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Barbara (?)

• Marriage*: Barbara married Ray D. Bowerman, son of Leon C. Bowerman.
• Married Name: Her married name was Barbara Bowerman.

Elinor Bowerman

• Birth*: Elinor Bowerman was born in Bloomfield Township, Prince Edward Co., Ontario Province, Canada, daughter of Jonathan Bowerman and Sarah Vincent, a twin of Jane.
• Marriage*: Elinor married Samuel Foster.
• Married Name: Her married name was Elinor Foster.

Parents:

Samuel Foster

• Marriage*: Samuel married Elinor Bowerman, daughter of Jonathan Bowerman and Sarah Vincent.

Jane Bowerman

• Birth*: Jane Bowerman was born in Bloomfield Township, Prince Edward Co., Ontario Province, Canada, daughter of Jonathan Bowerman and Sarah Vincent, a twin of Elinor.
• Marriage*: Jane married Thomas Clark.
• Married Name: Her married name was Jane Clark.

Parents:

Thomas Clark

• Marriage*: Thomas married Jane Bowerman, daughter of Jonathan Bowerman and Sarah Vincent.

Henry Harris

• Marriage*: Henry married Martha Striker.

Martha Striker

• Marriage*: Martha married Henry Harris.
• Married Name: Her married name was Martha Harris.

Joseph Burge¹

• Birth*: Joseph Burge was born circa 1639 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England, son of Thomas Burge , Sr. and Dorothy (?),   This date ascertained from his own testimony on 28 October 1669, when he testified regarding the estate of Robert Rollock and stated he was then "aged about 30 yeares."^3,4,5
• Marriage: Joseph married Patience Freeman, daughter of Edmund Freeman , Jr. and Rebecca Prence, before 1667 at MA, New England, ;  [Date based on b. of 1st child, husband named in Father's deed of 29 April 1674 - See below].⁶
• Death*: Joseph Burge died between 5 August 1695 and 31 August 1695 in Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.  [Date of Will and end of date limit designated in inventory]⁷
• Probate*: His will was probated on 3 October 1695 at Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.⁸
• Name Variation: Joseph was also known as Joseph Burges.
• Court*: Joseph Burgis appears in Court records as a defendant before the court on 4 June 1659 under the heading of "for being drunke" and "for taking away a beast attached for the country." He was fined £1.⁹
• Name Variation: As of 4 June 1659, Joseph was also known as Joseph Burgis [Court record].
• LandTrans*: Joseph Burge purchased land from Thomas Burge , Sr., his father, who had originally purchased the land through Captain Standish, of the Indian Sachem of Nauset, Josias, on 10 July 1663 at Manomet, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.¹⁰
• LandTrans: Joseph Burge sold 26 acres of upland and marsh. to Richard Handey at Pawkusett (Pocasset), near Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England, on 30 May 1673. He signed with a mark. On the second of the 4th month 1673, Joseph and his wife, Patience Burge acknowledged their act and deed.¹¹
• Deed*: Joseph Burge recieved, by deed, from Edmund Freeman , Jr., "for fatherly affection unto my son Joseph Burge and my daughter Patience, the wife of Joseph Burge, aforesaid and according to my promise att their marriage Doe give freely one moyetee [sic 'moiety', meaning 'half'] of upland (6 acres) in Sandwich." on 29 April 1674 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.^12,13
• Court: Joseph Burge appears in Court records as a defendant before the court on 27 October 1675 at Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, New England, being fined £5 for abusing the watch at Sandwich "by entering into the guard, and assaying to take away a gun, and beating on of the guard which opposed him therein" ... viz: six shillings to the constable for bringing him to the court, and ten shillings to John Dexter, the son of Ensigne Dexter, which was beaten as aforesaid, and five shillings apiece to the said Ensigne Dexter and his son for their coming up to attending on the Court, on the said business and the remainder of the said five pound to the country. Memorand: that seaven shillings and six pence is abated of what is due to the country from the said Burge."¹⁴
• Fines*: Joseph Burge was fined again by the court, in the amount of 10 Shillings [no reason is given for his appearance] in October 1677 at Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.¹⁵
• LandTrans: Joseph Burge sold 30 acres of upland and meadow to Richard Handey at Pawkusett (Pocasset), near Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England, on 14 December 1677. Both Joseph and Patience Burge acknowledged the sale on 4 March 1677.¹⁶
• Fines: Joseph Burge was fined £5 for selling liquoer to the Indians on 5 March 1677/78 at Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, New England. The fine was "respetted" on his good behavior. On this same date, he was fined ten shillings for prophanly swearing in the face of the court.¹⁷
• Research Notes*: Research Note:  In March 1678/79, Joseph Burge had an Indian maid as a servant. She was the sister of John Sassamon, a faithful Indian, who informed the Governor of Plymouth that Philip was endeavoring to raise trouble... and engage all the Sachems round about in a war "against the colonists"... prior to King Philip's War.¹⁸
  
