JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
Notes for Thomas Burgess
First Burgess Generation in America
THOMAS BURGESS (1603-85)
BORN IN ENGLAND
Sailing through the picturesque Cape Cod Canal, a descendant of Thomas Burgess may well indulge in interesting reflections, in historical, genealogical reveries, for here, while traversing Sagamore, he passes directly through the extensive land holdings of his Puritan Pilgrim ancestor. If he enter the canal at its eastern gateway, he may see at his left the site of the old homestead, which is about a quarter of a mile from the canal. It was on the old Plymouth road, now known as the King's Highway, and is on property at present belonging to Mr. Henry H. Ellis. It is about three-quarters of a mile from the Sagamore Railroad station.
Thomas Burgess arrived with his wife in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1630,1 at the age of 27, and remained for a time in the adjoining community of Lynn, about ten miles north-east of Boston. A section of land was assigned to him, July 3, 1637, in Duxbury, 30 miles south of Boston; but in the same year there appeared on the map, 64 miles south of Boston, the township of Sandwich, in the colony of Plymouth, to which he repaired the following year, making his permanent abode in that section of the township which has come to be known as Sagamore. The ancestral property, now intersected by the canal, remained in the Burgess name for over 200 years, and Mr. George Burbank, of the Sandwich Historical Society, informs the author that the house bore scars of British cannon ball inflicted during the war of 1812, in the haphazard bombardment of settlements in that region.
Politics, and public service in general, commanded much of Thomas Burgess' attention. As to his standing in the community in which he lived, credentials are not lacking. Dr. James Savage, former president 1 There is some question as to the exact year.
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THOMAS BURGESS (1603-85)
BORN IN ENGLAND
Sailing through the picturesque Cape Cod Canal, a descendant of Thomas Burgess may well indulge in interesting reflections, in historical, genealogical reveries, for here, while traversing Sagamore, he passes directly through the extensive land holdings of his Puritan Pilgrim ancestor. If he enter the canal at its eastern gateway, he may see at his left the site of the old homestead, which is about a quarter of a mile from the canal. It was on the old Plymouth road, now known as the King's Highway, and is on property at present belonging to Mr. Henry H. Ellis. It is about three-quarters of a mile from the Sagamore Railroad station.
Thomas Burgess arrived with his wife in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1630,1 at the age of 27, and remained for a time in the adjoining community of Lynn, about ten miles north-east of Boston. A section of land was assigned to him, July 3, 1637, in Duxbury, 30 miles south of Boston; but in the same year there appeared on the map, 64 miles south of Boston, the township of Sandwich, in the colony of Plymouth, to which he repaired the following year, making his permanent abode in that section of the township which has come to be known as Sagamore. The ancestral property, now intersected by the canal, remained in the Burgess name for over 200 years, and Mr. George Burbank, of the Sandwich Historical Society, informs the author that the house bore scars of British cannon ball inflicted during the war of 1812, in the haphazard bombardment of settlements in that region.
Politics, and public service in general, commanded much of Thomas Burgess' attention. As to his standing in the community in which he lived, credentials are not lacking. Dr. James Savage, former president 1 There is some question as to the exact year.
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