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Edward James Burd
1726 - 1793 (67 years)
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Name Edward James Burd Born 10 Mar 1726 Scotland 
Gender Male Immigration 1747 Died 5 Oct 1793 Dauphin, Pennsylvania Person ID I22812 Yatesville History & Genealogy Last Modified 3 Feb 2015
Family Sarah Plumley Shippen, b. 22 Feb 1729, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , d. 17 Sep 1784, Crawford, Pennsylvania (Age 55 years) Married 14 May 1748 Pennsylvania Children 1. Sarah Burd, b. 1 Jan 1749, Pennsylvania , d. 25 Oct 1829, Pennsylvania (Age 80 years)2. Edward Burd, b. 5 Feb 1749, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , d. 24 Jul 1833, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 84 years)3. Mary Shippen Burd, b. 13 Jan 1753, Pennsylvania , d. 23 Feb 1774, Pennsylvania (Age 21 years)4. Allen Burd, b. 13 Dec 1754, Pennsylvania , d. 10 Jul 1764, Pennsylvania (Age 9 years)5. Jane Burd, b. 12 Aug 1757, Pennsylvania , d. 19 Sep 1819, Pennsylvania (Age 62 years)6. Margaret Burd, b. 2 Feb 1761, Pennsylvania , d. 6 Apr 1829, Pennsylvania (Age 68 years)7. James Burd, Jr., b. 4 Jan 1765, Pennsylvania , d. 27 Jan 1826 (Age 61 years)Last Modified 18 May 2022 Family ID F4956 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - COL. JAMES BURD. James Burd, a Scot, was born at Ormiston, near Edinburgh, in 1726. son of Edward. He came to Philadelphia in 1747, married, 1748, Sarah, daughter of Edward Shippen, born 1730. Both died at Tinian, near Middletown, in Dauphin County, Pa. (Col. Burd in 1793, Mrs. Burd in 1784), and are buried in the graveyard at Middletown. Col. Burd resided from 1750 to 1753 at Shippensburg, as manager of the affairs of Mr. Shippen. About 1755 he came to Tinian, where he resided until his death. He entered the Provincial service (1755) as a commissioner with George Croghan, William Buchanan, and Adam Hoopes to lay out a road from "Harris’ Ferry to the Ohio." He was then a captain; he is soon heard of as major, then lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in 1760. As there were but two regiments in service, his rank was a very prominent one. He fulfilled with great uprightness and punctuality all the public duties with which he was intrusted for quite twenty years. Then the stirring days of the Revolution came, and with it disaster to Burd as a public man. He seems to have entered heartily into the contest, but just when such experience as he had acquired would have been of the highest benefit, an unfortunate dispute about rank occurred; that, with insubordination in his command, and some criticism in the "Committee of Safety," caused him to resign his civil and military employments. His sons and son-in-law were good patriots, and a pretty thorough examination of the hasty conduct of Burd convinces us that he was, notwithstanding this affair, in accord with the leading patriots with whom he was surrounded. He was a man of fine form, hardy and healthy, an advanced and prosperous farmer, hospitable in his intercourse with his neighbors, and respected for his integrity as a civil officer from 1785, when Dauphin County was formed, until his death, in 1793. He died holding position as one of the county judges. Egle, William Henry, M.D., M.A., History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon, pp. 461-557. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY I.
Col James Burd Birth: 1726 Death: Oct. 5, 1793 Family links: Spouse: Sarah Shippen Burd (1730 - 1784) Children: Edward Burd (1749 - 1833)* Note: Revolutionary War veteran Burial: Middletown Cemetery Middletown Dauphin County Pennsylvania, USA Created by: Glenn Koons Record added: May 06, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 10921311
- COL. JAMES BURD. James Burd, a Scot, was born at Ormiston, near Edinburgh, in 1726. son of Edward. He came to Philadelphia in 1747, married, 1748, Sarah, daughter of Edward Shippen, born 1730. Both died at Tinian, near Middletown, in Dauphin County, Pa. (Col. Burd in 1793, Mrs. Burd in 1784), and are buried in the graveyard at Middletown. Col. Burd resided from 1750 to 1753 at Shippensburg, as manager of the affairs of Mr. Shippen. About 1755 he came to Tinian, where he resided until his death. He entered the Provincial service (1755) as a commissioner with George Croghan, William Buchanan, and Adam Hoopes to lay out a road from "Harris’ Ferry to the Ohio." He was then a captain; he is soon heard of as major, then lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in 1760. As there were but two regiments in service, his rank was a very prominent one. He fulfilled with great uprightness and punctuality all the public duties with which he was intrusted for quite twenty years. Then the stirring days of the Revolution came, and with it disaster to Burd as a public man. He seems to have entered heartily into the contest, but just when such experience as he had acquired would have been of the highest benefit, an unfortunate dispute about rank occurred; that, with insubordination in his command, and some criticism in the "Committee of Safety," caused him to resign his civil and military employments. His sons and son-in-law were good patriots, and a pretty thorough examination of the hasty conduct of Burd convinces us that he was, notwithstanding this affair, in accord with the leading patriots with whom he was surrounded. He was a man of fine form, hardy and healthy, an advanced and prosperous farmer, hospitable in his intercourse with his neighbors, and respected for his integrity as a civil officer from 1785, when Dauphin County was formed, until his death, in 1793. He died holding position as one of the county judges. Egle, William Henry, M.D., M.A., History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon, pp. 461-557. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY I.
