Note: This family is affiliated with those of Josiah Burgess of Monroe Co., New York, Benjamin Burgess of Saint John Co., New Brunswick, Canada, and Thomas Burgess of York Co., Ontario, Canada.

Thomas Burgess Sr. was born about 1603, probably in England, and settled at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts in the 1620s. He married Dorothy __ about 1625. He died at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts on 13 February 1684/85 O.S., having had four sons, all of whom have descendants in the male line:

*1. Thomas Burgess Jr. (1627?-1717) of Newport Co., RI

*2. John Burgess Sr. (1628-1701) of Barnstable Co., MA

*3. Jacob Burgess Sr. (1631?-1719) of Barnstable Co., MA

4. Joseph Burgess I (1633?-1695) of Plymouth Co., MA

Thomas Burgess Jr. was born about 1627, either in England or in Massachusetts. He married firstly Elizabeth Bassett on 8 November 1648 and secondly Lydia Gaunt in 1667. He died about 1717 in Newport Co., Rhode Island, having had three sons, two by his first wife, and one by his second:

1. Josiah Burgess (1648- )

2. Joseph Burgess II (1649?- )

*3. Thomas Burgess IV (1668?-1743) of Newport Co., RI

Third Son of Thomas Jr.

Thomas Burgess IV was born about 1668 at Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island. He married firstly Esther Richmond in 1691, secondly Martha Wilbourn Closson on 24 October 1707, and thirdly Patience Brownell in 1721. He died on 1 July 1743, having had six sons, one by his first wife, four by his second, and one by his third:

1. Edward Burgess (1692- ) of Newport Co., RI

2. Joseph Burgess III (1704-1789) of Newport Co., RI

*3. John Burgess III (1711-1795) of Newport Co., RI

4. Lieut. Thomas Burgess VI (1714-1792) of Newport Co., RI

5. Jacob Burgess IV (1717-1768) of Newport Co., RI

6. Nathaniel Burgess (1729-1793) of Newport Co., RI

Third Son of Thomas IV

John Burgess III was born 10 January 1710/11 O.S. at Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island. He married Hannah James on 3 April 1740. He died about 1795 at Sterling, Windham Co., Connecticut, having had five sons:

1. Gideon Burgess (1742-1803?) of Newport Co., RI

2. Thomas Burgess VII (1745?- )

3. Benjamin Burgess III (1750?-1814) of Newport Co., RI

*4. John Burgess V (1753-1837) of Newport Co., RI

*5. Benajah Burgess I (1761-1830) of Renssalaer Co., NY

Fourth Son of John III

John Burgess V was born 1753 at Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island. He married Urania Mowrey in 1773. He died 1837 at Gloucester, Providence Co., having had six sons:

*1. Gideon Burgess II (1774-1856) of Providence Co., RI

2. John Burgess Jr. [VI] (1779- )

3. Nathan Burgess (1781-1825)

4. Mowrey Burgess (1787-1856) of Windham Co., CT

5. Jesse Burgess (1790) of Windham Co., CT

6. David Burgess (1801-1821), died childless

First Son of John V

Gideon Burgess II was born in 1774 in Gloucester, Providence Co., Rhode Island. He married Sally French about 1794. He died on 28 June 1856, having had three sons:

1. William Burgess (1800- )

2. Alfred Burgess

3. Dean Burgess I (1810- )

Fifth Son of John III

Benajah Burgess I was born 1761 at Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island. He married Zilpha Matteson, daughter of George Matteson, about 1783. He died on 15 August 1830 at Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., New York, having had seven sons:

*1. George Burgess Sr. (1786?-1860+) of Dodge Co., WI

2. Archibald Burgess (1791-1840) of Bennington Co., VT

3. Benjamin Burgess IV (1794?-1838) of Kenosha Co., WI

4. John Burgess (1800-1849) of Rensselaer Co., NY

5. Harvey Burgess (1802-1872) of Faribault Co., MN

6. Nairn Burgess (1804-1877) of Rensselaer Co., NY

7. Peleg Burgess (1806?-1861) of Sauk Co., WI

First Son of Benajah

George Burgess Sr. was born about 1786 at Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island. He married Mary “Polly” Matteson about 1809. He died on 28 February 1862 in Dodge Co., Wisconsin, having had at least five sons:

1. Truman Burgess (1810-1853) of Dodge Co., WI

*2. Norman Burgess (1811?-1886) of Linn Co., IA

*3. George Burgess Jr. (1814-1884) of Summit Lake Co., NY

*4. Jonathan Burgess (1821-1893) of Dodge Co., WI

5. Isaac Burgess (1822-1872) of Dodge Co., WI

Second Son of George Sr.

Norman Burgess was born about 1811, possibly in Bennington Co., Vermont. He married Ursula Ewer on 15 May 1835 in West Rush, Monroe Co., New York. He settled in Dodge Co., Wisconsin, but died on 23 January 1886 in Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., Iowa, having had ten sons:

1. Charles M. Burgess (1837-1913) of Pottawattamie Co., IA

2. Henry W. Burgess (1839-1914) of Cerro Gordo Co., IA

3. George Burgess (1841-1912) of Lane Co., OR

4. John E. Burgess (1843-1913) of Linn Co., IA

5. Albert Burgess (1845-1911) of Linn Co., IA

6. Almarion Burgess (1847-1865) of Dodge Co., WI, died childless

7. Marcus Burgess (1848-1911) of Rooks Co., KS

8. Benajah Burgess II (1853-1939) of Linn Co., IA

9. Perry W. Burgess (1855-1919) of Cerro Gordo Co., IA

10. Elmer Allen Burgess (1858-1924) of Linn Co., IA

Third Son of George Sr.

George Burgess Jr. (so called in several records of Washington Co., New York) was born 27 November 1814 at Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., New York. He married Hannah Maria Kilmer, daughter of Abraham Kilmer, about 1837. He died 21 February 1884 at Argyle, Washington Co., New York, having had two sons:

1. John Henry Burgess (1839-1909) of Washington Co., NY

2. Abraham Kilmer Burgess (1848?-1932) of Washington Co., NY

Fourth Son of George Sr.

Jonathan Burgess was born 1821 in Rensselaer Co., New York. He married Delia __ about 1855. He is listed in the 1880 census for Faribault Co., Minnesota. He died in 1893 in Dodge Co., Wisconsin, having had two sons:

1. Almon Bertram Burgess (1858-1924) of Cerro Gordo Co., IA

2. Hiram H. Burgess (1861-1902) of Blue Earth Co., MN

John Burgess Sr. was born 10 February 1628 in England or Massachusetts. He married Mary Worden about 1660. He and died between 1701 and 1723 at Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, having had five sons:

*1. John Burgess Jr. (1663-1723) of Barnstable Co., MA

2. Thomas Burgess III (1666- ) of Windham Co., CT

*3. Joseph Burgess III (1670?-1756) of Windham Co., CT

*4. Samuel Burgess II (1672?- ) of Windham Co., CT

5. Jacob Burgess III (1680?- ) of Windham Co., CT

First Son of John Sr.

John Burgess Jr. was born about 1663 at Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts. He married firstly Sarah Nickerson about 1694, and secondly Elizabeth Bacon about 1709 (marriage not proven). He died on 4 February 1722/23 O.S., having had four sons by his first wife, and one by his second:

1. Joseph Burgess IV (1699- )

2. Benjamin Burgess II (1701- )

3. Samuel Burgess III (1703- )

4. Ezekiel Burgess (1705- )

5. John Burgess V (1710- )

Third Son of John Sr.

Joseph Burgess III was born about 1670. He married Thomasine Bangs about 1700. He died about 1756, having had five sons:

*1. Joseph Burgess Jr. (V) (1701-1756) of Windham Co., CT

2. John Burgess IV (1706- )

3. Jonathan Burgess (1708- )

4. Simeon Burgess (1718?- )

5. Robert Burgess (1726- )

First Son of Joseph III

Joseph Burgess V was born on 26 Feb. 1700/01 O.S. He married Thankful Snow on 11 April 1723 O.S. He died 1756 in Windham Co., Connecticut, having had two sons:

*1. Joseph Burgess VI (1734?- )

2. Seth Burgess (1745?- )

First Son of Joseph V

Lieut. Joseph Burgess VI was christened on 8 March 1733/34 O.S. in Plainfield, Windham Co., Connecticut. He married Mehitable Shepard. He died on 20 May 1820, having had six sons:

1. Asa Burgess (1757-1839)

2. Jason Burgess

3. Charles Burgess

4. John Burgess (1767- )

5. Col. Joseph Burgess VII (1776-1849?) of Wyoming Co., PA

*6. Benjamin Shepard Burgess (1779-1863) of Auburn, Cayuga Co., NY

Sixth Son of Joseph VI

Benjamin Shepard Burgess was born 2 June 1779 at Canterbury, Connecticut. He married Rebecca Chapin on 22 October 1782 at Chicopee, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. He died in June 1863 at Auburn, Cayuga Co., New York, having had eight sons:

1. Gilbert C. Burgess (1803- )

*2. Albert Burgess Sr. (1805-1893) of Tolland Co., CT

3. Joseph Clark Burgess (1810- )

4. Benjamin Strong Burgess (1814- )

5. Charles Burgess (1820- )

6. Jason Burgess (1822- )

7. Nelson Burgess (1824- )

8. Closson P. Burgess (1825- )

Second Son of Benjamin Shepard

Albert Burgess Sr. was born on 10 May 1805 at Chicopee, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts (according to General Memorial of the Newcomb Family, by John Bearse Newcomb [1874]). He married Roxana Lovica “Roxy” Terry about 1833 (she was born at Enfield, Connecticut in 1805, and died in Tolland Co. in 1888). He was living at Auburn, Cayuga Co., New York on 19 October 1834, when his first child, Levantia Maria, was born. He is listed in the 1840 census in Branch Co., Michigan, in 1850 in Madison Co., New York, in 1860 in Hartford Co., Connecticut, and in 1870 in Tolland Co., Connecticut. He has not been found in 1880. He died in Tolland Co. in 1893 (buried 21 March 1893), having had two sons:

*1. Albert Burgess Jr. (1840-1902) of Hartford Co., CT

2. Charles M. Burgess (1843-1918) of Hartford Co., CT

First Son of Albert Sr.

Albert Burgess Jr. was born September 1840 in Branch Co., Michigan. He married Josephine E. __ about 1869. He served in Co. C, 1^st Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, Union Army, during the Civil War. He is listed in the 1870-1900 censuses of Hartford Co., Connecticut. He died there 30 May 1902, having had two sons:

*1. Harlan Victor Burgess [twin] (1870-1898) of Hartford Co., CT

2. Ernest A. Burgess [twin] (1870-1870), died young

First Son of Albert Jr.

Harlan Victor Burgess was born 1870 in Hartford Co., Connecticut. He married Sarah Blodgett about 1893. He was killed there in a workplace accident on 10 April 1898, having had two sons:

1. Joseph Lyman Burgess Sr. (1894-1968)

2. Harlan Martin Burgess (1896-1963)

* * * * * * *

Fourth Son of John Sr.

Samuel Burgess II was born about 1672. He married Elizabeth Hopkins about 1702, and had five sons:

1. Samuel Burgess Jr. (IV) (1704- )

2. Jacob Burgess (1712- )

3. Ezekiel Burgess

*4. Thomas Burgess (1721-1815)

5. Ephraim Burgess

Fourth Son of Samuel II

Thomas Burgess was born 7 June 1721 at Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts. He married firstly Mary Covil on 28 July 1742 and secondly Thankful Nickerson. He died 20 May 1815, having had six sons, all by his first wife:

1. Nathaniel Burgess (1743- )

2. Thomas Burgess Jr. (1745?-1816)

3. Jonathan Burgess (1748-1826)

4. Covil Burgess (1749?- )

5. Stephen Burgess (1753-1839)

6. Philip Burgess (1756-1794)

Jacob Burgess Sr. was born about 1631 in Barnstable Co., Massachusetts. He married Mary Nye in 1670. He died 17 March 1718/19 O.S. at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, having had five sons:

1. Samuel Burgess I (1671- ) of Barnstable Co., MA

*2. Ebenezer Burgess (1673-1750) of Plymouth Co., MA

3. Jacob Burgess Jr. (1676-1769) of Plymouth Co., MA

4. Thomas Burgess V (1680-1757) of Dukes Co., MA

5. Benjamin Burgess I (1683-1753) of Dukes Co., MA

Second Son of Jacob Sr.

Ebenezer Burgess Sr. was born 2 October 1673 O.S. in Barnstable Co., Massachusetts. He married Mercy Lombard on 20 March 1700 O.S. He died on 22 May 1750 O.S., having had four sons:

1. Samuel Burgess (1703- )

2. Nathaniel Burgess (1706-1723)

*3. Ebenezer Burgess Jr. (1707-1768) of Plymouth Co., MA

4. Dr. Benjamin Burgess (1708-1748)

Third Son of Ebenezer Jr.

Ebenezer Burgess Jr. was born 28 November 1707 O.S. He married Zerviah Nye on 18 November 1793. He died on 11 December 1768, having had three sons:

1. Ebenezer Burgess III (1743-1828)

2. Barzillai Burgess (1745-1754), died childless

3. Prince Burgess (1749-1832)

Summary

William Burgess (1800- ) is the ancestor of Thomas J. Burgess; Alfred Burgess is the ancestor of Dean Burgess IV; Marcus Burgess is the ancestor of David S. Burgess; John Burgess IV (1706- ) is the ancestor of Andrew L. Burgess; John Henry Burgess is the ancestor of John J. Burgess; John Burgess V (1710?- ) is the ancestor of Russell E. Burgess; Thomas Burgess Jr. (1745?-1816) is the ancestor of Zachary T. Burgess; Jonathan Burgess  (1748-1826) is the ancestor of James E. Burgess; Ebenezer Burgess (1743-1829) is the ancestor of David R. Burgess; Prince Burgess is the ancestor of Samuel B. Burgess; Dr. Benjamin Burgess (1708-1748) is the ancestor of Thomas K. Burgess; Jacob Burgess Jr. (1676-1769) is the ancestor of Paul F. Burgess; Joseph Lyman Burgess Sr. is the ancestor of Joseph L. Burgess III; Hiram H. Burgess is the ancestor of Roger W. Burgess.

Test results received from many representatives in this line match each other; they have a common male ancestor, Thomas Burgess Sr. They also match the numbers of descendants of Thomas Burgess of York Co., Ontario, Canada, Benjamin Burgess of Saint John Co., New Brunswick, Canada, and Josiah Burgess of Monroe Co., New York; they have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown. However, test results received from one descendant of Jacob Burgess Jr. do not match the others, indicating a break in this particular chain of descent.

The numbers also provide a possible match to the markers recorded in the line of John Burgess of Cheshire Co., England (see this entry above), but the numbers are inconclusive, and the relationship, if it exists, dates back more than 500-600 years.

Note: This family is affiliated with that of John Burgess of Union Co., South Carolina. Determining the structure of the family of Thomas Burgess Sr. of Pittsylvania Cos., VA has been exceptionally difficult, due to the contradictory nature of the evidence involved, and the almost total absence of citations in on-line sources. The toughest challenge has been in delineating the precise relationship of the sons and grandsons and great-grandsons of Rev. Thomas Burgess Jr. of Warren Co., Tennessee. I’m reasonably certain that the families listed thereunder do in fact descend from Rev. Thomas—but exactly how is still subject to further interpretation. I welcome any additions, corrections, or speculations—and particularly any hard data—from other genealogists who’ve researched this family. This continues to be a work-in-progress. Prof. Michael Burgess, Sept. 2008.

Rev. Thomas Burgess Sr. was born by 1714 (he was at least 21 years of age in 1735). He married Mary Warren of Spotsylvania Co. by March 1735, if his daughter Rebecca Rucker’s 4 April 1842 obituary in The Lynchburg Virginian is correct; Rebecca claimed to have been born on 10 December 1735, and died on 23 March 1842 in Amherst Co., Virginia, aged 107 years (a possible but unlikely age for the time); Mary Warren was born on 15 September 1715 (date unconfirmed), and died about 1797 in Pittsylvania Co. Thomas may be related to one of the two Thomas Burgesses transported by George Alves on 16 December 1714 and 11 July 1719 to New Kent Co., Virginia, down the Pamunkey River from what would later became Orange Co.

Thomas had a relative named Edward Burgess, an orphan boy who was bound to him on 15 June 1736, in order to “learn said Edward to read, write, and the trade of carpenter”; Edward has not been found in any other record, and is not the same man as the Edward Burgess who later lived in Pittsylvania Co. The wealthy planter, Charles Burgess, who died in 1732 in Lancaster Co., Virginia, owned thousands of acres of land throughout the Northern Neck, and who is sometimes cited as Edward’s father (he is mentioned as deceased in a 1735 order book of Orange Co.), in fact died without living sons, having had, according to his will, just three surviving daughters—he is not Edward’s father.

Thomas may also have had a relative named George Burgess who is mentioned as providing the security (with Henry Tilly) on a bond issued to Margaret Tilly, administrator of the estate of Lazarus Tilly, in Orange Co. on 28 June 1744; however, the “T” mark recorded with George’s signature suggests that in fact this was Thomas Burgess, and that the record is a mistranscription. Thomas Burgess himself signed a bond in Orange Co. with Margaret for the 26 September 1744 inventory of her husband’s estate (Margaret may be an aunt or sister of Thomas, since she had a son named Burgess Tilly). Margaret also bought 100 acres in Orange Co. from Thomas on 22 March 1749. If George exists, he has not been found in any other record; the only other George Burgess recorded in Virginia during this period married Mary Butt in Norfolk Co., Virginia on 1 June 1711.

