  a  s])ecial  partner,  lost 
$28,800. 

AVhile  in  acti\r  bu>iness,  ^Fr.  liui-rage  served  two 
years,  18G7-18()9,  in  the  K-ui^lature.  Since  his  retirc- 
mnit  I'roui  tiadc  he  has  served  1  wo  years,  1875,  1876, 
in  tlu'  IJoard  ol"  Aldermen  of  the  city  govei-nment  of 
Boston.* 

At  the  close  of  the  vear  1870,  the  Mayor,  lion. 
Sanmcl  C.  Cobb,  api)ointed  George  S.  Hale,  Alvah  A. 
Burrage,  and  Augustus  Parker  a  commission  under 
an  oi-dei-  of  the  city  government,  ''to  consider  and 
report  u[)on  the  treatment  of  the  poor  who  apply  to 
the  city  for  i-elief,  whether  temporary  or  permanent, 
and  to  ascertain  what,  if  any,  changes  are  desirable  in 
the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth   and  the  ordinances  of 

*  As  chairman  of  the  joint  committee  on  improved  seAAcrage,  in  187(>,  he 
had  the  lionor  to  be,  in  some  desrree,  instrnniental  in  forwarding  the  scliemc 
for  a  system  of  iuterceptinir  scAvers  (Avitli  pnmpinj;  works)  for  the  city  ol 
Boston,  liually  adopted  by  the  city  government  tlie  present  year. 


ALVAH  AUGUSTUS  BURRAGE.  133 

the  city  for  the  rehef,  maintenance,  and  employment 
of  all  classes  of  the  poor."  The  commission  now  have 
the  sul3Ject  under  consideration. 

When  in  the  legislature,  in  1867,  Mr.  Burrage  was 
appointed  by  the  Speaker  of  the  House  upon  a  joint 
committee  to  sit  during  the  recess  to  consider  and 
report  a  plan  for  the  maintenance  of  Charles  River 
and  Warren  Bridges.  The  committee  met  from  time 
to  time  after  the  adjournment  of  the  legislature.  The 
chairman  on  part  of  the  House  w^as  taken  ill,  and  it  so 
happened  that  the  preparation  of  the  repoi^t  devolved 
on  Mr.  Burrage.  Thus  it  came  to  pass  that  a  descend- 
ant of  one  of  the  first  owners  and  operators  of  the 
Charlestown  Ferry,  two  hundred  years  after  his  ances- 
tor petitioned  the  General  Court  respecting  the  regu- 
lations and  tolls  for  passengers  over  the  river,  drew  up 
and  presented  to  the  General  Court  a  plan  for  main- 
taining the  bridges  so  that  passengers  could  go  over 
free.  The  plan  was  substantially  adopted  by  a  subse- 
quent legislature. 

Mr.  Burrage  married  EUzabeth  A.  Smith,  of"  Groton, 
May  17,  1849.  They  have  had  eight  children,  —  three 
sons,  five  daughters,  —  six  of  Avhom  are  living.  The 
eldest  son  died  in  infancy.  Their  eldest  daughter, 
Ruth,  whose  lovely  character  and  rare  endowments  had 
caused  her  to  become  the  favorite  of  a  large  circle  of 
friends,  as  well  as  the  joy  and  pride  of  her  parents, 
died  April  11,  1872,  a  few  weeks   subsequent  to  the 


134:  TIIK    BrUHAGE    MEMORIAL. 

twenty-second  anniversary  of  lici-  l)irtli,  aftoi*  a  short 
l)iit  excoc'dingly  ])ai!iriil  illness,  <liiriii<>;  uhit-li  the 
slrcii<j;lli  and  beauty  ol"  her  eliaraeter  were  strikingly 
shown  in  tlie  fortitude,  i>alienfc>,  and  eheerfnhiess  with 
wliicli  she  en(lui-e(l  liei'  snflVrings,  bade  adieu  to  friends 
and  llie  jn\>  and  liope^  <>1"  a  youtld'id  life,  and  met  the 
ine\itable  summon-  t<>  an  unknown  shoi'e. 

Chai-le-  Hein-y.  the  ninth  snn  and  thii'teentli  cliild, 
wa<  hoi'ii  dune  "_'•_',  h^ll.").  He  I'emaiued  at  home,  work- 
ing'on  the  farm  and  alleiiding  the  i)ul)Ue  school  as  his 
brotliei'-  liad  done,  uulil  he  reached  tlie  a,2:e  of  eighteen 
years.  lie  tluii  attended  the  seliooi  or  academy  of 
^h\  ^Farsliall  S.  Ivice.  at  Xewton,  during  one  term, 
and  sul)-e<|uently  studied  one  term  at  tlie  Lunenburg 
Aeadems.  ill-  parents,  at  that  time,  had  but  two  of 
their  childieii  with  them,  \iz.,  .Mmii'a  and  Charles 
lleurv.      TlieN    were  now  to   j)arl    with   their  youngest. 

In  the  fall  of  isn.  wlien  nineteen  years  of  age, 
havinii"  been  olfered  a  situation  in  tlie  store  of  liich- 
ardson,  l^urrage,  A:  Co.,  "tlie  baby  of  the  family"  left 
home,  followed  his  l)rothers  to  lk)ston,  and  entered 
npon  a  mercantile  life.  As  his  brother,  Alvah  A., 
had  done,  he  commenced  as  a  boy  in  the  lowest  j^osi- 
tion  to  learn  the  whole  business  and  work  his  way  np 
to  a  higher  place,  lie  was,  of  course,  subject  to  many 
mortifications  and  tribulations  during  the  first  year  or 
two  of  his  api)renticeship.  As  a  sample  of  some  of 
them,  it  is  related  that   dui'ing  the  first  week,  a  si)ruce 


CHARLES  HENRY  BURRAGE.  135 

and  somewhat  conceited  English  boy  of  twent}^  years, 
who  had  entered  the  stoi'e  several  years  before,  and 
was  therefore  considerably  above  Charles  in  position, 
in  giving  him  an  errand  to  do  one  day,  took  occasion 
to  ask  the  young  man,  who  was  but  one  year  his  junior, 
and  who  had  just  completed  his  education  by  two  terms 
at  an  academy,  if  he  could  read  ivriting.  But  Charles 
had  abundant  opportunity  to  retaliate  subsequently; 
for  the  English  boy  had  acquired  or  inherited  the 
cockney  pronunciation.  He  would  ask  a  boy  to  "  take 
the  haxe  and  bring  him  the  atcliet,"  and  say  the  weather 
Avas  "  hawful  ot,  a  good  deal  otter  than  it  was  in  Hing- 
land,"  although  he  could  read  writing. 

AVhen  Richardson,  Burrage,  &  Co.  sold  out  their 
jobbing  business,  Charles  went  with  Wilkinson,  Stet- 
son, &  Co.  (in  which  firm  his  brother,  A.  A.,  had  become 
a  partner) .  He  remained  with  them  until  about  1851, 
when  he  let  himself  for  a  year  to  Newton,  Eaton,  &  Co., 
at  the  then  very  liberal  salary  of  $2,000.  He  remained 
there  until  Jan.  1,  1853,  when  he  became  a  partner,  as 
has  been  before  mentioned,  in  the  firm  of  Hill,  Burrage, 
&  Co.,  formed  at  that  time.  As  has  been  said,  he  re- 
mained a  partner  in  that  firm  until  its  dissolution,  Dec. 
31,  1858,  and  subsequently  continued  with  his  brother, 
A.  A.,  in  the  firm  of  Burrage  Brothers  &  Co.,  until  it 
dissolved,  Dec.  31,  1873.  He  then  formed  a  copartner- 
ship with  Messrs.  M.  B.  Cole  and  E.  P.  Tucker,  under 
the  style  of  Burrage,  Cole,  &  Tucker,  which  continued 


136  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

three  years.  ]Mr.  Tucker  then  went  out,  and  Mr.  A.  F. 
Poole  was  admitted,  and  the  business  is  now  conducted 
under  the  name  of  Burrage,  Cole,  &  Co. 

Mr.  Burrage  is  now  the  only  one  of  the  six 
brothers  who  went  to  Boston  to  live  that  remains  in 
active  business.  He  is  an  npright,  honorable  mer- 
chant; is  popular  as  a  salesman,  because  customers  feel 
that  he  would  sooner  cheat  himself  than  wrong  them; 
is  of  an  easy,  genial  temperament  and  i)leasant  dispo- 
sition; does  not  object  to  an  occasional  joke.  In  his 
opinions  he  is  liberal,  abhors  bigotry,  and  despises 
narrowness  and  meanness;  is  a  good  neighbor  and  a 
public-spii'ited  citizen.  In  short,  though  the  last  in  his 
father's  family,  he  ranks  among  the  first  on  the  roll  of 
w^orth. 

He  has  been  married  twice:  Oct.  11,  1853,  to  Mary 
Green  Hunt,  of  Boston,  by  whom  he  had  one  child, 
George  Dixwell,  born  March  12,  I8G1,  wdio  is  now  liv- 
ing at  home.  She  died  April  1,  1861.  He  married 
Lydia  Love,  of  Philadelphia,  Oct.  5,  1864.  They  have 
had  five  children,  four  of  whom  are  living.  They  re- 
side at  Chestnut  Hill,  Xewton. 


CHAPTER  Xiy. 

With  the  foregoing  chapter  ends  our  sketch  of  the 
first  nine  generations  in  our  pedigree.  Of  succeeding 
generations  who  have  but  recently  come  upon  the  stage 
to  act  their  parts  in  the  drama  of  fife,  it  is  not  our 
purpose  to  speak  at  length.  It  will  devolve  upon  the 
fomily  chronicler  of  the  future  to  record  the  virtuous 
deeds  and  portray  the  exalted  characters  which  it  is 
hoped  will  distinguish  them.  But  we  should  be  delin- 
quent, and  our  work  would  be  incomplete,  if  we  failed 
to  allude  to  the  patriotic  sacrifices  of  those  of  the 
tenth  and  eleventh  generations  who  enlisted  in  the 
armies  of  the  Union  and  bravely  fought  for  liberty 
and  onr  country  in  the  late  war  of  the  Rebellion. 

Again,  as  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  did  the 
descendants  of  our  emigrant  ancestor  do  their  part  in 
upholding  and  defending  the  jmnciples  which  he,  in 
common  with  the  other  Paritan  founders  of  our  Com- 
monwealth, made  such  heroic  sacrifices  to  establish  on 
these  shores. 

Those  who  served  as  soldiers  in  the  war  were 

JOSEPH  PERRIN   BURRAGE,  of  Arlington. 
THOMAS   FAIRBANKS   BURRAGE,  of  Roxbiiiy. 
HENRY    SWEETSER   BURRAGE,  of  Fitchburg. 
WILLIAM   ALLEN   BURRAGE,  of  Leominster. 
EDWARD    CARTER   BURRAGE,  of  Boston. 
GP:0RGE   FRANCIS   BURRAGE,  of  Leominster. 
18 


138  THE   BUIJKAGE    MEMOIUAL. 

Joseph  Pen-ill  Burrage  was  born  in  Boston,  May  4, 
1842,  tlu'  t'lile.st  son  of  Josej)!!  and  Franees  (Perrin) 
Burrag-e.  Being  a  serious,  stiulious  lad,  his  parents 
desiji'ned  that  he  should  receive  a  college  education  and 
become  a  minister,  lie  pursued  his  preparatoi'v  studies 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  entered  Harvard 
College  in  the  autuinn  of  18o8. 

Kev.  Mr.  ( 'ady,  in  a  sketch  <»f"  liini  in  the  "'ITarvai'd 
]Sreiii()i'ial  Biogra[)hies,"  says:  "lie  secured  and  always 
inniutaiucd  a  good  rank  as  a  scholar,  and  soon  made  a 
])ublic  |»roie.ssion  of  religion.  After  the  attack  on  Fort 
Suinpter  and  the  Baltimore  riot,  he  felt  a  great  desire  to 
enlist,  but  di'cided  to  com})lete  his  college  course.  He 
therefore  lemained  in  the  university  and  graduated 
honorably  in  the  class  of  18G2.  He  pronounced  an 
oration  at  the  Coinnienceiiient  exercises,  and  three  days 
later  enlisted  as  a  i)rivate  in  the  IJ.'kl  ^lass.  Yols.  Four 
davs  later,  just  one  week  from  his  graduation,  he  entered 
upon  his  duties  in  camp  at  Lynnfield. 

"He  was  immediately  appointed  a  sergeant,  was  soon 
after  made  the  1st  sergeant  of  the  company,  and  in  May 
following  received  a  commission  as  second  lieutenant. 
All  who  knew  hiin  felt  that  his  promotion  was  fairly  and 
honorably  won  and  was  l)ut  an  earnest  of  still  higher 
honors.  Indeed  his  captain  wrote  that,  had  he  survived 
the  enofaorement  in  which  he  fell,  he  would  at  once  have 
been  promoted. 

"His  regiment  joined  the  Ariny  of  the  Potomac,  in 


LIEUT.    JOSEPH   P.    BURRAGE.  139 

which  it  remained  nearly  a  year.  It  bore  its  part  in  the 
fruitless  struggle  at  Chancellorsville,  and  participated 
in  the  perils  and  honors  of  Gettysburg.  After  tlie 
disaster  at  Chickamauga,  it  went  to  reinforce  the  im- 
perilled Army  of  the  Cumberland. 

"On  the  evening  of  the  28th  of  October,  1863,  the 
regiment,  wearied  with  the  fatigues  and  hardships  of  a 
long  passage,  reached  Brown's  Ferry,  in  the  vicinity  of 
Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  and  encamped  with  the  hope  of  an 
unbroken  night's  rest.  It  was  soon  discovered,  how- 
ever, that  the  rebels  had  obtained  possession  of  a  hill 
near  Lookout  Mountain  which  commanded  the  road  and 
the  railway.  It  was  necessary  that  they  should  be  dis- 
lodged. They  were  evidently  in  force  and  carefully 
intrenched.  To  assail  them  was  a  work  of  peril,  but  at 
all  hazards  it  must  be  done;  and  the  wearied  troops 
Avere  called  out  at  midnight..  In  the  bright  moonlight 
the  assaulting  column  was  formed,  —  the  33d  Mass.  and 
73d  Ohio  in  the  advance,  the  136th  ]^ew  York  and  55th 
Ohio  as  a  support.  At  the  word  of  command  they 
moved  forward  with  a  cheer.  As  they  climbed  up 
the  Steep  ascent,  that  full  October  moon  made  them 
but  too  plain  marks  for  hostile  fire;  but  they  pressed 
on  till  the  routed  enemy  were  driven  in  confusion. 
Col.  Underwood  wrote  that  the  Mass.  33d  that  night 
won  the  applause  of  the  veteran  Army  of  the  Cum- 
berland. 

"When  the  brief  struggle  was  over,  along  the  slope 


14:0  THE   BUKHAGE   MEMORIAL. 

of  that  steep  hillside  were  strewn  the  woiiiided,  the 
dying-,  the  dead.  Two  thirds  the  way  up  the  ascent, 
falling  in  the  second  charge  while  cheering  on  his  men, 
the  body  of  Lieut.  Burrage  lay  peacefully  in  the  soft, 
Avhite  moonlight.  He  fell  in  his  early  prime,  scarce 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  struck  l)y  a  ball  which  pierced 
his  licai't. 

"Lieut.  Burrage  had  great  simplicity  of  character. 
lie  was  thoroughly  honest  and  transparent  as  a  crystal. 
There  was  a  great  charm  in  his  naturalness  and  guile- 
lessness,  his  unaffected  modesty  and  truthfulness.  He 
had  also  great  kindness  of  heait.  Xo  one  was  readier 
than  he  to  do  a  favor,  and  to  do  it  witlumt  seeming  to 
impose  an  ol)ligation.  lie  was  icuiarkably  ])ui-c-minded. 
He  canu'  i'roui  college  witli  liis  heart  unstained,  and  he 
maintained  the  same  cliaracter  to  the  end." 

The  foregoing  is  a  true  delineation  of  the  character 
of  Lieut.  Burrage  and  a  just  tribute  to  his  worth.  The 
following  extract  from  one  of  his  letters,  written  shortly 
after  he  had  entered  active  service,  show^s  the  spirit  of 
the  patriotic  young  soldier.  Under  date  of  Sept.  6, 
18(32,  he  wrote,  "AVe  see  rather  more  of  the  realities  of 
Avar  here  than  at  home.  One  of  our  men  I  was  talking 
with  this  morning  said  'if  he  had  known  as  much  as  he 
did  now  he  would  not  have  enlisted,  and  I  think  that  is 
the  state  of  a  good  many  that  enlisted  for  the  fun  of  the 
thing  or  to  get  the  bounty.  I  should  enlist  again  if  I 
were  set  free,  though  T   nmst   confess   it  looks  pretty 


DEATH   OF   LIEUT.  BURRAGE.  141 

dark  just  now,  —  our  troops  back  just  where  they  were 
a  year  ago  and  so  many  hves  lost  for  nothing." 

Upon  receivmg  tidings  of  his  death,  his  ftither  imme- 
diately started  for  the  seat  of  wai-  to  obtain  the  body 
and  bring  it  home  for  burial.  It  was  found  that  the 
ball  that  piei'ced  the  heart  of  Lieut.  Bnri*age  struck 
and  carried  away  the  ring  and  stem  to  his  watch;  that 
if  it  had  struck  an  inch  lower,  it  would  have  hit  the 
watch,  and  in  all  probability  would  not  have  entered 
the  body.  So  slight  are  the  contingencies  upon  which 
hang  the  issues  of  life  and  death. 

So  the  manly  form  of  the  young  soldier,  which  n 
little  more  than  one  year  before  had  gone  forth  animated 
and  all  alive  with  the  spirit  of  patriotism,  was  brought 
home  and  tenderly  consigned  to  the  soil  of  his  native 
State,  and  rests  peacefully  in  the  quiet  of  Mount 
Auburn. 

I'pon  the  day  of  tlie  funeral,  his  parents  received 
from  one  of  his  uncles,  accompanying  a  gift  of  flowers, 
the  following  lines  from  Lowell's  immortal  poem  in 
memory  of  Col.  Kobert  G.  Shaw,  which,  with  the 
change  of  one  word,  are  so  strikingly  and  beautifully 
appropriate  for  the  occasion  that  we  feel  constrained  to 
copy  them  here,  deeming  them  a  more  endui'ing,  as  well 
as  a  more  graceful^  tribute  to  the  heroic  dead  than  any 
monuments  of  brass  or  •stone :  — 

"Why  make  we  moan 
For  loss  that  doth  enrich  us   vet 
With  upward  yearnings  of  regret? 

Bleaker  than  unmossed  stone 


Tin:  i'.ri;i;.\(;i:  .mi:.mi>u[al. 

Our   lives   \v»-iv   Imt    fur  this   iiiiiiioi-t:il   <i:iiii 
or  iinstilliMl   loiii^inj;  ami  iiispirin^  iciiii  I 

As  tliiills  of  Ioiiix-IiusIhmI    tour 
Live   ill   tlu-   viol,    so  our  souls  ^low    liiir 
With   ki'cii   viltratioiis   frorii  the  toiuh  <Iiviiii' 

( )f  iioltlcr  iiatiirt's  ^mw. 

"  Hravf.   j;oo(l.   :m<l    tnii". 
I  8t'o  him  stand  Ix-foiv  iiif   now, 
Aii'l   U'lul  ajrain  on   that   ch-ar  Im-ow, 

Wlu-n-   victorv's  siiriial   fh-w, 
Hon'  sirrt't  irerc  life!     Yet  l>\'   tlu-   month   linii-->ft 
Ami   look   niaih'   up   for  duty's   utmost   di-l't. 

I    could   divine   In-   knew 
Tliat  deatli   within   the  snlphiirons  liostiie  lines, 
In  the  mere  « n-ek  of  nol)l\-pit«hed  (h'sinns, 

I'lueks  heart's-ea.se  and   not   nie. 

"  Happy  their  end 
AVho  vanish  down   life's  evening;  stream, 
riaeiil  as  swans  that  drift   in  dream 

Hound  the   next   river-lieinl  I 
Happy   lon<;  life,   with  honor  at   the   close. 
Friends'   jiainless  tears,   the  softened   ihouirht   of  foes! 

And  yet,   like  him,   to  spend 
All   at   a  <rush,   keepinjr  our  first   faith   sure 
From  mid-life's  doul>t   and  eld's  c-ont^-ntmeiil  poor. — 

^^■ll:lt    more   eouM   fortune  send? 

••  Kiirlit    in   the   van. 
On   the   red   hillside's  slippery  sw«-ll, 
"With   heart   that   l>eat   a  eharjie.   he   fell 

Foeward.    as   tits   a   man  : 
r.ut   the  high  soul  Imrns  on  to  light  men's  feet. 
"Where  death  for  noble  ends  makes  dying  sweet ; 

His  life  her  crescent's  span 
Orbs  full  with  share  in  their  nnlarkening  days 
"Who  ever  climbed  the  battailous  steeps  of  praise 

Since  valor's  praise  began. 


SERGT.   THOMAS   F.    BURRAGE.  143 

' '  His  life's  expense 
Hath  won  for  him  coeval  youth, 
With  the  immaculate  prime  of  truth  ; 

While  we,  who  make  pretence 
At  living  on,  and  wake  and  eat  and  sleep, 
And  life's  stale  trick  by  repetition  keep, 

Our  fickle  permanence 
(A  poor  leaf-shadow  on  a  brook,  whose  plaj' 
Of  bus}'  idlesse  ceases  with  our  da}') 

Is  the  mere  cheat  of  sense. 

"We  bide  our  chance 
Unhapp}',  and  make  terms  with  Fate 
A  little  more  to  let  us  wait : 

He  leads  for  aj'e  the  advance, 
Hope's  forlorn  hopes  that  plant  the  desperate  good 
For  nobler  earths  and  days  of  manlier  mood. 

Our  wall  of  circumstance 
Cleared  at  a  bound,  he  flashes  o'er  the  fight, 
A  saintly  shape  of  fame  to  cheer  the  right 

And  steel  each  wavering  glance." 

Thomas  Fairbanks  Blindage  was  born  in  Fitchl3nrg, 
Mass.,  July  4, 1834,  the  eldest  son  of  Jonathan  and  Maiy 
T.  (Upton)  Biirrage,  Jan.  14, 1857,  he  married  Harriet 
L.  Battis.  He  was  at  that  time  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  varnish,  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  having,  in  1854, 
succeeded  to  the  business  of  his  father,  who  died  July  5, 
of  that  year.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  war  of  the  Ke- 
bellion,  in  the  spring  of  1861,  it  was  with  difficulty  that 
he  could  deny  himself  the  privilege  of  entering  the  ser- 
vice of  his  country.  But  as  successive  calls  for  troops 
were  made,  more  and  more  urgent  did  the  question  of 
duty  become,  and  July  29,  1862,  he  wrote,  "The  time 


144  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

has  come  when  I  can  no  long-er  enjoy  the  peace  and 
comfort  of  my  ])leasant  home  without  a  sense  of  shame 
and  dishonor.  My  country  calls  for  my  aid  and  I  cannot 
withhold  it."  It  was  a  decision  conscientiously  made, 
3-et  not  without  the  deepest  struggle,  as  he  thought  of 
the  loved  ones  he  must  leave  at  home. 

That  the  stt'i)  was  deliherately  taken  is  fui'ther  shown 
hy  an  extract  from  a  Icttrr  written  hy  him  to  another 
person,  under  date  <>1'  Nov.  25,  1862.  He  said,  "I  came 
into  the  service  with  tlie  I'esolution  to  stay  until  the  war 
was  finished.  I  am,  theivfore,  in  a  tln-ee  years'  regi- 
ment, —  the  last  fi-om  Massachusetts,  —  and  shall  stay 
that  time,  unless  sooner  discharged,  which  I  confidently 
expect." 

He  enlisted  as  a  jjrivate,  Aug.  13, 1862,  in  a  company 
then  forming  in  Koxhui-y,  and  afterwards  known  as 
Co.  C,  41st  Regt.  Mass.  Vols.  His  company  command- 
er was  Capt.  John  L.  Swift,  a  wai-m  personal  friend. 
lie  was  soon  a[)pointed  sei-geant,  and  devoted  himself 
Avith  untiring  interest  to  his  new  duties.  The  regiment, 
under  the  command  of  Col.  Thomas  E.  Chickerin<2:,  left 
Massachusetts,  Xov.  5;  remained  in  camp,  in  Xew  York, 
nearly  a  month;  and  embarked  Dec.  4  on  the  steamer 
"Xorth  Star,"  for  ^Xew  Orleans,  to  co-operate  with  the 
troops  under  the  command  of  Gen.  X.  P.  Banks.  On  its 
arrival  in  Xew  Oilcans,  the  regiment  Avas  ordered  to 
Baton  Kouge,  and  landed  there,  Dec.  17.  AVhilc  in  camp, 
at  tliat  i)]ace,  about  two  weeks  later,  Sei'gt.  Burrage  was 


DEATH   OF   SERGT.    BURRzVGE.  145 

taken  ill  with  chronic  diarrhoea,  and  was  ordered  to  the 
hospital.  But  a  forward  movement,  it  was  thought,  was 
at  hand,  and  before  he  had  fully  recovered  he  returned  to 
his  regiment.  ]N^ot  long  after,  he  was  again  ordered  to 
the  hospital;  but,  impatient  to  be  with  the  troops,  he 
soon  insisted  on  the  privilege  of  rejoining  his  regiment. 
His  request  was  granted, —  unwisely  granted, —  and  in  a 
short  time  he  was  again  brought  back  to  the  hospital. 
Medical  aid  was  now  unavailing;  and  having  communi- 
cated to  his  attendant  words  of  tender,  affectionate 
remembrance  to  the  loved  ones  at  home,  he  died  about 
nine  o'clock  on  the  evening  of  April  29,  1873,  passing 
away  so  quietly  that  the  attendant  knew  not  just  when 
he  breathed  his  last.  His  sword,  which  was  presented 
to  him  by  the  Sunday  school  of  the  Vine  Street  Congre- 
gational Church,  in  Roxbury,  he  gave  to  his  faithful 
attendant,  Sergt.  Horton.  The  following  winter  the 
remains  were  brought  home  to  Roxbmy  and  deposited 
in  the  beautiful  cemetery  of  Forest  Hills,  where  they 
peacefully  repose. 

"How  sleep  the  brave,  who  sink  to  rest 
By  all  their  country's  wishes  blest ! 
"When  Spring,  with  dewy  fingers  cold. 
Returns  to  deck  their  hallowed  mould, 
She  there  shall  dress  a  sweeter  sod 
Than  Fancy's  feet  have  ever  trod. 

"By  fairy  hands  their  knell  is  rang, 
By  forms  unseen  their  dirge  is  sung ; 
19 


14()  Tin:    lUKKAOK    MKMoKIAL. 

There  Honor  comes,  a  piljjriin  gray. 
To  l)less  tlie  turf  that   wraps  their  clay  ; 
And   Freedom  shall  awhile  repair. 
To  dwell,   a   wcfpiiiLT  hfrmit.   there  I  " 

Ik-ni'v  Swi'ctscr  liiirra;4X'  was  l)urn  in  l""ilclil)iii-ii\ 
Mass.,  .Ian.  7,  ISliT,  the  scc-oiid  son  of  Jonathan  and 
^Iar\  v.  (I  |itiin)  linri-au"c.  W  lim  a  Ixiy.  \\v  attcnch'd 
t  hr  (  'lianiicN  1 1  all  Schixij,  H(»-l(tn  :  allci'w  ai'ds  st  nd'u'd  at 
Pici-cc  Aca(h'niy.  Middlrhni-o",  Ma>s.:  and  in  Srptnnhi'r, 
1S.~,7,  cntncd  liidwn  I 'ni\(i'>it  y.  I'rox  idcnci-,  K.  I.  lie 
•jraihiatrd  in  h^^dKand  cntri'cil  tin-  Ni'\\l<»n  rhL'okm'ical 
ln-lilnrK»n.  Nrwtun  ('cnti'c,  Ma^s..  Xwj;.  1,  1S()*J. 
\\  liilr  ^pcndinu"  a  xatalinn  in  l-'itilihni';^",  \\v  c'ldi.^tcd  as 
a  ])i-i\alt'  in  (n.  .V,  .'Kitli  Ivfizt.  ^Fa^s.  \'(>ls.  Wa.s  made 
a  si'i-i;rant,  Anu'.  "> ;  xM-^cant-niajni-,  An,!;'.  1^7.  Sept.  2, 
the  re<j,"iincnt ,  niuh-r  the  coininand  (d"  ('ol.  Ilcni'v  How- 
man.  Kdl  \\  orcr^ti'f,  whri'c  it  was  rrci'nited,  and  em- 
harked  at  l)o-lon.  on  thr  >lranu'r  "Mei'rimaek,"  lor 
\\' a -hi  nut  on.  (  )n  llu-  ai'rival  <d"  tlie  regiment  in  A\  asli- 
inu'ton,  Sept.  7,  it  was  assig'iied  to  the  9lli  Army  Coi'ps, 
thill  nndn-  the  command  of"  (Jen.  Biu'nside,  and  followed 
the  fortunes  of  tliat  coi'Ijs  nntil  the  elose  of  the  war; 
ssrvinu'  in  ^raryhuid,  Kentucky,  Mississippi,  Tennessee, 
and  \'irL;inia.  Afay  10,  1863,  Sergt.-Major  Burrage 
was  ])romoted  to  tlie  i>o>ition  of  second  lieutenant, 
Co.  1),  receiving  his  couunission  when  tlie  regiment 
was  engaged  in  the  siege  of  \'ickshiu-g,  under  (4i-ant. 
Xov.  17,  18  ),'),  lu'  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant,  to 


MA  J.    HENRY   S.    BURRAGE.  147 

fill  a  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  Lieut.  Holmes, 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Campbell  Station,  in  Tennessee, 
:N"ov.  16.  At  the  battle  of  Cold  Hai-bor,  Va.,  June  3, 
1864,  he  was  wounded  in  the  right  shoulder;  was  com- 
missioned captain,  June  19,  1861,  to  fill  a  vacancy 
caused  by  the  death  of  Capt.  Amos  Buftum,  killed  at 
Petersburg,  June  18.  On  account  of  his  wound,  he 
was  granted  a  furlough  and  returned  home  for  a  few 
weeks.  Subsequently  rejoined  his  regiment  in  front  of 
Petersburg,  and  assumed  command  of  his  company 
about  the  middle  of  September.  Was  taken  prisoner 
in  front  of  Petersburg,  ]N^ov.  1,  and  kept  in  Libby 
Prison,  Pichmond,  until  Dec.  11,  when  he  was  removed 
to  Danville,  Ya.  During  his  imprisonment  he  suffered 
greatly,  in  common  with  other  Union  prisoners,  from 
privations  of  food  and  brutal  treatment  at  the  hands  of 
the  rebel  government.  But  he  bore  it  all  with  his  usual 
stoicism  and  habitual  cheerful  good-nature,  and  came 
out  of  his  confinement  in  as  good  spirits,  and  apparently 
in  as  good  health,  as  he  enjoyed  before  his  capture. 
He  was  exchanged  for  Eoger  A.  Pry  or,  a  rebel  general, 
Feb.  22,  1865 ;  was  brevetted  Major  U.  S.  Volunteers, 
March  13,  1865;  April  16,  appointed  acting-assistant 
adjutant-general  on  staff  of  Gen.  Cui'tin,  commanding 
1st  Brigade,  2d  Division,  9th  Army  Corps,  in  place  of 
Major  Peckham,  killed  at  Petersburg.  After  the  sur- 
render of  the  rebel  armies,  he  was  mustered  out  of  ser- 
vice at  Alexajidria,  Ya.,  June  8,  1865,  and  returned 


14-8  THE    BUKKAGE    MEMORIAL. 

Avitli  liis  regiment  to  Massachusetts,  having  done  val- 
iant service  for  his  country  and  conferred  lionor  u})on 
the  family  name. 

He  suhsequently  resumed  his  studies  at  the  Theo- 
logical Institution,  and  graduated  in  January,  1867. 
Prepared  the  ^lemorial  Volume  entitled  "Brown 
University  in  the  Civil  AVar,''  i)uhlished  at  Providence, 
li.  I.,  in  1S()7,  an  ablr  and  interesting  work.  Tn  18(j8, 
visited  (icniiany  to  finish  his  studies,  and  remained  there 
a  little  more-  tlian  a  year.  .Vfter  liis  return,  having 
received  a  call  to  become  the  minister  of  the  Paptist 
Chui-ch  in  AVaterville,  Ale.,  he  was  ordained  to  that 
office  Dec.  :30,  1809.  May  19,  1873,  he  married  Caro- 
line, only  daughter  of  Kev.  James  J.  T.  Champlin,  D.  D., 
President  of  Colby  University.  Resigned  his  pastorate 
Oct.  1,  1873,  and  removed  to  l*ortland,  Me.,  having 
become  editor  and  proprietor  of  "Zion's  Advocate,"  a 
religious  newspaper,  and  now  I'csides  there. 

AVilliam  Allen  l^urrage  was  born  in  Leominster, 
Alarch  5,  1814,  the  son  of  John  M.  and  Abbie  Maria 
(Jewett)  Burrage.  AVhen  about  thirteen  years  of  age 
he  went  to  live  with  his  gi-eat-uncle,  Deacon  Emory 
Burrage,  and  remained  there,  working  on  the  farm  and 
attending  the  public  school,  until  the  summer  of  1862. 
At  that  time  the  civil  war  had  been  going  on  for  more  than 
a  year;  the  Union  armies  had  met  with  many  reverses; 
McClellan,  with  an  army  of  160,000  men,  had  got  stuck 
in    the    nuid   of  the  Peninsula   in  Virginia,   and   while 


SERGT.   WILLIAM   A.    BURRAGE.  149 

invading  the  enemy's  country  with  the  purpose  of  cap- 
turing its  capital  Avas  continually  halting  to  throw  np 
entrenchments,  apparently  to  protect  his  own  ai-my  from 
capture;  the  ruling  classes  in  England  had  in  many 
waj^s  showm  their  sympathy  for  the  Confederacy  and 
their  hostility  to  the  Union  cause,  as  had  the  govern- 
ments of  most  of  the  European  states.  Under  such 
circumstances  it  is  not  surprising  that  there  were 
gloomy  forehodings  at  the  ^orth,  and  a  deep  and  wide- 
spread solicitude  as  to  the  ultimate  result  of  the  war. 
There  was  an  urgent  call  for  more  troops.  The  young 
man  of  eighteen  years  could  no  longer  resist  the  incite- 
ments of  patriotism  and  the  promptings  of  duty;  so 
early  in  August,  1862,  William  A.  Burrage,  following 
the  example  of  his  cousin  Joseph  P.  Burrage,  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  Co.  H,  of  the  33d  Eegt.  Mass.  Yols,  and 
joined  him  in  the  camp  at  Lynnfield.  The  regiment 
remained  in  camp  till  the  last  of  August,  when  it  was 
ordered  to  the  seat  of  Avar  and  was  transported  to 
Alexandria,  Ya.  It  remained  there  several  Aveeks, 
guarding  the  city  and  perfecting  itself  in  drill. 
While  there  William  Avas  promoted  to  the  rank  of  cor- 
poral. Subsequently  the  regiment  Avas  assigned  to  the 
11th  Army  Corps  and  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac, 
in  Avhich  it  remained  nearly  a  year.  Thus  William  and 
Joseph  Avere  in  the  battle  of  Chancellorsville  and  the 
great  conflict  (Avhich  Avas  the  turning-point  of  the  war) 
at  Gettysburg.     After  the  last-named  battle   the  lltli 


150  THE   BURR  AGE   MEMORIAL. 

Corps,  to  which  tlii>  ))3(1  ^Nfass,  was  still  attached,  was 
oi'dcrcd  to  reinforce  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  in 
Tennessee.  This  Avas  about  the  hist  of  September, 
18G3.  A  month  later,  Lieut.  Joseph  P.  Burraiic  fell  in 
the  battle  of  Lookout  ^Mountain.  After  his  fall,  Corp. 
Burrage  was  left  alone,  thenceforth  to  pursue  the  hard, 
stern  line  of  duty,  and  lace  death  on  many  a  sanguinaiy 
held  without  the  dear  com]ianion>hip  of  his  relative  and 
fiiiiid.  To  the  young  man  (or  boy),  not  yet  twenty 
years  of  age,  this  must  have  been  the  most  trying  ex- 
pcrii'uce  of  the  war.  Soon  after  this  the  33d  became  a 
part  of  Gen.  Sherman's  army,  renowned  for  making  the 
famous  "^SFarch  to  the  Sea,"  and  Cor]).  Burrage  was  in 
the  hard  fighting  at  ^larietta,  Atlanta,  Savannah,  and 
other  places,  and  ])articipated  in  the  hard  marching  of 
that  army  in  its  triumi)hant  advance  through  Georgia, 
South  Carolina,  and  Xoith  Carolina,  a  distance  of  nearly 
one  thousand  miles.  While  in  Georgia,  Corp.  l^urrage 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  orderly-  sergeant. 

The  surrender  of  Gen.  Lee's  army  to  Gen.  Grant 
was  soon  followed  by  the  surrender  of  the  ai'my  of 
Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston  to  Gen.  Sherman.  The 
Union  troops  Avere  then  marched  to  Washington, 
where  Sergt.  Burrage  was  mustered  out  of  service 
the  last  of  June  or  the  first  of  July,  1865,  and  rc- 
tunu'd  home,  ha\ing  sei'ved  nearly  the  full  term  — 
thi-ee  years  —  of  his   enlistment. 

Though    not    ambitious    for    high    position    or    Aime, 


SERGT.    EDWARD   C.   BURRAGE.  151 

Sergt.  Barrage  was  a  good  soldier,  —  a  true  specimen 
of  the  conscientious,  hardy  young  men  whose  persist- 
ent valor  brought  victory  to  our  banners  and  saved  the 
Republic. 

After  the  close  of  the  war,  Sergt.  Burrage  learned 
the  business  of  making  shoes,  in  Leominster.  March 
25,  1869,  he  married  Abbie  Thayer,  of  Leominster. 
Subsequently,  he  made  an  engagement  to  work  for  a 
shoe  manufacturer  in  Marlborough,  Mass.,  and  removed 
to  that  town. 

Edward  Carter  Burrage  was  born  in  Boston,  June 
13,  181:1,  the  eldest  son  of  Johnson  C.  and  Emeline 
(Brigham)  Burrage.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Boston,  and  graduated  from  the  Quincy  Grammar 
School,  a  Franklin  Medal  scholar,  in  1855.  Subse- 
quently he  attended  for  several  terms  the  school  of 
the  Messrs.  Allen,  at  West  :Newton,  and  afterwards 
studied  a  year  at  the  school  of  Mr.  Wm.  H.  Brooks, 
in  Boston. 

When  in  his  nineteenth  year  he  visited  Europe,  in 
company  with  Mr.  James  Allen;  was  absent  about  two 
years.  Upon  his  return,  in  the  autumn  of  1861,  he 
entered  his  father's  store,  J.  M.  Beebe  &  Co.'s,  and 
was  employed  there  Avhen  the  pressing  urgency  for 
more  troops,  in  the  summer  of  1862,  induced  the  gov- 
ernment to  issue  a  call  for  the  enlistment  of  men  to 
serve  nine  months.  It  was  thought  by  many  that  by 
throwing  vast  masses  of  troops  upon  the  i-ebel  armies 


152  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

the  rebellion  conld  be  crushed  out  at  once;  but  as 
lias  been  said  elsewhere,  at  that  time,  the  situation 
appeared  to  fjivor  the  success  of  the  slaveholders' 
rebellion  and  the  consequent  dismemberment,  of  the 
Union.  It  was  evident  that  the  government,  and  the 
cause  of  fi-eedom  which  it  represented,  could  only  be 
saved  by  tiie  unsi-Hish  patriotism  and  heroic  devotion 
of  all  classes  in  the  Xortlu-rn  States. 

This  was  dee[)ly  reali/A'd  l»y  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  who,  IVoiu  liis  youth,  had  been  noted  for  a 
conscientious  thought I'ulness  beyond  his  years.  So, 
obeying  the  promptings  of  duty,  he  enlisted  in  August, 
1802,  in  (\).  C\  of  the  1 1th  liegiment,  jVEassachusetts 
Militia,  Col.  Francis  L,  Lee,  —  a  regiment  recruited  by 
the  Xew  England  Guai'ds,  of  Boston,  under  the  call 
for  ''nine  months'  men."'  lie  ranked  as  corporal.  His 
C()ui[)any  bore  the  colors  of  the  regiment  which  served 
under  Cien.  J.  dr.  Foster,  in  Xorth  Carolina,  and  was 
prominent  in  the  battles  of  AVilliamstown,  Kingston, 
Whitehall,  Goldsboro',  and  siege  of  Little  Washington. 
By  the  death  of  Sergt.  Stacy  Curtis,  at  the  battle  of 
AVhitehall,  Dec.  16,  1862,  Corp.  Burrage  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  sergeant,  which  he  held  when  the  regi- 
ment w^as  mustered  out  of  service  in  June,  1863.* 

After  returning  from  the  war  he  re-entered  the  store, 
and  subsequent!}^  became  a  partner  in  tlie  house  of 
J.  C.  Burrage   &   Co.      When   that   tirm   dissolved  he 


*  See  Appendix  L,  letters  from  Burrage  soldiers  at  seat  of  war. 


