By Muriel Bristol | May 25, 2025
Dudley Burnham was born in Somersworth, NH, August 15, 1762, son of Nathaniel and Mehitable (Colbath) Burnham.
Strafford County historian Duane H. Hurd noted the settlements at Plummer’s Ridge, after 1772, of Benjamin Scates, Beard Plumer and his brother Joseph Plumer. He noted further that they were followed by James C. Hayes, David Wallingford, William Palmer, Elijah Horn, Moses Chamberlain, and others.
This was soon followed by quite a rush of settlers to the west side of the town, Daniel Hayes, Caleb Wakeham, Enoch Varney, Samuel Nute, William Wentworth, William Tuttle, Ichabod Hayes, James Hayes, Ebenezer Coursan, and Stephen Merseron [Meserve], being among the first, Jeremiah Cook, Dudley Burnham, Jotham Nute, Otis Pinkham, Ephraim Plumer, John Twombly, James Varney, John Varney, William Mathes, and others coming soon after (Hurd, 1882).
Dudley Burnham married, January 1, 1793, Sarah Wentworth. She was born September 26, 1769 [1770], daughter of William and Hannah (Hayes) Wentworth.
(The known children of Dudley and Sarah (Wentworth) Burnham were: Mehitable Burnham, 1794-185?, Dudley Hayes Burnham, 1797-1842; Hannah Burnham, 1799-1876, Abigail Burnham, 1801-1884, Ruth Burnham, 1803-, Mary Burnham, 1806-1883, Nathaniel Wentworth Burnham, 1809-1873, and Sarah Burnham, 1811-1890).
Daughter Mehitable Burnham was born May 9, 1794. She was a namesake for her paternal grandmother, Mehitable (Colbath) Burnham.
Mother Mehitable (Colbath) Burnham died in Somersworth, June 17, 1794. Father Nathaniel Burnham died in Somersworth, NH, February 1, 1797.
Son Dudley H. Burnham was born April 7, 1797.
Father-in-law William Wentworth died in Parsonfield, ME, October 20, 1798.
Daughter Hannah H. Burnham was born March 9, 1799.
Dudley Burnham headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Sarah (Wentworth) Burnham], three females aged under-10 [Mehitable Burnham and Hannah Burnham] and one male aged under-10 years [Dudley Burnham, Jr.]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).
Daughter Abigail Burnham was born in Milton, February 15, 1801.
Dudley Burnham signed the Rochester division petition of May 28, 1802.
Daughter Ruth Burnham was born December 1, 1803.
Dudley Burnham, Robert Mathews, and Wm Tuttle were one of nine Milton district school committees in 1804.
Dudley Burnham was one of fifty-two Milton petitioners that sought to have Jotham Nute appointed as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, in August 1805.
Daughter Mary Burnham was born April 8, 1806.
A Milton town committee delineated five Milton school districts in December 1806. One of them – No. 4 – was associated with Dudley Burnham. (See Milton School Districts – 1806).
Mother-in-law Hannah (Hayes) Wentworth died in Milton, August 11, 1808.
Son Nathaniel Wentworth Burnham was born in Milton, January 4, 1809.
Dudley Burnham headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Sarah (Wentworth) Burnham], one female aged 16-25 years [Mehitable Burnham], one male aged 10-15 years [Dudley Burnham, Jr.], one female aged 10-15 years [Hannah Burnham], four females aged under-10 years [Abigail Burnham, Ruth Burnham, Mary Burnham], and one male aged under-10 years [Nathaniel W. Burnham]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Drew and Joseph Cook. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).
Daughter Sarah Burnham was born August 25, 1811.
Dudley Burnham signed the Milton Militia Division Petition of November 1820. (See Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).
Son Dudley H. Burnham married, probably in or near Tyrone, Huntingdon, PA, circa 1825, Margaret Poole. She was born in Birmingham, PA, May 4, 1800, daughter of George and Wilhelmina (Emeigh) Poole. (Her father had died in Tyrone, PA, April 24, 1824. Her mother died in Tyrone, PA, January 26, 1826).
