Sunday, September 14, 2025

End of Line and Brick Walls, Colonial ancestors in or from New Haven Colony in Connecticut.

These are New Haven Colony ancestors where I have no documentation for either their last names or parents:

    3rdGGP:

  • Nancy Ann (said to be a Creekmore?) wife of Jabez Perkins (Jabez was born in New Haven. Nancy Ann seems to have been born in Virginia, and the marriage took place either in Virginia, or North Carolina);

    7thGGP:

  • Mary (Elcock?) wife of John Perkins;
  • Elizabeth Hipkins?, wife of Samuel Ford of New Haven Colony;
  • Richard Sperry of New Haven Colony;
  • Dennis ?????, wife of Richard Sperry;

    8thGGP:

  • Edward Perkins of New Haven Colony (said to be son of William Perkins, Merchant Tailor, of London and Mary Purchase;
  • Elizabeth Butcher?, wife of Edward Perkins;
  • Timothy Ford of New Haven Colony;
  • Elizabeth (nee Gordy? or Knowles?), wife of Timothy Ford;
  • John Thompson of New Haven Colony;
  • Dorothy (Honeywood?), wife of John Thompson;
  • Thomas Barnes of New Haven Colony;
  • Mary ????? or Elizabeth ?????, wife of Thomas Barnes;
  • Deacon William Peck of New Haven Colony;
  • Elizabeth (Holt?), wife of Deacon William Peck;
  • William Parker of New Haven Colony;
  • Margery (Pritchard?), wife of William Parker;
  • Elizabeth Cleverly?, wife of Samuel Hotchiss of New Haven Colony;
  • Henry Peck of New Haven Colony;
  • Joan (Allen or Hull?), wife of Henry Peck;
  • Michael Chatterton of Strawberry Bankes, New Haven Colony, and Westchester, Long Island;
  • Jane (Woodward? or Vynal), wife of Michael Chatterton;
  • James Clark of New Haven Colony;
  • Sarah (Harvey or Fernes?), wife of James Clark;
  • John Frost, husband of Mercy Payne of New Haven.

I have read through the American Genealogist and the New Haven Magazine, the Connecticut Magazine, and the Nutmegger and other Connecticut and New England genealogy resources. Any leads will be appreciated.

Are you a descendant of John and Lucretia Burnett of Picataway Creek, Old Rappahannock County (now Essex County), Virginia? You are not a descendant of John Burnett, Merchant of Aberdeen.

Recently I attended the East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference in Maryland. While there I was talking to another attendee and he mentioned he descended from an Isham Burnett. I have an Isham Burnett in my Burnett family and I said I'd get back to him after the Conference. In examining my Burnett line I found that the often followed ancestry for John Burnett and Lucretia Burnett back to Aberdeen, Scotland, appears to be incorrect.

According to research published in 2020, by Mary Neil Burnett and Susan Kromer Hunt, in "John & Lucretia Burnett of Essex County Virginia", John Burnett of Old Rappahannock County was an indentured servant claimed in a land patent dated in 1653 and released from indenture in 1656/7 and who acquired land in Lancaster County (later Old Rappahannock, and now Essex County), while John Burnett, Merchant of Aberdeen/Edinborough, acquired land in Old Norfolk County in 1637. Details with supporting documents and citations are in the referenced article above.

I find the evidence in the article to be very well presented and I agree with the conclusion. I look forward to their further research.