1. Jehu Burr
Jehu Burr settled in Roxbury Massachusetts, thence he accompanies William
Pynchon to the founding of Springfield, and eventually settled at Fairfield
Conn. where his descendants became known as the ‘The Fairfield Branch’.
They became the firmest pillars of the old colonial structure, and prominent
in both civil and military affairs.
Jehu had four sons: Jehu born in England.
John "
Nathaniel "
Daniel "
Daniel had 10 children.
One of which was the Rev. Aaron Burr.
Rev. Aaron Burr. settled in Newark, New Jersey as pastor of the First
Church. He married Esther, daughter of Rev. Jonothan Edwards on June
29 1737.
Their children were: Sarah, b. May 3, 1754, married Judge Tappen Reeve
on June 24, 1772.
Aaron Burr, born Feb. 60 1756. Died Sept. 14, 1836.
Rev. Aaron Burr founded The New Jersey, College, now known as
Princeton University, and became President.
Rev. Aaron Burr died Sept. 24, 1757 and his wife Esther died
in 1758.
Benjamin Burr was a member of a sturdy and gallant band that marched
through the wilderness to found the city of Hartford, Conn. in 1635.
He was the father of a numerous and respectable family, known to genealogists
as the ‘Hartford Branch’.
His descendants settled principally in Conn. and N.Y. and are also
quite numerous in Illinois and Iowa.
3. Rev. Jonothan Burr
Reverend Jonothan Burr, was the founder of the third,, or ‘Dorchester
branch’ of the family. He was a clergyman of culture, piety, and
rare eloquence, whose fame was in all the churches, whose lineage and history
is given in detail both by Gov. Winthrop and in the pages of that quaint
and famous biographer Rev. Cotton Mather.
He was born in the parish of Redgrave, County of Suffolk, England
1604, and according to an entry in the parish register of Redgrave he was
baptized Aug. 12, 1604.
He was entered at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1623 and graduated
in 1627.
He died Aug. 9. 1641 of small pox.