Richard Burk

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• FamilySearch ID: 9VQ5-BPW
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• FindAGrave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155492530
• FindAGrave ID: 155492530
• FamilySearch ID: L4HH-69L
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Joseph married Asenath DeMaray. Asenath was born on 13 Aug 1806 in Shefford, Shefford, Quebec, Canada; died in 1875 in Oshawa, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Oshawa Union Cemetery, Oshawa, Durham, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindAGrave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155492592
• FindAGrave ID: 155492592
• FamilySearch ID: L4HH-DF9
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• FamilySearch ID: 9KPJ-8S1
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• Alt. Birth: 1760, Pennsylvania

Notes:

From Graham Stewart's web page:

JAMES BURK
(1773-1842)
"Our great-great-grandfather"
by Harry Douglas Stewart

"James was an infant at the outbreak of the American Revolution. He was raised to young manhood in that hostile atmosphere that harassed the families of the loyalists. Marrying Jane Mccann, James followed his older brother John into the wilderness of Upper Canada to receive a land grant in the same concession as that of John, in Flarlington Township. James was twenty-two years of age and Jane was twenty-one when, daringly, they joined the growing ranks of the United Empire Loyalists entering Upper Canada or, as it was more frequently called, Canada West.

Jane gave birth to ten children (see chart) one of whom, geneologically most pertinent to this paper, was Jesse. This name appears alternately as Jossiah, Jessie or Jesse."

...

"James Burk, brother of the pioneer John Burk, after receiving lot 16 broken front, held onto this 'and until his death in 1841, whereupon he wij led portions of the land to his family: Jane his wife, James Jr. and Theron, two of his Sons and Assa his daughter. Also, before his death in 1841, james Burk bought lot 17 in two steps Upon his death James willed the land of lot 17 to three of his sons: William Burk who received the north 100 acres, Jessie Burk who received the west portion of the south 90 acres and Theron Burk who received an east ten acres of the south portion."


From Maurice Dean Lincoln's email:

"James Burk born 1760 His wife Jane McCann born 1783 had 7 children"

(Research):Conflict in death date: 15 dec 1892

From Maurice Dean Lincoln:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MDEANLINCOLN@aol.com [mailto:MDEANLINCOLN@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:37 AM
> To: jhowell@jhowell.com
> Cc: shawjan@sympatico.ca
> Subject: Line Data verified Burk and Lincoln updates for Jhowell Burk
> section
>
> Burk men:
> James Burk The first
> Born : --- --1760 Penn. USA
> Died : Feb. 16, 1842
> Burial place : Burk Cemetery Plot Durham, Ontario
>
> James Burk the Second
> Born: June 17, 1806
> Died: Dec. 15,1892
> Burial Place: Burk cemetery Harwich Twp., Ontario
>
> Solomon Burk The First
> Born: July 23,1828
> Died : Aug. 09,1916
> Burial Place: Burk Cemetery Harrwich Twp., Ontario
>
> William Burk The first
> Born: May -- 1862
> Died: March 16, 1934
> Burial Place : Coe Twp., Michigan ,SAlt River Cemetery
>
> Connecting family member:
> Mary Ellen Burk
> Born: Nov. 09 1886
> Died : Aug 24, 1957
> Burial Place : Rosedale Memorial Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
>
>
> Burk Women:
>
> Jane McCann
> Born: --- -- 1783 Penn. USA
> Died : Aug 01, 1866
> Burial Place : Burk Cemetery Plot in Durham county, Ontario
>
> Dorothy Hartford
> Born: Dec 25, 1811
> Died: Aug 02,1883
> Burial Place : Burk cemetery Harwich Twp., Ontario
>
> Mary Patterson
> Born: --- -- 1836
> Died: Aug 02,1883
> Burial Place: Burk Cemetry Harwich Twp., Ontario
> 2nd wife of Solomon:
> Harriet Dennis
> Born: July 01, 1850
> Died: May 05,1929
> Burial Place: Burk Cemetery Harwich Twp., Ontario
>
> Millie Sullivan
> Born: --- -- 1869
> Died: --- -- ----
> Burial Location: Unknown
>
> 2nd Wife of William Burk
> Eva Mae Wertz
> Born: --- -- ----
> Died: July 04,1943
> Burial Place: Salt River Cemetery, Coe Twp., Michigan
>
>
> Now for the Lincoln's
>
> Augustus H. Lincoln
> Born: July -- 1843
> Died: July 09,1931
> Burial Place: Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California
>
> John D. Lincoln
> Born: Jan 20, 1870
> Died: Nov.15, 1925
> Burial Place: Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California
>
> Rollin A. Lincoln
> Born: Oct 26,1893
> Died: Feb 14, 1972
> Burial Place: Pacific View Memorial Park, Newport Beech, California
>
> Maurice Dean Lincoln Sr.
> Born: Oct 11,1927
> Died: Aug 07, 1962
> Burial Place: Rosedale Memorial Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
>
> Maurice Dean Lincoln Jr.
> Born: March 23,1952
> Died:     not yet, Thats Me!

