bullet Hannah Wait Burpee was born in May 1761 in Brookfield, Massachusets. She died between 1793 and 1855. Parents: Nathaniel Wait.

She was married to Elijah Burpee on 27 Nov 1783 in Brookfield, Massachusets. Children were: Samuel Burpee.

bullet Harriet Maria Baldwin Burpee was born on 19 Oct 1824 in Riga, Monroe County, New York. She died in Apr 1895 in Rockford, Illinois. Parents: Gordon Baldwin and Harriet Sophia Fitch Baldwin .

She was married to Alpheus Crosby Burpee on 3 May 1853 in Riga, New York. Children were: Mary Louise Burpee, Harry Baldwin Burpee, Hermon Newton Burpee, Florence Eugenia Burpee Huffman , Homer Stanton Burpee.

bullet Harriet Venetia Burpee Parents: Homer Stanton Burpee and Myra Blanche Walker.

Children were: Jean Whitehead, Ruth Whitehead, John Burpee Whitehead.

bulletHarry Baldwin Burpee was born on 11 Jul 1861 in Rockford, Illinois. He died on 6 Apr 1947 in Rockford, Illinois. Parents: Alpheus Crosby Burpee and Harriet Maria Baldwin Burpee .

He was married to Della Trufant Burpee in Sep 1883 in Rockford, Illinois.

He was married to Myra Savage Cook Burpee on 27 Dec 1937.

bullet Hermon Newton Burpee was born on 27 Jul 1864 in Rockford, Illinois. He died on 27 Jan 1932 in Portland, Oregon. Parents: Alpheus Crosby Burpee and Harriet Maria Baldwin Burpee .

He was married to Lucy Failing Burpee between 1895 and 1923 in Portland, Oregon. Children were: Edward Failing Burpee, Mary Louise Burpee Sprouse , Rhoda Failing Burpee Platt, Gordon Baldwin Burpee.

bullet Hester Clark Hopkinson Burpee was born on 9 Apr 1667. She died on 3 Oct 1722 in Rowley, Massachusets. Parents: Jonathan Clark and Hester xxx Clark.

She was married to Thomas II Burpee on 3 Dec 1690 in Rowley, Massachusets. Children were: Samuel (Sr) Burpee.

bullet Homer Stanton Burpee was born on 30 Mar 1870 in Rockford, Illinois. He died on 9 Jan 1958 in Rockford, Illinois. Parents: Alpheus Crosby Burpee and Harriet Maria Baldwin Burpee .

He was married to Myra Blanche Walker on 9 Jun 1897 in Rockford, Illinois. Children were: Harriet Venetia Burpee, Ruth Burpee.

bullet Lucy Failing Burpee was born between 1863 and 1890. She died between 1914 and 1977.

She was married to Hermon Newton Burpee between 1895 and 1923 in Portland, Oregon. Children were: Edward Failing Burpee, Mary Louise Burpee Sprouse , Rhoda Failing Burpee Platt, Gordon Baldwin Burpee.

bullet Lynn Burpee Parents: Edward Failing Burpee and Margaret xxxx Burpee.

bullet Margaret xxxx Burpee was born between 1900 and 1923. She died in 1969 in Portland, Oregon.

Children were: Margo Burpee, Lynn Burpee.

bulletMargo Burpee. Parents: Edward Failing Burpee and Margaret xxxx Burpee.

bulletMartha Brocklebank Burpee was born on 10 May 1737 in Rowley, Massachusets. She died between 1765 and 1831. Parents: Francis Brocklebank and Mary Cheney Brocklebank.

She was married to Samuel Burpee on 10 Jun 1756 in Sterling, Massachusets. Children were: Elijah Burpee.

bullet Mary Louise Burpee was born on 23 Oct 1854 in LeRoy, New York. She died on 2 Feb 1959 in Rockford, Illinois. Parents: Alpheus Crosby Burpee and Harriet Maria Baldwin Burpee.

bullet Mary Margaret Burpee Parents: Gordon Baldwin Burpee and Mary Baldwin.

bullet Myra Savage Cook Burpee was born on 10 Apr 1874. She died in 1957 in Rockford, Illinois.

She was married to Harry Baldwin Burpee on 27 Dec 1937.

bullet Ruth Burpee was born on 27 Sep 1906 in Rockford, Illinois. She died in 1972 in Rockford, Illinois. Parents: Homer Stanton Burpee and Myra Blanche Walker.

Children were: Addison IV BROWN, Constance BROWN, Elizabeth Starr BROWN.

bulletSamuel Burpee was born on 29 Jun 1790 in Templeton, Massachusets. He died on 11 May 1874 in Beloit, Wisconsin. Parents: Elijah Burpee and Hannah Wait Burpee.

