Miriam Burbank

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• Reference Number: 2409

Miriam married James Wakefield 1 Jul 1756, Maine, USA. James (son of John Wakefield and Elizabeth Durrell) was born 7 May 1736, Wells, York, Maine, USA; died Oct 1779. [Group Sheet]

1. James Wakefield was born 4 Oct 1775, Kennebunk, York, Maine, USA; died 8 Oct 1848, Etna, Penobscot, Maine, USA; was buried , Kennebunk, York, Maine, USA.
2. Sarah Wakefield was born Abt 1759.
3. Miriam Wakefield was born Abt 1761.
4. Elizabeth Wakefield
5. Hannah Wakefield
6. Abigail Wakefield

Miriam married Lewis Martin 27 Jan 1781. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 17559
• _MILT: Lieut.

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Lieutenant John Burbank was born in Rowley, Mass., Sept. 27, 1699. He came from Bradford, Mass., to Arundel, now Kennebunkport, Maine, in about 1722 to '25, as he was a proprietor in 1726 at Arundel. He was a mill-man, and called "gentleman". He engaged in the coast-wise trade; owned several ships; lost one ship on her first voyage to Halifax in 1750. He was with William Pepperell at the capture of Louisburg in 1745, and was a lieutenant. It is stated that he was prominent in both business and social affairs.

He married, first, Priscilla, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Bailey) Major, of Arundel. Bradbury states that Priscilla died Nov. 2, 1730, aged 31 years, which must be a mistake as to year or age, as Newbury, Mass., vital records show she was born Nov. 8, 1704. The error appears to be in date of her death -- she would have been 31 in 1735. (The ancestry of her father, Benjamin Major, is unknown, but he may have been one of the two Benjamins shown by the Salem records, either the son of M-- Mazury, baptized Aug. --, 1676, or the son of Benjamin and Margaret (Row) Mazure, baptized July 6, 1679.) He married, second, Hannah, daughter of Samuel Hutchins, of Arundel, and widow of George Perkins, as shown by her father's will made in 1742 and by York deeds, Vol. 29, p. 252. George Perkins and Hannah Hutchins were married June 7, 1733 (Wells, Maine, records), and George was living May 12, 1735, when his father deeded him land, so the Burbank-Perkins marriage must have occurred after that date. (Dates at Arundel-Kennebunk-port are hard to find.)

Deed: John Burbank of Arundel, Gentleman, and Hannah, his wife, formerly widow of George Perkins of Arundel, yeoman in right of said Hannah, for 14 pounds to Gideon Walker of Arundel, tanner, 60 acres formerly of the estate of Thomas Perkins of said Arundel, 17 Oct. 1752.

Witnesses. (Signed) John Burbank
Thomas Perkins her
Abner Perkins Hannah X Burbank
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John Burbank is described in other York County deeds as follows: in 1729 "fisherman", 1734 and 1737 "mill man", in 1723 had a garrison near site later occupied by an old meeting house, built 1760, on "Burbank Hill".

One writer says, "The Arundel man was undoubtedly the John Burbank born Sept. 27, 1699, son of Caleb and Hannah (Acey) Burbank, although where to find proof of his parentage I do not know." Genealogists in general agree that the above statement is true, and although there may be lacking positive proof there is much good evidence of his identity -- enough to remove all doubt.

No record is found of the date of his death or the settlement of his estate.

The exact date of the birth of none of his thirteen children is found, but it is known that his son John was born in the year 1752.

John married Hannah Hutchins Aft 1736, Maine, USA. Hannah (daughter of Samuel Hutchins, Sr and Hannah (Unknown)) was born Abt 1713, Kittery, York, Maine, USA; was christened 26 Apr 1719, Kittery, York, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 17563

Caleb married Hannah Acie 31 Aug 1698, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah (daughter of John Acie and Hannah Greene) was born 9 Mar 1680, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died 8 Jun 1762, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 17564

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• Reference Number: 17561

Notes:

"Two Samuel and Hannah Hutchinses of Massachusetts and Maine", by David Kendall Martin in TAG, Vol 73 [July 1998], pp. 172-175:

"During the early eighteenth century, there were two contemporary Samuel Hutchinses, one in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, and the other in Kittery, York County, Maine, who each married a woman named Hannah. The possibility of confusing them has apparently not been recognized by family historians, with the result that the wife of one is sometimes assigned, without comment, as wife of the other-- even by the same author. For example, inDescendants of John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, compiled by Edwin Colby Byam and edited by Jack Randolph Hutchins, we find that Samuel3 Hutchins (1682-1778), son of Joseph2 Hutchins (John1) and Joanna (Corliss) of Haverhill, married in Newbury, Massachusetts on 4 January 1715/6, Hannah Merrill, daughter of John and Lucy (Webster) Merrill. In 1976 Jack Randolph Hutchins published The Story of Jacob Hutchins of Athol, Massachusetts, Revolutionary Soldier, wherein he placed on a chart of the descendants of Enoch1 Hutchins and Mary (Stevenson) of Kittery, their son Samuel2 Hutchins (ca. 1685-1742) as husband of Hannah Merrill. In Hugh Hutchins of Old England, Jack Randolph Hutchins repeated his identification of the wife of Samuel Hutchins, son of Enoch, as Hannah Merrill; and in Robert Hutchins of Colonial America, he gave the same identification on page 334, while on pages 408 and 410 he noted Samuel Hutchins, the son of Joseph and Johannah (Corliss) Hutchins, as husband of Hannah Merrill.

