George Burroughs who was hanged (in 1692) for a
witch in Salem. He was a Harvard graduate. I know of no other
Harvard graduate by our name until Julian [Mr. Burroughs's son]
graduated in 1901 from Harvard. My father's cousin, the Rev.
John C. Burroughs, the first president of Chicago University,
was graduated from Yale sometime in the early forties.
The first John Burroughs of whom I have any trace came from the West
Indies, and settled in Stratford, Connecticut, where he married
in 1694. He had ten children, of whom the seventh was John, born
in August, 1705. My descent does not come from this John, but from
his eldest brother, Stephen, who was born at Stratford in February,
1695. Stephen had eight children, and here another John turns
up--his last child, born in 1745. His third child, Stephen Burroughs
(born in 1729), was a shipbuilder and became a noted mathematician
and astronomer, and lived at Bridgeport, Connecticut. My descent
is through Stephen's seventh child, Ephraim, born in 1740.
Ephraim, my great-grandfather, also had a large family, six sons
and several daughters, of which my grandfather Eden was one. He
was born in Stratford, about 1770. My great-grandfather Ephraim
left Stratford near the beginning of the Revolution and came into
New York State, first into Dutchess County, when Grandfather was a
small boy, and finally settled in what is now the town of Stamford,
Delaware County, where he died in 1818.
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