He was married to Esther Crosby Burpee on 5 Oct 1820 in New Hampshire. Children were: Alpheus Crosby Burpee.

bullet Samuel Burpee was born on 25 Sep 1734 in Rowley, Massachusets. He died in 1791 in Sterling, Massachusets. Parents: Samuel (Sr) Burpee and Elizabeth Harris Burpee.

He was married to Martha Brocklebank Burpee on 10 Jun 1756 in Sterling, Massachusets. Children were: Elijah Burpee .

bullet Samuel (Sr) Burpee was born on 17 Mar 1708/9 in Rowley, Massachusets. He died in 1791 in Sterling, Massachusets. Parents: Thomas II Burpee and Hester Clark Hopkinson Burpee.

He was married to Elizabeth Harris Burpee on 26 Mar 1730 in Ipswich, Massachusets. Children were: Samuel Burpee.

bullet Sarah Kelly Burpee was born on 12 Feb 1640/41 in Newbury, Massachusets. She died on 25 Dec 1713 in Rowley, Massachusets.

She was married to Thomas I Burpee on 15 Apr 1659. Children were: Thomas II Burpee.

bullet Thomas I Burpee was born in 1614 in Yorkshire, England. He died on 1 Jun 1701 in Rowley, Massachusets.

He was married to Sarah Kelly Burpee on 15 Apr 1659. Children were: Thomas II Burpee.

bullet Thomas II Burpee was born on 25 Dec 1663 in Rowley, Massachusets. He died on 24 Jun 1709 in Rowley, Massachusets. Parents: Thomas I Burpee and Sarah Kelly Burpee.

He was married to Hester Clark Hopkinson Burpee on 3 Dec 1690 in Rowley, Massachusets. Children were: Samuel (Sr) Burpee.

bullet Abigail BURR was born on 13 Mar 1700/1 in Fairfield, Connecticut.

bulletEli Remus Burr was born between 1789 and 1818 in Ireland. He died between 1843 and 1903.

He was married to Susanna Monagle between 1830 and 1862. Children were: Mary Selina Burrr .

bullet George BURR was born in 1755.

bulletMary Burr was born between 1586 and 1606 in England. She died between 1621 and 1690 in Mass.

She was married to Thomas Howis between 1621 and 1653. Children were: Elizabeth Howis .

bullet Mary Jerusha Burr was born on 19 Jan 1876 in Kingsboro, N.Y.. She died on 1 Jun 1951 in Ferndale, Mich.

(From the Book - BURR SMITH FAMILY ANCESTRY by Francis Medhurst - Library of Congress - Catalog Card Number: 56-12817) pp - 69 - #237
pp - 84 - #140
Note: For further information - See the booklet The Azariel Smiths, Michigan Pioneers, And Their Decendants by Howard R. Smith
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(From the Book - BURR SMITH FAMILY ANCESTRY by Francis Medhurst - Library of Congress - Catalog Card Number: 56-12817) pp - 69 - #237
pp - 84 - #140
Note: For further information - See the booklet The Azariel Smiths, Michigan Pioneers, And Their Decendants by Howard R. Smith

She was married to George Burr Smith between 1904 and 1925. Children were: Harriet Wooster Smith, Willard Hart Smith, Kathleen Janet Smith, Elizabeth Leonard Smith, Howard Burr Smith .

bullet Hans BURRE

bulletHannah Burritt was born between 1703 and 1719 in Stratford. She died between 1736 and 1807. Parents: Jas. Burritt and Mary Wakely.

She was married to Israel Beach on 1 Jul 1731 in New Haven, Wallingford. Children were: Eben Beach.

bullet Jas. Burritt was born in 1685. He died in 1752 in Fairfield. Parents: John Burritt and Mrs. John Burritt.

He was married to Mary Wakely between 1716 and 1744. Children were: Hannah Burritt.

bullet John Burritt died in 1727. Parents: Wm. Burritt and Elizabeth (Wife of Wm. Burritt).

He was married to Mrs. John Burritt between 1675 and 1706. Children were: Jas. Burritt.

bullet Mrs. John Burritt was born between 1643 and 1666. She died between 1688 and 1754.

She was married to John Burritt between 1675 and 1706. Children were: Jas. Burritt.

bullet Wm. Burritt

Children were: John Burritt.

bulletEdward Burrows.

bulletJane Burrows was born on 6 Sep 1835 in Cornwall, England. She died on 30 Nov 1890 in Houghton County, Michigan. Parents: William Burrows and Johanna (Wife of William Burrows) .