Thomas bought 100 acres of land on 4 June 1735 from James Fidler in St. Mark’s Parish (part of St. Thomas’s Parish after 1740), Orange Co. “Burgesses land” [sic] is mentioned in the Orange Co. road repair orders (in the Court Minute books) on 16 March 1735, just two and one-half months after Orange Co. was sliced off from Spotsylvania Co.; but he has not been found in any record of Spotsylvania Co. He served on a grand jury in Orange Co. on 15 May 1736.

Thomas is recorded on the 1739 tithables list in Henry Rice’s District, Orange Co., with one tithe; on 1754 with three tithes; on 1756 with four tithes; on 1757 with two; on 1758 with one; on 1764 with four; and on 1765 with three.

Thomas Burgess is recorded on 26 separate road orders in Orange Co. between 24 September 1742 and 26 April 1765, often building or repairing bridges over the North Anna or Pamunkey Rivers, and earning substantial fees in return. He apparently reinvested this money into land, purchasing 400 acres from Daniel White on 27 September 1746, and 133 acres from William Pratt on 26 March 1747 (part of these tracts were deeded by him to Timothy Burgess, his oldest son, and Joseph Rogers, his son-in-law, in 1760). He is mentioned in the 21 February 1750/51 O.S. Spotsylvania Co. will of his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Warren. He purchased land from William and Elizabeth Golding in September 1754. He sold part of his farm in 1756 to John Holloway, another section in 1758 to James Davis, another on 24 March 1763 to Benjamin Haley, and 123 acres on 31 August 1765. He made two gifts of land on 23 October 1760 to his son, Timothy Burgess, and his son-in-law, Joseph Rogers.

Thomas obtained an annual license as an “ordinary” (a minister) to conduct services in his house on 23 October 1755, and renewed it on 28 February 1760 and 23 April 1761; his denomination is not mentioned.

Thomas Burgess lost a suit prosecuted by James Mills, assignee of Charles and Peter Copland, on 28 November 1755. William Flanigan was convicted on 25 May 1756 of “stealing a purse and some silver” from Thomas. On 24 September 1756 Thomas Burgess and William Hensley lost a suit prosecuted by Charles and Peter Copland. Richard Thomas and John Clayton prosecuted a suit against Thomas Burgess and Andrew Mannen on 22 September 1757. Thomas prosecuted Thomas Daughana and James McGennis on 28 November 1760 for “trespass, assault, and battery.” On 25 June 1761 Thomas was paid thirteen shillings by Orange Co. for repairing the “Prison doors.”

On 7 February 1769 Thomas bought 590 acres on Winns Creek, Antrim Parish, Halifax Co., Virginia from John and Jemima Kearby (or Kirby or Kerby). He is recorded on the 1768 tithables list in the districts of both John Lewis and Nathaniel Terry (unless one of these is his son, Thomas Jr.), and again in 1769 in Lewis’s district. He sold 150 acres of this land on 18 April 1776 to William Dixon. He or his son, Thomas Jr., may be listed on the 1777 tax records of the Lawrence District, Caswell Co., North Carolina (across the state line from Pittsylvania Co.). As Thomas Burgess Sr., he bought (with Silvanus Stokes) another 100 acres from Duncan McDonald of Caswell Co., North Carolina, on 20 November 1777 in Halifax Co. In 1777 he is recorded on the Oath of Allegiance list of neighboring Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (this could also be his son, Rev. Thomas). He sold 150 acres of his Halifax land to Edmund Dixon on 18 June 1778, and another 290 acres on Winns (or Wynns) Creek to James Brooks on 1 November 1783 (he is then noted as being a resident of Pittsylvania Co., which had split off from Halifax Co. on 1 June 1767).

On 13 June 1780 he bought 92 acres in Camden Parish in Pittsylvania Co. He bought another 740 acres on Sweden Fork (or Sweetings Fork) in Camden Parish in Pittsylvania Co. on 15 February 1782 from Theoderick Carter—among the witnesses are Thomas Burgess Jr. and William Burgess, with the father being specifically called “Thomas Burgess Senior,” plus several of the Kerby family.

Thomas is listed on the 1782-85 and 1787 personal property tax lists for Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, but in 1785 and 1787 is noted as exempt from the tax, and thereafter is dropped from the rolls; Mary Burgess is recorded as head of the family on the tax lists from 16 April 1792-21 March 1797, the year in which she apparently died. Thomas is also listed on the land tax records there from 1782-96, always with 740 acres, consistently being listed “Thomas Burgess Sr.”; in 1797-98 the records list him as “Thomas Burgess dec’d.”

Thomas Burgess Sr. died in Pittsylvania Co. before 16 April 1792; his estate was appraised on 19 October 1792. His 740-acre farm on Sweden Fork was sold on 1 April 1799 (after his wife’s death) to his youngest son William by his surviving heirs—Thomas Burgess Jr. and wife Elizabeth Burgess, Rebecca (Burgess) and Anthony Rucker, Elizabeth (Burgess) and Joseph Rogers, Nancy ([name probably originally Ann] Burgess) and William Stuart, and Mary (Burgess) and Martin Hardin; Timothy Burgess, who was apparently regarded as already having received his share of his father’s estate in Thomas’s 1760 deed of sale, did not participate. Thomas Burgess Sr. had at least three sons and four daughters:

*1. Rev. Timothy Burgess Sr. (1737?-1807) of Kershaw District, SC, and Russell Co., VA

*2. Rev. Thomas Burgess Jr. (1754?-1828) of Warren Co., TN

*3. William Burgess Sr. (1756?-1810/20+) of Lincoln Co., KY

Rev. Timothy Burgess Sr. was born by 1737 in Orange Co., Virginia (he was at least 21 years of age in 1758). He married Martha “Patty” __ by 1760.

Rev. Timothy is listed as a witness in the Orange Co. court in April of 1758. He is listed on the 1759, 1764, and 1765 tithables list there. In February of 1760 he presented “into Court a certificate for taking up a runaway Negro man named Dick.” Timothy was named Constable of Orange Co. on 28 August 1760, was sworn in on 25 September 1760, and served until 25 June 1761. On 23 October 1760 Thomas Burgess Sr. gifted 333 acres of land in Orange Co. to Timothy Burgess “for natural love and fatherly affection,” thereby firmly establishing the relationship between the two men; the deed was apparently made to give Timothy a living, perhaps in celebration of his marriage, and should be regarded as his inheritance, since he did not participate in the later division of Thomas’s estate (a not uncommon practice during this period). He is listed a half dozen times in the Orange Co. Order Books in the early 1760s.

Rev. Timothy bought 100 acres on Winns Creek (or Wynns Creek) in Halifax Co., Virginia, adjoining his father’s land, on 19 April 1774 from Henry Hardin (or Harden) Sr., father-in-law of Timothy’s younger brother, William Burgess; he sold this farm to James Brooks on 17 November 1783 (registered on 17 June 1784, the same date as his father’s last land sale in Halifax, with Thomas Burgess Sr. and Henry Hardin Sr. witnessing the transaction). He is listed as a witness with his brother Thomas Jr. on 23 August 1775 in Halifax Co., Virginia, to the sale of 135 acres by John Hodge of Orange Co., North Carolina to James Dixon of Halifax Co., and 60 acres by John Hodge to John Smither of Orange Co., North Carolina. He sold 100 acres of land on Winns Creek on 17 November 1783 to James Brooks, bounded by the land of Thomas Burgess Sr. and Henry Harden Sr., among others.

On 28 September 1774 Rev. Timothy witnessed the will of Jonathan Deweese in Caswell Co., North Carolina, just across the state line from Pittsylvania Co., and is also recorded on the 1777 and 1780 tax lists in the Gloucester District there. He bought 550 acres of land on the South Hico River in Caswell Co. on 11 July 1778, but sold 450 acres of it to William Stewart on 7 October 1780. A deed from William Lee to Herndon Harrelson dated 7 October 1780 in Caswell Co. mentions the tract being sold as next to Timothy’s land. Timothy is listed in the 1786 state census in the Gloucester District there with four sons under the age of 21.

However, Rev. Timothy’s daughter Susannah married William Bridgewater in Pittsylvania Co. on 8 January 1784, and his daughter Elizabeth married Henry Campbell there on 1 March 1784. Timothy himself does not appear on any Pittsylvania Co. tax list.

Rev. Timothy purchased several Revolutionary War land warrants (#11797 and #11998—one of them from Christian Borden), in Washington Co. (later Russell Co.), Virginia, totaling over a thousand acres of land near Clinch Mountain and Cedar Creek near the Clinch River, being confirmed in their possession on 24 August 1781, 26 April 1782, and 13 May 1782, with a survey being done on 15 January 1783 (part of this land was assigned by Timothy to Edward Smoot), but did not apparently live on this estate until later.

Rev. Timothy settled in Russell Co., Virginia after 1786, the year that Russell was created from Washington Co., and was licensed as a Baptist minister there on 18 November 1788 and again on 24 December 1799; he is also noted as having co-founded the Glade Hollow Baptist Church in 1788. He purchased 870 acres in Glade Hollow on 16 August 1794.

Rev. Timothy is listed on the personal and land property tax lists for the Upper District of Russell Co., Virginia from 1789-1806 (except for 1800, which is lost); he is noted as tax exempt in the court minutes on 23 July 1793, “on account of age and infirmities,” and he is not charged any poll tax starting in 1798. His estate of 1,631 acres is also recorded on the 1814 land tax record there. He has not been found in the 1790 or 1800 censuses, which are lost for Virginia. He and his wife sold some of his property in Russell Co. between 23 March 1802 and 29 August 1806.

Rev. Timothy may have moved shortly thereafter to his estate in the Kershaw District in South Carolina in 1806. He died in 1807; his will, which is dated 30 July 1807 and was probated on 18 August 1807 and 26 May 1819 in the Kershaw District, and on 6 July 1819 in Russell Co., Virginia, states that he had five sons and two daughters, three of whom predeceased him (James, Timothy Jr., and Elizabeth), as had also, apparently, his wife:

*1. John Burgess Sr. (1761?-1826) of Kershaw District, SC and Russell Co., VA

2. James Burgess (1763?-1792?) of Russell Co., VA; listed on the 1784 personal property tax list of Washington Co., VA, and from 1789-90 and in 1792 in Russell Co., VA, but died before 1807 (probably in 1792), as recorded in his father’s will, apparently leaving one or more unnamed heirs, who are still underaged in 1807

*3. Thomas Burgess III (1773?-1820?) of Russell Co., VA

*4. William Burgess II (1773?-1810?) of Russell Co., VA

5. Timothy Burgess Jr. (1775?-1800?) of Russell Co., VA; mentioned in the Russell Co., VA, court minutes of 26 April 1797 and 23 August 1800 as a drunkard, but died childless before 1807, as mentioned in his father’s will

First Son of Rev. Timothy Sr.

John Burgess Sr. was born about 1761 in Orange Co., Virginia. He is not the same man as John Burgess, his presumed cousin, who was born about 1769, and who lived in the Union District, South Carolina. He married Tamson “Tamzey” Gardiner about 1782. He is listed in the 1800-20 censuses for the Kershaw District (in 1800 with one son aged 10-16, and one under the age of 10, and four daughters, in 1810 with one son aged 16-26 and two daughters, and in 1820 with one son aged 16-26, and a grandson (?) under the age of 10); his wife is listed as head of the family in 1830 (aged 70-80). John owned substantial tracts of land in the Kershaw District, South Carolina, and in Russell Co., Virginia, inheriting them from his father. He does not appear in any of the Russell Co. personal property tax lists, suggesting that he usually lived in the Kershaw District. He died in the Kershaw District between 12 February 1826 and 4 March 1826; his will was probated on the latter date in the Kershaw District, and on 26 March 1827 in Russell Co. He had two surviving sons:

1. Timothy Burgess III (1788-1856) of Pickens Co., AL

2. John Burgess Jr. (1795-1849) of Kershaw Co., SC

First Son of John Sr.

Timothy Burgess III was born on 14 June 1788 in the Kershaw District, South Carolina. He married Delphia Gardner on 29 March 1810 in the Kershaw District. He is listed in the 1810 census for Kershaw, with no children, and in 1820 there with one son aged 10-16 and two sons under the age of 10; in the 1823-34 personal property tax records of Russell Co., Virginia, and also in the 1830 census there, with one son aged 15-20, two aged 5-10, and two under the age of 5, plus two daughters; and in the 1840-50 censuses in Pickens Co., Alabama (in 1840 with one son aged 20-30, one aged 15-20, one aged 10-15, and one aged 5-10). He died there on 30 April 1856, having had six sons:

1. John George Burgess (1811-1860+) of Scott Co., MS; he is listed in the 1833 personal property tax list of Russell Co., VA

2. Daniel Gardner Burgess (1818-1891) of De Soto Parish, LA

3. (David) William Burgess (1820-1880) of Hinds Co., MS

4. Louis Jefferson Burgess, also called Lewis Jefferson Burgess (1826-1891) of Madison Co., MS

5. Timothy Marion Burgess (1829-1869) of Scott Co., MS; he may have served as a Capt. in the 46^th Mississippi Infantry, Confederate Army during the Civil War; he is listed in the 1870 mortality census for Scott Co. as having died there the previous December of typhoid fever

6. William Henry Burgess (1840-1845?), died young

Third Son of Rev. Timothy Sr.

Thomas Burgess III was born about 1773 in Virginia. His wife’s name is unknown. He is recorded on the 1795-96 and 1801-05 personal property tax lists of Russell Co., VA, on the 1796-98, 1809-18, and 1820 lists of Washington Co., VA, and on the 1810-20 censuses there—in 1810 with one son aged 10-16, three sons under the age of 10, and two daughters, and in 1820 with no sons and two daughters. He served as a witness in Russell Co. in September 1802. Thomas Burgess had at least four sons, according to the census records; however, those listed below could also be sons of Thomas’s brother, William Burgess II:

*1. William Burgess III (1794?-1870+) of Smyth Co., VA

2. Robert Burgess I (1800?-1845?) of Washington Co., VA; his wife’s name is unknown; he is listed in the 1820 census for Washington Co. with no wife or children, aged 16-26, and in 1840 there with one son aged 5-10, Robert and wife aged 40-50, and a woman aged 80-90; he has not been found in 1830; he is listed on the 1820, 1823-24, 1830-33, 1835, and 1841-45 personal property tax lists for Washington Co., in 1826-28 in Russell Co., Virginia, and in 1832 and 1836-39 in Smyth Co.

3. Son

4. Son

First Son of Thomas III

William Burgess III was born about 1794 in Virginia; he is also called William T. Burgess by one of his descendants. He married Margaret __ about 1820. He is listed in the 1830 and 1850 censuses for Washington Co., Virginia, in 1830 with one son aged 5-10 and two sons under the age of 5, but has not been found in 1820 or 1840; however, a corner of the “B” surname page of the 1840 Smyth Co. census is cut off, losing five names but preserving the data; he may be the individual listed with two sons aged 20-30, one son aged 10-15, and one aged 5-10); he is listed in 1860 in Russell Co., Virginia (aged 66 years), and in 1870 in both Russell and Smyth Cos., Virginia (aged 76 years), living with or visiting two of his children, Eleanor and Mitchell, a month apart. He is also listed in the personal property tax records of Washington Co., Virginia from 1819, 1823-25, 1828, 1830-32, and 1850 (in 1850 with his son Thomas, so identified), and in Smyth Co., Virginia from its founding in 1832-34, 1836-39, and 1841-43. William Burgess died in Russell or Smyth Co. between 1870-80, having had at least four sons:

*1. Mitchell Thurman Burgess (1824?-1888+) of Smyth Co., VA

2. Son (1826-1840+) of Smyth Co., VA

3. Thomas Burgess V (1830?-1870?) of Wayne Co., WV

4. Robert Burgess II (1834-1900+) of Greenup Co., KY

First Son of William III

Mitchell Thurman Burgess was born about 1824 in Russell Co., Virginia (the place of birth noted in the  death certificate of his daughter, Tilda Chapman, on 4 November 1926); he may have been named for Mitchell Thurman of Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. He married firstly Mary Cleghorn on 16 October 1844 in Smyth Co., VA, and secondly Martha Ann Taylor in Smyth Co. on 30 October 1847. He is listed in the 1850-80 censuses for Smyth Co., Virginia, and in the personal property tax records there from 1844. He served in the 6^th Battalion, Virginia Reserves, Confederate Army, during the Civil War. On 27 February 1888 he and his wife sold their interest in the 200-acre tract jointly inherited by his wife from the estate of her father, Thomas Taylor. He died between 1888-1900 in Smyth Co., having had four sons:

1. Thomas A. Burgess (1857-1936) of Smyth Co., VA

2. Robert Thurman Burgess (1858?-1937) of Smyth Co., VA (his death certificate gives his year of birth as 1861, but he is recorded on the 1860 census as aged 2 years)

3. John B. Burgess (1866?-1886+) of Smyth Co., VA

4. Mitchell B. Burgess (1872-1930+) of Smyth Co., VA

Fourth Son of Rev. Timothy Sr.

William Burgess II was born about 1773 in Virginia. His wife’s name is unknown. He is recorded in the 1795-96, 1802, and 1804 personal property tax lists of Russell Co., VA, and on the 1799-1801, 1806, and 1809-10 tax lists of Washington Co., VA, and in the 1810 census there twice; the first rendition lists two sons under the age of 10 plus six daughters, while the second lists the same two sons, but only four daughters. He is mentioned as a witness on 23 March 1802 in the Russell Co. court records, and was named co-executor of his father’s estate in 1807. His failure to act in that capacity in Rev. Timothy’s 1819 Russell Co. probate suggests that he was dead by then. He probably died in Washington Co. in 1810, having had at least two sons. One or more of the sons listed for his brother, Thomas Burgess, may actually be his.

1. Son (born between 1800-10)

2. Son (born between 1800-10)

Rev. Thomas Burgess Jr. was born by 1754 in Orange Co., Virginia (he is listed as over the age of 45 in the 1800 census, and witnessed two deeds on 23 August 1775 in Halifax Co., Virginia, when he had to have been at least 21 years of age). He married Elizabeth __ about 1777; she was born about 1755 (she is listed as age 26-45 in 1800), and died before 1820; she may have been the daughter of John Kirby and Jemima Bolling of Halifax Co., Virginia, and Union Co., South Carolina.

