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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01104 3871
Lynn in the Revolution™
COMPILED FROM NOTES
GATHERED BY
HOWARD KENDALL SANDERSON
IN TWO PARTS PART II
W. B. CLARKE COMPANY 26 AND 28 TREMONT STREET BOSTON 1909
COPYRIGHT, 1909 BY CARRIE MAY SANDERSON
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
INTRODUCTION XV
I. EARLY FAMILIES AND EARLY WARS 1
II. BEGINNINGS OF THE REVOLUTION-EARLY PATRIOTIC VOTES OF THE TOWN AND MEASURES TAKEN 7
III. THE LEXINGTON ALARM IN LYNN
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IV. THE GATHERING OF THE ARMY AT CAMBRIDGE AND THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL 51
V. COLONEL JOHN MANSFIELD 1
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VI. LYNN MEN UNDER CAPTAIN NEWHALL AND CAPTAIN KING-THE SIEGE OF BOSTON 76
VII. THE MARCH TO NEW YORK AND ACROSS THE JERSEYS WITH WASHINGTON 84
VIII. LYNN'S PART IN THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGN 95
IX. THE RHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN AND SERVICE AT SEA 114
X. AT WEST POINT 130
XI. THE END OF THE STORY 142
XII. THE HALLOWELL JOURNAL 149
SUPPLEMENT 179
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 185
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List of Illustrations
Facing page
PORTRAIT OF HOWARD KENDALL SANDERSON
Frontispiece
MAP OF LYNN IN YE OLDEN TIME xvi
PAGES FROM LYNN RECORDS 7, 8, 16, 17,52
MAP OF ANCIENT LYNN . 26
JEDEDIAH NEWHALL HOUSE 29
OLD BOSTON STREET AND VICINITY, 1775 30
FREDERICK BREED HOUSE 31
INCREASE NEWHALL TAVERN 33
GOWING TAVERN . 34
THE REYNOLDS HOUSE 40
WILLOW CASTLE 43
A REVOLUTIONARY RECORD page 46
HOME OF COLONEL EZRA NEWHALL 49
COMMISSION OF JOHN UPTON 56
GRAVESTONES OF COLONEL MANSFIELD AND COLONEL FLAGG 75
COMMISSION OF HARRIS CHADWELL 80
SILHOUETTE OF COLONEL JOHN FLAGG 98
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COMMISSION OF THEOPHILUS BACHELLER 107
COMMISSION OF JONATHAN BROWN I11
PORTRAIT OF ZACHARIAH ATTWILL 117
HOME OF CHARLES FLORENCE
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FAC-SIMILES OF SOLDIERS' PASSES page 135
THE ISAAC ORGAN HOUSE . . 141
FAC-SIMILES OF SOLDIERS' DISCHARGES 143
GROUP IN OLD WESTERN BURIAL GROUND 145
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MEMORIAL TO REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS page
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COVER OF HALLOWELL JOURNAL 149
COMMISSION OF FREDERICK BREED 150
PAGES FROM THE HALLOWELL JOURNAL 169
DISCHARGE OF HENRY HALLOWELL 177
THE HENFIELD HOUSE 187
THE NATHAN ATTWILL HOUSE 192
COMMISSION OF THEOPHILUS BACHELLER 196
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COMMISSION OF CAPTAIN NATHANIEL BANCROFT
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THE NATHANIEL BANCROFT HOUSE 202
HOME OF JOHN BATTS page 205
THE ABIJAH BOARDMAN HOUSE
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THE IVORY BOARDMAN HOUSE
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THE SAMUEL BOARDMAN HOUSE
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THE EPHRAIM BREED HOUSE 219
GRAVESTONES OF EBENEZER BURRILL AND ISAAC ORGAN 238
COMMISSION OF LIEUTENANT HARRIS CHADWELL. 246
PORTRAIT OF DR. ABIJAH CHEEVER 252
DOCTOR ABIJAH CHEEVER HOUSE 254
PORTRAIT OF DR. JAMES GARDNER 274
OLD CHURCH, LYNNFIELD CENTRE 285
