1630
Jun 12-Jul 6 – Puritan Jehue Burre and family arrived with John
Winthrop's famous fleet of 11 ships that arrived in the New World near
Boston. These deeply religious people were escaping religious persecution and coming here largely for religious freedom.
Oct 19 – Burr applied to the general court of Massachusetts for rights as a freeman.
1630
May 18 – Jehue Burr was admitted a freeman. A freeman was a Puritan who was recognized as free to participate in the church and government. Massachusetts' government was representative and restricted to church members. Non-Puritans were allowed to reside in the colony but were forbidden participation in the government.
Freemen were also the only ones able to own land, buy stock, and be free to go where they pleased.
1632
"Jehu Bur" was admitted to the Roxbury church as member #12, which would be at or soon after the 1632 organization of the church. Only freemen could be members of the church, and only church leaders could be leaders in the local government.
1633
Jehue Burre served on a committee with William Pynchon, the Colony
Treasurer, to over-see building a bridge over Muddy & Stony river, between Boston & Roxbury.
1636
July – 11 Native Americans in the village of
Agawam agreed to sell land on both sides of the
Connecticut River to Mr. William Pynchon and his group of planters (Jehue Burre included) in exchange for 18 fathoms of wampum (a fathom =
6 feet), 18 coats, 18 hatchets, and 18 knives. Each of the 8 original planters received a 10 acre house
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Agawam were described as young men "of good spirits & sound bodies." Agawam was the northernmost trading post of the
Connecticut Colony, seated on major trading routes including the
Connecticut River.
1637
Feb 9 – Burre was appointed by the Gen. Court of Conn, to collect taxes at Agawam, (which at that time was under the jurisdiction of
Connecticut), to assist in defraying the expenses of the Pequot war.
He was appointed Collector for the Connecticut Colony.
1638
Burre was Deputy for Springfield to the Connecticut Legislature in
April 1638 and September 1641.
1640
Jehue Burre and family removed to Fairfield, CT
1641
Burre became a representative for the town. He was granted a home-lot from the town SW of the Meeting-house Green & the pond, afterwards called Edward's Pond, the rear of which adjoined the home-lot of the Rev. John Jones.
1645
Sep – Burre was appointed deputy to the Gen. Court
1651
Mr. Jehue Burre appealed a jury verdict given in Stratford, to the Gen.
Court
1660
Jehue Burre was a grand juror
1664
Sep 1645 & Apr 1646 – Burre was a commissioner of the United
Colonies, a Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature for Fairfield ca.1670 Jehue Burre died and left four sons Jehu, John, Daniel & Nathaniel, & probably other children.
He was a carpenter.
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Seventy-eight of the earliest Burrs in the New World are buried in the Old Burying Ground in Fairfield, CT
1690
Judge Peter Burr graduated from Harvard and began an unusually successful career. He was the uncle to our Peter Burr Sr who was not yet born. The Judge was one of those important personages from
Fairfield, having rendered the name of Burr illustrious. He was one of the first of the name who graduated at Harvard, having entered that institution in 1686.
1699
Jul 23 – Peter Burr, Sr. great grandson of Jehue Burre and nephew of
Judge Peter Burr, was born in Fairfield, CT.