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Birchard

Bercher, Berchard, Bercherd, Birchard, Bircherd, Bircher, Birchwood, Burchard, Burcherd, Burchet, Birchood, Burchwood.

William Bircher

ca 1569: born.

1595: married Great Leighs, Essex, England Catherine Finch (ca 1574 England-7 Feb 1635/6 Terling, Essex, England) daughter of Thomas Finch, Sr.

1595: son Thomas born. qv

28 May 1598: son William baptized Felsted, Essex, England; married Faith _______.

13 July 1600: son Richard baptized Felsted, Essex, England.

29 June 1606: daughter Mary baptized Felsted, Essex, England; married Felsted, Essex, England 15 Apr 1628 Robert Croksone.

26 May 1608: daughter Catherine baptized Felsted, Essex, England.

Ancester File LDS Church.

Thomas Birchard

1595: born. (age 40 in 1635)

12 Aug 1595: christened Felsted, Essex, England.

20 May 1620: married Felsted, Essex, England, Mary Robinson (baptized 16 Aug 1604-24 Mar 1655, death listed on the records of the Church at Roxbury where she was a member) daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Orvice) Robinson.

1 Nov 1621: daughter Elizabeth baptized Terling, Essex, England.

2 Apr 1623: daughter Mary baptized Terling, Essex, England.

22 Aug 1626: daughter Sarah baptized Terling, Essex, England; married Hartford, Hartfdord, Connecticut 24 Oct 1647 Bartholomew Barnard of Hartford, Connecticut.

26 June 1626: daughter Susanna baptized Terling, Essex, England; married Robert Wade.

1628: son John born (age 7 in 1635); married 22 July 1652 Christian (Christy Ann) Andrews; inventory 17 Nov 1702 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; m/2 Norwich New London, Connecticut 1685 Jane (Lee) Hyde; died 21 Jan 1723.

24 Sept 1629: son Thomas baptized; died 19 Feb 1631/32 Terling, Essex, England.

18 Apr 1632: daughter Deborah baptized; died 6 Apr 1633 Terling, Essex, England.

17 Apr 1633: daughter Ann (Hannah) baptized Terling, Essex, England.

20 Sept 1635: "Thomas Burchard", laborer, aged 40, with his family: wife Mary aged 38, children: Elizabeth aged 13, Mary aged 12, Sarah aged 9, Suzanna aged 8, John aged 7 and Ann age 18 months, took passage on "The True Love" from London, England to New England. New England Historical & Genealogical Register V14 p323.

1630s: member of the Church of Christ, Roxborough, (Roxbury) Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

17 May 1637: made freeman in Boston. Colonial Records, Massachusetts, Volume 1 p373.

Feb 1639: bought several parcels of land on the Connecticut River in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.

11 Apr 1639: on jury. Manwaring's Early Probate Records of Hartford County, Connecticut, Volume 1 p22.

1640: his home lot lay on the west side of the road from Seth Grant's to Centinel Hill (Trumball Street).

27 Sept 1645: "Thomas Burchwood" appointed one of appraisers of the estate of William Lotham.

no date: moved to Saybrook, Connecticut.

15 May 1651: attended as Deputy from Saybrook the General Court of Hartford and appointed by them to lay out land. Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Volume 1 p221.

no date: moved to Edgarton, Martha’s Vineyard - then Martin’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

17 Dec 1652: his land at Great Harbor in Edgartown, on Martins Vineyard was used as identification. Bank's History of Martha's Vineyard, Volume 1 p36.

8 May 1653: two lots in the planting field on the Vineyard were allotted to him.

20 May 1653: with Thomas Mayhew, Sr. And Philip Taber was appointed to make a division on the Vineyard of “the Necks” land.

1654: with Thomas Mayhew, Sr. and Philip Taber was cholsen by the town to end all controversies by the same manner and way as was done last year, only if any one of the said number be wanting, the rest are to choose another to fill up the number. Edgerton Town Records, V 1 p124.

1654: elected town clerk of Edgarton. After his term of two years ended, he was succeeded by his son John.

5 June 1655: elected Assistant to Thomas Mayhew, Sr., Town Magistrate of Edgartown.

7 Jan 1655/6: Thomas Burchet was listed as present at a town meeting in Saybrook.

24 Mar 1655: “Goodwife Birchard” died. 2 p99.

1657: still owned land at Saybrook and Hartford Connecticut. Roxbury, Massachusetts Town Records.

31 Oct 1656: deed from Thomas Birchard of Martins Vineyard to William Pratt, land in Saybrook. Saybrook Connecticut Deed Book 2 p99.

1657: still owned land in Saybrook and Hart ford when in a list of those who have rights in the undivided lands is the name of Thomas Birchard. (Feb 1671: son-in-law Bartholomew Barnard had these rights by gift or purchase.)

21 July 1659 (anc file 23 Sept 1659): by this date Edgarton, Dukes, Massachusetts, m/2 widow Katherine Andrews as noted in the estate of Lewis Martine. NE H&G Register Volume 10 p88.

1659: wrote from Martha’s Vineyard to “Mr. Elliott to give Securities to Ye Court” for him. Suffolk County, Massachusetts Probate Records.

30 Dec 1661: "Goodman Burchard" was enrolled in the train band of Edgarton. (Of the twenty-seven men enrolled, he was the only “Goodman”.)

10 July 1662: sold, as son’s attorney, sold son John’s house lot for him in Martins Vineyard.

18 Oct 1662: also appeared in land records.

6 June 1667: also appeared in land records.

13 Aug 1671: witnessed will of Nicholas Butler.

15 Oct 1673: Thomas Mayhew was in control at Edgerton, but Thomas Birchard and twenty others sent a petition to the Massachusetts Colony offering the Martins Vineyard to Massachusetts. This offer was declined. Massachusetts. Archives Volume XLVIII p138. (Thomas Birchard was a “principal instigator of the Rebellion”.