OLD HALLOWELL HOUSE 289
GRAVESTONES OF HARRIS CHADWELL AND CAPTAIN EBENEZER HART 293
THE HITCHINGS-DRAPER-HAWKES HOUSE 298
NATHAN HAWKES HOUSE 301
JOHN IRESON'S LIST OF CARTRIDGES 317 THE TARBELL HOUSE 320
DISCHARGE OF JOHN LARRABEE 329
THOMAS MANSFIELD HOUSE 347
APPLICATION FOR PENSION FOR EBENEZER PARSONS 405
DISCHARGE OF EBENEZER PARSONS 406
CERTIFICATE OF JAMES ROBINSON 427
PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN JAMES ROBINSON 428
ROBY HOUSE . page 429
HOME OF DAVID TUFTS 448
OLD TUNNEL MEETING-HOUSE page 466
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BURRAGE, JOHN, son of John and Mehitable (Sargent) Burrage was born November 23, 1730. He lived on the Common, near Park Street, in a large, two-story, slant-roofed house. This was the homestead of three generations of Burriages, a family which owned nearly four hun- dred acres of land in Lynn. Deacon John, the Revolutionary soldier, whose father was also called "Deacon John Burrage John," died in Lynn, June 30, 1780, probably unmarried, and is buried in the old Western Burial Ground, where his grave is marked by a Revolutionary marker of the S. A. R. He held the town offices of warden and treasurer for a series of years. His will on file in the probate records gives his estate at the current rate of ex- change as £134,763. This is a good illustration of the tremendous depreciation of the Continental currency, inasmuch as the real value of the estate in hard money was but £2,246.
At the time of the Revolutionary War there were fourteen able-bodied men of the name of Burriage, descendants of John Burrage who settled in Charlestown in 1637, and of these ten were borne on the rolls of the soldiers of the Revolution. William, a cousin of Deacon John, moved from Lynn in 1767, and served from the town of Leominster. The others belonged in other towns. The service of Deacon John Burrage, so far as is known, was only that which he performed on the 19th of April, 1775, when he marched from Lynn in the company of Captain Rufus Mansfield. He is credited with two days' service.
BURRILL, ALDEN,-probably son of Samuel and Anna (Alden) Burrill, was born in 1753. He married in September, 1782, Elizabeth Hammet, of Boston. In 1825, while living at Salem, he made application for a pension, and in his affidavit states that he marched in April, 1777, to Ticonderoga, and served, as did his brother Ebenezer, through the Bur- Alden Burrill goyne campaign, and during the two following years in and about West Point. In 1780 he was at headquarters at Morristown, N.J., where he was discharged with his brother on the 6th of March. The Massachusetts rolls also give the name of Alden Burrill among those who served from Lynn, at Concord battle and elsewhere. It is not unlikely that he was in the company of Captain Farrington with his brother Ebenezer, whose age was very near his own. Both Alden and Ebenezer lived in Lynn
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at the time of the war. From 1813 to 1818 he was in the lumber and lime business in Salem. Ilis pension was not allowed at the time that he made application, but was granted to his children in 1851, at the rate of $240 per year, from March 4, 1831, to December 14, 1831, the time of his death. He was buried in Salem. Ilis wife, Elizabeth, died in Salem March 20, 1800, at the age of forty-seven.