GEORGE  F.   BURRAGE.  153 

went  into  the  wholesale  crockery  and  glassware  store  of 
Abram  French  &  Co.,  and  still  remains  in  that  business. 

Jan.  16,  1866,  he  married  Julia  Long  Severance,  of 
West  IN^ewton.  They  have  had  three  children.  They 
now  reside  in  West  ^N^ewton. 

George  Francis  Burrage  was  born  in  Leominster, 
Mass.,  Sept.  14,  1838,  the  son  of  George  Sumner  and 
Catherine  R.  (Smith)  Burrage.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  in  Leominster  until  about  seventeen  or  eighteen 
years  of  age,  when  he  left  home  and  went  into  a  whole- 
sale woollen-goods  store  in  Boston  to  learn  the  business. 
But  the  experiment  did  not  prove  a  success.  He  did 
not  like  the  business.  At  that  time  he  had  a  somewhat 
restless  temperament  and  roving  disposition;  so  after 
remaining  two  or  three  years  he  left.  Subsequently, 
having  become  affected  by  the  gold-digging  mania,  he 
embarked  for  California,  and  upon  his  arrival  there  went 
to  work  in  the  mines;  but  that  business  did  not  prove 
very  profitable,  and  soon  lost  it  charms.  He  left  it  and 
engaged  himself  as  a  travelling  salesman  for  a  jewelry 
house  in  San  Francisco.  After  remaining  in  California 
one  or  two  years  he  went  to  China,  where,  after  sundry 
adventures,  he  obtained  a  situation  in  an  American  com- 
mission house.  While  there  he  heard  of  the  war  at 
home,  and  became  anxious  to  return  and  take  a  hand  in 
it,  so  took  passage  for  Boston  and  reached  home  in  the 
latter  part  of  the  year  1863. 

Absence  from  his  native  land,  instead  of  abating  his 

20 


154  THE    BUREAGE   MEMORIAL. 

patriotic  ardor,  had  served  to  deepen  and  intensify  it. 
So  on  the  13th  of  Api-il,  1864,  he  enlisted  in  the  United 
States  Signal  Corps,  and  served  in  that  branch  of  the 
army  at  the  capital,  and  in  its  vicinity,  niitil  the  close  of 
the  "war;  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  in  Xovember, 
1865. 

Since  the  war,  he  has  been  engaged  as  commercial 
travrlU-r  lor  different  houses  in  Boston,  in  tlie  business 
of  selling  tailors'  ti'iiiimings,  with  good  success. 

Xov.  25,  1868,  he  married  Elizabeth  Ann  Hammond, 
of  Leominster,  Mass.  They  h-dxc  had  three  children, 
two  of  whom  are  living.  They  reside  in  the  Doi'- 
chester  District,  Boston. 

Such  is  the  brief  record  of  the  pati-iotic  services  of 
the  Bnrrage  soldiers  in  the  civil  war.*  The  four  who 
survived  the  contest  still  live  to  enjoy  tlie  fruits  of  their 
labors  in  experiencing  the  gratitude  of  their  country- 
men, and  by  li\'ing  in  a  more  firmly  consolidated  Union, 
—  a  country  free  from  the  taint  of  human  slavery;  a 
true  conunonwealth  of  equal  rights  to  all  her  people. 

Of  the  two  who  died  in  the  service,  one  lives  in  his 
])osterit3',  who  will  ever  treasure  the  memory  of  his 
heroic  sacrifice  for  the  right  as  their  most  precious 
heritage.  The  other,  in  giving  his  young  life  to  duty 
and  his  countr}',  sacrificed  every  earthly  hope. 

"  But  the  high  soul  l)urus  ou  to  light  men's  feet 
Where  death  for  noble  ends  makes  dj-ing  sweet." 


*  See  Appendix  L,  — letters  respecting?  the  soldiers  and  their  friends  dur- 
in;r  the  war,  and  k-ttcrs  from  soldiers  at  tlie  seat  of  war. 


REFLECTIONS.  155 

Since  he  left  no  posterity,  may  all  future  inheritors 
of  the  family  name  or  blood  become  heirs  of  his  spirit, 
ever  cherish  his  memory  and  emulate  his  heroic  virtues ! 

Our  brief  and  imperfect  genealogical  sketches  are 
now  brought  to  a  close.  Upon  the  whole,  the  record 
is  a  creditable  one.  While  it  contains  no  great  names 
and  recounts  few  brilliant  achievements,  it  is  singularly 
free  from  names  made  disreputable  by  unworthy  actions. 
Generally,  those  who  have  borne  the  name  appear  to 
have  been  diligent,  conscientious,  stable  in  character, 
and  "zealous  of  good  works." 

The  preparation  of  a  work  like  this  is  calculated  to 
profoundly  impress  one  with  the  transitory  nature  of 
human  life  and  the  inestimable  value  of  a  noble,  virtu- 
ous character.  He  sees  that  the  longest  earthly  life  is 
of  but  a  span's  length,  and  that  a  person's  worth  to 
himself,  as  well  as  to  mankind,  is  measured  absolutely 
by  the  extent  of  his  steadfast  fidelity  to  the  higher 
promptings  of  his  nature.  Fortunes  come  and  depart, 
death  takes  the  place  of  life;  but  a  grand  character, 
formed  by  a  conscientious  obedience  to  the  higher,  the 
God-like  impulses  of  the  soul,  must  needs  abide  for- 
ever; for  by  virtue  of  its  likeness  to  the  divine  nature, 
it  takes  hold  on  eternity. 


GENEALOGT 


T 


GENERATION  I. 

1.  Eobert  Burrage,  of  Seething,  Norfolk  County,  England. 
Will  proved  in  the  Bishop's  Court,  at  Norfolk,  May  13, 
1559.     Married  Rose :  d.  1559. 


GENERATION  II. 
Children  of  Robert  (1)  and  his  wife  Rose. 

2.  Eobert,  m.  Amy  Cooke  ;  d.  Dec.  3,  1598. 

3.  Richard. 

4.  Margary,  d.  Sept.,  1571. 

GENERATION  III. 
Children  of  Robert  (2)  and  his  wife  Amy. 

5.  Robert,  b.  Feb.  24,  1583;  d.  April  29,  1631. 

6.  Catherine,  b.  Oct.  30,  1586. 

7.  Thomas,  b.  Oct.  26,  1589. 

8.  William,  b.  June  9,  1592. 

9.  Matthew,  b.  May  26,  1595;  d.  May  2,  16.5. 

10.  Susan. 

Children  of  Richard  (3),  of   Seething  and  Norton  Subcourse, 
Norfolk  County,  England. 

11.  Henry,  b.  Nov.  17,  1577;  d.  Aug.  13,  1643. 

12.  Richard,  b.  Oct.  4,  1579  ;  d.  July  — ,  1646. 


158  THE    BURGAGE    MEMORIAL. 

■13.  Thomjis,  b.  Feb.   28,   1581  ;  m.  Frances  Dey,  Aug.   19, 
lt;()(3;  a.  March  2,  l(;32-;3. 

14.  Anne,  b.  Fob.  10,  1583. 

15.  Alice,  b    March  7,  158fi. 

]G.  Elizahclh,  b.  April  17,  1580. 

17.  John,  b.  April  18,  15U1  ;   d.  in  iiilaiicy, 

18.  John,  b.  Nov.  4,  15!)3. 

19.  Owen,  b.  Jan.  12,  1595-6. 

20.  Anthonv,  b.  March  — ,  1598. 


GENERATION  IV. 

Children  of  Thomas  il3),  of  Norton  Subcourse,  and  his  wife 

Frances. 

21.  :\Iarv,  b.  Sept.  21,  IGOC 

22.  Margarctt,  1).  Feb.  28,  1G07-8;  d.  June  21,  1(J32. 

23.  Grace,  b.  ;  d.  Dec.  5,  1612. 

24.  Leiitia,  1).  July  10,  1012;   d.  Dec.  5,  ](;i2. 

25.  John,  1).  April  10,  IGIO;  m.  1st,  Maiy ;   2d,  Joanna 

StowH'rs;  d.  Oct.  19,  KJ85. 
2( 
2 


0.      Ilenrv,     >  ,     V  ,.    '^M    1  <*->A 
>  I).  Nov.  o<),  1()20. 

7.      Aiuia,       ) 


GENERATION   V. 

Children   of   John  (25i,    of   Norton    Subcourse,    England,    and 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  his  1st  wife,  Mary. 

28.  Mary,  b.  March  8,  1640;  m.  John  Marshall,  of  IJillerica  ; 

d.  Nov.  30,  1680. 

29.  Hannah,  b.  Nov.  14,  1643  ;  m.  John  French,  of  Billerica  ; 

d.  July  17,  1667. 

30.  Elizabeth,  m.   1st,  Thomas  Deanc  ;  2d,  John  Poor,  both 

of  Charlestown. 

31.  John,  1).  1646;  ni.  June   15,   1675,  Susannah  Cutler;  d. 

June,  1677. 


GENEALOGY.  —  GENERATION   VI.  l.jO 

Children  by  his  2d  wife,  Joanna. 
32.     Nathaniel,  b.  Dec,  1655;  d.  Dec.  21,  1(350. 
-33.     William,  b.  Jime  10,  1657  ;  m.  Sarah ;  d.  1720. 

34.  Sarah,  b.  Nov.  24,  1658;  m.  William  Johnson;  d. 

35.  Bethiah,  b.  May  23,  1661. 

36.  Thomas,  b.  May  26,  1663;  m.  Nov.  30,  1687,  Elizabeth 

Breed,  of  Ljain ;  d.  March  11,  1717-18. 

37.  Kuth,  b.  Feb.  28,  1664;  m.  Ignatius  White. 

38.  Joanna,  b.  ;  d.  June  16,  1668. 

GENERATION  VI. 
Children  of  Mary  -(28)  and  her  husband,  John  Marshall. 

39.  John  Marshall,  b.  Aug\  14,  1667;  d.  Sept.  5,  1667. 

40.  Mary  INIarshall,  b.  Oct.  2,  1668;  d.  July  17,  1669. 

41.  John  Marshall,  b.  Aug.  1,  1671. 

42.  Hannah  Marshall,  b.  Dec.  18,  1673  ;  d.  April  21,  1674. 

43.  Thomas  Marshall,  b.  Oct.  10,  1675  ;  d.  Oct.  20,  1675. 

44.  Isaac  Marshall,  b.  Jan.  31,  1677  ;  d.  April  28,  1678. 

45.  Mehitable  Marshall,  b.  Aug.  13,  1680:  d.  Aug.  13,  1680. 

Children  of  Hannah  (29)  and  her  husband,  John  French. 

46.  Haimah  French,  b.  Jan.  11,  1663   (O.  S.)  ;  ni.  John  Kit- 

tridge. 

47.  Abigail  French,  b.  Dec.  6,  1665  ;  m.  Benjamin  Parker. 

Children  of  Elizabeth  (30)  and  her  1st  husband,  Thos.  Deane. 

{He  died  Dec.  2S,  1677,  of  siiKdl-pox.) 

48.  Elizabeth  Deane,  b.  Jan.  3,  1668  ;  d.  Aug.  U,  1669. 

49.  John  Deane,  b.  April  30,  1672. 

Children  by  her  2d  husband,  John  Poor. 

50.  Thomas  Poor,  b.  Dec.  27,  1682. 

51.  Bethia  Poor,  b.  ;  tl.  May  23,  1689. 

52.  Joanna  Poor. 

53.  Silence  Poor,  b.  Dec.  20,  1686  ;  d.  May  22,  1687. 


160  THE   BURR  AGE   MEMORIAL. 

Children  of  John  f31»,  Charlestown,  and  Susannah,  his  wife. 

54.  Susannah,  b.  April  25,  167G;  m.  Feb.  22,  1G94-5,  Alex- 

aiulei-  Michel;  d.  Dee.  30,  1710. 

55.  John,  b.  July  31,  1078;  d.  .Tan.  18,  1680. 

Children  of  William  (33)  and  his  wife  Sarah. 

n.     Elizabeth,  1).  June   10,   1091    (in  Boston)  ;  m.  Get.   22, 
1717,  Jolm  (lieney. 

57.  John,  h.  Fcl).  11,  1(;!I3  (in  T.oston)  :  m.  1st,  Ort.  9,  1718, 

Lydia   Ward;    2(1,   Jan.    17,    1725,   Sarah   Smith;    d. 
Jan.   24,   1705. 

58.  Sarah,   b.    Sept.    21,    10)II5    (in    Boston)  ;    m.    Benjamin 

Adams,  of  Newton. 

59.  Lydia,  m.  April  24,  1729,  John  Cheney. 
GO.     Abiijfail,  m.  Jan.  8,  1729,  Edward  Prentiee. 
(>1.     Buth,  m.  ()rt  ,  1731,  Ebenezer  Segur. 

Children  of  Sarah  (34)  and  her  husband,  Wm.  Johnson. 

02.      William  Johnson,  b.  Aiii:.  19,  1082;  d.  Sept.  20,  1G82. 

G3.     John  Johnson,  b.  Sept.  11,  1085. 

G4.      Bethia  Johnson,  b.  Mareh  25,  1094;   d.  July  15,  1094. 

Children  of  Deacon  Thomas  (36i,  Lynn,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth. 

05.     Joanna,    b,    Aug.    20,    10)88;     m.    Daniel    Mansfield;    d. 

June  8,    1733. 
GO.     Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  20,  1091. 
07.     Jolm,   b.   Jan.   20,   1094;    m    Jan.    1,   1718,   Mehitable 

Largin  ;  d.  May  15,  1761. 
68.     Thomas,  b.   Sept.   19,   1697;    m.   Jan.   30,    1722,   Sarah 

Xewhall;  d.  1759. 
09.     :\Iary,  b.  Mareh  3,  1099. 

70.  BethJMh,  1).  May  12,  1704 

71.  Kuth,  I).  Feb.  1,  17i)7. 

Deacon   Burrage's  tirst  wife  died  June   10,    1709.      He 
afterwards  m.  Elizabeth  Davis,  a  w^idow. 


GENEALOGY.  — GENERATION  VII.  101 

Child  of  Ruth  (37)  and  her  husband,  Ignatius  White. 

72.  Ignatius  White,  b.  Feb.  9,  1683  (O.  S.). 

GENERATION  VII. 

>  Susannah  (54)  and  her  husband,  Alexander  Michell. 

[It  is  not  known  where  they  settled,  but  it  is  supposed  that 
they  lived  hi  Lancaster.  Have  found  no  record  of  their  chil- 
dren, if  they  had  any.] 

Children    of    Elizabeth    (56),    of    Newton,   and    her    husband, 

John   Cheney, 

73.  William  Cheney,  b.  July  8,  1719. 

74.  Elizabeth  Cheney,  b.  Nov.  2,  1721. 

75.  Elenor  Cheney,  1).  Feb.  6,  1724. 

76.  Samuel  Cheney,  b.  Jan.  31,  1726;  d.  1761. 

77.  Abigail  Cheney,  b.  Aug.  20,  1727. 

Children  of  John  (57),  of  Newton,  and  his  1st  wife,  Lydia  Ward. 

78.  Lydia,  m.  Jan.  17,  1745,  Archibald  Smith,  of  Necdham  ; 

probably  removed  to  Concord. 

79.  William,  m.  Dec.  13,  1744,  Hannah  Osland  ;  d.  Oct.,  1763. 

80.  John,  d.  in  war  Rev.,  May  20,  1778. 

Children  by  2d  wife,  Sarah. 

81.  Samuel,  m.  1st,  Oct.  31,  1754,  Mary  Draper;  2d,  Hamiali 

Draper ;  d.  1793. 

82.  Thomas,   b.    1731;    m.   Nov.,   1767,   Abigail   Fisher,   of 

Dedham;    d.   1799. 

83.  Ephraim,  b.  ;  m.  1767,  Elizabeth  Sever. 

84.  Mary. 

85.  Sarah,  m.  1755,  Benjamin  Adams,  of  Newton. 

86.  Anna,  d.  April  6,  1825. 

21 


1G2  THE   BUKRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Child  of  Lydia  (59)  and  her  husband,  John  Cheney. 

87.  Lydia  Cheney,'  b.  Dec,  1731. 

Children  of  Abigail  (60)  and  her  husband,  Edward  Prentice. 

88.  Samuel  Prentice,  b.  Nov.  28,  1720. 

89.  Sarah  Prentice,  b.  ;  d.  1743. 

90.  Thomas  Prentice,  b.  Oct.  30,1732. 
1)1.  Al)igail  Prentice,  1).  Dec.  16,  1734. 

92.  John  Prentice,  b.  June  6,  1736. 

93.  Edward  Prentice,  1).  Oct.  14,  1738. 

94.  Kiith  Prentice,  b.  Sept.  3,  1741. 

95.  AN'illiam  Prentice,  b.  March  9,  1744. 

Children  of  Ruth  i61),  of  Newton,  and  her  husband,  Ebenezer 

Segur. 

96.  Mary  Segur,  b.  May  9,  1732. 

97.  Kebecca  Segur,  1).  May  30,  1734. 

98.  Hannah  Segur,  b.  Jan.  -lb,  1736. 

99.  Ebenezer  Segur,  b.  Dec.  2,  1737;  d.  1738. 
lUO.  Kuth  Segur,  b.  Sept.  9,  1739  ;  d.  1739. 

101.  Ebenezer  Segur,  b.  Aug.  10,  1741;  d.  1741. 

102.  Samuel  Segur,  b.  Nov.  14,  1742  ;  d.  1797. 

103.  Sarah  Segur,  b.  Eeb.  2-2,  1745. 

104.  P>ethsliel)a  Segur,  b.  April  10,  1747. 

105.  Jolm  Segur,  b.  Aug.  9,  1751. 

Children   of  Joanna  (65),  of   Lynn,  and   her   husband,  Daniel 

Mansfield. 

106.  Ehzabcth  Mansfickl,  b.  April  1,  1713;  m. Stocker. 

107.  Hannah  Manstield,  b.  May  2^,  1715  ;  m.  Collins. 

108.  Thomas  Mansfield,  b.  May  24,  1717;    m.  Pethia  Poole. 

109.  Lydia  Mansfield,  b.  Jan.  4,  1718  ;  m. Sterns. 


\ 


GENEALOGY.  — GENERATION  VII.  103 


110.  Bethia  Mansfield,  b.  Dec.  11,  1721. 

111.  Joanna  Mansfield,  b.  March  15,  1723. 

112.  Sarah  Mansfield,  b.  July  7,  1726. 

113.  Mary  or  Margaret  Mansfield,  b.  July  24,  1728. 

Children  of  Deacon  John  (67),  of  Lynn,  and  his  wife  Mehitable. 

114.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  30,  1721  ;  d.  Sept.  7,  1793. 

115.  Lydia,   b.   Nov.   25,    1723;    m.    1st,    April   19,    1750, 

Zaccheus  Norwood  ;  2d,  May  20,  1763,  Josiah  Martin. 

116.  Mehitable,  b.  March  12,  1725;  d.  Oct.  12,  1759. 

117.  Bethiah,  b.  1728  ;  d.  May  14,  1728. 

118.  John,  b.  Nov.  23,  1730;  did  not  marry;  was  a  deacon; 

see  sketch;  d.  Jan.  20,  1780. 

119.  Mary,  b.  1733  ;   d.  Sept   22,  1751. 

120.  Joanna,  b.  1735;  d.  Dec.  16,  1751. 

121.  Abigail,  b.  1737  ;  d.  Oct.  17,  1740. 

Children  of  Thomas  (68),  of  Lynn,  and  his  wife  Sarah. 

122.  Desiah,  b.  Jan.  18,  1723;  m.  May  14,  1743,  Edmund 

Whittimore. 

123.  Thomas,  b.  Jan    1,  1725;  d.  March  8,  1751. 

124.  Al)ijah,  b.  Oct.  27,  1729  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

125.  William,  b.  Dec.   9,   1731;    m.  May  20,   1760,  Phel)c 

Barrett,  of  Maiden;    d.  Sept.  23,   1820. 

126.  Sarah,  b.  Dec.  8,  1733  ;  d.  Sept.  16,  1752. 

127.  Josiah,  b.  April  30,  1736;  m.  Susannah  Ramsdcll ;  d. 

1776. 

128.  Susannah,  b.  Aug.   20,   1738;  m.  Feb.,  1775,  Steplien 

Wait,  of  Maiden. 

129.  Ruth,  b.  May  13,  1744;  d.  Sept.  4,  1745. 

130.  Al)ijah,  b.  July  8,  1745  ;  d    1780. 

131.  Rutii,  b.  Oct.  16,  1746;  d.  Jan.  9,  1748. 

132.  Another  child,  b.  Jan.  7,  1748  ;  d.  Jau.  9,  1748. 


1G4:  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 


GENERATION   VIII. 

Children   of  William    (79^  of   Newton   and   Concord,  and   his 

■wife  Hannah. 

133.  AVilliain,  d.  in  war  of  Kev.,  Jan.  12,  1778. 

134.  Lydia,  ni.  Dec.  2,  17()8,  Daniel  Brooks,  of  Acton. 

135.  Simeon,  d.  in  war  of  Kev.,  March  7,  1778. 

130.     John,    b.    Ang.    29,    1755;     m.    May    10,    1781,    Lois 
Barthrick,  of  Lnnonhnrir;    d.  Jnly  2,   1822. 

137.  Jonathan,  b.    1750;   ni.  Sally  l>artlnick,  of  Lnnen1)nrg ; 

d.  July  11),  1810. 

138.  IlaiHiah,  m.  Aug.  22,   17!I9,  Samuel  Buel,  of  Mcdford. 

Children  of  Samuel  i81',  of  Newton,  and  his  wife  Mary. 

139.  Mary,  b.  July  19,  1750  ;   m.  Feb.,  1787,  Samuel  Sanger, 

of  Watc'rtown. 

140.  Samuel,  b.   March  0,   1759;   served  in  Kev.   Avar;  date 

of  death  unknown. 

141.  Caty,  1).  April   2,  1703. 

Children  of  Thomas  ^82^  of  Newton  and  Dedham,  and  Abigail, 

his  wife. 

142.  John,  b.   Aug.   23,   1709;    m.   June    17,    1792,    Al)igail 

Pratt,  of  Sherborn;    d.  April  23,   1851. 

143.  Obed,  b.  July  25,  1772  :  m.  April  3,  1799,  Julia  Leland, 

of  Sherl)orn  ;   d.  April  17,  1.S50. 

144.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.   19,   1775;    m.    May   14,    1790,   Jabcz 

Baker,   of  Dover. 

145.  Keziah,  b.  1778;  m.  Aug.  22,  1798,  Edward  Simmons, 

of  Watertown. 

146.  Anna,  b.   1780;     m.   Xov.   20,   1801,  Lewis    Smith,   of 

Dover. 


GENEALOGY.  — GENERATION   VTTT.  ir)."5 

Children  of  Ephraim  (83),  of  Newton,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth. 

147.  Andrew,      )  removed  to  Waltham  ;    dates  of  birth  not 

148.  Elizabeth,    >  known ;    were  not  married. 

Children  of  Lydia  (115),  of  Lynn,  and  her  husband,  Zaccheus 

Norwood. 

149.  Jonathan  Norwood,  b.   Sept.   19,   1751;   d.  March   18, 

1782. 

150.  Susannah  Norwood,  b.  Jan.  13,  1754. 

151.  Mehitable  Norwood,  b.  April  11,  1756. 

Children  of  Desiah  (122),  of  Lynn,  and  her  husband,  Edmond 

Whittemore. 

152.  Elizabeth  Whittemore. 

153.  Joseph  Whittemore. 

154.  Edmund  Whittemore. 

155.  Esther  Whittemore. 


Children  of  William  (125\  of   Lynn  and  Leominster,  and  his 

wife  Phebe. 

156.  Sarah,  b.  Dec.  31,  1760;  d.  Dec.  3,  1776. 

157.  Thomas,  b.  Dec.  4,   1763;  m.  Aug.  21,   1791,  Abigail 

Fairbanks,  of  Templet  on  ;  d.  Oct.  10,  1828. 

158.  Phebe,  b.  Feb.  1,  1766  ;  d.  June  17,  1809. 

159.  William,  b.  Sept.  2,  1768;  m.  1st,  Feb.  2,   1792,  Mary 

Joslin,  of  Leominster;  2d,  June  21,  1821,  Koxaiuia 
Sanderson,  of  Lancaster. 

160.  Josiah,    b.   Aug.    16,    1770;    m.  March   7,    1800,   Kuth 

Kilburn,  of  Lunenburg;    d.  Nov.  5,   1856. 

161.  Abijah,  b.  April  24,  1773  ;  d.  Sept.  10,  1787. 

162.  John,  b.  March  10,  1775  ;  d.  Aug.  15,  1779. 

163.  Anna,  b.   Feb.   4,    1778;    m.   May  5,    1810,    Bonjainiu 

Carter,  of  Leominster;   no  children;    d.   :\Iarch  12, 
1851. 


166  THE   BUPvRAGE   ME.MORIAL. 

104.  Joseph,  b.  Nov.  5,  1780;  d.  Oct.  31,  1803. 

105.  Sarah.  1).  Jan.  25,  1784;  d.  Sept.  18,  1806. 
IGO.     ratt3s  1).  April  21,  1787  ;  d.  Oct.  30,  1807. 

Child  of  Josiah  (127),  of  Lynn,  and  his  wife  Susannah. 
107.     Josiah,  b.  1770;  d.  Dec.  30,  1797. 


GENERATION   IX. 

Children   of    Sergt.    John    (136),  of    Lunenburg   and   Medford, 
and  his  wife  Lois. 

168.     Thomas,!).  April   22,  1782;  in.   1st,  Hannah  Yearsloy  ; 

2d,    Mary    Howell;    3d,    Hannah    Paul;    4th,   .Mrs. 

Rcnshaw;    5th,  Mrs.  Child;    d.  Oct.   13,   1860. 
100.     John,  b.   Dec.    7,    1784;     ni.   Feb.    13,    1812,   Rebecca 

(ireenleaf.   of  Medford;    d.   June   19,   1820. 

170.  James,  b.  Apiil  28,  1786  ;  m.  Sarah  Maynard,  of  Detroit ; 

])n)bal»ly  lost  at  sea  about  1842. 

171.  Joseph,   b.   May  21,    1788;    m.  xVpril  24,   1814,  Lydia 

Jackson,  of  Boston;    d.  Feb.   11,   1868. 

172.  Martin,  b.  July  27,  1793;  m.  1st,  Sept.  8,  1816,  Eliza 

AVithington,  of  Medford;   2d,  May  12,  1840,  Hannah 
Pratt. 

173.  Betsey,   1).   July  21,    179:);    m.   May    11,    1814,  David 

r>ucknam. 

174.  William,  b.  April  30,  1801 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Xixon. 

Children  of  Jonathan  (137),  of  Liinenburg,  and  his  wife  SaUy. 

175.  Sally,  b.  Feb.  4,  1777. 

176.  Lydia,  b.  Sept.  10,  1779;  d.  Dec.  18,  1850. 

177.  Martha,  b.  1780;  d.  Feb.  15,  1813. 

178.  William,  1).  Nov.  11,  1782  ;  m.  Sophia  Ellis  ;  d.  Dec.  18, 

1840. 


GENEALOGY.  — GENEKATION   IX.  107 

179.  Jonathan,  b.  July,  1785;  m.  Hannah  Keescr ;  d.  May 

28,  1865. 

180.  Mary. 

181.  Nancy. 

182.  Hannah  Harriet,  b.  July  8,  1797;  m.  1st,  Levi  Farns- 

worth;    2d,  Jan.    1,    1826,   Artemas  A.  M.  Pierce; 
d.  June  26,  1846. 

Children  of  Major  John  (142),  of  Dover,  and  his  wife  Abigail. 

183.  Sylvia,  b.  Jan.  9,  1794;  m.  Oct.  3,  1824,  Richard  Ken- 

drick,  of  Newton. 

184.  Roxanna,  b.  April  8,  1796  ;  m.  April  28,  1822,  Ebeuezer 

liicker,  of  Dedham. 

185.  John  Lowell,  b.  Feb.  13,  1798  ;  d.  Sept.  29,  1802. 

186.  Anna,  b.  Dec.  21,  1800;  m.  June  8,  1823,  her  cousin, 

Jabez  Baker,  Jr. 

187.  Caroline,  b.  May  6,  1804 ;  m.  Calvin  Burden,  of  Troy. 

188.  John,  b.  July  12,  1806;  m.  Nov.,  1829,  Nancy  Poor 

Dana. 

Children  of   Capt.  Obed  (143),  of  Dover  and  Templeton,  and 

his  v^ife  Julia. 

189.  Julia  L.,  b.  Feb.  3,  1802;  m.  Apiil  2,  1829,  Jonatlian 

Nichols,  of  Shrewsbury. 

190.  Betsey,   b.  ;    m.   Nov.    27,   1833,    Jason 

Lamb,  of  Templeton. 

191.  Lowell  T.,  b.  Oct.  2,  1804;  m.  Dec.  24,  1829,  Adeline 

Davis,  of  Templeton. 

Children  of  Abigail  (144),  of  Dover,  and  her  husband,  Jabez 

Baker. 

192.  Abigail  Baker. 

193.  Jabez  Baker,  Jr.,  m.  June  8,  1823,  Anna  Burrage. 

194.  Mary  Baker. 


168  THE   BUKKAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Children  of  Keziah  (145),  of  Dover,  and  her  husband,  Edward 

Simmons. 

195.  Anna  Simmons. 

196.  Betsey  Simmons. 

197.  Jane  Simmons. 

Children  of   Anna   (146 1,  of    Dover,    and   her   husband,    Lewis 

Smith. 

198.  Selinda  Smith,  1).  Aug.    10,   1803  ;  m.  John  II.  Miller, 

April  5,  1827, 

199.  Anna  Smith,  b.  Feb.  6,  180G  ;  m.  Wm.  Clarke,  Jan.  4, 

1835. 

200.  Lewis  Smith,  b.  Feb.  22,  1808  ;  m.  May  Wilson,   Oct. 

31,  1838. 

201.  Francis  Smith,  1).  March  25,  1810  ;  d.  Aug.  30,  1826. 

202.  Catherine  Richards  Smith,  b.  April   15,  1812;  m.  Geo. 

S.  Burrage,  May  15,  1831  ;  d.  June  3,  1840. 

203.  Isaac   Smith,    b.   Dec.    27,    1814;    m.    Frances    Carter, 

Dec.  1,  1843;  d.  Dec.  19,  1851. 

204.  Abby    Burridge    Smith,   b.   June    10,    1817;    m.    John 

Adams,  Nov.  1,  1837. 

205.  Martha  I.  Smith,  b.  Oct.  12.  1819  ;  m.  Calvin  L  Hawes, 

Dec.  2,  1843;  d.  Aug.  27,  1855. 

r' 
Children  of  Thomas  fl87i,  of  Leominster,  and  his  wife  Abigail. 

206.  Sena,  b.  May  19,  1792;  m.  John  Burrage,  her  cousin; 

d.  March  11,  1824. 

207.  John,  b.  March  15,  1794;  d.  Sept.  25,  1800. 

208.  Abigail,!).   March  12,   1796;  m.  Oct.   1,  1818,  Horace 

Newton,  of  Templeton ;  d.  Sept.  28,  1850. 

209.  Harriet,  b.  March  12,  1798  ;  m.  Nov.  26,  1829,  Leonard 

Battis. 

210.  Thomas,  1).  June  6,  1800;  d.  July  29,  1826. 


GENEALOGY. —GENERATION   IX.  1G9 

211.  Mary,  b.   Feb.    14,    1802;    m.   May   26,    1825,   Emory 

Burrage,  her  cousin. 

212.  Sarah,  b.  March  2G,  1804;  cl.  Aug.  26,  1804. 

213.  Jonathan,  b.  March   18,   1805;  m.   1st,  June  19,  1828, 

Sarah  Downe,  of  Fitchburg ;  2d,  April  30,  1833, 
Mary  T.  Upton,  of  Fitchburg;  3d,  Dec.  14,  1841, 
Sarah  T.  Farnum  ;  d.  July  5,  1854. 

214.  Adeline,  b.  June  10,   1808  ;  m.  Dec.  30,   1830,  David 

Child,  of  Templeton;  d.  Dec.  2,  1841. 

215.  Joan,  b.  Jan.  14,  1810  ;  m.  June  29,  1842,  David  Child  ; 

d.  July  15,  1843. 

216.  Sophronia,  b.  April  20,  1815;  m.  Nov.  2,  1835,  James 

Cutter;  d.  March  7,  1841. 

217.  An  infant  son,  b.  Oct.  19,  1817  ;  d.  Oct.  19,  1817. 

Children   of    Deacon   William   (159),   of    Leominster,   and  his 
1st  wife,  Mary. 

218.  William,  b.  Nov.  30,  1792;  d.  Feb.  27,  1795. 

219.  Polly,  b.  Dec.  29,  1794;  d.  Dec.  10,  1817. 

220.  Leonard,  b.  March  14,  1797;  m.  April  15,  1819,  Mira 

Allen,  of  Leominster. 

221.  Thirsa,  b.  June  16,   1799;  m.  June  12,   1817,  Thomas 

Stearns;  d.  May  24,  1819. 

222.  William,  b.  May  4,  1802;  m.  June  1,  1824,  Mary  Ann 

Richardson,  of  Leominster;   d.  Jan.  19,  1825. 

223.  Caroline,  b.  Sept.  10,  1805  ;  d.  Oct.  22,  1826. 

Children  by  2d  wife,  Roxanna. 

224.  . George  Sanderson,  b.  May  15,   1823;  m.  1st,  April  2, 

1844,  Martha  G.  Phelps;  2d,  Jan.  1,  1851,  Aurclia 
Chamberlin;  d.  May  16,  1876. 

225.  William  F.,  b.  April  5,  1826;  m.  July  25,  1849,  Eve- 

line Lawrence ;  d.  Nov.  11,  1873. 

226.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Jan.  12,  1829  ;  d.  Aug.  22,  1851. 

22 


170  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

227.  Charles  W.,  h.  Aug.  25,  1830  ;  m.  Xov.  30,  1854,  Sarah 

J.  Hills,  of  Leominster. 

228.  Henry  Auiriistus,  b.  :Marfh  20,  1833  ;  d.  April  10,  1838. 

229.  Martha  Ann,   1).   March    17,    1835;    m.   Feb.   IG,   185;t, 

Porter  M.  Kiml)all  :  tl.  Xov.  4,  18(i3. 

230.  Henry  Waldo,  b.  March  31,  1840;  d.  March  19,  1841. 

231.  Dana  Barrett,  b.  Sept.  16,  1842;  d.  April  28,  1843. 

Children  of   Capt.   Josiah  (160i,   of   Leominster,   and  his  "wife 

Ruth  K. 

232.  John,  1).  Oct.  30,  1800;  m.    1st,   1820,  Semi  Biirragc, 

his  cousin;   2d,    Sept.    17,   1835,   'Mary  "Watson;   d. 
Aug.  2G,  1843. 

233.  Emory,  b.   Sept.    18,    1802;    m.   May  2(3,   1825,  Mary 

Purrage,  his  cousin. 

234.  Jobiah,  b.   July  24,   1804;  m.   May   15,   1833,   Abigail 

Studley,  of  Leicester. 

235.  George  Sumner,  born  Aug.  10,  1806;  m.   1st,  May  15, 

1831,  Catherine  K.  Smith,  of  Dover;  2d,  Sept.  15, 
1840,  Martha  Ann  Minot,  of  AVestminster ;  d.  Feb. 
25,  187  7. 
23(').  William,  b.  May  14,  1808;  m.  1st,  May  14,  1835,  Mary 
Ann  Jacl<son,  of  Jvoxbnry  ;  2d,  March  31,  1841,  Mary 
G.  French,  of  Boston  ;   d.  Xov.  30,  185'J. 

237.  Almira,  b.  Feb.  IG,  1810;  m.  Xov.  25,  1847,  James  H. 

Marshall,  of  Leominster;  d.  Xov.  10,  1872. 

238.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  Xov.  9,  1811  ;   m.  May  15,  1834,  David 

McCkire,  of  Cambridgeport ;  d.  Dec.  14,  1850. 

239.  Joseph,  b.  X'ov.  16,  1813;  m.  1st,  Jan.  20,  1841,  Fran- 

ces S.  Perrin,  of  Montpelier,  Yt.  ;  2(1,  June  6,  1861, 
Mary  E.  Closson,  of  Thetford,  Vt.  ;  d.  Aug.  30,  1873. 

240.  Johnson  Carter,   b.   Jan.   20,  1816;  m.  Xov.  29,  1838, 

Emeliue  Brigham,  of  Groton. 

241.  Martha,  b.  Feb.  4,  1818;  m.  Dec.  6,  1836,  John  Dal- 

lingcr,  Jr.,  of  Cambridgeport;  d.  May  5,  1845. 


.GENEALOGY. —GENERATION  X.  ]71 

242.  Elizabeth  Smith,  b.   May  2,  1820;  m.  Nov.  20,  1830, 

Peter  Farwell,  of  Fitchlnirg. 

243.  Alvnh  Augustus,  b.  May  30,  1823;  m.  May  17,  1849, 

Elizabeth  Amelia  Smith,  of  Groton. 

244.  Charles  Henry,  b.  June  22,  1825  ;  m.  1st,  Oct.  11,  1853, 

Mary  Greene  Hunt,   of  Boston;    2cl,  Oct.   5,  1864, 
Lydia  Love,  of  Philadelphia. 


GENERATION   X. 

Child  of   Thomas  (168),   of  Lunenburg  and  Pennsylvania,  by 
his  1st  -wife,  Hannah. 

245.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  5,  1811;  m.  1st,  Bcnj.  Griffith;  2d, 

W.  K.  Lee. 

Children  by  his  2d  wife,  Mary. 

246.  Thomas  Howell,  b.  Oct.   22,   1813;  m.  Jan.  12,  1855, 

Mrs.  Emma  (Davis)  Koberts. 

247.  Mary  Ann,  b.  July  15,  1815  ;  m.  1835,  John  Funk. 

248.  John,   b.   June   10,    1817;    m.  June   16,    1842,  Lavina 

Coon,  d.  1858. 

249.  Hannah,  b.  June  11,  1818;  m.   1837,  Joseph  Mills,  of 

Philadelphia. 

Child  by  his  3d  wife,  Hannah. 

250.  William,  b.  Aug.  26,  1823;  m.  Sarah  Ann  Hill,  March, 

1855. 

Children  of  John  (169),  of  Medford,  and  his  wife  Rebecca. 

251.  John,  b.  Sept.  4,  1813;  d.  1813. 

252.  Eliza  G.,  b.  Jan.  5,  1815;  d.  April  8,  1839. 


172  THE   BURRAGE    ^rEMORIAL. 

Children  of  Joseph  (171),  of  Lunenbiirg  and  Cambridge,   and 
his  wife  Lydia. 

253.  Joseph,  b.  Jan.  25,  1815  ;  d.  Sept.  10,  1873. 

254.  Lucy,  b.  Fel).   25,   1817  ;)d.  March  15,  1817. 

255.  Louisa,  b.  Feb.  25,  1817  ;  S  d.  Sept.  23,  1843. 

256.  Sarah  J.,  1).  .April  23,  1821  ;  d.  Sept.  27,  1851. 

257.  Caroline  Y.,  b.  June  12,  1824. 

258.  Anna  J.,  b.  June  16,  1828  ;  d.  Nov.  17,  1870. 

259.  Ward  Jackson,  1).  Dec.  6,  1829. 

Children  of  Martin  (172^  of  Medford,  and  his  wife  Eliza. 

2(;0.     Andrew  Bi^'^-elow,  b.  May  li>,  1817;  m.  Sept.  22,  1839, 
Piiscilla  B.  Baker;  d.  Sept.  8,  1873. 

261.  Henry,  b.  Jan.  14,  1820;   ni.  June  10,  1849,  Ilaunali  J. 

Mdore. 

262.  Eliza  W.,  b.  Sept.  24,  1822  ;  m.  March  5,  1845,  Henry 

Kimball  ;  d.  Jan.  5,  1858. 

263.  Cathcniic  L.,    b.   July   10,    1825;    m.   Jan.    24,    1850, 

C.  F.  Lyflcrinann. 

264.  John  B.,  b^  July  29,  1827  ;  d.  Juno  12,  1873. 

Child  of  Betsey   (173 >,   of   Medford,   and   her  husband,   David 

Bucknam.  ' 

265.  Kli/al)eth  liucknani,  b.  May  26,  1815  ;  m.  May  23,  1834, 

John  P.  Bradley,  of  Newton. 