Rev. Thomas is listed as a witness with his brother Timothy on 23 August 1775 in Halifax Co., Virginia, to the sale of 135 acres by John Hodge of Orange Co., North Carolina to James Dixon of Halifax Co., and 60 acres by John Hodge to John Smither of Orange Co., North Carolina. He or his father, Thomas Sr., may be listed on the 1777 tax records of the St. Lawrence District, Caswell (later Person) Co., North Carolina (across the state line from Pittsylvania Co.). He is listed on the Pittsylvania Co., Virginia personal property tax lists from 1782-92, sometimes as “Thomas Burgess Jr.”, and on the land tax records there from 1782-85 (with 400 acres), 1786-90 (624 acres), 1791-92 (408 acres), 1793 (258 acres), and 1797-1800 (a land patent of 150 acres). He sold 150 acres on Sandy Creek in Pittsylvania Co. on 29 December 1792 (recorded on 15 April 1793) to Samuel Constable. He participated in the sale of his father’s estate to his brother William in Pittsylvania Co. on 1 April 1799. He sold the remainder of his land in Pittsylvania Co. (505 acres on Sandy Creek) on 11 November 1800 (recorded 15 June 1801, and witnessed by his brother-in-law, Martin Hardin), with Thomas being specifically noted as a citizen of the Spartanburg District, South Carolina.

Rev. Thomas moved to the Spartanburg District in 1792. He purchased 114 acres of land there on the Pacolet River from Edward Stubblefield for twenty-five cents on 9 October 1795, and an additional 486 acres of land on the south side of the Pacolet River from Stubblefield there on 23 August 1799—and then sold 50 acres back to him on 9 October 1800. He sold another 24 acres to John Morris on 24 April 1802. Thomas is listed there in the 1800 census, with one son aged 16-26 and one aged 10-16, five daughters, and a wife aged 26-45.

The history of the South Carolina Baptists, 1670-1805, by Leah Townsend (1935), notes that Thomas helped reconstitute the Boiling Spring Church in 1792. He was one of two ordained Ministers serving the Buck Creek Church from 1793-94, and again from 1796-97, and served as Pastor of the Goucher Creek Church in 1794-95. He was asked by the Cedar Spring Baptist Church in 1795 to share his ministerial services, but replied: “We are cramp’d in the same place that you are. Our Minister has his appointments laid out so as to fill up every Saturday in each month, and cannot alter his monthly meetins [sic] at present….” He served as Presiding Minister of the Boiling Spring Church from 1797-1801, of the Greens Creek Church from 1801-02, and of the New Salem Church in 1803. He issued a circular letter, “Intemperance: A Prevailing Vice,” in 1801/02. He was formerly dismissed from the Boiling Spring Church with a letter of recommendation in 1806, indicating that he would depart shortly thereafter.

On 5 February 1807 he filed a power of attorney to Samuel Gilbert in Spartanburg District to “rent or sell his land…. Thomas Burgess is about to leave Spartanburgh [sic] District.” Gilbert then sold Thomas’s remaining 130-acre farm on the Pacolet River on 1 June 1818 to John Nolen.

(Rev. Thomas is not the same person as Thomas Burgess of Campbell Co., Virginia [a neighboring county to Pittsylvania Co.], a Pennsylvania Quaker who was a son of Joseph Burgess, and is listed there in the deed records from 1803-07. He is also not the same person as the Thomas Burgess Sr. who lived from 8 February 1815 just north of the Falling Water River in White [later Putnam] Co., Tennessee; this later Thomas [1776?-1830] is known to be a descendant of William Burgess of King George Co., Virginia [please see that family]. However, the Thomas Burgess Jr. listed in the 1830 census for White Co. remains unidentified—he cannot be the Falling Water River Thomas’s son, Thomas, who is underaged at this time, and Rev. Thomas’s son, Thomas H. Burgess, is already listed in Hickman Co.)

Although he does not appear to have served in the Revolutionary War, Rev. Thomas purchased a military bounty warrant (#824, also called #431) and filed it on 27 June 1793 with the State of North Carolina, claiming 640 acres of land on the Caney Fork River in Sumner Co., North Carolina (later Warren Co., Tennessee). He recorded a power of attorney in Spartanburg Co. on 25 February 1795 to Alston Edney of Davidson Co. of the “territory south of the Ohio River” [Tennessee] to get title to the 640 acres and to make Thomas Huggings a title to 320 acres of it.

However, Warren Co. was not settled by Europeans until 1806, the year before Thomas left South Carolina. On 8 August 1808, his son, Thomas H. Burgess, is listed as a witness on a land survey. His daughter Jemima wed Thomas Stuart in the same year; he stated in a published notice on 1 September 1809: “I was married on the 4^th of December [1808] to Jemima Burgess, the daughter of Thomas Burgess of Warren County, Tennessee. After eight months of marriage, I have has [sic] nothing but trouble, distress, and uneasiness of mind. I am no longer responsible for debts of her contracting.” Jemima remarried John Cooksey by 1816.

Rev. Thomas, or possibly his son, Thomas Henry, was elected Sheriff of Warren Co. in 1809. Thomas also established one or more Baptist churches there. He appears on the 1812 tax list for Warren Co. with Warren Burgess, his presumed second son, having been appointed to take the levy in his district; and is also listed there in the 1820 census (the 1810 census for Warren Co. having been lost), with two boys under the age of 10 and no females; these are presumably two of his grandsons.

Rev. Thomas received 100 acres of land on Mountain Creek and Caney Fork in the First District of Warren Co. from the State of Tennessee (Grant #3740) on 17 February 1812, adjoining a 200-acre farm that he already owned. He witnessed a deed in neighboring White Co., Tennessee on 18 January 1816. He sold the 100 acres granted to him by the State of Tennessee to John Holland on 1 April 1819 in Warren Co. The small town of Chismsburg (which no longer exists) was founded on his land in 1819.

Together with his son, Thomas H. Burgess, Rev. Thomas purchased 140 acres in White Co. on the north side of Caney Fork from Henry Neill on 12 April 1819, but on 6 September 1822, he sold his 70-acre share of this land to his son, Thomas H. Burgess, with John Cooksey, Philip Kirby, and Peter Burgess witnessing the transaction. In 1824 he is noted as being a slave owner in Warren Co. On 31 May 1824 he filed a survey in Warren Co. (Entry #89) for a 50-acre plot on Caney Fork with “said Burgess’ house, at the foot of a large mountain, with meanders of said mountain, including the house & improvements whereon said Burgess now lives”; his son, Peter Burgess, acted as witness. Another survey dated 2 January 1826 (Entry #1170) mentions “Burgess’ fish trap, near an old house built by John Cooksey, corner of the tract the said Thomas Burgess now lives on.” Other surveys mention “Burgess Creek” in Warren Co. An 1826 plat record mentions Thomas’s 140-acre tract on Pine Creek.

Rev. Thomas died in Warren Co. by late 1828—his estate inventory, which was filed in court on 3 April 1829, mentions two notes due on 15 November 1828, plus a will that was apparently never probated. On 26 June 1829 six of his surviving heirs—Thomas H. Burgess, Peter Burgess, and his daughters and/or sons-in-law Polly Fore (i.e., Mary Burgess Fore, widow of Peter J. Fore Sr.), John Cooksey or Cooksie (husband of Jemima Burgess), Philip Kerby (or Kirby) (husband of Sara Burgess), and Moses Rambo (husband of Nancy [probably originally Ann] Burgess)—filed a deed in Hickman Co. giving their power of attorney to John Cooksey to represent their interests before the Warren Co. Court in the probate of Thomas’s estate; evidently, they didn’t trust John Martin, the court-appointed executor. This deed was amended and refiled in Warren Co. on 25 November 1833, appointing Broomfield L. Ridley and James P. Thompson as their attorneys, but without Polly Fore’s participation.

This may not be a complete list of Rev. Thomas’s surviving heirs; these six individuals just happened to be living in Hickman Co., Kentucky at the time, where they are all listed together in the 1830 census (the census also indicates that Nancy and Sara had died by 1830). The 4 October 1834 settlement of Thomas’s estate in Warren Co. fails to mention any payouts—only that a $950.65 estate had been reduced through the executor’s expenses to just $273. Rev. Thomas had at least three sons and five daughters:

*1. Thomas Henry Burgess I (1778?-1839?) of Van Buren Co., AR

2. Warren Burgess I (1784?-1815?) of Warren Co., TN; he is listed in the 1812 tax list for Warren Co. with his father, and served in the War of 1812 in the 2^nd Regiment, West Tennessee Militia, from 20 September 1814 to 31 December 1814; he appears to have died before 1820 (probably by 1815); his heirs, if any, are unknown, but could conceivably include some of the children now recorded under his brother, Thomas Henry I

*3. Peter Burgess Sr. (1790?-1837?) of Hickman Co., KY

First Son of Rev. Thomas Jr.

Thomas Henry Burgess I was born about 1778, probably in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. He appears to have married twice, firstly about 1799 to an unknown wife, and secondly about 1811 to Nancy __; his second wife’s name is mentioned on his 1834 deed of sale; she is too young, according to the 1830 census, to have been the mother of his older sons.

Thomas Henry moved with his father from Spartanburg Co., South Carolina to Warren Co., Tennessee, about 1807. He witnessed a land survey there for James Parrat on 8 August 1808. Thomas Henry, or possibly his father, Rev. Thomas Jr., was elected Sheriff of Warren Co. in 1809. On 12 April 1819, together with his father, Rev. Thomas Burgess, he purchased 140 acres from Henry Neill on the north side of Caney Fork in neighboring White Co., Tennessee; on 6 September 1822 his father sold him his 70-acre half of this farm, with John Cooksey, Philip Kirby, and Peter Burgess witnessing the transaction. He has not been found in the 1800-20 censuses (the 1810 census for Warren Co. does not survive). He is mentioned in Warren Co. plat records of 25 February 1828 and 4 July 1829 as having once owned a 50-acre farm “now belonging to John Cain.”

Thomas Henry moved to Hickman Co., Kentucky with his brother, Peter Burgess, and four brothers-in-law sometime in the mid 1820s, where he is listed in the 1826-34 property tax lists (however, the 1830-33 lists are missing; in 1829 he owns 370 acres, and in 1834 320 acres), and in 1830 on his only known census record, aged 50-60 years, with a wife aged 30-40, and five sons, two aged 15-20, one aged 10-15, and two under the age of 5. Living nearby are two of his presumed older sons, William Burgess and John Burgess. He assumed a mortgage with Benjamin Mason for a 160-acre farm in Hickman Co. on 26 April 1834, making his final payment and obtaining ownership of the land on 15 October 1834—and then sold it on 14 [sic] October 1834 to Aaron Jones.

Thomas Henry moved to Van Buren Co., Arkansas about 1835, where he is listed on the 1837-39 personal property tax lists together with several of his younger sons, variously as H. Thomas Burgess or Thomas H. Burgess. He presumably died there about 1839, having had at least eight sons, the first three probably by his first wife, and the last five by his second. It should be noted that Thomas Henry’s relationships to his sons, as with so many others in this family, cannot be established conclusively, but only through association and by inference, and should therefore be regarded as speculative:

*1. William Hiram Burgess (1800?-1860+) of Hickman Co., KY

*2. John M. Burgess I (1805?-1868) of Chickasaw Co., MS

*3. Thomas W. Burgess (1808?-1849) of Wayne Co., TN

*4. Gabriel Burgess Sr. (1812?-1857) of Jackson Co., AR

*5. Warren Burgess II (1815?-1856?) of Van Buren Co., AR

6. Laru Burgess I (1818?-1843+) of Jackson Co., AR; he is listed in the 1840 census for Van Buren Co., AR, with two males aged 15-20, one aged 10-15, and one aged 5-10 (apparently the residue of his late father’s surviving family); he married Mecca Elmore (aged 18) in Jackson Co., AR on 19 March 1843, when his age is given as 24 years; neither he nor his wife have been found in any subsequent record

7. Son (1825?- )

8. Son (1827?- )

First Son of Thomas Henry

William Hiram Burgess, also called William Burgess and Hiram William Burgess, was born about 1800, probably in Spartanburg Co., South Carolina (he is listed as age 51 in 1850, 59 in 1860, and 70 in 1870). He has not been found with a middle initial in any known record, always being called “William Burgess.” He married Rebecca Hughes about 1820 (she died in September 1869). William is listed in the 1820 census for Warren Co., Tennessee, aged 16-26, with a wife and no children, and is recorded as a member of the Rocky River Primitive Baptist Church there in 1828. He is listed in the 1828-1854+ property tax lists of Hickman Co., Kentucky (with Thomas H. Burgess from 1828-34; in 1829 he owns 160 acres, in 1834 240 acres, from 1835 160 acres, and from 1842 200 acres), and also in the 1830-70 censuses there (in 1830 with two sons under the age of 5, two daughters, and two men aged 20-30, and in 1840 with two sons aged 10-15, one son aged 5-10, and one under the age of 5, plus five daughters). He bought 160 acres of land in Hickman Co. from Josiah Shields on 25 October 1834. He apparently died there between 1870-80, having had at least six sons:

1. Thomas Henry Burgess III (1826-1870+) of Ballard Co., KY

2. Son (1828?- )

3. Gabriel Burgess II (1833-1872) of Howell Co., MO

4. William L. Burgess (1840-1870+) of Hickman Co., KY

5. Jesse Hughes Burgess (1843-1910+) of Graves Co., KY

6. (Winfield) Scott Burgess (1848-1890) of Hickman Co., KY

Second Son of Thomas Henry

John M. Burgess I was born about 1805, probably in
Spartanburg Co., South Carolina. His middle name may be Martin or Melmoth. He married twice, firstly about 1825 to an unknown wife, and secondly about 1848 to a widow, Elender “Nelly” (Harris) Thompson. He is listed in the 1820 census for White Co., Tennessee (if this is him), with one son and one daughter under the age of 10, and himself aged 26-45; in 1830 in Hickman Co., Kentucky, with no sons, three daughters, and two males aged 20-30 (a brother?); and in 1840 in Weakley Co., Tennessee (just over the state line from Hickman), with one son aged 10-15, one 5-10, and one under 5, and apparently the same adult male recorded in 1830 (aged 20-30). He is also listed in the Hickman Co. property tax records in 1826, next to Thomas H. Burgess (the 1827 list is illegible, and 1830-33 are missing). He is listed in the 1833 land record book for Weakley Co., and appears in the tax records there for District 8 from 1842-44, but is missing in 1845.

John witnessed two deeds in Wayne Co., Tennessee, on 26-27 March 1825, and again on 22 September 1832, and is recorded there on the 1836 tax list. He is mentioned there on 18 February 1837 as witnessing a deed, and on 27 July 1837 as owing a debt to Sessums & McDougal. He moved to Chickasaw Co., Mississippi, by 1848, when he appears on the tax list there, and also on the 1850-60 censuses. He died there in 1868, having had at least four sons by his first wife:

1. Son (1825?- )

2. M. L. Burgess (1830?- ), name unverified

*3. Rev. James William Burgess (1832?-1890) of Calhoun Co., MS

4. William Burgess IV (1835?- ), name unverified

Third Son of John M.

Rev. James William Burgess was born about 1832, probably in Weakley Co., Tennessee. He married Mentie Ethie McKee about 1858 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi. He is listed in the 1850-70 censuses for Chickasaw Co., and in 1880 in Calhoun Co., Mississippi. He was a renowned Baptist minister in Calhoun Co. He died there in 1890, having had six sons:

1. James Melmoth Burgess (1865-1910) of Calhoun Co., MS

2. Franklin Lee Burgess (1870-1900+) of Calhoun Co., MS

3. Henry Allen Burgess (1872-1880+)

4. Warren S. Burgess (1877?-1895?), died childless

5. Rev. George Lafayette Burgess (1880-1928) of Sunflower Co., MS

6. Wiley Burgess (1881-1930+) of Pontotoc Co., MS

Third Son of Thomas Henry

Thomas W. Burgess was born about 1808, probably in Warren Co., Tennessee. He married Mary “Polly” Hill, daughter of John Hill, about 1826; she remarried __ Davis after his death. He mortgaged his livestock to William H. Patton in Wayne Co. on 7 March 1835, is listed in the 1836 tax there with his presumed brother, John M. Burgess, and also in 1838; and in the 1830-40 censuses there (in 1830 with two sons under the age of 5 and a boy aged 15-20, and Thomas aged 20-30, and in 1840 with two sons aged 10-15, one aged 5-10, and one under the age of 5, with Thomas 30-40); his widow appears as head of the family there in 1850. By 1860 she has remarried and moved her family to Wayne Co., Illinois, where she is listed in the census (as “Mary Davis”) with her family. Thomas died in early 1849 in Wayne Co., Tennessee; his widow was allotted a widow’s year’s provisions by the Wayne Co. Court on 6 February 1849. He had at least five sons:

*1. John Hill Burgess (1827-1897) of Wayne Co., IL

2. Thomas J. P. Burgess, also called Lewis Burgess (1827?-1850?) of Wayne Co., TN

3. Henry W. D. Burgess (1834?-1850?) of Wayne Co., TN, died young

4. James C. A. Burgess (1839?-1850+) of Wayne Co., TN

5. William Green Burgess (1845?-1870+) of Wayne Co., IL

First Son of Thomas William

John Hill Burgess was born on 14 March 1827 in Wayne Co., Tennessee. He married Mary Caroline Williams in 1846 in Wayne Co. He is listed in the 1850 census for Wayne Co., Tennessee, and in 1860-80 in Wayne Co., Illinois, where he moved with his family about 1855. He served in Co. D, 5^th Illinois Cavalry, Union Army, during the Civil War. He died there on 7 September 1897, having had three sons:

1. William Alexander Burgess (1849-1914) of Jasper Co., MO

2. Hampton Sylvester Burgess (1866-1952) of Wayne Co., IL, who served as an Illinois State Senator

3. Oscar P. Burgess (1869-1895) of Wayne Co., IL

Fourth Son of Thomas Henry

Gabriel Burgess Sr. was born about 1812, probably in Warren Co., Tennessee. He married his first wife, name unknown, about 1836, and his second wife, Araminta Moore, on 29 April 1841 in Jackson Co., Arkansas. He is listed on the 1834 property tax list of Hickman Co., Kentucky, on the 1837-39 and 1841 tax lists for Van Buren Co., and also in the 1840 census there (with one son and one daughter under the age of 5), near his younger brother, Laru Burgess; and in the 1850 census in Jackson Co., Arkansas. In 1850 an Allen Burgess, age 12, is recorded at the end of his family with no birthplace—he may be a nephew, and in any case appears in no other known record. Gabriel is recorded on an affidavit dated 8 March 1851 attached to the will of George W. Reynolds of Jackson Co. Gabriel’s widow appears there as head of the family in 1860. He died in Jackson Co. on 18 April 1857, having had four sons:

1. William Burgess V (1837-1870?) of Jackson Co., AR

2. Larue Burgess II (1846?-1860+), died young?

3. Thomas Henry Burgess V (1853?-1900+) of Jackson Co., AR

4. Gabriel Burgess Jr. (III) (1856?-1892?) of Jackson Co., AR

Fifth Son of Thomas Henry

Warren Burgess II was born about 1815, probably in Warren Co., Tennessee. He should not be confused with his cousin, Dr. Warren J. Burgess of Perry Co., Illinois (1818-1903). He married Elizabeth Goodnight about 1846, probably in Van Buren Co., Arkansas. He is listed in the 1837, 1841, 1844, 1850-51, and 1855 tax lists of Van Buren Co., Arkansas, and also appears in the 1850 census there ; his widow is listed as head of the family there in 1860. He filed papers with the Federal Land Office to claim 40 acres of land in Van Buren Co. on 1 March 1856. Warren died in Van Buren Co. between 1856-60, having had three sons:

1. (Thomas) Henry Burgess IV (1847-1916) of Seminole Co., OK

2. John M. Burgess II (1849-1910+) of Fannin Co., TX

3. Lerew Burgess III (1851-1860+), died young?

Third Son of Rev. Thomas Jr.