BURRILL, BENJAMIN,-private, probably son of Theophilus and Mary (Hills) Burrill, was born in that part of Lynn, now Swampscott, August 14. 1745. The venerable homestead is still standing at the corner of Essex and Bur- rill Streets, Swampscott, and this estate he inherited in 1791 on the death of his father. Mr. Burrill was in Captain Farrington's com- pany, but he saw no further service in the war so far as is known. A Benjamin Burrill died in Lynn in 1803, letters of administration having been granted to his wife March 29 of that year, but nothing has been found to certainly connect him with the subject of this sketch. BURRILL, EBENEZER,-private, probably son of Samuel and Anna (Alden) Burrill, was born in 1755. After the battle of Lexington, in which he participated as a member of Captain Farrington's company, he enlisted as a private in Captain John Merritt's company, Colonel John Glover's 2tst regiment. and served eight months with General Washı- Eben Burrill ington's army, investing Boston. He was given the usual bounty coat at Cambridge, December 25, 1775. Im- mediately upon his discharge, which took place January 1, 1776, he again enlisted as a private in Captain Pollard's company of artificers, was present at the evacuation of Boston and served for some time thereafter in guarding the city. During the summer he marched with his company to New York, and was in the battles of Long Island, Fort Washington, and Fort Lee, and was then stationed at North Castle until November. He retreated across New Jersey with Washington's army and was in the battle of Trenton. December 26. 1776. Soon after he was honorably discharged and returned to Lynn. Early in 1777, probably in March, he enlisted once more, this time for three years or during the war. He was assigned to Captain Noah Nichols's company of artificers, and served under Major Ebenezer Stevens in General Henry Knox's artillery brigade. With his brother Allen, who had enlisted at the same time, he marched for Ticonderoga, where he was stationed when the news came of the
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invasion of Burgoyne. Upon the appearance of the British army the garrison was obliged to fall back to Albany, and Burrill was in the retreat. 1Ie was in the battles preceding the capture of General Burgoyne and was present at the surrender, after which he was again stationed at Albany. For the next two years he did duty in and about West Point, participating in several engagements. In 1780 he was at headquarters at Morristown, N.J., where he was finally discharged, March 6, 1780. During the above time he was in the regiments of Colonel Crane and Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin.
Ebenezer Burrill was married by Abner Cheever, Esq., January 23, 1783, to Mary Wyatt, of Salem. After their marriage they removed to Salem, where they lived for the remainder of their lives. He was pensioned under the act of 1818, receiving eight dollars per month from April 20 of that year until May 1, 1820, when he was dropped on account of the alarm felt at the increase in the number of pensioners, then amounting to several thousand. He died in Salem, May 30, 1826, and his wife died May 21, 1839. Their children, Sarah B. Hunting and Ruth L. Allen, were pensioned in their mother's name August 2, 1852, re- ceiving the small amount which should have been paid to their mother.
On a descriptive list of officers and crew of the ship "Thomas," com- manded by Captain Samuel Ingersoll, dated Salem, August 7, 1780, the name of Ebenezer Burrill appears. He is described as of a light complexion, and his residence Lynn. The age, twenty-five years, being the same as that of the Ebenezer here described, might indicate that he was the same man.
BURRILL, EBENEZER, Esq.,-son of Hon. Ebenezer and Martha (Farring- ton) Burrill, was born February 6, 1702-03. Although not a soldier of the Revolution, he should be given a place among those of the town most active in forwarding the cause of independence. Being seventy- two or three years of age at the time of the breaking ont of the war, his service was that of the wise counsellor in the time when experience and calm judgment were as greatly needed as youthful enthusiasm. He was perhaps the oldest member then living of a prominent and infin- ential family, and his voice carried great weight in the town meetings of which he was clerk. His wife was Mary Mansfield, danghter of Joseph and Mary (Hart) Mansfield, to whom he was married July 29, 1725, and his home was at the northeast corner of Boston and Federal Streets. Called one of the "Sam Adams rebels," he was on December
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1, 1766, requested by his constituents to use his endeavors to procure the passage of an act to compensate Mr. Hutchinson and others for their losses in the riots of the preceding year, occasioned by the passage of the Stamp Act. He was a stanch advocate of the rights of the col- onies from the beginning, and entered zealously into the plans which they devised for assisting and protecting them. He joined the patri- otic associations of the times, and was, among other things, determined in his opposition to the introduction of tea. On October 7, 1774, he was chosen a delegate from Lynn to the Provincial Congress which assembled at Salem to consider the state of public affairs. He con- tinued to zealously aid the efforts of the patriots, but did not live to see those efforts crowned with success, his death occurring on the 20th of May, 1778. His service for the town and colony had been a long one. From 1756 to 1775 he had been continuously, with the excep- tion of a single year, town clerk, treasurer, and selectman. From 1764 to 1775 he had been a representative to the General Court. His grave, together with that of his wife who died in April, 1786, may be seen in the old Western Burial Ground, surrounded by those of many others of the name of Burrill.