• Will*: He left a will dated 5 August 1695 at Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA, New England, being "weak of Body and waiting for my change" which was signed by a mark. He appointed his "Deare and Loving" wife Patience executrix and gave her the use and improvement of all real and personal estate, until her death or remarriage. Son Benjamin was to have the land in Rochester when he bacame twenty one, plus five pounds in Cattle. Land in Sandwich was to be disposed of in order to obtain a share of land in Rochester for son Ichabod, with a bequest of ten pounds in cattle. Daughters Rebeckah Rose and Dorrity Clifton were bequeathed 20 shillings each. Capt. Seth Pope, Thomas Tupper, and Jacob Burge were to act as overseers.¹⁹
• Inventory*: The estate inventory of Joseph was presented on 3 October 1695 at Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA, New England, which recorded his decease in August 1695 [MD 27:35-36] and valued the Rochester housing and land at £80 and the Sandwich house and land at £150. It also included one Indian girl, a slave, valued at £10. Total value of the estate was £329 - 6s.²⁰
• Research Notes: Research Note:  Joseph is found, often, in association with a "Mistress Syselia Fish" (third wife of Benjamin Bartlett) in the court records of Plymouth Colony. The surname of this "Syselia" is unknown and could possibly suggest some form of a connection between the two. Further information regarding "Syselia" will be provided at a later date, strictly for research material regarding Joseph Burge of Sandwich.
  
  Other sources to obtain include: NGSQ 59:169; and TAG 40:103-110.
  

Parents:

Patience Freeman

• Birth*: Patience Freeman was born circa 1647 (Parentage proven by deed of father, dated 29 April 1674 - see below).²
• Marriage: Patience married Joseph Burge, son of Thomas Burge , Sr. and Dorothy (?), before 1667 at MA, New England;  [Date based on b. of 1st child, husband named in Father's deed of 29 April 1674 - See below].³
• Death*: Patience Freeman died after 9 March 1725/26 in Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.  [reputedly died 16 Apr 1738]⁴
• Married Name: Her married name was Patience Burge.³
• Misc*: She was named in the final administration of her father's [Edmund Freeman Jr.] estate administration as Patience Burg, widow, reciving 5 pds 8 shillings. on 9 June 1705 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.⁵
• Misc: On 1 Jun 1716 and 16 Jun 1718, Patience (Freeman) Burge made her mark as a witness to the will and codicil of Major John Freeman [her uncle]. She attested to her uncle's signature and sanity at the time of making his will and codicil ... 10 November 1719.⁶
• Deed*: Patience Freeman transferred, by deed, to Dorothy Clifton and Benjamin Burge, "all my right in a share of land in Middleboro, Mass., which was formerly in the right of Governor Prence ... who am heir to a part of same." [Benjamn is identified as "yeoman", Dorothy as "Dorothy Cifton, wife of Savory Clifton", and Patience herself as the "widow of Joseph Burge"]. This deed was acknowledged on 9 Mar 1725/26 on 10 April 1725 at Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.⁷

Parents:

Thomas Burge , Sr.^1,2

• Birth*: Thomas Burge , Sr. was born circa 1603 in England [Date based on tombstone record "Aged 82 Years" - See attached Photograph].³
• Marriage*: Thomas married Dorothy (?) before 1639 at Prob. England.
• Death*: Thomas Burge , Sr. died on 13 February 1685 in "Sagamore", Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.^4,5,6
  