Albert Pool Burnham was born in Yellow Springs, PA, March 9, 1826, son of Dudley H. and Margaret (Pool) Burnham.
Daughter Hannah H. Burnham married, circa 1821, Jacob G. Pike.
Son-in-law Jacob G. Pike was one of twenty-six inhabitants at the intersection of Wakefield, Middleton, and Milton, NH, that petitioned to have Ira Fish of Wakefield, NH, clothier, appointed as a justice-of-the-peace for Union village, in 1823. (The petition bears the notation that it was indefinitely postponed).
Dudley Burnham died in Milton, April 29, 1826.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Strafford ss. To the heirs at law of the estate of DUDLEY BURNHAM, late of Milton, in said County, deceased, and all interested therein. Greeting, YOU are hereby notified that Sarah Burnham intends exhibiting her account of administering said estate at Court of Probate to be holden at Rochester in said county, on Saturday following the second Monday of May next. Also, that at the same time and place, she intends applying for license to sell so much of the real estate of said deceased as will be sufficient to raise the sum of three hundred dollars for the payment of the debts of said deceased Said real estate being subject to the right of dower of the said Sarah therein. Dated at Dover in said county, this 28th day of March, A.D. 1828. By order of the Judge. JAMES BARTLETT, Register (Dover Enquirer, April 1, 1828).
Son Dudley H. Burnham set up as a merchant in Antes, Blair County, Pennsylvania, in 1828. He would seem to have done so for a single year.
Until the year 1828, Edward Bell seems to have been the only retailer of foreign merchandise (other than wines and spirits) in the township. During that year, however, he had as a competitor Dudley H. Burnham. From 1829 to 1841, Edward Bell again occupied the field alone (Africa, 1883).
Son-in-law Jacob G. Pike, as well as J.H. Cook and John Roberts, were the Middleton, NH, delegates to the Strafford County National-Republican Young Men’s Convention, which was to be held in Wolfeboro, NH, October 1, 1828. (John Nutter, John H. Varney, and Lewis Hayes were the Milton delegates) (Dover Enquirer, October 7, 1828). The National-Republicans were successors to the Federalist party and precursors to the Whig party. At this time, they favored John Quincy Adams for the Presidency.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. STRAFFORD, SS. – To the Heirs at Law of the Estate of DUDLEY BURNHAM, late of Milton, in said county, deceased, and all interested therein, GREETING. YOU are hereby notified that SARAH BURNHAM intends exhibiting her account of administering said estate, at a Court of Probate to be holden at Rochester, in said county, on the Saturday following the second Monday of May next. Dated at Dover, in said county, this 15th day of March, A.D. 1830. By order of the Judge, JAMES BARTLETT, Reg. (Dover Enquirer, March 30, 1830).
Sarah [(Wentworth)] Burnham headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 60-69 years [herself], one female aged 30-39 years, one male aged 20-29 years, one female aged 20-29 years, and one male aged 10-14 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Hannah Pinkham and Isaac Young.
Jacob G. Pike headed a Middleton, NH, household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Hannah H. (Burnham) Pike], two males aged 5-9 years [Dudley B. Pike and Jacob H. Pike], and two males aged under-5 years [Robert W.L. Pike and Albert Pike].
James Waldron, Jr., headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one male aged 15-19 years [James R. Waldron], one female aged 10-14 years [Sarah B. Waldron], and one female aged 70-79 years.
Daughter Ruth Burnham married in Middleton, NH, March 18, 1832, Stephen Pinkham, Jr., she of Milton and he of Farmington, NH. Elder William Buzzell performed the ceremony.
Son Nathaniel W. Burnham married in New Durham, February 10, 1833, Ruth E. Davis, he of Milton and she of New Durham, NH. Rev. Nathaniel Berry performed the ceremony. She was born in New Durham, NH, in 1811, daughter of George and Patience (Elkins) Davis.
