| BIRTH | Ebeneezer was born on 13 July 1679 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Burrill, Ebinezur"[50]. |
| DEATH & BURIAL | He died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 6 September 1761; he was 82[5]. His Lynn, Essex co., MA death record reads "Burrill, Ebeneezer, Esq..in his 82nd y.". Ebeneezer is buried in the Old or Western Burial Ground in Lynn, Essex co., MA. |
| OCCUPATION | Ebeneezer went into "the family business" and was the Representative to the General Court for the town of Lynn in 1725, 1728-1730, 1731 and 1746. He also served as Town Clerk in 1756 and Councilor for the town from 1731-1746[51]. He later lived in Swampscott, Essex co., MA. |
| MARRIAGE | On 13 October 1702 when Ebeneezer was 23, he married Martha FARRINGTON, daughter of Mathew FARRINGTON Jr. & Sarah POTTER, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[52]. |
| CHILDREN | 44. | i. | Ebeneezer BURRILL | Ebeneezer was born on 6 February 1702/3 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[50] and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 20 May 1778; he was 76. Like his father, Ebeneezer, Jr. was the Representative for the town of Lynn in 1764-1773 and 1774. He also served as Town Clerk in 1767[57]. |
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45. | ii. | John BURRILL | John was born on 24 Februry 1704/5 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[42] and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 5 December 1724; he was 20[20]. |
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46. | iii. | Martha BURRILL | Martha was born on 21 April 1707 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[49]. |
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47. | iv. | Theophilus BURRILL | Theophilus was born on 21 May 1709 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Burrill, Theofilous"[58]. He died in Lynn, Essex co., MA in 1791; he was 81. |
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48. | v. | Mary BURRILL | Please see her own page. |
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49. | vi. | Eunice BURRILL | Eunice was born on 27 October 1713 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Burrill, Eunis"[50] and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 12 October 1760; she was 46. She never married. |
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50. | vii. | Lois BURRILL | Lois was born on 5 August 1715 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[49] and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 15 June 1736; she was 20[36]. |
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51. | viii. | Samuel BURRILL | Samuel was born on 1 April 1717 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[41]. |
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52. | ix. | Sarah BURRILL | Sarah was born on 15 April 1719 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[58] and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 15 September 1748; she was 29. |
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53. | x. | Lydia BURRILL | Lydia was born on 25 February 1721/2 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[49] and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 16 November 1767; she was 46. On 20 October 1743 when Lydia was 22, she married Ezra MOWER, son of Captain Richard2 MOWER & Thankfull SEAVER, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[63]. Ezra was born on 19 May 1714 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[62]. |
| GENERATION | Great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G7) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 1010 |
| SOURCES |
1. Parish Registers of Boston, Lincolnshire, England for 1557-1638,
[BosParReg].
2. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 6:363. 3. Ibid. 6:365. 4. Ibid. 6:362. 5. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:447 [G.R. 1]. 6. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes, (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC], 1:5. 7. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], I:177-181. 8. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey]. 9. [NEHGR], 83:120. 10. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:308. 11. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 5:103. 12. Lewis, Alonzo, The History of Lynn, Including Nahant, (Boston: Samuel N. Dickinson, second edition, 1844), [LynnHist(1844)], 115. 13. Burrill, Ellen Mudge, The Burrill Family of Lynn, during the Colonial and Provincial Periods, with Some of Their Descendants..., (Lynn: Frank S. Whitten, Printer, 1907), [Burrill], 49. 14. The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Mass., (Lynn, Mass., 1897+), [Lynn Hist. Soc.], 1907:110. 15. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 1:11; 18:175; 44:221; 51:271. 16. [EssexAnt], 5:103,104. 17. [LynnVR], II:445 [Ct. R.]. 18. Ibid. I:89 [P.R. 4]. 19. [NEHGR], 6:366. 20. [LynnVR], II:447. 21. [Savage]. 22. [NEHGR], 83:121. 23. [EIHC], 51:272. 24. [LynnVR], II:447 [G.R. 1]. 25. Lewis, Alonzo, The History of Lynn, Including Nahant, (Boston: Samuel N. Dickinson, second edition, 1844), [LynnHist(1844)], 269. 26. [Lynn Hist.], 116,173,227. 27. The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Mass., (Lynn, Mass., 1897+), [Lynn Hist. Soc.], 1907:110,227. 28. Cooke, Harriet Ruth, The Driver Family: a Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass., With an Appendix, Containing Twenty-Three Allied Families, (New York: J. Wilson & Son, 1889), [Driver], 295. 29. [Burrill], 7,49. 30. [NEHGR], 67:341; 83:121. 31. [Savage], 1:309. 32. Tingley, Raymon Meyers, Some Ancestral Lines; Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford: Solon Tingley and His Wife, Martha Pamelia Meyers, Collected by Their Son, Raymon Meyers Tingley, (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Publishing Co., 1935), [Tingley-Meyers], 113. 33. DeForest, Louis Effingham, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (New York, N.Y.: The DeForest Publ. Co., 1930), [DommerichChart], 38. 34. [EIHC], 4:234; 18:175; 44:222; 51:277. 35. Backus, Mary Elizabeth (Neilson), The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus, ([Salem, Mass.: privately printed, 1949]), [Backus Anc.], 93. 36. [LynnVR], II:148. 37. Ibid. I:86. 38. Ibid. I:89 [Ct. R.]. 39. Ibid. II:446 [Ct. R.]. 40. Ibid. II:446. 41. Ibid. I:91. 42. Ibid. I:89. 43. Ibid. I:86 AND I:91. 44. Ibid. I:89 [Ct. R.]. 45. Page, Lucius R., List of Freemen of MA, 1630-1691., [Page-Freemen], III:10-12. 46. [LynnVR], II:76. 47. Ibid. II:78. 48. Ibid. I:86 and I:90. 49. Ibid. I:90. 50. Ibid. I:88. 50. [LynnHist(1844)], 269-270. 51. [LynnVR], II:79. 53. Ibid. I:145. 54. Ibid. II:448 [G.R. 1]. 55. Ibid. I:329. 56. Ibid. II:568 [G.R. 1]. 56. [LynnHist(1844)], 270. 57. [LynnVR], I:92. 58. Lynn Historic Society Genealogies, [LHSG], VI, #20. 59. [LynnVR], II:540 [G.R. 1 and P.R. 5]. 61. Ibid. II:78 and II:257. 62. Ibid. I:269. 63. Ibid. II:257. |
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