BURRILL, ISRAEL,-was probably born in Saugus, and may have been a brother of "Long John" Burrill. The dates of his birth, marriage, and death are unknown. He served at the Lexington alarm, and on May 6 enlisted in Captain Ezra Newhall's company, Colonel John Mansfield's regiment. He went into camp at Cambridge, where he received an order for advance pay June 8. He was with his company at Cobble Hill during the battle of Bunker Hill. He appears on a company return dated October 6, and undoubtedly spent the winter in camp at Prospect Hill. He was living in 1812, when he was granted letters of administration on the estate of John Burrill.
BURRILL, JOHN,-eldest son of Ebenezer, Esq., and Mary (Mansfield) Burrill, was born August 29, 1726, in Lynn. He was married Jan- John Burrell uary 26, 1749, in Haverhill, by Rev. Ed- ward Bernard, to Anne Thompson, and occupied for a time the old Burrill homestead on Tower Hill. His children were Anne, John (who became Colonel John), Mary, Joseph, Anne, Micajah, Ebenezer, Thompson, and Sarah. He was in Captain Rufus
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Mansfield's company which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, service two days. He was drowned in the Saugus River, December 14, 1793. His wife died April 15, 1798, at the age of seventy. Both are buried in the old Western Burial Ground. The grave is marked with the Revolutionary marker.
BURRILL, JOHN, son of John and Anne (Thompson) Burrill, was born in Lynn, November 17, 1751. He married Anna Fuller, November 17, 1774, and lived on Tower Hill. Ile was a tailor, and had a sign over the door of his house which read, "John Burrill Tailor from Boston." He was a minute-man and corporal in Captain Rufus Mansfield's (4th) company which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, service two days. He also enlisted in Captain Samuel King's company, July +, 1775, service six months and two days, in the company stationed at Salem and Lynn for the defence of the seacoast. It is said that he bore the title of colonel, by which he was distinguished in the family. He was one of the lecturers and chaplain of Mount Carmel Lodge of Masons, and a notice in the Lynn Mirror at the time of his death is as follows: " In Lynn, December 2, 1826, Col. John Burrill, aged 75. He was a Revolu- tionary patriot and a worthy citizen and an honest man. His remains will be interred with masonic honors on Monday next at 2 p.M. from his late residence. The relatives and friends of the deceased with the masonie family in this vicinity, of which fraternity he was a distinguished member, are requested to attend without a more particular invitation."
His wife Anna died December 27, 1833, aged seventy-nine, and both were buried in the old Burrill tomb on the Western Burial Ground. When the tombs were removed, he was buried on Lotus Path in Pine Grove Cemetery, with five other Revolutionary soldiers.
BURRILL, JOHN, sergeant, probably was son of Samuel and Anna (Alden) Burrill and brother to Ebenezer and Alden, although it is a matter of some difficulty to accurately place the four John Burrills who served in the Revolution from Lynn. Two were in the company of Captain Rufus Mansfield, and one in that of Captain David Parker, of Saugus. The subject of this sketch was probably the one married December 26, 1776, by Rev. John Treadwell, to Hannah Lindsey, and whose children were Ann, Abigail, Samuel, and John. Ilis only service in the war was in response to the Lexington alarm. He died June 4, 1804, and was buried in the old Western Burial Ground, where a bronze marker and
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marble stone were erected to his memory in 1903. Alden Burrill was appointed administrator of his estate, which was situated on Marble- head Road, or Essex Street.