Charles Emeigh Burnham was born in Yellow Springs, PA, January 13, 1834, son of Dudley H. and Margaret (Pool) Burnham.
Daughter Abigail Burnham married, circa 1834, James Waldron, Jr. He was born in Dover, NH, February 10, 1791, son of James and Elizabeth (Pickering) Waldron.
[A Dudley Burnham of Ipswich, MA, aged forty years, 5′ 6″ tall, with a light complexion, and dark hair, served under Capt. Jeremiah Porter of the ship Delphos on a voyage to Trieste, in 1830-31. This would seem to be the same Dudley Burnham, of Ipswich, MA, 2nd mate, that died at sea, lost from the brig St. Michael, on passage from Havana to N.Y., aged about 38 years (Columbian Centinel (Boston, MA), January 28, 1835. Neither was the same as the Dudley H. Burnham who married Margaret Poole, had children born at Yellow Springs, PA, between 1826 and 1834, and did a brief stint as merchant at Antes Fort, PA, in 1828].
Prior to the services and funding provided for the elderly or indigent in more recent times, townships of the past would utilize other, more rudimentary, solutions. The Strafford County Farm would be established in 1867, but before that there was Milton poor farm or almshouse (situated on Plummer’s Ridge). And before that the elderly or indigent would be housed and maintained in private homes, specifically, in the private homes of the lowest bidders. Son-in-law Jacob G. Pike contracted with the town of Milton in 1839 to keep pauper Hiram Dore for a year in his Middleton, NH, home.
NOTICE. THE subscriber having contracted with the town of Milton for the support and maintenance of Hiram Dore, a town Pauper, for the term of one year from the first of April 1839, and having made suitable provisions for the same do hereby forbid all persons harbouring or trusting him on my account or on account of the town of Milton, as no debts of that kind will be paid or allowed. JACOB G. PIKE. Middleton, June 15, 1839 (Dover Enquirer, July 2, 1839).
D.H. Burnham headed a Tyrone, Huntingdon, PA, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Margaret (Poole) Burnham], two males aged 10-14 years [Albert P. Burnham and Benjamin F. Burnham], one female aged 5-9 years [Sarah W. Burnham], one male aged under-5 years [Charles E. Burnham], and one female aged under-5 years.
Jacob Pike headed a Middleton, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years, one male aged 5-9 years, and one female aged 5-9 years. One member of his household was engaged in Agriculture.
James Waldram [Waldron] headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Abigail (Burnham) Waldron], one male aged 5-9 years [James R. Waldron], two females aged 5-9 years [Sarah B. Waldron], one female aged under-5 years [Mary P. Waldron], and one female aged 80-89 years. One member of his household was engaged in Agriculture.
Stephan Pinkham headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Ruth (Burnham) Pinkham], and one female aged under-5 years [Sarah A. Pinkham]. One member of his household was engaged in Agriculture.
Nathaniel Burnham headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], two females aged 20-29 years [Ruth E. (Davis) Burnham and Mary Burnham], one male aged 20-29 years, one male aged 5-9 years, and one female aged 70-79 years [Sarah (Wentworth) Burnham]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Isaac C. Young and Jeremiah Cook.
Son-in-law Jacob G. Pike, as well as Jonathan Buzzell, were the Middleton, NH, delegates to the NH State Senatorial District No. 5 Whig Convention, which was to be held at Jonathan T. Dodge’s Inn in Rochester, NH, January 18, 1841. (Joseph Pearl, and E.W. Plummer were the Milton delegates). They chose David Winkley, Esq., of Strafford, NH, to be the Whig candidate for the NH District No. 5 State Senate election (Dover Enquirer, January 26, 1841). (See Milton’s Ante-Bellum Party Affiliations).
Son Dudley H. Burnham died in Tyrone, Huntingdon, PA, in 1842, aged forty-five years.