She was married to John Wareham on 1 Apr 1854 in Kenwyn Parish, Cornwall, England. Children were: William Wareham, John Wareham, Joshua Wareham, Joseph C. Wareham, Ida Wareham, Frederick G. Wareham, Elizabeth Wareham, Elizabeth Wareham, Elizabeth Wareham, Ida Wareham, Boy Wareham.

bullet Marry (Polly) BURROWS Parents: William BURROWS and Mary WARD.

bulletSarah Ward Burrows. Parents: William BURROWS and Mary WARD.

bulletWilliam BURROWS. William Burrows, Master in Chancery and Judge of the Court of Ordinary, and his wife Mary Ward, the daughter of John Ward, one of the "Charleston Wards," and Sarah Child.' William Burrows was wealthy and well-respected, and gave his son all the advantages that wealth and influence could buy. In 1767 William Burrows bought 184 acres of high land and 100 acres of marsh land on the west bank of the Cooper River, near Charleston, for his country seat. It was a beautiful situation with many ancient live oaks and other trees. By July of 1774 he had completed the building of a town house at 30 Broad Street, next to St. Michael's Church. It was a 10 room house, built of black cypress, with a wooden two-story kitchen, carriage house and stable with apartments for servants and a large cistern connected to the house.[The Hulion Family Tree2.FTW]

William Burrows, Master in Chancery and Judge of the Court of Ordinary, and his wife Mary Ward, the daughter of John Ward, one of the "Charleston Wards," and Sarah Child.' William Burrows was wealthy and well-respected, and gave his son all the advantages that wealth and influence could buy. In 1767 William Burrows bought 184 acres of high land and 100 acres of marsh land on the west bank of the Cooper River, near Charleston, for his country seat. It was a beautiful situation with many ancient live oaks and other trees. By July of 1774 he had completed the building of a town house at 30 Broad Street, next to St. Michael's Church. It was a 10 room house, built of black cypress, with a wooden two-story kitchen, carriage house and stable with apartments for servants and a large cistern connected to the house.

He was married to Mary WARD on 20 Apr 1749 in St. Phillip's Charleston, SC. Children were: Marry (Polly) BURROWS, Sarah Ward Burrows, William Ward BURROWS.

bullet William Burrows was born between 1784 and 1813. He died between 1838 and 1898.

He was married to Johanna (Wife of William Burrows) between 1810 and 1838. Children were: Jane Burrows .

bullet William Ward BURROWS was born on 16 Jan 1758. "It is my Duty to Support my Officers ... :"
William Ward Burrows, First Commandant of the Marine Corps
by Mary Powers Anderson'

At the end of the Revolution, the American military was disbanded. With the power of the British standing an-ny fresh in their minds, Americans wanted no such presence in their new country, and the Continentals went home to their farms.'

By the mid-1790's, however, the new nation had discovered that without a military establishment, there was no way to protect themselves from every bully who wanted to challenge them. By 1794 the United States found itself paying humiliating tribute to the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean and becoming involved in the war between France and England -- though the United States was neutral in this war, both France and England harassed our ships at sea, both claiming that the U. S. ships were delivering contraband goods to the other side.

In March of 1794, Congress ordered the building of six naval frigates and the enlistment of seamen to man them and Marines to act as guards and fighting men on them. The first ships to be built, the United States, Constitution, and Cotistellatiott, were launched in 1797. Each ship's complement of Marines was enlisted by its own officer -- there was no Marine Corps as we know it today.

Then, on July 11, 1798, a congressional act provided for "establishing and organizing a Marine Corps." The act provided for 881 men: 1 major, 4 captains, 16 first lieutenants, 12 second lieutenants, 48 sergeants, 48 corporals, 32 drummers and fifers, and 720 privates. Enlistments were to be for three years and the Unites States Senate would appoint all of f icers. The f irst of f icer appointed to the new Corps on July 12, 1798 wasits senior officer, a lawyer who was born in Charleston, South Carolina and who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; a gentleman of accomplished mind and polished manner,"' named William Ward Burrows.

William Ward Burrows was born on 16 January 1758, the middle child and only son of William Burrows, Master in Chancery and Judge of the Court of Ordinary, and his wife Mary Ward, the daughter of John Ward, one of the "Charleston Wards," and Sarah Child.' William Burrows was wealthy and well-respected, and gave his son all the advantages that wealth and influence could buy. In 1767 William Burrows bought 184 acres of high land and 100 acres of marsh land on the west bank of the Cooper River, near Charleston, for his country seat. It was a beautiful situation with many ancient live oaks and other trees.@@ By July of 1774 he had completed the building of a town house at 30 Broad Street, next to St. Michael's Church. It was a 10 room house, built of black cypress, with a wooden two-story kitchen, carriage house and stable with apartments for servants and a large cistern connected to the house.

