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The Burroughs Family.

If any one has a desire or inclination to pursue "know-
ledge under difficulties" I would suggest to them to try writ-
ing up a family genealogy. There are so few people in this
country who keep a written record of their families, that it is
difficult to gather and write out anything like a correct gen-
ealogical record in later years after the members get scattered
and each member forms a branch of the family tree. The
Burroughs Family is no exception. As the years go by, and
time goes on, we shall become the ancestors of the coming
generations, and I feel awake to the importance of preserving
and carrying forward as correct and complete a genealogical
record as possible for the use and benefit of those who come
after us. I have been laboring for some years to gather and
write up the origin, and line of descent of my own family, and
in doing so have been aided materially by correspondence
and books of history. I have much in MS. that would
help others engaged in the same work in other family lines.

The Burroughs name has been numerous along the line
of history and includes some individuals of note of whom I
will make brief mention. The first I find is Stephen Burroughs,
an English navigator of the sixteenth century. He accompa-
nied Chancellor as second in command on his voyage to dis-
cover a northeast passage around the eastern continent in 1553.
Three years later he had chief command of another expedition
equipped with the same object. He doubled Cape North,

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touched at Nova Zembla, discovered the Island Wygatz and
reached north latitude JO degrees 3 minutes, a higher point
than had been reached by any previous navigator. He re-
turned to England and published an account of his observa-
tions. He was the first who observed the declination of the
magnetic needle.

I have failed to find the first emigrants into America. In
Hinman's genealogies of the Puritans, I find Robert Burroughs
was the first of the name found in Connecticut. He settled
in Wethersfield in 164 1 where he owned land.

The Rev. George Burroughs was born at Scituate in 1650,
he graduated at Harvard college in 1670, and was remarkable for
his liberal views and the unhappy termination of his life. He was
a minister in Falmouth, and Salem village and he was accused
of witchcraft and executed with others August 19, 1692, leav-
ing a widow and six children, the youngest but five weeks
old. I think he may have been a brother of John Burroughs
an ancestor of mine born in Scituate 1653,

In Ridpath's History of the United States pages, 1 50-152,
he says "The darkest page in the history of New England is
that which bears the record of the Salem witchcraft. The same
town which fifty-four years previously had cast out Roger Wil-
liams was now to become the scene of the most fatal delusion of
modern times. In February of 1692, in that part of Salem
afterwards called Danvers, a daughter and a niece of Samuel
Parris, the minister, were attacked with a nervous disorder
which rendered them partially insane. Parris believed or af-
fected to believe, that the two girls were bewitched and that
Tituba, an Indian maid servant of the household, was the
author of the affliction. He had seen her performing some
of the rude ceremonies of her own religion and this gave color
to his suspicions. He tied Tituba and whipped the ignorant
creature until at his own dictation she confessed herself a
witch. Here, no doubt, the matter would have ended had

not other causes existed for the continuance and spread of the
miserable delusion. But Parris had had a quarrel in his
church; a part of the congregation desired that George Bur-
roughs, the first minister in Salem, should be reinstated to the
exclusion of Parris. Burroughs still lived in Salem and
there was great animosity between the partisans of the former
and the present pastor. Burroughs disbelieved in witchcraft
and openly expressed his contempt of the system; here then,
Parris found an opportunity to turn the confessions of the
foolish Indian servant against his enemies to overwhelm his
rival with the superstitions of the community, and perhaps to
have him put to death. There is no doubt whatever that the
whole murderous scheme originated in the personal malice of
Parris.

But there were others ready to aid him. First among
these was the celebrated Cotton Mather, minister of Boston.
He being in high repute for wisdom had recently preached
much on the subject of witchcraft, teaching the people that
witches were dangerous and ought to be put to death. He
thus became the natural confederate of Parris and the chief
author of the terrible scenes that ensued. Sir William Phipps,
the royal governor, who had just arrived from England, was a
member of Mather's church. Increase Mather, the father of
Cotton, had nominated Phipps to his present office. Stoughton,
the deputy governor, who was appointed judge and presided
at the trials of the witches was the tool of Parris and the two
Mathers. To these men, more especially to Parris and Ma-
ther, must be charged the full infamy of what followed.