Child  of  William  •(174\  of  Lawrence,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth. 

266.  John  Q.  A.,  1).  Feb.  22,  1825  ;  m.  May  10,  1849,  Sarah 

L.  Thayer. 

Children  of  William  (178),  of  Lunenburg,  and  his  wife  Sophia. 

267.  William  Hathaway,  b.  Oct.  11,  1815;   m.  March,  1857, 

Botlica  Fiskc. 


GENEALOGY.  —  GENERATION  X.  173 

268.  Simeon,  b.  May  19,  1818;  m.   1st,  Betsey  Foster;  2d, 

1854,  Nancy  Parker. 

269.  Martha   Ann,     b.    Aug.    13,    1820;    m.    1842,    Loring 

Foster. 

270.  Hannah   Maiia,  b.  June   17,   1823;    m.  July  4,   1847, 

Ithamar  Wood,  of  Lunenburg. 

271.  John    Brisk,    b.   Oct.    28,    1825^;    m.    Nov.    16,    1852, 

Maltha  B.   Gibbs;    lives  in  Petersham,  Mass. 

Children  of  Jonathan  (179),  of  Lunenburg,  and  his  wife  Hannah. 

272.  Mary  B.,  b.  July  31,  1810. 

273.  John,  b.  May  3,  1814;  m.  Mary  Ann  ;  d.  Jan.  23, 

1848. 

274.  Sarah  J.,  b.  March  18,   1319;  m.  June  30,   1841,  Asa 

Kilburn,  of  Lunenburg. 

275.  Harriet,  b.  Oct.  25,  1821. 

276.  Hannah  Maria,  1).  June  29,  1824. 

277.  Artemas  P.,  b.  July  6,  1830. 

278.  Triphena,  m.  Silas  Loveriiig. 

Children  of  Hannah  Harriet  (182)  and  her  1st  husband,  Levi 

Farnsworth. 

279.  Laura  Farnsworth. 

280.  Jonas,  changed  to  Alphonso  Farnsworth. 

Children  by  2d  husband,  Artemas  A.  M.  Pierce. 

281.  Joseph  Buirage  Pierce,  b.  Jan.  27,  1831. 

282.  James  Burrage  Pierce,  b.  March  5,  1834;  d.  March  29, 

1835. 

283.  Fiances    Angelica   Pierce,  b.  June  5,   1835;    ni.  • 

Spinney  ;    lives  in  Chelsea. 

284.  Sylvia  Jane  Pierce,  b.  Feb.  24,  1838  ;  d.  May,  1868. 


174  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 


Children  of  Sylvia  (183),  of  Dover,  and  her  husband,  Richard 

Kendrick. 

285.  Juliu  Kendrick. 

28G.  Siisaiintih  Kendriok. 

287.  Elizalx'tli  Keiulric-k. 

288.  Ellen  Kendrick. 

Children   of   Anna    (186 >,   of    Dover,    and   her   husband,    Jabez 

Baker,  Jr. 

2S9.  W:nren  Baker. 

25)0.  Matilda  Baker. 

21)1.  Maiy  Uaker. 

2:ti>.  lleiiiy  r.akei-. 

Children  of  Caroline  (187  >,  of  Dover,  and  her  husband,  Calvin 

Barden. 

2im.      Iliraui   r,.    IVuden.   1..  O.-t.  2C,,  1S28  ;  d.  May  21,  1802. 
2!)L      Mary  \V .  Bard.'n,  h.  Dee.  27,  LSJO;   ni.  Nov.  28,  1871, 

Daniel  F.  Mann,  of  Xeedham. 
295.     Frederick   Barden,  1).  dnly  22,  1832;    d.  Fob.  8,  1870. 
29G.      Ann  l^anlen,  1>    Ang.  7,  183.5;   d.  Jan  13,  1843. 

Children  of  John  (188  ,  of  Dover,  and  his  wife,  Nancy  P. 

207.     Caroline  Ann,  1).  Aug.  12,  1831. 

2[)S.     John  Dana,  b.  Sept.  19,  1833;  d.  Aug.  IG,  1834. 

299.  Hamilton,    h.   June   G,    1835;     ni.   Oct.    2,    18G1,   Mary 

How  Davis. 

300.  John  Francis,  h.  Jan.  11,  1838. 

301.  Ellen  Koxanna.  b.  Jan.  1,  1840. 

302.  George  William,  b.  April   19,  1842;  d.  Ang.   13,   1844. 

303.  George   Dana,   b.    Oct.    12,    1845;    m.    Oct.    12,    1870, 

Mary  Hall  PaluKu-,  of  Bo.ston ;  she  d.  March  G,  187G. 


GENEALOGY.  —  GENERATION  X.  175 

Children  of  Lowell  T.  (191),  of  Templeton,  and  his  wife  Adeline. 

304.  Julia  Leland,  b.  Doc.  31,  1830. 

305.  Abbie  Aiitoinotte,  b.  July  23,  1810. 

306.  Margarett  Jaue. 

Child  of  Sena  (206),   of   Leominster,  and  her  husband,  John 

Burrage. 

307.  John  Milton,  b.  May  19,  1821;  m.  1st,  April  4,  1843, 

Abbie  Maria  Jewett;  2d,  Nov.  26,  1846,  Elizabeth 
Robins  Hadley. 

Children   of   Abigail   (208),   of  Templeton,   and  her  husband, 
Horace  Newton. 

308.  Frederick    William,  b.  Oct.   14,  1819;    m.   1st,  Dec, 

1848,  Nancy  C.  Gibson  ;  2d,  Abby  S.  Cutter  ;  d.  Jan. 
16,  1874. 

309.  Abigail,  b.  Feb.  21,  1826;  m.  Oct.  1,  1845,  Aaron  K. 

Litch. 

310.  Charles  Harrison,  b.  Aug.  5,  1830;  m.  April  16,  1863, 

Lizzie  S.  Lee. 

311.  Henry  Sawyer,  b.  Sept.  8,  1835  ;  d.  July  6,  1836. 

Children  of  Harriet  (209),  of  Templeton  and  Leominster,  and 
her  husband,  Leonard  Battis. 

312.  A  son,  b.  Oct.  4,  1830;  d.  Oct.  7,  1830. 

313.  Harriet  Louisa  Battis,  b.   April  1,   1^32;  m.  Jan.  14, 

1857,  Thomas  F.  Burrage,  her  cousin. 

314.  Julia  Allen,  b.  May  3,  1835  ;  d.  Sept.  6,  1836. 

315.  Julia  Henrietta,  b.  Aug.  21,  1839;  m.  Aug.  20,  1863, 

Wm.  S.  Barber,  civil  engineer,  Cambridge. 

ChUd  of  Jonathan  (213),  of  Templeton,  and  his  1st  wife.  Sarah. 

316.  Leonard  Downc,  b.  June  26,  1832.     When  al)()ut  twenty- 

one  years  of  age  he  disappeared  one  day  when  in  the 
western  part  of  Massachusetts,  and  never  has  been 
seen  or  heard  from  by  his  friends  since. 


17G  THE    BURKAGE    MEMORIAL. 


Children  by  2d  wife,  Mary  T. 

317.  Thomas  Fairhanks,  1).  July  4,  1834;  m.  Jan.  14,  1857, 

liis  cousin,  Harriet  Battis ;  d.  in  war  of  the  Rebellion 
while  serving  in  the  Union  army,  April  29,  1863. 
(Sec  sketch  of  soklici's.) 

318.  Henry  Sweetscr,  1).  Jan.  7,  1837  (see  sketch)  ;  ni.  May 

19,  1873,  CaroHne  Chaniplin,  of  \Val(  iviUc,  Me.  ; 
she  d.  Nov.   21,   187,'). 

319.  William  Upton,  h.  Dec.  22,  1838  ;   d.  An^^  12,  1839. 

320.  Edwin  Augustus,  b.  Nov.  21,  1840;  d.  Sept.  15,  1841. 

Children  by  3d  wife,  Sarah  T. 

321.  Mary  Abigail,   b.   Nov.    18,   1842;    m.   Nov.    8,    1871, 

Oscar  H.  Evans;  d.  Jan.  13,  1873. 

322.  Sarah  Elizal)eth  Tilton,  b.  Nov.  2,  1844.     Was  adopted 

l)y  Wm.  n.  Palmer,  and  his  Avife,  Sarah  C.  Palmer, 
of  Poxbuiy,  Mass.,  and  her  name  changed  to  Sarah 
Pnrrage  Palmer,  March  15,  185G. 

323.  Martha  Sophronia,  b.  Dec.  22,  1846;  d.  Nov.  13,  1861. 

324.  Ilarrietta  Adeline,  b.  March  2,  1851. 


Children  of  Adeline  (214,  of  Templeton  and  Leominster,  and 
her  husband,  David  Child. 

325.  Mary  Adeline  Child,  b.  March  3*0,  1832;  d.  July  29, 

1833. 

326.  Mary  Adeline  Child,    b.    Oct.   10,   1833;  d.    Sept.   16, 

1854. 

327.  Jonathan  Bush  Child,  b.  July  1,  1835  ;  m.  Sept.  5,  1865, 

Sarah  B.  Pobinson. 

328.  Harriet  Child,  b.  April  24,  1837  ;  d.  Oct.  1,  1838. 

329.  Emily  Wallace  Child,  1).  Aug.  1,  1839  ;  d.  May  28,  1842. 

330.  William  Child,  b.  Nov.  10,  1841  ;  d.  Aug.  11,  1842. 


GENEALOGY.  — GENERATION  X.  177 

Children  of   Sophronia  (216),  of   Templeton  and  Leominster, 
and  her  husband,  James  Cutter. 

331.  Abby    Sophronia    Cutter,    1).    July    I'J,    1836;    m.    her 

cousm,  Frederick  W.  Newton;  no  children. 

332.  George  W.  Cutter,  b.  Dec.   20,  1839  ;  d.  Nov.  4,  1840. 

Child  of  WUliam  (222),  of  Leominster,  and  his  wife  Mary  Ann. 

333.  Mary   Caroline,   b.   May  26,   1825;    m.   Dec.   4,   1848, 

Emory  Lyon,  of  Stirling;  d.  Sept.  23,  1852. 

Children  of  George  Sanderson  (224),  of  Leominster,  and  his 
1st  wife,  Martha  G. 

334.  Clara  A.,  b.  Dec.  20,  1844  ;  m.  May  15,  1865,  Frank  S. 

Poland. 

335.  Ellen  M.,  b.  March  20,  1847;  m.  May  4,  1867,  Lewis 

W.  McGlauflin;  d.  Sept.  8,  1867. 

336.  Mary  E.,  b.  May  21,  1849  ;  d.  Sept.  6,  1849. 

Children  by  his  2d  wife,  Aurelia. 

337.  Cora  Chaml)erlin,  b.  Dec.   29,  1851  ;  m.  May  31,  1870, 

Thomas  J.  Tucker,  of  Napa  City,  Cal. 

338.  William  Henry,  b.  March  11,  1854;  d.  March  19,  1854. 

339.  Martha  Bay  ley,  b.  June  20,  1855  ;  d.  July  25,  1855. 

340.  Charles  Dana,  b.  Feb.  20,  1857. 

341.  Albert  Cameron,  b.  Nov.  21,  1859. 

Children  of   William   F.   (225),   of   Leommster,   and  his  wife 

Eveline. 

342.  Mary  E.  Bm-rage,  b.  Oct.  9,  1851 ;  d.  Sept.  19,  1874. 

343.  Leonard  F.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1853  ;  m.  Jan.   13,  1876,  Mary 

Lillian  Packard  ;  lives  in  Leominster  ;  is  a  partner  ot 
the  tirm  of  Packard  &  Co. 

344.  Hattie  M.,  b.  Aug.  21,  1856  ;  d.  Nov.  12,  1874. 

23 


178  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 


Children  of  Charles  "W.  (227 >,  of  Leominster  and  Oregon,  and 
his  wife  Sarah  J. 


345.     Edward  11. ,  b.  May  20,  1856. 
34(3.     Williasn  11.,  1).  July  3,  18G0. 
347.     Charles  F.,  h.  Oct.  23,  1864. 


Child  of   Martha  A.   (229^  of  Leominster,   and  her  husband, 
Porter  M.  Kimball. 

348.     William  Burrage  Kimball,  b.  April  12,  1863  ;  d.  Jidy  28, 
1864. 


Child  of  John  (232\  of  Leominster,  and  his  1st  wife,  Sena. 

340.  John  Milton,  b.  May  19,  1821  ;  m.  1st,  April  4,  1843, 
Abbie  Maria  Jowett ;  2d,  Xov.  26,  1846,  Elizabeth 
Robins  Iladley.  He  lives  in  Leominster  in  the  house 
formerly  occupied  by  his  great-aunt  Anna,  and  her 
husband,  Benjamin  Carter.  When  L.  &  G.  S.  Bur- 
race  left  the  tanniui]:  and  currying  establishment 
founded  by  Deacon  William  Burrage,  it  was  taken 
and  carried  on  fur  several  years  l)y  John  Milton 
Burrage  and  a  Mr.  Babcock,  under  the  tirni  name  of 
Babeock  &  Burrage.  He  still  follo\vs  the  business  of 
tanning  and  currying. 

Children  by  2d  wife,  Mary. 

350.  Charles  Edward,  b.  Dec.  19,  1838;  d.  Jan.  18,  1850. 

351.  Annie  Catherine,  b.  Sept.  25,  1840;  m.  Oct.   14,  1861, 

James  T.  Joslin,  Esi^.,  of  Leominster.     They  reside 
in  Hudson,  Mass. 


GENEALOGY.  — GENERATION  X.  ]79 

Children  of  Josiah,  Jr.   (234),  of  Leominster  and  Cambridge, 
and  his  wife  Abigail. 

352.  Cordelia  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  10,  1834  ;  d.  Oct.  31,  1839. 

353.  William   Wirt,   b.   Feb.    7,    1836;    m.   Nov.   14,   180(5, 

Frances  H.  Merriain,  of  Boston.  lie  was  fitted  for 
college  at  the  Cambridge  High  School ;  entered  Har- 
vard University  in  1852  ;  graduated  in  1856,  taking 
the  fourth  part  in  rank,  and  pronounced  an  oration 
entitled  "  Manifest  Destiny."  Is  a  counsellor,  and 
practises  law  in  Boston  ;  resides  at  Cambridge. 

354.  Josiah  Kilburn,  b.  July  13,   1838;  m.  Oct.  14,  1874, 

Laura  A.  Doe,  of  Cambridge;  resides  in  Cambridge; 
and  with  his  brother,  Frederick  E.,  continues  the 
lumber  business  established  by  his  father  in  1831. 

355.  Martha  Augusta,  b.  Dec.  26,  1841 ;  lives  with  her  parents. 

356.  Frederick   Emory,    b.    April   7,    1850;    lives   with   his 

parents,  in  Caml)ridge. 

Children  of  George  Sumner  (235),  of  Leominster,  and  his  1st 
■wife,  Catherine  R. 

357.  Adelia  Ann,  b.  Aug.  10,  1832  ;  d.  Dec.  26,  1857. 

358.  Francis  Smith,  b.  Dec.  23,  1834;  d.  April  8,  1838. 

359.  George  Lewis,  b.  March  8,  1837  ;  d.  March  10,  1837. 

360.  George  Francis,  b.  Sept.  14,  1838  ;  lii.  Nov.  25,  1868, 

Elizabeth  Ann  Hammond  of  Leominster.  (See 
sketch.) 

Children  by  2d  wife,  Martha  Ann. 

361.  Frederick  Eussel,  b.  Sept.  20,  1844;  d.  Sept.  4,  1845. 

362.  Alfred  Henry,  b.  June  22,  1846 ;  lives  with  his  mother, 

in  Leominster. 

363.  Catherine  Smith,  b    April  11,  1850;  m.  Nov.  21,  1875, 

Oscar  A.  Taft,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  in  which  place 
they  reside. 


180  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

Children  of  William  (236),  of  Leominster  and  Boston,  and  his 
2d  wife,  Mary  G. 

364.  Ellen  Rebecca,  1).  April  1,  1849;  m.  May  20,  1873, 
Lewis  L.  Dixon,  M.  D,,  of  Dedham  ;  they  live  in 
Worcester,  Mass.,  "where   he   follows  his   profession. 

3G5.  AVilliiini  Clarence,  1).  March  7,  1851;  m.  .Jnne  5,  1873, 
Ediih  Dixon  Vose,  of  New  York  ;  they  live  in  Boston  ; 
he  is  interested  in  the  business  of  the  Household  Art 
Company,  Boston. 

Child    of    Almira    (237),    of    Leominster,    and    her    husband, 
James   H.    Marshall. 

306.  Charles  Sumner  Marshall,  b.  Oct.  27,  1851  ;  m.  Dec.  23, 
1875,  Love  D.  Swift. 

Children  of   Sarah  Ann  (238t,  of  Leominster  and  Cambridge, 
and  her  husband,  David  McClure. 

367.  Emily  Jane  McClure,  b.  Jan.  !»,  1835  ;  d.  Sept.  6,  1836. 

368.  Ellen  Watson  McClure,  b.  Nov     21,  1836;  m.  Oct.  14, 

1837,   Charles  H.    Stearns,   of   Westminster.      They 
resided  in  Worcester,  Mass.     She  d.  July  19,  1861. 

369.  David  Henry  McClure,  b.  March  6,  1839;  d.  April  11, 

1839. 

370.  Charles  Emery  :MeClure,  b.  July  30,   1840;  d.  Aug.  2, 

1840. 

371.  Sarah  Elizabeth  McClure,  b.  July  30,  1841  ;  d.  Oct.  3, 

1850. 

372.  John -Burragc  McClure,  b.  Feb.   6,   1844;  d.  Ang.   27, 

1845. 

373.  William  Addison  McClure,  b.  Xov.  3,  1845  ;  d.  Nov.  4, 

1845. 

374.  Arthur  Perrin  McClure,  b.  Dec.   8,   1847;  d.   Aug.  16, 

1851. 


GENEALOGY.  —  GENERATION  X.  JSl 

ChUdren  of  Deacon  Joseph  (239),  of  Leominster  and  Boston, 
and  his  1st  wife,  Frances  S. 

375.  Joseph  Pcrrin,  b.   May  4,   1842;    d.   while  scrvin-  in 

Union  army   in   war   of   RebelKon,  Oct.    20,    iSg3. 
(See  sketch.) 

376.  Emily  F.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1844;  d.  Aug.  20,  1849. 

377..  William  Thompson,  b.  Jan.  30,  1849  ;  m.  Sept.  9,  1873, 
Frances  L.  Closson,  of  Thetford,  Vt.  They  now 
reside  at  Rutland,  Vt. 

378.  Fannie  Eva,  b.  Jan.  23,  1852. 

379.  Ella  H.,  b.  June  6,  1855. 

380.  Arthur  Stoddard,  b.  Dec.  19,  1859. 

Children  by  2d  wife,  Mary  B. 

381.  Mary  Louisa,  b.  June  3,  1863. 

382.  Alice  E.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1865;  d.  Feb.  21,  1869. 

383.  George  Closson,  b.  June  30,  1866. 

384.  Herbert  F.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1868. 

385.  Gertrude  A.,  b.  July  18,  1870. 

386.  Dwight  Grafton,  b.  Aug.  3,  1873. 


Children  of  Johnson  Carter  (240),  of  Leominster  and  Boston, 
and  his  wife  Emeline. 

387.  Frances  Morse,  b.  Dec.   18,  1839;  m.  Oct.   10,   1861, 

Benjamin  J.  Lang,  of  Boston,  professor  of  nnisic. 

388.  Edward  Carter,  b.  June  13,   1841 ;  m.  Jan.   16,  1866, 

Julia  L.  Severance,  of  West  NeAvton.  They  live  in 
Newton.  He  is  with  Abram  French  &  Co.,  dealers  in 
crockery  and  glassware.      (See  sketch.) 

389.  Herbert  Emory,  b.  Dec.   18,   1845;  m.  June  3,   1868, 

Euby  Moore  Childs,  of  Charlestown.  They  live  at 
Newton.     He  is  in  the  store  of  Abram  French  &  Co. 


182  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

390.  Helen,!).  July  10,   1848;  m.  Jan.   21,   1874,  John  W. 

Girter,  of   Boston,   mnnuftictui-cr  and  dealer  in  ink. 
They  live  in  Newton. 

391.  Emma,  b.  Dec.  18,  1850. 

392.  Marion,  b.  Jan.  18,  1853. 

Children  of  Martha  (241\  of  Leominster  and  Cambridge,  and 
her  husband,  John  Dallinger,  Jr. 

393.  Sophia  Elizabeth  Dallin<ier,  1).  Aug.  21,  1837;  d    Ang. 

2b,  1837. 

394.  William  Will)eiforce  Dallinger,  b.   Sept.   27,   1840;  m. 

Oct.    14,   18(58,   Eliza])eth   F.  Kingman,  of   Chicago. 
They  reside   in  Cambridge. 

Children  of  Elizabeth  S.   i242i,   of   Leominster,  and  her  hus- 
band, Peter  Farwell. 

395.  Francis  William  Farwell,  b.  March  19,  1841. 

39G.     Catherine  Smith  Farwell,  b.  Dec.  5,  1842;  m.  July  10, 
1869,  James  X.  Steele,  of  Chicago. 

397.  Charles  Emory  Farwell,  b.  March  10,  1845  ;  d.  April  14, 

1846. 

398.  Emory  Farwell,  1).  May  3,  1847  ;  d.  June  24,  1849. 

399.  George  Edward  Farwell,  b.  Feb.  24,  1851. 

400.  Arthur  Farwell,  b.  Oct.  2,  1852. 

401.  Helen  Gertrude  Farwell,  b.  Dec.  28,  1858. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farwell  and  all  their  children  now  reside 
in  Chicago,  the  sons  and  Helen,  the  unmarried 
daughter,  living  with  their  parents.  The  sons  are 
engaged  in  trade  in  ditferent  establishments  in  that 
city. 

Children  of  Alvah  Augustus  (243),  of  Leominster  and  Boston, 
and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  A. 

402.  Kuth,  b.  March  IG,  1850;  d.  April  11,  1872. 

403.  Wendell  Smith,  b.  Jan.  15,  1852;  d.  Jan.  22,  1852. 


GENEALOGY.  — GENERATION  XI.  183 

404.  Jeanic,  b.  Nov.   25,  1853. 

405.  Clara  Elizabeth,  h.  Jan.  21,  1858. 

406.  Walter  Lincoln,  b.  Oct.  21,  18 GO. 

407.  Edith,  b.  Dec   4,  1865. 

408.  Edgar,  b.  Jan.  16,  1868. 

409.  Amy,  b.  July  21,  1873. 

Child  of  Charles  Henry  (244),  of  Leominster  and  Boston,  and 
his  1st  wife,  Mary  G. 

410.  George  Dixwell,  b.  March  12,  1861. 

Children  by  his  2d  wife,  Lydia. 

411.  Mary,  b.  April  25,  1866;  d.  June  13,  1872. 

412.  Josephine,  b.  Nov.  26,  1868. 

413.  Margaret  Cotton,  b.  June  1,  1871. 

414.  Elsie,  b.  Sept.  17,  1875. 

415.  Paul,  b.  May  20,  1877. 


GENERATION  XI. 

Children  of   Elizabeth  (245),  of   Philadelphia,  Pa.,  by  her  1st 
husband,  Benjamin  Griffith. 

416.  Louis  Griffith,  d.  in  infimcy. 

417.  Annie  Griffith,  b.  April  4,  1839  ;  m.  Benj.  Taylor. 

By  her  2d  husband,  William  K.  Lee. 

418.  John  Lee,  b.  Nov.  7,  1844. 

419.  Thomas  Lee,  b.  Sept.  26,  1846. 

420.  Harriet  Lee,  b.  July  20,  1852  ;  m.  J.  Tomliusou. 

421.  William  Lee,  b.  Dec.  28,  1855. 

Children   of   Thomas   H.  (246),  of   Philadelphia,    Pa.,  and  his 

wife,  Emma. 

422.  Thomas,  b.  Oct.  14,  1856. 

423.  Benjamin  H.,  b.  Nov.  18,  1859. 


184  THE   BURR  AGE   MEMORIAL. 

Children   of   Mary   Ann  (247),   of    Philadelphia,   Pa.,   and  her 
husband,  John  Funk. 

424.  Emma  Funk,  1).  Oct.  27,  1841  ;  m.  Wm.  Raincr. 

425.  Jucol)  Funk,  b.  1842. 

426.  Ciithernie  Funk,  1).  Feb.  3,  1844;  ni.  Bcnj.  Rowland. 

427.  John  Funk,  b.  March  15,  1852. 

428.  Mary  Ann  Funk,  1).  1855. 

429.  Hannah  E.  Funk,  b.  March  5,  1857  ;  m.  Thos.  Morrison. 


Children    of   John    (248),    of   Philadelphia,    Pa.,    and   his   wife 

Lavina. 

430.  Mary  E.,  1).  July  31,  1844. 

431.  Tliomas,  b.  Fcl).  24,  1849. 

432.  Martha  L.,  b.  April  21,  Ls.ia. 

Children    of    Hannah    (249),    of    Philadelphia,    Pa.,    and    her 
husband,  Joseph   Mills. 

433.  Mary  E.  .Alills,  1).  Feb.  19,  1838;  m.  Geo.  M.  Castor. 

434.  John  Mills,  1).  Auir.  3,  1841. 

435.  Helen  Mills,  b.  March  IG,  1843;  m.  C.  W.  Sweet. 
43(5.  Susan  Mills,  b.  April  21,  1845;   m.  Maxwell  Rowland. 

437.  William  G.  Mills,  b.  July  6,  1847  ;  m.  Ella  Munson. 

438.  Charles  Mills,  b.  July  18,  1849  ;  deceased. 

439.  Harry  H.  :Mills,  b.  Nov.  30,  1850. 

440.  Frank  Mills,  b.  March  IG,  1853. 

441.  Joseph  Mills,  Jr.,  b.  July  4,  1855. 

442.  James  D.  Mills,  b.  July  1,  1859. 

443.  Hannah  Burrage  Mills,  b.  Dec.  9,  1860. 

ChHd   of   WiUiam   (250),    of   Philadelphia,    Pa.,    and   his   wife 

Sarah  Ann. 

444.  Mary  Ann,  b.  April,  1856. 


GENEALOGY.  —  GENERATION  XI.  185 

Child   of   Andrew   Bigelow   (260),    of  Medford,    and  his  wife 

Priscilla  B. 

Uo.     Annie  L.,  b.  Aug.  27,  1840  ;  d.  April  27,  1855. 

Children  of  Henry  (261),  of  Medford,  and  his  wife  Hannah  J. 

446.  Nellie  A.,  b.  April  8,  1855. 

447.  Emma  G.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1859;  d.  May  13,  1865. 

Child  of  Eliza  W.  (262),  of  Medford,  and  her  husband,  Henry 

Kimball. 

448.  Ada  Kimball;  deceased. 

Children  of  Catherine  L.  (263),  of  Medford,  and  her  husband, 
C.  P.  Lyffermann. 

449.  Willie  L.  Lyffermann,  b.   May   21,   1855;    d.  Aug.  8, 

1874. 

450.  Charles  Frederick  Lyffermann,  b.  Sept.  26,  1859. 

Children   of   John   Q.    A.   (266),    of    Lawrence,    and  his  wife 

Sarah  L. 

451.  Martha  Ann,  b.  Dec.  24,  1850;  d.  Oct.  17,  1856. 

452.  William  W.,  b.  May  7,  1858. 

453.  Thomas  Jefferson,  b   July  7,  1860;  d.  Aug.  3,  1860. 

454.  Kichard  Leon,  b.  July  27,  1861 ;  d.  Nov.  10,  1861. 

Children  of   William   H.   (267),    of   Lunenburg,   and   his  wife 

Bodica. 

455.  •  William  K. 

456.  Sumner. 

NOTE  —Children  of  Elizabeth  Backnam    (265),   and  her  husband,   John    P. 

Bradley. 

Sarah  Elizabeth  Bradley,  b.  Oct.  4,  1835. 
Lucy  Bigelow  Bradley,  b.  July  13,  18:17;   d.  June  15,  1858. 
Mary  Louisa  Bradley,  b.   Oct.   15,  1839. 
24 


18G  THE    liUKIJAGE    MEMORIAL. 

Children  of    Simeon   (268),   of    Lxinenburg,   and   his  1st  wife, 

Betsey. 

457.  La  villa. 

458.  Emilia. 

Children  by  2d  wife,  Nancy. 
45!».     Tvoljcrt. 
4G0.     Warren. 

Children  of  Martha  Ann  (269),  of  Lunenbiu-g,  and  her  husband, 

Loring  Foster. 

461.     Maitlia  A.  Foster. 
402.     Frances  Foster. 


Child  of  Hannah  Maria  (270,  of  Lunenburg,  and  her  husband, 

Ithamar  Wood. 

4Ga.     Rosiiia  A.  Wood,  b.  Dec.  12,  1850. 


Children   of   John   Brisk   i271\    of    Lunenburg,    and   his  wife 

Martha  B. 

464.  Mary  A.,  h.  Dec.  9,  1853. 

4(')5.  Emma  E.,  b.  May  6,  1855. 

4HG.  Gihnan  E.,  b.  July  1,  1857. 

407.  Hattie  E.,  b.  March  17,  1868. 

Children  of  John  (273*,  of  Lvmenburg,  and  his  wife  Mary  Ann. 

468.     Harriet  Ann,  b.  Jan.  81,  1844. 
409.     George  Newton,  b.  Feb.  18,  1846. 

Children  of  Hamilton  (299i,    of  Lowell,  and  his  wife  Mary  H. 

470.  Katie,  b.  July  22,  1865. 

471.  Guy  Hamilton,  b.  June  14,  1867. 

472.  Mabel  How,  b.  April  4,  1870. 


GENEALOGY.  —  GENERATION  XI.  187 

473.  Herbert  Dana,  b.  Aug.  13,  1873. 

474.  Sydney  Davis,  b.  July  31,  1875. 

475.  John  Otis,  b.  Feb.  13,  1877. 

Children  of  George  Dana  (303),  of  Boston,  and  his  wife  Mary  H. 

476.  Bessie  Palmer,  b.  Oct.  6,  1871. 

477.  Archie  Hamilton,  b.  March  16,  1873. 

478.  Mary  Hall  Adams,  b.  Feb.  20,  1875. 

Child  of  John  Milton  (307  and  349),  of  Leominster,  and  his 
1st  wife,  Abbie  M. 

479.  WilHam  A.,  b.  March  5,  1844.     (See  sketch  of  soldiers 

in  civil  v\  ar. ) 

Children  by  2d  wife,  Elizabeth  R. 

480.  Leonard  Joslyn,  b.  Nov.   1,  1847;  m.  Nov.  26,  1868, 

Lucy  E.  Goodrich,  of  Lunenburg;  she  d.  in  1874. 

481.  Horace  Edward,  b.  Aug.  10,  1849;  m.  Aug.  28,  1S73, 

Lyle  Stedman,  of  Indiana.  y^^ 

482.  Milton  Robbins,   b.   Aug.   15,  1852  ;  m.  July  30,  18«*, 

Susie  L.  Trumbull,  of  Lowell. 

483.  Myra  Allen,  b.  Aug.  18,  1854;  d.  June  2,  1856. 

484.  Charles  Henry,  b.  Oct.  20,  1856. 

485.  Emory  Franklin,  b.  Nov.  23,  1858. 

Children  of   Sergt.  Thomas  Fairbanks  (317),  of  Fitchburg  and 
Roxbury,  and  his  wife  Harriet  L. 

486.  Henry  Thompson,  b.  Oct.  27,  1857. 

487.  AVilliam  Edwin,  b   July  15,  1859. 

488.  Charles  Albert,  b.  Sept.  20,  1860;  d.  Sept.  25,  1860. 

Children   of  Major   Henry   Sweetser   (318\   of  Fitchburg  and 
Portland,  and  his  wife  Caroline. 

48.'.     Champlin,  b.  April  14,  1874. 
490.     Thomas  Jayne,  b.  Nov.  15,  1875. 


188  THE   BURKAGE    I\rEMORTAL. 

Child  of  Mary   Caroline  (333\   of   Sterling,  and  her  husband, 

Emory  Lyon. 

491.     Emma  Caroline  Lvon,  ]).  Xov.  2{],  1840  ;  d.  June  4,  1850. 


Child  of  Clara  A.  '334',  of  Ashburnham,  Mass.,  and  Napa  City, 
Cal.,  and  her  husband,  F.  S.  Poland. 

492.     Henry  Frank  Poland,  1).  Ang.  30,  1870. 


Child  of  Cora  Chamberlin  (337),  of  Ashbiirnham,   Mass.,   and 
Napa  City,  Cal.,  and  her  husband,  Thomas  J.  Tucker. 

493.     Thomas  J.  Tncker,  Jr.,  1).  April  15,  1873;  d.  Ai)ril  23, 
1873. 


Child  of  Leonard  F.  (343 »,  of  Leominster,  and  his  wife  Mary  W. 
494.     Grace  Lawrence,  b.  Jan.  24,  1877. 


Children  of  Annie  Catherine  (351\  of  New  Bedford  and  Hudson, 
and  her  husband,  James  T.  Joslin. 

495.  Ralph  Edgar  Joslin,  b.  Aug.  2(),  18G4. 

496.  Nellie  Watson  Joslin,  b.  Sept.  16,  1866. 


Children  of  William  Wirt  i353),  of  Cambridge,  and  his  wife 

Frances  H. 

497.  AVilliam  Sargent,  b.  Dec.  12,  1869. 

498.  George  Barret,  b.  July  16,  1874. 


Child  of  Josiah  K.  (354\  of  Cambridge,  and  his  wife  Laura  A. 
499.     Edith  May,  b.  April  6,  1876. 


GEKEALOGY.  —  GENERATION   XI.  IgQ 

ChUdren  of  George  Francis  (360),  of  Leominster  and  Boston, 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth  A. 

500.  Frank  Sumner,  b.  Oct.  23,  1872. 

501.  Mary  Catherine,  b.  Nov.  18,  1874;  d.  April  23,  187G. 

502.  Louise  Minot,  b.  March  3,  1877. 


Child   of   Ellen  Rebecca  (3641,  of  Boston,   and  her  husband, 
Lewis  L.  Dixon. 

503.     Rolaud  Burrage  Dixon,  b.  Nov.  6,  1875. 


Children  of  William  Clarence  (365),  of  Boston,  and  his  wife 

Edith  D. 

504.  Clarence  Vose,  b.  March  25,  1874. 

505.  Mabel  Ruth,  1).  Dec.  29,  1875. 


Children  of  Frances  Morse  (387),  of  Boston,  and  her  husband, 
Benjamin  J.  Lang. 

506.  Harry  AUston  Lang,  b.  Oct.  5,  1864;  d.  Aug.  7,  1866. 

507.  Mariraret  Ruthven  Lano-,  b.  Nov.  27,  1867. 


NOTE.  — Child   of    EUen    McClure    (368),    of   Cambridge,    and    her  husband, 

Charles  H.  Stearns, 

Addie  L.  Steams,  b.  July  19,   1869. 

Children  of  'William    W.   Dallinger    (394),  of  Cambridge,  and  his  wife  Eliza- 
beth F.  , 

Arthur  Kingman  Dallinger,  b.  Aug.  10,  1870;   d.  Aug.  18,  1871. 
Frederick  William  Dallinger,  b.  Oct.  2,  1871. 
Philip  Bun-age  Dallinger,  h.  Jan.  9,  1876. 

Children    of  Catherine    Smith  FarweU    (396),    and   her  husband,    James    N. 

Steele. 

Isabella  Elizabeth  Steele,  b.  May  23,  1870. 
Ruth  Steele,  b.  Aug.  6,   1873. 
Mary  Steele,  b.  Dec.  23,  1875. 


190  '  THE   BUKRAGE   MEMORIAL? 

Children  of  Sergt.  Edward  Carter  (388),  of  Boston,  and  his  wife 

Julia  L. 

508.     Severance,  b.  July  18,  1868. 
50U.     Bessie,  b.  Aug.  5,  1870. 

510.  Caroline  Severance,  b.  Nov.  5,  1876. 

Children   of   Herbert   Emory    (389',    of   Boston,    and   his   wife 

Ruby  M. 

511.  Francis  Johnson,  b.  Oct.  30,  1870. 

512.  Harry  Lang,  b.  May  25,  1872. 

513.  Alice,  b.  Nov.  2l»,  1874. 

Children  of  Helen  (390),  of  Boston,  and  her  husband,  John  W. 

Carter. 

514.  Lucy  Carter,  b.  Xov.  4,  1874. 

515.  Ivichard  Burrage  Carter,  b.  April  8,  1877. 


GENERATION    XII. 

Children  of  Leonard  Joslin  i480',  of  Leominster,  and  his  wife 

Lucy  E. 

516.  Ruth  Kilhurn,  b.  Jan.  22,  1870. 

517.  Jo^iah,  b.  July  5,  1872. 

518.  Henry  Francis,  b.  Feb.  6,  1874. 

Child  of  Horace  Edward  (481i,  of   Leominster,  and   his  wife 

Lyle. 

519.  Horton,  b.  Nov.  8,  1876. 

Child   of   Milton   Robbins   (482 ^   of   Leominster,  and   his  wife 

Susie   L. 

520.  Mabel  Eliztibeth,  b.  June  21,  1875. 


APPENDIX. 


APPENDIX. 


APPENDIX    A. 

Abstract  of  the  Will  of  Robert  Burrishe,  of  Seetiiixg,  in 
THE  County  of  Norfolk.* 

Robert  Burrishe  of  Seething  in  the  County  of  I^orfolk.  Will  dated 
January  2,  1558.  Wife  Rose.  Sons,  Robert  and  Richard.  Daughter 
Margery  — mentions  Jermyas.  Appoints  his  wife,  Richard  Tybenhani 
and  John  Buckinham  executors.  Proved  in  the  Bishops  Court  of  JSTorfulk, 
May  13,  1559. 

Abstract    of    Will   of  Robert   Burryshe,   of   Seething, 
Husbandman. 

Will  dated  Dec  5,  1598.  To  his  wife  Amy  his  houses  and  lands  in 
Seething  and  Mundham,  for  nine  years  and  she  to  bring  up  the  children. 
To  his  son  Robert  ^6100.  Son  Thomas  £70.  Son  William  £70.  Son 
Mathew  £70.  When  21.  To  daughter  Susan  £50,  and  daughter  Kath- 
erine  £40.  Brothers  in  law  Richard  &  Gregory  Cooke  of  Borough- 
hapton  —  Kephew  George  Barnes  Proved  in  the  Bishop's  Court  of 
Norwich,  Jan.  20,  1598-9. 

Will  of  Thomas  Berridge. 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen.  I  Thomas  Berridge  of  Norton  Subcors, 
in  the  Couutie  of  Norff.  Yeoman,  doe  make  this  my  last  will  and  testa- 
ment, revoking  all  other  wills  heretofore  by  me  made. 

*  These  copies  and  abstracts  of  wills  in  England,  and  items  from  English  parish 
records,  were  furnished  by  H.  G.  Soinerby,  Esq     The  items  from  tlie  parish  registor 
of  Norton  Subcourse,  used  in  the  genealogy,  have  been  verified  by  obtaining  orticial 
certificates  from  the  vicar  of  the  church  at  that  place. 
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194  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Item.  —  I  give  unto  Frances  Berriclge,  ni)'  wife  all  my  houses  and 
.ands,  both  free  and  copieliold,  in  Norton  .Subcors,  during  her  naturall 
life,  and  all  my  movable  goods  and  chattells  whatsoever,  paying  ray  debts 
and  towards  the  bringing  up  of  m}'  children.  And  after  her  decease  I 
give  all  my  said  houses  and  lands  lying  and  being  in  Norton  Subcors, 
unto  John  Berridge  my  sonne  and  his  heirs  forever,  upon  these  conditions 
following  and  not  otherwise. 

Item.  —  I  give  unto  Marie  Berridge,  my  daughter,  fifteen  pounds  of 
lawfull  monie  of  England,  vc^^  I  will  that  John  Berridge,  my  son,  shall 
paie  within  one  year  after  the  death  of  ni}'  wife,  that  is  to  say,  five 
pounds  of  lawfull  monie  the  first  yeare,  and  so  yearly  during  twoe  years 
after  the  death  of  Frances  Berridge  my  wife,  five  pounds  a  year  until  the 
some  of  fifteen  pounds  of  monie  be  paide. 

