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Joseph Burgess Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 610 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Burgess 
  • Mother:
  • Thomasine Bangs   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Feb 1701/1702 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 5 Jan 1757 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thankful Snow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Apr 1723 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lydia Burgess (Ahnentafel No:305 )

  Hannah Burgess

  Phebe Burgess

  Thankfull Burgess

  Mary Burgess

  Joseph Burgess

  Mercy Burgess

  Thankfull Burgess

  Mercy Burgess

  Seth Burgess

  • Notes: 

  • Joseph Burgess's surname is also seen as Burge.

• Sources for Joseph Burgess Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Yarmouth, Vol. 1, p. 16, Birth record for Joseph Burges.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1997, Vol. 151, p. 432.
  • ³ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 142-143.
  • ⁴ Burgess, Ebenezer, Burgess Genealogy: Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess, Who Were Settled at Sandwich . . ., Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin and Son (1865), 17.
  • ⁵ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, editors, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 08, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1893), 214.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 377, 579, 788.

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