BURRILL, JOHN,-called "Long John," from his great height, lived where his ancestors had lived, upon the old Burrill farm, southeast of the Hitch- ings house. The old house, odd in appearance for that locality, may still be seen by the angler and boatman upon the upper waters of Pranker's Pond, standing east of the turnpike, towards Saugus Centre. Where or when he was born is not known. He was a farmer and shoe- maker, and went with his neighbors in Captain Parker's company when the alarm rang out on the morning of April 19, 1775. It is possible that this was the John who was married in Chelsea, June 7, 1764, by Rev. Phillips Payson, to Anne Tuttle, although this cannot be proved. Letters of administration were granted on his estate, June 1, 1812, to Israel Burrill, probably his brother. The inventory, made after the fashion of those days by his neighbors, Lieutenant Nathan Hawkes, Richard Mansfield, and Jonathan Makepeace, showed that he had seven and a half acres of tillage, and ten acres called the "homestead," two acres of woodland in the "six hundred acres," so called, near Nathan Hawkes's land, about two and a half acres of woodland near a road lead- ing from Daniel Ifitchings's to Benjamin Wilson's, etc. His real estate amounted to $704. If he were married, his wife had died previously. He is buried in the old cemetery at Saugus Centre, and his grave was marked in 1903 by a marble stone and bronze marker of the S. A. R. BURRILL, JOSEPH,-private, son of John and Anne (Thompson) Burrill. was born in Lynn, probably in the old homestead on Tower Hill, Febru- ary 13, 1756. His father, also a soldier of the Revolution, was son of Ebenezer Burrill, Esq., the patriotic town clerk of Lynn and member of the General Court, and his great-grandfather was Hon. Ebenezer Burrill, son of Lieutenant John and grandson of George Burrill, the first of the name in Lynn. The story of the service of Joseph Burrill in the Revolution has happily been preserved. In his old age he applied for a pension, and filed with his application in the Pension Office is his own story as he related it to his attorney. From this story the following facts are gathered: Joseph Burrill became a minute-man in Captain Ezra Newhall's company a week before the battle of Lexington, and marched with his company to the Boston and Concord highway. where
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he met the British on the return. The muster-roll of Captain Newhall's company does not give Mr. Burrill's name, but there would seem to be no doubt that his name should appear with the rest. On April 20, 1775, he enlisted as a private in Captain Ezra Newhall's company, Colonel John Mansfield's regiment, and marched to Cambridge, where he remained until the 17th of June. On that eventful day he marched with his company to Charlestown Neck, where, he says, he was pre- vented from going into the battle by the British ships and batteries. After the battle the company marched to Prospect Hill, where it re- mained about a month and then went into quarters on Winter Hill, remaining there until discharged, January 1, 1776. Private Burrill re- turned to Lynn, but the martial spirit was strong, and he again enlisted October 1, 1776, in Captain John Pool's company, Colonel Coggswell's regiment, marching at once from Lynn to a place called the "Saw Pitts," near the city of New York. His company, being engaged in scouring the woods, arrived at White Plains the 30th of October, just after the battle had closed. It then marched to North Castle, where it remained until January 1, 1777. Here Burrill was discharged, four hun- dred miles from home, in the dead of winter, and with clothing scarcely sufficient to protect him on his long walk back to Lynn. Nothing daunted, however, he turned his face homeward, and arrived in Lynn in about three weeks. In the following summer, news came of the march of General Burgoyne and his army from Canada. Burrill at once went to Lexington and enlisted for the third time, marching in Captain Samuel Farrar's company, Colonel Reed's regiment, for New York. The regiment went out by way of Worcester and Hadley, to North- ampton, and through Bennington to Saratoga, where it arrived in time to engage in the battles preceding the capture of Burgoyne, and to be present at the surrender. After the latter event Burrill was detailed as one of the guards to accompany the defeated army to Cambridge. After a tedious march of many days he arrived at Winter Hill, November 7, where he was given a verbal discharge, and again he returned to Lynn.
About 1780 Joseph Burrill went to Haverhill, where he married Lydia Mulliken. After her death he married, second, December 17, 1791, her sister, Susannah Mulliken, born in Haverhill, July 1, 1775. He bought a house on Pecker Street, and there his children, John, Susan, Mary, Ann, Joseph, Lydia, Harriet, Emily, and Sarah were born.