Item.  —  I  give  unto  ^largarett  Berridge  my  daughter,  fifteene  pounds 
of  lawfull  money  of  England,  to  be  paide  unto  her  by  John  my  sonne, 
that  is  to  say,  five  pounds  to  be  paid  witiiin  four  years  next  after  the 
death  of  the  said  Frances  Berridge  my  wife,  and  the  other  tenne  pounds 
to  be  paid  unto  the  said  Margarett  my  daughter  within  twoe  3'ears  next 
after,  that  is  to  sale,  five  pounds  a  yeare  untill  the  some  of  fiftene  pounds 
be  paide. 

Item.  —  I  give  unto  Ileurie  Berridge  my  sonne  the  some  of  tenne 
pounds  of  lawfull  monie  to  be  paid  by  John  Berridge  my  sonne,  that  is 
to  sale,  five  pounds  of  monie  within  seven  years  after  the  death  of 
Frances  Berridge  my  wife,  and  the  other  five  pounds  to  be  paide  within 
one  year  next  after  that. 

Item.  —  I  give  unto  Anne  Berradge,  my  daughter  tenne  pounds  of 
lawfull  monie  of  England,  to  be  paid  by  John  Berridge  my  sonne,  that 
is  to  saic,  five  pounds  of  monie  within  tenne  years  after  the  decease  of 
the  said  Frances  Berridge  my  wife,  and  the  other  five  pounds  within  one 
yeare  next  after  that.  And  if  it  shall  happen  the  said  several  somes  of 
monie  not  to  be  paid  to  my  said  sev'all  children,  that  then  my  will  and 
minde  is,  that  my  said  sev'all  children  w^^  I  have  given  these  sev'all 
legacies  to,  ev'ie  one  of  them,  or  soe  many  of  them  as  shall  not  be  paide 
according  to  this  mv  last  will,  that  thoy  shall  enter  into  any  pte  or 
pcell  of  my  said  freehold  laud  w<:'>  I  have  here  before  given,  and  take 
the  profitt  of  the  said  lands  to  them  and  their  heires  uutill  they  be  fullie 


APPENDIX  B.-WILL  OF  BARNABY  BURRAGE.     195 

satisfied  and  paide.  And  if  it  shall  liappen  that  John  Berridge  my  sonne 
shall  dye  without  issue  of  his  botlie  lawfully  begotten,  that  °hen  I  give 
all  those  houses  and  lands  before  given,  unto  Henrie  Berridge  my  sonne, 
and  his  heires,  paying  the  aforesaid  legacies  as  my  sou  John  ought  to  pay! 
My  minde  and  will  is  that  Frances  Berridge  my  wife  shall  not  sell  any 
timber  or  make  any  stroppe  or  wast,  but  shall  keep  the  houses  in  repair 
taking  timber  for  it 

Making  Frances  my  wife  sole  executrix,  if  any  of  my  children  dye 
before  theire  portion  come  to  be  paide,  I  give  the  portions  to  them 
that  live  equally. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  sett  my  hand  and  scale  this  third  day  of 
August  in  the  seven  yeare  of  Charles  by  the  grace  of  God  of  England, 
Scotland,  France  and  Ireland,  &c.  1631. 

Signed  THOMAS  BERRIDGE. 

Sealed  and  delivered  in  presence  of  us,  Miles  BuRKorcii,  Edward 
Freeman,  George  Branthwaite 

Proved  in  the  Bishop's  Court  of  Norwich  March  20,  1632-.S3. 


appe:n^dix  b. 


Will  of  Barnabt  Burrage. 


In  the  name  of  God  Amen,  third  day  of  September  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  God  one  thousand  five  hundred  and  fower  skore  &  seaventeene,  I 
Barnaby  Burrage  of  Welles  next  ye  sea,  in  y"  County  of  Noiff.  wcav, 
being  whole  of  raynde  &  of  sound  &  pfect  remembrance,  thanks  be 
therefore  given  to  God,  do  make  ordayne,  &  declare -this  my  last  will  & 
Testam'  in  manner  &  forme  followinge,  that  is  to  say.  First  and  before 
all  things  I  doo  geve  &  comytte  my  soule  into  ye  hands  of  Alniyghfie 
God  the  father,  Sonne  &  holy  ghoste,  my  creator  redeemer  &  snnclilier, 
beleeving  stedfastly  yt  I  am  &  shalbe  for  eV  saved  by  the  only  death  and 
passion  merits  &  mercye  of  o^  lord  &  saviour  Jesus  Christe;  and  I  will 
my  bodye  to  be  buried  whene  it  shall  please  God  to  appoint  the  same. 


196  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

Item.  —  I  give  towards  the  relief  of  the  poor  people  of  AVcUs  aforesaid 
iii»  iiiid. 

Item. —  I  give  towards  the  rep'acons  of  the  church  of  the  same  towne 
two  shillings. 

It-em. —  1  give  towards  the  rep'acons  of  the  church  at  Wighton  in  ye 
said  countye  iii^  iiiid. 

Item. —  I  will  y'  Margaret  my  wife  shall  have  thoccupation  of  all  that 
my  house  scituate  lying  and  being  in  Wighton,  aforesaid  sometyme  twoe 
tents  together,  w'^  the  croftcs  &  meadowe  to  the  same  adioynynge,  w'*» 
their  appurtenncs,  for  &  during  the  terme  of  her  natural!  life:  she  keep- 
ing &  maynteynynge  my  said  house  in  good  rep'acons  and  prserving  the 
saffron  nowe  i)lanted  in  the  said  crofte  during  the  said  terme,  &  after  the 
decease  of  my  said  wife,  I  will  tliat  Oily  my  daughter  now  the  wife  of 
George  Hill,  shall  have  the  occuparon  of  my  said  house  crofte  &  mcdow 
w"i  their  appurtenncs  for  and  during  ye  space  of  one  whole  yeare  next 
after  the  decease  of  my  said  wife  (my  said  daughter  or  her  husband 
maynteyn3'ng  my  said  house  in  good  repacons  and  maynteynyng  & 
p'serving  ye  said  saffron  during  the  said  one  yeare)  And  after  the 
decease  of  ray  said  wife  &  the  expiracon  of  ye  said  one  yeare  I  will 
y»  said  house,  crofte  and  meadow  w"i  their  appurtenncs  to  remayne 
to  John  Burrage  my  sonne  &  to  his  heires  for  ever,  upon  condicon 
nofrt'istandinge  hereafter  followinge  (y'  is  to  saye)  if  the  said  John 
together  w^  John  Greene  of  Welles  aforesaid,  yeomn,  w*in  one  month 
next  after  my  decease  shalbecome  bound  in  due  forme  of  lawe  unto 
Richard  Burrage  my  sonne  in  one  obligacon  in  the  some  of  Fower  & 
Twenty  Pounds  for  the  pay""'  of  Twelve  Pounds  to  him  the  said  Rychard, 
his  executors  or  assegnes,  in  the  porch  of  y*  pish  church  of  Welles  afore- 
said, w^iiin  one  3'eare  next  after  my  decease,  and  in  an  other  obligacon 
unto  Henry  Burrage  my  sonne  in  the  some  of  Twenty  Pounds  for  the 
payem*  of  Tenu  Pounds  to  him  the  said  Ilenrj'  or  his  assigns  in  y"^  said 
church  porch  at  such  tyme  as  he  the  said  Henry  shalbe  of  his  full  age  of 
three  and  twent}'  yeares,  w*^  a  pviso  yt  if  y"  said  Henry  shall  depte  this 
p'nle  life  before  he  shall  come  to  y''  said  age,  that  then  the  said  Tenne 
Pounds  shalbe  equally  payd  to  ye  said  Rychard  &  George  Burrage  my 
sonnes  or  to  such  of  them  as  shall  then  be  living.  And  in  an  other 
obligacon  unto  y  said  George  Burrage  my  sonne  in  y  some  of  Twenty 


APPENDIX   B.— WILL   OF   BAENABY  BURRAGE.  197 

Pounds  for  the  paymt  of  x^  to  him  ye  said  Georo;e  or  his  assignes  in  the 
said  church  porch  at  such  tyme  as  y"  said  George  Barrage  shalbe  of  his 
full  age  of  xxiii*y  yeares,  w*^  a  pviso  also  y*  if  y«  said  George  shall  depte 
this  p'snt  life  before  he  shall  come  to  y«  said  age,  that  then  tlie  said 
Tenne  Pounds  shalbe  equally  and  truly  paid  to  the  said  Eychard  &  Henry 
my  sonnes  or  to  such  one  of  them  as  shall  then  be  living,  And  if  the 
said  John  Burrage  my  sonne  together  w'^^  the  said  John  Greene  his  said 
suertye  shall  not  be  come  bounden  w'^^in  ye  said  one  month  next  after  my 
decease  as  is  aforesaid  in  the  said  thre  sev'all  obligacons  to  mj^  said  three 
sonnes,  Rychard,  Henry  and  George,  as  is  aforesaid,  &  in  such  manner  & 
forme  and  accordinge  to  my  true  meaninge  as  is  aforesaid.  Then  I  will, 
devise  &  my  myude  is  that  my  said  house  crofte  and  meadow  w"i  their 
appurtenncs  ymediately  after  ye  decease  of  my  said  wife  &  after  ye  ende 
of  the  said  one  year  lymitted  to  my  said  daughter  Oily  to  occupye  the 
p'mises  &  after  such  default  had  &  made  by  my  said  sonne  John  in  not 
being  bound  w"i  ye  said  suretye  as  is  aforesaid,  shall  remayne  &  come  to 
E3'chard,  Henry  &  George  my  said  sonnes  &  to  there  heirs  for  ever  any 
thing  or  things  herein  to  the  contrary  thereof  in  any  wise  notwt'istandinge. 

Item.  —  I  give  to  Agnes  my  daughter  now  the  wife  of  Will™  Porte, 
Oily  my  daughter,  now  the  wife  of  George  Hill,  Elizabeth  my  daughter 
now  the  wife  of  George  Monnes,  &  Susan  Burrage  ray  daughter,  to 
ev'y  one  of  them  Five  Pounds,  to  be  paid  at  y  feast  of  y«  Nativilye  of 
or  Lord  God  wch  shalbe  in  the  yeare  of  o'  Lord  God  one  thousand  five 
hundred  in  y^  church  porche  of  Welles   above  remembrcd 

Provided  I  will  &  my  mynde  is  y*  wheras  y'  house  I  nowe  dwell  in,  is  by 
John  Kynge  morgaged  unto  mee  as  by  c'teyn  writings  thereof  made  may 
appeare,  yf  it  shall  happen  ye  said  John  Kynge  to  forfayte  the  said  hou.  e 
so  as  it  fall  to  my  sonue  John  as  heyre  unto  me,  then  I  will  y'y"  said  Jolm 
my  Sonne  shall  paye  to  my  said  daughters  these  said  legacies  of  Five 
Pounds  a  peece  in  such  manner  &  forme  following  &  according  to  my 
true  meaning  as  is  aforesaid. 

^  Item.  —  l  give  to  my  sister  Mary  Fuller  iii«  iiii<i  &  Five  yards  of  linen 
cloth  of  Yi^  a  yard 

Item.— All  the  residue  of  all  my  goods,  cattells  debts,  implements  of 
household  &  all  other  things  moveable  whatsoever,  I  doe  wliolly  give  and 
comitt  to  the  good  discrecon  of  y^  said  Margaret  my  wife,  whome  I  doo 


198  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

make,  institute,  &  ordayne  mv  sole  executrix  of  this  my  last  will  & 
Tostam'  willing  her  to  take  my  debts  &  paye  my  debts  &  legacies,  «fc 
desiring  her  to  see  my  yonger  children  well  brought  upp,  vfe  this  my 
Tcstamt  «S:  last  will  truly  pformed  &  fullfilled  according  to  the  true  mean- 
ing hereof  &  to  y  praise  of  Almyghlie  God.  Also  I  doo  ordayne  my 
said  Sonne  Rychard  Burrage  my  supvisor  of  this  my  Testam'  &  last  will 
desiring  him  to  assist  my  said  executrix  in  y*  premises  w***  his  good 
counscU  &  travaile,  &  I  give  him  for  his  payncs  therein  xx^  — 

Signed  J5ARXABY   BURRAGE 

These  being  witnesses,  Mr.  Goldsmythe,  George  Moxxs,  Mergeky 
Homes,  Wii.i.>'  IlAL^rv 
Proved  Sept.  I'J,  l.")97  in  the  Archdeacon's  Court  of  Norfock 

"Will  of  Maroaret  Btrrage. 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen,  the  fowerteenth  day  of  September  in  the 
year  o'  Lord  one  thousand  five  hundred  fower  score  and  sevventeene,  I 
Margaret  Burrage  of  Welles  next  the  sea,  in  the  C'ountie  of  Xorff.  widow, 
lieinge  whole  of  mynde  and  of  good  and  pfect  remem1)rance  thanks  be 
therefore  given  to  Allmightie  God,  do  make  and  declare  this  m}'  last  will 
and  testamnt  in  mann'  and  forme  followinge,  that  is  to  say;  First  and 
before  all  things,  I  doe  hollie  give,  bequeath,  comend  and  comitte  my 
soule  into  the  hands  of  Allmightie  God  the  father,  sonne  and  holie  ghost, 
my  creator,  and  redeemer  and  sanctifier,  believing  assuredlie  to  be  ever- 
lastingly saved  by  the  only  p'cious  death,  passion,  mercie  and  merits  of 
or  Lord  and  saviour  Jesus  Christ.  And  I  will  my  body  to  be  buried  in 
the  earthe  when  it  shall  please  God  to  appoynle  the  same 
Item.  —  I  give  to  the  poore  people  of  Wells  afforsayd  two  shillings 
Item.  —  I  give  and  bequeath  to  Agnes  my  daughter  nowe  the  wife  of 
W™  Porte,  my  best  gowne,  one  of  the  hogges  or  swine  now  in  my  yarde, 
and  twenty  shillings,  the  said  gowne  and  hogge  to  be  deliv'ed  p'sently 
after  my  decease  and  the  said  twentie  shillings  to  be  payed  at  Mich'as 

I/eni.  —  I  give  and  bequeath  to  Oily  my  daughter,  now  the  wife  of 
George  Hill,  my  best  peticote  and  one  hogge  swine  to  be  deliv'ed  p'sently 


APPENDIX   B.  — WILL   OF   MARGARET    BURRAGE.  191) 

after  my  decease,  and  twentie  shillings  to  be  paid  at  Mich'as  1509 
aforesayd 

Item. —I  give  and  bequeath  to  Susaune  Eurrage  my  daughter,  the 
liv'ge  bedsteade  now  standing  in  the  little  howse  called  the  chamber,  a 
payer  of  blanketts,  a  payer  of  sheets,  my  cov'lett,  my  cowe  dunde  collor, 
my  best  wast  cote  and  sauegard  to  be  deliv'ed  p'sently  after  my  decease 
and  twenty  shillings  to  be  payed  at  Mich'as  1599  aforesayde 

Item.  —  I- give  to  Elizabeth  my  daughter  now  the  Avife  of  George 
Monnes,  my  blacke  come,  all  my  working  day  clothes,  my  husbands  blacke 
to  be  delived  p'sently  after  my  decease,  and  twenty  shillings  to  be  payed 
to  her  at  Mich'as  one  thousand  five  hundred  nynetie  nyne  aforesayde. 

Item.  —  I  give  to  George  Burrage  my  sonne  one  Bullock  nowe  of  two 
years  of  age,  now  in  the  valewe  (by  the  estimation  of  George  Monnes  and 
George  Hill)  of  twenty  shillings,  to  be  delivered  to  him  or  to  his  assignes 
at  Mich'as  1599  aforesayd,  Provided  always,  that  if  it  shall  jilease  God 
that  any  of  my  sayd  children,  Agnes,  OUie,  Susanne,  Elizabeth  and 
George,  do  dep*  this  p'sent  world  before  the  receypt  of  ther  sayd  sev'all 
legacies,  then  I  will  that  the  legacie  or  legacies  of  him  or  her,  or  them  so 
d'pted  shalbe  equallie  divided  amongst  the  rest  of  them  that  shall  survive 
that  is  to  saye,  to  be  divided  at  such  tyme  or  tymes  as  the  ptie  or  ptics  so 
deptd  should  have  receyved  there  sayd  sev'all  legacies  if  he  shee  or  they 
had  lived 

Item. — I  give  and  bequeath  unto  Kichard  Burrage  mj''  sonne,  the  best 
hatte  that  was  my  husband's,  one  posted  bedsteed  w*'^  one  feather  bed 
and  boulster,  a  payer  of  sheets,  a  payer  of  blanketts  one  cov'lett  w">  all 
the  paynted  cloths  thereunto  belonginge,  as  it  now  stands  in  the  parloure, 
and  one  chest  nowe  standing  at  the  feete  of  the  sayd  bedsteed  in  the  sayil 
parloure 

Jie7ji.  —  I  give  to  Benimin  Hill  and  Trances  Hill  the  children  of  my 
daughter  OUey  to  either  of  them  five  shillings 

Item.  —All  the  residue  of  all  my  lynnenand  napie  not  before  bequeatlied 
I  will  to  be  equally  divided  amongst  all  of  my  sayd  fower  daughters 

Item.— All  the  residue  of  my  goods  cattalles,  debts,  obligations,  imple- 
ments of  householde,  and  all  other  things  moveable  whatsoever,  not 
before  bequeathed,  I  do  whollye  give  and  bequeath  them  unto  John 
Burrage  my  sonne,  whom  I  do  make  and  ordayne  my  sole  executor  of 


200  THE   BUHHAGE    MEMORIAL. 

tliis  my  last  wille  and  testament,  willingc  him  to  take  my  debts  and  fo 
paye  my  debts  and  legacies,  and  to  pforme  and  fulUille  the  hu^t  will  and 
testament  of  Barnaby  liurrage  his  father  my  late  husband  deceased,  of 
Wh  sayd  testament  of  my  sayd  Inisbanrl  I  am  ordayned  sole  executrix,  and 
further  willing  liim  to  cause  my  two  younger  sons  to  be  well  and  honestly 
brought  and  trayned  up,  and  desiringe  him  to  see  this  my  last  will  and 
testament  fullfilled  and  p'formed  according  to  the  true  meaning  hereof 
and  to  the  pnxyse  of  Allmightie  God. 

Signed  MARfrARET  15URRAGE. 

These  l)eing  witnesses  —  George  Gotts,  Rouekt  AVixgiikld  and 

AV^'    II  A  L.MAN. 

Troved  in  the  Archdeacon's  Court  of  Norfolk  January  18, 1507-8 


Will  ok  .John  IU'kuage. 

John  Burishe,  alias  Borage,  of  North  IJarsham  in  the  County  of  Nor- 
folk, gentleman.  "Will  dated  Oct.  24,  1030.  Gives  to  the  reparations  of 
the  churches  of  North  Barsham,  Iloulton,  Thorpe,  Walsingham  Burn- 
ham  West  gate,  Briston,  Badham,  Ilempsted  St.  Michael  at-Thorne  in 
Norwich,  St.  Nicholas  in  Lynn  Regis,  and  to  the  poor  of  said  parishes. 

To  the  church  of  Snoring  and  the  poor  there,  he  gives  nothing 
"  because  Doct.  Pierson,  tlie  late  parson  there  and  some  other  evil  dis- 
posed, very  uncharitably  would  not  suffer  my  harmless  son  to  be  buried 
there  in  christian  burial,  pretending  that  he  dyed  of  the  plage;  neither 
would  he  be  persuaded  to  have  him  searched,  but  procured  a  warrant  to 
shut  up  me  and  my  Company  for  six  weeks  space  to  my  great  grief  and 
enforcing  me  to  pay  40  to  the  watchman  "  «S:c.  &c.*    833-3  tliat  Sir  Henry 

•  Note. —  This  looks  like  a  case  of  quarantine.  He  and  hi.«  family  were  probably- 
shut  up  in  their  hou.se  to  prevent  them  from  spreading  the  infection,  and  a  watchman 
appointed  to  see  that  they  did  not  go  out  or  communicate  with  others.  Doubtless  tlie 
most  aggravating  fe;iture  in  the  matter,  to  Mr.  Burrage,  was  the  fine  to  pay  forty 
shillings  to  the  watchman.  It  is  possible  that  the  old  adage  respecting  being  sen- 
tenced "to  be  hanged  aTid  pay  forty  shillings  "  originated  from  this  incident. 

This  will  is  interesting  as  illustrating  some  of  the  different  ways  of  spelling  the 
family  name,  and  as  tending  to  confirm  Mr.  Somerby's  theory  respecting  its  origin. 
It  will  be  seen  that  this  testator  wa.s  the  eldest  son  of  Barnaby  and  Margaret  Burrage, 
whose  wills,  dated  1597,  precede  this. 


APPENDIX  B.-WILL   OF  RICHARD   BURRIDGE.  201 

Le  Strange  liad  been  his  great  enemy  for  twenty  years.  Mentions  his 
godson  John  Thorne  of  South  Creek.  The  tliree  daughters  of  his  late 
sister  Agnes,  sometime  the  wife  of  William  Porte  of  Great  Yarmouth. 
Grandchild  John,  son  of  Lewis  Salter,  and  Mary  his  wife,  testator's 
daughter,  lately  deceased.  Daughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Martin  Harrison. 
Daughter  Bridget  Borage,  Daughter  Frances  Borage,  Wife  Mary,  late 
wife  of  AVilliam  Ilallman,  Daughter  Sarah,  now  wife  of  John  Balliston, 
Daughter  Jane,  Grandchild  John  Greene,  John  Burishe  ali'is  Borage,  son 
of  brother  Richard  Borage,  clerk  (clergyman).  Makes  his  nephew  John 
Burishe  alias  Borage  and  Giles  Notley  residuary  legatees 

Signed  JOHX  BURISH  alias  BURGHE. 


Will  of  Riciiaed  Bueeidge.* 

Richard  Burrage  of  Ilappisburgh,  Clerk,  Will  dated  October  7,  IG.'JS. 
Desires  to  be  buried  in  the  chancel  of  the  church.  Gives  to  the  poor  of 
Ilappisburgh,  East  Ruston,  Hickling,  Salthurst,  Killing,  Wighton, 
Welles  next  the  sea,  St.  Augustines  in  Norwich,  and  St  Pauls  in  Nor- 
wich. To  his  son  John,  his  house,  &c.  &c.  in  East  Ruston.  To  his  daugh- 
ter Sarah,  wife  of  Edward  Page,  lands,  &c.  in  Happisburgh.  To  son 
Samuel  the  house  where  he  testator  now  dwells.  To  daughter  Anne 
Burridge  lands,  &c.  in  East  Ruston.  To  daughter  Elizabeth  houses,  &c. 
in  the  parishes  of  St.  Augustine  and  St.  James  in  Norwich.  To  son 
Richard  lands,  &c.  in  Buxton  and  other  places.  Kinsman  AVilliam 
Munns.  To  his  wife  Anne  a  house  in  the  parish  of  St.  Pauls  in  Norwich. 
Mentions  the  daughter  of  Robert  Burrage  which  he  had  by  testator's 
Kinswoman,  Brome. 

Proved  in  the  Bishop's  Court  of  Norfolk,  March  23,  1638-9. 

*It  will  be  seen  that  this  Richard  was  also  a  son  of  Rarnaby  Burrage,  "of  "Welles 
next  ye  sea." 

2(3 


202  'illH    lU  i;i;A(iK    MK.MOKIAL 


Ai!>i  i;a(  is   ok   Wills   and    Extracts    ri:oM    rAinsii    l{i:fiisTKi!s, 

Sn()\VIN(J    SOMK    OK    TIIK    DIKKKKKNT    A\AVS    IN    WHICH     IIIK    NaMK 
OF    BUI{UA(JK    WAS    WHITTKX. 

Abstracts  of  Wills  in   ''"    h'-'jistry  OxI'mc  at  Ipsiclch,  County  of  Sk folk, 

Enylaml. 

Thomas  Iiiirr;ul<»c  of  Ipswic-li,  iiinholder  Oct.  14,  15S0.  Desires  lo 
lie  buried  at  St.  !Mary  I^lms,  in  Ipsuieh.  "Wife  M:irv.  Son  AVilliam. 
l);iu<:liter  Tlioniasine,  wife  of  TliDnias  Evcranl,  and  their  ">  ehilthxn. 
Appoints  Ids  sou  William  executor  and  Henry  Gipps  supervisor.     Proved 

Nmv.  ji.  \r,so. 

I^rtractsfroni  the  Parish  liegis'cr  of  St.  Mary  Elms,tchich  hcjins  in  '[')'>~. 

JJaptized  —  1584.  Oct.  30  Ales  y-  daut'  of  Willm  Bure;,'e  and  Ales  his 
wife. 

l.-jSG.     Aui^  .'i,  Will""  y'  son  of  Wyllame  hurege  &  Ales  lies  wyfe. 

15!»:J.  Januarj'  15,  Tiiomas  the  soue  of  Will""  borege  &  Elsabethc  his 
w  yfr. 

l(i."»4.     Eliziibeth,  daughter  of  Tliomas  and  Elizabeth  IJurrage. 

Married  —  l')!»2  April  10,  William  liurcge  and  Elsabcth  foxe  ware 
ma  red. 

JJuried  1578.     >ept.  l.'>,  Margrct  y'  wyfe  of  thomas  buryche  wa>  l)i;ny<l. 

15'Jl.     Feb.  2  Ales  y  dauf  of  Wyllm  burege  was  bearyed. 

1000.     Aug.  23,  Elizabeth  Borrage  a  younge  ehilde  was  l)uried. 

1017-1>^.  Jan.v  15,  Elizabeth  the  wife  of  Will'"  Hurridge  wa.s  buried  the 
XV  dai  of  January. 

ICiil.     Will'"  Berrag  the  elder  was  buried  the  xiii  dai  of  June. 

1038-9.     widow  liurage  the  elder  was  burryed  Feb.  4. 

1038.     "William  Burrage  the  elder,  Inn  Keeper,  wa.s  buried  Xovem.  24. 

10O7.     Sept.  9  Elizabeth  Burrage  the  wife  of  Thomas  Burge. 

Ahstracts  of  Wills  in   the  ArcIt(lcaotn''s   Ontrt   of  Xorfolk^  at   yorwidi. 

Walter  Bearadge  of  Thornham  Husbandman ,  Sept.  4,  1580.  To  hi.s 
wife  Cicely  all  his  lands,  &c.  in  Thornham  during  her  life,  then  to  Son 
.Idliii,  Daughters  Airnes  mid  Mary.      Proved  Nov.  10,  l.^sO. 


APPENDIX  B.  — ABSTRACTS  OF  WILLS,  ETC.      203 

AdministiMtion  of  the  goods,  &c.  of  Thomas  Burridge  of  Scoulthorpe, 
granted  to  Alice  his  widow,  April,  1589. 

Ednuind  Burradge  of  Worsted,  yeoman,  Feb.  12  1612-13.  Desires  to  be 
buried  in  the  churchyard  near  his  wife.  Present  wife  Alice.  Daught. 
Alice.  Daught.  Mary,  wife  of  Andrew  Kose.  Daught.  Bridget,  wife  of 
Humphrey  Allison,  Grandchild  Agnes  Claighton.    Proved  July  28, 1617. 

William  Burrage  of  Marcham  Magdalen,  tailor,  March  20,  1586-7. 
Wife  Barbara.     Daughtei-s  Cicely,  Elizabeth,  Abigail,  and  Alice  Burrage. 

Ahst7'acts  of  Wills  proved  in  the  Bis/jop's  Court  of  Norwich,  at  Norwich. 

Thomas  Burgh,  of  Kessingland,  1422.     Wife  Alice. 

Godford  Burgh,  of  Sutton,  Rector,  May  4,  1439.  Sister  Katherine, 
mentions  Eeginald  Burgh.  Appoints  William  Burgh  executor.  Proved 
June  17, 14.39. 

Nicholas  Burgh  of  Swathfield,  June  15,  1493.  W^ife  Margaret.  Men- 
tions his  lands  in  Swathfield,  North  Walsham,  Knopton,  Bukton,  &c.  &c. 
Son  Robert.     Daughter  Cicely.     Proved  Oct.  21,  1493. 

John  Burgh  citizen  of  Norwich,  April  2,  1529.  Desires  to  be  buried  in 
the  church  of  St.  Clement  of  Fybrigg  in  Norwich,  against  the  altar  of 
St.  John  Babtist. 

John  Beareadge  of  Thornton,  carpenter,  Sept.  31,1613.  Wife  Eliza- 
beth. Sons  Benjamin,  John,  and  Michael.  Daughter  Elizabeth,  not  16. 
Proved  Oct.  20,  1613. 

John  Borowght  of  Walsoken,  Nov.  9,  1504.  Daughters  Cecelia  and 
Agnes.     Master  William.     Smeaton  executor. 

John  Burrishe  of  Worsted,  raffeman,  Apiil  11,  1573.  Wife  Agnes. 
Sons  John,  Thomas,  and  William,  all  under  21.  Daughters  Agnes,  Mar- 
garet, Amy,  and  Joan,  not  18.  Sister  Mary  Burrishe.  Appoints  his  wife 
executrix  and  Henry  Tymplie,  gent,  supervisor.  Proved  July  31, 15T3. 
Also  in  Norfolk  Co. 

Richard  Burrough  (or  Borough)  of  Norton  Subcorse,  yeoman.  Will 
dated  Oct.  18,  1644.  Gives  all  his  houses  and  lands  to  his  nephew  Henry, 
son  of  his  brother  Henry  deceased,  and  appoints  him  executor.  Proved 
in  the  Archdeacon's  Court  of  Norfolk  1G46.  Sealed  with  a  crescent 
between  three  boar's  heads. 


204  THE   BUKRAGE   MEMOPvTAL. 

Mr.  Somerb3%  in  a  preface  to  the  copies  and  abstracts  of  wills  and 
extracts  from  parish  records  forwarded  liy  liim,  wrote  respecting  this  last- 
named  will  as  follows:  "In  the  year  1046,  Richard  Barrage,  of  Norton 
Subcorse,  uncle  to  John  IJurrage,  died:  and  in  an  inventory  appended  to 
the  will,  mention  is  made  of  a  close  of  land  of  Jive  acres,  partly  belonging 
to  John  Barrage,  now  beyond  the  seas.  The  will  is  sealed  with  a  coat 
of  arms,  viz.,  a  crescent  between  three  boar's  heads,  evidently  a  pan 
upon  the  name  Morage,  as  it  was  sometimes  written." 

Among  other  names  attached  to  wills  and  found  on  parish  registers  in 
different  counties  are  the  following:  Thomas  Barrage  of  Ilarloe,  Essex 
Count}-,  Sept.  1,  15S1.  John  Beridge  of  "NVard'ey,  Rutland  County,  loTO. 
AVilliam  Berridge  of  Whistendiue,  1(311.  Margaret  Burridg  of  Tumble, 
"Wondside  in  the  parish  of  Ruskbie,  1633.  "William  Bunage  the  elder,  of 
Wotton  in  Bedfordshire,  Jan.  .30,  1584. 

The  parish  register  of  Wighton.  in  the  County  of  Norfolk,  has  the 
marriage  of  "William  Barrage,  1594,  and  the  births  of  his  children  as 
follows:  Anne  Barrage,  15!J5;  Alyse  Burrage,  1598;  Maria  Burrage,  1600; 
William  Burrage,  1606;  Andry  Burrage,  1609;  George  BitrrocVje,  1612; 
James  Burradge,  1016.  And  in  will,  June  6,  1640,  the  same  names  of 
the  same  persons  are  written  as  follows:  "  "William  Boreage  the  elder  of 
Wighton  in  the  County  of  Noifolk  joiner  to  his  eldest  son  "V\'illiam  all 
his  houses  Sec.  Seccoad  son  George  Boerage,  youngest  son  James." 
Daughter  Anne,  wife  of  John  Hall.  Daughter  Katherine  deceased,  late 
wife  of  Robert  Porter.  Grandchild  Maiy  Purlaiid.  Daughter  Andery 
Porland.  Appoints  his  son  William  executor.  Witnessed  by  George 
Burridge  and  others.  Proved  in  the  Archdeacon's  Court  of  Norwich 
March  li>,  1643-4. 


APPENDIX    C. 

From  Bromfleld's  "History  of  Norfolk  County":  "Norwich,  named 
by  the  Saxons  North-Wic,  meaning  North  Castle,  on  the  River  Wensum, 
a  branch  of  the  Yare,  the  castle  first  built  in  reign  of  Utfa,  first  king  of 
the  East  Angles,  soon  after  the  year  575;  in  the  Confessor's  time  called  the 
Burgh  or  Borrough;  that  part  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  king  and  the 


APPENDIX  C— PERSONS  OF  THE  NAME  OF  EURRAGE.   205 

earl  was  called  peculiarly  the  Burgh.  The  year  133G  is  memorable  f.)r 
the  great  increase  of  the  Flemish  stuffs  or  worsted  manufacturo,  named 
from  Wursted  or  Worsted,  in  Norfolk,  in  winch  a  colony  of  old  Dutch 
settled  in  Himry  the  First's  time.  Norwich  became  the  principal  place 
for  its  manufacture." 

In  the  Post-Office  Directory  of  Cambridge,  Norfolk,  and  Suffolk 
Counties,  England,  for  1853,  are  the  following  names:  "Residents  of 
Norwich :  Burrage  &  Jeffries,  outfitters  ;  Edward  Burrage,  baker ; 
Edwin  Burrage,  baker  ;  Joseph  James  Burrage,  schoolmaster;  John  C. 
Burrage,  boys'  school;  Mrs.  Susannah  Burrage,  tobacconist;  Miss  S. 
Burrage,  school  mistress  of  district  boys'  school;  Albert  Burrage,  baker." 
It  will  be  noticed  that  in  every  case  the  name  is  written  as  our  ancestor 
wrote  it.  Also  in  Yarmouth  —  which  is  the  port  at  the  mouth  of  the  River 
Yare,  below  Norwich  —  there  were  "  Burrage  &  Ames,  bricklayers;  Jolin 
Burrage,  bricklayer;"  Mrs.  Mariena  Burrage,  shopkeeper,  South  Town; 
and  Mrs.  Sarah  Ann  Burrage,  dres?-maker."  In  other  counties  than 
Norfolk  the  orthography  of  Burridge  is  more  common  than  that  of 
Burrage. 

Items  respfctixg  Persons  of  the  Name  of  Burrage  axd  so^ri-: 
OF  THE  Names  with  which  it  is  connected  by  Similaisity  of 
Orthography"., 

In  Bromfield's  "History  of  Norwich,"  under  date  of  l-t]G,  John 
Burgh  is  named  as  one  of  the  city  sergeants  for  packing  juries. 

About  1500  Robert  Burgh  was  one  of  the  Burgesses  in  Parliament 
from  Norwich. 

In  1742  Tbomas  Burrage  was  chosen  Sub-Charaberlain  of  Norwicli. 

In  1439  Nic.  Burgh,  citizen,  was  buried  in  the  church  of  the  Aii>tiii 
Friars  Norwich. 

"John  de  Buryhersh  died  in  19'h  of  Richard  2.  Wife  Jlaud.  A 
daughter  Maud  married  Thomas  Chaucer,  E^q.,  son  of  the  famous  poet 

Sir  (jeoffrey." 

Under  the  head  of  "  Massingham  Magna,"  in  the  list  of  rectors  of  the 
church  of  "St.  Mary's,"  there  is  John  Bcrege,  D.  D.,  died  101)8.  In 
another  place,  "  Tomb  of  the  wife  of  John  Beridge  Doctor  of  Divinity 
of  Great  Massingham.    Died  Feb.  21,  1725." 


206  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

In  Vol.  YIl,  pnge  5,  is  the  following:  "Mr.  John  Borage  of  North 
Barsham,  Gent,  gwe  by  his  will  dated  Oct.  27,  1030,  to  the  Master,  fel- 
lows, and  scholars  of  Clare  Hall,  in  Cambridge  where  he  was  sometime  a 
scholar,  a  rent  charge  of  33  £.  per  anuiim  out  of  his  Messuages  Lands  & 
tennements  in  Xorth  Barsham,"  &c. 

Under  the  heal  of  Ilappisburgh,  in  a  description  of  the  church  there 
(dedicated  to  St.  Mary),  in  the  list  of  vicars,  is  the  following:  ''1002 
Bicliard  Burrage  appointed  by  the  King,  a  lapse.  In  1003  he  returned 
195  communicants."  This  is  the  Richard  Burrage  whose  will  is  given  on 
page  201  of  the  appendix. 

lu  Berry's  "  Encyclopedia  Ileraldica,"  there  is  a  description  of  armo- 
rial bearings  granted  to  a  Borage  (Devon),  and  others  granted  in  1700  to 
Burridge,  Ilolden,  Kent,  borne  in  1S25  by  F.  (J.  C.  Burridge,  Esq.,  of 
Lillcsden,  in  Ilawkhust,  Kent. 

In  Dyer's  "  History  of  the  Universit}'  of  Cambridge,"  is  a  notice  as 
follows:  "John  Berridge,  A.  M.  1742,  an  eminent  Methodist,  senior 
fellow  of  this  college  and  author  of  '  The  Christian  World  unmasked.' 
The  first  person  at  Cambridge  who  ai>pears  to  have  been  much  influ- 
enced by  Methodism,  who  occasionally  preaching  in  the  pulpit  of  St. 
Mary's  gave  great  olTence  to  the  University;  this  was  in  1755.  The 
epitaph  on  hi?'' tombstone  written  by  himself  will  best  explain  both  his 
doctrine  .•    d  hjs  style. 

IIERK    LIE 

THE    EAIITIILY    KEMAIXS    OF 

JOHN   BERRIDGE, 

LATE  VICAR  OF  EVERTON, 

Ari)    AX    ITIXERAXT    SERVANT    OF   JESUS    CHRIST, 

WHO  LOVED  HIS  MASTER  AND  HIS  WORK; 

AND,   AFTER  RUXN'IXG   OX    HIS    ERRANDS   MANV   YEARS, 

WAS  CAUGHT   UP  TO  WAIT  OX  IIIM;  ABOVE. 

READER! 

Art  tliou  born  again  ? 

No  Salvation  without  a  new  ])irth. 

I  was  born  in  sin  February,  1710, 

Remained  ignorant  of  my  fallen  .state  till   1730 

J "'       ,  proudly  on    faith   and   works   for   salvation   till    1754 

Admitted    to    Everton    Vicarage    17.55 

Fled  to  Jesus  alone  for  refuge  1750 

Fell  asleep  in  Christ  January  22d   1793. 


APPENDIX  D.  — INVENTOKY  OF  JOHN  BURKAGE'S  ESTATE.  207 

"  He  is  spoken  of  as  having  become  another  Ilolcroft  by  preaching 
through  Cambridge  sliire  Bedford  sTiire  and  Huntington  sliire  in  houses 
and  barns  as  well  as  his  own  pulpit.  lie  even  sent  forth  lay  preachers. 
Many  dissenting  churches  now  in  those  counties  were  originally  formed 
of  his  disciples;  and  some  gentlemen  of  the  University  in  about  1768 
were  a  good  deal  formed  in  Mr.  Berridge's  school." 

The  writer  has  a  copy  of  "The  Christian  World  unmasked"  "cor- 
rected and  abridged  by  Abner  Morse,  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  in  Nantucket,  1822."  It  evinces  a  good  deal  of  ability  and 
power  in  the  writer.  Upon  those  who  admitted  his  theological  premises, 
it  would  be  likely  to  have  great  effect.  The  sketch  of  his  life  prefixed  to 
the  work  says  that  his  preaching  drew  large  crowds  who  were  deeply 
impressed  by  his  discourses. 


APPENDIX    D. 
An   Ina^entoky   of    the    Estate    of    John    Bureage,  late    of 

ChARLESTOWN,  as  it  was   APPEAISED   the   18tH    of    N0YE:yiBER, 

1685,  BY  John  Gael,  Sr.,  and  Samuel  Hunting, 
Imps.  :  — 

His  wearing  apparrel,  one  great  Coat 

3  Wascoats  @  3  pr.  Breeches  2  pr  drawers  ri^ockings  (g  shoes 

6  neck  cloaths,  5  caps  @  4  handerchers 

6  Shirts 

Books  IQs  Arms  @  Ammunition  1£ 

a  table  5^  (2)  forms  5^  (2)  Joynstools  # 

a  Cupboard  @  trunk  208  a  chest  @  box  5^ 

12  Chairs 

a  feather  bed  @  sted  with  furniture 

a  tlock  bed  («  furniture 

a  bedsted  @  bed  @  furniture  — porch  chamber 

a  bedsted  @  bed  with  furniture  — hall  chamber 

a  sreat  chest  l-"  6  Cushions  6^ 


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208  THE  BUKKAGE  MEMUKIAL. 

