Joshua BURNHAM

                      The Burnham Family by Roderick H. Burnham, p.196
       Joshua Burnham and his wife Abigail Maynard removed to Ashford, Connecticut, now Eastford, where his last two children were born.

   Film #1376454 1692-1893 Births, Marriages, Deaths;  Windham, Connecticut:
       p 298  Joshua Burnam married to Abigail Manard 19 Apr 1740
                      Sarah - dau - born 2 Sep 1742
                      Joshua - son - born 5 Mar 1745/6
                      Abigail - dau - born 18 January 1747/8
                      Dorothy - dau - born 9 Nov 1749
                      Lucy - dau - born 10 Sep 1751

       p 294: Elnathan Mainard died 1 December 1777 (a relative of Abigail ?)

   Film #5819  1732-1915 Scotland Congregational Church Records Vol 2,
           p 12 Abigail Burnham listed as a communicant.
           p 6 Joshua Burnham received Communion 27 Oct 1745.
      Baptisms:  Sarah daughter of Joshua Burnham 30 Oct 1745
                     Joshua son of Joshua Burnam 2 March 1746
                     Abigail daughter of Joshua Burnum 31 Jan 1748
                     Doritha daughter of Joshua Burnam 12 Nov 1749

   Windham Town Clerk, Deeds, Vol. 1, pp549-50, dated 13 Mar 1759:
         Joshua states he is "moving" and sells his land to William Durkee.

   Film #1008901  lst Cong Ch Records 1723-1879 Hampton, Conn.:
       The first and only time the name of Joshua Burnham appears - this is in 1767 when the area was making application to place several parts of different towns and parishes together to form the town of Hampton.  The name of Joshua Burnham appears on three lines together as:
       Voted to give Joshua Burnham his rate in the rate bill in the hand of William Farnam
             being 0-5-4
       Voted to give Joshua Burnham his rate in the rate bill in the hand of Ebenezer Hovey
             being 0-9-11
       Voted to give Joshua Burnam his rate for the rate bill in the hand of Isaac Burnam collector
             being 10-9-3
     (These were probably various rates due for such things as highways, schools, church  etc.
    This could be Joshua senior or Joshua junior.)

    Research Confusion:  There has been much confusion and research to find the parents of Elijah Burnham born 1763.  There is the possibility that there is confusion with the son of Elijah named Elijah, born in Brookfield, Orange, Vermont in 1795, who married Maria Symonds in 1815 and lived and raised his family in Northfield, Washington, Vermont.  There is a good possibility that Elijah born in 1763 is the child of Joshua and Abigail.  The dates work better.  If Joshua, the son of Joshua were the parent of Elijah he would have been seventeen when Elijah was born. The death dates that are listed for the two Joshuas could be confused or not true.  Research has not verified them.  Possibly Joshua Jr. died in 1757 instead of his father.  The conclusion of many is that Elijah was the brother of Joshua Jr. and Abigail who married Ichabod Hyde.

   Film #005819 1732-1915 Scotland, Windham, Connecticut - Cong Ch Records.
       Scotland Society was established in May 1732 as Windham Third Society by division of the First Society and later was called Scotland although without legal change of name.  On May 1733 at a general assembly held in Hartford - consideration was given as a proper place for the meeting
house, a knowl on the east side of Merricks Brook on the south side of the road from Windham to Canterbury by a small poplar tree about four or five rods south from the said road.
       Later Nathaniel Huntington offered one quarter of one acre - of the Huntington 30 acre lot on the East side of Merrick Brook adjoining the West Line.
       The church was organized on the 22nd day of Oct, 1735 and the Rev. Ebenezer Devotion, the first minister was ordained the same day and continued until his death 16 July 1771.
       Reverend James Cogswell ordained Feb 1772, until he abdicated the office by his removal to Hartford, 10 Dec 1804
       Reverend Cornelius Adams ordained 5 Dec 1805, until his death 28 Nov 1806
       Reverend Elijah G. Wells ordained 20 Jan 1808 - dismissed by council May 2, 1810.

          In this film the families of Andrew Burnham, Joshua Burnham and John Greenslit (whose son will marry Joshua's daughter) appear to be from the same area.