By the laws of England, witchcraft was punished with
death. The code of Massachusetts was the same as that of
the mother country. In the early history of the colony, one
person charged with being a wizard had been arrested at
Charlestown, convicted and executed. But with the progress
and enlightenment of the people, many had grown bold enough
to denounce and despise the baleful superstition. Something

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therefore had to be done to save the tottering fabric of witch-
craft from falling into contempt. A special court was accord-
ingly appointed by Governor Phipps to go to Salem and sit
in judgment on the persons accused by Parris. Stoughton was
the presiding judge, Parris himself the prosecutor, and Cotton
Mather a kind of bishop to decide when the testimony was
sufficient to condemn.

On the 2ist of March the horrible proceedings began.
Mary Cory was arrested, not indeed for being a witch, but for
denying the reality of witchcraft. When brought before the
church and court she denied all guilt, but was convicted and
hurried to prison. Sarah Cloyce and Rebecca Nurse, two sis-
ters of the most exemplary lives, were next apprehended as
witches. The only witnesses against them were Tituba, her
half-witted Indian husband and the simple girl Abigail Wil-
liams, the niece of Parris. The victims were sent to prison
protesting theii^ig-aorajicer Giles Cory a patriarch of eighty
years was next seized; he also was one of those who had op-
posed Parris. The Indian accuser fell down before Edward
Bishop, pretending to be in a fit under satanic influence; the
sturdy farmer cured her instantly with a sound flogging and
said he could restore the rest of the afflicted in the same man-
ner. He and his wife were immediately arrested and con-
demned. George Burroughs, the rival of Parris, was accused
and hurried to prison; and so the work went on until seventy-
five innocent people were locked up in dungeons. Not a soli-
tary partisan of Parris or Mather had been arrested. In the
hope of saving their lives, some of the terrified prisoners now
began to confess themselves witches or bewitched. It was
soon found that a confession was almost certain to procure
liberation; it became evident that the accused were to be put
to death, not for being witches or wizards but for denying the
reality of witchcraft. The special court was already in ses-
sion; convictions followed fast; the gallows stood ready waiting
for its victims. The truth of Mather's preaching was to bees-

tablished bv hanging whoever denied it and Parris was to save
his pastorate by murdering his rival. When the noble Bur-
roughs mounted the scaffold, he stood composedly and re-
peated correctly the test prayer (The Lord's Prayer) which
it was said no wizard could utter. Tbe people broke into
sobs and moans, and would have rescued their friend from
death, but the tyrant Mather dashed among them on horse-
back, uttering imprecations and drove the hangman to his
horrid work. Old Giles Cory, seeing conviction was certain
refused to plead and was pressed to death; five women were
hung in one day. Between the ioth of June and the 22d of Sep-
tember, twenty victims were hurried to their doom; fifty-five
others had been tortured into confession of abominable false-
hoods; 150 lay in prison awaiting their fate; 200 were accused
or suspected and ruin seemed to impend over New England.
But a reaction at last set in among the people. Notwithstand-
ing the vociferous clamor and denunciations of Mather, the
witch tribunals were overthrown. The representative assem-
bly convened early in October and the hated court which
Phipps had appointed to sit in Salem was at once dismissed.
The spell was dissolved; the thraldom of the popular mind
was broken; reason shook off the terror that had oppressed it;
the prison doors were opened and the victims of malice and
superstition went forth free."

In a book, Witchcraft of New England.explained by modern
spiritualism by Allen Putnam, I find and copy a few extracts
in regard to George Burroughs. "He was graduated at Har-
vard college in 1670, had been a preacher for many years
prior to 1692, and during some of them ministered to the peo-
ple of Salem village. But before the outburst of witchcraft
there he had found a home far off to the northeast on the
shores of Casco Bay in the Province of Maine, where he was
then humbly and quietly laboring in his profession.

The day before his execution Margaret Jacobs, who had
testified against him, came to the prisoner, acknowledging that

she had belied him and asking his forgiveness who not only
forgave her, but also prayed with and for her. At his execution
he made a speech for the clearing of his innocency, with such
solemn and serious expressions as were to the admiration of
all present. His prayer, (which he concluded by repeating
the Lord's prayer) was so well worded and uttered with such
composedness and such fervency of spirit as was very affect-
ing and drew tears from many, so that it seemed to many that
the spectators would hinder his execution.

Cotton Mather, being mounted upon a horse, addressed
himself to the people saying that Burroughs was not an
ordained minister, and was guilty, and that the devil has often
been transformed into an angel of light, which somewhat
appeased the people, and the executions went on.

