My Children's Family Tree:Information about Anne Burr
Anne Burr (b. 1624, d. 1683)
Notes for Anne Burr:JOHN CABLE
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
REMOVES: Springfield 1636, Fairfield 1641
OCCUPATION: Sawyer. (In his accounts as colony treasurer for 1632 and 1633, William Pynchon includes a payment to "John Cable for 500 four inch plank for fortification" [ MHSC 2:8:232].)
FREEMAN: Connecticut 10 October 1669 [ CCCR 1:521].
EDUCATION: Signed deed of 1641. Signed his will.
OFFICES: Committee to set out the bounds of the plantation (Springfield), 3 January 1638/9 [ SpTR 1:19]. Committee to lay out land in Springfield, 26 March 1640 [SpTR 1:25].
ESTATE: On 2 April 1641 John Cable sold to the inhabitants of Springfield for Ð40 "all that his right in his lot, house & grounds broken up or unbroken up, also all his right in future dividends" [SpTR 1:3].In his will, dated 4 April 1682 and proved 21 September 1682, "John Cabel Sen[io]r" bequeathed to "my grandchild John Cabell my housing, homelot and all the rest of my lands" and a fowling piece, to "my grandchild John Knowles my featherbed, one rug, sheets, bolster and pillows," to "my loving wife ANN CABELL the rent or use of all my housing and lands and household goods during her natural life" (and she to be executrix), and to "my daughter Rebeca and my grandchild John Cabell all my movables after my wife's decease" (except those already given), and appointed "my loving kinsman Jehu Burr and John Burr my overseers";
witnessed by Ezbon Wakeman and John Banks.
The inventory was taken 21 September 1682 and totalled Ð261 11s., of which Ð220 was real estate.
ANN CABLE refused the appointment as executrix, and "impleads to the Court her weakness and imbecility and her uncapableness to perform that trust," and requests that Mr. Jehu Burr and Mr. John Burr be appointed [ Fairfield PR 3:81, Case #1523].
On 28 September 1682 Mr. Jehu Burr and Mr. John Burr, administrators on the estate of John Cable, deceased, and "SAMUELL BETS of Bruantford" prepared articles of agreement in which SAMUEL agreed that "he will take care of and maintain his dear mother ANN CABLE" and in which all parties agreed as to how this would be done; the agreement was signed by mark by "ANN CABELS" [Fairfield PR Case #1524].
In her will, dated 6 February 1673 and proved 21 November 1683 (the year dates underlined in the original), ANNE BETTS ordered that "my son SAMUELL shall have my whole estate, he paying to the rest of my children five shillings per child, & to my daughter MARY my wearing clothes"; the inventory totalled Ð25 9s. 6d., of which Ð13 10s. was real estate; in the margin the testator was identified as "Anne Cable" [ NHPR 2:111].
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1640 possibly Sarah _____ (in depositions relating to the witchcraft trial of Goody Knapp, Bethia Brundish, aged sixteen, deposed on 26 April 1654 about something she observed while in the company of Deborah Lockwood and Sarah Cable [ NHCR 2:83]; as Deborah Lockwood was at that time seventeen it might be thought that Sarah Cable herself was about the same age; this record is, then, the only known record for the first wife of John Cable or for an otherwise unknown daughter).(2) After 31 August 1658 [ TAG 12:101] ANN (_____) BETTS, widow of ROGER BETTS. (This identification is based on the probate records cited above. The date of Ann's will leaves two possibilities: either she was still the widow of ROGER BETTS on 6 February 1673, and did not marry Cable until after that date; or the date of her will is in error and should be "6 February 1683" [i.e., 1682/3], in which case she chose to revert to her previous married name in making a will in which she only named her BETTS children.)
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Sources:
Abbrev: New Haven, history of the colony
Title: Atwater, Edward E., History of the Colony of New Haven, Connecticut [in two volumes] with supplementary history and personnel (Meriden, Conn., The Journal pub. co., 1902)
Page: v. 2, p. 614
Abbrev: Torrey - New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Title: Torrey, Clarence Almon with a revised introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985)
Page: p. 66
Abbrev: Torrey - New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Title: Torrey, Clarence Almon with a revised introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985)
Page: p. 130
More About Anne Burr:
Record Change: May 18, 2004
More About Anne Burr and Roger Betts:
Marriage: 1646
Children of Anne Burr and Roger Betts are:
- +Mercy Betts, d. 1692, North Haven CT.