Col. Andrew Burr

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography: From History of Fairfield County, by Hurd, pages 324 - 325. Col. Andrew Burr, son of John and grandson of Maj. John Burr, was a lawyer by profession, an assistant and magistrate of the colony, several times Speaker of the House, and wielded great influence in the councils of the colony, yet his chief distinction was created by his numerous and varied military services. In 1731 he was lieutenant, then promoted to be captain, then major. In 1745 he took part in the most brilliant of the colonial wars, - the Cape Breton expedition. He was commissioned colonel in 1750. He was deputy for Fairfield, assistant of the Upper House, justice of the peace, judge of the County Court, clerk in the Lower House, Speaker also, and sheriff. He also assisted in revising the laws in 1740. His public services were so varied and numerous that the reader is referred to the Burr Genealogy, by Charles Burr Todd.

Col. Andrew Burr's life was a pleasant one. He married (1), in 1718, Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Sturges; they had thirteen children. He married (2), Sarah Stanly, of Hartford; they had one daughter. He lies in the old burying-ground. A large moss covered stone, richly carved, marks his resting-place:

“Here lyes Buried
the Body of
Col. Andrew Burr,
Who departed this life
Nov ye 9th, A. D. 1783, in ye
68th year of His Age."

His first wife, the mother of thirteen children, is buried near him. The stone contains:

"Here lyes Buried ye
Body of Ms. Sarah
Burr, wife to Col.
Andrew Burr, Who
Departed this Life
December 9, Anno Domo 1745
Aged 45 years wanting 13 D's.”

Andrew married Sarah Sturges, daughter of Jonathan Sturges and Sarah Osborn, in 1718 in Fairfield, Connecticut. (Sarah Sturges was born on 22 Dec 1701 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut and died on 9 Dec 1745 in Fairfield, Connecticut.)