_____________________ | _____________________|_____________________ | _Samuel Burnham ______| | | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | _Bradford Burnham ___________| | (1787 - 1865) m 1814 | | | _____________________ | | | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | | |_Mary Perkins ________| | | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | _Henry Larcom Burnham _| | (1814 - 1893) | | | _John Whipple _______+ | | | (1660 - 1722) m 1687 | | _John Whipple _______|_Hannah Rolfe _______ | | | (1695 - 1769) m 1735 (1664 - 1701) | | _Thomas Whipple ______| | | | (1753 - 1804) m 1787 | | | | | _Thomas Baker _______ | | | | | | | | |_Martha Baker _______|_Mary Capen _________ | | | (1712 - 1798) m 1735 | |_Hannah "Anna" Dane Whipple _| | (1793 - 1847) m 1814 | | | _Daniel Dane ________ | | | | | _Daniel Dane ________|_Lydia Day __________ | | | (1716 - 1768) | |_Martha "Molly" Dane _| | (1758 - 1839) m 1787 | | | _David Burnham ______+ | | | (1688 - ....) m 1711 | |_Abigail Burnham ____|_Elizabeth Perkins __ | (1717 - 1799) (1690 - 1723) | |--Henry Eben Burnham | (1844 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | ______________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | | _____________________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | | | | |______________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | |_Maria A. Bailey ______| (1820 - ....) | | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | ______________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | |_____________________________| | | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | |______________________| | | _____________________ | | |_____________________|_____________________
Desc of the eighth gen from John Burnham who came from Norfolk County, England 1635 and settled in Essex MA. Here the family lived until 1770 when Samuel, the grgrandfather of Henry E., rem to Dunbarton NH where his son Bradford and grandson Henry L. were born. Josiah Bailey, his maternal grandfather, was also a native of Dunbarton where his mother was born. His father was a successful teacher for thirty years and a public-spirited citizen of Dunbarton, representing the town in both branches of the legislature and serving as Commissioner and High Sheriff of Merrimack County. On his father's side, Judge Burnham is related to Nathan Dane, a member of the Continental Congress of 1787 and author of Ordinance of 87 for the gov of the territory north and west of the Ohio River and providing for the exclusion of slarery from all that vast region. Judge Burnham attended kimball Union Academy Meriden and entered Dartmouth and grad high honors. After studying law at Minot and Mugridege of Concord and with Judge Lewis W. Clark of Manchester, he was admitted to the bar 1868. (Willey's semi-centennial book of Manchester 1846-1896 and Manchester edition of the Book of Nutfield; historic sketches of that part of NH comprised within the limits of the old Tyng Township, Nutfield, Harrytown, Derryfield and Manchester, from the earliest settlements to the present, George Franklin Willey, 1896 366 pages, this selection from page 339) Note: Abigail Burnham married Daniel Dane and were parents of Nathan Dane who married Polly Brown. In Nathan Dane's will he leaves his estate to a large number of relatives, the Appleton's and Lamsons and to his "nephew William Whipple, to whom he gave a farm in Dunbarton NH, said Whipple supporting his mother."
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