Peter Burgess Sr. was born about 1790, probably in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. If the attribution to him of a daughter, Anna Burgess, wife of Greenberry O’Daniel, is correct (she was born 25 December 1812 in Kentucky and died 1894 in Tate Co., MS), then Peter had to have been born by 1791, and had to have had two wives. Peter married his first wife, name unknown, about 1811 in Hickman Co., KY, and secondly about 1826 to Mary A. Hermann (or Mary A. Hiram; she was born 1805, and died 1878). He is listed in the 1820 census for White Co., Tennessee, with two sons and two daughters under the age of 10, with Peter aged 16-26; and in 1830 in Hickman Co., Kentucky, with two sons under the age of 5, one aged 5-10, two aged 10-15, one daughter aged 5-10, with Peter aged 30-40; the two censuses contradict each other concerning his age.

On 6 September 1822, he witnessed the sale of 70 acres of land in White Co. from his father, Rev. Thomas Burgess, to his brother, Thomas Henry Burgess, with his brothers-in-law, John Cooksey and Philip Kirby, also serving as witnesses. On 31 May 1824 Peter witnessed the survey of a 50-acre plot on Caney Fork in Warren Co., Tennessee, for his father, Rev. Thomas Burgess. He settled in the Beulah Region of Hickman Co., Tennessee about 1825. He appears on the 1825 and 1828-37 property tax lists for Hickman Co. (however, the 1827 list is illegible, and 1830-33 are missing; he owns 160 acres beginning in 1834; his widow appears on the lists from 1840-42, 1844, and 1848-54+).He assumed a mortgage with Benjamin Mason for a 160-acre farm in Hickman Co. on 26 April 1834, and then sold it to James Cash on 19 March 1835. His widow is listed in Hickman Co. as head of the family in 1850, but has not been found in 1840. Peter died in Hickman Co. in 1837 (his estate was appraised there on 16 June 1837), having had at least seven sons, three by his first wife, and four by his second:

1. James Clark Burgess (1817?-1865?) of Mississippi Co., MO

2. John Burgess III (1820-1857?) of Hickman Co., KY

3. Hiram Burgess (1823-1882) of Hickman Co., KY

4. Son (1827-1830+) of Hickman Co., KY

5. Roland George Burgess (1829-1896) of Hickman Co., KY

6. Peter Burgess Jr. (1833-1891) of Hickman Co., KY

7. Jesse R. Burgess (1835-1917) of Graves Co., KY

William Burgess Sr. was born by 1756 in Orange Co., Virginia (he was at least 21 years of age on 20 November 1777, when he witnessed the sale of 100 acres of land in Halifax Co. to his father). He may have witnessed a deed on the Reedy River in Halifax Co., Virginia on 15 May 1774 between John Willard of the Ninety-Sixth District in South Carolina and Joseph Atkins of Halifax. He married Judith “Judah” Hardin, daughter of Henry Hardin Sr. and his wife Judith, about 1782; both she and William are mentioned in her father’s will, which was written on 25 May 1796 and proved on 16 October 1797 in Pittsylvania Co.

William is listed on the Pittsylvania Co., Virginia personal property tax lists from 1782-1805 (in 1782 with six whites and three slaves), and on the land tax records there from 1786-1805. He purchased his father’s 740-acre estate on the Sweden Fork or Sweetings Fork from his brothers and sisters (except for Timothy Burgess) in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, on 1 April 1799. He sold 230 acres on Sweden Fork in Pittsylvania Co. on 17 June 1805 to Armstead Stratton, and his remaining land there on 21 October 1805 in two parcels—867 acres to Joseph Motley Sr., and 100 acres to Robert S. Mabrey.

William settled in Lincoln Co., Kentucky, by 23 May 1809, when his son Hardin married there. He is listed there on the 1810 census with two sons aged 16-26, and one aged 26-45. He may be listed with his son, Timothy T. Burgess, in 1820. He died there after 1810 (or 1820), having had at least four sons:

1. Son (1783?- )

*2. Hardin Burgess I (1786-1870+) of Ohio Co., KY

*3. William Thomas Burgess Sr. (1789?-1819?) of Breckinridge Co., KY

*4. Timothy T. Burgess Sr. (1791-1879) of Daviess Co., KY

Second Son of William Sr.

Hardin Burgess I was born on 14 January 1786 (or perhaps 1783), probably in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (he witnessed a deed between Judah Hardin, widow of Henry Hardin Sr., and James Hardin in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia on 17 September 1804, at which point he should have been at least 21 years of age). He married Tabitha Johnson on 23 May 1809 in Lincoln Co., Kentucky.

Hardin is listed in the 1805 property tax list for Lincoln Co. (as aged 16-21 years), and in the 1810 census for Warren Co., Kentucky, aged 26-45 years, with a wife aged 16-26 and no children, but has not been found in 1820; he is listed in 1830 in Russell Co., Kentucky, next to his brother Timothy T., aged 40-50 years, with one son aged 10-15 years, one aged 5-10, and two under the age of 5; in 1840 in Warren Co., Kentucky, with two sons aged 15-20, two aged 10-15, two aged 5-10, and two under the age of 5; in 1850 in Warren Co., aged sixty-five years, born in Virginia; and in 1860-70 in Ohio Co., Kentucky. He received a land grant in Warren Co. on 28 June 1841. He died between 1870-80 in Ohio Co., Kentucky, having had five sons:

1. William J. L. Burgess (1822-1856?) of Warren Co., KY

2. Hardin Geiburg Burgess (1824-1850+) of Boone Co., MO

3. Timothy Burgess IV (1826-1850+) of Warren Co., KY

4. James Geiburg Burgess (1828-1850+) of Warren Co., KY

5. Noel J. Burgess (1834-1908) of Vanderburgh Co., IN

Third Son of William Sr.

William Thomas Burgess Sr. (also called Thomas Burgess by his descendants and William M. Burgess in one unverified internet record) was born about 1789, probably in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. As “William Burgess” he married Hannah (Wells) Rawlings on 1 April 1813 and/or on 1 April 1815 (listed in the index record as “W. M. Burgess, but this may be a mistranscription of “Wm.”) in Breckinridge Co., Kentucky (her census listings indicate she was born about 1789-93). He is listed as claiming a one-day’s attendance at court there on 13 November 1813. He has not been found in any census. Family tradition says that he left his wife and children about 1819, never to be heard from again. His wife first appears as head of the family in the census records for Breckinridge Co. in 1840, and continues to be listed there through 1870. William had at least two sons:

1. Hardin Burgess II (1815-1885) of Meade Co., KY

2. William Thomas Burgess Jr. (1818-1901) of Washington Co., NE

Fourth Son of William Sr.

Timothy T. Burgess Sr. was born about 1791, probably in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. He married firstly as her second husband Elizabeth Gilbert on 10 August 1815 in Lincoln Co., Kentucky (she had previously married her cousin, John Wesley Gilbert, in 1802—he died in 1813), and secondly Amanda Lee (?) about 1856. He is listed in the 1820 census for Lincoln Co., Kentucky, with one son aged 10-16, and one under the age of 10, plus six daughters, two men, one aged 26-45, and one over the age of 45, and two women (same ages); in 1830 in Russell Co., Kentucky (next door to Hardin Burgess), with one son aged 15-20, one aged 10-15, one aged 5-10, and two under the age of 5 (Timothy aged 40-50); in 1840 in Lincoln Co., Kentucky, with one son aged 20-30, one aged 15-20, and one aged 10-15, plus six daughters, Timothy aged 50-60, and two women aged 50-60; in 1850 in Daviess Co., Kentucky, working as a hotel keeper; in 1860 in McLean Co., Kentucky; and in 1870 in Daviess Co., Kentucky. He served in the Mexican-American War. He is listed in the July and December 1863 federal income tax registers in Kentucky (the county is not stated), working as a hotel keeper. Timothy died in Daviess Co. in January 1879, having had eight sons, five by his first wife, and three by his second:

1. Son (1816- )

2. Dr. Warren J. Burgess (1818-1906) of Perry Co., IL; he served as a surgeon in the 17^th Kentucky Infantry, Union Army, during the Civil War, and was later crippled; the contemporaneous legend that he had a brother, Henry Volney Burgess, who was actually the Confederate raider William Quantrill, is erroneous, but may apply in part to his brother, Timothy T. Jr.; died childless

3. Dr. Thomas Henry Burgess II (1823-1896) of Perry Co., IL & Bernalillo Co., NM; he served as a Lieut. Colonel in the 18^th Illinois Infantry, Union Army, during the Civil War, and died at Albuquerque, NM

4. Timothy T. Burgess Jr. (1825-1899) of Walla Walla Co., WA; he claimed in the 1890 veterans’ census of Walla Walla Co. to have served as a Colonel in the Confederate Army, but his service cannot be verified

5. Son (1827- )

6. Richard Bolivar Burgess (1859-1860+), died young

7. William W. Burgess (1862-1880+) of Daviess Co., KY

8. James W. Burgess (1872-1880+) of Daviess Co., KY

Louis Jefferson Burgess is the ancestor of Wilfred E. Burgess; Robert Thurman Burgess is the ancestor of D. Michael Burgess; Mitchell B. Burgess is the ancestor of James W. Burgess; James Melmoth Burgess is the ancestor of Leon Burgess; Thomas Henry Burgess IV is the ancestor of Fred O. Burgess; William Thomas Burgess Jr. is the ancestor of John H. Burgess; Hampton Sylvester Burgess is the ancestor of Thomas J. Burgess.

Test results received from many representatives of this line match each other; they have a common male ancestor, Thomas Burgess Sr. They also match of John Burgess of Union Co., South Carolina; they have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown. However, one sample does not match the rest, indicating a break in the chain of descent.

If Rev. Thomas Burgess Jr. was born about 1754, then John Burgess of Union Co., South Carolina (who was born about 1769) cannot be his son, and John is too young to be a son of Thomas Burgess Sr.; if, however, Rev. Thomas Jr. was born before 1748, then this relationship becomes possible.

Descendants of this family match the Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype (WAMH), the commonest Y-chromosome DNA signature in North America.

Note: this family is affiliated with that of Joel Burgess of Laurens Co., South Carolina, John R. Burgess of Clay Co., Alabama, and Alphonso Davis of Wayne Co., Illinois.

Thomas Burgess Sr. had to have been born by 1757, if he is Thomas Burgess Jr.’s father. He appears on the personal property tax lists of Scott Co., Kentucky, from 1797-1806 (several earlier lists are illegible, and 1798 and part of 1807 are lost). His wife’s name is unknown. He has not been found in any census record. Thomas appears to have died about 1807 in Scott Co., Kentucky, having had at least one son:

*1. Thomas Burgess Jr. (1777?-1814) of Scott Co., KY

Only Son of Thomas Sr.

Thomas Burgess Jr. was born about 1765-78 (perhaps in 1777); his son Vincent’s 1880 census record states that the father was born in Kentucky, but this appears very unlikely. He married Nancy __ about 1800. He first appears on the personal property tax lists of Scott Co., Kentucky beginning in 1799 (1798 is lost), and continues to be listed through 1814, and also on the 1810 census, where he is specifically called “Thomas Burgess Junr.”, with three sons under the age of 10, one daughter aged 10-16, and the parents aged 26-45. He apparently died in Scott Co. in 1814, having had three sons:

1. Rev. William L. Burgess (1801?-1870+) of Scott Co., KY

2. Joseph R. Burgess (1807?-1850+) of Scott Co., KY

*3. Vincent A. Burgess (1811?-1880+) of Scott Co., KY

Vincent A. Burgess was born about 1811 in Scott Co., Kentucky. He married Anna Powell on 15 August 1831 in Switzerland Co., Indiana. He is listed from 1835 on the personal property tax lists of Scott Co., on the 1840-60 and 1880 censuses for Scott Co. (in 1880 he claims that both parents were born in Kentucky), and on 1870 in Grant Co., Kentucky. In 1840 he has two sons aged 5-10, one son and one daughter under the age of 5, with the parents aged 20-30. He died in Scott Co. after 1880, having had seven sons:

1. Son (1832?- ), died young?

2. John L. Burgess (1834-1900+) of Scott Co., KY

3. William T. (or H.) Burgess (1838-1860+) of Scott Co., KY

4. Milton S. Burgess (1842-1880+) of Grant Co., KY

5. Thomas Ranken Burgess (1844-1934) of Scott Co., KY

6. Joseph Burgess (1846-1870+) of Grant Co., KY

7. Charles Russell Burgess (1850-1940) of Owen Co., KY

Charles Russell Burgess is the ancestor of Anthony W. Burgess.

Test results received from one representative in this line match the numbers of the family of Joel Burgess of Laurens Co., South Carolina, John R. Burgess of Clay Co., Alabama, and Alphonso Davis of Wayne Co., Illinois; they have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown. Thomas Burgess Jr. could be the Thomas Burgess son of Joel Burgess, but this leaves the problem of Thomas Burgess Sr. unaccounted for. Indeed, if these two men are father and son (there is no proof of this relationship other than circumstantial evidence), then this line has to be a collateral line of the Joel family, with Thomas Sr. potentially becoming Joel’s brother or cousin. Thomas Burgess is more closely related to the line of Alphonso Davis than to the Joel Burgess family.

Note: This family is affiliated with that of Josiah Burgess of Monroe Co., New York, Benjamin Burgess of Saint John Co., New Brunswick, Canada, and Thomas Burgess of Barnstable Co., Massachusetts.

Thomas Burgess was born about 1776 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is listed in one unverified internet genealogy as being descended from Thomas Burgess Jr., son of Thomas Burgess Sr. of Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, but the chronology of this line seems questionable. He married Elizabeth Ann Card by 1806. He is listed in the 1851 census for Vaughn Township, York Co., Ontario, Canada. Other possible sons include Richard Burgess and Thomas Burgess, both also listed in the 1851 census in York Co. as having been born in Nova Scotia. He died at Woodbridge, York Co., Ontario, having had at least one son:

*1. Stephen Burgess (1807-1891+) of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Stephen Burgess was born on 23 January 1807 in Nova Scotia, Canada (his place of birth is given as Scotland in the 1881 census). He married Mary Ann Harling on 11 October 1832 (or 12 October 1833) at Eastport, Washington Co., Maine. He was living in Nova Scotia in 1841 when his son James was born. He is listed in the 1851 census for Vaughn Township, York Co., Ontario, Canada, and appears to be listed by himself in the 1881-91 censuses for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He supposedly died at Tillsonburg, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada, having had six sons:

1. Elias Burgess (1834?-1922) of Saginaw Co., MI; he is listed as the oldest child (age 17) in 1851

2. James Burgess (1837?-1910) of Niagara Falls, Welland Co., Ontario, Canada; he is listed as age 14 in 1851

3. George Franklin Burgess (1841-1919) of Genesee Co., MI

4. David Burgess (1845-1845?), died young before 1851

5. John Stephen Burgess (1850- ) of Kent Co., Ontario, Canada

6. Richard William Burgess (1852- )

George Franklin Burgess is the ancestor of Steven L. Burgess and Rhuland E. Burgess; Elias Burgess is the ancestor of Larry D. Burgess.

Test results received from one representative in this line match the numbers of the families of Josiah Burgess of Monroe Co., New York, Benjamin Burgess of Saint John Co., New Brunswick, Canada, and Thomas Burgess of Barnstable Co., Massachusetts. They have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown. However, a second representative of this family has numbers that do not match the first, indicating a possible break in the chain of descent.