  Death Record of Thomas Burgess, Sr., 1603 - 1685
• Burial*: He was buried after 13 February 1685 at Old Town Cemetery, Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.⁶
• Name Variation: Thomas was also known as Thomas Burges.
• Arms List*: Thomas appeared on a list of those able to bear arms in 1643 in New Plymouth and was of Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.⁷
• LandTrans*: Thomas Burge , Sr. purchased land from Josias (?) , Indian Sachem of Nauset on 3 March 1652 at Manomet, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.¹
• Event-Misc*: Thomas Burge , Sr. is identified as and appears, with other Sandwich Freemen, to request land on 3 November 1654 at the General Court, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.⁸
• Event-Misc: Thomas Burge , Sr. Requests land in Manomet on 7 June 1659 at the General Court, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.⁹
• Bond*: Thomas Burge , Sr. posted a bond in the amount of fifty pounds, along with Ezra Perry[his son-in-law] for fifty pounds, and his son, Thomas Jr., who posted 100 pounds, to guarantee the appearance of Thomas Jr. at the General Court to be held in Plymouth the "first Tusday in June next, to answare for a fact of vncleanes comitted by him." See Thomas Burge (3341) for complete record. on 7 May 1661 at Court Of Assistants, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.¹⁰
• LandTrans*: Thomas Burge , Sr. sold land to Joseph Burge on 10 July 1663 at Manomet, Plymouth Co., MA, New England.¹¹
• Tombstone*: Tombstone of Thomas, Old Town Cemetery, Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England; Thomas Burge[ss], his wife, Dorothy, their only daughter Elizabeth² (Burgess) Perry, and her husband, Ezra¹ Perry, are buried quite close together near the brow of the hill in the Old Burying Ground on Grove Street in Sandwich. The stones of the immigrant and his wife were restored by descendants in 1917, and so are marvelously legible (2003). Slightly uphill from those of her parents are the stones of Elizabeth and Ezra, both of which appear to be original; these too, thankfully, are legible. The cemetery is situated almost directly across the mill pond from the Thornton⁹ W. Burgess (Jr.) Museum.
       The tombstone reads as follows:
  
  Thomas Burgess
  Born In England
  Settled In 1637 In That
  Part of Sandwich Now
  Called Sagamore
  Dyed Feb. Ye 13, 1685
  Aged 82 Years
  ---------------------------
  This Stone Erected in 1917
  By Burgess Descendants
  From Broken Original.¹²
  

  Tombstone of Thomas Burgess, 1603 - 1685
• Bio: This narrative was written by Katherine W. Hiams and printed in 1997:
  
  
       "Thomas, the immigrant, is sometimes thought to have come to Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, Dorothy, and his young family in 1630. A stone set by the grave of John⁵ Burgess, Jr. [John⁴, Joseph³, John², Thomas¹] in Center Cemetery, Rochester, reads, 'Descendant of Thomas Burgess the pilgrim who landed at Salem 1630.' The marker is clearly newer than the gravestone still standing, but I have no idea who put the more recent stone in place, or when. To the best of my knowledge, there is no record of Thomas' arrival at Salem or any other record of him or his family before 1637. Then, a land record dated July 3, 1637 shows that he forfeited acreage assigned him at Duxbury, in order to settle the same year at Sandwich. There, he and his family lived at the western end of town, which later became a part of the township of Bourne, in the area now called Sagamore. He became a large landowner in Sandwich and served the town in may capacities (Burgess,9).¹³
  

Dorothy (?)

• Marriage*: Dorothy married Thomas Burge , Sr. before 1639 at Prob. England.
• Death*: Dorothy (?) died on 27 February 1687.¹
  
• Burial*: She was buried after 27 February 1687 at Old Town Cemetery, Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.
• Married Name: As of before 1639, her married name was Dorothy Burge.
• Married Name: Her married name was Dorothy Burges.
• Tombstone*: Tombstone of Dorothy, Old Town Cemtery, Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.
  
• Research Notes*: Research Note:  Katherine Hiam, in her 1997 "Burgess Genealogy", Pg. 2, writes that she is "not certain that "Waynes" was actually Dorothy Burgess' maiden name." She references a submission by Benjamin F. Wilbour of Little Compton, Rhode Island, to "Notes" in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register [NEHGR 118:323 (1964)] which read thus: 'The following record from Paver's Marriage Licenses' (in Yorkshire Archeological Journal, Vol. 20, pg. 74, 1909) may pertain to him [Thomas¹ Burgess] and suggest the place of his birth: Thomas Burgess and Dorothy Waynes [married at] Tanfield [co. York, England] in 1628.'
       She goes on to say: "In spite of the fact that this couple's identity cannot be proved, I have opted to believe that they were "our" Thomas and Dorothy," and further references TAG 61:69 (1985).
       To date, I am unaware of any new evidences to support this theory. The General Society of Mayflower Descendants merely lists her as "Dorothy." Although the time frames are correct, further research is required before accepting this information as fact.
  

Edmund Freeman , Jr.

