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- Reverend Issac Burr, born in Hartford July 4, 1697, graduated from Yale College in 1717, ordained at Worcestor, MA, October 13, 1725; returned to Connecticut in 1745, preached at Northwest Society in [now Granby] a while, and died at Winsor in 1751. [from Diary of Rev. Daniel Wadsworth]
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Diary of Rev. Daniel Wadsworth
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The Reverend Daniel Wadsworth was the seventh Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Hartford, Connecticut. His kept his diary from May 5, 1737 to February 16, 1747. The diary was discovered in 1892 while the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society were being rearranged. While the introduction describes the diary as being a "dry, prosaic, and commonplace one," it nevertheless provides a glimpse into the life of an unassuming devout Christian minister of the time. As is the case with many diaries of this time period, vital events are occasionally recorded.
Reverend Wadsworth was born in Farmington, Connecticut, November 14, 1704. He was educated at Yale College, and was ordained to the pastorate of the First Church in 1732. Reverend Wadsworh married Abigail Talcott on February 28, 1734, and they had six children. He died November 12, 1747 at the age of forty-two. He is described in the introduction as being "kind of heart," "laborious," and "industrious," as well as "nervous," "bashful," and a "dyspeptic" and "semi-hypochondriac."
This publication includes footnotes written by the (unidentified) fourteenth Pastor of the church.
This original text is part of the NEHGS Rare Books Collection, call number F 104 H3 W12.
Diary of Rev. Daniel Wadsworth (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004), (Orig. Pub. Hartford, Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. George Leon Walker, ed, Diary of Rev. Daniel Wadsworth, Seventh Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Hartford, 1894)
[from The Burrs of Fairfield, Conn. communicated by Sylvester Judd, Esq.]
"Rev. Issac Burr, Y.C. 1717, is said in Farmer to have been son of Judge Peter Burr, and father of Rev. Aaron Burr. He was neither of these, nor did he belong to the Fairfield family. Nathaniel Goodwin, Esq., of Hartford informs me that he was a son of Thomas Burr, of Hartford, and a grandson of Benjamin Burr, one of the early settlers of that town. He was pastor of the Church in Worcester, from 1725 to 1744. He died in Windsor, Con., in1751. His wife, Mary, was a daughter of John Eliot, Esq., of Windsor." NEHGS, Oct ?, p. 472
Fromhttp://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_361.html#P7439
Payne-Joyce Genealogy
3466. Rev. Isaac Burr. Born on 4 Jun 1697 at Hartford, CT. Baptized in Jun 1697 at Hartford, CT. Isaac died ca 1751. Education: Yale 1717.
Isaac married Mary Eliot, daughter of John Eliot (28 Apr 1667-25 Mar 1719) & Mary Wolcott. Born ca 1700 at Windsor, CT. Baptized on 12 May 1700 at Windsor, CT.
Children of Isaac and Mary (Eliot) Burr, born at Windsor:
i. Isaac Burr, b. ca, 1724, d. before 1795;
ii. Samuel Burr, b. 1725, d. before 1795;
iii. Mary Burr, b. ca. 1726, d. before 1752;
iv. Jonathan Burr, b. ca. 1727;
v. John Eliot Burr, b. 29 Jan 1727;
vi. Prudence Burr, b. ca. 1730; and
vii. Lois Burr, b. ca. 1740.
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