Trinity Burgess was born about 1824 in South Carolina. She is listed in the 1850-60 censuses of Union Co., South Carolina—living next door to her in 1850 is Ann Burgess, born about 1814 in Georgia, with her young son, Felix Burgess. Trinity apparently died in the 1860s in Union Co., having had two sons:

1. James Edward Burgess (1844-1917) of Cherokee Co., SC

2. Lemuel Burgess (1848?-1913) of Union Co., SC

James Edward Burgess is the ancestor of Roy L. Burgess.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

Note: This family is affiliated with those of William Burgess of Bedford Co., Virginia, and William Burgess of King George Co., Virginia.

William Burgess was born between 1780 and 1790 in Virginia. He may be a son of William Burgess Jr. (born about 1755), a presumed son of William Burgess Sr. of Stafford Co., Virginia; or he may be William Burge(ss) (born 1783), son of Lunsford Burge(ss) of King George and Spotsylvania Cos., Virginia; both of these men were grandsons of William Burgess of King George Co., Virginia (see that family below). However, he is not one of the three William Burgesses who were grandsons of William Burgess of Bedford Co., Virginia, all of whom have been located and accounted for elsewhere. He may have married Sally Fleeman on 5 December 1814 in Albemarle Co., Virginia. He may be listed in the 1820 census for Louisa Co., Virginia, and in the personal property tax records there from 1818-20. He is listed in the 1828-48 personal property tax lists and 1830-40 censuses of Albemarle Co.; he may also be the William “B.” Burgess listed there in the personal property tax records between 1814-16. He likely died there about 1848, having had two sons:

1. William J. Burgess (1819?-1870+) of Albemarle Co., VA

*2. Lieut. Charles Tucker Burgess (1824-1890) of Wilson Co., TN

Lieut. Charles Tucker Burgess was born about 1824 in Virginia. He married Elizabeth Mary Hudson on 5 February 1845 in Albemarle Co., with William Burgess giving his written consent (Charles was underaged at the time). He is listed in the 1843 personal property tax list of Albemarle Co. as “Tricker” Burgess, and in 1844 there as Tucker Burgess. He settled in Wilson Co., Tennessee, where he appears on the 1850-80 census records (in 1870 as “George Burgess”). He served as a First Lieut. in Co. F, Smith’s (8^th) Cavalry, Confederate Army, during the Civil War. He died on 10 October 1890 at Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee, having had three sons:

1. Tolbert F. Burgess (1851-1871+) of Wilson Co., TN

2. Joseph Burgess (1855-1870+) of Wilson Co., TN

3. Samuel Thompson Burgess (1857-1926) of Nantucket Co., MA

Samuel Thompson Burgess is the ancestor of Edward R. Burgess.

Test results received from one representative of this line match those of descendants of William Burgess of Bedford Co., Virginia, and William Burgess of King George Co., Virginia; they have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown.

These families are likely descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages (Niall Nóigiallach), a fifth-century High King of Ireland who died about 450 A.D., and who is believed to be the ancestor of 21.5% of the male population of Northwestern Ireland—and of roughly two to three million present-day males.

Colonel William Burgess Sr. was born about 1622, probably in England, and came to America about 1650, living briefly in Virginia before settling in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. He married firstly to Elizabeth Robins about 1650, secondly to Sophia Ewen about 1660, and thirdly to Ursula __ about 1664. He was the single most prominent individual named Burgess during the Colonial Period in America. Col. William Burgess died on 24 January 1686/87 O.S. in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, having had seven sons, two by his first wife and five by his third:

*1. Capt. Edward Burgess Sr. (1651?-1722) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

2. George Burgess (1658?-1704) of Anne Arundel Co., MD, possibly extinct in the male line

3. John Burgess I (1665?-1686/1704) of Anne Arundel Co., MD, possibly extinct in the male line

4. William Burgess Jr. (1667?-1698) of Anne Arundel Co., MD, possibly extinct in the male line

5. Joseph Burgess (1669?-1706+) of Anne Arundel Co., MD, possibly extinct in the male line 

6. Benjamin Burgess (1675?-1706+) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

*7. Dr. Charles Burgess (1677?-1739/40) of Prince George’s Co., MD

Captain Edward Burgess Sr. was born 1651-55 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. He married Sarah Chew about 1686. He died in March 1722/23 O.S. at Londontown, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, having had four sons:

1. William Burgess II (1684?-1704) of Anne Arundel Co., MD, died childless

2. Edward Burgess Jr. (1686?-1714?) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

3. Samuel Chew Burgess (1688?-1742?) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

*4. John Burgess II (1696-1774) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

Fourth Son of Capt. Edward

John Burgess II was born on 17 August 1696 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. He married firstly Jane Mackelfresh in 1720, and secondly Matilda Sparrow on 22 January 1733/34 O.S. He died on 7 November 1773 at Londontown, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, having had eight sons, four by each wife:

1. William Burgess III (1721-1763?) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

2. Col. John Burgess Jr. (III) (1725-1793) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

*3. Capt. Joseph Burgess II (1727-1806) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

4. Edward Burgess III (1733?-1809) of Montgomery Co., MD

*5. Samuel West Burgess (1735-1772) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

6. West Burgess (1737-1777) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

7. Caleb Burgess (1739-1791) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

8. Benjamin Burgess II (1741?- )

Third Son of John II

Captain Joseph Burgess was born on 17 June 1727 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. He married Elizabeth Dorsey in 1751. He is listed in the 1790-1800 censuses for Anne Arundel Co. He died there in 1806, having had nine sons:

1. John Burgess IV (1751-1790+)

2. Lt. Joseph Burgess Jr. (1753-1780?) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

3. Michael Burgess (1754-1817) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

4. Vachel Burgess (1756-1824) of Anne Arundel (later Howard) Co., MD

5. Richard Burgess (1757-1821) of Allegany Co., MD

6. Joshua Burgess (1760-1831) of Mason Co., KY

7. Philemon Burgess (1761-1833?) of Mason Co., KY

8. William Burgess IV (1771-1804)

9. Joseph Burgess III (1780- )

Fifth Son of John II

Samuel West Burgess was born on 28 February 1734/35 O.S. in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. He married Jane Wyvell (or Wyvill) about 1765. He died on 7 January 1772 at Londontown, Anne Arundel Co., having had two sons:

*1. John West Burgess (1767-1815) of Frederick Co., VA

2. Benjamin Burgess (1769?- )

First Son of Samuel West

John West Burgess was born 14 September 1767 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. He married firstly Sarah Battee in 1787 in Anne Arundel Co., and secondly Sarah Simmons on 29 August 1796 in Anne Arundel Co. He is listed in the 1800 census for Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, and in 1810 in Frederick Co., Virginia. He died in Frederick Co. on 6 May 1815, having had at least two sons by his first wife, and as many as four sons by his second wife:

*1. Samuel W(est?) Burgess II (1788?-1847) of Rockingham Co., VA

2. West Burgess (1790-1854) of Harrison Co., IN

3. Son

4. Son

5. Son

6. Son

First Son of John West

Samuel W(est?) Burgess II was born about 1788 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. He settled in Rockingham Co., Virginia, by 1814, when he first appears on the personal property tax lists there. He married Maria(h) Fulton in 1818 in Rockingham Co. He is listed in the 1820-40 censuses for Rockingham Co. (in 1820 as W. Samuel, in 1840 as Samuel H.), and in the personal property tax lists there from 1814. He died there on 18 January 1847, having had three sons:

1. William McGill Burgess (1819-1833), died childless

2. James Henry Burgess (1829-1904) of Lewis Co., MO

3. Bazzel B. Burgess (1831-1877) of Lewis Co., MO

Dr. Charles Burgess Sr. was born between 1662 and 1677 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. He married Elizabeth (Thomas?) on 26 October 1703 in Anne Arundel Co. He served as a physician. Charles’s will, dated 14 December 1739 and probated 3 May 1740, was filed in Prince George’s Co., Maryland. He had five sons:

1. Richard Burgess (1707?- ) of Prince George’s Co., MD

*2. Charles Burgess Jr. (1710?- ) of Prince George’s Co., MD

3. William Burgess

4. Mordecai Burgess

5. Benjamin Burgess

Second Son of Dr. Charles

Charles Burgess Jr. was born about 1710 in Prince George’s Co., Maryland. He married Martha Waring. He died between 1741 and 1748, having had one known son:

*1. Basil Burgess Sr. (1741-1785?) of Anne Arundel Co., MD

Only Son of Charles Jr.

Capt. Basil Burgess Sr. was born 20 December 1741 in Prince George’s Co., Maryland. He married Anne Smith on 8 February 1759 in Prince George’s Co., Maryland. Basil Burgess served as a Captain in the Revolutionary War from 1780-83. He died in Anne Arundel Co. before 1790, having had five sons:

1. Richard Burgess (1759- )

2. William Frederick Augustus Burgess (1765- )

3. Charles Burgess III (1767- )

4. Basil Burgess Jr. (1768- )

*5. Walter Smith Burgess Sr. (1771-1815) of Union Co., IN

Fifth Son of Capt. Basil

Walter Smith Burgess Sr. was born 29 January 1771 in Howard Co., Maryland. He married Martha Logan on 20 November 1793 in Mason Co., Kentucky. He is listed in the 1800 personal property tax list for Mason Co., Kentucky, and in the 1810 census there. He settled in Union Co., Indiana, where he died on 18 October 1815, having had six sons:

1. James McKinley Burgess (1796-1879) of Lawrence Co., IL

2. Basil Burgess III (1799- )

3. John Logan Burgess (1800-1871)

4. William Smith Burgess (1802- )

5. Joseph Logan Burgess (1812- )

6. Walter Smith Burgess Jr. (1814- )

Summary

Richard Burgess is the ancestor of E. Carl Burgess; Joshua Burgess is the ancestor of David B. T. Burgess; James Henry Burgess is the ancestor of Charles E. Burgess; James McKinley Burgess is the ancestor of Harold E. Burgess.

Test results received from four representatives in this line match each other; they have a common male ancestor, Col. William Burgess. However, the numbers do not currently match those of any other Burgess Project family.

Note: this family is affiliated with those of William Burgess of Albemarle Co., Virginia, and William Burgess of King George Co., Virginia.

William Burgess Sr. was born by 1721, possibly in Virginia. He married Susannah __ by 1742. On 20 August 1760 he obtained a Virginia land grant (Patent Book #33, p. 858) of 195 acres on Byrd Creek in Albemarle (later Fluvanna) Co., Virginia, and later tripled his estate. He or his son William signed an indenture on 8 June 1769 with Charles Hudson for a debt of £60 to David Nowlin on Taylor Creek in Albemarle Co. On 10 September 1772 he purchased 200 acres of land on Great Byrd Creek (adjoining his earlier estate) in Albemarle Co. from John Thurmond. He or his son William signed a petition to the Virginia Legislature from Albemarle Co. in 1777 protesting the poor road conditions there, but moved to Bedford Co., Virginia, shortly thereafter.

William died in 1778 in Bedford Co., Virginia. His will, which was dated 23 April 1778 and probated 27 July 1778 (Bedford Co. Will Book #1, p. 307-08, with inventory dated 15 May 1779), notes four daughters (Isabel, Mary, Frankey, and Betty [i.e., Elizabeth]), and four sons, with his presumed oldest son, Edward, and his widow, Susannah, serving as executors, and identifies three adjoining plots of 200 acres each on Byrd Creek in Fluvanna Co., giving one section to Watt Johnson, ordering that a second farm of 200 acres to be sold, with the proceeds being divided between Edward and John, and giving the third estate to his third son, William Jr., “being the place where my said son now dwells”; a fourth section of 151 acres in Bedford Co., “being the place wherein I now dwell,” is given to Susannah, and after her death to his fourth son, Thomas. William had four sons:

*1. Edward Burgess Sr. (1743-1835) of Lawrence Co., KY

*2. John Burgess I (1744-1835) of Fluvanna Co., VA

*3. William Burgess Jr. (1746-1798) of Pittsylvania Co., VA

*4. Thomas Burgess Sr. (1755-1840) of Logan Co., VA (later WV)

Edward Burgess Sr. was born about 1743 in Albemarle (later Fluvanna) Co., Virginia; in his Revolutionary War pension application, he gives his age as about 74 on 18 March 1818, 75 on 21 December 1819, and 78 on 16 September 1822. He married Anne “Nancy” Francis about 1765, perhaps in Saint Anne’s Parish, Goochland Co., Virginia, where Garland Burgess was christened a year later. On 16 December 1771 he witnessed a deed on Little Bacon Creek in Albemarle Co. between Jesse Creasey and Rene Woodson. He served as a Private in Capt. Newell’s Company, Col. Abraham Buford’s Regiment, Revolutionary War, from 1779-81, and later received a pension for his service (#S35806). According to a deposition that he later gave in Floyd Co., Kentucky, on 18 March 1818, Edward was living in Bedford Co., Virginia in 1775/76 near Thomas Hamilton, and had been living in Floyd Co. since 1806. He or his son Edward is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 7 August 1798 (as overseer of the East River Road) and 2 July 1799. He is listed in the 1810-20 censuses for Floyd Co., Kentucky. He died on 5 October 1835 in Lawrence Co., Kentucky, having had five sons:

1. Garland Burgess (1766-1832) of Floyd Co., KY; he is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 4 August 1789

2. Edward Burgess Jr. (1772-1839) of Lawrence Co., KY; he is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 4 August 1789; he was serving as a Justice of the Peace in Lawrence Co. in 1822

3. Henry Burgess I (1773-1860+) of Lawrence Co., KY; he is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 4 August 1789

4. John Burgess III (1777-1858) of Platte Co., MO

5. William Burgess IV (1782?-1861?) of Leavenworth Co., KS

Unknown Relationship: Joseph A. Davidson

Joseph A. Davidson was born on 15 April 1802 in Virginia, probably the natural child of one of the sons of Edward Burgess. He married his presumed first cousin, Nancy Shannon Burgess, daughter of John Burgess III, on 7 August 1825 in Lawrence Co., Kentucky. He is listed in the 1830 census for Lawrence Co., and from 1840-60 in Platte Co., Missouri. He died there on 10 February 1863, having had five sons:

1. Wesley S. Davidson (1828-1915) of Lyon Co., KS

2. John Alexander Burgess Davidson (1834-1900) of Livingston Co., MO

3. Milton J. Davidson (1834-1834), died childless

4. Joseph A. Davidson (1839-1885) of Platte Co., MO

5. Cornelious McGuire B(urgess?) Davidson (1844-1925) of Platte Co., MO

John Burgess I was born about 1744 in Albemarle (later Fluvanna) Co., Virginia; on his Revolutionary War pension application, he states that he was born in Fluvanna Co., and was 88 years old on 15 May 1833, and 89 years old on 3 October 1833. He married Elizabeth Saunders in 1775 in Fluvanna Co., Virginia. He served as a Private for three months in 1775 in Capt. William Henry’s Company, fighting Indians in the western part of the state on the Holstein River; and in 1776 for six months in Capt. Roger Thompson’s Company, the Revolutionary War; and later received a pension for his service (#S8113). He died there on 16 February 1835, having had six sons:

1. William Henry Burgess (1776?-1821?) of Buckingham Co., VA; he is listed in the 1812-14 personal property tax lists of Fluvanna Co., and in 1807 and from 1817-20 in Buckingham Co.; his estate is recorded on the 1821 tax list there

2. Pleasant Monroe Burgess (1778-1857) of Monroe Co., MO

3. George Washington Burgess (1780- )

4. Nathaniel Green Burgess (1785?-1813+) of Maury Co., TN; he served as a Lieut. in the 46^th Regiment, Tennessee Militia, the War of 1812, from Maury Co., enlisting on 8 November 1813

*5. Jack Meredith Burgess, who is believed to be the same person as John Meredith Burgess (1788?-1838?) of Kanawha Co., WV

6. Daniel Morgan Burgess (1790-1865) of Buckingham Co., VA

Fifth Son of John

John Meredith Burgess, also called Jack Meredith Burgess, was born about 1788 in Virginia. He settled in Kanawha Co., Virginia (later West Virginia) about 1811. He married Judith Cobb(s) there in 1812. He is listed in the 1820 census for Kanawha Co., and in the personal property tax lists there from 1811-30, and again from 1837-38, but has not been found in the 1830 census. He died there about 1838, having had four sons:

1. Capt. George Washington Burgess Sr. (1813?-1875) of Benton Co., MO, extinct in the male line

*2. Fleming Cobb Burgess Sr. (1815-1883) of Kanawha Co., WV

3. Thomas C. Burgess (1817?-1898?) of Mason Co., WV

4. John Dickinson Burgess (1824?-1875) of Presidio Co., TX

Second Son of John Meredith

Fleming Cobb Burgess Sr. was born 25 January 1815 near Spring Hill, Kanawha Co., Virginia (later West Virginia). He married firstly Adelia (or Adelaide) Margaret Wood on 24 December 1835 in Kanawha Co., and secondly (Margaret) Ann Harshbarger about 1867. He is listed in the 1850-80 censuses for Kanawha Co., and in the personal property tax lists there from 1833. He died on 5 February 1883 at St. Albans, Kanawha Co., West Virginia, having had six sons, all by his first wife:

1. James Washington Burgess (1837-1904) of Cabell Co., WV

2. John Meredith Burgess II (1842-1931) of Kanawha Co., WV

3. William Henry Burgess (II) (1844-1854), died young

4. Henry A. W(ood?) Burgess (1855-1892?) of Cabell Co., WV

*5. George Edgar Burgess (1858-1936) of Kanawha Co., WV

6. Fleming Cobb Burgess Jr. (1865-1920+) of Montgomery Co., OH

Fifth Son of Fleming Cobb Sr.

