Benjamin Henry Burrell1

Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=12 May 2015
His surname is spelled Burrill in the Roxbury Vital Records.

Benjamin Henry Burrell married Harriet E. Morse, daughter of Harford Morse and Lucy Gay, in 1836 at Roxbury, Massachusetts.2 Their intention of marriage was dated 4 September 1836.3

Benjamin Henry Burrell, fire engine builder of Roxbury, age 35, was a passenger on the packet ship Sweden that sailed from Boston on 1 March 1849 and arrived in San Francisco on 3 August 1849.4,5,1,6 His brother-in-law Franklin Morse sailed on the same ship.

Child of Benjamin Henry Burrell and Harriet E. Morse

Citations

  1. [S949] Ship Sweden passengers, online at http://www.sfgenealogy.com/californiabound/cb416.htm
  2. [S405] Morse, Memorial of the Morses.
  3. [S418] Roxbury Marriages and Deaths, 287.
  4. [S948] George K. Goodwin, Reminiscence of George K. Goodwin, 72.
  5. [S950] Log of the Ship Sweden from Boston to San Francisco California Via Cape Horn (handwritten by Benjamin Bailey), 60.
  6. [S951] Passengers, 2 March 1849.
  7. [S444] Lucy Morse household, 1850 U.S. census, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Roxbury.

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