The answer lies in the arrangement of entries for the vital records entered in the transcribed "Haverhill Town Meeting Records 1643-1724, 2 & 3", when compared with the wills of each of the two Samuel Hutchinses.

One Samuel Hutchins was born in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, on 20 August 1682, a son of Joseph and Joanna (Corliss) Hutchins, "Mr. Samuel Hutchins of Norwich, formerly of Haverhill in Massachusetts Bay", died at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, on 15 May 1778, aged 96 years, 9 months and two days, leaving a will dated 23 May 1774 and proved on 2 June 1778, in which he mentions his children Hannah, Samuel, Abigail Fales, and Nathan. No wife is mentioned in the will. The vital records of Haverhill show as children of Samuel Hutchins and Hannah "Marrill": Samuel born on 17 September 1716, Hannah born on 1 May 1717 [sic: 1718?], Nathan born on 1 April 1722, and Abigail born on 1 June 1724. The death of Hannah, wife of Samuel Hutchins on 9 June 1744 is also recorded.

Meanwhile, about 25 miles northeast of Haverhill, the parish records of the First Church and Society of Kittery, Maine, note that in 1714 another Samuel Hutchins was one of the eighteen subscribers to the church's covenant. This Samuel was the son of Enoch Hutchins of Kittery. Enoch had married on 5 April 1664, Mary Stevenson.

Although the year of this Samuel's birth is usually given as about 1685, he must have been born earlier, say about 1677, since he was given a land grant in Kittery in 1699. He and his brother Benjamin were the original administrators of the estate of their Brother Enoch Hutchins Jr., who died in Kittery on 2 April 1706. They were replaced by Enoch's widow on 13 January 1706/7, after her return from captivity in Canada, where she had been taken on 4 May 1705.

The Kittery First Church and Society parish records note on 26 April 1719 the baptism of infants: Sarah Hutchins, Caleb Hutchins, Samuel Hutchins, Hannah Hutchins and Simeon Hutchins. No parents are named, however, the will cited below makes clear these are the children of Samuel Hutchins of Kittery. Given the normal two year interval between single births, this would indicate a marriage date of say 1710.

During the 1720s, this Samuel lived briefly in Essex County, Massachusetts. In 1724 Samuel sold his dwelling in Kittery. On 4 March 1723/4, John Webster Jr., of Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, weaver for £363 sold to Mr. Samuel Hutchins of Kittery, yeoman, the farm in Salisbury "I now live on". On 11 May 1727, Samuel Hutchins of Salisbury, yeoman, for £400 sold this land to Mr. Edward Brown of "Reding". The same day Hannah Hutchins surrendered her dower rights, and both acknowledged the deed. By 30 June 1729, Samuel had settled in Arundel, Maine, where Samuel [his X mark] Hutchins, husbandman, of Arundel, York County, wrote his will on 20 October 1742, naming his wife Hannah and nine children. He died before 28 December 1742, the date his will was probated. His widow hannah died on 9 June 1747. Samuel and Hannah had ten children: the five whose baptisms are given above, and apparently born after 1719: Mary, Lydia, Joseph, Levi, and David, each named in his will, which also names children Simeon, Caleb, Samue, and Hannah. [no Sarah]

Newbury, Massachusetts, vital records note the marriage of Samuel Hutchins to Hannah Merrill, both of Haverhill, on 4 January 1715/6. As we have seen, this marriage has been attributed to both Samuel and Hannah of Haverhill and Samuel and Hannah of Kittery, Salisbury, and Arundel.

When the wills of these two Samuels are compared with the family record of Samuel Hutchins and Hannah "Marrill" preserved in the Haverhill Town Records, it is clear that the Samuel Hutchins who married Hannah Merrill was the son of Joseph and Johannah (Corliss) Hutchins of Haverhill.

Hannah merrill's family is revealed by Essex County. Massachusetts, deeds where it is recorded that on 26 July 1720 Lucy Merrill, widow of John Merrill late of Haverhill, who had been appointed administrator of his estate on 11 November 1707, deeded to "my son-in-law Samuel Hutchins & my son Nathaniel Merrill", both of Haverhill, 25 acres in haverhill, bounded west by Joseph Hutchins, "my father[-in-law] Nathaniel Merrill late of Newbury did give to my children.

The identity of Hannah, wife of Samuel2 Hutchins (Enoch1) of Kittery remains unknown."


Died:
28 Dec 1742 is the date his was probated

Samuel married Hannah (Unknown) Abt 1710, Kittery, York, Maine, USA. Hannah died 9 Jun 1747, Arundel, York, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 18375

Caleb married Martha Smith 6 May 1669, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Martha (daughter of Hugh Smith and Mary (Unknown)) was born 5 Feb 1648, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died 1716, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 18470

John married Hannah Greene 6 May 1676, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah (daughter of Henry Greene and Mary (Unknown)) died 30 Mar 1718, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 18471

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Killed by Indians.
Alternate place of death: Kittery, York Co., ME

Enoch married Mary Stevenson 5 Apr 1667, Kittery, York, Maine, USA. Mary (daughter of Thomas Stevenson and Margaret (Unknown)) was born Abt 1651, Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died Aft Feb 1723. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 17672