George Edgar Burgess was born on 20 February 1858 in Kanawha Co., Virginia (later West Virginia). He married firstly Laura E. Riffle on 21 April 1881 in Kanawha Co., and secondly Leah Jividen on 23 March 1901 in Putnam Co., West Virginia. He is listed in the 1900-10 and 1930 censuses for Putnam Co., and in 1920 in Kanawha Co. He died on 13 October 1936 in Kanawha Co., having had four sons:

1. Robert E. Burgess (1882-1900) of Putnam Co., WV, died childless

2. Walter Miller Burgess (1885-1954) of Kanawha Co., WV

3. Fleming Cobb Burgess IV (1894-1920+) of Warrick Co., IN

4. William Stevens Burgess (1897-1982) of Kanawha Co., WV

William Burgess Jr. was born about 1746 in Albemarle (later Fluvanna) Co., Virginia. He married Jane Pigg on 7 August 1770 in Albemarle Co., Virginia. He lived in both Fluvanna and Pittsylvania Cos., Virginia. He is listed on the 1782-97 personal property tax lists in Pittsylvania Co., with his wife appearing as head of the family in 1798; and also on the land tax records there from 1786-1800. He died in Pittsylvania Co. in 1798, having had four sons:

1. Pendleton Burgess (1771-1847) of Pittsylvania Co., VA

2. Harrison Burgess (1773-1865) of Giles Co., TN

*3. John Burgess II (1775-1837) of Pittsylvania Co., VA

4. William Burgess III (1777-1810+) of Pittsylvania Co., VA

Third Son of William Jr.

John Burgess II was born about 1775 in Virginia. He married Mary McMillon on 12 August 1799 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. He is listed there on the 1820-30 censuses (the 1800-1810 censuses having been lost), on the personal property tax lists there from 1810-34, and on the land tax records there from 1810-28+. He died there about 1834, having had six sons:

1. Henry Burgess II (1806-1861) of Floyd Co., VA (later WV)

2. Lewis Burgess (1808?- )

3. Stephen Burgess (1812?- )

4. William P. Burgess (18147?- )

5. Francis Burgess (1816?- )

6. Pleasant Madison Burgess (1818-1867) of Warren Co., MO

Thomas Burgess Sr. was born about 1755 (possibly on 22 November 1754), probably in Albemarle (later Fluvanna) Co., Virginia. He married Wynna Caudle on 21 December 1789 in Bedford Co., Virginia. He bought 4 acres of land in August 1805 from John Toney on the East River in Montgomery (later Giles) Co., Virginia, and is listed there in the 1810 census (with one son aged 16-26, one 10-16, and three under the age of 10), and also on the 1815 tax list there. He leased 100 acres of land on Buffalo Creek from John Preston on 24 July 1822 in Cabell Co., (West) Virginia, in the section that became Logan Co. in 1824, and is listed in the 1820 census there, with one son aged 16-26, and three under the age of 10. He is listed in 1830 census in Logan Co., (West) Virginia, with two sons age 15-20, and one aged 10-15. He died there in 1840 (perhaps on 13 October 1839), being recorded on the personal property tax list for that year but not in the census, having had nine sons:

1. Hiram Burgess (1791-1857) of Raleigh Co., VA (later WV)

2. Meredith Burgess (1797-1870+) of Logan Co., WV

3. John A. “Jackson” Burgess (1799-1880+) of Kanawha Co., WV

*4. Tandy Burgess (1800?-1865?) of Logan Co., WV

5. David Burgess (1800?-1880+) of Lincoln Co., WV

6. Andrew Burgess (1806-1831+) of Logan Co., VA

7. William Burgess V (1814?-1855+) of Logan Co., WV

8. Thomas Burgess Jr. (1814?-1870+) of Logan Co., WV

9. Austin Burgess (1815?-1830+) of Logan Co., WV

Fourth Son of Thomas Sr.

Tandy Burgess was born about 1800 in Virginia. He married Elizabeth Browning about 1825. He is listed in the 1830-60 censuses for Logan Co., Virginia (later West Virginia). He died there after 1860, having had six sons:

*1. Calvin M. Burgess (1827-1910+) of Logan Co., WV

2. Hiram Burgess (1828-1879+) of Logan Co., WV

3. William T. Burgess (1830-1873+) of Logan Co., WV

4. Cornelius Burgess (1835-1897) of Boone Co., WV

5. James P. Burgess (1843-1875) of Logan Co., WV

6. Ballard P. Burgess (1849-1925) of Logan Co., WV

First Son of Tandy

Calvin M. Burgess was born about 1827 in Logan Co., Virginia (later West Virginia). He married firstly Jane Vance about 1851, and secondly Charlotte Mahan about 1873. He died after 1910 in Logan Co., West Virginia, having had eight sons, five by his first wife, and three by his second:

1. Aaron A. Burgess (1857-1941) of Logan Co., WV

2. (Ulysses) Pribble Burgess (1859-1892?) of Boone Co., WV; he is listed on a number of unverified internet records as having died on 15 December 1872 in Boone Co., but since he is believed to be the father of (Ulysses) Floyd Burgess (who was born on 27 May 1887 [or 1889] in Mingo Co., WV), the “1872” may be a mistranscription for “1892”; however, he has not been found in the 1880 census

3. Calvin M. Graves “Grover” Burgess (1863-1941) of Logan Co., WV

4. James Marion B. Burgess (1864-1930+) of Logan Co., WV

5. Charles Burgess (1867-1870+), died young?

6. John Burgess (1874-1915) of Logan Co., WV

7. Edward Burgess (1880-1905) of Logan Co., WV

8. Leander D. “Lee” Burgess (1887-1968) of Franklin Co., OH

Summary

James Washington Burgess is the ancestor of Thomas D. Burgess III; Henry A. W. Burgess is the ancestor of Robert J. Burgess III; William Stevens Burgess is the ancestor of Montford O. Burgess, Jr.; John Dickinson Burgess is the ancestor of David M. Burgess; Henry Burgess I is the ancestor of Mark A. Burgess; John Burgess III is the ancestor of Orville E. Burgess; Wesley S. Davidson is the ancestor of Ronald J. Davidson; Henry Burgess II is the ancestor of Leroy G. Burgess; Pleasant Madison Burgess is the ancestor of Charles O. Burgess; Ulysses Pribble Burgess is the ancestor of Joseph G. Burgess; Cornelius Burgess is the ancestor of James A. Burgess.

Test results received from many representatives in this line match each other; they have a common male ancestor, William Burgess Sr.; however, one representative from this line does not match with the others, indicating a break in the chain of descent. They also match the markers of the male descendants of William Burgess of King George Co., Virginia, but chronological conflicts preclude the possibility that one line descends from the other; the family also shares a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown, with the family of William Burgess of Albemarle Co., Virginia.

These families are likely descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages (Niall Nóigiallach), a fifth-century High King of Ireland who died about 450 A.D., and who is believed to be the ancestor of 21.5% of the male population of Northwestern Ireland—and of roughly two to three million present-day males.

William Burgess was born March 1843 at Brownhill, Burslem, Staffordshire Co., England, the son of Sarah Burgess; Sarah is listed as a widow in the 1851 census for Burslem, Staffordshire Co. (she may be the Sarah Burgess who is listed as the wife of a potter, William Burgess, in the 1841 Burslem census). He had a younger brother, Frederick Burgess. He married Harriet Cooper about 1864. He is listed in the 1871 census for Burslem, Staffordshire Co., in 1900 in Summit Co., Ohio, and in 1910 in Columbiana Co., Ohio, and is noted in all three censuses as a potter; he has not been found in the 1881 census for Great Britain, or in the 1880 census for the United States. He died in Columbiana Co. after 1910, having had five sons:

1. Samuel Bennett Burgess (1865-1931) of Columbiana Co., OH

2. Thomas Bennett Burgess (1869-1936) of Columbiana Co., OH

3. William Bennett Burgess (1879-1941) of Columbiana Co., OH

4. John Bennett Burgess (1881-1951) of Mahoning Co., OH

5. George Burgess (1882-1900+) of Columbiana Co., OH

Thomas Bennett Burgess is the ancestor of Thomas E. Burgess.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

William [Martin] Burgess was born about 1776 at Helston, Cornwall Co., England, supposedly the natural son of Elizabeth Martin and by reputation of Francis Basset (1757-1835), 1st Baron de Dunstanville and 1st Baron Basset of Stratton; he was adopted by Thomas Burgess, taking his surname. He married Mary Eudey on 8 July 1807 at Camborne, Cornwall Co. He is listed in the 1841-51 censuses for Illogan, Penwith, Cornwall Co., England, and in 1861 at Camborne, Cornwall Co. He was known for his lively importing business on the Cornwall coast. He died in 1862 at Helston, Cornwall Co., England, having had eight sons:

1. William Burgess Jr. (1808-1850) of Cornwall Co., UK

2. Henry Burgess (1810-1859?) of Cornwall Co., UK

3. Parmenas Burgess (1814?-1815?), died young

4. John Burgess (1815?-1898) of Cornwall Co., UK

5. Edward Burgess (1816-1892) of Cornwall Co., UK

6. Charles Burgess (1820?-1902)

7. Parmenas Martin Burgess (1822-1882) of London, Surrey, England, died childless

8. George Burgess (1824-1887) of Cornwall Co., UK

George Burgess is the ancestor of Christopher Burgess.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

William Burgess Sr. was born about 1822 at North Molton, Devonshire Co., England. He married Mary Rodgers in 1846 at St. Columb Major, Cornwall Co., England. He may be the William Burgess who was born 2 August 1821 at North Molton, Devonshire Co., the son of John Burgess and Catherine Avery. He may also be listed in the 1841 census for Phillack, Penwith, Cornwall Co., living with William Burgess (born about 1782) and his wife Ann, or with Mary Burgess (an innkeeper) at Barnstable, Devonshire Co. He is listed in the 1851-71 censuses for St. Columb Major, Cornwall Co., England, and alone in 1881 at Liskeard, Cornwall Co., working for Samuel Luxton. He was a wool comber and hostler. William died at Liskeard later in 1881, having had six sons:

1. John Burgess (1848-1901+) of Hackney, London, England

2. Thomas Burgess (1850-1893) of St. Columb, Cornwall Co., England

3. William Burgess Jr. (1852- )

4. Edwin Burgess (1853- )

5. Charles Burgess (1858- )

6. Harry Burgess (1866- )

John Burgess is the ancestor of John C. Burgess.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

Rev. William Burgess Sr. was born 5 October 1742, possibly in Surry Co., Virginia. He married firstly an unknown wife about 1772, and secondly (Mary) Agnes Partain about 1781. He served in the Revolutionary War from the Edenton District, North Carolina. He was a Methodist Episcopal minister. He moved successively to the Ninety-Sixth District, South Carolina, by 1784, to North Carolina by 1792, to Giles Co., Tennessee by 1798, and to Franklin Co., Alabama about 1813, but has not been found in any census record. He died in Franklin Co. on 5 October 1838, having had seven sons, one by his first wife, and six by his second:

*1. Joshua Burgess (1773-1849) of Greenville Co., SC

2. Richard Burgess (1782?-1850) of Jackson Co., AR

*3. Benjamin Burgess (1784-1864) of Franklin Co., AL

4. William Burgess Jr. (1785?-1862) of Alabama

5. Rabon Ellis Burgess (1792-1862) of Franklin Co., AL

6. Charles Noah Burgess (1795-1855) of Itawamba, MS

7. Partain Burgess (1811?-1882) of Franklin Co., AL

Joshua Burgess was born about 1773 in South Carolina. He married Margaret Holeman about 1808. He is listed in the 1820-40 censuses for Greenville Co., South Carolina. He died there on 29 July 1849, having had five sons:

1. William Rugless Burgess (1809-1869) of Pickens Co., SC

2. Simeon Ellis Burgess (1811-1888) of Pickens Co., SC

3. Benjamin Edward Burgess (1812-1864) of FL

4. Joshua D. Burgess (1816-1845) of Pickens Co., SC

5. John DeMarcus Burgess (1820-1911) of Gilmer Co., GA

Benjamin Burgess was born about 1793 in South Carolina. He married Lydia Ramsey about 1824. He is listed in the 1830-60 censuses for Franklin Co., Alabama. He died there in 1864, having had at least two sons:

1. Richard Franklin Burgess (1826-1865) of Franklin Co., AL

2. Lewis Wesley Burgess (1829-1860+) of Scott Co., AL

Simeon Ellis Burgess is the ancestor of W. Harold Burgess; Richard Franklin Burgess is the ancestor of John E. Burgess.

Test results received from two representative of this line match each other; they have a common male ancestor, William Burgess Sr. These results prove that Joshua Burgess, suspected by some researchers of being unrelated to this line, is in fact genetically connected to it.

Note: this family is affiliated with those of William Burgess of Bedford Co., Virginia, and William Burgess of Albemarle Co., Virginia.

William Burgess I was born by 1670, probably in the British Isles. His wife’s name is unknown. He died in April 1712 in Saint Mary’s Parish, Richmond (later King George) Co., Virginia, having had (according to his will) one son:

*1. Edward Burgess Sr. (1699?-1759) of King George and Stafford Cos., VA

Edward Burgess Sr. was born about 1699. He married Margaret Fewell, daughter of Henry Fewell, about 1720 in King George Co., Virginia. He died in 1759 in Stafford (later King George) Co., Virginia, having had five sons:

*1. Garner Burgess (1726?-1790) of Fauquier Co., VA

*2. William Burgess II (1730?-1780) of Stafford Co., VA

*3. Edward Burgess Jr. (1739-1819) of Fauquier Co., VA

*4. Moses Burgess I (1742-1796) of Orange Co., VA

*5. Reuben Burgess Sr. (1745-1820) of Rowan (later Davie) Co., NC

Garner Burgess was born about 1726 in King George Co., Virginia. He married Anne Barbee on 19 February 1750/51 O.S. in Stafford Co., Virginia. He is listed in the personal property tax lists of Fauquier Co., Virginia, from 1782-90. He died in 1790 in Fauquier Co., having had three sons:

1. Edward Burgess III (1764?-1798) of Culpeper (later Rappahannock) Co., VA

2. John Burgess Sr. (1767?-1846?) of Harrison Co., KY, and Putnam Co., IN

3. James Burgess (1769-1798) of Fauquier Co., VA, died childless

William Burgess Sr. (II) was born about 1730 in King George Co., Virginia. He married Bathsheba Courtney on 19 January 1755 O.S. in Stafford Co., Virginia. He died about 1780 in Stafford Co., Virginia, having had at least three sons:

1. William Burgess III “Jr.” (1755?-1787+) of Stafford Co. VA, unproven and issue unknown

*2. Henry Burgess I (1775?-1813) of Fleming Co., KY

3. Edward Burgess V (1777-1858) of Scott Co., KY

Second Son of William Sr.

Henry Burgess was born about 1775 in Stafford Co., Virginia. He married Elizabeth Mauzy on 12 May 1797 in Bourbon Co., Kentucky. He was shot and killed in 1813 while on a trip to Vincennes, Knox Co., Indiana, having had three sons:

1. William Burgess VII (1798?-1847) of Fleming Co., KY

*2. John Henry Burgess (1801-1891) of Blue Earth Co., MN

3. George Washington Burgess I (1805-1893) of Fleming Co., KY

Second Son of Henry

John Henry Burgess was born on 15 July 1801 in Bourbon Co., KY. He married Martha “Patsy” Lawson on 18 February 1824 in Fleming Co., Kentucky. He is listed in the 1830 census for Fleming Co., in 1840-50 in Parke Co., Indiana, in 1860 in Putnam Co., Indiana, and in the 1865-85 state and federal censuses for Blue Earth Co., Minnesota. He died there on 20 July 1891, having had nine sons:

1. Rev. William Henry Burgess (1825-1904) of Blue Earth Co., MN

2. George Washington Burgess (1826-1917) of Carroll Co., MO

3. John Marion Burgess (1828-1909) of Montgomery Co., IN; extinct in the male line

4. Jacob Lawson Burgess (1832-1881) of Blue Earth Co., MN

5. Thomas Fleming Burgess (1833-1911) of Whitman Co., WA

6. Monroe Harrison Burgess (1835?-1835?), died young

7. James Sylvester Burgess (1837-1901?) of Jefferson Co., IL

8. Harrison Monroe Burgess (1840-1891) of Blue Earth Co., MN; extinct in the male line

9. Barton Warren Burgess (1844?-1848), died young

Edward Burgess Jr. was born on 27 November 1739 O.S. in King George Co., Virginia. He married Sarah “Sally” Price on 20 February 1765 in Stafford Co., Virginia. He is listed in the 1810 census for Fauquier Co., Virginia, in the personal property tax lists of Prince William Co., Virginia, from 1782-85, and on the tax lists of Fauquier Co. from 1787-1819. He died on 4 March 1819 in Fauquier Co., Virginia, having had three sons:

1. William Burgess IV (1766-1846) of Seneca Co., OH

*2. John Burgess III (1771-1855) of Fauquier Co., VA

3. Mason Peyton Burgess (1776-1845) of Orange Co., IN

Second Son of Edward Jr.