Dudley Hays Burnham, was a native of New Hampshire, a school teacher, who died in 1842, aged forty-five years (Runk, J.M. & Co., 1897).
Daughter Sarah W. Burnham married in Rochester, NH, in 1845, John B. Downing.
Sarah [(Wentworth)] Burnham, aged eighty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included Mehitable Burnham, aged fifty-six years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mary Young, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and James H. Pinkham, a shoemaker, aged twenty-six years (b. NH).
Margarett [(Pool)] Burnham, aged forty-eight years (b. PA), headed a Tyrone, Huntingdon, PA, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included Charles M. Burnham, aged fifteen years (b. PA).
Jacob G. Pike, a stone cutter, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Hannah H. [(Burnham)] Pike, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), Dudly B. Pike, a shoemaker, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), Jacob H. Pike, a shoemaker, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Albert Pike, a shoemaker, aged twenty years (b. NH), and Almira B. Pike, aged eighteen years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Eli B. Lord, a blacksmith, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and Woodbury Pike, a shoemaker, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH).
James Waldron, a farmer, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Abigail [(Burnham)] Waldron, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), James A. Waldron, a farmer, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Sarah B. Waldron, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Marry P. Waldron, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Dudley Waldron, aged eleven years (b. NH). James Waldron had real estate valued at $3,000.
Stephen Pinkham, a farmer, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a New Durham, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Ruth [(Burnham)] Pinkham, aged forty-six years (b. NH), and Sarah A. Pinkham, aged thirteen years (b. NH).
Nathaniel W. Burnham, overseer of alms farm, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household (“Alms House”) at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Ruth [(Davis)] Burnham, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), Jay Pike, a farmer, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Sarah Wentworth, a pauper, aged eighty-eight years (b. ME), Mary Wentworth, a pauper & idiotic, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), Mary Wingate, a pauper, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), and Clarissa Scates, a pauper & idiotic, aged twenty-five years. Nathaniel W. Burnham had real estate valued at $2,500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Sarah Spinney, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), and Joseph Plumer, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH).
John B. Downing, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sarah [(Burnham)] Downing, aged forty years (b. NH), Sylvia Downing, aged eleven years (b. NH), Jabez Downing, aged nine years (b. NH), and John H. Downing, aged eleven months (b. NH), and Mary Burnham, aged forty-three years (b. NH). John B. Downing had real estate valued at $500.
Sarah (Wentworth) Burnham died in Milton, January 22, 1852.
Daughter Mehitable Burnham died, probably in Milton, after her appearance in the 1850 Census, but before the drafting of her brother’s 1863 will.
Son-in-law Stephen Pinkham of New Durham, NH, served on a Strafford County Supreme Judicial Court jury in March 1858 (Dover Enquirer, March 18, 1858).
Son-in-law James Waldron of Rochester, NH, served on a Strafford County Court of Common Pleas jury in January 1859. (Eli Wentworth of Milton served also on the same jury) (Dover Enquirer, January 20, 1859).
Charles Burnham, a mas [maize?] farmer, aged twenty-five years (b. PA), headed a Tyrone, Huntingdon, PA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Margaret [(Pool)] Burnham, aged sixty-one years (b. PA), Sarah [(Burnham)] Marrone [Menold], aged twenty-nine years (b. PA), and Albert Marrone [Menold], aged four years (b. PA). Charles Burnham had personal estate valued at $1,018.
David R. Colbath, a shoemaker, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Almira B. [(Pike)] Colbath, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), Almira E. Colbath, aged six years (b. NH), David E. Colbath, aged three years (b. NH), Charles H. Colbath, aged eight months (b. NH), Hannah H. [(Burnham)] Pike, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), Henry Langley, a shoemaker, aged seventeen years (b. ME), Daniel Baker, a shoemaker, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Jacob G. Pike, a stonecutter, aged sixty-one years (b. NH).