Amount  broittjJU  foncurd, 
a  chest  @  desk 

8  pr  Sheets  3»  2  Cupboard  cloths  o*' 
11  pillow  cases  V  12  napkins  9^ 
6  eh  napkins  8*  table  cloths  @  towels  lis 
pillion  @  Cloath 

in  the  kitchen  —  puter  2*  5*  brass  1*  12^ 
a  pestle  @  mortar  3"  Scales  @  weights  5« 
Spitt  @  dripin  pan  chafin  dish  @  candle  stick 
2  tables  @  forms  1*  5«  6  spoons  18«-3-? 
Earlhern  ware  2^  meal  trough,  cefe,  pajis 
Iron  utensils  —  pots  —  Andrions,  tramels  &c. 
a  pr  of  bellows  2»  barrels  @  tub  lO 

2  banners  @  smoothing  iron 

bottles  Juggs  @  pots  5"  a  cow  @  hog  2'  15^ 

4  piggs  1'  5"  a  srtaall  am-hor  .!>« 

The  half  of  two  boat'  i*  lO^  |  part  of  one  boat  2' 

Lumber  @  old  ir..n  \\  itiiln  doors  (2  without 

Two  wood  1' t- 

Three  acres  of  upland 

3  Cow  Conmions  @  a  half  Common 
20  acres  of  hay  laud  be  it  more  or  less 

Tbe  dwelling  house  wharf  (g  barn  with  two  wardens 


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Signed  SAMUEL   HUNTIXG 

JOHN   CALL 
The  estate  in  debt  £41  5'  !>■' 

Charlst.  15  Dec.  bo  sworn  by  i  huinty  Joanna  @  Thomas  Burrage 


TnE  Original  AorEtMENT  ot  thk  Childrkx  of  Jonx  Burrage 

IlELVTIVE   TO    A    PrVlSION   OF   THEIR   FATHER'S    EsTATE. 

"  The  whole  amount  £214-0-0  being  divided  in  Ten  parts  amongst  us 
as  followeth.  Imi)^  To  Susanna  Burrage  being  the  daughter  of  John 
]Jurrage  eldest  son  of  s"d  Julm  Biuragc  furty  eiglit  puuml-  sixti-eii  sliii- 


APPENDIX  E.- WILL   OF   DEACON   THOMAS   BURRAGE.      209 

lings  being  a  doul)le  share,  and  for  ye  rest  of  the  chilch-en,  viz:  Mary 
Marshall,  Hannah  French,  Elizabeth  Poor,  William  Burrage.  Sarali 
Johnson,  Bethiah  Burrage,  Thomas  Burrage  &  Ruth  White,  twenty  four 
pounds  eight  shillings  a  piece,  twenty  four  pounds  eight  shillings  being  a 
single  share.  AVhat  we  have  already  received  formerly  of  our  lionored 
father  or  otherwise  out  of  his  estate  being  considered  as  also  coniju-ized 
in  ye  whole  Inventory  and  substracted  out  of  our  respective  parts,"'  &c. 
Dated  May  2,  1694.  Signed  by  John  French,  John  Marshall,  Thumas 
Burrage,  William  Johnson  his  mark  and  seal— V— Sarah  Johnson  her  mark 
and  seal,  Ruth  — r  w— AVhite  her  mark  and  seal,  Susanna  Burrage. 


APPENDIX    E. 
AYiLL  OF  Deacon  Thomas  Burrage.    Lynn,  March  G,  1717. 

In  the  name  of  our  Lord  God  amen.  I  Thomas  Burrage  of  Lynn  in 
ye  County  of  Essex  in  ye  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  In  New 
England,  Joyner,  being  sick  &  weak  &  not  knowing  how  soon  it  may 
please  God  to  take  me  out  of  this  world.  Doe  take  y*  opportunity  to  make 
this  my  last  will  and  testament  as  follows  — 

First  and  principally  I  commit  my  soul  Into  ye  hands  of  my  Blessed 
Redeemer  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  hoping  &  believing  through  his  merits 
to  find  acceptance  at  ye  throne  of  grace,  and  my  body  to  the  Earth  from 
whence  it  was  taken,  to  be  decently  buryed  at  ye  descretion  of  my 
Executors  hereafter  named  — hoping  through  Christ  for  a  glorious  resur- 
ection,  &  as  for  my  Worldly  Estate  God  of  his  Mercy  hath  bestowed 
upon  mee  I  give  &  bequeath  as  follows  — 

Impr^.  That  all  my  Just  Debts  be  duely  &  honorably  payed.  I  give 
and  bequeath  to  my  beloved  wife  Elizabeth,  shee  renouncing  all  her  right 
of  Dower  in  my  Estate,  all  the  moveable  Estate  shee  brought  wlien  I 
married  her  &  four  pair  sheets,  Two  Tali!e  cloths,  half  a  dozen  of  Naj)- 
kins,  half  a  dozen  of  Towels,  one  coverlid,  one  blankett,  a  chest  of 
drawers,  a  table  &  a  half  a  dozen  of  black  chairs;  and  my  said  wife  so 
long  as  shee  remains  my  widow  To  live  in  y"  easterly  lower  room  in  my 


210  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

Dwelling  house  and  my  two  sons  John  &  Thomas  to  provide  for  my  said 
wife  att  yc  own  Cost  &  charge  in  equal  ])arts  betwixt  them  yearl}'  & 
ever}'  year  so  long  as  shee  I'emains  mj'  widow,  six  cords  of  wood  at  the 
house,  twelve  bushells  of  Rye,  three  bushells  of  ^hllt,  one  hundred  w^t  of 
beif,  one  hundred  w'"  of  Porke,  ten  pounds  of  sheeps  wool  and  twenty 
pounds  of  tlax,  &  to  keep  her  a  cow  winters  and  summers;  &  If  shee 
chance  to  marry  then  my  three  sons  to  give  her  three  pounds  a  year 
during  her  natural  life. 

Impi-s.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  two  sons  .Tohn  Burrage  &  Thomas 
Burrage  in  equal  halves  betwixt  them  &  to  their  heirs  &  assigns  forever 
all  of  ni}'  lands  of  all  sorts  (excepting  that  four-acres  of  salt  marsh  y'  I 
bought  of  Mr.  Bass).  That  my  said  son  John  his  heirs  &  assigns  to  have 
over  &  above  his  half  of  said  lands,  and  my  said  son  John  to  have  all  my 
housing  on  my  Land  where  I  now  live  &  to  pay  half  3'e  value  yerof  to 
my  said  son  Thomas  Towards  building  him  a  house.  Item  I  give  to  my 
daughter  Joanna  Mansfield  ten  shillings  shee  having  had  a  portion  already. 
Item  I  give  to  my  other  four  daughters,  namely,  Elizal)eth  Burrage  Mary 
Burrage  Bethiah  &  Ruth  Burrage,  fortj-  pounds  to  each  of  them  &  they 
to  have  all  the  moveables  in  my  house  (excepting  so  much  of  It  as  I 
have  given  to  my  wife)  to  be  equally  divided  amongst  them  &  what  there 
Avants  to  make  up  ye  forty  pounds  to  each  of  said  four  daughters,  my  will 
Is  yt  it  shall  be  made  up  by  said  Two  sons  equally  betwixt  them. 

Item,  my  will  Is,  &  I  doe  appoint  my  Two  sons  John  Burrage  & 
Thomas  Burrage  to  be  m}-  lawful  executors  to  this  my  last  will  &  Testa- 
ment, and  for  ye  confirmation  yerof  I  ye  said  Thomas  Burrage  have 
hereunto  affixed  my  hand  «fe  seal  this  sixth  day  of  March  anno  Domine 
one  thousand  seven  hundred  &  seventeen. 

(Signed)  TIIO'   BURR  AH  E. 

Signed  &  Sealed  in 
presence  of  us 

richakdson  joiinsox 
John  Ivouv 
John  Buhiull. 


APPENDIX   E. -INVENTORIES   OF   ESTATKS.  211 

Inventory  of  the  Estate  of  Thomas  Bui!i;aoe. 

Imp'  To  Wearing  apparel  &  books  2-:>-  O-O 

To  five  feather  beds  &  furniture  —  Table  Linen  &  Clotli  57-12-0 

"  3  chests  of  drawers,  2  tables  &  Trunk  6-13-0 

"  Looking  glass,  24  chairs  &  a  chest  5_  _^ 

"  pewter,  brass,  Iron  &  Bedstead  &c.  12-15-0 

"  Joyners  Tools  &  some  Joyners'  Bords  &  Joyce  7_  ;j_o 

"  Ilorse  furniture  &c.  q_  rn 

"  5  Cows  —  3  young  Cattle,  2  horses  —  20  sheep  4  swine  GO-  0-0 
"  Ye  Homestead,  7  acres  upland,  15  acres  Meadow  &  about 

63  acres  of  Common  Lotts  212-  0-0 
"  That  part  of  housing  &  Land  bo't  of  Nathi  Rust  &  two 

thirds  of  four  acres  of  Salt  Marsh  bo't.  of  Mr  Bass  110-  0-0 

"  Dwelling  house  Barn  &  Shopp  oO-  0-0 

£50-2-0-0 

To  a  Debtt  Due  from  the  Estate  to  Jolm  Burrage  £50-0-0 

provisions  not  prized. 
Proved  Salem  April  16  ann  D'  1718. 

Inventory  of  the  Estate  of  Williaji  Burrage,  1720. 

A  true  Inventory  of  all  and  singular  the  goods,  chattells,  and  credits 
of  Wm.  Burridge,  late  of  Newton,  in  the  County  of  Middlesex,  dece;ised, 
intestate,  apprized  by  us  the  subscribers,  and  is  as  follows,  to  wit:  — 
Imprimis;  his  purse  and  apparel  £1-10/  Books  12/  2-  2-0 

Bed  Jfe  Bpding  £5-0-2  Old  beds  £2-10/— two  Coverlids  15/  8-  5-0 

5  sheets  £1-15/  other  Linen  3/  1-18-0 

Pewter  13/  brass  5/— 2  Iron  pots  13/— Iron  Kettle  10/  2-  1-<I 

Earthen  ware  4/  Tinn  2/ —  spoems  1/  box  and  heater  3/  0-10-0 

Woodin  Vessels  H/6'^  tongs  &  trammels  5/  0-  8-(; 

One  hammer  1/  one  ax  2/6  Hoe  1/6  0-  5-(» 

One  gun  10/  four  chairs  4/  kneading  trough  1/6  0-15-6 

Chest  and  trunk  5/  Table  5/—  Spinning  Wheel  8/  0-18-0 

Amount  curried  forward,  £17-  3-0 


212  THE    BriUJAGE    MK^rOT^TAL. 

Amount  hront/ht  forward,  £17-  3-0 

Cask  4/  One  Sickle  1/  Beetle,  ring  &  wedges  5/6  0-10-6 

One  Muck  fork  1/0  — plow-irons  5/  Old  Iron  4/G  0-11-0 

two  Cows  @  i£  each  —  a  heifer  2 f  - 10/  10-10-0 

A  Mare  and  Colt  @  7  Lbs.  two  swine  2  Lbs  9-  0-0 


£37-14-0 


Debts  due  to  the  Estate  By  Bill  one  hundred  ponivls,  llfty  of 
w'»  is  payable  the  last  of  July  past  The  other  fifty  due 
on  the  last  of  September  1721  100-  0-0 

A  desperate  debt  one  pound-10/  1-10-0 


£139-  4-6 


(ITis  Dkhts.) 

Funeral  charges  r)£-12-6  other  debts  5-13-7  11-  6-1 

John  Greenwood  —  John  Spring  Samuel  Hide  ai)p''     >wnrn 
to  by  both  Aug.  15,  1720i 


A  P  P  E  X  I)  I  X    F  . 
Will  of  Thomas  Bi-ruaok,  Lvnx,  Dkc.  S,  1S59. 

In  the  name  of  fio  I  amen.  I  Thomas  Burrage  of  Lynn  in  tlie  County 
of  Essex  and  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  in  Xew  England,  Ilouse- 
wright  being  weak  in  body,  but  in  my  perfect  disposing  mind  and  Memory 
and  apprehensive  of  My  Mortality  Do  make  this  my  last  will  and  Testa- 
ment &  hereby  appoint  My  sons  William  Burrage  &  Josiah  Burrage 
Executors  hereof.  Imprimis.  I  Commend  my  soul  to  the  Mercy  of  God 
in  Christ  My  Redeemer  and  order  my  Executors  to  bury  ray  body  in  a 
decent  manner.  Item  I  will  that  my  Executors  pay  all  my  just  debts  & 
funeral  charges  out  of  ray  cash,  notes  of  hand  &  bonds  due  to  me  and  my 
book  debts,  which  if  they  should  not  be  sufficient  the  remainder  to  be 
then  paid  out  of  my  live  stock. 

I/.cia.  — I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  wife  Anna  all  the  household  goods  & 
furniture  shee  brought  to  me  upon  our  Marriage,  with  what  money  shee 
shall  h;ive  in  keeping  at  My  decease  and  what  goods  shee  may  have  by 


APPENDIX  P.— WILL  OF  THOMAS  BURR  AGE  OF  LYNX.       213 

her,  which  are  her  proper  &  present  interest  To  be  to  her  her  lieirs  & 
assigns  forever,  and  her  word  shall  determine  both  as  to  the  money  & 
goods  what  are  hers.  I  also  give  to  my  said  wife  and  her  heirs  and 
assigns  forever,  one  feather  bed  Bedstead  &  beding  as  shee  shall  chuse, 
also  one  Cow  which  shee  shall  chuse  out  of  my  stock,  also  one  equal  half 
of  my  Movable  Estate  of  every  name  nature  &  kind  after  my  debts  & 
funeral  charges  as  above  in  this  my  will  particularly  allotted  &  given  and 
excepting  my  live  stock,  remaining  Husbandry  utensils  &  Carpenter's 
&  Glazier's  tools  —  I  also  give  to  my  said  wife  for  and  during  the  whole 
time  shee  shall  remain  my  widow,  The  keeping  well  of  one  Cow,  winter 
&  summer  to  be  done  by  my  said  Executors  and  also  the  free  and  Intire 
use  &  Improvement  of  the  East  room  &  and  the  north  East  lower  Bud 
room  in  my  now  Dwelling  house  &  such  a  part  of  my  cellar  to  improve 
as  shee  shall  choose  and  free  liberty  to  pass  from  &  round  my  said  house 
&  to  the  Gardens  »&  well  as  shee  pleases,  and  to  make  use  of  the  Kitchen 
as  shee  hath  occasion,  and  to  pass  to  it  either  way  as  shee  pleases,  and 
also  the  free  use  of  one  third,  part  of  each  of  my  gardens  as  shee  shall 
choose.  I  also  give  to  her  during  said  term  of  her  widowhood  annually 
each  and  every  year  and  in  just  proportion  for  less  than  a  year  eight 
bushels  Merchantable  Indian  Corn,  Two  bushels  Merchbi  Rye,  Two 
bushels  of  Malt,  one  barrel  of  Cyder,  Sixty  pound  of  good  Merchbi  beef 
&  eighty  pound  of  good  Merch^i  pork,  &  Ave  Cord  of  good  Merch^'  fire 
wood,  Cord  length,  all  the  above  particulars  of  stores  &  provisions  to  be 
seasonably  and  within  each  and  every  year  provided  &  delivered  to  her 
at  my  now  dwelling  house  where  she  is  to  reside  by  my  three  sous 
William,  Josiah  &  Abijah  in  three  equal  parts  or  such  as  may  legally 
represent  each  of  them.  Shee  accepting  the  whole  of  the  above  in  lieu 
of  her  right  of  Dower  in  my  estate. 

Item.— I  will  give  &  Bequeath  to  my  son  William  the  land  with  tlic 
house  he  has  recently  built  on  my  homestead  with  all  my  laljour  on  & 
about  said  house,  and  privilege  of  passmg  round  said  house  as  he  may 
have  occasion  and  as  best  suit  his  convenience,  also  one  just  third  part  of 
my  remaining  live  stock  and  one  third  part  of  my  husbandry  utensils,  also 
one  equal  half  part  of  each  of  my  three  wooil-lotts  in  Lynn,  one  lying  in 
the  ox  pasture,  so  called,  one  in  the  middle  pasture  and  the  other  in 
Tomlins  swamp  so  called,  To  be  to  him  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever. 


214  THE    BUR H AGE    MEMORIAL. 

Item. — I  will  give  &  bequeath  to  my  son  Josiah  my  carpenter's  shop 
&  all  my  carpenter's  tools  &  Glaziers  utensils,  also  half  one  feather  bed, 
bedstead  &  l)eding,  also  my  desk  also  one  just  third  part  of  my  whole  live 
stock  after  debts  and  funeral  charges  paid  &  my  wives  Cow  taken  out, 
and  one  third  part  of  all  my  husljandry  utensils  —  and  I  will  that  my  said 
son  and  all  by  &  under  him  shall  have  liberty  to  pass  round  the  shop  as 
he  &  tliey  may  have  occasion  ;  also  one  equal  half  part  of  my  above 
mentioned  wood-lotts  —  The  above  particulars  to  be  to  him  his  heirs  and 
assigns  forever. 

Item.  —  I  will  give  *fc  Bequoatli  to  my  son  Abijah  one  nine  acre  Wood 
lott  lying  in  said  Lynn  on  the  back  of  Tomlins  swamp,  so  called,  also  one 
half  one  feather  bed,  Ijcdstcad  &  beding,also  the  whole  remaining  part  of 
my  live  stock  &  husbandry  utensils,  also  one  equal  half  part  of  my  now 
Dwelling  house  with  the  land  it  covers,  and  liberty  to  pass  round  it 
excepting  my  wive's  liberty  of  Improving  &  privilege  as  mentioned,  & 
excepting  my  daugliter  Susanna's  improvement  &  privileges  as  herein- 
after mentioned.  To  be  to  him  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever. 

Item.  — I  will  give  &  Bequ«*atii  lo  my  son  Josiah  the  land  my  carpenter's 
shop  covers  also  the  other  equal  half  part  of  my  now  Dwelling  liouse  with 
the  land  it  covers,  and  liberty  to  pass  round  it  Excepting  my  wives  and 
said  daughter  Susanna's  liberty  of  Improving  &  priviledges  as  herein 
mentioned  in  all  regards.  To  him  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever. 

Item.  —  I  will  give  &  Bequeath  to  my  daughter  Susanna  &  her  heirs  »fc 
assigns,  one  feather  bed,  bedstead  &  beding,  also  the  remaining  part  of 
all  my  personal  movable  Estate  (Except  one  bed,  bedstead  &  beding  for 
William)  also  sixty  six  pounds  thirteen  shillings  &  four  pense  lawfull 
Money,  To  be  paid  her  as  follows,  viz.  Twenty  six  pounds  thirteen  shillings 
&  four  pence  in  two  payments  by  my  son  William  Burrage  the  first  payment 
in  one  year  after  my  deceas  and  the  seccoud  payment  in  two  years  after 
ray  decease  &  twenty  six  pounds  thirteen  shillings  four  pence  to  be  paid 
in  two  payments  by  my  son  Josiah,  the  first  payment,  viz,  one  half  in  one 
year  &  the  second  in  two  years  after  my  decease,  and  the  remaining 
thirteen  pounds  six  &  eight  pence,  amounting  in  the  whole  to  the  said 
j£G6,13,4d  lawful  money,  to  be  paid  to  her  by  my  son  Abijah  in  two  years 
after  my  decease,  &  if  the  said  sums  are  not  freely  paid  as  above  ordered 
then  Interest  shall  be  paid  from  the  time  set  for  payment  till  paid,  also  I 


APPENDIX  F.— WILL  OF  THOMAS  BURRAGE  OF  LYNN.   215 

give  her  the  free  use  of  the  west  chamher  hi  my  Dwell hig  house  & 
liherty  to  pass  &  repass  to  &  from  the  same  &  priviledge  in  ray  cellar  & 
the  use  of  the  kitchen  as  shee  have  occasion  from  my  decease  to  tlic 
time  shee  shall  be  married.  The  above  to  be  in  full  of  her  portion  of  my 
Estate. 

Item.  — I  will  give  &  Bequeath  to  my  grand  children  by  my  deceased 
daughter  Deziah  Whittemore  which'  with  what  I  have  heretofore  given 
my  said  daughter  Is  in  full  of  their  right  &  portion  in  my  Estate,  That  is 
to  say  to  Elizabeth  Whittemore  Eight  pounds  lawfull  money,  to  her  & 
her  heirs  forever  to  be  paid  by  my  sons  William  Josiah  &  Abijah  in  equal 
parts  when  the  said  Elizabeth  shall  arrive  to  the  age  of  eighteen  years, 
aiso  one  bed  bedstead  &  beding,  and  to  each  of  my  deceased  daughters 
two  sons  Joseph  &  Edmond  &  her  daughter  Esther  one  pound  six  &  eiiiht 
pence  laAvfull  money  each,  to  be  paid  by  my  three  sons  William,  Josiah  & 
Abijah,  in  equal  parts,  to  the  sons  when  twenty  one  years  of  age  &  to 
Esther  when  eighteen  years  of  age  To  them  and  their  respective  heirs 
forever. 

Lastly,  I  will  give  &  Bequeath  to  my  three  sons  William,  Josiah  & 
Abijah  &  their  respective  heirs  &  assigns  forever  my  whole  remaining 
real  Estate  not  herein  before  given  in  three  equal  parts,  To  each  one 
third  part  —  but  on  this  condition  that  they  &  each  of  them  well  &  truly 
pay  in  all  regards  as  is  above  mentioned  &  ordered  The  several  sums  of 
money  &  stores  herein  willed  to  my  wife  &  Daughter  Susanna  and  the 
children  of  my  daughter  Deziah,  which  sums  I  herein  Debt  my  said  re- 
maining real  Estate  with  and  absolutely  subject  it  to  the  payment  of  the 
same.  And  do  also  Debt  the  same  with  the  stores  annually  to  be  provided 
for  my  wife. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereto  set  my  hand  &  seal  this  eighth  day  of 
December  Anno  Domini  1759. 

Signed,  THOMAS   BUERAGE. 

Signed,  sealed,  published  &  declared  by  the  s'd  Thomas  Burrage  to  be 
his  last  will  &  Testament  in  presence  of  us  who  at  tlie  same  time  hereto 
affixed  our  hands  as  witnesses  before  s'd  Testator. 

Nathaniel  IIkncii.man. 

TlIEOPIIlLUS   BUEKB. 
JOSIAII    Nl.WIIALL. 


21G  THE    BURRAGE    MEMORIAL. 


Ax  IXVEXTOKY  OF  THE  ESTATE  OF  Mil  TlIOMAS  BURRAGE  LATE 
OF  LyXN  dec'"  TAKEX  by  us  THE  SUBSCRIBE nS  APPOIXTED  AXD 
AUTHORIZED   THFREFOR    LyNX,    AtRIL   YE    1"   17G0. 

To  2  hatts  20/  2  great  coats  30/  other  wearing  api)arel  70/  6      -    - 

'  G  shirts  30/  7  pr  StocksB  9/  1  Cap  G^  Silk  Handkerch  2/ 
'  1  pr  Stock'B  4/  a  bible  12/  one  ditto  12/  other  books  7/ 
'  Best  Bedstead  &  Beding  in  East  Room 
'  Chest  with  drawers  53/4  Desk  32/  Tablo  12/  Looking 

glass  30/ 
'  G  chairs  24/  "Warming  pan  8/  Candlostick  1/ 
'   17  ounces  &  i  Silver  114/  Delph  ware  12/  Glassware  G/ 
'  Andirons  G/  Tongs  &  Shovel  G/ 
'  Two  Beds,  Ik'dsteads  &  beding  in  East  chamber 
'  One  lied  in  West  Chamber,  beding  Sc  Curtains 
'  One  ditto  in  S'd  Chamher  &  beding  80/ 
'  Old  Case  drawers  12/  table  6/  4  chairs  G/  4  ditto  G/ 
'  IG  pairs  Sheets,  table  Linen  &c  £.0  — 
'  3  brass  Kettles  &  skellet  GO/  2  tea  Kettles  22/ 
'  3  Iron  pots  2  Kettles  &  Iron  bread  pan  20/ 
'  2  Tranu'ls  12/  2  pr  andirons  24/  shovel  4/ 
'  Warming  pan  0/  box  Iron  30/  flatt  Irons  30/ 
'  2  Maple  tables  IG/  2  square  tables  8/  IG  chairs  o/S 
'  case  of  Drawers  IG/  2  dozen  Pewter  Plates  42/8 
'  7  pewter  dishes  24/  Earthern  ware  G/  Cyder  (.'asks,  tubs, 

&c.  2G/ 
'  one  yoke  of  oxen  £13.6.8.  —0  Cows  £28-16-96/  Each. 
'  pr  two  year  old  Steers  120/  3  yearlings  80/  11  Sheep  12/ 

Each 
'  one  horse  lOG/S  2  Swine  20/.  Each  — 40/ 
'  one  Cart  ^  wheels  Clews  &  pin  Gl/4 
'  Two  plows.  Wheelbarrow  &c  18/.  2  hoes,  3  axes  &  dung 

fork  12/  — 
'  Two  yokes  2  draft  chains  &  horse  tackling 

Amoanl  carrltd  forward, 


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APPENDIX   G.— WILL   OF   DEA.  JOHN  BURR  AGE,  1780.     217 


Amount  hrowjlit  forward^ 
To  Two  forks,  2  Rakes  &  shovel  11/2  Grindstone  12/  2  Sleds 

8/6 
"■  Cash  ia  house  £10-13-4.  Bonds  and  notes  £31-10-8 
"  The  Dwelling  house  £120  Barn  &  shed  adjoining  2G-13.4 
"  The  Shop  &  Joyners  tools  &  Glaziers  tools 
"  Abt  12  acres  land  adjoining  to  ye  house 
"  7  acres  and  60  poles  of  Land  in  Nahant 
"  23  acres  &  80  poles  of  Land  in  Baxter's  pasture,  so  called 
"  Abt  24  acres  in  Farrington's  pasture,  so  called 
"  Eleven  acres  land  in  Rail  Hill  so  called 
*'  7  acres  and  40  poles  land  in  Chase  Hill  so  called 
"  abt.  9  acres  ^vood  land  behind  Tomlins  Swamp  ' 
''  abt  6  acres  wood  land  in  Tomlins  swamp 
*'  abt  4  acres  wood  land  in  ye  Ox  pasture  so  called 
"  abt  6  acres  wood  land  in  the  Middle  pasture  so  called 
"  7  acres  Salt  Marsh  at  Birch  Island  so  called 
"  4  acres  Salt  Marsh  in  ye  lower  division 
"  2  acres  Salt  Marsh  called  Fox  Hill  lot 


£i; 


10 


William  Burrage 
JosiAH  Burrage 


iBenj  Newhall 
Erenezer  Burrill 
Theophilus  Breed 


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Committee 

Stoorn. 

April  14, 1760  William  Burrage  &  Josiah  Burrage  made  oath  to  the 
truth  of  this  Inv"*  and  to  add  what  more  Estate  shall  come   to  tlieir 

knowlidge.  ^  .,  ti    n 

John  Ciioate  Jd.  I'ro. 


APPEN^DIX    G. 

Will  or  Deacon  John  Burrage,  1780. 

In  the  name  of  God  amen,  I  John  Burrage  of  Lynn  in  the  County  of 
Essex  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  Wheelwright,  being  in  an 
infirm  and  dangerous  state  of  health,  but  (blessed  be  God)  of  a  sound  and 

28 


218  THE  BURRAGI:  MEMORIAL. 

dispo'iing  Mind  and  ^Menioiy,  do  make  and  ordain  tliis  my  last  will  and 
testnmeut,  and  is  as  follows,  that  is  to  say  — 

Imprimis.  —  I  commend  my  immortal  soul  to  the  Mercy  of  God  through 
Christ,  My  body  I  commit  to  the  Dust  to  be  interred  in  decent  Christian 
Burial  at  the  discretion  of  my  Executor  hereafter  named,  in  sure  hojje 
of  a  glorious  Resurrection  at  the  last  day. 

Item.  —  I  order  and  direct  that  my  just  debts,  funeral  charges  and  the 
expense  of  settling  my  Estate  be  duly  and  seasonably  paid. 

Item.  — I  give  and  bequeath  unto  the  widow  Ruth  Breed  of  Lynn  afore- 
soid  six  Cords  of  oak  wood  to  take  it  standing  upon  my  wood  lot  near 
Penny  Bridge  (so  called)  in  said  Lynn,  lying  between  the  lots  of  James 
Newhall  and  the  heirs  of  Jonathan  Xewhall;  three  cords  thereof  to  be 
paid  unto  her  in  three  months  after  my  decease  and  the  other  three  cords 
in  twelve  months  from  the  first  payment. 

Item.  —  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Mother  Mchitible  Burrage  and  my 
sister  Elizabeth  Burrage  and  the  survivor  of  them  all  the  Provisions  Wool, 
Flax,  Hay  &  Forage  which  I  shall  own  and  possess,  and  the  crops  grow- 
ing on  standing  upon  nn'  lands  (if  an}-  there  may  be)  at  the  time  of  my 
decease.  I  also  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  said  Mother  and  my  said  sister 
Elizabeth  jointly  and  severally  and  the  survivor  of  them,  the  use  and 
improvement  of  all  the  Residue  and  Remainder  of  My  Estate  both  Real 
and  Personal  for  and  during  the  term  of  their  natural  lives  and  the  life  of 
the  longest  liver  of  them,  and  in  case  it  shall  so  happen  in  Providence 
that  the  Income  and  Profit  of  My  Estate  shall  be  insufficient  well  and 
comfortably  to  support  and  maintain  them  or  either  of  them,  then  I 
hereby  authorize  and  empower  mv  Executor  hereafter  named  to  make 
sale  of  such  Part  of  my  Estate  either  real  or  personal  as  he  in  his 
Discretion  shall  think  will  be  least  prejudicial  to  the  Estate  (except  what 
is  herein  given  and  allotted)  and  make  good  and  sufficient  Deed  or  Deeds 
thereof  and  apply  the  Money  arising  from  such  sale  for  the  support  and 
subsistence  of  my  said  Mother  and  sister  Elizabeth  or  the  survivor  of  them. 

Item.  —  I  give  and  devise  unto  my  sister  Lydia  Martin  her  heirs  and 
assigns  after  the  death  of  my  said  Mother  and  sister  Elizabeth,  four  acres 
and  thirty  two  polos  of  land  lying  at  Xahant  in  Lynn  aforesaid,  being  lot 
laid  out  to  Doctor  Oliver's  successors  on  Bass  rock;  also  one  hundred  and 
thirty  one  poles  of  land  on  said  Xahant  in  the  field  that  Avas  fenced  near 
Mr.  Breed's. 


APPENDIX   G.— WILL   OF   DEA.   JOHN  BURRAGE,  1780.     210 

Item.  —  1  give  and  devise  to  John  Treadwell  of  Lynn  aforesaid,  clerk, 
his  heirs  and  assigns  after  the  death  of  said  mother  and  sister  Elizabeth, 
six  acres  of  woodland  laid  out  on  said  Lynn  Town  Common  in  the  third 
Division  and  fourth  Range,  being  part  of  a  lot  drawn  by  Joseph  Burrill 
near  steep  Hill  (so  called)  and  is  the  westerly  part  of  said  lot. 

Item.  — I  give  and  bequeath  unto  the  Selectmen  of  the  Town  of  Lynn 
aforesaid,  as  Trustees,  after  the  Death  of  my  said  Mother  and  sister 
Elizabeth  all  the  wood  that  shall  be  standing  upon  a  lot  laid  out  on  said 
Lynn  Town  Common  in  the  third  Division  and  fifth  Range  to  Josei)h 
Hall,  and  contains  two  acres  and  100  poles,  is  near  the  Dungeon  between 
the  lots  of  Richard  Mansfield  and  Theophilus  Breed,  for  the  only  use  and 
benefit  of  Sarah  Thoyts  of  said  Lynn,  spinster;  But  if  said  Sarah  shall 
not  survive  niy  mother  and  said  sister  Elizabeth,  then  the  bequest  to 
lapse  and  become  void 

Item.  —  I  give  and  devise  unto  my  l^ephew  Jonathan  Norwood  and  his 
heirs  and  assigns,  from  and  after  the  Death  of  my  said  Mother  and  my 
sister  Elizabeth,  the  East  End  of  a  Dwelling  house  with  half  a  garden 
and  yard  adjoining  and  about  one  acre  of  land  near  the  said  house  lying 
in  Lynn  aforesaid,  being  the  same  which  I  purchased  of  him  the  said 
Jonathan. 

Item.  — All  the  Rest,  Residue  and  Remainder  of  my  Estate  I  give, 
devise  and  bequeath  unto  the  said  Jonathan  Norwood  and  my  two  nieces 
Susanna  Boardniau  and  Mehitable  Norwood  their  heirs  and  assigns,  to 
be  divided  equally  between  them.  And  I  do  hereby  nominate  and 
appoint  John  Flagg  of  Lynn  aforesaid  Physician,  to  be  Executor  of  this 
my  last  will  and  Testament. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this  301  h 
day  of  May  anno  Domini  1780. 

Signed  JOHN  BURRAGE.    [seal] 

Signed,  Sealed,  published  and  declared  by  the  said  John  Burrago,  in 
the  Presence  of  us  who  have  subscribed  our  names  as  witnesses  thg^-oto 
in  his  presence. 

Thomas  Rhoades. 
Samuel  Baciieller. 
David  Lewis. 


220  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 


Ax  Inventory  of  the  Estate  of  Deacon  eJoiiN  Burrage  late 
OF  Lynn  taken  by  us  whose  Names  are  hereunto  subscribed 
August  17,  1780. 

In  the  East  Boom 

A  Bn)le  18/  one  Quarter  of  Henry's  Expositions  GO/ 

Eight  sermon  Books  12/  two  Beaver  Hats  32/ 

A  Perrivvig  C/  blue  Coat  £4-10.  two  old  Coats  50/ 

A  Chocolate  Colored  Coat  50/  a  great  Coat  GO/ 

four  jackets  55/  two  jir.  Breeches  48/  five  pr  hose  11/ 

Shoes  and  Boots  '.)/  nine  shirts  48/  &  mittens  1/G 

pr  Silver  Slioe  Buckles  &  two  silver  spoons  30/  a  clock  72/ 

Tea  Table  24/  Miiple  oval  Table  14/  six  Joiners  chairs  18/ 

a  Hat  Case  and  two  Pictures  3/  pr  Ilandirons  12/ 

West  Front  Boom 

Case  of  Draws  15/  Looking  Gla.ss  15/ 

Bedstead  Bedding  and  Curtains  c€12. 

Oval  Ta]>le  8/  five  chairs  15/  a  great  chair  3/ 

East  Front  Chamber 
Bed,  Bedstead  and  Bedding  80/  a  brown  chest  G/  4      G    - 

Wiiite  chest  5/  3  Casks  3/  Clock  reel  2/  two  Baskets  2/G  an 

old  sword  2/  14    6 

West  Front  Chamber 

Bed,  Bedstead  &  Curtains  with  the  Bedding  £12.  12      -    - 

Eight  chairs  24/  Oval  Table  10/  nine  Table  Cloths  42/  3     IG    - 

Three  pillow  Cases  5/  five  napkins  5/  six  sheets  40/  2    10    - 

West  Back  Chamber 
Bed  &  Bedding  40/  Meal  chest  2/.  2  Casks  3/  *  2       5    - 

Garret 

Five  pounds  Cotton  wool  10/  Sole  Leather  8/  18  - 

a  box  of  Irons  12/  forty  weight  sheeps  wool  GO/  3     12  - 

Old  chain  Tackling  4/  Old  Iron  2/  Close  stool  2/  8  - 


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Amount  carried  for Lcard,  -  £81     \)    - 


APPENDIX  G.- INVENTORY  DEA.  JOHN  BURRAGE'S  ESTATK.    1>L>1 

£81      9    - 


7     12    - 


Amount  brought  forward^ 

East  Back  Boom 
Desk  6/  Table  6/  Bed,  Bedstead  &  Bedding  £1.  — 

Kitchen 

Two  small  Tables  5/  five  chairs  10/  Small  Steelyards  6/  11- 

Three  Candlesticks  5/  Large  Iron  Kettle  8/  Handirons  8/  11- 

Two  Trammels  8/  Shovel  &  Tongs  3/  Fender  1/  12    - 

Iron  Pots  2/  Two  Iron  Kettles  4/  Lanterns  4/  10    - 

Shed 
Iron  Pots  4/  four  Pails  2/  Churn  4/  Tubs  2/  Mortar  6/  18    - 

Kitchen  Closet 
a  brass  Kettle  30/  Iron  Tea  Kettle  5/  115- 

five  Pewter  dishes  36/  twenty  seven  Pewter  Plates  30/  3    12    - 

five  Pewter  Porringers  3/  Pewter  Bason  3/  Tin  ware  3/  9    - 

Warming  Pan  4/  Case  with  7  Bottles  12/  Case  of  Knives  & 

forks  2/  18    - 

Cellar 

five  Cyder  Barrels  7/6  —  Tubs  &  60  Lbs.  Salt  Pork  40/ 
Beer  Barrels  1/  Wooden  Tunnel  S^i  Sope  &  Tub  15/ 

Out  door  Moveables 
thirty  Bushels  Indian  Corn  in  Corn  Barn  .£7-10 
Two  Scythes  and  one  Sneath  7/  six  saws  60/ 


four  axes  20/  a  stone  hammer  3/  an  addice  6/ 

Joiners  Tools  £6-  four  augers  12/ 

Lumber  in  the  old  shop  40/  Cheese  Press  3/  Beetle  and  two 

Iron  wedges  8/  Iron  Crow  7/ 
Three  ox  Yokes  18/  Shod  Shovel  2/  Horse  Tackling  12/ 
four  Hoes  8/  four  chains  24/  Grind  stone  crank  and  fraim 

12/  Horse  Cart  30/  Ox  Cart  £5  — Chaise  £8  — tln-ee  hay 

forks  10/ 


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Three  Rakes  3/  a  flax  Brake  2/  Dung  foik  6/  ^^ 


Amowit  carried  forward, 


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222  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

Amount  brought  forward^  £144      4    2 

Two  hay  forks  5/  Ox  sled  6/  Two  Ploughs  30/  2      7- 

Aii   old   chain   Wheel   0/    Seventeen   Sheep   and    foiu-teen 

Lamhs  .€15-16/  1(5      2    - 

a  Horse  £9  —  a  yoke  of  oxen  £12  —  Seven  Cows  £35 —  oG      -    - 

An  odd  Steer  £5  —  Yoke  of  Steers  and  a  heifer  two  years 

old  £7-10-0  12    10    - 

A  Yoke  of  Steers  &  a  heifer  one  year  old  £5  —  two  Calves 

36/ 
Two  Hogs  £9  Three  Piggs  £3  — a  Harrow  0/ 
Iron  Fetters  8/  Hair  Cart  Rope  24/ 

Eeal  Estatk  —  all  lying  in  Lynn 
The  Homestead  being  about  seventeen  acres  of  land,  the 

Dwelling  House,  the  Barn  and  other  buildings  thereon  554      -    - 

The  lower  field  containing  about  twenty-six  acres  240      -    - 

The  East  end  of   the  Dwelling  House   that  was  formerly 

Cola  Burrills  with  about  one  acre  of  land  110      -    - 

Seven  acres  of  Salt  Marsh  lying  in  Whitings  Gap  49      -    - 

Four  acres  of  Salt  Marsh  called  Roger's  Marsh  28      -    - 

Five  acres  of  Salt  Marsh  adjoining  the  last  mentioned  42     10    - 

Three  acres  of  Salt  Marsh  bought  of  Jedadiah  Collins  21      -    - 

Two  acres  and  a  quarter  of  Salt  Marsh  by  the  lower  field  7      -    - 

Thirteen  acres  and  25  poles  of  land  at  Xabant  117      -    - 

One  acre  of  laud  in  Xine  Hills  Pasture 

Nine  acres  of  woodland  lying  West  of  Perry  Bridge 

Six  acres  of  Woodland  at  Steep  Hill 

Five  acres  of  Woodland  lying  in  Black  Swamp 

Eight  acres  of  woodland  lying  on  the  east  side  of  Perry  Bridge 

About  eight  acres  of  woodland  at  Burrill's  Hill 

Sixty  nine  acres  of  woodland  in  the  Dungeon  Pasture 

Seventy  six  acres  of  land  in  Farrington's  Pasture 

Anvjunt  carried  forward,  £2,24G       1     2 

This  reduced  to  Paper  Money  at  the  Currant  Hate  of 
exchange  at  GO  for  one  amounts  to  —  £134,763 :-lO-0. 


