| BIRTH, RESIDENCE & DEATH | John Henry was born in 1657 in Lynn, Essex co., MA with a birth record there which reads: "Burchsted, John Henry, Dr. ___, 1657"[1]. He died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 20 September 1721; when he was 64[2]. John was an eminent physician -- an occupation which many of the male members of the family followed. His death record says that he is "a Silesian", yet he also has a Lynn birth record[3]. Regardless, he lived in Lynn, Essex co., MA -- on the hill in front of High Rock -- for his entire life. |
| MARRIAGE #1 | On 24 April 1690 when John Henry was 33, he first married Mary RAND, daughter of Robert RAND Sr. & Elizabeth [surname not known], in Lynn, Essex co., MA[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. Their marriage records reads "Busted, John Hennery, and wid. Mary [Rand, P.R.17] Kertland". Mary was the widow of Nathaniel KERTLAND. |
| CHILDREN | 2. | i. | Henry BURCHSTED | Please see his own page. |
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3. | ii. | John BURCHSTED | John was born circa September 1703/1704 in Lynn, Essex co., MA and died on 12 March 1704/1705 in Lynn, Essex co., MA; he was aged 6 months[24]. John was buried in Old or Western Burial Ground - Lynn, Essex co., MA. |
| MARRIAGE #2 | Before 1721 when John Henry was 64, he second married Mary WHITING, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[1]. On their marriage record, John Henry's name is given as "Burchsted, John Henry, Dr.". Mary was born in 1667[5] and died in 1740; she was 73[5]. |
| GENERATION | Great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G7) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 964 |
| SOURCES |
1. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records,
[LynnVR], I:85 [P.R.17]. 2. Ibid. II:444 [G.R. 1 and P. R. 17]. 3. Ibid. II:445. 4. Ibid. II:82,217. 5. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey]. 6. Lewis, Alonzo, & James Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Mass., including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant, 16219-[1893], (Lynn: George C. Herbert, [1890]), [Lynn Hist.], 226. 7. Sanborn, V.C., The Kirkland or Kirtland Family, (from Register, Jan. 1894) (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1894), [Kirtland], 6. 8. Rand, Florence Osgood, A Genealogy of the Rand Family in the U.S. and His Descendants, (New York: The Republic Press, 1898), [Rand], 14. 9. Hazen, Henry Allen, History of Billerica, Mass., with a Genealogical Register, (Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1883), [Billerica Hist.], 156. 10. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:300. 11. Alexander, Winthrop, Dr. John Henry Burchsted of Lynn, Mass., (n.p., 1924), typescript, [Burchsted (ms)], 2. 12. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 8:73. 13. Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, a Memorial Volume, 2 vols., (Milwaukee: privately printed, 1931-43), [Dawes-Gates], 2:521. 14. [LynnVR], II:445 [G.R. 1]. 15. Ibid. II:76 [P.R. 17]. 16. Ibid. I:93. 17. Ibid. II:444 [G.R. 1]. 18. ??????, "First Book of Intentions of Marriage in the City of Lynn", Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, [EIHC-LynnInt], 16:71ff. 19. [LynnVR], II:82 also II:75 [P.R. 17]. 20. Ibid. II:444 [G.R. 1]. 21. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], II:332. 22. [LynnVR], I:92. 23. Ibid. II:75. 24. Ibid. II:444. 25. Ibid. II:75 [P.R. 17]. 26. Waters, Henry F., The Newhall Family, (Salem: Essex Institute, 1882; repr., Rutland, VT: Tuttle Antiquarian Books), [Newhall(1882)], #148, v. 18 p. 264. 27. [LynnVR], II:75 [PR 17 - the Mudge Family Bible]. 28. [Newhall(1882)], 60. 29. Boston, Suffolk co., MA Vital Records. [BostonVR or BVR], Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1751. Document 150 - 1898 Volume 28. Page 228. 30. [LynnVR]. 31. [Newhall(1882)], 33,60. 32. Ibid. 61. 33. Ibid. #354; v. 19, p. 56.
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