James married Jane McCann about 1797 in Darlington, Durham, Ontario, Canada. Jane was born on 1 Aug 1782 in Pennsylvania; died in 1865; was buried in Bowmanville Cemetery, Darlington, Durham, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Lived in: (After marriage), Pughton, WV
• FamilySearch ID: LWFF-R56
• FamilySearch URL: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LWFF-R56
• Lived in: Abt 1740; William Penn Settlement
• Alt. Death: 1768, New York, United States

Notes:

Posted on the web site of Graham Stewart:

FRANCIS BURK
(1725'97 178 ?)
'Father of the Burks of America"
by Harry Douglas Stewart

Francis Burk was born in Limerick Ireland in 1725, the fourth son of a family of twenty-one Sons. It is significant for the understanding of his emigration to point out that he was born only thirty years after the Battle of Boyne and the infamous Treaty of Limerick. Like thousands of other people in that terrible era, the only place of hope and future promise was across the Atlantic in the new colonies of America. In 1740 at age 15, the mere boy, though much matured by hard experience, sailed for America and settled first in the state of New Jersey. At this time the Irish were producing the finest wool in the world and the Irish immigrants brought their weaving skills with them to the new world. It is altogether likely that the young Francis was immediately involved in the wool industry. An old Chester Record, referring to these fine Irish immigrants, says "they are welcomed as an accession of virtue and intelligence to our little community".

Francis married Eunice Marsh, the young daughter of a German immigrant physician and moved thereafter to the small community of Pughton, West Virginia, just over the Pennsylvania border. Francis and Eunice had a family of six children, Of these, our concern, genealogically, is with James. Outliving her husband by many years, Eunice, having left the United States, journeyed north to join her Empire Loyalist sons in Upper Canada and died on the homestead farm of James and was buried there.

At the age of thirty, Francis is caught up in the back-lash of the Seven Years War as it expressed itself in the English--Indian/French-Indian struggles for the British Colonies in America. The Quakers of Pennsylvania were pacifists who refused to fight. Thus, the whole burden of the protection of the British Colonies was left to the other settlers. This vicious struggle (1756-1763) was barely settled when the American Revolution broke out. This found Francis caught up again in battle on the side of the Royalists.

When the American Revolution was over, the hostility of the rebels toward the Royalists was furious. We can find no further information on Francis beyond this point in history. Because of his loyalties he doubtless lived out the rest of his days keeping a low profile. Francis* family, meanwhile, raised in a community where they were harassed and taunted for their Royalist loyalities, quietly resolved that when and as soon as they were able to do so they would remove themselves from the country.

The day of opportunity came for the Burks when John Graves Simcoe, Governor of Upper Canada, offered to Americans who remained loyal to the Crown free grants of land in the newly surveyed township of Darlington. The first of the Burk family to respond to the offer was the oldest son John, followed one year later by our great-great grandfather James. I now quote from the "History of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Site and its Original Settlers".