The brief account which Upham's researches enabled him
to furnish of this man's life prior to the witchcraft mania
presents still further evidences of his sterling worth. That
author says, "Papers on file in the State House prove that in
the District of Maine, where he lived and preached, he was
regarded with confidence by his neighbors and looked upon
as a friend and counselor. He was self-denying, generous
and public-spirited, laboring in humility and zeal in the midst
of great privations. Land had been granted him, and when
the town asked him to exchange a part of it for other lands
he freely gave it back, not desiring any other land or con-
sideration for it. Scanning Burroughs as well as accessible
knowledge of him now permits, we judge that he was a quiet,
peaceful laborer for the good of his fellow men — a humble,
trustful, sincere servant of God — a rare embodiment of the
prevailing perceptions, sentiments, virtues and graces which
haloed the form of the Nazarene.

Cotton Mather says he was a very- puny man, yet he had
often done things beyond the strength of a giant. All subse-
quent historians have mentioned what is no doubt true, that
Burroughs was a small man, and yet was constitutionally very

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strong — was remarkable for physical powers even in his
college days."

But this victim may have been, and probably was, as high
above most of his crucifiers as freedom is above bondage, as
light above darkness, as sincerity above hypocrisy. The
blood of such as Martha Cory, Rebecca Nurse, Mary Easty,
George Burroughs, and others who in company with these
took their exit from life shrouded in witchcraft's blackening
mists, may go far toward making Gallows Hill a Mount Cal-
vary— a spot on which zeal urged on the worse to crucify their
betters in true Godliness.

(The modern spiritualists consider George Burroughs and
others who suffered martyrdom were mediums.}

The indictment against George Burroughs for witchcraft.
August 5 1692, he with others were brought to trial and con-
demned.

Anno Regis et Reginae, Sc Quarto.

[Essex ss.] The Jurors for our sovereign lord and lady
the king and queen, present, that George Burroughs, late of
Falmouth in the Province of Massachusetts bay, clerk, the
ninth day of May, in the fourth year of the reign of our sover-
eign, Lord and Lady William and Mary by the grace of God
of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, king and queen,
defenders of the faith, etc., and divers other days and times,
as well before as after certain detestable acts called witchcraft
and sorceries; wickedly and feloniously hath used, practiced
and exercised at and within the town of Salem, in the county
of Essex aforesaid, in, upon and against one Mar}7 Walcot, of
Salem village, in county of Essex, single woman; by which
said wicked arts, the said Mary Walcot, the ninth day of May,
in fourth year above said, and divers other days and times as
well before as after, was and is tortured, afflicted, pined, con-
sumed, wasted, and tormented, against the peace of our
sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, and against
the form of the statute in that case made and provided.

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Endorsed Billa vera." Three other bills were found against
him, to all of which he plead "not guilty." Was executed
August 19th, I692. — History of New England, by Barber,
page 195.

Stephen Burroughs, born in 1729, a strictly cold water
man, was never sick a day in his life. Was a surveyor,
astronomer, and mathematician. He invented the system of
Federal money which was adopted by Congress in. 1790, and
is now used in the United States. He made some remarkable
discoveries in Astronomy, but was taken blind before he had
completed his work, and it was lost to the world.

Stephen Burroughs,, an American adventurer, remarkable
for his talents and diversified career, born in Hanover, New
Hampshire, in 1765, the son of a Congregational clergyman.
At the age of fourteen he ran away from home and joined the
army, which he soon deserted. He then studied under a
clergyman in Connecticut and entered Dartmouth college, but
left the college clandestinely before graduating, owing to
improper conduct. Having performed successfully as
privateersman, ship's physician and schoolmaster, he at length
determined to go where he was unknown and preach. Under
the name of Davis he had excellent success as pastor of a
Congregational church in Pelham, Mass., until he was dis-
covered to be at the head of a gang of counterfeiters and
arrested and imprisoned for making and passing counterfeit
money. In the latter part of his life he thoroughly changed
his conduct, entered the communion of the Roman Catholic
church, and passed his last years in receiving at his residence
and educating the sons of wealthy Canadian gentlemen. He
was beloved by his pupils, had an extensive and valuable
library of choice books and was noted for his happy faculty
of communicating his stores of useful knowledge. Few men
have possessed equal capacity for teaching the young. He
was remarkable for his deeds of charity. He described his

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early life in two autobiographical volumes. He died at Three
Rivers, Canada, January 28, 1840.