One of the accepted advantages of a wealthy planter's son in eighteenth century Charleston was a European education. In 1772, at the age of only fourteen, William Ward Burrows was admitted to the Inner Temple at the Inns of Court, London, t study law. However, he didn't remain in London long. B September 1773 he was back in Charleston, staying there until at least January 1779.

In October of 1774 his older sister Mary, known a "Polly," married Joseph Atkinson in what must have been rand wedding as befitted the daughter of such a prominent man. Four months later, however, in February 1775, his mother, Mary (Ward) Burrows, and his younger sister, Sarah Ward Burrows, died within a few days of each other.'

In April 1781 William Burrows died, naming his son William Ward Burrows as one of his executors. However, in June of 1781 he was "out of the province."' By this time he was in Philadelphia, the capital of the infant United States.

A wealthy, educated man, described as "short, stocky, and popular,"lo William Ward Burrows moved in socially elite circles. He associated with Robert Morris, the man who essentially financed the American Revolution, and with Alexander Hamilton, and was on intimate terms with both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In October 1783, in Philadelphia, he married Mary Bond, the daughter of Thomas Bond, Surgeon and Purveyor-General to the United States. A month later, after a voyage of eight days, he and his wife arrived at Charleston from Philadelphia to settle his father's estate, and probably to introduce his wife to Charleston society. They stayed in Charleston at least through May of 1784. In February he sold his father's town house at auction, and in May he bought 100 acres of land on James Island for E100.13.4 Sterling. By 6 October 1785 William Ward and Mary Burrows were back in Philadelphia, where their son William was bom.

The 1790 Federal Census shows "William Burrowes" living in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania with 2 Free White Males aged 16 or over, 2 Free White Males under 16, and 5 Free White Females.

On 23 August 1798, about six weeks after being appointed Senior Officer of the new Marines Corps, William Ward Burrows set up headquarters in Philadelphia. He received $50 per month and four rations per day. (Privates received $6.00 per month and one ration, worth 15 to 17 cents, per day.) His Marines were to keep discipline aboard ship, lead boarding parties and amphibious landings, fight with muskets in shortrange naval battles, and man coastal installations and forts. Discipline was modeled on the British Navy's. A man could be flogged: a commanding officer could order 12 lashes, and a general court martial could order 100 lashes with a cat-o'-nine tails - essentially a death sentence. A commanding officer could also order a man's head shaved, assign him to hard labor with a ball and chain, drum him out of his unit, or take his rum ration away.

At first, Burrows' main job was recruiting. The Navy was growing rapidly, and required Marines for shipboard duty. However, the Army was also expanding, and was authorized to offer recruiting bonuses, a luxury denied the Marine Corps, though a $2.00 advance in pay was soon authorized. (Though this couldn't compete with the $12 soldiers received for enlisting and the $50 that skilled sailors received.) Under the original rules, no Blacks, mulattoes, or Indians could be enlisted, and the foreign-bom, even if naturalized, could not make up more than one-fourth of the corps." Burrows was forced to reduce the height requirement to 5 feet 4 inches, and aliens (mostly Irishmen) quickly made up one-quarter of the Corps' strength. Pressured to recruit, and hampered by the more attractive terms the Army and Navy were able to offer, Burrows' recruiting officers often resorted to signing on men rejected by the other services asphysically defective,and Burrows finally had to force his recruiting officers to pay for such rejects' expenses from their own pockets in an effort to stop their signingon such men. He offered bounties to his officers for healthy recruits and apprehended deserters, and despaired when his officers shirked their duties, offered sergeants' ranks to recruits, or mishandled money and supplies.
The Marine Corps offered a clothing allowance worth $25, but had to depend on War Department agents and contractors to supply not only uniforms, but muskets and equipment. All in all, administration of the Marine Corp became a nightmare - the Navy Department was to pay, feed e u' , and transport Marines on Army scales, and when the Marines were ashore they would follow the Articles of War (the regulations for the Army), but when at sea they were subject to Naval Regulations, which weren't yet written. While at sea they operated under the arbitrary authority of the individual ship's captain, each of whom had his own idea, usually not flattering, on what Marines were for.

However, Burrows was equal to the task of creating and molding the Corps. He was a canny politician, and was well aware that public opinion had to be in the Marines' favor. He made his Philadelphia headquarters a model camp, staged parades, and moved his camp outside the city during the summer to escape the fevers. Probably his greatest public relations coup was the establishment of the Marine Corps Band, which evolved from the fifers and drummers recruited for sea duty.......... The animating notes of martial music by the band belonging to Col. Burrows's corps of Marines" played at the Fourth of July celebration given by the Society of the Cincinnati at the City Tavern in Philadelphia in 1800."2 Soon after this concert, the Marines left Philadelphia for Washington, the new capital of the United States, a city described then as the "Capital of Miserable Huts."