John Burgess III was born on 11 June 1771 in Prince William Co., Virginia. He married Charlotte Johnston on 12 November 1805 in Fauquier Co., VA. He is listed in the 1810-40 censuses of Fauquier Co., Virginia, and in 1850 in Prince William Co., Virginia; he is also listed on the personal property tax lists of Fauquier Co. beginning in 1789. He died on 12 December 1855 in Fauquier Co., VA, having had six sons:

1. Moses Burgess III (1808-1858) of Prince William Co., VA

2. Peyton Price Burgess (1810-1892) of Fauquier Co., VA

3. John Wesley Burgess Sr. (1812-1880+) of Fauquier Co., VA

4. Addison Burgess (1814-1887) of Fauquier Co., VA

5. Edward Burgess X (1823-1906) of Fauquier Co., VA; died childless

6. Dawson Jackson Burgess Sr. (1828-1896) of Fauquier Co., VA

Moses Burgess I was born on 2 December 1742 O.S. in King George Co., Virginia. He married firstly Elizabeth Price on 30 May 1762 in Stafford Co., Virginia, and secondly Margaret “Peggy” Bennett about 1784. He is listed in the 1782-83 personal property tax lists of King George Co., Virginia, and in Orange Co., Virginia from 1785-96. He died in late 1796 in Orange Co., having had three sons:

1. Lunsford Burge(ss) (1762-1788+) of King George Co., VA; issue uncertain

2. John P. Buckner Burgess Sr. (1764-1833?) of Halifax Co., Virginia

3. Maj. Edward Burgess IV (1767-1847?) of Kanawha Co., WV

Reuben Burgess Sr. was born on 12 February 1744/45 O.S. in King George Co., Virginia. He married Margaret Stribling on 1 September 1765 in Stafford (later King George) Co., Virginia. He is listed from 1783-88 on the personal property tax lists of Stafford Co., Virginia, from 1789-99 on the tax lists of Albemarle Co., Virginia, and on the 1800-20 censuses for Rowan (later Davie) Co., North Carolina. He died in the summer of 1820 in Rowan (later Davie) Co., North Carolina, having had three sons:

1. William Burgess III (1769-1849?) of Davie Co., NC, possibly extinct in the male line

2. Reuben Burgess Jr. (1772-1839?) of Davie Co., NC, possibly extinct in the male line

*3. Thomas Burgess Sr. (1776?-1830) of White (later Putnam) Co., TN

Third Son of Reuben Sr.

Thomas Burgess Sr. was born about 1776 in Stafford Co., VA. He married Mary Hunter about 1800. He is listed in the 1800-10 censuses for Rowan (later Davie) Co., North Carolina, and in 1820-30 in White (later Putnam) Co., Tennessee; he also appears in the tax records of White Co. from 1816-29. He purchased 334 acres of land from William Stinson in White (later Putnam) Co. on 8 February 1815. He drowned in 1830 while trying to cross the Cumberland River, having had seven sons:

1. George Washington Burgess I (1804-1873) of Putnam Co., TN

2. Charles Hunter Burgess (1806-1886) of Putnam Co., TN

3. Anderson Burgess (1808-1899) of Warren Co., MO

4. Joel Burgess I (1812-1880) of Putnam Co., TN

5. Thomas Burgess Jr. (1815-1900) of Washington Co., AR

6. William (W.) Burgess (1816?-1843+); he enlisted in the U.S. Army on 2 March 1834 and deserted on 4 July 1834; he is mentioned in a 22 February 1843 letter from Anderson Burgess to his brother Charles as being “in the regular service”; he has not been identified in any census; issue unknown

7. King Hiram Burgess I (1820-1910) of Cumberland Co., TN

Summary

Edward Burgess III is the ancestor of James A. Burgess; John Burgess Sr. is the ancestor of Milo W. Burgess; Rev. William Henry Burgess is the ancestor of Donald L. Burgess; Thomas Fleming Burgess is the ancestor of Michael R. Burgess and __ Burgess; Moses Burgess III is the ancestor of Robert C. Burgess and James S. Burgess; Edward Burgess IV is the ancestor of David A. Burgess; Thomas Burgess Jr. is the ancestor of Charles F. Burgess; King Hiram Burgess I is the ancestor of Jerry D. Burgess II and Richard R. Burgess.

Test results received from many representatives in this line confirm a genetic relationship between these seventh cousins; they have a common male ancestor, Edward Burgess Sr. of King George Co., Virginia. The markers also match the numbers of the descendants of William Burgess of Bedford Co., Virginia, and William Burgess of Albemarle Co., Virginia; they have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown.

These families are likely descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages (Niall Nóigiallach), a fifth-century High King of Ireland who died about 450 A.D., and who is believed to be the ancestor of 21.5% of the male population of Northwestern Ireland—and of roughly two to three million present-day males of various surnames.

William Burgess was born about 1699, probably in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire Co., England. He married Elizabeth Bostock on 5 November 1720 at Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, Manchester, Lancashire Co., England. He died there after 1727, having had four sons:

*1. Arthur Burgess (1721-1761+) of Lancashire Co., England

2. William Burgess Jr. (1723- )

3. John Burgess (1724-1724), died young

4. Joseph Burgess (1727- )

Arthur Burgess was born before 31 July 1721 at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire Co., England. He married Mary Heward on 16 April 1745 at Ashton-under-Lyne. He died there after 1761, having had three sons:

*1. William Burgess III (1750-1811+) of Lancashire Co., England

2. Joseph Burgess II (1756- )

3. George Burgess (1759- )

First Son of Arthur

William Burgess III was born about 1750 in Lancashire Co., England (he was christened on 5 December 1753). He married firstly Mary Ogden on 11 November 1770 at Ashton-under-Lyne, and secondly Mary Hague on 6 June 1774 at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire Co., England. He is recorded there as a manufacturer in the 1811 census. He died there after 1811, having had three sons:

1. George Burgess II (1776- )

2. Joseph Burgess III (1781- )

*3. Arthur Burgess II (1782-1841) of Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, Lancashire Co., England

Third Son of William III

Arthur Burgess II was born before 7 December 1782 (his christening date) at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire Co., England. He married Kitty Seel on 25 May 1806 at Ashton-under-Lyne. He is listed in the 1832 Manchester and Salford Trade Directory working as a victualler (innkeeper) at Mason’s Arms, and in the 1841 census for Ashton-under-Lyne working as a publican. He also worked as a stone mason. He died there later in 1841, having had three sons:

1. William Burgess IV (1806- )

*2. Samuel Burgess (1809-1880) of Stalybridge, Lancashire Co., England

3. John Burgess II (1816- )

Second Son of Arthur II

Samuel Burgess was born 31 January 1809 at Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, Lancashire Co., England. He married Ann Robson on 20 May 1833 at Mottram-in-Longdendale, Chester Co., England. He is listed in the 1837 and 1851-71 censuses for Ashton-under-Lyne, working as a stone mason, but has not been found in 1841. He died there on 2 May 1880, having had two sons:

1. Thomas Burgess (1834-1901+) of Lancashire Co., England

*2. John James Burgess (1837-1884) of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Second Son of Samuel

(John) James Burgess was born 26 October 1837 at Manchester, Lancashire Co., England. He immigrated to Canada in 1857. He married Elizabeth Purchase on 9 August 1867 at Don Mills, Ontario, Canada. He is listed in the 1871 and 1891 censuses for York Co., Ontario, and in 1881 and 1901 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, working as a carpenter; he has not been found in 1911. He died there on 6 February 1918, having had four sons:

1. William Burgess V (1869-1944) of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2. John Frederick Burgess (1870-1961)

3. Henry Burgess (1876-1965) of Ontario, Canada

4. James Johnathan Burgess (1878-1945) of Hanna, Alberta, Canada

William Burgess V is the ancestor of Richard W. Burgess; James Johnathan Burgess is the ancestor of James J. Burgess.

Test results received from two representatives of this line match each other; they have a common male ancestor, John James Burgess. However, they do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

William Burgess was born about 1755, possibly in Virginia. He is first mentioned as buying 40 acres of land on the Green River in Tryon Co., North Carolina, on 17 January 1776, the western half of which became Rutherford Co., North Carolina in 1779. He married Eleanor (or Elinor) __ about 1779. He is listed in the 1790-1800 censuses for Rutherford Co., North Carolina, and in Marion Co., Tennessee in 1830, but has not been found in 1810 or 1820. He settled in Marion Co. about 1805 and certainly by 1818, when he patented land there. He died in Marion Co. between 1830 and 1840, having had five sons:

1. William Burgess Jr. (1780?-1830+) of Marion Co., TN

2. John Burgess Sr. (1784?-1862) of Blount Co., AL

*3. James Burgess (1799?-1870+) of Cherokee Co., AL

4. King N. Burgess (1803?-1850+) of Cherokee Co., AL

5. Samuel Burgess (1805?-1860+) of Polk Co., AR

James Burgess was born about 1799 in Rutherford Co., North Carolina. He married Nancy Melvina (Jones?) about 1820. He moved to Bledsoe Co., Tennessee by 1824, appearing in the census there in 1830. He settled in Floyd Co., Georgia about 1833, and is listed there in the 1840 census. He is listed in the 1850-70 censuses for Cherokee Co., Alabama. He died there before 1880, having had five sons:

1. William Madison Burgess (1822-1899) of Howard Co., AR

2. Pleasant Monroe Burgess (1824?-1899) of Howard Co., AR

3. Joseph Montgomery Burgess (1825-1897) of Howard Co., AR

4. Franklin Burgess (1829-1897) of Cherokee Co., AL

5. Nimrod Burgess (1833-1860+) of Cherokee Co., AL

Pleasant Monroe Burgess is the ancestor of Coy V. Burgess; Joseph Montgomery Burgess is the ancestor of Dick L. Burgess.

Test results received from two representatives of this line match each other; they have a common male ancestor, James Burgess. However, they do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

Note: This family is affiliated with those of John Burgess of Canterbury Region, New Zealand, Ralph Burgess of Cheshire Co., England, and William Burgess of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.

William Burgess Sr. was born about 1650 in Cambridge (or in Charlestown), Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. He married Hannah Stevenson on 20 May 1684 O.S. at Cambridge. He died there after 1695, having had at least two sons:

*1. William Burgess Jr. (1686-1715) of Nantucket Co., MA

2. John Burgess (1687- ) of Nantucket Co., MA

William Burgess Jr. was born on 2 March 1686 at Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. He married Eleanor Monroe (of the Lexington Monroe family) on 21 August 1707 O.S. at Charlestown, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. He died in a boating accident on 18 May 1715 O.S. at Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts, having had two sons:

1. William Burgess III (1708- ) of Middlesex Co., MA

*2. Ebenezer Burgess (1714-1807) of Worcester Co., MA

Second Son of William Jr.

Ebenezer Burgess Sr. was born on 23 September 1714 O.S. at Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. He was adopted by his mother’s Monroe family at the age of fifteen. He married Hannah Loughton on 4 October 1739 O.S. at Lexington, and secondly Rachel Farnsworth on 11 May 1762. He served as a minuteman on 19 April 1775, fighting in the Revolutionary War against the British. He is listed in the 1790-1800 censuses for Harvard Town, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. He died there about 20 December 1807, having had nine sons, six by his first wife and three by his second:

1. Ebenezer Burgess Jr. (1743-1829) of Worcester Co., MA

2. William Burgess IV (1745-1748) of Worcester Co., MA, died young

*3. William Burgess V (1751-1785) of Worcester Co., MA

4. John Burgess II (1753-1829) of Middlesex Co., MA

5. Solomon Burgess (1756- ) of Worcester or Middlesex Co., MA

6. Thomas Burgess (1761-1835) of Middlesex Co., MA

7. Marrett Burgess Sr. (1765-1834) of Worcester Co., MA

8. Josiah Burgess (1767- ) of Middlesex Co., MA

9. Loammi Burgess (1770-1825) of Worcester Co., MA

Third Son of Ebenezer Sr.

William Burgess V was born on 5 January 1751 in Worcester Co., Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Richardson on 24 March 1774 at Bolton, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. He enlisted in the Continental Army in 1776, serving in various units through 1780. He died about 1785 (his daughter Elizabeth was baptized on 13 November 1785, at which point his wife is noted as being a widow), having had one son:

1. William Burgess VI (1777-1820+) of Hartford Co., CT

Only Son of William V

William Burgess VI was born on 7 May 1777 near Dedham, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts. He married Sarah Everett on 3 November 1802. He was a publisher. He died at Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, after 1820, having had four sons:

1. Joseph Burgess (1803?- )

2. James Burgess (1805?- )

*3. Caleb Alonzo Burgess (1817-1896) of San Francisco Co., CA

4. Warren Burgess (1820?- )

Caleb Alonzo Burgess was born on 22 October 1817 at Dedham, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts. He married firstly Harriet Louise Proctor about 1841, and secondly Mary Frances Murch in 1878. He is listed in the 1850 census for New York, New York, in the 1865-66 IRS tax assessment lists there, in 1870 in Westchester Co., New York, and in 1880 in San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California; he has not been found in 1860. He also is listed in the 1890 Great Register of Voters for San Francisco. He was a cotton broker and mining broker. He died there on 24 May 1896, having had four sons, three by his first wife, and one by his second:

1. James Burgess (1842- ), died childless

*2. Caleb Augustus Burgess (1845-1923) of New York, NY

3. William E. Burgess (1855-1880+) of Mono Co., CA, died childless

4. Edward Everett Burgess (1882-1931) of San Francisco Co., CA

Second Son of Caleb Alonzo

Caleb Augustus Burgess was born 25 September 1845 at Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama. He married thirdly Mary Zeller by 1888 (the names of his first two wives are unknown). He is listed in the 1850 census for New York, New York, and in 1870 in Westchester Co., New York, and in 1910 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York, but has not been found in 1860, 1900, or 1920. He died on 10 April 1923 in New York City, having had one son by his third wife:

1. Charles Augustus Burgess Sr. (1892-1965)

Marrett Burgess Sr. is the ancestor of Donn H. Burgess; Loammi Burgess is the ancestor of Dwight S. Burgess Sr.; Charles Augustus Burgess Sr. is the ancestor of Charles A. Burgess III.

Test results received from three representatives in this line match each other; they have a common Burgess ancestor, Ebenezer Burgess. They also match the numbers of descendants of the family of John Burgess of Canterbury Region, New Zealand, and of Ralph Burges of Cheshire Co., England; they have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown.

Note: This family is affiliated with that of Edward Burgess of Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, James Burgess of Jackson Co., Tennessee, Samuel H. Burgess of Calhoun Co., Florida, Austin Burgess of Laclede Co., Missouri, and Edward Burgess of Monongalia Co., West Virginia.

William Burgess was born by 1738 (he had to have been 21 years of age in 1759). He married Mary __ by 1759. He lived in Montgomery and Prince George’s Cos., Maryland. William Burgess died after 1764, having had at least two sons (Austin Burgess of Laclede Co., Missouri, may also be another son, as well as Elisha Burgess, who married Mary Harvey in Prince George’s Co. on 29 January 1780):

*1. Josiah Burgess (1760-1834) of Jasper Co., GA

*2. Elias Burgess (1762-1843) of Franklin Co., GA

Josiah Burgess was born on 27 March 1760 in Prince George’s Co., Maryland. He enlisted on 19 April 1778 in Capt. Beatty’s Company, 1^st Maryland Regiment, Revolutionary War, and received a pension for his service on 4 April 1831. He married Verlinda (or Virlinda) Bean on 18 November 1783 in Montgomery Co., Maryland. He is listed on the 1785 personal property tax list of Halifax Co., Virginia (as “Josias Burges”), before briefly moving to North Carolina (his oldest son was born there); he is listed on the 1790, 1798, 1800, 1802, and 1806-08 tax lists of Franklin Co., GA, and on the 1820-30 censuses for Jasper Co., Georgia (the 1790-1810 censuses for Franklin Co., where he was living at the time, having been lost). He is listed on the 25 October 1793 muster roll of Captain Ben Easley’s Company of militia  in Franklin Co. He served on a jury there in June 1802, and sold land there in 1810. He received two Cherokee Land Lottery grants in 1832 in Jasper Co., the deeds being dated 29 April 1833 and 9 September 1837 (posthumously). He died there on 12 March 1834, having had at least three sons; his will, which was dated 24 August 1833, was probated in neighboring Putnam Co., Georgia, and mentions his three sons and six sons-in-law: Burton Brooks or Denton Burks (Priscilla), Enoch Bragg (Sarah), Matthew Robey (unknown), Thomas Bailey (Nancy), John Anthony (Ann), and William D. Green (Malinda):

1. William Bean Burgess (1788?-1833+); he is listed first in his father’s will; he may have served with his brother in the 10 & 20 Consolidated Regiment, Louisiana Militia, the War of 1812

2. Bazil Burgess or Basil Burgess (1790?-1853) of East Baton Rouge Parish, LA; he served in the 10 & 20 Consolidated Regiment, Louisiana Militia, the War of 1812

3. Thomas Burgess (1796?-1833+); a price of $250 was put on his head by the Governor of Georgia on 15 January 1828 for killing Champion Terry in Jasper Co., Georgia; he has not been found in any further record, although he is mentioned as a legatee in his father’s will

Elias Burgess was born 4 September 1762 in Prince George’s Co., Maryland. He married his presumed first cousin, Sarah Burgess, daughter of Edward Burgess of Prince George’s Co., Maryland and Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, on 19 December 1785 in Pittsylvania Co. He is listed on the 7 November 1785 Pittsylvania petition to the Virginia Assembly against an assessment for religious teaching, on the 1788 personal property tax list of Halifax Co., Virginia, on the 1790, 1798, 1800, 1802-03, 1806-08, 1811, 1818, and 1819 tax lists of Franklin Co., Georgia, and on the 1830-40 censuses there (the 1790-1820 censuses for Franklin Co. having been lost). He is listed on the 25 October 1793 muster roll of Captain Ben Easley’s Company of militia in Franklin Co. He died there in June 1843, having had at least seven sons, four of whom are mentioned in his will—James, Samuel, Evan, and Benjamin. Of the others, Joel had already died, John may have died, and Ezekiel may have already received his inheritance:

1. John Burgess (1786?-1812+), married Jenny Wicher on 30 January 1812 in Jasper Co., GA

2. James Burgess (1790?-1850+) of Pickens Co., AL

3. Samuel Burgess (1792?-1860+) of Franklin Co., GA; he may have served in the 1^st Regiment (Harris’s), Georgia Militia, during the War of 1812; he deeded his interest in his father’s estate on 10 June 1843 to the three children of “E. M. Burgess” (i.e., Elias Minyard Burgess and his wife Mary), the likely son of one of his deceased brothers (either John or Joel): Ann H. Burgess, Elizabeth C. Burgess, and William H. Burgess; Samuel is listed in the 1860 census for Franklin Co., aged 75 years, but has not been found in any other census record; he apparently died there childless after 1860

4. Ezekiel Burgess (1796?-1850+) of Franklin Co., GA, he is listed in the 1818 tax list of Franklin Co., and also on the 1850 census there

5. Joel Burgess (1798?-1830) of Franklin Co., GA

6. Evan Burgess (1800?-1847) of Franklin Co., GA

7. Benjamin Burgess (1804?-1870+) of Clay Co., NC

James Burgess is the ancestor of Robert S. Burgess; Ezekiel Burgess is the ancestor of Clarence S. Burgess; Benjamin Burgess is the ancestor of James H. Burgess.

