DESCENDENTS OF JOHN BURROUGHS
OF STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA BORN @1750

 

 

Generation No. 8

 

8.  JOHN8 BURROUGHS () was born Abt. 1750 possibly in Stafford County, Virginia. He may have owned a sandstone quarry in Stafford County along Aquia Creek. He was a revolutionary war veteran with the Gloucester County regiment and received a pension in 1835 while living in Mathews County, VA. He married Margaret

       

Children of JOHN BURROUGHS are:

9.                i.    WILLIAM K9 BURROUGHS, b. 1782, Stafford County, Virginia; d. June 03, 1836, Mathews Co, Va..

                  ii.    JOHN BURROUGHS, m. JOANNA BORUM.

10.            iii.    ELZY BURROUGHS, b. Abt. 1777; d. 1825.

                 iv.    TRAVEY BURROUGHS, b. Abt. 1785; d. Abt. 1835.

 

 

Generation No. 9

 

9.  WILLIAM K9 BURROUGHS (JOHN8 BURROUGHS) was born in 1782 in Stafford County, VA, and died June 03, 1836 in Mathews Co, Va..  He married LUCRETIA (LUKEY) ARMISTEAD.  She was born Abt. 1790.

       

Children of WILLIAM BURROUGHS and LUKEY ARMISTEAD are:

                   i.    SUSANNA10 BURROUGHS, b. Abt. 1809; m. T POWELL.

                  ii.    ARMISTEAD BURROUGHS, b. 1818, Mathews Co. Virginia; m. MARY ELIZABETH; b. 1815, Mathews Co. Virginia.

                 iii.    WARNER L BURROUGHS, b. 1820.

                 iv.    WILLIAM K BURROUGHS, b. 1825; d. Bef. 1900, Mathews Co, Va.; m. ROSANA HUDGINS; b. 1810; d. Bef. 1900.

 

More About WILLIAM K BURROUGHS:

Date born 2: 1821.

 

10.  ELZY9 BURROUGHS (JOHN8 BURROUGHS) was born Abt. 1777, and died 1825.

       

Children of ELZY BURROUGHS are:

                   i.    EMERSON10 BURROUGHS.

                  ii.    WILLIAM BURROUGHS.

iii.JOHN J BURROUGHS, b. October 1798 in Middlesex County, VA; d. 1872; m. (1) ANN NIMMO @ 1826(?) Seaboard District, Princess Anne, VA; m. (2) ANN RAND @ 1826(?) Seaboard District, Princess Anne, VA; m. (3) ELIZA. THOM[P]SON Nov 11, 1819 in Norfolk, VA.

More About Elzy Burroughs:

Capt. Elzy Burroughs was born in 1771 (or 1777) probably in Stafford County, Virginia and had moved to Middlesex or Essex County, VA before 1798. He was an engineer-contractor. He built lighthouses along the coast, probably hiring his brothers as assistants (on the Chesapeake Bay he built Old Point Comfort, New Point Comfort, and Smith Point Lighthouses (this last one is destroyed)).  He moved to Mathews County, Virginia about 1804 where he began construction of New Point Comfort Lighthouse. He was the official keeper of that light until he resigned in 1814, though he had moved to Princess Anne County in 1810, and a son, also named Elzy, was born in Princess Anne County in 1805. He lived in Mathews County until 1810, at which time there were two Burroughs families indicated in Mathews, one headed by Elzy and another headed by John Burroughs.  He moved to the Norfolk/Princess Anne County, Virginia area as a widower with a large family in 1810.  During the War of 1812 he was reported to be on the staff of General Robert Barraud Taylor who commanded U.S. forces in the Hampton Roads area. Elzy has been called the “hero of Craney Island” but no independent confirmation of heroics or of his staff position have been found..  His son John J. Burroughs was 12 in 1810 (John J. being born in Middlesex County, Virginia in 1798).  Elzy lived in Norfolk on Boush Street and in the London Bridge area or courthouse areas of Princess Anne County for many years as a street paving contractor. He died at his son John J.’s house at 2409 Holland Road, Princess Anne Courthouse, Virginia (Virginia Beach). The old family homestead still stands, now called Buyrningwood Farm.