4 Mar 1674: he and wife Katherine witnessed will of John Pease.

4 July 1675: died.

14 Feb 1676: received the first lot in a division of the Plain at the Vineyard.

no date: married Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Deborah _______.

10 May 1680: Deborah Burcham wife of Thomas of Martha's Vineyard died. Was this possibly a third wife or a misunderstanding of names? Wyman's Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts p154.

2 May 1682: sold land at "Aquampacker neck near Pahoggannot".

20 Mar 1682/3: deed from Thomas Birchard of Norwich, New London County, Connecticut to Nicholas Marsen of Saybrook a 100 pound right in the Ox Pasture at Saybrook - recorded 1714 -, Connecticut. Saybrook, Connecticut Deed Book 2 p237.

9 May 1683: sold a small piece of land in the Vineyard as "late inhabitant upon the Vineyard" where he lived thirty years.

Sept 1684: will under probation.

Note: New London burned 1781 destroying many records.

Elizabeth Birchard (daughter of Thomas and Mary Birchard)

1622: born England.

no date: married Thomas Wadsworth.

Marie Birchard (daughter of Thomas and Mary Birchard)

1624: born England.

Sarah Birchard (daughter of Thomas and Mary Birchard)

1626: born England.

25 Oct 1647: married Hartford County, Connecticut, Bartholomew Barnard of Hartford.

Susanna Birchard (daughter of Thomas and Mary Birchard)

1627: born England.

John Birchard (son of Thomas and Mary Birchard)

1628: born England.

22 July 1653: married Norwich, Connecticut, Christian Andrews.

Oct 1654: son Thomas born, died 1658.

Nov 1656: daughter Katherine born, died same year.

Jan 1657: son John born, died 1658.

Dec 1659: son John (2) born, died 1662.

1660: lived Nowich, New London County, Connecticut.

May 1661: daughter Sarah born, died 1664.

16 July 1663: son Samuel born, married New London, New London County, Connecticut 1695 Ann Calkins (1676-____) daughter of David and Mary (Bliss) Caulkins.

Nov 1665: son James born, married New London, New London, County, Connecticut 17 Mar 1695/6 Elizabeth Beckwith, died after 1745.

Nov 1667: daughter Abigail born, married Norwich, New London County, Connecticut 23 Oct 1690 John Caulkins, Jr. (1661-____) son of John and Sarah (Royce) Caulkins.

Jan 1669: son Thomas (2) born, married Norwich, New London County, Connecticut 12 Sept 1708 Sarah Webb, daughter of John Webb.

3 Feb 1671: son John (3) born, married 1708 Hannah Loomis (ca 1677-1746), died 30 June 1735, buried Old cemetery, Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut.

Feb 1673: son Joseph born, married Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut 29 June 1710 Elizabeth Lambert.

Dec 1675: son Benjamin born, died 1675.

June 1677: daughter Mary born, married Norwich, New London County, Connecticut 15 Aug 1700 Jonathan Hartshorn.

no date: m/2 Jane (Lee) Hyde (12 Sept 1640 Rusper, Sussex County, England-21 Jan 1722/3 Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut) daugher of Thomas and Phebe (Brown) Lee, widow of Samuel Hyde.

Note: from Hartford Times: "Have never seen a record of this marriages, but diary of Joshua Hempstead p116 gives following 'Went to see Aunt Birchard and lodged at Cuz Samuel Hides' all night'. She was a half-sister of his mother Elizabeth Larrabee". Also a grand-daughter of William and Jane (Burgess) Brown of Rusper England, baptized there 12 Sept 1640, married June 1659 Samuel Hyde, son of William. He died 1677 when she married second John Birchard.

Nov 1680: son Daniel born, married Elizabeth Thomas.

no date: daughter Lydia born, married Samuel Raymond.

1692: one of four original proprietorsof a five mile tract.

1698: lived Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut.

17 Nov 1702: died Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut.

Ann/Hannah Birchard (daughter of Thomas and Mary Birchard)

12-25 Apr 1632: born England.

25 Apr 1653: married Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, John Baldwin. q.v.

Rev. Henry Robinson

4 Apr 1557: baptized All Hallows, London, England.

no date: marred Elizabeth Orvice (23 Nov 1561 bpt Terling, Essex, England-11 Dec 1621 Felsted, Essex, England) daughter of Rev. John and Jane Orvice of Terling, Essex, England.

21 Oct 1582: daughter Jane baptized.

25 Dec 1583: son William baptized; married 16 Nov 1607 Anne Warner.

2 Feb 1585: son Elias baptized.

12 May 1586: son Michael baptized.

9 Mar 1589/90 daughter Elizabeth baptized; married 13 Mar 1606 John Simson.

16 May 1592: daughter Margery baptized; married William Chapman.

21 Apr 1594: son Reuben baptized; married Anne Hill.

5 Oct 1595: daughter Anne baptized; married 21 Sept 1618 Robert Savage.

14 May 1598: son Henry baptized; died 16 Jan 1620.

2 Apr 1601: daughter Deborah baptized; married 15 Apr 1623 John Homsted.

16 Aug 1604: daughter Mary baptized; married 16 Aug 1604 Thomas Birchard. qv

29 Apr 1602: daughter Priscilla baptized.

15 Apr 1605: daughter Martha baptized.

All events, unless otherwise noted took place in Felsted, Essex, England.

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