Test results received from three representatives in this line confirm a genetic relationship between these cousins; they have a common male ancestor, Elias Burgess. They also match the markers of male descendants of Edward Burgess of Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, Edward Burgess of Monongalia Co., (West) Virginia, Samuel H. Burgess of Calhoun Co., Florida, Austin Burgess of Laclede Co., Missouri, and James Burgess of Jackson Co., Tennessee; they have a common Burgess ancestor, name unknown. The numbers do not match those of any other Burgess Project family.

William Burgess was born about 1810 in Maryland (according to his sons’ census records). He married Margaret Cook on 13 December 1832 in Wayne Co., Indiana. He is listed in the 1840 census for Wayne Co.; his widow appears as head of the family there in 1850. Margaret moved the family to Wapello Co., Iowa about 1853. William apparently died in Wayne Co., Indiana, shortly after the 1840 census, having had three sons:

1. Joseph Burgess (1833-1850+) of Wayne Co., IN; died young?

2. John Wesley Burgess (1835-1885+) of Wapello Co., IA; extinct in the male line

*3. Samuel Lavern Burgess (1839-1922) of Wapello Co., IA

Samuel Lavern Burgess was born in February 1839 in Wayne Co., Indiana. He married (Hannah) Maria(h) Hartshorn on 18 May 1862 in Wapello Co., Iowa. He is listed in the 1860 census for Wapello Co. with his mother, in 1870-80 in Mahaska Co., Iowa, and in 1885-1920 in Wapello Co., Iowa. He died in 1922 in Wapello Co., having had four sons:

1. William N. Burgess (1869- )

2. Clarence Burgess (1878-1955) of Wapello Co., IA

3. Vernie Ray Burgess (1880-1968) of Putnam Co., MO

4. John Clemets Burgess (1882-1954) of Wapello Co., IA

Vernie Ray Burgess is the ancestor of Bruce L. Burgess and Donald E. Burgess.

Test results received from two representatives of this line match each other; they have a common male ancestor, Vernie Ray Burgess; they do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

William Moses Burgess, also called Moses Burgess, was born about 1826 in Tennessee. He married Lucinda Grimes on 16 March 1847 in Adair Co., Kentucky (she was born on 25 September 1829, and died on 10 December 1910 in Johnson Co., Missouri). He is listed in the 1850-60 censuses for Adair Co., and also in the personal property tax records there; his widow appears as head of the family in the 1870 census for Putnam Co., Missouri, and in 1880-1910 in Johnson Co., Missouri. Moses enlisted in Co. B., 13^th Kentucky Infantry, Union Army, during the Civil War, and died in service on 17 March 1863 in Hart Co., Kentucky; his widow later qualified for a Union pension. He was survived by one son and two daughters (Martha J. and Nancy Susan):

*1. William Henry Burgess (1848?-1884) of Jackson Co., MO

William Henry Burgess, also called Henry Burgess, was born about 1848 in Adair Co., Kentucky. He married firstly (Rebecca) Jane Wright on 14 August 1869 in Putnam Co., Missouri, and secondly (Barbara) Susan Hoober on 21 June 1875 in Putnam Co. He is listed in the 1870 census for Putnam Co., and in 1880 in Franklin Co., Kansas. He was injured in a railroad accident at Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., Kansas, and died at Sisters Hospital, Jackson Co., Missouri on 14 October 1884, having had three sons, one by his first wife and two by his second:

1. William Moses Burgess II (1873-1937) of Jackson Co., MO

2. John Wesley Burgess (1876-1930+) of Wyandotte Co., KS

3. James Leroy Burgess (1880-1945) of Buchanan Co., MO

James Leroy Burgess is the ancestor of Brian S. Burgess.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

Adolfo Burgos Camacho was born about 1865 in Puerto Rico. He married Josefa Casiano y Santos about 1890. He is listed in the 1910 census for Gato, Barros, Puerto Rico. He died there between 1910 and 1920, having had at least two sons:

1. Ceferino Burgos y Casiano (1895-1978) of Orocovis, PR

2. León Burgos y Casiano (1905?-1930+) of Orocovis, PR

Ceferino Burgos y Casiano is the ancestor of Elvis Burgos.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

John Burris was born on 22 May 1728 in Stokes (later Surry) Co., North Carolina. He married Esther Terry about 1760. He died on 10 May 1812 in Highland Co., Ohio, having had four sons:

1. William Wilson Burris (1763-1833) of Highland Co., OH

2. Moses Burris Sr. (1765-1830) of Hancock Co., IN

3. John C. Burris (1769-1845)

*4. Daniel H. Burris (1771-1845) of Henry Co., IN

Daniel H. Burris was born on 10 July 1771 in Stokes (later Surry) Co., North Carolina. He married Mary Horton on 27 November 1794. He died on 13 June 1845 in Henry Co., Indiana, having had twelve sons:

1. Stephen Burris (1797-1855) of Hancock or Hamilton Co., IN

*2. John H. Burris (1799-1869) of Henry Co., IN

3. Jacob Burris (1801-1878) of Henry Co., IN

4. Daniel Burris Jr. (1805- )

5. Bowater Burris (1807- )

6. Abraham Burris (1809-1864) of Montgomery Co., IA

7. Moses Burris (1811-1876) of Effingham Co., IL

8. Horton Burris (1813-1873) of Henry Co., IN

9. Miles Burris Sr. (1814-1888) of Muncie Co., IN

10. Andrew Burris (1816- )

11. Lewis Burris (1818- )

12. Elias Henry Burris (1819-1873/93) of Franklin Co., NE

Second Son of Daniel H.

John H. Burris was born in 1799 in Surry Co., North Carolina. He married Mary Allison on 14 Feb. 1819 in Highland Co., Ohio, and secondly Elizabeth Kinder in 1837. He died on 27 November 1869 in Henry Co., Indiana, having had seven sons, three by his first wife, and four by his second:

1. Eden Burris (1828-1901) of Vernon Co., MO

2. Wilson Frank Burris (1832-1920) of Jackson Co., MO

3. John A. Burris (1834-1861) of Pettis Co., MO

4. Nelson B. Burris (1838-1913) of Marshall Co., IA

5. Daniel Burris (1846-1910) of Hancock Co., IN

6. William T. Burris (1849-1906)

7. Silas G. Burris (1851-1919) of Henry Co., IN

Eden Burris is the ancestor of Ronnie L. Burris.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

John Conrad Burgy (originally Johann[es] Buergi or Johannes Bürgi) was born on 4 July 1847 in Switzerland. He immigrated to the United States in 1869. He married Elizabeth Weber (also a Swiss native) on 11 April 1870 at Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio. He filed his naturalization papers on 12 October 1875 in Williams Co., Ohio (where his surname is spelled Buergi). He is listed in the 1880 census for Defiance Co., Ohio, in 1900 in Lucas Co., Ohio, and in 1911 in Humbolt, Saskatchewan, Canada. He died on 10 March 1918 at Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio, having had six sons:

1. John H. Burgy (1869-1947) of Lucas Co., OH

2. Conrad Burgy (1871-1944) of Lucas Co., OH

3. Albert Burgy (1873-1945) of Lucas Co., OH

4. Jacob T. Burgy (1883- ) of Lucas Co., OH

5. Franz Gottfried Burgy (1887-1906), died unmarried

6. Edward Ernst Burgy (1892-1918) of Lucas Co., OH

Albert Burgy is the ancestor of Raymond C. Burgy.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other family in the Burgess DNA Project.

Note: This family is affiliated with that of Joel Burgess of Laurens Co., South Carolina, John R. Burgess of Clay Co., Alabama, and Thomas Burgess Sr. of Scott Co., Kentucky.

Alphonso Davis was born on 27 August 1813 in Ohio or Virginia. His tombstone mentions his parents as J. W. Davis and Elizabeth Davis, but thus far they have not been identified in any other record. He may have had brothers named Gibson Burr Davis I (1806?-1847), Andrew W. Davis (1810?-1857+), William Davis (1812?-1850+), and John T. Davis (1821-1895; he was born in Virginia) of Hancock Co., Illinois. He married Mary Jane Smith about 1839. He is listed as “Alphanzo Davis” in the 1840 census for Columbiana Co., Ohio, with one son under the age of 5. He died on 31 October 1847 in Wayne Co., Illinois, having had two sons:

1. Liberty Judd Davis (1840-1916) of Wayne Co., IL

2. Gibson Burr Davis II (1842-1904) of Wayne Co., IL; he is listed in the 1850 census for Carroll Co., OH, with his presumed uncle, John T. Davis, and again with him in 1860 in Hancock Co., IL

Gibson Burr Davis II is the ancestor of Gene A. Davis.

Test results received from one representative of this line match the numbers of descendants of Joel Burgess of Laurens Co., South Carolina, John R. Burgess of Clay Co., Alabama, and Thomas Burgess Sr. of Scott Co., Kentucky. This number set is very scarce. Given this fact, these families appear to have a common male ancestor, name unknown. The numbers suggest a closer relationship to Thomas Burgess than to Joel Burgess.

Timothy B(urgess?) Gilbert was born about 1834 in Virginia or North Carolina (he lived in the swampy region where the boundaries of Norfolk Co., Virginia, Camden Co., North Carolina, and Currituck Co., North Carolina intersect). He married Mariah Walker in 1858 in Currituck Co., North Carolina, but has not been found in any record before that date. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War from Virginia. He is listed in the 1860-80 censuses in Norfolk Co., but has not been found in 1850. According to family tradition, Timothy’s original surname was Burgess. He likely had an older brother, George W(ashington?) Gilbert, born about 1832, who is listed with him in the 1860 census (but who has also not been found in 1850), and who later lived in Norfolk City, Norfolk Co., VA, dying there after 1900. Timothy Gilbert died in Norfolk Co. between 1880 and 1900, having had six sons:

1. John Young Gilbert (1858-1921) of Norfolk Co., VA

2. Virginius W. Gilbert (1861-1929) of Norfolk Co., VA

3. (John) Timothy [Gilbert] Burgess (1872-1960) of Baltimore Co., MD; he used the surname Gilbert in early life, but changed his name to Burgess about 1912, when he moved from South Carolina to Maryland

4. Charles Gilbert (1875?-1941) of Norfolk Co., VA

5. (George) Pinckney “Moody” Gilbert (1876-1941) of Norfolk Co., VA

6. William Gilbert (1883-1954) of Norfolk Co., VA

John Young Gilbert is the ancestor of [__] Gilbert; John Timothy Burgess is the ancestor of Steven E. Burgess.

Test results received from two representatives of this line do not match either each other, showing a break in the genetic chain of descent; they also do not match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family. The original genome of this family is unknown.

Joseph Haas Jr. was born 30 July 1929 at Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, ostensibly the son of Joseph Haas Sr. and Veronica Haas, but according to a family story, actually the son of a newspaperman, name unknown. He became a reporter, columnist, and published novelist. He died at Chicago in May 1971, having had at least one son.

Joseph Haas is the ancestor of Jaime L. Haas.

Test results received from one representative of this line match the numbers of descendants of Armstead Burgess of Barren Co., Kentucky (son of Keziah Burgess of Bedford Co., Virginia), George Hale of Northumberland Co., Virginia, and a descendant of the Chilcote family. This number set is very scarce. Given this fact, these families appear to have a common male ancestor, name unknown, but most likely George Hale of Northumberland Co., Virginia (see below).

Note: This family is affiliated with that of one branch of the line of Keziah Burgess of Bedford Co., Virginia, and Joseph Haas of Cook Co., IL.

George Hale I (or George Haile) was born about 1602 in England. He arrived in Jamestown, Virginia from Bristol, England on the ship Supply on 18 September 1620. He is listed in the 1624 Muster of Inhabitants at Jamestown as an indentured servant in the household of Sir Francis Wyatt, the Royal Governor of Virginia. His wife’s name is unknown. He settled in Northumberland Co., Virginia, on the Northern Neck, and was still living there in the 1660s. However, there is no specific proof tying George Hale to Nicholas Hale, and his inclusion here should be considered speculative. He is regarded by some researchers as having at least three sons (all unverified):

*1. Nicholas Haile Sr. (1628?-1668/71) of Lancaster Co., VA

2. John Haile

3. Thomas Haile

Nicholas Hale Sr. (or Nicholas Haile Sr.) was born about 1628 in Virginia. He married Mary (Travers?) by 1654 in York Co., Virginia. He settled in the Northern Neck, and owned land in both Lancaster and York Cos. He died between February 1668 and November 1671 in Lancaster Co., Virginia, having had at least two sons:

1. George Haile II

*2. Nicholas Haile Jr. (1656?-1730) of Baltimore Co., MD

Second Son of Nicholas Sr.

Nicholas Hale Jr. or Nicholas Haile Jr. was born about 1656 in Lancaster Co., Virginia. He married Frances Garrett about 1700. He later moved to Baltimore Co., Maryland; his plantation is now the site of Johns Hopkins University. He died there in 1730, having had four sons:

1. Nicholas Haile III

2. George Haile III

3. Neale Haile

4. Subbiner Haile

George Hale III is the ancestor of Roy R. Hale and __ Hale.

Test results received from one representative of this line match the numbers of descendants of Armstead Burgess of Barren Co., Kentucky (son of Keziah Burgess of Bedford Co., Virginia), Joseph Haas of Cook Co., Illinois, and the descendants of a Chilcote family. This number set is very scarce. Given this fact, these families appear to have a common male ancestor, name unknown, but most likely George Hale.

Andrej Kapel Sr. (later called Andrew Kapel) (also spelled Kappel and Kapelj) was born 18 November 1879 (or 1878) at Nova Sušica, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Slovenija), the natural son of Mihail Cucek and Ivana Kapel. He came to the United States circa 1905. He married Ana Kersnić (later Anna Kosnick) on 20 February 1911 at Great Falls, Cascade Co., Montana. He is listed in the 1910 census for Great Falls, Cascade Co., Montana, in 1920 at Anaconda, Deer Lodge Co., Montana, and in 1930 at Spokane, Spokane Co., Washington. He moved to Spokane in early 1920. He died there on 9 May 1959, having had two sons:

1. Andrew Kapel Jr. (1912-1912), died young

2. Frank Joseph Kapel (1913-2006) of Spokane Co., Washington, died childless

Andrew Kapel is the ancestor of Frank J. Kapel.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family. This family is now extinct in the male line.

Note: This family is affiliated with that of Richard Edward Burgess of Marshall Co., Alabama.

William McGee was born on 10 February 1905 in Caruthersville, Pemiscot Co., Missouri, the son of Bertie Mae Dozier McGee; she married firstly William Alford McGee (who died about 1898 in Gibson Co., Tennessee), and secondly William Henry Brasfield. He is listed with his mother in the 1910 census for Pemiscot Co., MO. He died on 26 December 1966 at Inglewood, Los Angeles, Co., California, having had two sons.

William McGee is the ancestor of Richard M. McGee.

Test results received from one representative of this family match the numbers of a descendant of Richard Edward Burgess of Marshall Co., Alabama; they have a common male ancestor, name unknown. The numbers also match those of the descendants of a major Hancock family branch (see the Hancock DNA Surname Project at Family Tree DNA).

Note: This family is affiliated with that of John Burgess of Hart Co., Georgia.

William Mellard was born about 1746. He married Susanna Harry about 1769 in Calhoun Co., South Carolina. He was a Loyalist who joined the British Army during the Revolutionary War, attaining the rank of Lieutenant, and was captured by Colonial forces in 1782 near the bridge over Four Hole Swamp in Dorchester Co., South Carolina. He died in Dorchester Co. about 1789, having had at least three sons:

1. James Mellard (1772- )

2. Thomas Mellard (1775- ) of Dorchester Co., SC

3. John Mellard (1782- )

William Mellard is the ancestor of John N. Mellard.

Test results received from one representative of this line match the numbers of a descendant of John Burgess of Hart Co., Georgia. This number set is very scarce. Given this fact, they appear to have a common male ancestor, name unknown.

Simão Mendes was born about 1630 in Portugal. He married María __. He had at least one son:

*1. Antonio Gonçalves Farrapão (1660?- ) of Ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal

Antonio Gonçalves Farrapão was born about 1660 at Lajes, Ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal. He married Ana Machada on 18 November 1686 at Lajes. He had at least one son:

*1. Manuel Gonçalves Farrapão (1790?- ) of Ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal

Only Known Son of Antonio

Manuel Gonçalves Farrapão was born about 1790 at Lajes, Ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal. He married María Clara de São Luís on 10 June 1713 at Lajes. He had at least two sons:

1. Manoel Gonçalves (1715- ) of Ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal

*2. Antonio Mendes Borges (1720?- )of Ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal

Second Son of Manuel

Antonio Mendes Borges was born about 1720 at Ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal. He married firstly Francisca Josefa __ about 1753, and secondly María de São José about 1755. He settled at Río Grande, Río Grande do Sul State, Brazil, and had six sons:

1. Antonio Mendes Borges (1757- )

2. Domingos Antonio Mendes

3. Francisco Mendes Borges

4. João Mendes Borges

5. Manuel Mendes Borges (1765?-1847) of Río Grande, Río Grande do Sul, Brazil

6. Simão Mendes Borges

Manuel Mendes Borges is the ancestor of __ Mendes.

Test results received from one representative of this line do not currently match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family.

Updated 23 October 2008 

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