tats from Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Variant spelling: Burge. Date of death from Cranda. Birth date from Damvelt. Landers has Burgess married in 1628. Crocker has 13 Feb 1666 for death; says Thomas immigrated in 1630. Name appears on list of men able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony (Sandwich), 1643, together with Richard Burgess, Thomas Burgess Jr., William Swift, John Dingley, and others. [NEHGR, iv, 257-258] Brownson, NEHGR 115:87. In Sandwich in 1637. Representative to the General Court in 1642; fought in the Narragansett War, 1645. Savage calls him "one of the chief men of the town." Through the agency of Captain Miles Standish he received a grant of land 3 March 1653 in Manomet, the area later called Monument, lying to the north of Sandwich Settlement, which was named Herring River Village (within the Township of Sandwich). The deed show that the land lay "to the Eastward of Thomas Burgis so sonne-in-lawes house," thus proving that Ezra Perry was then resident, though he probably did not yet own land, in Manomet. Had a grant of land in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, 3 Apr 1637 (Winifred Lovering Holman, Burgess Lineage (1958), typescript in the NEHGS library). Paver’s Marriage Licenses, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 20:74 (1909): "Thomas Burgess and Doronty Waynes [married at] Tanfield [Yorks] in 1628." See NEHGR 118:323 [BINGHAM.GED]

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