The origin of our family name is somewhat uncertain. It
is supposed to be a Roman name introduced into Britain and
then into Ireland and the Welsh country, where it was spelled
Burrows. It has also been said they took their name from the
town of Borough in the county of Leicester, in England; but
whether they took their name from the town or the town took
its name from them I cannot say with certainty. It has been
spelled Berg, Bergo, Barrow, Barrows, Burrow, Burrows, Bur-
rough, Borough, Burroughs, and in ancient books of heraldry,
Dee Bergo. The difference in spelling is supposed to be
owing to ignorance at first, and then has been perpetuated.
In English history we find John Burroughs, a divine who died
in 1386. He was a D. D. of Cambridge, rector of Collingham
Nottinghamshire; appointed July 1, 1384 to the post of chan-
cellor of his university.

Another John Burroughs, a Benedictine who flourished in
1340, and who was author of some books of travels. Stephen
Burroughs, born on an estate of the same name in the parish
of Northern Devonshire, England, Sept. 25, 1525, a navigator
who made important discoveries in the northern seas, died in
1584. (See my MS.) Christopher Burroughs, son of Stephen,
is mentioned as a writer. In 1579 he was the chronicler of one
of the most interesting travels in Persia recorded in Hackleyt's
History. He accompanied the expedition as Russian inter-
preter. Said to be a man of remarkable talents and the only
person in that expedition competent to write an accurate
account of it.

Sir John Burroughs was grandson of Wm. Burroughs of
Sandwich, Kent, by the daughter of Basil Gasell of Newkirk,
Bralant, and Garter King of arms. He received a classical
education and afterwards studied law at Grey's Inn. In 1623
he was appointed keeper of records in the tower of London.
In June of the same year, by the favor of the Earl Marshal, to

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whom he was secretary, he was made Herald Extraordinary.
On December 30th following, he was made King of Arms at
Arundel House in the Strand. He received the favor of
Knighthood July 17, 1624. In 1634 he was made Garter
Principal. He attended his sovereign, Charles I., when he
went to Scotland to be crowned in 1633. On April 14, 1636
he obtained a grant to entitle him to the fees of his office of
Garter while employed beyond the sea in the King's special
service. He died Oct. 21, 1643, leaving two sons and two
daughters. His son John was Knighted by Charles II.

There was a Jeremiah Burroughs, a noted divine of West-
minster, preacher, of Stepney and Cripplegate, near London,
born in 1579. Rev. Joseph Burroughs, son of Humphrey Bur-
roughs— a man of wealth, born in London, England, January
1, 1685. Ordained May I, 1717, as pastor of the church in
Paul's Alley, Barbacorn, London where he labored forty years.
He died November 23, 1761. The next I find is John Bur-
roughs, born in England in 1617, and came to America and
lived in Salem, Massachusetts. He is supposed to have been
a member of the "Long Parliament" that assembled No-
vember 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell April 20, 1653
and with many others fled from England to escape religious
persecution. For his descendants see my MS. which ends
with George Burroughs, born in Waterloo, New York, January
6, 1855, for some years professor of Biblical literature in Am-
herst college, Massachusetts, now president of Wabash col-
lege, Indiana.

The following is taken from MS. of Mr. Edward Burrough
of Merchantville, New Jersey. (They leave off the s in end-
ing.) "De Berg was the family name of William the
Conqueror's father, and it is from a brother of William the
Conqueror that a branch t>{ the family claim direct descent.
Whether their claims are strictly true, will probably never be
ascertained; but it is evident that the family was a numerous
one at a veiy early day. The present record of the family

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extends back to the beginning of the seventeenth century,
when they came prominently before the people as the follow-
ers of George Fox, expounder of the doctrines of the society
of Friends. It is believed, from the best information yet
obtained, that our branch of the family came from Warwick-
shire, England, and that Edward Burrough of Underbarrow
was of the same family. He died in New Castle prison, Dec.
14, 1662, where he was imprisoned for his religious belief.
John Burrough was likewise imprisoned in Essex, and the
children of William Burrough were maltreated while on their
way to Bantney meeting. Soon after that they came to
America and settled on Long Island. (See my MS. for more.)

The first that I get of my direct line of ancestry is from
Savage's genealogies, and he mentions Jeremiah Burroughs of
Scituate, Massachusetts Bay, Mass., first mentioned in 1647,
who died in 1660, leaving children. His son John married a
daughter of Thomas Hewett, in May, 165 1. Their children
were

Jeremiah, born in 1652.

John, born in 1653.

Elizabeth, born in 1655.

Mar}', born in 1657.