"The first actual settlement of the Darlington site took place in 1794. This settlement was induced by a land bounty by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, proclaiming free land to those who wanted to settle in the area. Among the first families to settle in this area was that of John Burk, who with his wife and three sons, David, John and Samuel, moved to lot 13 concession I and lot 13 broken front. John*s younger brother James followed and moved into lot 16 concession I and broken front. Both brothers received their deeds for their property in 1798. This first settlement'97 by the Rurk brothers had a great deal to do with the succeeding expansion and growth of business in the area."
.............
"James Burk, brother of the pioneer John Burk, after receiving lot 16 broken front, held onto this 'and until his death in 1841, whereupon he wij led portions of the land to his family: Jane his wife, James Jr. and Theron, two of his Sons and Assa his daughter. Also, before his death in 1841, james Burk bought lot 17 in two steps Upon his death James willed the land of lot 17 to three of his sons: William Burk who received the north 100 acres, Jessie Burk who received the west portion of the south 90 acres and Theron Burk who received an east ten acres of the south portion."

The record of the journey of the Burks to the site of their land grants is an amazing tale of human fortitude and endurance. On this subject I have much fascinating material which, if I had but the financial resources, I would enjoy sharing with our family and especially our children*s children. The journey of the Burks together with all their possessions to the area was by barge up the Susquehanna River through New York state to Lake Ontario. Following along the lake, they stopped at Fort York for some supplies and pushed on. Between Fort York and their settlement there was only wilderness, cross-marked by a few Indian trails. To avoid losing their direction they followed the lake, cold and windswept, to Barber*s Creek where they built for shelter their first rude log cabins.

I can recall clearly the day when our dear old great aunt Maggie Burk told me tales of the attacks of the Indians on the homestead of her ancestors. Her accounts have been fully vindicated by my research. James Burk settled at the mouth of Barber*s Creek where there was a sand bar that created a sweeping stretch of sheltered deep water abounding in huge lake salmon. This harvest of fish the Indians considered to be their private preserve. The resentment of the Indians over the intrusion of the Burks was strong and, in revenge, they raided the homestead frequently and pilfered all the stored food supplies of the family. For safety, the Burks hid, just as Maggie had recounted, in the tall corn stalks and in the woods.

(Research):------------Original Message------------
     From:
     To: MDEANLINCOLN@aol.com
     Cc: ojaiew@sbcglobal.net, "Graham Stewart - Home" , doug.burke@sympatico.ca
     Date: Tue, Aug-17-2004 9:40 PM
     Subject: Re: Ever searched for Francis Burk in West Virginia?
     Here is what I have in notes.
     A weaver emigrated to New Jersey in 1725.

     Francis came from Limerick, Ireland . Lived first in Pennsylvania and later in Brooke County, West Virginia,U.S.A.. Moved further north during the American Revolution. Died either inWest Virginia or on their travels futher north.

     So it sounds like he emigrated to New Jersey, met Eunice married her and they moved on to Pennsylvania and later to Brooke County,West Virginia and then further north during the American Revolution.  We have never established where or when he died.  Perhaps we should look for a death or burial in West Virginia or in there travels further north.  Apparently Eunice remarried a Mr. Clarke  probably in Canada. after Francis' death .

----- Original Message -----
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          To: shawjan@sympatico.ca
          Cc: ojaierin@comcast.net
          Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:13 AM
          Subject: Ever searched for Francis Burk in West Virginia?

          Erin and Janice The plaque says Frances Burk of West Virginia born in Limerick Ireland. What do we have or can we get from Source that stated he was from West Virginia the person who made plague must know something? of who or what this West Virginia means as Eunice was from New Jersey.


-----Original Message-----
From: MDEANLINCOLN@aol.com [mailto:MDEANLINCOLN@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:24 AM
To: gstewart8@cogeco.ca
Cc: ojaierin@comcast.net
Subject: My results to wonder

