Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameThomas BURNHAM 
Birth1617, Hertfordshire, England [639]
Death28 Jun 1688, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut [636, p 121; date only] Age: 71
Residenceof Hartford and Potunke, Conn. [636, p 121]
Residenceof Wethersfield, Conn. [636, p 126]
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
Individual Notes
• Thomas Burnham, Senr. (descended from the Burhams of Herefordshire, England, see pages 116 to 118), the records show to have been educated, and, –- on first coming to this country, –– to have practiced as a lawyer, and to have been of of very determined character. They further seem to show that in emigrating to the Colonies he was moved less by religious scruples than by a desire to improve his fortunes. He is first recorded in Hartford as bondsman for his servant Rushmore, “that he should carry good behavior.” [636, p 121]
• His house at Potunke was one of the five on the east side of Connecticut river to be fortified and garrisoned during the Indian war of 1765. [636, p 122]
• 1659 - Thomas Burnham bought from the Potunke Indians a tract of land now covered by the towns of South Windsor and East Hartford, on which he lived, and a part of which is still in the possession of his descendants. [639, p 2]
• His house at Potunke was one of the five on the east side of Connecticut river to be fortified and garrisoned during the Indian war of 1765. [636, p 122]
• 1659 - Thomas Burnham bought from the Potunke Indians a tract of land now covered by the towns of South Windsor and East Hartford, on which he lived, and a part of which is still in the possession of his descendants. [639, p 2]
Spouses
Birthabt 1620, England [639]
Death5 Aug 1703, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut [636, p 121; date only], [639] Age: 83
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
Marriageabt 1639 [17, p 121], [636, p 121], [639]