Burrows, his family, and his Marines left Philadelphia in late July of 1800, and established a tent camp atop a hill in Foggy Bottom, near Georgetown. There the Marines Corps Band gave its first concert in Washington. Burrows himself described it: "The evening was mild. The Moon divine, and the Music the best I ever heard: made up of Wilkinson's and my Band. We gave the usual Refreshments to the ladies in the early part of the Evening after which a cold Collation which the Gentlemen seemed to admire, being ornamented with some of B. W. Morris's best. The Ladies retired about 12, but the young Men kept it up till day light in serenading etc ... The Situation of our Encampment is immensely beautiful, and tho' Night, yet the view of the Potomack was solemnly great from the reflection of the Moon..."' The Marines Corps Band quickly became great favorites and were in demand for both official and private occasions; they soon were adopted as "the President's Own."

Colonel Burrows (he had been appointed "Lieutenant Colonel Commandant" of the Marines in April of 1800), and his staff (three lieutenants, his adjutant, quartermaster, and pay-master) ran the Corps from his home and temporary quarters near the Executive Mansion. He continued molding his Corps: a Navy lieutenant insulted and struck a Marine officer, Lt. Henry Caldwell. Burrows sent Caldwell a letter stating: "A Blow ought never to be forgiven, and without you wipe away this Insult offered to the Marine Corps, you cannot expect to join our officers ... don't let me see you 'till you have wiped away this Disgrace, it is my duty to support my Officers and I will do it with my life, but they must deserve it."" He also tried to give second lieutenants the same ration as first lieutenants, stating it was "no great object as to the expense to the U.S. but is of serious import to the 2nd Lieuts." He emphasized drill for both officers and men, and, with Captain Franklin Wharton, still in Philadelphia, began a more systematic way of buying good uniforms and equipment.

All the drill must have paid off, for on July 4, 1801, Colonel Burrows and the Marine Corps, accompanied by the Band, paraded before President Jefferson on the White House grounds. "Lieutenant-Colonel Burrows at the head of the Marine Corps, saluted the President... ithe Marine Band played] with great precision and with inspiring animation the Presidents ,N,Iai-ch ... [the Marines] went through the usual evolutions in a masterly manner, fired sixteen rounds in platoon, and concluded with a general feu de joie."'5 Also in 1801, Burrows, in consultation with Jefferson, with whom he often went riding, settled on a permanent site for Marine headquarters, a block bounded by Eighth and Ninth Streets and G and I Streets, "nea the Navy Yard and within easy marching distance of the Ca ital."" There he built the Marine Barracks for a total of $20,000; his Marines lived in rented buildings and helped with the construction, which no doubt endeared him to the administration, by keeping the cost down.

In February of 1803 Mary (Bond) Burrows died. Soon after, in May of 1803, Burrows' daughter Sarah married Lt. James Thompson, a member of his staff, Paymaster of the Marine Corps." Burrows himself was becoming in more and more ill health, and on March 6 1804, William Ward Burrows resigned. Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy, sent him a note stating: "as there is a large balance to your debit on the books of this department, it is expected that you will without delay repair to this place for the purpose of settling this balance.

A Congressional investigation ensued when it was found that the Marine Corps was overdrawn by $9428, an amount about nine times that of Burrows' yearly salary. The committee recommended that the Marine Corps be required to make at least quarterly accountings of its expenditures, but nothing else was done about the matter.

Exactly a year to the day after he resigned, on March 6 1805, William Ward Burrows died in Georgetown. In the Friday March 15 edition, The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser stated: "... the most benevolent of men, he had devoted hiirnself to the benefit of his fellow creatures, but tha malignant fiend ingratitude was ever his reward. Afte struggling with severe illness and too feeling a heart, h resigned existence with the celestial calmness of a good man."" He was buried at the Presbyterian Church in Georgetown; in 1892 his body was moved to Arlington National Cemetery.'

William Ward and Mary (Bond) Burrows left thre children: William, Sarah, and Frances. On November 18, 1816 his daughter Frances Harriet Burrows married John Nelson "o Fredericktown" in Washington DC." His son, William, a naval officer, died unmarried during a battle at sea in 1813.

The Marine Corps today celebrates as its birthday November 10, 1775, ignoring the dissolution of the Corps afte the Revolution and its subsequent official rebirth in 1798 by an Act of Congress. If you ask a Marine at the Marine Corps Museum at the Navy Yard in Washington, he will tell you tha Samuel Nicholas, Senior Officer during the Revolution, was its first Commandant, and that he has never heard of Burrows. William Ward Burrows, that incredibly astute man who built the Corps as it exists todat is forotten by the Marines he created.
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"It is my Duty to Support my Officers ... :"
William Ward Burrows, First Commandant of the Marine Corps
by Mary Powers Anderson'

At the end of the Revolution, the American military was disbanded. With the power of the British standing an-ny fresh in their minds, Americans wanted no such presence in their new country, and the Continentals went home to their farms.'