Frances Burk I have 1720 you have 1725 limerick Ireland. limerick new to me
both have 1720 Abt for Eunice Merck
I have john abt. 1754 you have death 1827 new to me
James i have born 1760 Pennsylvania, you have Feb 6, 1773 ? same death
Luke married Nancy Mcbane
Mary married Morris Kerr
Ketura i list as caturah
next grandma
Jane Mccann mine is born 1783 died Aug 01.1866
yours born Aug, 01.1782 death 1865
children of Jane mcCann have 7 you have 12 children
more research needed to separate josiah from from Jessie  note josiah married Mary brady died ? 1896
Joseph married Aseneth demery
asas married frances demery
jessee tombstone shows Aug 18, 1886 not 1885
you have new, theron died 1906 i have none for death date
Next grandma
Dorothy Hartford i have born Nova Scotia
you have died Aug 3, 1883 i have Aug 2 1883
Thomas you have March 02, 1836  died Jan 1, 1863 i have died June , 07 1908
Solomon died in 1916 you have new to me Aug 09.1916
elijah married Maryann hersey the biblerecords photo info.
Marianna married William Faulkner
James you have died 1886 i have 1896 Augress, MI.
next grandma
Mary patterson
you have born 1835, i have 1836 Clark twp.
new to me death June 17.1872, i had 1872
Elizabeth died in infancy in 1853
euphemia new to me Oct 15.1860 i had abt 1859
alda Jane married George Wellington mckee
permilla you have 1870 i have abt 1861
note Solomon's 2nd wife Sarah Dennis had 6 more children.
next grandma
Millie Sullivan
new to me born aft 1861 , i have aft 1881
William born may 1862 in harwick twp. died 1934
had two daughters
Mary Ellen (Nell) born 1888 to 1956 you have
i have from grave marker 1886 died Aug 24, 1957
hazel burk born Sept 06, 1888 to Feb 03, 1964
Williams 2nd wife Eva wertz had 3 children Austin, bernice,eugene.
note Mary Ellen burk / Lincoln my direct grandmother.


Posted on: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=harrydouglas&id=I364

ID: I364 Name: Francis Burk Given Name: Francis Surname: Burk Sex: M Birth: 1725 in Limerick, Ireland Death: 1768 1 2 1 1 Event: Emigrated to US Emigrated Abt 1740 William Penn Settlement Us Event: moved to West Virginia Moved Pughton WV Note: Moved after marriage Change Date: 28 Mar 2004 at 21:04 Note:

FRANCIS BURK
(1725'97 178 ?)
'Father of the Burks of America"

by Harry Douglas Stewart

Francis Burk was born in Limerick Ireland in 1725, the fourth son of a family of twenty-one Sons. It is significant for the understanding of his emigration to point out that he was born only thirty years after the Battle of Boyne and the infamous Treaty of Limerick. Like thousands of other people in that terrible era, the only place of hope and future promise was across the Atlantic in the new colonies of America. In 1740 at age 15, the mere boy, though much matured by hard experience, sailed for America and settled first in the state of New Jersey. At this time the Irish were producing the finest wool in the world and the Irish immigrants brought their weaving skills with them to the new world. It is altogether likely that the young Francis was immediately involved in the wool industry. An old Chester Record, referring to these fine Irish immigrants, says "they are welcomed as an accession of virtue and intelligence to our little community".

Francis married Eunice Marsh, the young daughter of a German immigrant physician and moved thereafter to the small community of Pughton, West Virginia, just over the Pennsylvania border. Francis and Eunice had a family of six children, Of these, our concern, genealogically, is with James. Outliving her husband by many years, Eunice, having left the United States, journeyed north to join her Empire Loyalist sons in Upper Canada and died on the homestead farm of James and was buried there.

At the age of thirty, Francis is caught up in the back-lash of the Seven Years War as it expressed itself in the English--Indian/French-Indian struggles for the British Colonies in America. The Quakers of Pennsylvania were pacifists who refused to fight. Thus, the whole burden of the protection of the British Colonies was left to the other settlers. This vicious struggle (1756-1763) was barely settled when the American Revolution broke out. This found Francis caught up again in battle on the side of the Royalists.

When the American Revolution was over, the hostility of the rebels toward the Royalists was furious. We can find no further information on Francis beyond this point in history. Because of his loyalties he doubtless lived out the rest of his days keeping a low profile. Francis* family, meanwhile, raised in a community where they were harassed and taunted for their Royalist loyalities, quietly resolved that when and as soon as they were able to do so they would remove themselves from the country.