This John Burroughs, 2d, was in Enfield, Mass., and died
in 1693, leaving a wife and three children, John 3d, Hannah
and Sarah. The following is the last will of John Burroughs
2d, as copied and attested: (See MS.)

THE WILL OF JOHN BURROUGHS.

"In Enfield, the last will of John Burroughs, in the yeare
of our Lord one thousand six hundred and ninetie one is as
followeth, — and now being weak in boddy yet being sound in
mynde and memory, not knowing how soon this life of myne
may expire, I do comitt my soul unto God who gave me itt,
and for my hopes as to another life, the Lord having given
some measure, made sensible of my undone condition as I am

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in the state of nature and have, roleing my sins and soul on
Christ my Redeemer, and doe believe in Jesus' X for right-
eousness and pardon of my sins and desire repentance towards
God my maker and presever, and that God would axcept of
me in and through Jesus Xt, and doe comitt my boddy to the
dust believing that there shall be a glorious ressurrection when
this boddy of myne shall be raysed againe. As to that por-
tion of my outward estate which it hath pleased God to give
me withall, after my funerall charges is payed and my just
debts payed, what remaynes I doe dispose of as followeth:

I doe give and bequeath my whole estate to my wife, that
is to say the use of it during her naturall life, for her comfort
and bringing up of my children. But if God should in his
providence give her an opportunitie to change her condition
then to have the thirds of my estate during her natural life.

I doe give my son John Burroughs my house and lands
excepting my wives 3ds and some small legacies to my two
daughters Hannah and Sarah Burroughs, that is to say, my
house and land I give to my son John Burroughs and his heirs
forever, he paying to my two daughters Hannah and Sarah
Burroughs heirs ten pounds apiece and my wives 3ds. I ex-
cept in my gift to my son above named and these legacies to
be payed to my daughters above writtyn when my son comes
of age, within four years after he comes of age the two first
years to pay per year to my daughter Hannah and the two
years following five pounds a year to my daughter Sarah, that
clause in the bequeathing my whole estate to my wife during
her natural life is to be understood till my son comes of the
age of twenty-one years.

In witness I hereunto as my last will and testament I set
to my hand and scale. I do appoint and constitute my loving
wife to be my sole executor of my estate.

John Burroughs, a seal affixed and in the presence of
these witnesses. Joseph Warriner.

Benjamin Parsons.

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The last will of John Burroughs, late of Enfield in Hamp-
shire, deceased, was presented this 2 of September, 1693, be-
fore me at Springfield & proved by the oaths of Joseph
Warriner & Benjamin Parsons, who swore to their seeing
him seal and subsribe the same when he was, to their appre-
hension of sound understanding & soe is pproved & allowed
& all & singular the said goods chattels & credits of the de-
ceased was committed to Hannah Burroughs, wife of the said
John Burroughs, executor in the same will named. Well and
truly to administer & make a perfect inventory of all & singu-
lar of the gOods, chattels, rights & credits & exhibit the same
into the Register office according to law & to render a true ac-
count of her said administration upon oath when called there-
to.

Allowed pr John Pyncion, Esqr.
Attested pr Samuel Partrigg, Register.

This John Ensign Burroughs 3d born in Enfield, Massa-
chusetts, married Sarah Tyler. They went to Windsor, Con-
necticut, in 1718 and purchased land. (I have copies of deeds
of land to him.)

Their children born in the Parish of Ellington, Connecticut,
were :

John, born in 171 1.

Sarah, born in 1714. Married M. Chandler.

Hannah, born in 17 16. Married Willi im Booth.

Simon, born in 1 719, (my greatgrandfather.)

Johnathan, born in 1721.

Mary, born in 1722.

David, born in 1724.

Abner, born in 1728.

Simon Burroughs married Lydia Porter, October 30, 1745.
Their children were:

John, born April 30, 1748.

David, born January 6, 1750.

Simon, Jr. born July 14, 1 75 1 . (My grandfather.)

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Ebenezer, born Jul)' I, 1753.

Aaron, born July 16, 1755.

(I was told by an Aunt that John and David went to
York state but, as yet, I have nothing reliable in regard to
them.)

THE WILL OF ENSIGN JOHN BURROUGHS.

In the name of God, amen, the 22d Day of December*
A. D. 1756, I, John Burroughs, of Windsor, in the county of
Hartford, and colony of Connecticut in New England, being
very sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory,
thanks be given unto God therefor, calling to mind the mor-
tality of my body and knowing that it is appointed unto all
men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and
testament. That is to say principally and first of all, I give
and recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it
and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in
descent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors,
nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall re-
ceive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as
touching such wordly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to
bless me in this life, I give demise and dispose of the same
in the following names and form.