• Baptism*: Edmund Freeman , Jr. was baptized on 26 November 1620 at Billinghurst, Sussex Co., England.²
• Marriage*: Edmond, age 25, married first, Rebecca Prence, daughter of Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster, on 22 April 1646 at Plymouth Colony, Prob. Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.^3,4
• Marriage*: Edmund, age 30, married second, Margaret Perry, daughter of Edmund Perry and Sarah (?), on 18 July 1651 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England, Pg.25 [citing MD 14:109] - "Edmund married second Sandwich 18 July 1651 Margaret Perry, by whom he had six children, Margaret, Edmund, Alice, Rachel, Sarah, and Deborah, not Brewster descendants."^5,6
• Death*: Edmund Freeman , Jr. died intestate before 5 January 1703/4 in prob. Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England,, when Ezra Perry was appointed administrator of his estate. The inventory was taken March 1703/4 and was valued at 42 pounds, 14 shillings with all but two items supposedly in the custody of Edmund, the son. It was also designated that the son owed the estate an additional amount of 8 pounds. The son Edmund disputed the accounting, but it must have been upheld by the Barnstable Court, for he appealed the case to the Superior Court on 12 March 1704/5 maintaining the "insufficiency & uncertainty of the allegation therein" and declaring the testimony of his uncle John Freeman, Esq. a "pack of lyes." The case was decided against Edmund Freeman.⁷
• Probate*: Division of estate for Edmund dated 9 June 1705 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England, The final distribution of the estate named Edmund Freeman, Isaac Pope and Alice his wife, Richard Allen of Sandwich, John Fish and Margaret his wife, John Launders and Rachel his wife, Patience Burg, widow, and Ezra Perry and Rebecca his wife.⁸
• Residence*: He lived at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England, circa 1646 being an original settler of that town, in the area now known as "Bourndale." He served for seven years as Deputy to the General Court.⁹
• Name Variation: As of 22 April 1646, Edmund was also known as Edmond Freeman , Jr.³
• Name Variation: As of circa 1659, Edmund was also known as Emond Freemond (spelling from birth record of daughter, Rachel).
• Deed*: Edmund Freeman , Jr. transferred, by deed, to Joseph Burge, "for fatherly affection unto my son Joseph Burge and my daughter Patience, the wife of Joseph Burge, aforesaid and according to my promise att their marriage Doe give freely one moyetee [sic 'moiety', meaning 'half'] of upland (6 acres) in Sandwich." on 29 April 1674 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.^10,11
• Name Variation: After 1682, Edmund was also known as Edmund Freeman , Sr. after the death of his father.¹²
• Indenture*: On 4 March 1696/97, Edmund Freeman , Jr. granted a love and affection Indenture to Edmund Freeman who deeded "all that messuage or Tenniment on which the sd. Edmond Freeman Sr. now dwelleth with all the upland meadow Ground marsh and all other lands of what sort or kinds soever which he hath . . . in the township of Sandwich… with his dwelling House barne and orchards." He reserved for himself the right of use of the dwelling house, barn and old orchard during his natural life and "one halfe part of all the profits and gains whatsoever which shall yearly be made . . . and agreed to pay half of the taxes on the property." Margaret Freeman did not quitclaim on the deed.
       At a later date, Edmund Freeman, Sr. required clarification of his action and "was informed that he had given away to his son all that he had, leaving nothing to dispose to his daughters," nor for his own use. After his death, his brother John Freeman, Esq. gave testimony about looking into the matter. John also related that Edmund Sr. had complained about a loan of six pounds made to his son Edmund which the son refused to repay on demand. When questioned, the son acknowledged the loan but maintained the money had been repaid [Tag 40:103-110].¹³

Parents:

Rebecca Prence

• Birth*: Rebecca Prence was born before 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, New England, daughter of Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster, No birth record has been found for Rebecca Prence. Her birth date and parentage have been ascertained from the 1627 Division of Cattle which listed her in the lot of Mr. William Brewster [her grandfather]. (see PCR 1:50-57).^1,2
• Marriage*: Rebecca married Edmond Freeman , Jr., age 25, son of Edmund Freeman , Sr. and Bennett Hodsoll, on 22 April 1646 at Plymouth Colony, Prob. Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA, New England.^3,4
• Death*: Rebecca (Prence) Freeman died before 18 July 1651 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA, New England,, This is probably the Reb[ecca Fre]eman buried 23 March. No year is given but it is with other entries which occurred in 1648.^5,6,7
• Married Name: As of 22 April 1646, her married name was Rebecca (Prence) Freeman.³

Parents:

Edmund Freeman , Sr.

• Marriage*: Edmund married Bennett Hodsoll, daughter of John Hodsoll and Faith Gratwick, before 26 November 1620 in England.

Parents:

Bennett Hodsoll

• Marriage*: Bennett married Edmund Freeman , Sr., son of Edmond Freeman and Alice Coles, before 26 November 1620 in England.
• Married Name: Her married name was Bennett Freeman.

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