James Waldron, a farmer, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Rochester (“Farmington P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Abigail [(Burnham)] Waldron, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), Sarah B. Waldron, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), Mary P. Waldron, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), and Dudley B. Waldron, aged twenty-one years (b. NH). James Waldron had real estate valued at $2,574 and personal estate valued at $800.
Stephen Pinkham, a farmer, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a New Durham, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Ruth [(Burnham)] Pinkham, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH). Stephen Pinkham had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $400.
Nathl W. Burnham, a farmer, aged fifty-one years, headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Ruth E. [(Davis)] Burnham, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), Henry Bradbury, aged nine years (b. NH), and Isabel J. Nutter, aged eight years (b. NH). Nathl W. Burnham had real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James D. Pike, a farmer, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and Henry Varney, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH).
John B. Downing, a lawyer, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sarah [(Burnham)] Downing, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), John H. Downing, aged ten years (b. NH), Sarah B. Downing, aged eight years (b. NH), and Mary Burnham, aged fifty-five years (b. NH). John B. Downing had real estate valued at $1,200 and personal estate valued at $200.
Nathaniel W. Burnham of Milton made his last will, September 4, 1863. He bequeathed 10¢ each to the four children of his lamented brother, Dudley H. Burnham. He bequeathed 10¢ each to his siblings, Hannah H. Pike, Abigail Waldron, Ruth Pinkham, Mary Burnham, and Sarah W. Downing. He bequeathed all the rest and residue of his estate, real, personal and mixed, to his beloved wife, Ruth E. Burnham, whom he also named as his executor. Alvah Scates, James Hilton, and Charles W. Davis signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 84:153).
FIRE AT ROCHESTER. The Saw and Grist mill owned by Dodge, Bickford & Co., near the Gonic, took fire from one of the bearings near the Shingle Machine, on Monday last week, and spread with great rapidity over the whole mill, which was entirely destroyed. The flames from the mill were were driven by the wind upon the dwelling house owned by the same parties, which was destroyed before all the furniture could be removed. The house was occupied by Micajah H. Wentworth and John B. Downing, who lose near half their furniture. Mr. Wentworth suffers quite a loss in valuable papers burnt. The Mill was insured for $1800. No insurance on the house (Dover Enquirer, June 9, 1864).
[Grandson Dudley H. Burnham, Esq., performed a marriage at Bentley Creek, Ridgebury, PA, March 11, 1866.
MARRIED. PHILLIPS-COOPER – At Bentley creek, March 11th, by D.H. Burnham, Esq., Mr. Michael Phillips of Springfied twp., to Miss Candice Cooper of the same place (Bradford Reporter, March 15, 1866)].
Son-in-law Jacob G. Pike died in Farmington, NH, July 11, 1867.
DEATHS. In Farmington, July 11, Mr. Jacob G. Pike, aged 68 years, 4 months, 22 days (Dover Enquirer, July 18, 1867).
Nathaniel W. Burnham of Milton, husbandman, sued Alonzo E. Garland of Milton, cordwainer, on behalf of Henry E. Bradbury of Milton, yeoman, in September 1869.
