My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Amos Burnham of Ipswich, Massachusetts

1832 map of Ipswich, MassachusettsThis is the 11th Revolutionary War ancestor I have written about in this series. My 5th great grandfather Amos Burnham was born on 13 July 1735 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the son of David Burnham and Elizabeth Marshall. On 27 January 1757 he married Sarah Giddings in Ipswich. She was the daughter of Thomas Giddings and Martha Smith, born in 1737. Sarah and Amos had eleven children born in Essex and Ipswich between 1758 and 1782. On 26 January 1782, Sarah died, just 12 days after giving birth to her last child, Judith, my 4th great grandmother. I don't know how this infant survived without a mother, but she did live and I'm grateful! Later that same year, on 4 October 1782 Amos married Mehitable Burnham, daughter of Solomon Burnham and Mehitable Emerson. I'm sure that the hasty marriage was to secure a wife to take care of his many children. Mehitable was the widow of Joshua Foster. He had at least one more child with his second marriage. During the…