Elizabeth BURR

Elizabeth married Sergt. Nehemiah OLMSTEAD between 1648 - 1653. Nehemiah (son of James OLMSTEAD and Joyce CORNISH) was born in 1618; was christened on 10 Nov 1618 in Fairsted, co. Essex, England; died in 1657 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Obadiah GILBERT in 1660-1662. Obadiah (son of Thomas GILBERT and Lydia ?) was born in 1630; died in 1674 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Nathaniel SEELEY after 8 Mar 1674. Nathaniel (son of Robert SEELEY and UNKNOWN) was born in 1627; died on 19 Dec 1675 in Pequot War. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield": Deputy for Springfield to Conn. Leg., Apr. 1638, Sept. 1641; for Fairfield, Sept. 1645, Apr 1646.
He came in the Winthrop Fleet, 1630, settled in Roxbury, Mass., and was made freeman, 18 May 1631 In 1633 he served on a committee with William Pynchon, the Colony Treasurer; and in 1636 went with Pynchon to Springfield, of which he was appointed Collector by Conn. Colony. He rem. to Fairfield soon after 1641. He may have married more thn once. The mother of Jehu, jr., was quite likely sister of John Cable, Sr. There was prob. some relationship between the Burrs and the family of Nathaniel Perry.
He d. by 1654, and perhaps even earlier. On 17 Feb. 1670, the younger Jehu had recorded a homelot adjoining his own homelot, of which he "hath had quiet possession above this sixteen years." Immediately beneath, under date 12 Jan. 1673, is entered a description of the same lot, autographed by his bro. John, from whom he had purchased it, apparently a ratification of the purchase, The next entry, same date, is the younger Jehu's own homelot which he "hath by his father's will Jehu dec'd", bounded by the lot bought from his bro. John.

Jehu married ? UNKNOWN before 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]