The day of opportunity came for the Burks when John Graves Simcoe, Governor of Upper Canada, offered to Americans who remained loyal to the Crown free grants of land in the newly surveyed township of Darlington. The first of the Burk family to respond to the offer was the oldest son John, followed one year later by our great-great grandfather James. I now quote from the "History of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Site and its Original Settlers".

"The first actual settlement of the Darlington site took place in 1794. This settlement was induced by a land bounty by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, proclaiming free land to those who wanted to settle in the area. Among the first families to settle in this area was that of John Burk, who with his wife and three sons, David, John and Samuel, moved to lot 13 concession I and lot 13 broken front. John*s younger brother James followed and moved into lot 16 concession I and broken front. Both brothers received their deeds for their property in 1798. This first settlement'97 by the Rurk brothers had a great deal to do with the succeeding expansion and growth of business in the area."
.............
"James Burk, brother of the pioneer John Burk, after receiving lot 16 broken front, held onto this 'and until his death in 1841, whereupon he wij led portions of the land to his family: Jane his wife, James Jr. and Theron, two of his Sons and Assa his daughter. Also, before his death in 1841, james Burk bought lot 17 in two steps Upon his death James willed the land of lot 17 to three of his sons: William Burk who received the north 100 acres, Jessie Burk who received the west portion of the south 90 acres and Theron Burk who received an east ten acres of the south portion."

The record of the journey of the Burks to the site of their land grants is an amazing tale of human fortitude and endurance. On this subject I have much fascinating material which, if I had but the financial resources, I would enjoy sharing with our family and especially our children*s children. The journey of the Burks together with all their possessions to the area was by barge up the Susquehanna River through New York state to Lake Ontario. Following along the lake, they stopped at Fort York for some supplies and pushed on. Between Fort York and their settlement there was only wilderness, cross-marked by a few Indian trails. To avoid losing their direction they followed the lake, cold and windswept, to Barber*s Creek where they built for shelter their first rude log cabins.

I can recall clearly the day when our dear old great aunt Maggie Burk told me tales of the attacks of the Indians on the homestead of her ancestors. Her accounts have been fully vindicated by my research. James Burk settled at the mouth of Barber*s Creek where there was a sand bar that created a sweeping stretch of sheltered deep water abounding in huge lake salmon. This harvest of fish the Indians considered to be their private preserve. The resentment of the Indians over the intrusion of the Burks was strong and, in revenge, they raided the homestead frequently and pilfered all the stored food supplies of the family. For safety, the Burks hid, just as Maggie had recounted, in the tall corn stalks and in the woods.



Marriage 1 Eunice Merck b: Abt 1720 in New Jersey
Married:
Change Date: 28 Mar 2004
Children
John Burk b: Abt 1754 in West Virginia
Michael Burk b: Abt 1756
Joseph Burk b: Abt 1758
James Burk b: 6 Feb 1773 in Pennsylvania
Luke Burk b: Abt 1762 in Darlington Twp., Durham Co., Ontario, Canada
Mary Burk b: Abt 1764
Ketura (Katy*) Burk b: Abt 1766

Sources:

Abbrev: RootsWeb.com - Peggy Doyle
Title: RootsWeb.com - Peggy Doyle
Author: Peggy Doyle
Publication: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=mdoyle&id=I0234
Date: 6 Mar 2004
Abbrev: RootsWeb Erin Wordsham
Title: RootsWeb Erin Wordsham
Author: Erin Wordsham
Publication: Ojaieran@comcast.net
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=:2422557&id=I516456280

Frances married Eunice Merck. Eunice was born about 1720; died in 1769. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

The letter from Josia Burk to David F. Burk does not give her name -- only says "Jersey Girl"

From:  ‘Father of the Burks of America” by Harry Douglas Stewart

"Francis married Eunice Marsh, the young daughter of a German immigrant physician and moved thereafter to the small community of Pughton, West Virginia, just over the Pennsylvania border. Francis and Eunice had a family of six children, Of these, our concern, genealogically, is with James. Outliving her husband by many years, Eunice, having left the United States, journeyed north to join her Empire Loyalist sons in Upper Canada and died on the homestead farm of James and was buried there."