State of New Hampshire. STRAFFORD SS. SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT, Sept. T. A.D. 1869. Henry E. Bradbury of Milton, in said County, yeoman, an infant under the age of 21 years, who sues this action by Nathaniel W. Burnham of said Milton, husbandman, his next friend, plaintiff, against Alonzo E. Garland of said Milton, cordwainer, otherwise called Alonzo E. Garland late of said Milton, cordwainer, defendant, in a plea of the case for that the said defendant at Dover in said County, on the day of the purchase of this writ, being indebted to the said Henry E. Bradbury in the sum of forty dollars for so much money, before that time had and received by the said defendant, to the use of the said Henry E. Bradbury, in consideration thereof then and there promised the said Henry E. Bradbury to pay him the sum on demand. Also in a plea of the case for that the said defendant, at said Dover, on the day of the purchase of this writ, being indebted to the plaintiff, said Henry E. Bradbury, in the other sum of fifty dollars, for so much money before that time paid, laid out and expended by said plaintiff for the said defendant, at his request, in consideration thereof then, and there promised the said plaintiff to pay him the same sum on demand. Also in a plea of the case for that the said defendant, at said Dover, on the day of the purchase of this writ, being indebted to the plaintiff, said Henry E. Bradbury, in the further and other sum of thirty dollars, for divers goods, wares and merchandise before that time sold and delivered by said plaintiff for the said defendant, at his request, in consideration paid thereof then, and there promised the plaintiff to pay him the same sum on demand; yet though often request[ed], the said defendant has not paid the same sums or either of them, but neglects and refuses so to do, to the damage of said plaintiff (so he says), the sum of seventy dollars. It having been suggested to the Court that the property of the defendant in this State has been attached on the writ, and that no personal service has been made on him in this suit, he not being a resident of this State at the time of the service thereof: It is ordered by the Court that the action be continued to the next Term of said Court, to be holden at Dover within and for said County of Strafford, on the second Tuesday of February next, and that the Plaintiff give notice to the said Defendant of the pendency thereof, by causing the substance of said declaration, with a copy, of this order, to be published three weeks successively, in the Dover Enquirer, a newspaper printed at Dover in said County of Strafford, the last publication whereof to be at least thirty days prior to said second Tuesday of February next, that the Defendant may then and there appear and answer to said suit, if he see cause. Attest, DANIEL HALL, Clerk. A true Copy, Attest, DANIEL HALL, Clerk. G.N. Eastman, Plff’s Att’y (Dover Enquirer, December 23, 1869).
Chas. Burnham, a linen burner, aged thirty-seven years (b. PA), headed a Snyder PA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary [(Dickson)] Burnham, keeping house, aged thirty years (b. PA), Hays Burnham, aged three years (b. PA), Margt [(Pool)] Burnham, aged seventy years (b. PA), and Sarah [(Burnham)] Menold, aged thirty-nine years (b. PA). Chas. Burnham had personal estate valued at $200.
David R. Colbath, works for shoe mfty, aged forty-three years (b. NH), headed a Farmington (“Gonic P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Elmira B. [(Pike)] Colbath, keeping house, aged twenty-seven [thirty-seven] years (b. NH), Elmira E. Colbath, works for shoe mfty, aged sixteen years (b. NH), David E. Colbath, at home, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Chas. H. Colbath, aged ten years (b. NH), and Hannah H. [(Burnham)] Pike, aged seventy-one years (b. NH).
James Waldron, a farmer, aged seventy-nine years (b. NH), headed a Rochester (“Gonic P.O.), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census, His household included Abigail [(Burnham)] Waldron, keeping house, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), Mary P. Waldron, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), and Dudly B .Waldron, aged thirty-one years (b. NH). James Waldron had real estate valued at $4, 500 and personal estate valued at $2,000.
Stephen Pinkham, a farm laborer, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), headed a New Durham (“Middleton P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Ruth [(Burnham)] Pinkham, keeping house, aged sixty-six years (b. NH). Stephen Pinkham had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $537.
[Ruth (Burnham) Pinkham seems to have died after this 1870 enumeration, but before that of 1880, when her widowed husband, Stephen Pinkham, shared his New Durham, NH, household with her widowed sister-in-law, Ruth E. (Davis) Burnham].
Nathaniel W. Burnham, a farmer, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Ruth E. [(Davis)] Burnham, keeping house, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), Henry E. Bradbury, works for shoe factory, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), and Isabella J. [(Nutter)] Bradbury, aged eighteen years (b. NH). Nathaniel W. Burnham had real estate valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $900. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Isaac C. Young, a farmer, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), and Deborah Pike, keeping house, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH).