£1,420 

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APPENDIX  H.  — INVENTORY  OF  M.  BURRAGE'S  ESTATE.       223 

Amount  brought  forward,  £2,240      1    2 
Cash  anb  Specialties. 
A  State  note  dated  Dec  1,  1777  £10  — 
Three  State  notes  dated  Jan  1,  1777  £.30,— 
Bond  of  William  &  Job  Collins  dated  Aug.  1709     13-  0-8 

IsTote  of  John  Mansfield  dated  July  1770  e,-13-4 

Note  of  Josiah  Eamsdill  dated  Deer  1772  1-10-0 

Note  of  Ebenezer  Mansfield  dated  Jan  1709  0-  S-O 

Note  of  the  town  of  Lynn  dated  Nov.  1777  102-  9-8 
Note  from  Eichard  Mansfield  dated  March  1774        3-  0-0 

Note  of  Edward  Johnson  dated  Sept.  1706  6-13-4 

Note  of  Pharaoh  Newhall  dated  Feb  1875  13-  0-8 

Note  of  Samuel  Graves  dated  May  1774  7-  4- 

Note  of  Josiah  Martin  dated  Feb.  1704  12-  0-0 

Note  of  Daniel  Gallewshew  dated  Feb  1779  10-  0-0 

Paper  Money  970  Dollars  ^91-  0-0               ^^      ^ 

Signed  — John  Flagg  Executor.  £2,754      0    10 

John  Mansfield  ^ 

Josiah  Breed  V  Committee. 

Ephraim  Breed  ) 


APPENDIX    H. 

AN  Inventory  of  the  Estate  of  Mehitable  Burraoe  late  of 
Lynn  taken  by  the  subscribers  this  26™  day  of  Dec.  1-(.4. 

To  Sundry  Books 
"  The  whole  of  her  wearing  apparel 
"  Gold  Necklace  40/  Stone  Earrings  20/ 
"  one  pr  Gold  Buttons  20/  Silver  Buckles  10/ 
"  one  pr  Silver  Hooks  3/4  Silver  spoon  2/ 
"  one  gold  Locket  8/  Silver  Cup  18/ 

Amount  carried  forward, 


224  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

Amount  brought  forward, 
To  one  large  Silver  Spoon  12/.  2  small  do.  5/ 
"  Cash  by  lier  att  the  time  of  her  death 
"  Money  upon  Bond 
"  0  table  cloths  24/.  1  pr  Sheets  12/ 
"  6  towels  8/.  1  pillow  Case  1/4 
"  2  Trunks  8/8,  half  of  a  Desk  33/4 
"  China  Ware  7/  one  pewter  dish  5/ 
"  2  pewter  Porringers  2/6 
"  1  pr  Flatt  Irons  5/,  2  small  looking  gla.sses  6/ 

Essex  Dec.  27, 17G4     r      Tiri:oriiiLus  Brked 
John  Burkage.       <      Will*"  Burrage 
C      .Jo>iAii  Burrage 


John  Burrage  made  oath  to  the  Truth  of  this  Inventory  and  to  add 
what  more  Estate  shall  come  to  his  knowledge. 

Joiix  Ciioate  Jd.  Pro. 


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APPENDIX    I 


IXSCRIPTIOX    ON    A    GRAVESTONE    IN    THE    OLDEST    BuRIAL-GROUND 

IN  Lynn. 

^ly  widowed  Mother, 
My  only  earthly  Friend, 
Erected    this    Monument, 
To  t€ll  each  Traveller 
W  ho  looks  this  way. 
That  underneath  this  stone 
Rests  the  ashes  of  her  only  son, 
JOSIAII      BURRAGE, 
Who  died  Dec.  12,  1797, 
Aged  21  years. 
Oft  do  we  sec  the  tender  hud  of  hope 
Opening  its  heauties  to  the  Morning  light; 
AVhen  lol  a  frost  cuts  down  the  tender  ])lant 
And  levels  all  our  prospects  in  the  dust. 


APPENDIX  I.— REMINISCENCES  OF  THE  LYNN  BURRAGES.  '2'2o 

Will  of  Susanna  Burrage. 

I  Susanna  Burrage  of  Lynn  in  the  County  of  Essex,  in  the  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts,  widow,  declare  this  writing  by  me  sul)scril)ed 
to  be  my  last  will  and  testament.  In  the  first  place  I  order  my  Executor 
hereinafter  named  to  pay  all  my  just  debts  and  funeral  charges  in  due 
season.  Then  I  order  my  said  Executor  as  soon  as  may  be  to  pay  the 
following  legacies  from  the  proceeds  of  my  Estate,  viz:  To  my  brotlier 
Nehemiah  Eamsdell  I  give  the  sum  of  twenty  dollars.  To  my  brother 
Joseph  Eamsdell  I  give  the  sum  of  twenty  dollars.  To  my  sister  Anna 
Ramsdell  I  give  the  sum  of  twenty  dollars.  To  my  sister  Rhoda  wife  of 
Thomas  K.  Hudson  I  give  the  sum  of  twenty  dollars.  To  Fanny  Bartry 
I  give  the  sum  of  twenty  dollars.  I  also  give  to  my  two  sisters  Anna  and 
Ehoda  aforesaid,  equally  between  them,  all  my  wearing  apparel.  The 
residue  of  my  Estate  real  and  personal,  I  give  and  bequeath  in  equal 
halves  to  my  brother  in  law  William  Burrage  &  sister  in  law  Susanna, 
wife  of  Stephen  Wait  &  to  their  heirs  forever. 

Of  this  my  last  will  I  do  appoint  James  Gardner  of  said  Lynn  sole 
Executor.  In  testimony  whereof  I  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  & 
declare  the  same  to  be  my  last  will,  this  tenth  day  of  October  A.  D.  ISOl. 

Signed,  SUSANNA  BURRAGE. 

In  presence  of  Theophilus   Hallowell. 
Samuel  Hallowell. 
Kimball  Ramsdell. 

The  account  of  James  Gardner,  executor,  as  above,  dated  Jan.  10,  ISIO, 
states  that  the  legacies  had  been  paid  to  the  different  persons  named  in 
the  will,  that  to  Fanny  Bartry  having  been  paid  to  Thomas  and  Fannn 
Bowler. 

Reminiscexces  of  the  Burrages,  of  Lynn,  by  iMit.  and  Mus. 

Bowler. 
Late  in  the  year  1861,  while  pursuing  some  genealogical  investigafions 
in  a  neighboring  town  (Newton),  the  writer  was  told  by  the  wife  <.f  the 
town  clerk  tliat  she  was  acquainted  with  an  elderly  lady  in  Lynn  wi.o 

2!) 


22(3  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

once  resided  with  a  Burrage  family  in  that  place,  and  that  her  name  was 
Mrs.  Bowler.  He  at  once  wrote  to  Mrs.  Bowler,  and  received  in  reply 
the  following  letter:  — 

Lynn,  Dec.  27,  1861. 
Mr.  Burrage:  — 

Dear  Sir,  —  I  received  3onr  letter  and  was  very  glad  to  hear  from  the 

Burrage  family,  for  I  liave  been  anxious  to  know  if  any  of  them  were 

living.     I  have  inquired  from  those  who  came  from  near  Leominstei',  but 

could   learn    nothing   satisfactory.      I   was   well   acquainted   with  j'our 

family,  and  lived  with  Mrs.  Susannah  Burrage  from  one  3'ear  old  until  I 

was  married,  and  took  care  of  her  afterwards  until  she  died,  in  1809,  aged 

74  j'ears.     She  was  a  kind  woman  and   was  much   set  by  among  her 

friends.     Your  grandfatlier  and  his  wife  used  to  come  down  once  in  a 

while  and  spend  a  few  days,  but  your  father  and  one  of  his  brothers  used 

to  come  every  year  and  sometimes  twice.     They  brought  all  kinds  of 

country  produce  to  sell,  and  made  it  their  home  at  our  house  and  stayed 

four  or  five  weeks.     Your  grandmother*   lived  with  us  after  her  son 

died.     He  died  dei'anged.     He  left  one  son,  who  lived  until  he  was  a  little 

past  twenty-one  years  old;  he  was  a  very  pious  young  man.     His  mother 

set  a  good  deal  b}'  him,  and  she  mourned  his  loss  as  long  as  she  lived. 

They  were  both  as  near  to  me  as  an  own  mother  and  brother  would  have 

been.     We  lived  on  the  north  side  of  the  common,  near  the  pond.     She 

owned  a  good  deal  of  land,  but  it  was  not  worth  much  in  those  days. 

She  made  her  will  before  she  died  and  gave  all  her  property  to  your 

grandfather's  family,  except  two  rooms  in  the  old  house.     Her  husband's 

brother,  Abijah,  lived  in  the  next  house  to  ours.     There  are  at  present 

three  streets  through,  and  one  each  side  of  her  land,  with  perhaps  twenty 

buildings  on  them.     I  cannot  write  all  I  wish  to  say  to  you,  and  I  would 

like  to  hear  from  your  farail}'  if  you  will  honor  us  with  a  visit.     Mr. 

Bowler  joins  in  the  request.     We  would  be  very  happy  to  see  you  and 

we  would  talk  it  all   over.      Until   then  I  will  subscribe  myself  your 

unknown  correspondent, 

Signed,  FKANCES  BOWLER. 

*  She  mean.s  Anna  (Wait)  Burrage,  the  second  wife  of  tlie  writer's  great-grand- 
fiitlier,  Tlionius  IJurrage. 


APPENDIX  J.— INVENTORY  OF  ABIJAII  BURRAGE'S  ESTATE.    227 

This  Thomas  Bow]er  was  town  clerk  of  Lynn  for  many  yoars. 
Soon  after  receivmg  this  letter,  the  writer,  accompanied  l)y  Mr.  Josjah 
Barrage,  called  upon  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bowler.  They  found  them  to  he 
very  intelligent  and  -pleasant  people,  considerahly  advanced  in  years. 
Mrs.  Bowler  was  quite  deaf,  and  although  she  used  an  ear-trumpet,  it 
was  difficult  to  converse  with  her.  No  facts  of  importance,  heyoud  what 
were  communicated  in  her  letter,  were  ohtained.  Mr.  Bowler  pointed 
out,  on  the  spot,  the  house  formerly  occupied  hy  Mrs.  Susannah,  the 
widow  of  Josiah  Burrage,  previously  the  residence  of  his  father,  Thoma.s 
Burrase. 


APPENDIX    J. 
An  Inventory  of  the  Estate  of  Abijaii  Burrage  late  of  Lynn 

COHDAVAINER  DEC'"   TAKEN   AT  SAID   LyNN   NOVEMBER  30"»  1780  BY 
WE  THE  SUBSCRIBERS. 

Personal  Estate.     Wearing  apparel. 
1  Claret  Coloured  Coat  13/4  1  hlue  do  10/ 
1  Surtout  Coat  10/  blue  great  Coat  7/ 

Velvet  Waist  Coat  18/  —1  Ginum  Cloth  6/ 
1  Striped  waist  Coat  1,  6—  1  pr  Lasting  Breeches  1/6 
1  pr  Leather  Breeches  1/6  —  2  checked  shirts  4/ 
1  black  silk  Handkerchief  6/  1  pr  Trowsers  6<i 
4  pr  Yarn  Stockings  4/  —1  pr  black  worsted  do  3/ 
1  pr  Shoes  1/  —  1  pr  Shoe  Buckles  1/6—1  pr  Yarn  Mitts  4a 
1  Beaver  Hat  18/  1  pr  Gold  Sleeve  Buttons  £1  — 
3  Books  7/  1  Yard  Hairbine  6/  —  |  Lb  Yarn  1/4 
1  Bed,  Bedstead  and  Furniture  120/  1  Chest  6/ 
1  Case  Draws  18  —  1  fire  arm  &  accoutrements  10/ 
1  Shoe  Maker's  Bench  3/  &  Tools  5/6  —  3  Chairs  6/ 

1  Bagg  1/6  —  1  pr  Tongs  2/0  —  2  Buckets  &  Basket  1/6 
Earthern  Ware  2/  W^ooden  do.  11^  —  1  brass  Kettle  G/1 

2  Hay  forks  2/  4  Hundred  Hay  16/ 
12  Bundles  of  Flax  4/  one  half  a  grindstone  6/ 

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228  THE   BUKKAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Amount  brought  forward,  £17    12    0 

12  Bushels  of  potatoes  15/  12  ditto  of  apples  12/  17- 

1  Barrels  of  Cyder  15/  3  Empty  Barrels  7/  12- 

3  Shovel  &  Rake  2/0  —  '2k  Bushels  of  Barley  15/  17     0 

16  Bushels  of  Indian  Corn  ®  4/  pr  Bu.  04/  5  Sheep  at  12/ 

per  head  00/  0      4- 

Jieal  Estate. 

1  dwelling  house  &  3^  acres  of  land 

half  a  Barn  .€10.  —half  a  Shed  .€2  — 

4^  acres  of  wood  land  near  Tomlins  Swamp 

3  Cords  of  wood  standing  in  Farrington's  Pasture 

£230    11     4 

The  Currant  exchange  as  paper  ^lonoy  now  passes  at  75 

for  one,  amounts  to  £17,202    10    - 

Signed,        RicnAUD  Mansfield  )    JosErii  IIaut  ) 

Administrator.  >    Daniel  Xewhall  >  Coinmitlee. 

)    EriiRAiM  Breed     j 


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APPENDIX     K . 

From  the  Boston  "Commonwealth"  Xewspaper,  May  8,  1875. 

There  died  in  Leominster,  1st  inst.,  Mrs.  Ruth  K.  Burrage,  widow  of 
the  late  Josiah  Burrage,  ninety-four  years,  six  months,  seventeen  days 
old.  The  descendants  of  Mrs.  Burrage,  living  at  the  time  of  her  decease, 
were  as  follows:  Seven  children,  forty-two  grandchildren,  twenty-four 
great-grandchildren,  three  great-great-grandchildren,  —  seventy-six  in  all. 
Ruth  Kilbourn  was  born  in  Lunenburg,  Oct.  14, 1780;  was  married  in  1800 
to  Josiah  Burrage,  of  Leominstpr,  who  was  born  in  1770.  They  lived  upon 
their  fann  in  Leominster  in  one  house  fort3--six  years;  reared  thirteen 
children,  —  nine  sons  and  four  daughters,  —  and  no  death  occurred  in  the 
house  while  they  occupied  it.     Her  husband  died  in  1856,  aged  eighty- 


APPENDIX   L.  —  CORRESPONDENCE.  229 

six  years.  During  her  earl}-  married  life  she  often  travelled  on  horseback 
to  visit  her  friends,  carrying  a  child  in  her  arms,  and  dismounting  to  let 
down  the  bars  in  the  fences  across  the  foot-path.  Her  oldest  children 
remember  that  she  often  worked  while  holding  a  child  witli  one  arm, 
rocking  a  cradle  in  Avhich  another  slept  with  one  foot,  and  with  the  other 
foot  turned  the  spinning-wheel.  She  retained  her  mental  faculties  to  the 
last.  She  remembered  the  birthdays  of  all  her  descendants,  and  would 
often  prompt  the  mothers  respecting  incidents  in  the  lives  of  their 
children,  which  they  had  forgotten.  The  last  years  of  her  life  were  calm 
and  peaceful.  She  was  remarkable  for  the  equanimity  of  her  disposition 
and  the  patience  with  which  she  bore  the  troubles  of  life  and  tlie 
infirmities  of  old  a^e. 


APPENDIX    L. 
Correspondence  witk  the  Selectmen  of  Leominster. 

I. 

Boston,  April  2.5, 18G1. 

Messrs.  Manson  D.  Haw^s,  Alanson  Richardson,  John  J. 
LocKEY,  Selectmen  of  Leominster:  — 
(?en(Zeme?i,  — Herewith  we  hand  you  seven  hundred  dollars  ($700. 00), 
which  w^e  beg  you  to  accept  on  behalf  of  the  town  of  Leominster.  We 
desire  to  have  the  money  appropriated  to  the  purchase  of  revolver  pistols, 
to  be  used  by  her  patriotic  citizens  comprising  Co.  A,  of  the  9tli 
Regiment  Light  Infantry,  in  defence  of  the  government  and  liberties  of 

our  country. 

Peeling  assured  that  our  dear  old  native  town  will  ever  do  her  part  in 
sustaining  and  defending  the  free  institutions  transmitted  to  us  by  our 
fathers,  we  are,  with  great  respect, 

Your  obedient  servants, 

JOIIXSOX   C.  RURRAGE. 
ALVAII  A.  BURR  AGE. 
CHARLES  n.  BURRAGE. 


230  THE    BURKAGE    MEMORIAL. 


II. 

Town  Clerk's  Offick,  LEOMiNSTEn,  ]\Iay  0, 1S61. 

Gentlemen,  —  At  a  legal  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of 
Leominster,  held  thi.s  day,  the  selectmen  made  known  your  liberal  and 
patriotic  gift,  whereupon  it  was  unanimously 

liesolved,  —  That  the  generous  and  timely  gift  of  our  esteemed  friends, 
the  Messi-s.  Burrage,  of  Boston,  excites  in  us  feelings  of  lively  gratitude, 
and  responding,  as  we  do,  most  heartily,  to  the  patriotic  sentiments  con- 
tained in  their  letter  covering  the  gift,  we  assure  them  that  the  love  of 
freedom  and  of  right,  so  nohlj'  vindicated  by  the  citizens  of  their  native 
town  in  177G,  is  still  maintained  and  cherished  here  in  1S61;  also 

Jiesolved,  —  That  the  sum  received  be  appropriated  by  the  selectmen, 
in  concurrence  with  the  Messrs.  liurrage,  towards  the  purchase  of  equip- 
ments to  be  used  b}'  our  citizen  soldiers,  comprising  Company  A,  in 
suppressing  the  present  reljcllion  against  the  general  government. 

Most  respectfully  yours, 

J.  C.  ALLEN, 

Town  Clerk  of  Leominster. 

To  Messrs.  Joiixsox  C.  Bukuage,  Alvau  A.  Buicrage,  Charles  II. 
Burrage. 

III. 

Letter  accompaxyixg  a  Copy  of  the  Resolves  passed  at  a 
Meeting  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Leominster  held  May  6, 
18G1. 

Leominster,  May  10,  1S61. 

Gentlemen,  —  In  the  discharge  of  my  otBcial  duty  it  gives  me  pleasure 

to  make  known  to  you  the  grateful  response  of  the  citizens  of  our  good 

old  native  town  to  your  noble  genero.sity.     At  the  same  time,  pci'mit  me 

to  give  expression  to  my  own  personal  feeling  of  gratification  that  we 

who  remain  by  the  home  of  our  fathers  are  affectionately  remembered 

by  those  who  have  gone  out  from  us  to  engage  in  the  labors  and  duties 

of  life  elsewhere.  Most  truly  yours, 

J.  C.  ALLEN. 

Messrs.  Johnson  C.  Burrage,  Alvah  A.  Burrage,  Charles  II. 
Burrage. 


APPENDIX  L.  — LETTER  RESPECTING  ENLISTMENTS.   231 

IV. 

Boston,  May  14,  ISGl. 

Gentlemen,  — We  refer  to  our  letter  of  the  2otli  ult.  to  say  tliat,  wliile 
it  was  our  wish  that  the  money  enclosed  therein,  together  witli  the 
$110.00  afterwards  handed  to  Mr.  Lockey,  making  SSICOO  in  all,  should 
be  appropriated  as  we  then  indicated,  we  did  not  intend  to  restrict  the 
town  from  using  the  property  in  some  other  way  if  circumstances  should 
occur  by  which  it  would  cease  to  be  of  benefit  to  the  sacred  cause  of 
defending  the  government  and  liberties  of  our  country  in  that  special 
form;  it  was  designed  ultimately  to  assist  the  citizens  of  our  native  town 
in  the  sustenance  and  defence  of  free  institutions  to  be  used  under 
direction  of  their  selectmen.        Respectfully  yours, 

JOHNSON  C.  BURRAGE. 

ALVAH  A.  BURRAGE. 

CHARLES  H.  BURRAGE. 

Messrs.  Manson  D.  Haws,  Alanson  Rchardson,  John  J.  Lockey, 

Selectmen. 


Letter  respecting  Enlistments. 

Boston,  July  29,  18G2. 
Dear  Brother  George,— Will  you  be  kind  enough  to  see  Willie  Burrage 
at  Emory's  at  once  and  say  to  him  that  "Uncle  Joseph"  says  there  is  i)lonly 
of  room  in  the  Company  Joseph  P.  is  in,  in  the  33d  Regiment  at  Lynnfield, 
and  Joseph  will  be  delighted  to  have  Willie  join  it  and  go  with  him.  I  am 
very  much  pleased  that  two  of  the  Burrage  name  have  enlisted  to  light 
the  battles  of  our  country.  I  have  said  nothing  to  them  about  it,  but 
I  would  say  to  you  that  I  intend  to  give  them  each  my  note  for  one 
hundred  dollars,  to  be  paid  with  interest  to  them  or  their  heirs  or  assigns, 
at  the  end  of  the  war,  or  upon  the  termmation  of  the  period  for  wliich 
they  enlist,  or  upon  their  decease,  if  they  should  die  before  that  time.  I 
will  here  offer  the  same  to  any  other  one  of  the  Burrage  name,  or  any 
one  who  is  connected  with  me  by  blood  or  marriage,  if  he  will  enlist  in 
the  course  of  the  next  four  weeks. 

Very  truly  youis,  ***** 


232  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  the  promise  made  (or  implied)  in  the  foregoing 
letter  was  fulfilled  ;  and  besides  the  six  Barrage  soldiers  or  their  heirs, 
included  in  tho  proposal,  the  same  sum  was  paid  to  each  of  two  young 
women,  one  of  whom  had  lost  a  husband  and  the  other  her  betrothed,  in 
the  war,  both  men  being  remotely  connected  with  the  writer  of  the  letter 
by  marriage.  The  amount  disbursed  to  or  for  the  eight  persons  was 
about  SI, 000. 

It  is  not  supposed  that  this  inlluenced  the  action  of  the  persons  men- 
tioned in  the  least;  indeed,  few  if  any  of  them  knew  of  the  proiDOsal 
until  after  they  had  enlisted.  The  incident  and  the  preceding  letters  to 
and  from  the  town  of  Leominster  are  only  given  as  items  of  history,  and 
an  indication  of  the  tone  of  the  loyal  portion  of  the  community  at  that 
time. 

VI. 
Lkttkk  from  Seuot.  JosErn  P.  Buuhage. 

Near  Falmouth,  Dec.  25,  1802. 

Dear  Uncle^  —  A  merry  Christmas  and  happy  Xew  Year  to  you  and  all 
the  IBurrages  in  Union  Park  and  elsewhere.  I  have  just  received  your 
letter,  by  good  luck  getting  here  just  in  time.  Your  present  is  very 
acceptable,  and  I  thank  you  much.  Just  now  there  is  not  much  chance 
to  get  a  great  deal  in  the  eatable  line;  the  sutlers  are  all  out  of  goods, 
and  in  Falmouth  there  is  very  little  that  can  be  had.  A  couple  of  us 
went  down  this  morning  and  got  some  meal  at  the  rate  of  §2.50  a  bushel; 
but  this  was  very  acceptable,  for  our  rations  have  been  short  ever  since  we 
left  Fairfax.  For  a  week  we  had  nothing  but  salt  pork  and  crackers,  and 
not  so  much  of  these  as  we  wanted.  At  Stafford  Court  House  some  of 
our  company  went  out  on  a  foraging  expedition,  drove  a  cow  into  the 
woods,  one  knocked  her  on  the  head  with  a  stone,  while  "Willie  run  his 
bayonet  into  her  as  a  finisher.  He  and  I  had  a  great  supper  and  break- 
fast of  liver  and  steak,  and  our  haversacks  were  heavier  for  a  couple  of 
days;  but  they  are  pretty  strict  about  such  things,  putting  a  guard  on  all 
property  within  our  reach.  Our  rations  now,  however,  are  getting  better; 
this  morning  we  got  some  potatoes,  which  will  be  worth  a  great  deal  to 
us,  as  we  were  beginning  to  have   the  scurvv.     Our  march  here  was  a 


APPENDIX  L.  —LETTER  FROM  SERGT.  J.  P.  BURRAGE.  233 

hard  one,  as  you  suppose.  When  we  started,  the  snow  was  a  couple  of 
inches  deep,  and  the  ground  frozen;  hut  it  soon  grew  wanner,  and  the 
mud  was  awful.  I  never  saw  any  in  Massachusetts  that  was  anythiuir 
like  it.  Sometimes  we  could  hardly  lift  our  feet,  the  clay  was  so  adhesive. 
We  could  not  come  very  fast,  of  course.  The  teams  could  not  get 
along  as  well  as  we  did.  One  regiment  had  to  hurn  theirs.  Our  wagons 
got  through,  hut  five  horses  have  died  since.  We  averaged  about  ten 
miles  a  day,  which  was  about  as  much  as  we  could  bear  in  the  state  of 
the  going.  The  nights  were  all  pleasant,  and  we  were  generally  able  to  get 
pine  boughs,  then  with  our  rubber  blankets  over  us  and  one  under  us,  we 
slept  very  well.  Willie  and  I  came  through  as  well  as  any  one,  and  have 
been  well  since,  except  colds  and  coughs.  Yesterday  we  had  our  first 
picket  duty  in  the  face  of  the  enemy.  The  post  I  was  on  was  not,  to  be 
sure,  very  near,  though  we  could  see  dress  i^arades  of  the  rebels  and  hear 
their  hand,  which  seemed  to  be  a  fine  one.  Most  of  the  men,  however, 
were  on  the  bank  of  the  river,  and  the  rebels  just  on  the  other  side. 
Many  came  down  to  the  water  and  wanted  to  exchange  papers,  tobacco, 
etc.  The  bed  of  the  river  is  rocky  there,  and  can  be  crossed  without 
going  over  one's  boots.  Our  orders  were  strict  not  to  talk  with  them  or 
permit  them  to  come  over;  but  one  lieutenant  and  private  did  come,  and 
were  sent  to  headquarters;  another  came  and  gave  himself  up.  lie  was 
a  Scotchman,  and  belonged  to  the  85th  Alabama  Regiment;  he  had 
plenty  of  tobacco  and  a  little  Southern  money,  but  nearly  all  his  clothing 
he  had  picked  up  on  the  battle-field.  He  said  their  troops  were  badly  ofT 
for  clothing,  and  were  all  sick  of  the  war.  Our  own  soldiers  are  getting 
into  the  same  condition  very  fast,  and  indeed  the  last  battle  was  enough 
to  discourage  them.  The  old  troops  say  they  would  not  fight  again  in 
such  a  place.  As  to  the  battle,  no  two  tell  exactly  the  same  story.  You 
probably  have  better  accounts  at  home  than  we  get  from  those  who  wen' 
there,  for  each  one  saw  only  a  small  area  around  him.  They  all  agree  in 
thinking  that  we  were  badly  beaten,  and  Burnside  is  not  very  popular 
with  the  troops.  About  the  future,  nothing  is  known.  Some  think  we 
shall  go  into  winter  quarters;  others,  that  another  attempt  at  an  a.lvance 
is  to  be  made;  but  we  cannot  believe  anything  here  till  we  get  oniers  to 

do  it. 

Our  regiment  is  ready,  and  will  fight,   I  think.    The  men  like   the 

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234  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

colonel  better  and  better,  I  think.  You  see  that  ink  and  paper  are 
scarce,  so  I  must  stop.  Willie  received  your  letter  this  morning,  and 
will  write  something;  he  has  been  busy  washing,  and  is  now  superin- 
tending a  soup  for  four  of  us.  Ever  so  much  love  to  all.  I  shall  think 
of  your  New  Year's  night,  and  remember  a  year  ago.  Hope  next  year 
we  shall  pass  the  holida3's  at  home  again. 

Your  nephew, 

J.  P.  BUKllAGE. 

YII. 
Letter  from  Sergt.  Edward  C.  Burrage. 

Camp  Stevenson,  Xewrern,  Dec.  20,  1802. 

Dear  Uncle,  —  Yours  of  tlie  20th  inst.  was  duly  received.  AVe  at  New- 
bern  here  had  quite  a  merry  (comparatively)  Christmas  after  all.  Having 
arrived  so  recently  from  that  fatiguing  e.xpcdish.  we  were  in  the  way  to 
enjoy  a  day  Of  rest,  much  more  a  holiday.  Then,  too,  a  large  express 
arrived  the  day  before,  and  I  had  a  box  from  home  in  splendid  order. 
On  Christmas  morning  the  mail  came,  in  which  was  your  kind  letter,  as 
well  as  one  from  the  folks.  So  you  see  I  had  about  my  share  of  Christ- 
mas gifts,  notwithstanding  my  situation. 

Ere  this  you  have,  had  detailed  accounts  of  Gen.  Foster's  expedish. 
'T  was  successful,  and  if  Burnside  had  been  as  successful  at  Fredericks- 
burg, before  this  I  presume  we  should  have  gone  to  Wilmington.  I 
think  the  last  expedition  was  quite  an  experience  for  us,  though  appar- 
ently it  was  nothing  compared  to  the  Fredericksburg  fight.  Still  I  have 
seen  enough  of  the  field  strewn  with  the  dead  and  d^'ing,  and  heard 
enough  of  the  groans  of  the  wounded  aud  dying,  to  sa}^  nothing  of  men 
dying  l)y  the  wayside  of  fatigue.  I  say  I  have  seen  and  heard  enough  of 
all  this  to  satisfy  me,  if  I  see  and  hear  no  more.  There  is  something 
grand  and  poetical  about  the  battle,  xintil  a  wicked  ball  strikes  down  a 
valued  friend  at  your  side,  and  then  is  the  time  that  tries.  Our  company 
lost  three  splendid  fellows  at  Whitehall  Bridge,  and  I  must  own  that  it 
has  abated  a  jot  of  my  patriotism  to  see  such  lives  sacrificed  to  those 
miserable  rebels.  However,  it  is  a  fate  we  should  all  be  prepared  for, 
and  I  am  trying  hard  to  bring  myself  to  it,  when  my  turn  shall  come,  as 
it  is  likely  to  before  next  summer. 


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We  are  brigaded  with  three  okl  regiments,  10th  Conn.,  oth  R.  I.,  24(h 
Mass.  The  former  is  in  every  way  a  fighting  regiment;  it  lost  104  incii 
(mostly  in  a  charge)  at  Kingston  Bridge.  We  were  upon  their  heels 
(having  to  pass  over  those  wounded  and  dead  bodies,  bah!),  and  if  they 
had  not  succeeded  we  should  have  tried. 

At  Whitehall  Bridge  we  were  exposed  to  some  rascally  sharp-shooters. 
They  got  the  range  of  our  colors,  and  as  my  place  is  next  to  the  color 
guard,  I  had  a  good  opportunity  to  hear  the  music  of  whistling  bullets. 
Col.  Lee  exposed  himself  considerably  there,  displaying,  to  be  sure,  some 
intrepidity,  but  drawing  upon  us  an  increased  fire.  We  did  some  tall 
marching  during  those  ten  days,  and  the  boys  are  not  over  it  yet.  There 
are  some  whose  feet  are  in  an  awful  condition ;  who  are  entirely  played 
out,  as  the  saying  is.  I  still  hold  my  own.  My  feet  were  a  little  sore, 
but  I  did  my  thirty  miles  on  the  last  day  with  the  rest.  There  is  one 
thing,  we  had  fine  weather  throughout,  hardly  a  drop  of  rain;  however, 
that  was  unnecessary,  for  there  was  plenty  of  water  in  the  roads. 

I  have  been  thinking  a  good  deal  of  home  during  these  holidays, 
although  it  is  hardly  possible  to  be  homesick  among  so  many.  Give  much 
love  to  all  the  household  at  7  Union  Park,  — Aunt  Lizzie,  Cousins  Ruth, 
Jeanie,  Clara,  and  little  Walter.     I  hope  they  have  not  forgotten  me. 

Thanking  you  again  for  your  letter  and  enclosure, 

1  am  your  affectionate  nephew, 

EDWARD  C.  BURRAGE. 

Remember  me  to  Uncle  Charles. 

VIII. 

Letter  from  Sergt.  Joseph  P.  Burraoe. 

Camp  near  Falmouth,  Jan.  19, 1SG3. 

Dear  Uncle,  — Yom  letter  of  Jan.  2  was  received  in  due  time,  together 
with  the  kind  token  of  your  remembrance  of  us.*  We  were  very  iiuich 
gratified  to  find  that  we  had  been  missed  and  remembered  on  Xew  Year's 
night,  and  next  to  being  there  ourselves  wa"  the  satisfaclion  of  seeing 

*  A  missive  of  kind  remembrance  and  thanks  to  the  sohlier-relativcs  «*  t^'e  s*',*!  "^ 
war.  signed  by  each  person  present  at  a  family  gathering  at  the  house  of  A  A.  ISiir- 
rage  on  tlie  evening  of  Jan.  1,  1803.     Tliere  were  thuty-eight  signatures  iii  aU. 


236  THE    BUKRAGE    MEMORIAL. 

each  one's  name.  I  almost  seemed  to  see  them  as  I  read  over  the  list, 
and  almost  hear  the  gay 'laugh  of  the  children  as  they  played  blindman's 
buff,  etc.  We  should  have  liked  very  much  to  have  been  with  you,  but 
shall  have  to  wait  for  another  j'ear. 

January  22. —  I  began  this,  as  you  see,  three  days  ago,  but  was  obliged 
to  leave  for  drill  that  day;  and  the  next,  just  as  I  got  ready  to  resume, 
the  bugle  sounded  again.  We  went  out,  not  knowing  what  for,  and 
found  that  it  was  to  hear  orders,  among  them  one  from  Burnside, 
announcing  a  forward  movement.  The  lieut. -colonel  in  command  made 
a  short  speech;  we  cheered  for  (lu;  Union  army,  etc.,  the  band  played, 
and  we  got  quite  enthusiastic.  Gen.  Smith,  our  brigadier-general,  rode 
up  just  then,  and  also  made  us  a  little  speech.  We  began  to  drill,  when 
an  order  came  to  pack  up  iinmediately.  The  ofTicers'  tents  and  most  of 
the  baggage  was  left,  only  two  wagons  coming  with  us.  We  marched  in 
about  an  hour  down  the  river,  passing  through  the  camps  of  Sumner's 
Corps,  which  did  not  appear  to  have  been  moved.  It  soon  became  dark, 
as  the  clouds  were  heavy,  but  we  kept  on  till  we  had  gone  about  six  miles, 
I  should  think,  when  we  turned  into  the  woods  and  stopped  for  the  night. 
It  was  dark  as  could  be,  so  we  laid  down  on  the  first  place  we  came  to, 
close  to  our  guns,  rubber  blankets  under  and  over  us. 

It  soon  began  to  rain,  but  we  got  to  sleep  and  did  not  wake  for  several 
hours,  —  to  find,  alas!  when  we  did,  that  we  were  in  a  pool  of  water  and 
decidedly  wet.  We  got  up,  shivered  awhile,  and  then  lay  down  again  on 
a  higher  place,  and  managed  to  get  through  the  night,  though  it  seemed 
pretty  long.  In  the  morning  we  built  a  large  fire,  and  after  getting  some 
coffee,  fried  pork,  and  crackers,  —  our  staple  dish,  —  felt  much  better. 
The  rain  subsided  into  a  kind  of  a  drizzle.  We  found  we  were  only  about 
half  a  mile  from  the  river,  nearlj-  opposite  where  Franklin  crossed  in  the 
last  battle  (Fredericksburg).  The  place  where  our  camp  is  was  evidently 
used  as  a  hospital  after  the  battle,  for  bloody  clothing  and  bandages  are 
thick  around  us ;  a  few  graves  also  serve  to  show  that  the  battle  was  near 
our  position.  Now,  however,  all  we  can  see  are  a  few  rebel  pickets  and 
some  apparently  deserted  rifle-pits.  The  fog  and  smoke  are  still  quite 
heavy  and  prevent  our  seeing  far.  During  the  day  we  managed  to  get 
our  blankets  decently  dry,  and  put  up  our  shelter  tents  and  slept  quite 
comfortably  kist  night  in  .si)ite  of  wind  and  ruin,  which  still  continued. 


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Towards  morning  a  large  fire  was  seen  in  the  direction  of  Fredericks- 
burg, and  two  or  three  cannon-shots  heard.  To-day  the  weather  con- 
tinues dull,  the  thick  and  damp  and  mud  prevailing  everywhere.  . 
Whether  the  movement  is  given  up  or  our  commanders  are  waiting 
for  fair  weather,  we  cannot  tell.  Two  or  three  rebel  regiments  have 
been  seen  moving  up  the  other  side  of  the  river,  so  that  I  fear  they  have 
discovered  our  movements.  The  prevailing  opinion  is  that  our  troops  are 
to  cross  five  or  six  miles  up  the  river,  and  also  perhaps  down  the  river, 
we  being  a  reserve  to  prevent  any  crossing  of  the  rebels,  and  to  defend 
our  batteries  which  are  in  position  all  along  this  side.  We  may  be 
wakened  up  by  the  roar  of  a  hundred  cannon,  or  we  may  go  back  to  our 
old  camp  and  wait  another  month.  We  all  felt  confident  of  success  when 
we  first  heard  the  order;  and  even  now  I  think  the  same,  though  it  seems 
unfortunate  that  this  storm  should  have  delayed  us  and  given  the  rebels 
time  for  preparation. 

I  shall  write  further  to-morrow,  if  we  don't  move.  Willie  and  I  stood 
the  rain  nicely  and  are  quite  comfortable  now,  allready  for  the  fight,  if  it 
comes.  You  might  tell  father  you  have  received  this,  if  you  please,  as  I 
may  not  get  time  to  write,  and  I  am  afraid  he  will  be  anxious. 

Much  love  to  auntie,  Kuth,  Jeanie,  and  all  the  cousins. 

Your  nephew,  JOSEPH. 

IX. 

Letter  from  Corporal  Wm.  A.  Burrage. 

Camp  33d  Regiment  Mass.  Vols., 
Lookout  Valley,  Tenn.,  Feb.  4, 1SG4. 
Dear  Uncle,  — Youvs  of  the  •28th  ult.  reached  me  this  morning,  also  the 
package  containing  the  chevrons.  Letters  came  through  much  quicker 
from  Massachusetts  within  the  last  few  days  than  they  have  for  some  time. 
I  am  very  glad  to  hear  that  Uncle  Johnson  has  recovered  his  usual  good 
health  once  more,  and  hope  it  will  continue  so.  I  have  seen  so  nuich 
sickness  around  me  since  I  have  been  in  the  army  that  I  know  how  to 
prize  good  health.  Without  it  one  cannot  enjoy  life  to  any  great  extent. 
In  the  last  "  Gazette  "  there  was  quite  a  lengtliy  account  of  the  reception 
of  the  2d,  32d,  and  parts  of  the  23d  and  25th  Kegiments  when  they 


238  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

arrived  in  Boston.  I  am  glad  that  the  people  gave  such  a  -welcome. 
They  cannot  calculate  the  amount  of  good  it  will  do  thera  to  think  about 
it  when  they  return  once  more  to  the  dangers  and  trials  of  the  field.  Too 
much  cannot  be  done  for  them  while  they  remain  at  home.  They  are 
Massachusetts  soldiers.  Any  regiment  that  can  say  that,  commands 
respect  wherever  they  go,  for  the  whole  army  knows  that  such  a  thing  as 
a  Massachusetts  regiment  running  is  not  upon  record.  I  know  this  to  be 
the  case  with  this  regiment.  If  there  is  an  important  position  to  hold  in 
time  of  battle,  or  if  there  is  a  quick  march  to  be  made,  the  .'^ikl  is  always 
called  ui)(ni.  I  have  sometimes  thought  Ihcrc  was  such  a  thing  as  getting 
too  good  a  name.  At  all  events,  it  is  l)ettcr  to  be  in  this  condition  than 
in  some  others. 

A  glorious  time  )'ou  must  have  had  at  Uncle  Johnson's  party,  —  a 
regular  reunion  of  the  Burrage  family.  I  see  the  President  has  called 
foroWjOOO  more  men.  I  hope  lie  will  get  them;  it  will  be  a  hig  thing 
on  ice  if  he  does.  If  the  people  at  home  could  only  see  the  deserters 
that  come  in  and  hear  their  story,  I  believe  they  would  exert  every  effort 
for  a  final  blow.  It  is  all  nonsense  to  talk  about  this  rebellion  holding 
out  a  great  while  longer.  If  we  stay  here  a  month  longer  we  shall  have 
the  whole  of  Bragg's  army  within  our  lines.  Last  night  a  whole  brigade 
came  in  and  they  report  that  there  is  another  on  the  way.  Hunger  is 
doing  all  this.  If  a  campaign  is  opened  the  coming  spring  I  imagine 
things  will  fiy.  It  pleases  the  soldiers  amazingly  to  see  the  renomination 
of  Lincoln  for  President.  lie  is  very  popular  with  the  army  wherever  I 
have  been.  I  saw  Burnside  once  while  in  the  army  of  the  Potomac 
when  he  had  command,  and  like  his  looks  very  much. 

Kcmeinber  me  to  all.     Am  well  as  usual. 

Truly  yours, 

WILLIAM  A.  BURRAGE. 

X. 

Letter  erom  Corp.  Wm.  A.  Burraoe. 

