The Founders of Hartford
Benjamin Burr was one of the proprietors “by courtesie of the town,” receiving six acres in
the distribution of 1639-40 ; his home-lot was on the east side of the road to the Cow Pasture, afterward called
Bun St., now North Main St. He served in the Pequot War; freeman, May, 1658; chimneyviewer, 1670; d. March 31, 1681.
Inv. £232. 12. 10. In his will, dated 1677, he names wife Anne, who d. Aug. 31, 1683.-Ch.: i. Samuel, freeman, May,
1658; m. Mary, dau. of John Baysey, chimney-viewer, 1665; d. in Hfd., Sept. 29, 1682. Inv. £521. 13. ii. Thomas, born
Jan. 26, 1645-6, in Hartford; in. Sarah, living in 1731. [See Speck.] iii. Mary, m. (1) Christopher Crow, Jan. 15,
1657; (2) Josiah Clarke, of Windsor, before 1682. iv. Hannah, m. Sept. 1681, Andrew Hillyer, of Simsbury, d. Sept.,
1684. The Burrs have been prominent in Hartford; Messrs. A. E. Bun and F. L. Burr, editors of the
Hartford “Times,” are descendants of Thomas Burr, above.
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