Ann (Burr) Sturges (1720 - 1775)

Born 6 Feb 1720 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel (Sturges) Sturgis — married 17 Jan 1740 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 17 Apr 1775 at age 55 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Ann was born at Fairfield February 6 1719/20 and baptized there the 14th. She married Samuel Sturgis January 17, 1739/40 and died April 17, 1775 in her 56th year.

Birth

6 Feb 1719/20 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut (Barbour Collection)

Find A Grave currently has the wrong birth year.

Baptism

12 Feb 1719/20 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut (Church Record)

Marriage

17 Jan 1739/40 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut (Barbour Collection)

Burial

Old Burying Ground, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut (Find A Grave)

"In memory of Mrs. Ann Sturges Relict of Capt Samuel Sturges who departed this Life April 17, 1775 in her 56th. Year." (Perry)

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #9074248
  • Old Burying Ground, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Fairfield.
  • Page 22: Birth record.
  • Page 107: Marriage record.
• Perry, Kate E., The Old Burying Ground of Fairfield, Conn. (American Pub. Co., Hartford, Conn., 1882) Page 107.
  • "In memory of Mrs. Ann Sturges Relict of Capt Samuel Sturges who departed this Life April 17, 1775 in her 56th. Year."
• Register of Pedigrees and Services of Ancestors (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1941) Page 378.
  • She married Samuel Sturges (1712-1763), son of Pater and Hannah (Jennings).
• Prince's Subscribers, Brief Memoirs and Notices, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1856) Vol. 10, Page 150 ,
• Bailey, Frederic William. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (Bureau of American Ancestry, New Haven, Connecticut, 1904) Book 6, Page 34: Fairfield.
  • Samuel Sturgis & Ann Burr, Jan. 17, 1739.
• Todd, Charles Burr. A General History of the Burr Family in America (1902) Page 146. #143
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1930) Vol. 2, Pt. 1,Page 185. Vol. 2, Page 925.
• U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Connecticut, Vol. 033 Fairfield.
  • Anne Burr bpt. Feb. 12, 1719/20.