Eleventh Generation

1156. Thomas* BURGESS^{691,1385,1582,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949} was born on 16 Aug 1601 in Cornwall Co., England. He signed a will on 4 Apr 1684 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA.¹⁹⁵⁰ Probate: 5 March 1685
He died on 13 Feb 1685 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA. Name appears on list of men able to bear arms in Sandwich, 1643, together with Richard Burgess, Thomas Burgess Jr., William Swift, John Dingley, and others.. In Sandwich in 1637. Representative to the General Court in 1642; fought in the Narragansett War, 1645. Savage calls him "one of the chief men of the town." Through the agency of Captain Miles Standish he received a grant of land 3 March 1653 in Manomet, (aka Monument, lying to the north of Sandwich settlement, which was named Herring River Village (within the Township of Sandwich). The deed show that the land lay "to the Eastward of Thomas Burgis so sonne-in-lawes house," thus proving that Ezra Perry was then resident, though he probably did not yet own land, in Manomet. Had a grant of land in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, 3 Apr 1637.



Thomas* BURGESS and Dorothy* WAYNES? were married in 1628 in Tanfield, Durham, England.

1157. Dorothy* WAYNES?^{691,1385,1582,1944} was born in 1605 in , , England.¹⁹⁵¹ She died on 27 Feb 1696/97 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA. She was buried in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA. Old Town Cemetery

Surname could be Waynes.

Children were:

	i.	Thomas BURGESS was born about 1627 in , , England. He died on 26 Feb 1717 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA.
578	ii.	John* BURGESS.
	iii.	Elizabeth BURGESS1385 was born in 1631 in Truro, Cornwall, England. She died on 26 Sep 1717 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA.1952
	iv.	Jacob BURGESS1356 was born between 1632 and 1636 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA.1175 He died on 17 Mar 1718/19 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA.1167
	v.	Joseph BURGESS1953 was born between 1635 and 1638 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA. He signed a will on 5 Aug 1685. Will names children: Benjamin Burges, Ichabod Burges, "Rebecca Ross" and "Dorrity Clifton." He was an original proprietor of Sippican (Rochester, MA) along with wife's aunt, Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis... "The Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess" (1865) and other printed accounts confind their identification to the dau. of Joseph and Patience Burgess to the designations given in his will. But Rebecca, b. 17 Jan 1667/8 [Sandwich Vital Records; Mayflower Descendant 14:171], m. ca 1692 Edward Rose (not Ross); and Dorothy, b. 12 Nov 1670, m. ca 1689, Savery Clifton and had a number of children per Rochester Vital Records. Proof via deed 16 Mar 1714/5 "Wee... being the children of Joseph Burge of sd Rochester, late deceased... (relinquish our rights)... which our father by his last will and Testament... approved... ye 3 day of Oct. 1695 gave unto our brother Benjamin Burge unto his heirs... this 7 March 1714/5"... Edward Rose (mark), Rebecca Rose (mark), Ichabod Burge, Savorill [sic] Clifton, Dority Clifton (mark), Charity Packer (mark), John Hammond. He died in Aug 1695 in Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA.1954