Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameRuth BURNHAM 
Birth5 Dec 1766, Bernardston, Franklin, Massachusetts [1216, p 321]
Death9 Apr 1846, Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts [1215, p 307] Age: 79
FatherCapt. Elisha BURNHAM (1730-1815)
MotherJerusha LEE (1731-)
Individual Notes
• Daughter of Capt. Elisha Burnham. [1213, p 268]
Census
• 1800 Census: Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts. 26-45. [1554]
• 1820 Census: Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts. 040111/31201. [1579]
• 1820 Census: Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts. 040111/31201. [1579]
Spouses
Birth12 Jun 1769, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut [107, p 22], [637, p 1; date only], [921, p 119; date only], [1213, p 268]
Memonow Columbia
Death19 Aug 1844, Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts [638, p 2], [1213, p 268], [1215, p 307] Age: 75
BurialEast Hill Cemetery, Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts [1214]
FlagsMayflower Descendant
FatherHon. Hezekiah NEWCOMB (1747-1821)
MotherLydia HUNT (1749-1834)
Individual Notes
• Birthplace given as Bernardston, Massachusetts. [107, p 222]
• [He] was b. June 12, 1769, upon his grandf. Peter Newcomb’s farm, in the part of the old town of Lebanon, CT., then called the Crank or Second Society, now Columbia. When he was about 3 years old his parents removed to Bernardston, Mass., where he m. Ruth Burnham, a native of B. or of Canaan, Ct., b. Dec. 6, 1766. [1215, p 307]
• Came to Bernardston when three years of age.
He settled in the district of Leyden; was justice of the peace over 30 years, and representative over 20. He was a farmer and “a man of strong intellectual power.” [1216]
• [He] was b. June 12, 1769, upon his grandf. Peter Newcomb’s farm, in the part of the old town of Lebanon, CT., then called the Crank or Second Society, now Columbia. When he was about 3 years old his parents removed to Bernardston, Mass., where he m. Ruth Burnham, a native of B. or of Canaan, Ct., b. Dec. 6, 1766. [1215, p 307]
• Came to Bernardston when three years of age.
He settled in the district of Leyden; was justice of the peace over 30 years, and representative over 20. He was a farmer and “a man of strong intellectual power.” [1216]
Census
• 1800 Census: Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts. 30110/30010. 26-45. [1554]
• 1820 Census: Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts. 040111/31201. [1579]
• 1820 Census: Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts. 040111/31201. [1579]
Marriage22 Dec 1789, Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts [638, p 2], [1047, p 2], [1213, p 268; date only], [1216, p 321]
ChildrenMatilda (1790-1862)
Hezekiah (1792-)
Cooley (1793-1830)
Rosalinda (1796-1881)
Theodore (1798-)
Sarah (1800-1856)
John Adams (1802-)
Maria Ruth (1805-1851)
Thomas Jefferson (1807-)
James Madison (Died as Child) (1809-1812)
Sophronia (1811-1838)