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- From "Little Compton Families" p. 130 "The Burgess Family";
In the settlement of Sandwich, Thomas Burgess became associated with Edmund Freeman, Henry Feake, William Almy, and others. He was , says Dr. Sabage, "a cheif man among them."
There is a charm in the fact that the patriarchal estate has never been alienated from the family. Benjamin Burgess, the founder of the commercial house of Benjamin Burgess and sons in Boston, a lineal descendant of the sixth generation, held it in his position and in 1863 could point out the old cellar in which Thomas stored his fruits and the bubbling fountain from which he drank for 48 years. When he died in 13 Feb 1685, age 82, his grave was honored with a monumental slab imported from England. This was the only monument, says Amos Otis, Esq., set up for any pilgrim of the first generation.
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- 1685