Nicholas Burbee

1763 - Abt 1818  (54 years)

• Name	Nicholas Burbee
  Birth	8 Apr 1763	Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Christening	25 May 1763	Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1818	, Hardin, Kentucky
  Person ID	I31455	Clan Montgomery
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2004

  
  

  Father	Peter Burbee,   b. Abt 1729   d. 12 Jun 1778, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Margaret Currice,   b. Abt 1732   d. Aft 1784 (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	21 Jul 1757	Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F11361	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary,   b. 27 Oct 1785   d. 1 Mar 1844 (Age 58 years)
  Children	> 1. Scammuel Burba,   b. 3 Mar 1786, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA d. 31 Dec 1870, , LaRue, Kentucky (Age 84 years)   2. Mary A. Burba,   b. Abt 1788, , Cheshire, New Hampshire > 3. Cynthia Burba,   b. Abt 1789, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA > 4. William Burba,   b. Abt 1793, New York, USA d. Aft 1866 (Age 74 years) > 5. Peter Burba,   b. Abt 1795, , Ontario, New York d. Abt 1845 (Age 50 years) > 6. Ralph B. Burba,   b. Abt 1797, , Ontario, New York d. Abt 1871 (Age 74 years) > 7. Sarah Burba,   b. Abt 1800, , Ontario, New York d. Abt 1873 (Age 73 years) > 8. Henry Burba,   b. Abt 1802, , Ontario, New York > 9. John Burba,   b. 19 Oct 1802, , Ontario, New York d. 15 Feb 1869, , Adams, Ohio (Age 66 years) > 10. Nancy Ann Burba,   b. 27 May 1804, , Ontario, New York d. 25 Mar 1887, , Nelson, Kentucky (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F11366	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2015

  
  

• Notes

  !BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Peter Burbee"..Nicholas served in the ContinentalArmy during the American Revolutionary War. In 1790, he was residing inCheshire, NH, but soon moved to NY where he is said to have been a contractor and builder. According to family tradition, he built the Midwout (laterpronounced "Midwood") Hotel "near the ferry" in Brooklyn, NY, c1793, "It being thelargest hotel in Brooklyn at the time." "Midwoud" was an old Dutch word meaning "Flatbush." The hotel is no longer standing and there are no knownrecords that indicate exactly where it was located although the main thoroughfare in Brooklyn is named Flatbush. Nicholas moved his family to Ontario Co., NY,in 1795 where he bought a large farm just west of Canondaugua Lake in avalley which was known for the next century as "Burbee Hollow." Gideon "Gid"Granger, a former U.S. Postmaster General, owned 64,185 acres of "Barrens" land in Hardin, KY which was then known as Grangerville, and talked several of his neighbors in Ontario, NY into trading their good land in NY for his inKY. They did not know how bad a trade they had made until they got to KY. Nicholassold this farm in "Burbee Hollow" to Granger for $2,000 in the spring of 1812but stayed in NY, moving his family first to Buffalo and then on to Richmond,NY. On 7 Apr 1815, the volcano Tambora, on the southern Pacific island ofSumbawa, Indonesia, erupted so violently that it drastically affected weatheraround the world. Smoke and dust blocked out the sun so that there was snow and frost every month during the summer of 1816 in NY. All of the crops failedcausing a lot of hunger and hardship. 1816 is still known as "the year without asummer" The experience was enough to convince Nicholas to join many of his former neighbors in Hardin, KY, so he purchased 298 acres of Granger's lanf fortwo dollars per acre on 19 Nov 1816. He bought an adjoining 22 acres fromGranger on 8 Sep 1817 for a dollar an acre. Nicholas passed axay before hereceived the deed to his KY property from Granger but the land was deeded to hisestate 10 Mar 1819. Nicholas may have been in KY some time earlier as his youngestson stated on census records that he was born in KY in 1802. RobertLawrence, 264 South Willo-Esque, Wichita, KS 67209 Submitted by Caroline W.Chapman McGowan, CMS 894, and others. Updated Oct. 2000.