By the mid-1790's, however, the new nation had discovered that without a military establishment, there was no way to protect themselves from every bully who wanted to challenge them. By 1794 the United States found itself paying humiliating tribute to the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean and becoming involved in the war between France and England -- though the United States was neutral in this war, both France and England harassed our ships at sea, both claiming that the U. S. ships were delivering contraband goods to the other side.

In March of 1794, Congress ordered the building of six naval frigates and the enlistment of seamen to man them and Marines to act as guards and fighting men on them. The first ships to be built, the United States, Constitution, and Cotistellatiott, were launched in 1797. Each ship's complement of Marines was enlisted by its own officer -- there was no Marine Corps as we know it today.

Then, on July 11, 1798, a congressional act provided for "establishing and organizing a Marine Corps." The act provided for 881 men: 1 major, 4 captains, 16 first lieutenants, 12 second lieutenants, 48 sergeants, 48 corporals, 32 drummers and fifers, and 720 privates. Enlistments were to be for three years and the Unites States Senate would appoint all of f icers. The f irst of f icer appointed to the new Corps on July 12, 1798 wasits senior officer, a lawyer who was born in Charleston, South Carolina and who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; a gentleman of accomplished mind and polished manner,"' named William Ward Burrows.

William Ward Burrows was born on 16 January 1758, the middle child and only son of William Burrows, Master in Chancery and Judge of the Court of Ordinary, and his wife Mary Ward, the daughter of John Ward, one of the "Charleston Wards," and Sarah Child.' William Burrows was wealthy and well-respected, and gave his son all the advantages that wealth and influence could buy. In 1767 William Burrows bought 184 acres of high land and 100 acres of marsh land on the west bank of the Cooper River, near Charleston, for his country seat. It was a beautiful situation with many ancient live oaks and other trees.@@ By July of 1774 he had completed the building of a town house at 30 Broad Street, next to St. Michael's Church. It was a 10 room house, built of black cypress, with a wooden two-story kitchen, carriage house and stable with apartments for servants and a large cistern connected to the house.

One of the accepted advantages of a wealthy planter's son in eighteenth century Charleston was a European education. In 1772, at the age of only fourteen, William Ward Burrows was admitted to the Inner Temple at the Inns of Court, London, t study law. However, he didn't remain in London long. B September 1773 he was back in Charleston, staying there until at least January 1779.

In October of 1774 his older sister Mary, known a "Polly," married Joseph Atkinson in what must have been rand wedding as befitted the daughter of such a prominent man. Four months later, however, in February 1775, his mother, Mary (Ward) Burrows, and his younger sister, Sarah Ward Burrows, died within a few days of each other.'

In April 1781 William Burrows died, naming his son William Ward Burrows as one of his executors. However, in June of 1781 he was "out of the province."' By this time he was in Philadelphia, the capital of the infant United States.

A wealthy, educated man, described as "short, stocky, and popular,"lo William Ward Burrows moved in socially elite circles. He associated with Robert Morris, the man who essentially financed the American Revolution, and with Alexander Hamilton, and was on intimate terms with both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In October 1783, in Philadelphia, he married Mary Bond, the daughter of Thomas Bond, Surgeon and Purveyor-General to the United States. A month later, after a voyage of eight days, he and his wife arrived at Charleston from Philadelphia to settle his father's estate, and probably to introduce his wife to Charleston society. They stayed in Charleston at least through May of 1784. In February he sold his father's town house at auction, and in May he bought 100 acres of land on James Island for E100.13.4 Sterling. By 6 October 1785 William Ward and Mary Burrows were back in Philadelphia, where their son William was bom.

The 1790 Federal Census shows "William Burrowes" living in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania with 2 Free White Males aged 16 or over, 2 Free White Males under 16, and 5 Free White Females.

On 23 August 1798, about six weeks after being appointed Senior Officer of the new Marines Corps, William Ward Burrows set up headquarters in Philadelphia. He received $50 per month and four rations per day. (Privates received $6.00 per month and one ration, worth 15 to 17 cents, per day.) His Marines were to keep discipline aboard ship, lead boarding parties and amphibious landings, fight with muskets in shortrange naval battles, and man coastal installations and forts. Discipline was modeled on the British Navy's. A man could be flogged: a commanding officer could order 12 lashes, and a general court martial could order 100 lashes with a cat-o'-nine tails - essentially a death sentence. A commanding officer could also order a man's head shaved, assign him to hard labor with a ball and chain, drum him out of his unit, or take his rum ration away.