Daughter-in-law Mrs. Margaret [(Pool)] Burnham was admitted “by certificate” to the Birmingham Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, PA, November 5, 1870. Her daughter, Sarah W. [(Burnham)] Menold, had been admitted “by examination” earlier, April 9, 1870.
James Waldron appeared in the Rochester, NH, directory of 1871, as a farmer, on the Ten-Rod road. His son, Dudley Waldron appeared also, as a farmer, on the Ten-Rod road.
Son-in-law John B. Downing died in Lebanon, ME, December 14, 1871, aged sixty-one years, eleven months.
Son Nathaniel W. Burnham died of bilious fever in Milton, February 20, 1873, aged sixty-six years. His last will was proved in a Probate Court held in Dover, NH, March 4, 1873 (Strafford County Probate, 84:155).
EXECUTRIX’ NOTICE. THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that she was, on the fourth day of March, A.D. 1873, duly appointed and allowed to be Executrix of the last Will and Testament of Nath’l W. Burnham, late of Milton, in the County of Strafford, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust, and give bond as the law directs. Dated this fifth day of March, A.D. 1873. RUTH E. BURNHAM (Dover Enquirer, March 6, 1873).
Son-in-law James Waldron, Jr., died of old age troubles in Rochester, NH, May 22, 1873, aged eighty-two years, three months, and twelve days.
Daughter Hannah H. (Burnham) Pike died in Farmington, NH, March 3, 1876.
DEATHS. In Farmington, March 3, Mrs. Hannah H., widow of the late Jacob G. Pike, aged 76 years, 11 months and 25 days (Dover Enquirer, March 23, 1876).
Son-in-law Stephen Pinkham appeared in a property description as an abutter to property owned by the estate of Elijah Jenkins, late of New Durham, deceased.
... bounded and described as follows, to wit: Northwest’ly by the cross road leading from the “Ridge Road” to the “ten rod” road so called, and by other land of said Elijah Jenkins, known as the Bennett lot, and by land of Charles Willey; Northeasterly by land of Sarah Webb, Stephen Pinkham, and Ephraim K. Roberts; Easterly by land of Joseph T. Libby; Southerly by other land of Elijah Roberts, known as the Murry lot, and land of Charles Willey (Dover Enquirer, April 19, 1877).
Charles Burnham, a farmer, aged forty-six years (b. PA), headed a Warrior’s Creek, PA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary [(Dickson)] Burnham, aged forty years (b. PA), his children, Hays Burnham, a laborer, aged thirteen years (b. PA), Franklin Burnham, aged nine years (b. PA), Lee C. Burnham, aged seven years (b. PA), Bula Burnham, aged five years (b. PA), Bann Burnham, aged three years (b. PA), and Garfield Burnham, aged two months (b. PA), his mother, Margaret [(Pool)] Burnham, aged eighty years (b. PA), and his lodger, Samuel W. Infers, a laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. PA).
Dudley B. Waldron, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his mother, Abigail [(Burnham)] Waldron, aged seventy-eight years (b. NH), and his boarder, George H. Garland, works on farm, aged thirty years (b. NH).
Stephen Pinkham, a farmer, aged seventy-six years (b. NH), headed a New Durham, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his widowed sister-in-law, Ruth E. [(Davis)] Burnham, keeping house, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH).
John H. Downing, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary A. [(Wentworth)] Downing, keeping house, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), his children, Sarah W. Downing, at school, aged six years (b. NH), George H. Downing, at school, aged three years (b. NH), Mary A. Downing, aged two years (b. NH), and John F. Downing, aged six months (b. NH), and his aunt, Mary Burnham, aged seventy-five years (b. NH).
Daughter Mary Burnham died of dropsy with heart disease in Rochester, NH, April 1, 1883, aged seventy-six years, eleven months, and twenty-three days. She was a housekeeper.
Daughter-in-law Margaret (Poole) Burnham died in Mill Creek, Huntingdon, PA, September 15, 1883, aged eighty-four years.