Imprimis. I give and bequeath to- Sarah, my well be-
loved wife, the two cows that are mine, to dispose of as she
thinks best, and also the use of all my household goods
during her natural life and after her death, I give and bequeath
my beloved daughters, Mary, Hannah and Sarah, all my
household goods to be equally divided between them.

Item. I give to my beloved sons, viz., Simon, Jonathan
and Abner, all my other movable estate, except the above
mentioned, and also one acre of land that the saw mill stands
on, called Burroughs Mill, all to be equally divided between
them.

Item. I also give to my youngest son, Abner, whoom I
likewise constitute, make and ordain my sole executor of this,

my last will and testament, all my lands that I have not al-
ready given by deed, except that above mentioned one, and I
do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannull all and every
other former testament, wills, legacies and bequests and ex-
ecutors by me in any ways before named, willed and be-
queathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my
last will and testament.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal the day and year above written.

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by
the said John Burroughs as his last will and testament in pres-
ence of us, the subscribers.

Phineans Newton, ) His

Francis Fuller, Y John Burroughs.

Media Fitch, ) mark. [Seal]

Hartford Probate Records, Vol. 17 page 316.

An inventory of the estate of John Burroughs was ac-
cepted in Court of Probate August 3, 1757, which amounted
to about ^100, which was so small because he had given each
of his sons a farm and probably his daughter, each a good
portion.

For more definite information see my MS.

Simon Burroughs, blacksmith and farmer, born Jul}- 14,
1751.

Mirriam Shaw, born in Munson December 10, 1755.

Simon Burroughs and Mirriam Shaw married April 1.
1773. Their children were:

Leany, born June 30, 1774, at Palmer, died Sept. 16, 1777.

Molly, born April 5, 1776, at Williamsburg, Mass.

Leany, born April 1, 1 778.

Simon, Jr., born January 28, 1784, at Cummington, Mass.

Mrs. Mirriam Burroughs and an infant died March 22,
1787, at Plainfield, Mass.

The children of Simon Burroughs, 2nd, that grew up and
had children were as follows:

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By his first wife, Mirriam Shaw, he had Molly (Polly)
who married Johnathan Perkins and had

Wiltha, who never married, and at this date is living;
aged 95.

Sally Ann married John Riley.

Harriet married Daniel Earle.

Leany Mariah married Nathaniel K. Evarts.

Leany married Orrin Percival for his second wife and
had Erastus, who married in Pennsylvania.

Olney A. married Lovina Foed.

James married Mirriam Burroughs.

Sereno married widow Brant 1st, Hannah Oatly, 2nd.

Chauncey married Flavia Pinney.

Simon Perkins married Catharine Beals.

Roxey Leany married Joseph Holdridge.

Simon Burroughs, stone mason and farmer, married Ruth
Monroe and had

Edwin W. married Sally Ann Poole.

Alonzo P. married Morana Bliss.

Sabrina married John Brant 1st, Sereno Percival 2nd.

Miriam married James Percival.

Nabby married Nelson Bently.

Laura married John Peters.

Diana married Harrison Moore for 1st, Zenas Bently 2nd.

Mary Whitmarsh born March II, 1767.

For her first husband she married Erskine and had

two daughters.

Elizabeth Erskine, born April 3, 1784.

Hannah Erskine, born November 2, 1786.

Simon Burroughs and Widow Mary Erskine married
September 6, 1787. Their children born in Plainfield, Hamp-
shire county, Mass. were:

Jacob, born July 17, 1788, died January 13, 1791.

Mirriam, born February 1, 1790.

Jacob, born July 6, 1 791.

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Mary, born October 20, 1792.

Reed, born July 16, 1 794, died October 2, 1794.

Reed E., born February 10, 1796, died April 4, 1799.

Amos, born June 6, 1798.

Aaron, bqrn June 30, 1 800, died April 7, 1 80 1.

Hittie, born May 13, 1802, died January 27, 1803.

Susan,- born January 6, 1804.

Simon Burroughs with his family emigrated to Ohio in
18 1 2 and settled in Welshfield, Geauga county. (Now Troy.)

Simon Burroughs died September 26, 1833.

Mrs. Mary Burroughs died November 3, 1844.

