Robert Burrows

  General Notes:

GEN: !BIRTH: Silicon Valley PAF Users Matching Service (SEABRIDG) GEN: !MARRIAGE-DEATH: History of Town of Stonington, CT, Wheeler, Chico, CA, FHL , GEN: 974.6, GPC, 1977 GEN: MISC: Robert Burrows was one of the company who came in the ship "Arabella" GEN: which sailed from Cowes, Isle of Wight, 29 March and reached New England 12 GEN: June, 1630. Tradition gives Manchester as his English home, and also tha t two GEN: brothers (John and William) came with him, that they were Baptists and "dri ven GEN: out of England by religious persecution," and they settled finally one in N ew GEN: York and the other in Pennsylvania. Goodman Robert Burrows was chosen the GEN: first ferryman across Mystic River, and he is supposed to have been the fir st GEN: actual settler of Mystic.