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In a search for connecting links with this band of heroes of the Revo- lution there was found in the city of Cambridge one of the two sur- viving children of the old patriot, Mrs. Sarah (Burrill) Sawtelle. Pos- sessed of all her faculties, bright and active at the age of eighty-seven. she pleasantly related the story of her father's life as she had heard it from his own lips. She said that her father was a soldier in the army of Washington, and that, in so far as she had been able to learn, her sister Harriet, aged minety-three, and herself were the only children living of any of the soldiers who had served from Lynn in the Revo- lutionary War. Although her father had been born one hundred and forty-eight years before, she could remember him well, having been born when he was sixty-one years of age, and heing nineteen years old when he died. She said that she had often heard from him the story of his connection with the Revolution, for he would gather the children around the fireside and tell them of his experience. He was in the fight of the 19th of April, and had followed the British all the way back to Boston. He said that he counted many red-coats that day lying where they had fallen along the road. Upon his being asked if he had ever killed a British soldier, he always replied that, if he hadn't, he had tried to. He told them of Washington whom he had seen in camp for many months, and of the sufferings from hunger and cold which were sometimes very great, but that he had felt that he was fighting for freedom and therefore had not minded them. He was very proud of his experience. She said that her father was a tall, straight man and rather slender, that he was always smooth- shaven and wore his hair in the old-fashioned queue with a large black bow, which it was one of her early duties to tie. She remem- bered well his appearance in knee-breeches and with silver buckles on his shoes.
It was on the 25th of May, 1832, that Joseph Burrill made applica- tion for a pension under the act of 1832, and his petition was granted. He was pensioned at the rate of $43.22 per year and received $86.44 back pay. His death occurred in Haverhill at the advanced age of eighty-one. His wife died August 27, 1831. They are buried in the old cemetery at Haverhill, where black slate stones mark their graves. BURRILL, JOSEPH,-born 1762, parentage unknown. Revolutionary ser- vice: Descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the Continental Army
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for the term of six months, agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780; age, eighteen years; stature, 5 ft. 9 in .; complexion, ruddy; residence, Lynn; arrived at Springfield July 13, 1780; marched to camp July 13, 1780, under command of Captain Thomas Prit- chard; also list of men raised for six months' service and returned by Brigadier-General Patterson as having passed muster in a return dated Camp Totoway, October 25, 1780. BURRILL, MICAJAH,-son of John and Anne (Thompson) Burrill, was born October 5, 1760, and died at North Chelsea, March 25, 1847. He is buried in the old Western Burial Ground, but nothing further is known of him. The Revolutionary record given in the Massachusetts rolls is as follows :-
Private, Captain Addison Richardson's company, Colonel Wade's regiment, detached from Essex County militia; enlisted July 12, 1780; discharged October 10, 1780; service, three months and eleven days.
BURRILL, SAMUEL,-son of Hon. Ebenezer and Martha (Farrington) Bur- rill, was born April 1, 1717. He was a brother of Ebenezer, Esq., the town clerk, a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspec- tion, and Safety 1776-78 and 1781-83; a delegate to the convention at Concord to frame a state constitution, September 29, 1779; repre- sentative to the General Court 1780-83; and on the committee to sup- ply the families of soldiers gone to the war, but not himself a soldier.
He married Anna Alden, daughter of John and Anna (Brame) Alden. Her mother, as widow Anna, married Henry Burchstead. Samuel Burrill died May 3. 1797. His wife died December 10, 1795, aged seventy-four. BURRILL, THEOPHILUS,-private, son of Theophilus and Mary (Hills) Burrill, was born October 30, 1740, in the Burrill homestead, still stand- ing at the corner of Essex and Burrill Streets, Swampscott. He was a descendant in the fifth generation from Theophilus Burn George Burrill, the ancestor of all the Burrills of Lynn. He was married by
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