At first, Burrows' main job was recruiting. The Navy was growing rapidly, and required Marines for shipboard duty. However, the Army was also expanding, and was authorized to offer recruiting bonuses, a luxury denied the Marine Corps, though a $2.00 advance in pay was soon authorized. (Though this couldn't compete with the $12 soldiers received for enlisting and the $50 that skilled sailors received.) Under the original rules, no Blacks, mulattoes, or Indians could be enlisted, and the foreign-bom, even if naturalized, could not make up more than one-fourth of the corps." Burrows was forced to reduce the height requirement to 5 feet 4 inches, and aliens (mostly Irishmen) quickly made up one-quarter of the Corps' strength. Pressured to recruit, and hampered by the more attractive terms the Army and Navy were able to offer, Burrows' recruiting officers often resorted to signing on men rejected by the other services asphysically defective,and Burrows finally had to force his recruiting officers to pay for such rejects' expenses from their own pockets in an effort to stop their signingon such men. He offered bounties to his officers for healthy recruits and apprehended deserters, and despaired when his officers shirked their duties, offered sergeants' ranks to recruits, or mishandled money and supplies.
The Marine Corps offered a clothing allowance worth $25, but had to depend on War Department agents and contractors to supply not only uniforms, but muskets and equipment. All in all, administration of the Marine Corp became a nightmare - the Navy Department was to pay, feed e u' , and transport Marines on Army scales, and when the Marines were ashore they would follow the Articles of War (the regulations for the Army), but when at sea they were subject to Naval Regulations, which weren't yet written. While at sea they operated under the arbitrary authority of the individual ship's captain, each of whom had his own idea, usually not flattering, on what Marines were for.

However, Burrows was equal to the task of creating and molding the Corps. He was a canny politician, and was well aware that public opinion had to be in the Marines' favor. He made his Philadelphia headquarters a model camp, staged parades, and moved his camp outside the city during the summer to escape the fevers. Probably his greatest public relations coup was the establishment of the Marine Corps Band, which evolved from the fifers and drummers recruited for sea duty.......... The animating notes of martial music by the band belonging to Col. Burrows's corps of Marines" played at the Fourth of July celebration given by the Society of the Cincinnati at the City Tavern in Philadelphia in 1800."2 Soon after this concert, the Marines left Philadelphia for Washington, the new capital of the United States, a city described then as the "Capital of Miserable Huts."

Burrows, his family, and his Marines left Philadelphia in late July of 1800, and established a tent camp atop a hill in Foggy Bottom, near Georgetown. There the Marines Corps Band gave its first concert in Washington. Burrows himself described it: "The evening was mild. The Moon divine, and the Music the best I ever heard: made up of Wilkinson's and my Band. We gave the usual Refreshments to the ladies in the early part of the Evening after which a cold Collation which the Gentlemen seemed to admire, being ornamented with some of B. W. Morris's best. The Ladies retired about 12, but the young Men kept it up till day light in serenading etc ... The Situation of our Encampment is immensely beautiful, and tho' Night, yet the view of the Potomack was solemnly great from the reflection of the Moon..."' The Marines Corps Band quickly became great favorites and were in demand for both official and private occasions; they soon were adopted as "the President's Own."

Colonel Burrows (he had been appointed "Lieutenant Colonel Commandant" of the Marines in April of 1800), and his staff (three lieutenants, his adjutant, quartermaster, and pay-master) ran the Corps from his home and temporary quarters near the Executive Mansion. He continued molding his Corps: a Navy lieutenant insulted and struck a Marine officer, Lt. Henry Caldwell. Burrows sent Caldwell a letter stating: "A Blow ought never to be forgiven, and without you wipe away this Insult offered to the Marine Corps, you cannot expect to join our officers ... don't let me see you 'till you have wiped away this Disgrace, it is my duty to support my Officers and I will do it with my life, but they must deserve it."" He also tried to give second lieutenants the same ration as first lieutenants, stating it was "no great object as to the expense to the U.S. but is of serious import to the 2nd Lieuts." He emphasized drill for both officers and men, and, with Captain Franklin Wharton, still in Philadelphia, began a more systematic way of buying good uniforms and equipment.

All the drill must have paid off, for on July 4, 1801, Colonel Burrows and the Marine Corps, accompanied by the Band, paraded before President Jefferson on the White House grounds. "Lieutenant-Colonel Burrows at the head of the Marine Corps, saluted the President... ithe Marine Band played] with great precision and with inspiring animation the Presidents ,N,Iai-ch ... [the Marines] went through the usual evolutions in a masterly manner, fired sixteen rounds in platoon, and concluded with a general feu de joie."'5 Also in 1801, Burrows, in consultation with Jefferson, with whom he often went riding, settled on a permanent site for Marine headquarters, a block bounded by Eighth and Ninth Streets and G and I Streets, "nea the Navy Yard and within easy marching distance of the Ca ital."" There he built the Marine Barracks for a total of $20,000; his Marines lived in rented buildings and helped with the construction, which no doubt endeared him to the administration, by keeping the cost down.