Simon Burroughs, 2nd, had by his second wife, that grew
up, two sons, Jacob and Amos, and three daughters, Mirriam,
Mary and Susan. Mirriam married Oliver Poole and had
three sons, Cleury, Moses and Frederic. Mary married
Luther Hemminway and had three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary
and Martha. Susan married Abraham Hard and had two
sons, Webster and Harrison, and three daughters, Cornelia,
Almira and Almarette. Amos married Sabrina Nash and
had two sons, Augustus and Homer, and two daughters,
Almina and Alvira (twins). Jacob married Harriet Fowler
and his familv will now follow.

Jacob W. Burroughs, born July 6, 1791 .

Harriet Fowler, born in Guilford, Conn., June 29, 1795.

Jacob W. Burroughs and Harriet Fowler married in Bur-
ton, Geauga county, Ohio, June 15, 181 5. Their children born
in Welshfield (now Troy) were:

Olive M., born June 9, 1818.

Lewis A., born April 18, 1820.

Sophronia S., born September I, 1822.

S. Marina, born January 10, 1824.

Alfred H., born July 13, 1825.

Jacob Victor, born August 27, 1827.

Harriet D., born August 7, 1829.

Mar>^ Ann, born March 23, 1831.

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Elias C, born April 22, 1834.
Jacob W., Burroughs died November 22, i85i.
Harriet F., Burroughs died January 20, 1848.
Mary Ann Burroughs, died January 7, 1848.

Orrin Nash, born November 11, 1813.

Olive M. Burroughs, born June 9, 1818.

Orrin Nash and Olive M. Burroughs married May 5, 1839.

Their children, born in Troy, Geauga Co., Ohio, were

Albert, born June 5, 1841.

Harriet, born Sept. 27, 1843.

Harvey, born April 8, 1845.

S. Marina never married.

Jerome Sliter, born July 24, 1821.
Sophronia S. Burroughs, born Sept. I, 1822.
Jerome Sliter and Sophronia Burroughs married February
22, 1845.

Their children, born in Troy, Geauga Co., were
Eugene, born May 31, 1850.
Irene, born June 13, 1851.

Alfred H. Burroughs, born July 13, 1825, in Welshfield,
Geauga, Co., Ohio, died Jan. 6, 1880.

Olive Thrasher, born Dec. 4, 1827, at Cornish Flat, New
Hampshire.

Alfred H. Burroughs and Olive Thrasher married in 1852.

Mrs. Olive T. Burroughs died at Champlain, 111., May 26
1863, leaving a daughter, Marina Burroughs born April 5, 1858.

Widow Mary J. Miller, born July 22, 1836.

Alfred H. Burroughs and Widow Mary J. Miller married
May 30, 1869.

Their children, born in Sweet Home, Nodavay Co., Mo.
were

Nancy Naomi, born June 5, 1870.

Alfred Elmer, born January 24, 1872.

Victor J. Burroughs, born August 27, 1828, married Mary.
Beardsley Cowyon Aug 20, i860.

Children, Sarah S., born July 7, 1861.

Rena V., born December 10, 1863, died May 5, 187 1.

Eunice E., born October 2, 1865.

Amy V., born July 11, 1867, died Sept. 9, 1877.

Earl L., born June 19, 1870.

May Edith, born July 12, 1S76.

Lyman Hunt, born February 13, 1822.

Harriet D. Burroughs, born August 7, 1827.

Lyman Hunt, and Harriet D. Burroughs married Septem-
ber 28, 1854.

Their children, born in Sweet Home, Nodaway Co., Mo.
were

Rowena P., born February 11, 1856.

Alfred H., born October 24, 1857.

Orlo D., born January 9, 1859, died April 4, 1880.

Adelaide E., born January 6, 1861.

Milton W. and Marion W., (twins) born March 17, 1863.

Virgil O., born March 19, 1870,

Elias C. Burroughs, born April 22, 1834.

Martha A. Pryor, born

Elias C. Burroughs and Martha A. Pryor married April
22, 1865.

They had a son, Ralph W., born May 7, 1867.

THE m'cOXNEL FAMILY.

Wm. McConnel, born in Scotland in 1786.

Jane McElvey, born in Ireland in 1793.

Wm. McConnel and Jane McElvey married in 1808, in
Ireland.

Their children were Matilda, Eliza, John, (who died when
15) Catharine, Lilly Ann and Jane M., all born in Ireland.
Ellen, born on the Atlantic ocean while coming to America,
m 1825, and John in Sheridan, New York.

