Re: John Burbank, Ipswich MA, 1659
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In reply to:
John Burbank, Ipswich MA, 1659
10/26/01
It must have been John Burbank, son of the immigrant, and he would have been about 17. His brother, Timothy, was born in 1641. John testified in a court case in 1672 that he was age 30. Deduct that age from 1672 and you have 1642, so Timothy was the oldest child followed by John and the chidren of John,Sr. and his 2nd wife, Jemima, who were Lydia, Caleb and Mary.
Timothy and Mary died the same week. Timothy was 19 and Mary was 5. That left John, Jr. and his half sister and half brother. There were no other children on record. Some time after he married, and before his father's death, John,Jr. took his family to CT, where Susanna died and he married Sarah Scone, who lived just one month. Then he married Mehitabel Saunders, who gave him a daughter, Susanna. I've wondered for years why he went to West Springfield and married his 2nd and 3rd wives from there but lived and died in CT. I descend from John, Jr. through his oldest son, Timothy, who was left with Captain Saltonstall to learn a trade. Samuel, the youngest son of Timothy became my ancestor. He married Rebecca Darling in Salem, and his family was on the records of the First Church of Boston.Iris