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- Town of Pomfret on Webster Road at route 60. There is a grape vineyards on Rt. 60 so one can not see the cemetery from that road during the summer (1993). Mary's headstone marking her grave lies in the grass, broken into three pieces according to Patriot-Soldiers of 1775-1783, compiled by Frederick Ward Kates, published in 1981. By Oct 1992 Mary's marker was missing and Augustus' marker was laying on the ground, unbroken.
Augustus Burnham marched with the first troops from Hartford CT, for the relief of Boston, MA in the Lexington Alarm, April 1775. He moved to some place in the state of New York on Lake Ontario opposite, and about fifty miles up the lake from Grand River, Canada. He was in Service of Conn. Men in the Revolution War [DAR # 58483].
Augustus moved to Arkwright, Chautauqua County, NY in June 1809. According to the State Gazetteer, the first settlement in Arkwright was made in the northwest part of the town in 1807, by Abiram Orton, Benjamin Perry, and Augustus Burnham.
According to the Holland Land Co. Sales in Chautauqua County, Epliphelet, Augustus' son purchased land in March 1805 a month before Augustus. Augustus original purchases was 120 acres in the NE part of lot # 7 of township 5, range 12 on 4 Apr 1805. He purchased on 24 Feb 1808 another track in the N-1/2 part of lot # 14 and on the 12 of Apr 1808 lot # 62 both in the same township and Range as the earlier purchase. On 19 Aug 1809 he paid $10 articled for the W-1/2 of lot 60 in township 5 and range 11 and secured a 119 acres of lot # 1 township 5 range 12. On 1 May 1810 he obtained 123 acres in the W-1/3 of lot 56, township 5 range 11.Boren, Virginia Washburn, Earliest Holland Land Co. Sales in Chautauqua County, NY, 1990, p. 11.
Father: david BURNHAM b: 26 Mar 1700
Mother: mary ROBERTS
Marriage 1 mary STEDMAN b: 12 Apr 1753
Married: 12 Apr 1771
Children
asahel BURNHAM b: 20 Sep 1772
roswell BURNHAM b: 30 Jan 1774
mary BURNHAM b: 20 Oct 1776
eliphalet BURNHAM b: 28 Nov 1779
augustus BURNHAM b: 1793
asahel BURNHAM b: 28 Aug 1796
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https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A017680
BURNHAM, AUGUSTUS
Ancestor #: A017680
Service:
CONNECTICUT Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 8-4-1751 HARTFORD HARTFORD CO CONNECTICUT
Death: 8-27-1813 POMFRET CHAUTAUQUA CO NEW YORK
Service Source: JOHNSTON, CT MEN IN THE REV, PP 381, 384
Service Description: 1) CAPT JOHN SIMONS; COL WOLCOTT REGT, 7TH CO
Residence County: HARTFORD CO - State: CONNECTICUT
Spouse MARY STEDMAN
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From FindaGrave:
Married April 12, 1771 to Mary Stedman, Mary was born April 12, 1753. She died in 1832 in Laona.
Also probably here his son Augustus Burnham born ca 1793 died 1813 in the War of 1812 ; his will
p. 39, will of Augustus Burnham of town of Pomfret, Chautauqua County, New York, signed 4 Feb 1813.
Court: 28 Jun 1813
Two dollars each to brothers Roswell Burnham and Eliphalet Burnham and to sister Mary Burnham. Remainder of estate to brother Asahel Burnham, requiring him to maintain mother Mary Burnham. If he die without heirs, then estate to brother Eliphalet Burnham if living; if not, to Horace Burnham his eldest son.
Codicil 5 Feb 1813: Two dollars to father Augustus Burnham
Administrator: Benjamin Perry and Eliphalet Burnham
Witnesses to will and codicil: Aaron Willcox, Catherine Perry, Benjamin Perry.
Information from Dolores Davidson # 46872356
Inscription
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Gravesite Details
Augustus enlisted in Connectucut as a militiaman for the war against England and marched with the first troops for relief of Boston at Lexington.
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1751 - 1823 (72 years)