Margaret (Pool) Burnham, was the daughter of a farmer who lived in Sinking Valley, Tyrone township, Huntingdon county, Pa., near Birmingham, and who died in 1884 [1883], aged eighty-four years (Runk, J.M. & Co., 1897).
TYRONE TOPICS. Things of Various Kinds as Seen by Our Correspondent. … Monday the remains of Mrs. Burnham, wife of Dudley H. Burnham, deceased, were consigned to their last resting place in the Presbyterian cemetery at Birmingham. Deceased was in her 85th year. She had for many years made her home with her son Albert at Mill Creek, where she died. She was the mother of Mr. Charles Burnham, of Birmingham, [and] was a member of the Presbyterian church, in which faith she died (Altoona Tribune, September 20, 1883).
Daughter Abigail (Burnham) Waldron died in Rochester, NH, June 12, 1884, aged eighty-three years, three months, and twenty-seven days.
Ruth E. [(Davis)] Burnham had a letter awaiting her at the Farmington, NH, post office, in December 1885.
LOCALS. Letters advertised Dec. 7, 1885. Ruth E. Burnham, Theodore Cyr, Sophia B. Green, F.A. Garland, Lenned Moses, Mary A. Miller, Charles Pelletur, Kezia F. Varney, Mattie Wentworth (Farmington News, December 11, 1885).
LOCALS. John S. Small has bought the Widow Burnham farm in Milton (Farmington News, May 20, 1887).
PERSONAL. John Pike has commenced housekeeping in the Ruth Burnham tenement on School street (Farmington News, October 26, 1888).
Daughter-in-law Ruth E. (Davis) Burnham died of paralysis in Farmington, NH, June 12, 1891, aged eighty years, four months. She was a widowed housekeeper.
LOCALS. At the probate court in Rochester Tuesday, William Chamberlin was appointed trustee of the estate of Ruth E. Burnham and A.W. Shackford guardian in the estate of Oliver E. Wiggin (Farmington News, October 21, 1892).
References:
Africa, J. Simpson. (1883). History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=os0wAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA42
Find a Grave. (2019, May 6). Dudley Burnham. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/198907983/dudley-burnham
Find a Grave. (2012, August 3). Margaret Pool Burnham. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/94769830/margaret-burnham
Find a Grave. (2016, October 19). Nathaniel Wentworth Burnham. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/171533374/nathaniel_wentworth-burnham
Find a Grave. (2024, February 25). Hannah H. Bunker/Burnham Pike. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/265582674/hannah-h.-pike
Hurd, Duane H. (1882). History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, New Hampshire. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=r60AEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA645
Runk, J.M., & Co. (1897). Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley. Madison, University of Wisconsin.
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Timothy Roberts signed the 
Timo Roberts signed the April 1820 petition requesting the appointment of his son, 
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This was the house of the venerable Abel Crawford, the man, who volunteered the services of the best years of his life in laying out roads around and up these mountains, in bringing their attractive wilds, deep ravines and lofty summits to be visited by the curious and pleasure seeking world; it was he who first made a bridle path upon the top of Mt. Washington, and rode a horse there when more than seventy years of age. He lived for some time nearly alone among the mountains, and was possessed of moral and physical strength, by which he endured hardships and privations from which others would shrunk in despair. But after living to a good old age he is gathered to his fathers, and beneath trees of his own planting and nursing, a few rods from the house in a quiet unobtrusive grave sleep his mortal remains, fit resting place for him who loved with such a love his sweet mountain home; while above, the carol of the birds, and below the dashing of the mountain stream sound the requiem of his departed worth.
LETTER FROM MILTON MILLS. Nov. 23, 1869.
About 35 hands are employed. 400 cords of wood are annually consumed about the premises. Jordan, Marsh & Co., Boston, receive the goods. Sterns of Dover, Carter & Brothers of Great Falls, deal largely in the goods, as also do other dry goods men.
Milton Observer 