Blood in the Earth

Samuel Burgess

1678 - 1753

• Born	8 Mar 1678	Eastham, Barnstable, MA
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Sep 1753	Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
  Person ID	I18	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	John Burgess,   b. 1629, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA ,   d. 17 Mar 1701, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA
  Mother	Mary Worden,   b. 10 Feb 1639, Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA ,   d. 1723, Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
  Family ID	F11	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Hopkins,   b. 30 Jun 1680, Eastham, Barnstable, MA ,   d. Sep 1723, Eastham, Barnstable, MA
  Children	1. Remember Burgess,   b. 23 Jun 1714, Eastham, Barnstable, MA ,   d. 10 Oct 1792, Holston Settlement, Washington, VA
  Last Modified	8 May 2012
  Family ID	F10	Group Sheet

  
  

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  Mystery of the two Samuels (0) Thomas Burgess had four sons, Thomas, John, Jacob, and Robert. John and Jacob both decided to name one of their sons Samuel, so there were first cousins named Samuel, about four years apart in age. The mystery is which Samuel had a daughter named Remember. While searching through many family trees I have found there is consternation as to which man had the child, some saying John's Samuel and others saying Jacob's Samuel. From whom Remember came makes a difference in the ancestral line, so it is a sticky situation. I decided I would follow Ebenezer Burgess' "Burgess Genealogy. Memorial of the family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess, who were settled at Sandwich, in the Plymouth Colony, in 1637". This booklet was first published in 1865. Ebenezer was a descendant of Thomas and Dorothy and I believe his account is probably the most accurate. On page 17 he clearly lists Remember as the daughter of Samuel, son of John, son of Thomas. Mystery solved to my satisfaction, knowing ancestral info offers no guarantees.