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Lewis A. Burroughs, born April 18, 1820.

Jane M. McConnel, born April 25, 1824, died August
29, 1870.

Lewis A. Burroughs and Jane M. McConnel married Oct.
12, 1843.

Their children born in Troy, Geauga Co., Ohio, were:

Jacob Wm, born July 14, 1844, died March 16, 1855.

Lewis Amos, born July 15, 1848, died November 23, 1848,

Ellen Jane, born July 15, 1850.

Loyd L., born June 20, 1852,

Matilda Ann, born May 5, 1854.

Catharine Deette, born June 28, 1856,

Florence Nightingale, born March 8, 1859.

Cora Ida, born August 20, 1861.

Harriet Belle, born March 8, 1866. Not married.

Clark C. Loveland, born November 4, 1824. died of
cholera at Vincennes, Indiana, August 23, 1852.

Matilda S. Tyler, born March 9. 1828.

Clark C. Loveland and Matilda S. Tyler married April 4,
1850.

Lewis A. Burroughs and Matilda S. Tyler Loveland mar-
ried May 12, 1873.

Emery A. Woods, born August 1, 1849.

Ellen J. Burroughs, born July 15, 1850.

Emery A. Woods and Ellen J. Burroughs married Dec.
3. 1873.

Their children, were:

Elma M., born in Troy, Geauga Co., Ohio, August 25
1874, died January 31, 1877.

Willie, born in Hiram, August 20, 1879.

Walter, born in Garrettsville, Dec. 24, 1884,

Loyd L. Burroughs, born June 20, 1852.
Hannah Conner, born May 9, 1856.

Loyd L. Burroughs and Hannah Conner married Sept, 5,

1874.

They had one child, a son, Ernest Burroughs, born in
Hiram, Portage Co., O., November 12, 1876.

Hyman F. Burgess, born April 5, 1850.
Anna M. Burroughs, born May 5, 1854,
Hyman F. Burgess and Anna M. Burroughs, married
August 12, 1877.

Their children born in Parkman, Geauga Co., Ohio, were:
Norman A., born June 21, 1879.
Lewis A., born August 6, 1880.
Belle S., born September 19, 1881,
John H., born August 2, 1884.

Timothy Fox, born March 25, 1850.

Catharine D. Burroughs, born June 28, 1856, died June I.
1886.

Timothy Fox and Catharine D. Burroughs married Sept.
15, 1878.

Their children born in Troy, Geauga Co., Ohio, were:

Louie, born June 29, 1879, died December 28, 1882.

Lent, born February 13, 1881.

Elton, born April 7, 1884.

One little incident in the child life of Elton Fox is too
good to be lost and I insert it here. Timothy Fox had told his
children that their mother's mother was born in Ireland and
brought to this country when young. In the winter of '92-3,
Frank Bartholomew taught school in the district where
Timothy Fox's children attended school. The teacher was tell-
ing the children the characteristics of the people of the different
nations of the earth, and when he came to the Irish he spoke
disparagingly of them as being given to drinking and fighting,
when Elton sprang to his feet and exclaimed, "The Irish
aint all bad for my grandmother was a full-blooded Irishman."

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Fred N. Barber, born February 5, 1857.

Florence N. Burroughs, born March 8, 1859.

Fred N. Barber and Florence N. Burroughs married

January 11, 1879. They have no children.

Miles Turtle Jr., born February 26, 1861.
Coral. Burroughs born August 20, 1861.

Miles Tuttle Jr. and Cora I. Burroughs married August 20,
1 384.

Mrs. Cora I. Tuttle died January 29, 1888.

Miles Tuttle Jr., died January 31, 1888.

They died of diphtheria and left a male child born in
Shalersville, Portage Co., Ohio, January 13, 188S, which was
adopted by Miles Tuttle senior, and wife, and named by them
Plymond M. Tuttle.

In the earl)' part of my labors 1 expected to contribute my
MS. to be published in a book, to contain genealogies of the
entire Burroughs name in America. The death of some of
my co-laborers, the apathy of some families, and my age and
infirmities, admonish me to close and publish my own line,
hoping that more able hands will take up the work and carry
it to completion. I have much in fragmentary MS. that
would help others in their lines of genealogy. With faith that
theibower which brought me into, and has led and sustained me
through a somewhat eventful life, will continue~fhlis watchful
care in my last change, my work is now closed and submitted.

Lewis Amos Burroughs.
P. (). address, Garrettsville, Portage Co., Ohio.

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