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[This information is from Vol. III, pp. 1301-1303 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45. Some of the formatting of the original, especially in lists of descendants, may have been altered slightly for ease of reading.]
The first Burdick of record in America appears to be Robert, of Westerly, Rhode Island, who died in 1692. He was a freeman of Newport in 1655, of Westerly, November 1, 1661. He and Tobias Sanders were arrested and brought before Governor John Endicott, charged with "Forcible entry and intrusion" into the bounds of Southertown in the Pequot country. He admitted he was upon the same land and had built a small house there. They were committed to prison, both refusing to find security for appearance at general court denying that Massachusetts had jurisdiction. May 18, 1669, he was in a list of inhabitants of Westerly. May 17, 1671, he took the oath of allegiance. July, 1675, he and his family went to Newport on account of the Indian war, but returned subsequently to Westerly. September 17, 1679, he again took oath of allegiance. In 1680-83-85 he was deputy to the general court from Westerly; May 17, 1691, he and wife Ruth sold one hundred acres of land for ten pounds; March 8, 1692, he made an agreement with his son-in-law, Joseph Crandall, by which the latter was to take care of his father-in-law and find him suitable meat, drink, washing, lodging and apparel, etc., for life, in consideration of which Joseph Crandall was to have the dwelling house and land adjoining forever. He died October 25, 1692. He married, November 2, 1655, Ruth Hubbard, born January 11, 1640, died 1691, daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard. Children:
(II) Hubbard, third son of Robert and Ruth (Hubbard) Burdick, died 1758. In 1711 he was one of the thirty-four purchasers of fifty-three hundred acres of vacant land. In 1727 he was a member of the town council. He resided in Westerly and Hopkinton, Rhode Island. His will proved April 19, 1758, devised lands to sons, Hubbard, Nathan, John, and Ezekiel. He married, Hannah, died 1752, daughter of John and Mary (Mosher) Maxson, and granddaughter of Richard Maxson of Boston, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, Rhode Island. John Maxson died December 17, 1720. He was of Westerly and Newport, Rhode Island. In 1670-86-90 and in 1705 he was deputy and held other public offices. He was an elder of the Seventh Day Baptist congregation "in and about Westerly." He married Mary Mosher, died February 2, 1718, daughter of Hugh Mosher.
(III) John, third son of Hubbard and Hannah (Maxson) Burdick, was born in 1708. He received by his father's will certain land, a bed and twenty pounds in money, he to clear the mortgage. He married and had a son, William.
(IV) William, son of John Burdick, married and had a son, Isaac.
(V) Isaac, son of William Burdick, was born August 11, 1765, died May 7, 1843. He married Mary Palmer, born March 8, 1772. Children:
(VI) Palmer, son of Isaac and Mary (Palmer) Burdick, was born April 25, 1795, in Westerly, Rhode Island, died 1850. He was a farmer, and married Martha B. Thorp, in Westerly, born December 1, 1798, died in 1881. Children:
(VII) Russell Maxson, eldest son of Palmer and Martha B. (Thorp) Burdick, was born April 4, 1821, in Alfred, Allegany county, New York, died November 19, 1894. He was well educated and in earlier life was a school teacher. During the civil war he was provost marshal of the county and served a term as sheriff of his county, and held other minor offices. He was a Whig, later a Republican, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He married (first), January 1, 1850, Sarah Elizabeth Farnsworth, born in Halifax, Vermont, November 25, 1832, died November 25, 1862, daughter of Joel and granddaughter of Thomas Farnsworth, of Howard, Massachusetts, born October 12, 1752, died August 10, 1836. Thomas Farnsworth, married (first) Relief Holden, had no issue; married (second), November 26, 1778, Anna Esterbrook, of Westminster, Massachusetts, born September 15, 1758, died December 3, 1804. Children:
He married (third) Mrs. Catherine Wells, in 1805. She bore him three children:
Joel, son of Thomas and Anna (Esterbrook) Farnsworth, married Mary Wells, born July 19, 1801, died December 3, 1872. Children:
Russell M. and Sarah E. Burdick had five children, three of whom died in infancy;
(VIII) Joel Wakeman, son of Russell M., and Sarah E. (Farnsworth) Burdick, was born in the village of Almond, Allegany county, New York, June 20, 1853. Until he was fifteen years of age he attended the public schools of the village. He was first employed (1868) with the old Erie Railroad Company where he learned telegraphy, becoming an expert operator. He remained with the Erie until 1879, when he obtained a clerkship in the general offices of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company at Albany. He received deserved promotion and was finally made chief clerk. In 1881 he was appointed manager of the entire Delaware & Hudson telegraph system. In 1883 he was appointed assistant general passenger agent, and in 1885 succeeded D. M. Kendrick as general passenger agent of the system. In 1889 he visited Europe principally to investigate foreign railroad workings with a view of making improvements in the operation of his own road, if better plans could be found there or elsewhere. Mr. Burdick continued at the head of the passenger department of the Delaware & Hudson until 1909, when he resigned to take the presidency of the West Penn Steel Company, whose plants are located in the Pittsburg district of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Albany Club, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburg, and a life member of the New England Society, of New York City. He married, September 12, 1873, Frances Elizabeth, born December 17, 1852, died August 15, 1876, daughter of William Winsor Bartlett, a retired farmer of Corning, New York. Two children, one of whom died in infancy. Child living:
He married again, in November, 1878, Ella Pixley Bartlett, second daughter of William Winsor Bartlett. Six children, of whom two died in infancy. Children living:
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