In February of 1803 Mary (Bond) Burrows died. Soon after, in May of 1803, Burrows' daughter Sarah married Lt. James Thompson, a member of his staff, Paymaster of the Marine Corps." Burrows himself was becoming in more and more ill health, and on March 6 1804, William Ward Burrows resigned. Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy, sent him a note stating: "as there is a large balance to your debit on the books of this department, it is expected that you will without delay repair to this place for the purpose of settling this balance.

A Congressional investigation ensued when it was found that the Marine Corps was overdrawn by $9428, an amount about nine times that of Burrows' yearly salary. The committee recommended that the Marine Corps be required to make at least quarterly accountings of its expenditures, but nothing else was done about the matter.

Exactly a year to the day after he resigned, on March 6 1805, William Ward Burrows died in Georgetown. In the Friday March 15 edition, The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser stated: "... the most benevolent of men, he had devoted hiirnself to the benefit of his fellow creatures, but tha malignant fiend ingratitude was ever his reward. Afte struggling with severe illness and too feeling a heart, h resigned existence with the celestial calmness of a good man."" He was buried at the Presbyterian Church in Georgetown; in 1892 his body was moved to Arlington National Cemetery.'

William Ward and Mary (Bond) Burrows left thre children: William, Sarah, and Frances. On November 18, 1816 his daughter Frances Harriet Burrows married John Nelson "o Fredericktown" in Washington DC." His son, William, a naval officer, died unmarried during a battle at sea in 1813.

The Marine Corps today celebrates as its birthday November 10, 1775, ignoring the dissolution of the Corps afte the Revolution and its subsequent official rebirth in 1798 by an Act of Congress. If you ask a Marine at the Marine Corps Museum at the Navy Yard in Washington, he will tell you tha Samuel Nicholas, Senior Officer during the Revolution, was its first Commandant, and that he has never heard of Burrows. William Ward Burrows, that incredibly astute man who built the Corps as it exists todat is forotten by the Marines he created. Parents: William BURROWS and Mary WARD.

bullet Mary Selina Burrr was born on 27 Mar 1840 in Cuba, N.Y.. She died on 3 Aug 1913 in Somerset, Michigan. Parents: Eli Remus Burr and Susanna Monagle.

She was married to Frederick Hart Smith on 10 Nov 1863. Children were: George Burr Smith, Howard Remus Smith, Floyd Hart Smith.

bullet Sarah Burt was born between 1748 and 1771. She died between 1793 and 1859.

She was married to Benjamin Edsall between 1780 and 1812. Children were: Thomas Edsall, Benjamin Edsall, David Edsall, John Edsall, Richard Edsall, Anthony Edsall, Catharine Edsall, Polly Edsall, Sally Edsall, Hannah Edsall.

bullet William E. Burtless was born between 1839 and 1898. He died between 1879 and 1973.

He was married to Ellen WHITING between 1879 and 1931.

bullet William E. BURTLESS

bulletAbegail Burton was born between 1679 and 1698. She died between 1714 and 1783.

She was married to David PEEBLES between 1714 and 1725.

bullet Abraham Burton was born between 1658 and 1689. He died between 1698 and 1773.

He was married to Anne Maybury between 1698 and 1732.

bullet Carson BURTON was born on 21 Apr 1921. He died on 17 Dec 1988. Individual: Burton, Carson
Birth date: Apr 21, 1921
Death date: Dec 17, 1988
Social Security #: 231-14-7099
Last residence: 43205
State of issue: VA
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Individual: Burton, Carson
Birth date: Apr 21, 1921
Death date: Dec 17, 1988
Social Security #: 231-14-7099
Last residence: 43205
State of issue: VA

Children were: Nancy Carol Hulion , Peggy Ann Hulion, Bobby Gay Hulion, Nancy Carol Hulion, Peggy Ann Hulion, Bobby Gay Hulion.

bulletElizabeth Burton was born between 1642 and 1665. She died between 1689 and 1753.

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She was married to John SHOTWELL on 14 Oct 1679 in NY. Children were: Abraham SHOTWELL, Elizabeth SHOTWELL, Sarah SHOTWELL, John , Jr. SHOTWELL.

bullet Joane Burton was born between 1456 and 1479. She died between 1501 and 1567.

She was married to Adam Wyntrope between 1488 and 1520. Children were: Adam Wyntrope.

bullet Mr. BURTON

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