Xear  Marietta,  June  20, 18G4. 
Dear  Uncle,  —  Yours  of  the  10th  inst.  came  to  hand  yesterday,  and 
very  glad  was  I  to  hear  from  you.     Since  I  wrote  last  we  have  had  a  hard 


APPENDIX  L.— LETTER  FROM  CORP.  WM.  A.  BURR  AGE.  239 

time  of  it  on  account  of  the  wet  weather  we  have  had.  It  has  rained  all 
the  time  now  for  the  past  three  or  four  weeks,  so  you  can  Jud.Lje  what  it 
must  be  to  move  around.  We  are  now  about  live  miles  from  Marietta, 
and  to  the  west. 

Since  leaving  Dallas  we  have  driven  the  rebs  out  of  three  or  lour 
strong  positions,  and  I  guess  if  we  have  good  success  here  they  will  have 
to  go  to  the  other  side  of  the  Chattahoochee  Eiver.  The  rebs  have  been 
flanked  out  of  every  position  that  they  have  held  yet.  Their  right  now 
rests  on  what  is  called  Kenisaw  Mountain  and  runs  back  in  a  southwest 
direction.  It  is  said  that  in  falling  back  they  have  shortened  their  line 
considerably  for  the  purpose  of  trying  to  break  our  lines.  I  just  wisli 
they  would  try  it.  We  never  had  an  opportunity  of  fighting  them  behind 
our  breastworks.  I  prefer  to  do  it  rather  than  fight  them  behind 
theirs.  A  week  ago  yesterday  (Sunday)  we  were  at  work  all  day  hard, 
throwing  up  breastworks  within  fifty  yards  of  the  rebel  works.  It  was 
lively  work,  I  assure  you,  although  but  few  of  the  regiment  were  wounded. 
The  next  morning  they  evacuated  their  works  and  fell  Ijack  a  mile.  AVe 
followed  on  and  came  up  with  them.  Another  job  of  digging  ritle-pits, 
and  as  a  matter  of  course  they  were  flanked  out  and  had  to  fall  back  to 
their  present  position.  Yesterday  morning  we  started  after  them  and 
our  line  was  formed  about  three  o'clock;  our  company  was  thiown  out 
as  skirmishers,  and  into  the  woods  we  went  to  find  out  Avhere  tliey  were. 
After  going  half  a  mile  we  ran  against  their  skirmishers  in  an  open  field. 
We  gave  a  yell  and  went  after  them  on  the  run.  We  did  n't  go  a  great 
ways,  for  we  found  ourselves  within  two  hundred  yards  of  their  fortifica- 
tions. We  had  to  keep  mighty  close  to  the  ground  to  save  our  bacon,  I 
assure  you.  During  the  day  it  had  rained  tremendously  and  we  were  all 
soaked  to  the  skin;  you  can  perhaps  imagine  our  "  feelinks  "  in  such  a 
position,  — not  very  pleasant.  After  our  brigade  had  tlirown  up  works, 
we  retired  a  short  distance,  threw  up  barricades  of  rails,  and  very  quietly 
sat  down  behind  them  to  watch  the  movements  of  Johnny  ]{eb.  In 
pleasant  weather,  skirmish  or  picket  duty  is  a  very  pleasant  duly;  but 
when  a  man  is  soaking  wet,  with  no  fire  to  warm  himself  by,  it  is  not  so 
pleasant  as  it  might  be.  When  on  the  skirmish  line,  one  has  to  keep  a 
sharp  lookout  for  the  safety  of  his  head,  and  also  to  see  that  the  enemy 
do  not  make  any  advance  movements.    It  is  generally  crack,  crack,  all 


240  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

the  time,  for  when  either  side  see  one  of  the  opposite,  a  bullet  is  sent 
as  a  compliment  and  request  to  keep  out  of  sight. 

We  were  relieved  this  morning  about  four  o'clock,  and  h'ave  been 
engaged  in  drying  our  things,  for  everything  was  soaking  wet.  It  has 
been  quite  pleasant  to-day.  By  getting  up  into  a  tall  tree,  one  can  see 
Marietta  and  a  considerable  portion  of  the  rebel  lines.  The  rebels  run 
their  cars  into  Marietta  yet.  I  hope  by  the  next  time  I  write  that  wc 
shall  hold  it.  Atlanta  is  twenty  miles  from  here.  If  the  rebels  fall  back 
from  here,  it  is  thought  that  they  will  make  the  next  stand  on  the  Chat- 
tahoochee River,  where  they  have  fortified.  It  is  about  eight  miles  from 
the  river  to  Atlanta.  I  am  verj'  much  obliged  for  the  envelopes  and 
stamps  and  paper  that  you  sent.  We  have  no  means  of  getting  any  now. 
I  should  like  to  have  you  send  me  a  couple  of  bunches  of  envelopes,  as  I 
have  run  out  my  supply  and  don't  know  when  I  shall  be  where  I  can  get 
any  in  this  part  of  the  country.  But  I  must  stop  as  the  mail  is  going  out 
directly.  I  was  very  sorry  to  hoar  of  the  death  of  James  E.  Marshall.* 
I  had  not  heard  of  it  before ;  it  will  be  a  hard  blow  for  his  father.  He 
will  have  the  consolation  of  knowing  that  he  died  in  a  ylorious  cause. 
Give  love  to  Aunt  Lizzie,  Cousin  Ruth,  and  Jeanie. 

Truly  yours,  WM.  A.  BURRAGE. 

XI. 

Lettek  from  Sergt.  Wm.  a.  Burrage. 

Xear  Goldsroro',  March  28,  18G5. 

Dear  Unde, — We  have  made  port  at  last,  and  have  a  fair  prospect  of 
resting  awhile.  I  am  glad  that  we  have  opened  communication  once 
more  with  the  outside  world.  We  have  been  here  four  days.  Gen. 
Schofield  occupied  the  place  a  short  time  before  we  did.  Gen.  Terry 
came  up  from  Wilmington,  and  occupied  Cox's  Bridge,  and  laid  pontoons 
for  us  to  cross  on  over  the  Neuse  River. 

On  the  19th  wc  fought  Gen.  Johnston  on  his  own  ground,  and  most 
everlastingly  beat  him;  he  saw  fits  for  a  while,  I  guess.     I  think  it  was 

*  A  son  by  a  former  wife  of  James  H.  Marshall,  who  married  Almira  Burrage;  a 
very  promising  young  man,  killed  in  one  of  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness. 


APPENDIX  L.— LETTER  FROM  SERGT.  WM.  A.  BUHIJAGE.  241 

the  hottest  tight  we  have  seen  since  leaving  Athuita.  We  had  severe 
skirmishing  on  tlie  IGth.  In  both  actions  our  regiment  lost  about  twenty 
men.  I  was  very  fortunate,  and  came  out  all  right.  Johnston  tried  his 
best  on  the  19th  to  smash  the  left  wing  of  Sherman's  army.  He  had 
about  30  000  men,  and  threw  them  on  two  corps  (the  14th  and  20th);  but 
we  held  our  ground,  and  the  next  morning  he  fell  back,  leaving  his  dead 
and  wounded.     We  cajitured  a  large  number  of  prisoners  bedsides. 

The  army  was  in  a  barefooted  and  ragged  condition.  I  marched  shoe- 
less for  a  week  or  more  before  we  reached  this  place.  The  cars  are 
running  to  Newbern  now,  and  bringing  up  supplies.  The  "AVihnington  " 
is  being  repaired.  We  have  been  engaged  in  building  houses  since  we 
have  been  here,  and  have  them  completed.  We  expect  to  go  to  work  on 
fortifications  to-morrow.  The  weather  has  been  very  fine  for  the  past 
ten  days.  Since  we  left  Savannah  we  have  marched  upwards  of  six 
hundred  miles,  through  swamps  and  mud,  waded  rivers,. and  everything 
else  that  came  in  om*  way;  in  fact,  we  have  had  a  hard  time  of  it,  harder 
than  I  wish  to  see  again.  I  have  been  very  well,  although  I  feel  ■'  played 
out"  now. 

While  we  were  at  Fayetteville  I  wrote  to  you.  Probably  you  have 
received  the  letter  before  this.  We  received  a  large  mail  day  before 
yesterday,  it  being  the  first  one  for  two  months. 

I  should  like  to  have  you  send  me  a  bunch  of  envelopes  and  some 
writing  papei'.  I  have  got  out,  and  there  is  none  to  be  had  here. 
Kemember  me  to  all;   shall  write  again  soon. 

Truly  yours, 

WM.  A.  BUIUIAGE. 

XII. 

Letter  from  Serc4t.  Wm.  A.  Buri!A(;c. 
Camp  33d  Mass.  Vols.,  near  Richmond,  May  t),  18(w. 
Dear  Uncle,  — ^Ye  arrived  here  last  evening,  after  a  nine  days'  inardi, 
having  left  Raleigh  on  the  30lh  of  April.     We  are  camped  a  few  miles 
outside  of  the  city.    We  are  to  pass  through  the  city  in  n-vicw  to-day. 
To-morrow  we  shall  start  for  Washington,  probably.     Gen.  Ilalleck  is  to 
review  us,  it  is  said.     We  have  had  very  pleasant  weather  since  we  left 
31 


242  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 

Raleigh,  but  the  marching  has  been  hard.  We  have  averaged  eighteen 
miles  a  day;  some  days  we  marched  twenty-three  or  twenty-four  miles. 
It  seems  to  me  tliat  we  might  be  sent  to  Washington  by  transports.  It 
is  rather  hard  after  marching  as  we  have  for  the  past  four  or  five  months. 
I  shall  write  again  as  soon  as  we  reach  Washington.  I  am  well,  but  tired. 
Remember  me  to  Uncle  Joseph,  as  I  shall  not  have  time  to  write  him. 

Yours  in  haste, 

WM.  A.  BURRAGE. 

The  foregoing,  selected  from  nearly  one  hundred  letters  received  by 
the  writer  from  soldiers  during  the  war,  are  interesting,  since  they  give 
an  inside  view  of  the  great  struggle  and  show  what  were  some  of  the 
hardships  as  well  as  dangers  encountered  by  the  brave  defenders  of  our 
nationality,  and  the  spirit  with  which  they  were  met  and  endured. 


APPENDIX    M 


For  the  first  one  hundred  years  following  the  settlement  of  the  country 
by  the  English,  the  increase  in  population  was  not  rai)id,  and  the  advance 
of  the  people  in  education  and  the  arts  was  very  slow.  It  is  not  sur- 
prising that  such  was  the  case.  The  settlers  were  so  much  occupied  in 
clearing  the  land  for  cultivation,  in  forcing  the  scanty  means  of  subsist- 
ence from  the  soil,  in  defending  themselves  from  the  Indians,  and  in 
making  the  country  fit  to  live  in,  by  building  roads,  bridges,  and  other 
first  necessities  to  a  civilized  community,  that  the  things  not  so  immedi- 
ately essential  to  existence  were  neglected.  Hence  we  see  by  the  county 
and  town  records  that  the  first  two  or  three  generations  of  the  descend- 
ants of  the  fii'st  settlers  were  more  illiterate  than  their  ancestors,  who 
received  their  education  in  England.  A  large  proportion  of  the  men  and 
a  great  majority  of  the  women  could  not  write  their  names,  making  their 
mark  instead  when  signing  legal  documents. 

After  the  formation  of  the  Union  and  the  adoption  by  the  several 
States  of  the  Federal  Constitution  there  was  a  marked  change.  Poi^ula- 
tion  began  to  increase  more  rapidly,  greater  progress  was  made  in  educa- 
tion and  the  arts,  and  the  accumulation  of  wealth  became  more  general. 


APPENDIX   M.— NEW  ENGLAND   PRIOR   TO    1835.  iM.'J 

But  there  was  little  change  in  the  habits  and  manner  of  living  previous 
to  1830  or  1835.  Agriculture  was  still  the  principal  occupation,  an<l  the 
farms  continued  to  be  owned  and  cultivated  by  descendants  of  the  tirst 
settlers.  The  housework  was  performed  by  their  wives  and  daughters 
(the  hired  maid  of  foreign  birth  being  then  unknown),  who  also  manu- 
factured the  larger  part  of  the  clothing  worn.  The  houses  were  plain, 
without  architectural  ornament,  and  the  furniture  extremely  simple. 
Woven  carpets  were  seldom  seen;  if  any  carpets  were  used,  they  were 
generally  made  of  woollen  rags,  braided  and  sewed  together.  There  were 
churns  and  cheese-presses,  spinning  wheels,  hand-looms,  and  dye-pots, 
but  no  pianos  or  pictures,  and  but  few  if  any  books.  Travelling  was  not 
indulged  in  to  any  extent,  there  being  no  railioads  or  steamships,  and 
intercourse  between  different  towns  as  well  as  between  different  sections 
of  the  country  was  difficult  and  therefore  infrequent  compared  with  the 
present  time.  Telegraphs  were  unknown,  and  the  mails,  instead  of  being 
carried  by  fast  steamships  and  railroads,  were  transported  by  slow  sailing- 
vessels,  stage-coaches,  and  on  horseback.  The  rates  of  postage  were 
three  to  five  times  greater  than  they  now  are.  In  towns  as  remote  as 
Leominster,  which  is  about  forty  miles  from  Boston,  a  visit  to  that  city 
was  deemed  of  as  much  importance  as  is  a  trip  to  Europe  now.  Weeks 
of  preparation  were  made  for  it,  and  the  event  was  the  theme  of  conver- 
sation in  the  family  long  after  it  had  occurred.  The  journey,  whether 
by  stage-coach  or  the  farm-horse  and  wagon,  occupied  the  whole  of  a 
day.  The  farmers  usually  went  to  market  in  Boston  once  during  the 
year,  generally  in  the  autumn  after  the  crops  were  all  harvested.  They 
carried  pork,  turkeys,  chickens,  butter,  cheese,  eggs,  and  other  farm 
produce,  and  returned  with  plaster  of  paris,  salt,  molasses,  sugar,  tea, 
and  other  groceries,  and  sundry  articles  of  dry  goods,  which  were 
expected  to  mostly  supply  the  wants  of  the  family  in  tliose  articles  until 
the  next  annual  visit  to  the  city.  Contrasted  with  the  maiinor  of  living 
at  the  present  time  this  appears  extremely  simple  and  frugal ;  but  it  is 
a  question  whether  greater  wealth  and  luxury  have  produced  or  are  pro- 
ducing a  higher  order  of  men  and  women  or  more  real  enjoyment. 

After  the  advent  of  steam-railroads  and  the  introduction  of  manufac- 
tures by  improved  machinery,  such  as  the  cotton  gin,  the  spinning  jenny, 
the  power  loom,  and  other  labor-saving  inventions,  a  great  change  took 


244 


THE    BrHKAGE    MEMOKIAL. 


place  in  the  customs  and  mode  of  life  of  the  people.  It  was  made  more 
marked  by  the  introduction  of  great  numbers  of  poor  and  ignorant  emi- 
grants from  Ireland,  who  were  employed  in  building  the  railroads  and 
performing  the  1  djor  not  requiring  intelligence  and  skill,  while  many  of 
the  young  mon  of  New  England  descent  left  their  homes  to  seek  a  wider 
field  for  the  use  of  their  educated  and  active  brains  in  the  great  West. 

As  an  indication  of  the  simple  manner  of  life  of  the  farmers  of  New 
England,  in  the  period  referred  to,  we  give  the  subjoined  copy  of  an 
account  of  William  Burrage,  of  Lynn,  with  the  store  in  Leominster, 
during  the  first  three  years  of  his  residence  in  that  town.  The  account 
is  now  in  possession  of  Deacon  Emory  Burrage:  — 


ITtu 


I)K. 


Mil  \ViLL>«  Huuragp:  to  James  Richard  Jux. 


:May      14     To  1  Gall.  X.  E.  Hum  £*0       2 

^  peck  Salt 

2  pipes 

1  pr  Sleeve  Jiultons 
27  2  (its.  N.  E.  Kum  1 

1  Skillet  1 

I  3'd  Tammcy  1 

\  "  Ribbon 
June      3  2  Qu'  X.  E.  Rum  —  Del'd  his  Boy—    1 

"         11  7  Lb  White  sugar  1  4 

1  scain  Thread 


13 


July       9 


^  Lb  chalk  Deld 

1  yd  Taffity  I     his 

1  Pail  Mother 

1  pece  Tape 
1  Gallo.  W.  I.  Rum   1 


1  peck  peas 
1  cheese  tub 
7  yd  Dowlas 
1  scain  Silk 


J  his 


Del'd 
Man 


10 
1 
1 
3 
1 
4 
2 


74 

n 

0 
4 

10 

4 
4 
1 

n 
1 

4 
0 
8 
4 
10 


Amount  carried  forward,      £i     19      5J 


APPENDIX  M.  — ACCOUNT  OF  WM.  BURRAGE  OF  LYNN.   245 


Amount  hroughx 

5  forward,     £1 

19 

H 

July 

9 

1  scain  Thread 

2 

2  Qut.  N.  E.  Rum 

4 

2  Qu'  Molasses 

\  Lb  Tea 

4 

Aug. 

12 

2QutN.  E.  Rum  — 

Deld  his  Boy  — 

4 

Dec- 

1 

2  Lb.  10'*  Nails 
4  Lbs  Shuger 
1  Qut  N.  E.  Rum 
1  Lb.  Tobacco 

2 

10 

3 
6 

lies 

March  22 

\  Lb  Powder 

6 

April 

7 

1  yd  Calamancoe 

1  Qut  N.  E.  Rum 

2  Qut  Molasses 
2|  y*  Binding 

Silk 

1 

7 

11 

3 

^ 

1  Lb.  Tea 

1 

4 

1  yd  Oeznabergs 

1 

8 

\  yd  Calamancoe 

9 

May 

2 

2  Qut  N.  E.  Rum 
Cash  over  p*  for  veal 

1 

4 
4 

23 

2  Lbs  suger  )  ^  ,,,  ,  .    ry 

°      >  Del'd  his  Boy 
1  ax               ' 

1 
6 

25 

7  Lbs  suger 

3 

4 

\  Lb.  Tea 

1 

2 

July 

27 

7  Lbs  suger 
2  Qut  ]Sr.  E.  Rum  — 
Holt  — 

-Del'd  Obediah 

3 

1 

6 
4 

Aug. 

IS 

2  Qut.  N.  E.  Rum 
1  yd  Calamancoe 
5  yd.  Binding 
Silk 

1 

2 

4 

Of 

l4^ 

Sept. 

3 

7  Lbs  suger 

3 

4 

Amount  carried  forward,      -£4 


24:6  THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 


Amount  hrouglit  forward, 

,    £4 

2 

21 

Sept. 

3 

2  Qu'  X.  E.  Rum. 

Del'd  his 

Boy 

1 

4 

12 

2  Qut  X.  E.  Rum 

7  Lbs  sugar 

1 
3 

4 
4 

1  Lblf/J  Xails  — 

Del'd  his  Boy 

lOi 

19 

1  yd  Calamancoe 
5  yd  Binding 

1  scaiu  silk 

2  Qu'  X.  E.  Rum 

2 
1 

6| 

6 

4 

Oct. 

8 

2  Qut  X.  E.  Rum 

1  Qu'  Molasses 
1  paper  pins 

1 

4 
6 
8 

1  Lb  Powder    Del'd  his  Boy 

6 

13 

1  Comb 

10 

19 

1  yd.  Calamancoe 
5  yds  Binding 

Silk 
1  felt  Halt 
1  oz.  Spice 
2 DulM  lii 

is  Boy 

2 
2 

6* 
2f 
G 
If 

H 

17 

09. 

Jan. 

r. 

Cash  not  paid  for  .' 

iugar 

3^ 

Fob 

IG 

i  lb.  Tea 

1 

3  oz.  Indigo 

1  Almanack    )  del'd  his 

1  yd  Binding  )      wife 

Snuff 
April    12  1  i)eck  salt     Del'd  his  Boy 

May       4  Cash 

June     27  1  Ll>  powder    del'd  his  Boy 

July      11  1  (iall.  Rum 

1  Gall  Molasses 

1  peck  salt 
Aug     20  2  Qut  Rum 


11 

1 

1 

1 

6 

10 

2 

9| 

1 

Amount  carried  forward,      X'G       2       OJ 


APPENDIX  M.-USE  OE  INTOXICATING  LIQlOlfS. 


Aus.    20 


Oct.     10 

1770. 
March  12 


17G7 


1768 


May 

June 

April 

May 

Oct. 

Nov. 

May 


Atnount  brought  forward,     £G 
i  Lb  Tea 
1  Lb.  Shoott 
Snuff  dl'd  his  Boy 
Copreas  &  Snuff 


1  Comb 


&  Supra  Cr. 


1769 

1770    March  13      " 


14  By  5  pr.  Women  slioes 

11  "   4pr        Do 

8  "   2prs       Do 

23  "   Ipr        Do 

8  "    Ipr.       Do 

9  "   Apples 
9  "   21  Bushels  a])ples 


8 

18 
8 
4 
5 
6 
16 

0 


4 


0 

8 
8 
8 
0 

91 

9 

4 


£6 


4        on 


£1 


Ball"  Due  James  Eichards  Jun. 
Leominster  May  7"!  1770 
Errors  Excepted 
Ilec'<i  ye  above  in  full  by  his  note  of  hand 

JAMES  KICIIAHI) 


13    10} 
10    4:2 


Jrx. 


In  looking  at  the  items  of  the  foregoing  account  it  is  interesting  to  sec 
how  few  and  simple  were  the  wants  of  the  iamily  compared  with  the 
requirements  of  a  household  of  like  position  relatively  at  the  present 
time,  and  to  compare  the  prices  of  the  commodities  with  the  jjnccs  of 
the  same  articles  now.  The  value  of  the  colonial  currency  in  the  Fedornl 
money  of  to-day  was  about  as  follows  :  One  pound,  83.33;  one  shilling, 
16f  cents;  one  penny,  Ij^o^q  ct;"ts. 

But  the  most  notable  feature  of  the  account  is  the  frequency  and 
prominence  of  the  charges  for  New  England  rum.  "When  it  is  rcnii'Mi- 
bered  that  William  Burrage,  the  purchaser,  was  a  quiet,  orderly  citi/cu 
and   a   remarkably    conscientious,  steady-going   chureh-nKUibcr,   whin 


248  THE  BURRAGE  MEMORIAL. 

chuich-membership  liad  some  significance,  it  is  easy  to  conceive  that  tlie 
use  of  intoxicating  liquors  was  universal  in  the  community,  and  their 
consumption  very  great  considering  the  scanty  population  and  poverty 
of  the  people.  And  there  is  ample  historical  evidence  that  such  was  the 
case. 

Lewis  and  Xewhall's  "  History  of  Lynn  "  says:  "  At  the  funeral  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Corbett,  in  1G85,  weie  expended  one  barrel  of  wine.  £G  8s.-, 
two  barrels  of  cider,  lis  ;  eighty-two  pounds  of  sugar,  £2  Is.;  half  a 
cord  of  wood,  4s.;  four  dozen  gloves  for  men  and  women,  £o  4s. ;  with 
some  spice  and  ginger  for  the  cider."  And  in  IHSO,  at  the  funeral  of 
Joseph  Armitage,  as  per  the  administrator's  account:  "  For  Coffin,  vaile 
and  digging  grave,  14s.;  in  wine  ami  eider  for  his  Inirriall,  £2  —  0  —  0." 
The  last  two  items  costing  nearly  three  times  as  much  as  the  first  three. 
If  so  much  was  deemed  necessary  on  such  solemn  occasions,  what  woidd 
be  required  at  festivities,  —  at  weddings,  and  social  gatherings  ? 

The  custom  of  "treating"  with  intoxicating  drinks  on  all  occasions, 
public  and  private,  at  military  trainings  and  musters,  the  raising  of 
frames  of  buildings,  husking-becs,  etc.,  and  at  private  houses  when  any 
one  called,  was  continued  until  about  the  year  1833,  when  the  great  tem- 
perance-reform movement  was  commenced.  The  writer  remembers  the 
first  funeral  he  attended  when  a  chi^d,  —  it  must  have  been  when  he  was 
about  six  years  of  age,  in  1829,  —  and  how  strange  it  seemed  even  to  him 
then  to  see  the  pall-bearers  step  into  a  side  room  after  the  services  and 
take  their  toddy  (in  view  of  the  mourners)  before  starting  for  the  grave. 

Drunkenness  had  so  increased,  the  vice  of  intemperance  had  become  so 
prevalent,  that  the  evil  was  seriously  affecting  alike  the  financial,  the 
physical,  and  the  moral  condition  of  the  people.  The  reform  did  not 
commence  a  day  too  soon  for  the  welfare,  the  salvation  even,  of  Xew 
England  !  In  its  scope  and  results  it  was  one  of  the  best  revivals  of  true 
religion  that  ever  blest  a  community.  Its  apostles  are  entitled  to  the 
profound  and  unceasing  gratitude  of  the  people  of  the  whole  country. 


ERRATA. 

Page  51.     lu  first  liue  of  foot-note,  for  "  1863-5,"  read  1763-5. 

Page  104.  lu  the  third  line  of  last  paragraph,  instead  of  "two  sons,  six 
daughters,"  read  three  sons,  five  daughters ;  and  instead  of  "the  youngest 
daughter,  Catherine  R.,"  read  the  third  daughter,  Catherine  11. 

Page  167.  For  "Calvin  Burden"  o^lio  married  Caroline  Burrage),  read  Cal- 
vin Barden. 

Page  168.  In  ninth  line  from  foot,  instead  of  "children  of  Tliomas  (l:!T)." 
read  children  of  Thomas  (157). 

Page  175.  After  "304,  Julia  Leland,"  read  b.  Dec.  31,  1830;  m.  Oct.  6.  1H52, 
Geo.  H.  Rice,  of  Stratton,  Vt. ;  tlieir  child  Henry  N.  Rice,  h.  in  Shrews- 
bury, Mass.,  April  28,  1854. 

Page  175.  After  "305,  Abbie  Antoinette,"  read  b.  July  23,  1840;  m.  Sept.  1, 
1859,  Julius  A.  Green,  of  Shrewsbury,  Mass. ;  their  chiUl  .\l)l)ie  May'i-.x 
Green  b.  July  5,  1860. 

Page  175.  After  "306,  Margaret  Jane,"  read  m.  July  11,  ISiJl,  Franklin  '1'. 
Lamb,  of  Templetou,  Mass. 

Page  182.  After  "398,"  instead  of  "Emory  Farwell,"  read  Emory  Jiurra'/e 
Farwell;  and  after  "400,"  instead  of  "Arthur  Farwell,"  read  Arthur 
Burrage  Farwell. 

Page  204.     For  the  name  "  Andry,"  where  it  occurs,  read  Amlnj. 

Page  212.  Instead  of  the  date  "Dec.  8,  1859,"  after  the  words  ••Will  of 
Thomas  Burrage,  Lynn,"  read  Dec.  8,  1759. 


INDEX. 


INDEX. 


CHRISTIAN    NAMES   OF    THE    BURR  AGES   THAT    APPEAR    IN   THE 

GENEALOGY. 


A. 

Abbie  Antoinette,  167,  175. 

Abigail,  75,  80,  104,  160,  162,  163,  104,  167, 

168,  175. 
Abijah,  47,  48,  52,  53,  54,  1G3,  165,  213,  214, 

215,  226,  227. 
Adelia  Ann,  115,  179. 
Adeline,  81,  169,  176. 
Albert  Cameron,  177. 
Alfred  H.,  115,  179. 
Alice,  158,  190. 
Alice  E.,  181. 
Almira,  119,  170,  180. 
Alvah  A.,  123,  129,  131,  132,  133,  134,  135, 

171,  182,  229,  230,  231,  2.35. 
Amy,  183,  193. 
Andrew,  77,  165. 
Andrew  B.,  172,  185. 
Anna,  49,  74,  75,  78,  86,  104,  158,  101,  164, 

105,  167,  108,  174,  212. 
Anna  J.,  172. 
Anne,  158,  194. 
Anne  L.,  185. 

Annie  Catherine,  105,  178,  188, 
Anthony,  158. 
Archie  Hamilton,  187. 
Artemas  P.,  97,  173. 
Arthur  S.,  181. 

B. 

Benjamin  H.,  183. 

Bessie,  190. 

liessie  Palmer,  187. 

Bethiah,  159,  100,  163,  209,  210. 

Betsey,  77,  98,  101,  160,  107,  172. 


c. 

Caroline,  82,  167,  169,  174. 

Caroline  Ann,  174. 

Caroline  S.,  190. 

Caroline  Y.,  100,  172. 

Catherine,  157,  193. 

Catherine  L.,  172,  18.5. 

Catherine  S.,  115,  179. 

Caty,  164. 

Champlin,  187. 

Charles  A.,  187. 

Charles  1).,  177. 

Charles  E.,  105,  178. 

Charles  F.,  85,  178. 

Charles  H.,  131,  134,  1-3.J,  136,  171,  1S3.  IsT. 

229.  230,  231. 
Charles  ^Y.,  82,  84,  85,  170,  178. 
Clara  A.,  177, 188. 
Clara  E  ,  183. 
Clarence  V.,  189. 
CoraC,  177,  188. 
Cordelia  E.,  179. 

D. 

DanaB.,  170. 

Desiah,  47,  48,  1G3,  165. 

Dwiglit  Grafton,  181 . 

E. 

Edith,  183. 

Edith  May,  188. 

Edgar,  183. 

Kdward  C,  137,  151,  153,  181,  190,  2M,  Xl'. 

Edward  11.,  85,  178. 


252 


THE  BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 


Edwin  A.,  176. 
Eliz-ibeth,  .38,  08, 1.53,  loO,  100,  lf>l,  1G3,  103, 

171,  18.-?,  210,  218,  2in. 
Elizabeth  S.,  91,  128,  120,  171,  182. 
Eliza  G.,  171. 
Eliza  W..  172,  185. 
Ella  H.,  181. 
Ellen  M.,  177. 
Ellen  R.,  119,  174,  ISO,  189. 
Elsie,  183. 
Emily  P.,  181. 

Env)ry,  81,  108,  109,  110,  hi\  170,  244. 
Emory  F.,  187. 
Emma,  182,  186. 
Emma  K.,  186. 
Emma  G.,  185. 
Eiihraim,  59,  62,  03,  74,  77,  101,  105. 

F. 

Fannie  E.,  181. 
Frances,  194. 
Frances  M.,  181,  189. 
Francis  J.,  190. 
Francis  S. ,  179. 
Frank  S.,  189. 
Frederick  E.,  113,  114,  179. 
Frederick  R.,  179. 

Q. 

George  B.,  188. 

George  C,  IHl. 

George  D.,  103,  1.36,  174,  183,  187. 

George  F.,  104,  115,  137,  153,  154,  179,  189. 

George  L.,  179. 

George  X.,  186. 

George  Sanderson,  82,  84,  85,  109,  177. 

George  Sumner,  83,  01,  92,   104,   114,   115, 

116,  121,  125,  153,  170,  179. 
George  W.,  174. 
Gertrude  A.,  181. 
Gilman  E.,  186. 
Grace,  158. 
Grace  Lawrence,  188. 
Guy  H.,  180. 

H. 

Hamilton,  4,  101,  174,  186. 

Hannah,  75,  97,  98,  15S,  159,  lOJ,  171,  184. 


Hannah  HaiTiet,  167,  173. 

Hannah  Maria,  173,  180. 

Harriet,  81,  1(W,  17.3,  175. 

Harriet  A.,  170,  180. 

Harry  L.,  190. 

Hattie  E.,  18(3. 

Hattie  M.,  177. 

Helen,  182,  1!K1. 

Henry,  157,  1.58,  172,  185. 

Henry  A.,  170. 

Henry  F.,  190. 

Henry  S.,  137,  110,  148,  170,  187. 

Henry  T.,  187. 

Henry  W.,  170. 

Herbert  D.,  187. 

Herbert  E.,  181,  190. 

Herbert  F.,  181. 

Horace  E.,  187,  190, 

Horton,  190. 


James,  98,  99,  166. 

Jeiinie,  18.3. 

Joan,  81,  169. 

Joanna,  31,  .3.3,  44,  1.50,  100, 162,  103. 

John,  8,  9,  13.  14,  15,  10,  17,  19,  20,  21,  22, 
20,  27,  28,  29,  30,  31,  .32,  3(5,  .38,  .30,  44,  45, 
40,  53,  54,  57,  59,  62,  63,  64,  f«,  m,  08,  60, 
70,  71,  74,  75, 76,  77,  80,  07,  08,  00,  101,  102, 
101,  105,  100,  15S,  100,  101,  163.  1(>4,  1(56, 
106,  1()7,  108,  170,  171,  173,  174,  178,  184, 
186,  194,  207,  208,  210,  211,  217,  219,  220, 
224. 

John  B.,  4,  07,  172,  173,  180. 

John  D.,  174. 

John  F  ,  174. 

John  L.,  167. 

John  M.,  80,  105,  148,  175,  178,  187. 

John  O.,  187. 

John  Q.  A.,  100,  172,  185. 

Johnson  C,  124,  127,  130,  1.32,  151,  170,  181, 
229,  2.30,  231. 

Jonathan,  75,  80,  97,  143,  140,  104,  100,  107, 
169,  173,  175,  190. 

Joseph,  08,  100,  118,  121,  123,  124,  1.32,  1.3.H, 
166,  170,  172,  181. 

Joseph  P.,  12.3,  137,  138,  141,  150,  181,  231, 
232,  234,  237. 

Josephine,  18.1. 


INDEX.  — CHRISTIAN   NAMES   IN   T1U-:   (JKNKA !.()(; V 


2o:j 


Josiah,  47,  48,  49,  52,  53,  5i,  79,  8(),  87,  88, 
8!),  yi,  y2,  101,  105,  110,  112,  113,  114,  117, 
128,  KJS,  lt)5,  166,  170,  179,  190,  212,  213, 
214,  215,  217,  221,  227,  228. 

Joiiah  K.,  113,  114,  179,  188. 

Julia  L.,  1G7,  175. 

K. 

Katherine,  193. 

Katie,  186. 

Keziah,  75,  101,  164,  168. 

L. 

Lavina,  186. 

Leonard,  82,  83,  93,  114,  116,  121,  169. 
Leonard  F.,  177,  188. 
Leonard  J.,  187,  190. 
Letitia,  158. 
Louisa,  172. 
Louise  M.,  189. 
Lowell  T.,  167,  175. 
Lucy,  172. 

Lydia,  75,  77,  160,  161,  162,  163,  164,  165, 
166. 

M. 

Mabel  E.,  190. 
Mabel  H.,  186. 
Mabel  R.,  189. 
Margaret,  158.  194. 
Margaret  C,  183. 
Margaret  J.,  175. 
Margary,  157,  193. 
Marion,  182. 

Martha,  128,  166,  170,  182. 
Martha  A.,  82,  85,  114,  170,  173,  178,  179, 
185,  186. 

Martha  B.,  177. 

Martha  L.,  184. 

Martha  S.,  176. 

Martin,  98,  100,  166,  172. 

Mary  74,  78,  81,  108,  109,  158,  159.  160,  161, 
163,'  164,  167,  169,  170,  183,  194,  210. 

Mary  Ann,  98,  171,  184. 

Mary  A.,  176,  18(5. 

Mary  B.,  173. 

MaryC.,82,  177,  188,  189. 

Mary  E.,  177,  184. 
MaryH.  A.,  187. 
Mary  J,  82,  85,  169. 


Mary  L.,  181. 
Matthew,  157,  193. 
Mehitable,  45,  163,  218,  2J.3. 
Miltou  R.,  187,  19U. 
MyraA.,  187. 


Nancy,  167. 
Nathaniel,  159. 
Nellie,  185. 


N. 


O. 


Obed,  75,  103,  ICA,  167. 
Owen,  158. 

P. 

Patty,  166. 
Paul,  183. 
Phebe,  50,  165. 
Polly,  82,  169. 

R. 

Richard,  8,  157,  19.3. 

Richard  Leon,  185 

Robert,  8,  157,  186,  193. 

Rose,  157. 

Roxanna,  167. 

Ruth,  133,  1.59,  160,  161,  162,  163,  182. 

Ruth  K.,  91.  95,  114,  128,  190,  228. 

s. 

Sally,  161'.. 

Sauuiel,  61,  63.  64,  74,  75,  161,  164 

Sarah,  3S,  47,  50,  74,  78,  1.59,  M),  Wl  1'">-'S 

165,  1(56,  1()9. 
Sarah  Ann,  120,  121,  170,  180. 
Sarah  E.  T.,  176. 
Sarah  J.,  172,  17.3. 
Sena,  80,  105,  168,  175. 
Severance,  IW. 
Simeon,  64,  65,  67,  71,  72,  75,  97,  UA,  l,\ 

186. 
Soiihronia,  81,  169,  177. 
Sumner,  185. 
Susan,  157,  193. 
Su..anuah,47,48,.53,l.A1.51.1.A2<^».-5«^. 

214,  215,  225,  226,  227. 
Sydney  D.,l«7. 
Sylvia,  167,  174. 


254 


mil.   liUKKAGE   MEMORIAL. 


Thirsa,  82,  109. 

Thomas,  8,  !),  13,  31,  38,  40,  41,  42,  43,  44, 
45,  47,  49,  50,  53,  54,  57,  59,  00,  61,  03,  74, 
75,  70,  77,  78,  79,  98,99,  102,  103,  104,  108, 
157,  158,  159,  100,  101,  103,  1(^,  105,  lOG, 
108,  171,  183,  184,  193,  195,209,  210,  211, 
212,  215,  210,  220,  227. 

Thomas  F.,  1.37,  14.3,  145,  17G,  187. 

Thomas  H.,  98,  171,  183. 

Thomas  J.,  185,  187. 

Tripheua,  173. 


W. 


"Walter  L.,  18.3. 
AVarcl  J.,  100,  172. 
"Warren,  18<). 
AVeiulellS.,lS2. 


"William,  13,  27,28,  29,  38,  47,  48,  49,  52,  54, 
57,  00,  04,  f)5,  00,  71,  72,  74,  75,  78,  79,  SO, 
81,  82,  87,  88,  in,  98,  100,  104,  114,  110, 
118,  119,  121,  122,  125,  1.57,  159,  1(»,  101, 
103,  104,  1(>5,  100,  109,  170,  171,  172,  177, 
1^0,  184,  193,  209,  211,  212,  213,  214,  215, 
217,  224,  225,244,  247. 

"SViUiam  A.,  137,  148,  151, 187,  237,  238,  240, 
241,  242. 

"William  C,  119,  180, 189. 

AVilli.im  E.,  187. 

AVilliam  F.,  82,  84,  85,  109,  177. 

"William  H.,  85,  97,  172,  177,  178,  185. 

"William  K.,  185. 

William  S.,  188. 

AVilliamT.,  123,  181. 

"William  U.,  170. 

"William  AV.,  114,  179,  185,  188,  189. 

"Willie,  23L 


ALL  OTHER  NAMES. 


A. 

Adams,  Benjamin,  78, 100,  IGl, 
Adams,  John,  108. 
Adams,  Parson,  98. 
Alhee,  Mr.,  11. 
Allen,  James,  151. 
Allen,  J.  C,  2.30. 
Allen,  Mira,  82,  109. 
Allen,  Messrs.,  151. 
Allison,  Humphrey,  203. 
Armitage,  Joseph,  248. 
Avery,  Mr.,  32. 
Ayres,  John,  03. 

B. 

Bahcock  &  Barrage,  178. 
Bachelder,  Samuel,  219. 
Baker,  Abigail,  107. 
Baker,  Henry,  174. 
Baker,  Jahez,  104,  104,  107,  174. 
Baker,  IMary,  107,  174. 
Baker,  Matilda,  174. 
Baker,  PriscQla,  172. 


Baker,  "Warren,  174 
Balliston,  John,  201. 
Bancroft,  03,  7± 
Banks,  Gen.  N.  P.,  144. 
Barber,  "Wm.  S.,  175. 
Barden,  Ann,  174. 
Barden,  Calvin,  107,  174.         I 
Barden,  Frederick,  174. 
Barden,  Hiram  B.,  174. 
Barden,  Mary  W.,  174. 
Barnes,  George,  193. 
Barrett,  Phebe,  49,  103. 
Barthrick,  Lois,  97, 104. 
Barthrick,  Sally,  97,  104. 
Bartry,  Fanny,  225. 
Battis,  Harriet  L.,  143,  175,  176. 
Battis,  Julia  A,  175. 
Battis,  Julia  H.,  17.5. 
Battis,  Leonard,  81,  108,  175. 
Battle,  Ebenezer,  00,  01. 
Bearadge,  5 
Bearadge,  Agnes,  202. 
Bearadge,  Benj  ,  20.3. 
Bearadge,  Elizabeth,  203. 


INDEX. —ALL   OTHER   NAMES. 


Bearadge,  John,  202,  203. 

Bearadge,  Mary,  202. 

Beai'adge,  Michael,  203. 

Bearadge,  Walter,  202. 

Beehe,  James  M.  &  Co.,  127,  151. 

Bell,  Widow,  33. 

Bent,  Newell,  111,  112. 

Bent,  Mrs.,  112,  113. 

Berege,  John,  205. 

Beridge,  5. 

Beridge,  John,  204. 

Berrag,  Wni.,202. 

Berridge,  Rev.  John,  206,  207. 

Berridge,  Thomas,  193. 

Berridge,  Wni.,204. 

Blake,  Mr.,  118. 

Blanchard,  Capt.  J.,  70. 

Boardnian  Susannah,  210. 

Bond,  Col. ,  64. 

Boerage,  George,  204. 

Borage  arms,  20G. 

Borage,  5. 

Borage,  Bridget,  201. 

Borage,  Frances,  201. 

Borage,  Jane,  201. 

Borage,  John,  200,  201,  206. 

Borage,  Mary,  201. 

Borage,  Richard,  201. 

Boreage,  Anne,  204. 

Boreage,  Katharine,  204. 

Boreage,  Thomas,  202. 

Boreage,  Wm.,  204. 

I^orege,  Elsahethe,  202. 

Borongh,  5. 

Borough,  Richard,  20-3. 

Borowght,  Agues,  203. 

Borowght,  Cecelia,  203. 

Borowght,  John,  203. 

Borrage,  Elizabeth,  202. 

Bowler,  Fanny,  225,  226,  227. 

Bowler,  Thomas,  225,  226,  227. 

Bowman,  Col.  Henry,  14(5. 

Bowman,  Mr.,  100. 

Bradley,  Elizabeth,  4,  101, 185. 

Bradley,  John  P.,  101,  172,  185. 

Bradley,  Lucy  B.,  185. 

Bradley,  Mary  L.,  185. 

Bradley,  Sarah  E.,  185. 

Brauthwaite,  George,  195. 

Breed,  Elizabeth,  40,  42,  78,  159. 


Breed,  Ephraim,  228. 

Breed,  Ituth,  218. 

Breed,  Theophilu.s,  48,  .53,  215,  217,219,  224. 

Bridge,  Mr.,  11. 

Bridges,  ISIajor  Ebenezer,  GO. 

Brigham,  Enieline,  128,  170. 

Bright,  18. 

Brooks,  Daniel,  104. 

Brooks,  Wra.  H.,  151. 

Bromfield,  8-10. 

Brown,  Capt.  Eli.sha,  64. 

Buckingham,  John,  193. 

Bucknam,  David,  101,  KW,  172. 

Bucknam,  Elizabeth,  172,  18.J. 

Buel,  Samuel,  164. 

Buffum,  Capt.  Amos,  146 

Bullock,  Henry,  14. 

Burage,  Wni.,  202. 

Burege,  Alyse,  202. 

Burege,  Elizabeth,  202. 

Burge,  Thomas,  202. 

Bm'gh,  5. 

Burgh,  Alice,  203. 

Burgh,  Cecily,  203. 

Burgh,  Godford,  203. 

Burgh,  John,  20,3. 

Burgh,  JMargaret,  203. 

Burgh,  Nichola.s  20:!,  205. 

Burgli,  Reginald,  203. 

Burgh,  Robert,  203-5. 

Burgh,  Thomas,  203. 

Burgh,  William,  203. 

Burghe,  John,  201. 

Burnside,  Gen.,  146,  2;M,  238. 

Burradge,  Alice,  203. 

Burradge,  Bridget,  20.?. 

Burradge,  Ednunid,  203. 

Burradge,  George,  201. 

Burradge,  James,  204. 

Burradge,  Mary,  203. 

liurradge,  Thomas,  202. 

Burrage  &  Auu!S,  205. 

Burrage,  Abigail,  203. 

Burrage,  Albert,  205. 

Burrage,  Alice,  203. 

Burrage,  Alyso,  201. 

Burrage,  Anne,  204. 

Burrage,  Audry,  204. 

Burrage,  Barbara,  203. 

Burrage,  Baruaby,  195,  20(1,  •_'(ll. 


256 


THE    BURKAGE   MEMOIUAL 


Biirrage,  Blake  &  Run-age,  llS. 

Barrage  Brothers  &  Co.,  i:il,  132,  135. 

Burrage,  Cecilj%  203. 

Burrage,  Cole  &  Co  ,  1.%. 

Barrage,  Cole  &  Tucker,  1.35. 

Burrage,  Edward,  20.5. 

Burrage,  Edwin,  20."). 

Barrage,  Elizaljeth,  1117,  203-202. 

Barrage,  George,  I'KI,  l!i7,  WJ. 

Burrage  &  Henry,  118,  122. 

Burrage,  Henry,  I'HJ,  1!)7. 

Burrage,  J.  C.  &  Co.,  127,  12. 

Burrage,  J  'ine.s,  2fli. 

Burrage  &  Jeffries,  205. 

Burrage,  Joliu,  I'.MJ,  l'.»7,  I'.H),  20i,  205. 

Burrage,  John  C,  205. 

Burrage,  Jo-scjih  J.,  205. 

Burrage,  Margaret,  I'JG,  lifl,  200. 

liurrage,  Maria,  204. 

Burrage.  Mariena,  20.5. 

Burrage,  Oily,  I'.Ki. 

Burrage,  Richard,  I'.lTi,  1!I7,  2(J(i. 

Burrage  &  Reed,  122. 

Burrage,  Robert,  201. 

liurrage,  Sarah  Ann,  205. 

Burrage,  Su.<an.  1!»7. 

Barrage,  Tlionia.s,  202,  201,  205. 

Burrage,  William,  202,  20{,  20i. 

Barrage,  Wni.  &  Co,  118. 

Barridg,  Margaret,  201. 

Burridge,  5. 

Burridge,  artist,  89. 

Burridge  &  Bowman,  100,  112. 

Burridge,  Charles,  70. 

Burridge,  Elizabeth,  202. 

Burridge,  F.  G.  C  ,  20(5. 

Burridge,  George,  201. 

Burridge,  John,  10,  70. 

Burridge,  Richard,  201. 

Burridge,  Thomas,  20  5. 

Burridge,  William,  202. 

Biirrill,  Col.,  222. 

Burrill,  Ebenezer,  217. 

Burrill,  John,  210. 

Burrill,  Joseph,  219. 

Burrish,  5. 

BuiTislie,  Agnes,  203. 

Burrishe,  Amy,  193,  203. 

Burrishe,  Joan,  203. 

Burrishe,  John,  200,  201 ,  203. 


Burrishe,  ^largarct,  203. 
Burrishe,  Mary,  203. 
Burrishe,  Robert,  19.3. 
Burrishe,  Thomas,  20.3. 
Burryshe,  Robert,  193. 
Buryche,  :Margaret,  202. 
Buryche,  Thomas,  202. 
Buryherish,  John  de,  205. 
Burrough,  5. 
Burrough,  Henry,  203. 
Barrougb,  John,  70. 
Burrough,  Miles,  195. 
Burrough,  Richard,  203,  204. 
Burton,  Richard,  22. 
Butler,  Capt.  Joseph,  G4. 


Cady,  Rev.  Mr,,  138. 

Call,  John,  207,  208. 

Canute,  King,  8. 

Carter,  Anna,  124,  178. 

Carter,  Benjamin,  KU,  124,  12-5,  KW,  178. 

Carter,  Frances,  IGH. 

Carter,  John  W.,  182,  190. 

Cart<'r,  Jonathan,  124,  125. 

Carter,  Lucy,  190. 

Carter,  .Mrs.,  124. 

Carter,  Nathaniel,  60. 

Carter,  Richard  Barrage,  190. 

Carter,  Samuel,  14. 

Chamberlain,  Aurelia,  84,  1(19 

Champlin,  Caroline,  148,  17G 

Champlin,  Rev.  J.  T.,  148. 

Charles  I,  8. 

Charles,  John,  14. 

Chaucer,  Sir  Geoffrey,  205. 

Chaucer,  Thomas,  205. 

Cheney,  Abigail,  101. 

Cheney,  Elenor,  161. 

Cheney,  Elizabeth,  161. 

Cheney,  John,  160,  161,  162 

Cheney,  Lydia,  162. 

Cheney,  Samuel,  161. 

Cheney,  William,  161. 

Chessman  &  Barrage,  10.3. 

Chickering,  Col.  Thomas,  144. 

Child,  David,  81,  169,  176. 

Child,  Emily  W.,  176. 

Child,  Harriet,  176. 


INDEX.  — ALL   OTHER   NAMES. 


Cliild,  Jonathan  B.,  17G. 
Child,  Mary  A.,  17G. 
Child,  INIrs.,  98,  16(3. 
Child,  Mrs.  Lydia  Maria,  101. 
Child,  William,  17(>. 
Childs,  Ruby  M.,  181. 
Choate,  John,  217,  224,  229. 
Claflin,  Ex-Gov.,  74. 
Claighton,  Agnes,  203. 
Clarke,  William,  168. 
Closson,  D.  B.,  122. 
Closson,  Frances  L  ,  181. 
Closson,  Mary  E.,  123,  170. 
Cobb,  Hon.  S.  C,  132. 
Cole,  M.  B.,  1.35. 
Collins,  Henry,  41. 
Collins,  Job,  223. 
Collins,  Samuel,  41. 
Collins,  William,  223. 
Converse,  Edward,  22. 
Cooke,  Amy,  157. 
Cooke,  Gregory,  193. 
Cooke,  Richard,  193. 
Coon,  Lavina,  171. 
Corbett.  Rev.  Thomas,  248. 
Craft,  Joseph,  62. 
Crafts,  Col.,  62. 
Cromwell,  Oliver,  12. 
Curtin,  Gen.,  147. 
Curtis,  Stacy,  152. 
Gushing,  Capt.,  101. 
Cutler,  Susannah,  158. 
Cutter.  Abby  S.,  175,  177. 
Cutter,  George  W.,  177. 
Cutter,  James,  81,  169,  177. 

D. 

Dallinger,  Arthur,  189. 
Dallinger,  Frederick  K.,  189. 
Dallinger,  John,  128,  170,  182,  189. 
Dallinger.  Philip  Burrage,  189. 
Dallinger,  Sophia  E.,  128,  182. 
Dallinger,  Williani  W.,  128,  182,  189. 
Dana,  72. 

Dana,  Nancy  Poor,  103,  167. 
Danforth,  Charles  J  ,  131. 
Darby,  Joseph  49. 
Darwin,  Mr.,  7. 
Davis,  Adeline,  167. 


Davis,  Elizabeth,  40,  160. 

Davis,  Mary  How,  174. 

Davis,  Robert,  40. 

Deane,  Elizabeth,  153. 

Deane,  John,  159. 

Deane,  Thomas,  158. 

Dey,  Frances,  8,  158. 

Di.vou,  Lewis  L  ,  119,  180,  189. 

Dixon,  Roland  Burrage,  189. 

Doe,  Laura  A.,  179. 

Downe,  Sarah,  169. 

Drake,  25. 

Draper  Hannah,  161. 

Draper,  Mary,  75,  161. 

Dudley,  Rev.  IHr.,  37. 

E. 

Ellis,  Sophia,  97,  166. 
Evans,  Oscar  H.,  176. 
Everard,  Thomas,  202. 

F. 

Fairbanks,  Abigail,  79,  165. 

Farnsworth,  Aliihonso,  173. 

Farnsworth,  Jonas,  173. 

Farnsworth,  Laura,  173. 

Farnsworth,  Levi,  167,  173. 

Farnum,  Sarah  T.,  169. 

Farrar,  Thomas,  42,  47. 

Farwell,  B.  Arthur,  182. 

Farwell,  Catherine  S.,  128,  182,  189. 

Farwell,  Charles  E.,  182. 

Farwell,  Emory,  182. 

Farwell,  E.  George,  182. 

Farwell,  Francis  W.,  182. 

Farwell,  Helen  G.,  182. 

Farwell,  Peter,  91,  128,  12«t,  171,  182 

Fisher,  Abigail,  7.5, 161. 

Fiske,  Bodica,  172. 

Fiske,  Jonas,  87. 

Flagg,  John,  219,  22.3. 

Foster,  Betsey,  173. 

Foster,  Frances,  186. 

Fostcr,Gen.  J.  G.,  152.  214. 

Foster,  Loring,  173,  186. 

Foster,  Martha  A.,  186. 

Foxe,  Elsabeth,  202. 

Francis,  Mr.,  101. 

Francis,  Rev.  Dr.,  101. 


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Francis,  Ilobert,  22. 

Franklin,  Gen..  2.33. 

Freeman,  Edward,  10.5. 

French,  Abigail,  }'){). 

French,  Abrani  &  Co.,  loS,  181. 

French,  Hannah,  l."»"J,  2(»1». 

Frendi,  John,  158,  l.V.l,  '2W. 

French,  Mary  (i.,  119,  ITp. 

Frothinghan),  18,  20,  22,  23,  W. 

Frothint^hani,  Sam.,  .32. 

Fuller,  Cai»t.  Amariah,  '>'.*,  CI. 
Fuller,  Mary,  l!»7. 
Fuller,  Capt.  Nathan.  (VI. 
Funk,  Catherine,  184. 
Funk,  Emma,  1S4. 
Funk,  E.  Hannah,  184. 
Funk,  Jacob,  184. 
Funk,  John,  171,  184. 
Funk,  Mary  Ann,  184. 
Fry,  :Master,  122. 


Gallewshew,  Daniel,  _'2.t. 
(lardner,  Jame.*;,  22.">. 
•  iardner.  Col.  Thoni.i.-i,  (^. 
(JibUs,  M.artiia  H.,  173. 
Gib.son,  Nancy  C,  17o. 
Gipps,  Henry,  202. 
Gotlfrey,  Commander,  ()2. 
Goodrich,  Lucy  E.,  187. 
Goodwin,  Christoiiher.  .■)2. 
Gott.s,  Cieorge,  200. 
CJould,  John,  14. 
Gowitig,  John,  41. 
Grant,  Gen.,  146,  150. 
Graves,  Samuel,  223. 
Graves,  Thomas,  18. 
Greene,  John.  VMj,  l!t7,  201. 
Grt^enleaf,  Rebecca,  !Mt,  KlU. 
Greenwxxl,  Constable,  .'58. 
Greenw(xid,  John,  212. 
Griffith,  Anne,  18;j. 
Griffith,  Benjamin,  171,  18.3. 
Griffith,  Louis,  183. 
Grinnell,  Cornelius,  107. 

H. 

JIadley,  Elizabeth  li.,  175,  178. 
Hale,  George  S.,  132. 


Hall,  John.  204. 

Halleck,  Gen.,  241. 

Hallman.  201. 

Hallowell,  Samuel,  225. 

Hallowell,  Theophilus,  225. 

Halma,  William,  l!i8. 

Hammond,  Elizabeth  A.,  154,  17'J. 

Hampden,  John,  <l,  10,  12. 

Harris,  John,  32. 

Harrison,  Martin,  201. 

Hart,  Joseph,  228. 

Hawes,  Calvin  L.,  KhS. 

Hawkins,  Kobi-rt,  ;U. 

Hawks,  Benjamin,  81. 

Haws,  Man.«in  I).,  22',l,  231. 

Hayden,  James,  21. 

Hay  ward,  Samuel,  111. 

Henchman,  Natlianii  1,  21.'>. 

Henchman,  Hev.  Mr.,  57. 

Henry,  John  Q.,  118,  122. 

Hl.le.  Samuel,  212. 

Hig^jinson,  Bev   Mr.,  18. 

Hill,  Benjamin,  litii. 

Hill,  Biirrage  iV  Co  ,  131,  135. 

Hill,  Frances,  1!)!). 

Hill,  George,  VX>,  1<i7,  1II8,  I'.Jl). 

Hill,  Noble  H.,  131. 

Hill,  Sarah  Ann,  171. 

Hills,  (Jeorge  H.,  125. 

Hills.  Sarah  J.,  85,  170 

Hines,  Mr.,  118. 

Holmes,  Lieut.,  147. 

Holt,  Obediah,  245. 

Homes,  Mar;;ery,  l'J8. 

Hopkins,  .Mr.,  .35. 

Horton,  Serg.,  145. 

Howell,  ^Lary,  !i8,  106. 

Hoyt,  Simon,  18. 

Hudson,  Francis,  16,  21,  22,  28,  i'!'. 

Hudson,  Thomas  K.,  22.">. 

Hull,  Gen.,  74. 

Hume,  10.  11. 

Hunt,  Mary  Greene,  1.36,  171. 

Hunting,  Samuel,  207,  209. 

Hurd,  Jacob,  28. 

Hutchinson,  George,  14. 


Ivorj',  John,  210. 


INDEX.  — ALL   OTHER  NAMES. 


-I.V.) 


Jackson,  Lydia,  100,  IGG. 

Jackson,  iSIary  Ann,  IIS,  170. 

Jackson,  Dea.  Ward,  100. 

James  II,  King,  32. 

Jewett,  Abbie  iM.,  IIS,  175,  178. 

Johnson,  "il:. 

Johnson,  Bethia,  160. 

Johnson,  Edward,  223. 

Johnson,  Holden,  53. 

Johnson,  John,  160. 

Johnson,  INIary,  124. 

Johnson,  Richardson,  210. 

Johnson,  Sarah,  20'.). 

Johnson,  Wm.,  159, 160,  209. 

Johnston,  Gen.  J.  E.,  150,  240,  241. 

Jones,  John,  33. 

Jones,  Margaret,  35. 

Jones,  husband  of  Margaret,  36. 

Joslin,  James  T.,  178,  188. 

Joslin,  Mary,  82,  165. 

Joslin,  Nellie  AVatson,  188. 

Joslin,  Ralph  E.,  188. 


K. 

Keeser,  Hannah,  97,  167. 
Kendall,  A.  &  G.  A.,  125,  126. 
Kendall,  Joseph  G.,  103. 
Kendrick,  Elizabeth,  174. 
Kendrick,  Ellen,  174. 
Kendrick,  Julia,  174. 
Kendrick,  Richard,  167, 174. 
Kendrick,  Susannah,  174. 
Kilburn,  Asa,  173. 
Kilburn,  George,  87. 
Kilburn,  Jeremiah,  110,  HI. 
Kilburn,  Ruth,  87, 1G5. 
Kilburn,  Wm.,  87. 
Kimball,  Ada,  185. 
Kimball,  Henry,  172,  185. 
Kimball,  Porter  M.,  85,  170,  178. 
Kimball,  William  15.,  178. 
Kingman,  Elizabeth  F.,  182. 
Knight,  .John,  19. 
Kynge,  John,  197. 


Lamb.  Jason,  167. 
Lang,  Benj.  J.,  181,  ISO. 
Lang.  Harry  A.,  189. 
Lang,  Margaret  It.,  1H9. 
Liirgiu,  Mehitablc,  44,  160. 
Largiu,  Sarah,  .■?2. 
Lawrence,  Eveline,  85,  169. 
Lee,  Col.  FrancLs,  152,  2.15. 
Lee,  Gen.,  150. 
Lee,  Harriet,  18.3. 
Lee,  John,  183. 
Lee,  Lizzie  S.,  17.5. 
Lee.  Thomas,  183. 
Lee,  Wm.,  183. 
Lee,  Wm.  K.,  171,  183. 
Legate,  Tliomas,  fiO. 
Leland,  Julia,  103,  164. 
Le  Strange,  Sir  Henry,  201. 
Lewis,  Alonzo,  41,  W,  .5.5. 
Lewis,  David,  219. 
Line,  Thomas,  14,  32. 
Litch,  Aaron  K.,  175. 
Little,  Col.  INIoses,  64. 
Lockey,  John  J.,  229,  231. 
Logan,  Ale.Kandcr,  28. 
Love,  Lydia,  13r),  171. 
Lovejoy,  .Mr.,  41. 
Levering.  Silas,  173. 
Lowden,  Richard,  14. 
Lowell,  141. 

Lyfferman,  C.  F.,  172,  1^5. 
Lyfferman,  Willie  L.,  18.5. 
Lyon,  Emma  C,  188. 
Lyon,  Emory,  177,  188. 


M. 


McClellan.  Gen  ,  148. 
McClure,  Arthur  P.,  180. 
McClurc,  Charh's  E.,  180. 
McClure,  David.  120,  170,  ISO. 
McClnre,  David  H.,  180. 
McClure,  Ellen  W.,  120,  121,  ISO,  189. 
McClure,  Emily  J.,  180. 
McClure,  John  B.,  180. 
McClurc,  Sarah  E.,  ISO. 


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McClure.  AVm   A.,  180. 

McGhuiflin,  Lewis  W.,  177. 

Mcliitosli,  Col  ,  61. 

Mnnslidd,  liotliia,  1G3. 

Mansfield,  Daniel,  44,  IGO,  UV2. 

JIan.slield,  Ehenezer,  223. 

Mansfield,  Elizabeth,  1(J2. 

Mansfield,  Hannah,  1()2. 

Mansfield,  Joanna,  KW,  210. 

Mansfield,  John,  oS,  223. 

Mansfield,  Lydia,  ir>2. 

Mansfield,  iMary,  ](!3. 

Mansfield,  Kieliard,  210,  223,228. 

Mansfield,  Sarah,  1G3. 

Mansfield,  Thiinias,  ir.2. 

Marshall,  Charles  S.,  120,  180. 

Marshall,  Hannah,  l.V.i. 

Marshall,  Isaac,  I.V.). 

Marshall,  James  E.,  24fl. 

Marshall,  James  H  ,  110,  170,  ISO,  240. 

Marshall,  John,  158,  l.")!l,  200. 

Marshall,  Mary,  15!»,  200. 

Marsliall,  Meliitahle,  1.59. 

Marshall,  Col.  Thomas,  C3,  Go,  ir,,  GL 

Marshall,  Thomas,  loO. 

iNLirtin,  Josiah,  4.5,  1G3,  223. 

Martin,  Lydia,  218. 

Maverick,  tllias,  14. 

Maynard,  Sarah,  <»«»,  IGG. 

Michel,  Alexander,  IGO,  IGl. 

Meech,  John,  18. 

Merriam,  Frances  H.,  179. 

Miller,  John  R..  1G8. 

lyiills,  Charles,  184. 

Mills,  Frank,  184. 

Mills,  Hannah  B.,  184. 

Mills,  Harry  H.,  184. 

Mills,  Helen,  184. 

Mills,  James  D.,  184. 

Mills,  John,  184. 

Mills,  Joseph,  4,  171,  184. 

Mills,  Mary  E.,  184. 

Mills,  Snsan,  184. 

]Slills,  Wm.  G.,  1&4. 

Minot,  Martha  A  ,  11.5,  170. 

Monnes,  George,  107,  108,  100. 

Moore,  Hannah  J,,  172. 

Morrison,  Thomas,  184. 

Morse,  Ahner,  20t}. 

Munns,  AVm.,  201. 


N. 

Newcomb,  Capt.  Thomas,  65,  70. 
Newhall,  Benj  ,  53,  217. 
Newhall,  Daniel,  228. 
Newhall.  Jacob,  4.5. 
Newhall,  .James,  218. 
Newhall,  Jonathan,  218. 
Newhall,  Joseph,  47. 
Newhall,  Josiah,  215. 
Newhall,  Pharaoh,  223. 
Newhall.  Sarah,  47,  IGO. 
Newhall,  Thomas,  47. 
Newton,  Eaton  &Co.,  l.'^o. 
Newton,  Frederick  W.,  l.'Jo,  177. 
Newton,  Horace,  80,  IGS. 
Nichols,  Jonathan,  1G7. 
Nixon,  Elizabeth,  100,  166. 
Nixon,  Col.  John,  64. 
Nowell,  Increase,  19. 
Norwood,  Jonathan,  4;5,  16.5,  210. 
Norwood,  Mehitablc   1G.5,  219. 
Norwood,  Susannah,  1G.5. 
Norwood,  Zaccheus,  45,  103,  16.5. 

o. 

Oliver,  Dr.,  218. 

O.sland,  Hannah,  75,  97,  161. 

P. 

Packard,  Lillian,  177. 
Page,  Sarah,  201. 
Palfrey,  24. 
Palmer,  Abra,  18. 
Palmer,  Mary  II.,  174. 
Palmer,  Sarah  Burrage,  176. 
Palmer,  Sarah  C,  176. 
Palmer,  William  H.,  176. 
Pamer,  Walter,  18. 
Parker,  Augustus,  1.32. 
Parker,  Capt.  Gideon,  64. 
Parker,  Nancy,  173. 
Parrott,  Larmon,  14. 
I'aul,  Hannah,  98,  1G6. 
Peck.  Mr.,  11. 
Peckham,  ilajor,  147. 
Penticost,  Goolman,  .32. 
Perrin,  Frances  S  ,  12:^,  170. 
Phelps,  Martha  G  ,  84,  169. 


INDEX.— ALL   OTHER  NAMES. 


'J\\ 


Pierce,  Artemas  A.  M.,  1G7,  IT,"?. 
Pierce,  Asa,  122 
Pierce  &  Burrage,  122. 
Pierce,  Frances  A.,  173. 
Pierce,  James  B.,  173. 
Pierce,  Joseph  Burrage,  173. 
Pierce,  Sylvia,  173. 
Pierson,  Doctor,  200. 
Poland,  Frank  S.,  177,  178. 
Poland,  Henry  F.,  188. 
Poole,  A.  F.,  13G. 
Poor,  Bethia,  159. 
Poor,  P:iizabeth,  209. 
Poor,  Joanna,  159. 
Poor,  John,  158. 
Poor,  Silence,  159. 
Poor,  Thomas,  159. 
Porland,  Audry,  20i. 
Porte,  William,  197,  198,  201. 
Porter,  John,  41. 
Porter,  Robert,  204. 
Pratt,  Abigail,  102,  164. 
Pratt,  Hannah,  100,  166. 
Prentice,  Abigail,  162. 
Prentice,  Edward,  IGO,  162. 
Prentice,  John,  162. 
Prentice,  Rvith,  162. 
Prentice,  Samuel,  162. 
Prentice,  Sarah,  162. 
Prentice,  Thomas,  162. 
Prentice,  William,  162. 
Purland,  Mary,  204. 
Putnam,  Ann,  42,  47. 
Pryor,  Roger  A.,  147. 
Pym,  John,  12. 

R. 

Rainer,  Wm.,  184. 
Ramsdell,  Anna,  225. 
Ramsdell,  Joseph,  225. 
Ramsdell,  Kimball,  225. 
Ramsdell,  Nehemiah,  225. 
Ramsdell,  Susanna,  52,  163. 
Ramsdill,  Josiah,  223. 
Reed  &  Closson,  122,  132. 
Reed,  William  L.,  122. 
Renshaw,  Mrs.,  98,  166. 
Rhoades,  Thomas,  219. 
Rice,  Marshall  S.,  134. 


Richards,  .James,  Jr.,  244,  247. 

Richardson,  A.  J.,  126. 

Richardson,  Alaiison,  229,  2.'?1. 

Richardson  &  Uurrage,  126,  l.Wl,  \M,  l.V>. 

Richardson,  Mary  Ann,  K2,  169. 

Ricker,  Kbenezer,  1()7. 

Rivett,  Thomas,  35. 

Roberts,  Enuiia  (Davis),  171. 

Roberts,  Mr.,  32. 

Rose,  Andrew,  203. 

Rowland,  Benj.,  184. 

Russell,  James,  28. 

Rus.sell,  Richard,  1.5,  26. 

Russell  &  Richardson,  «9. 

s. 

Salter,  Lewis,  201. 

Sanderson,  Ro.\anna,  82,  \(i.'). 

Sanger,  Samuel,  164. 

Sears,  Dr.  Barnas,  106. 

Sedgwick,  Capt.,  14. 

Segur,  Bathsheba,  162. 

Segur,  Ebene/er,  160,  162. 

Segur,  Hannah,  162. 

Segur,  John,  162. 

Segur,  Mary,  162. 

Segur,  Itebecca,  162. 

Segur,  Ruth,  162. 

Segur,  Samuel,  162. 

Segur,  Sarah,  1(;2. 

Sever,  Elizabeth,  77 

Severance,  Julia  Lon 

Shaw,  Col.  Robert  (J.,  141. 

Sherman,  Gen  ,  150,  241. 

Shepard,  Rev.  Jeremiah,  43,  r>7. 

Simmons,  Anna,  KkS. 

Simmons,  Betsey.  KW. 

Simmons,  Edward,  lOi,  164,  1(W. 

Sinnnons,  Jane,  16S. 

Sinnnons,  John,  127. 

Smeaton,  William   203. 

Smith,  Abby  B.,  168. 

Smith,  Anna,  1(W. 

Smith,  Archihald,  77.  78,  Kil. 

Smith,  Catherine  II.,  104,  115,  lfi«,  170. 

Smith,  Elizabetii  A.,  i;W,  171. 

Smith,  Francis,  16S. 

Smith,  Cien.,  2:k;. 

Smith,  Isaac,  168. 


161. 
l.-|3. 


181. 


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THE   BURRAGE   MEMORIAL. 


Smith,  Lewis,  104,  164,  168. 

Smitli,  Martha  I  ,  168. 

Sinitli,  Natliatiiel,  15. 

Smith,  Sarah,  74,  100. 

Smith,  Seliiida,  1(W. 

Smith,  Will,  14. 

Somerhy,  H.  G.,  5,  l'J3,  200,  204. 

Spear,  ilary,  70. 

Spragiie,  lialpli,  18 

Spragiie,  Kichanl,  18. 

Sprague,  "NViii.,  18. 

Spring,  John,  212. 

Starrs,  Thomas,  1.5. 

Stearns,  Col.  Alnjah,  60. 

Steams,  Addie  L.,  121,  189. 

Stearns,  Charles  H.,  121,  180,  180. 

Stearns,  Thomas,  82,  IG'J. 

Stedman.  Lyle,  1H7. 

Steele,  Isaljella  K  ,  18<l. 

Steele,  James  N.,  129,  182,  189. 

Steele,  Mary,  ISi). 

Steele,  Knth,  18!l. 

Stetson,  Joshua,  l.TO. 

Stickline,  John.  18. 

Stitson,  Wm.,  15. 

Stocker,  Ehcnczer,  41. 

Sto\ver.s,  Al)igail,  I'J. 

Stowers,  Amy,  17,  18,  10. 

Stowers,  Joanna,  17,  10,  158. 

Stowers,  Joseph,  10. 

Stowers,  Nicholas,  17,  18,  10,  :«. 

Stowers,  IJichard,  10. 

Stratton,  John,  14,  32. 

Stride,  John,  22. 

Studley,  Ahigail,  111,  114,  170. 

Sumner,  Charles,  116. 

Swift,  Capt.  John  L.,  144. 

Symms,  Zacharj-,  14. 

T. 

Taft,  Oscar  A.,  170. 
Tainter,  Dea.  Elijah  F.,  110. 
Tainter,  E.  Eunice,  110. 
Taylor,  Benj.,  183. 
Thatcher,  Col..  61. 
Thayer,  Abhie,  131. 
Thayer,  Col.  Ebenezer,  Go,  70. 
Thayer,  Sally   70. 
Thayer,  Sarah  L.,  KV),  172. 


Thomas,  Capt.  Philip,  63,  63. 
Thompson,  James,  14. 
Thorne,  John,  201. 
Thoyts,  Sarah,  210. 
Toinlinson,  J.,  183. 
Treadwell,  John,  218,  210. 
Treadwell,  Itev.  Mr.,  r,7. 
Trumbull,  Susie  L.,  187. 
Tucker,  E.  P.,  135,  VM. 
Tucker,  Thomas  J.,  177,  188. 
Tybenham,  Itichard,  103. 
Tymplie,  Henry,  203. 

u. 

Underwood,  Col.,  130. 
Upton,  Mary  T..  160. 
Uring,  Capt.,  2.5. 


Vosc,  Edith  D.,  110,180. 

w. 

Wait,  Susannah,  225. 

Waitt,  Stephen,  48,  16.3,  225. 

Walford.  Thomas,  18. 

Ward,  Lydia,  74,  1(W,  IGl. 

Ward,  Mr.,  11. 

Ward,  Hev.  Mr.,  .36. 

Ward,  Dea.  Richard,  74. 

Warren.  fJen.  .Jonathan,  60. 

Washington.  Gen.,  72. 

Watson,  Capt.,  60,  71. 

Watson,  .Mary,  105,  170. 

Wayte,  Anna.  47. 

Wesson,  Col  J.  W.,  68,  60,  70. 

Wheeler,  Ephraim,  .30. 

White,  Ignatius,  1.50,  161. 

White,  Knth,  200. 

Whiting,  Rev.  Mr.,  .57. 

AVhitney.  Col.  -Josiah,  64. 

WhittfUiore,  Deziah,  215. 

Whittemore,  Edniond,  48,  63,  Kio,  215. 

Whittemore,  Eliz.abeth,  1G5,  215. 

Whittemore,  Esther,  165,  215. 

Whittemore.  .Joseph,  165,  215. 

Wilkinson,  Arthur,  130. 

Wilkinson,  Stetson  &  Co.,  1.31,  1.3.5. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


'2r>:\ 


Williams,  Ebenezer,  3S. 
Williams  &  Warren,  107. 
Willoiighby,  Mr.,  15. 
Wilson,  May,  108. 
Wines,  Faintnot,  3.3. 
Wingfield,  Robert,  200. 
Witherwell,  Will,  14. 
Withington,  Eliza,  100,  1()6. 
Wood,  Itliamar,  173,  180. 


Wood,  Hosinn  A  ,  IMO 
Wood,  T.  Dwight,  110. 
Wood,  Wm  ,  23. 
Wory,  Italjih,  1.",. 
Wren,  Bisliop,  11. 


Yearsley,  Ilannaii,  '.»«,  mi. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


A. 

Abstracts  of  wills  in  England,  202,  203, 
204. 

Agreement  of  the  children  of  John  Bur- 
rage,  Charlestown,  208. 

Atlanta,  150. 


Battle  of  Bennington,  GO. 

"       "    Chancellors ville,  14!». 

"       "   Cold  Harbor,  147. 

"       "    Gettysburg,  149. 

"       "    Goldsboro',  157. 

"       "    Lexington,  40. 

"       "   Little  Washington,  152 

"       "    Lookout  Mountain,  13!:>,  150. 

"       "    Marietta,  151. 

"       "   Whitehall,  152 
Bequest  of  Josiah  Burrage,  92. 
Bigotry,  the  pre\-alence  of,  43. 
Birthplace  of  Ruth  Kilburn  Burrage,  88. 
Boston,  Great  tire  in,  131. 
Bridges,  Charles  River  and  Warren,  17,  23, 

133. 
Burrage  names  in  Post-OflSce  Directory  of 

Cambridge,  Norfolk,  and  Suffolk  Coun- 
ties, Eng  .  205. 
Burrage,  Origin  of  the  name,  5,  0. 
Burrage,  Orthography  of  the  name,  1.3. 
Burrage  soldiers  in  War  of  Rebellion,  137- 

155. 
Burrage   soldiers   in  War  of  Revolution, 

58-73. 


Campbell  Station,  147. 

Charlestown  ferry,  Ki,  21,  22,  23. 

Charlestown  in  HVM  and  105*),  23,  24. 

Cloths,  Home-made,  70. 

Coat  of  arms,  204. 

Common,  stinted,  20. 

Commons,  Division  of,  in  lO-X,  20. 

Connnon,  Lynn,  54. 

Correspondence    with    the    s.-k-ctmi-ii    of 

Leominster,  229.  2.30,  231. 
Customs  prior  to  170(),  .32. 
Customs   and   niainicr  of    living   in    Ni'W 

England  prior  to  ]H;i5,  2-12. 
Customs  and  laws  in  Lynn,  41-43. 


Dedham,  .39.  75 

Depositions  of  Francis  Hudson  ami  hiIhis, 

28,  29. 
Dover,  39,  75. 
Dorchester  Heights,  01. 

E. 

Engl.and,   State  of  affairs   iii.   in    IC^W-in. 

9,  12. 
England,   E.xtract.s   from   paiisli   n'gi!<t<»rs 

in.  202,  204  [-'•M- 

England,   Al.stra<ts  ..f   wills  in.  2<>2,  2<ll. 
Epita|iii  of  Rev.  .lolin  Herriilge,  2<ll>. 
Extracts  from  the  nnister  rolls  in  the  State 

archives,  .")9-7l. 


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THE    BUKHAGE    MEMORIAL. 


F. 
Freeman's  oath,  17. 
Farm  itroilucts,  Prices  of,  89. 
Fae-siiiiile  of  signature  of  John  Bnrrage, 
1G(J8,  19. 

G. 

Genealogj%  157. 
Generation  I,  157. 
ir,  157. 

III,  157. 

IV,  158. 
V,  158. 

"  VI,  1.59. 
"  VII,  KJl. 
"     VIII,  IW. 

IX,1(M>. 
X,171. 

XT,  183. 
"       XII,  190. 

H. 

Iloincsteacl  of  Cajit  Josiah  Bnrrage,  S7, 89, 

90. 
Homestead    of    Cai)t.    I>oonartl    Barrage, 

84. 
Honiesteafl  of  Dca.  Wm.  Biirrage,  81. 
Homesteads  of  Iamui  Burrages,  54,  5G. 
Honor  to  the  soldiers,  7.3. 
House  and  farm  in  I^ominster  bought  by 

Wm.  Barrage  in  17(>7,  50. 


Intolerance,  36. 

Items  respecting  the  name  of  P.urrage,  205, 
206. 

Inventory  of  estate  of  Jolni  Bnrrage, 
Charlestown,  207. 

Inventory  of  estate  of  Dea.  Tlionias  Bur- 
rage,  LjTin.  211. 

Inventory  of  estate  of  Wm.  Barrage,  New- 
ton, 211. 

Inventory  of  estate  of  Thomas  Barrage, 
Lynn,  21G. 

Inventory  of  estate  of  Dea.  John  Barrage, 
Lynn.  220 

Inventory  of  estate  of  Mchitable  Barrage, 
Lynn,  222. 


Inventory  of  estate  of  Abijah  Barrage, 
Lynn,  227. 

Inscription  on  gravestone  in  Lynn  Cem- 
etery', 224. 

L. 

Laws,  Sumptuary,  3.3,  34. 
Leominster  in  17(57,  50,  51,  52. 
Leominster  population  and  liouses,  17G3  to 

1875,  51. 
Leominster  Common,  18.30,  51. 
Letter  from  Sergt.  Edward  C.  Bnrrage,  2.34. 
Letters  from  Lieut.  Joseph  P.  Barrage,  232- 

23.5. 
I.«tter9  from  Sergt.  "William  A.  Bnrrage, 

237,  238,  240,  241. 
Letters    to    and    from    the    selectmen   of 

Leominster,  229,  231. 
Letter  respecting  enlistments,  231. 
Ijcxington  alarm,  59. 
LuTienburg,  97,  98. 
Lynn,  Laws  and  customs  in,  41,  42. 
Lynu  Common,  54. 

M. 

Markets,  2.3,  25. 
Meetiug-house,  Old  Tunnel,  56, 

N. 

Nashua  Biver,  49,  87. 

Newton,  39,  74. 

Norton  Subcourse,  England,  8. 

Norton  Subcourse,  Old  church  in,  9. 

Norwich,  England,  8,  10,  11,  201. 

o. 

Obituary  notice  of  ]Mrs.  Ruth  K.  Barrage, 
from  the  "Commonwealth"  newspaper, 
228. 

Old  style,  43. 

P. 

Peage,  21. 

Petersburg,  147. 

Private  judgment,  The  right  rif,  37. 

R. 

Beflcctions,  155. 

Reminiscences  of  the  Lynn  Barrages,  225. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


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s. 

Savannah,  150. 

Sewerage,  Improved,  in  Boston,  132. 

Store  account  of  William  Biu-rage,  1767, 
244. 

Superstition  the  cause  of  belief  in  witch- 
craft, 37. 

Surnames,  their  first  adoption,  6. 

T. 

Templeton,  75-79. 

"The  Christian  World  Unmasked,"  207. 

U. 

Use  of  intoxicating  liquors  in  New  Eng- 
land, 207. 


Valley  Forge,  72. 
Vicksburg,  14(5. 


V. 


w. 

Wampum,  21. 
War  of  the  Revolution,  58. 
Whitehall,  152. 
Will  of  Baniaby  Burrage,  19&. 
Will  of  .Tohn  Burrage,    Burrishe,  or  Bo- 
rage, 200. 
Will  of  Dca.  Jolm  Burrage,  217 

jNIargaret  Burrage,  1!IH. 

Richard  Burridge,  201. 

Robert  Burri.slie,  193. 

Robert  Burryshe,  VXi. 

Susanna  Burrage.  225. 

Thomas  Burrage,  175'.),  212. 

Dea.  Thomas  Burrage,  209. 
Williamstowu,  1.52 
Witchcraft  delusion,  The,  35-42. 
Wolves,   Bounty  for  killing,    in   Cliarle.<- 

town,  35. 
Wolves,  foxes,  and  blackbirds,  Bounty  for 
killing,  in  Lynn,  41. 


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