Individual Details

Hester is not mentioned as a child in the Andrew Warde book - it's Mary that married Jehu Burr. Burr Genealogy and History of Fairfield both go along with the Ward Genealogy in stating that Jehu was married to Mary Ward. There is considerable confusion about which of Andrew's daughters were married to which of Jehu Burr's sons. The wills of Andrew and his wife Hester seem to only add to the confusion. The Families of Old Fairfield devotes some three pages to the solving of this mystery and the conclusion therein seems to have merit.

Andrew's will of 1659 does not name his married daughters - neither Mary or a Hester. Hester's will of 1665 names her daughter Mary Burr with a smallish bequest. She named Sarah & Nathaniel Burr as grandchildren and children of daughter Sarah - who is certain to have married Nathaniel Burr. Then as an afterthought, Hester gave 10 shillings each to Daniel Burr & Hester Burr without naming their relationship - if they had been children of Mary it seems she would have said so at the instance she named Mary Burr in her will, as she did the other grandchildren with their parents.

It is known that Jehu Burr married sometime after 1655, Esther, who was the widow of Joseph Boosey of Westchester and by 1666 he was married to Elizabeth Prudden, daughter of the Rev. Peter Prudden. The will of Jehu in 1869 names a son Daniel [apparently as the eldest son] and a daughter Esther who had received her portion. Most of the rest of his children were still underage. Certainly Hester, or Esther, was an often-used given name in the Ward family and it would be reasonable to assume Andrew & Hester did have a daughter named for her mother Hester. It seems also reasonable to propose that Jehu Burr's first wife was a daughter of Andrew Ward, and young widow of Joseph Boosey, and that she died prior to 1666. The Burr and Ward families were closely associated.

Families of Old Fairfield goes on to suggest that the reason Daniel & Hester Burr received a token legacy was first of all because their mother was a daughter of Andrew & Hester and therefore they were entitled to recognition. However, Hester Boosey had inherited an estate of upward of 64£ from Joseph Boosey, an amount which the Burr children would have inherited upon her death which likely had taken place only a short time before the elder Hester wrote her will - this was considerably more than the 9£ allotted to other groups of the grandchildren so they were well provided for.

Jehu Burr and wife Hester conveyed her interest in Boosey property on 27 Feb 1661/2. The deed at Wethersfield stated that James Boosey gave the land to his son Joseph Boosey who was the first husband "unto the said Easter, now the wife of the said Jehu Burr". She certainly must have been the mother of the elder Burr children, Daniel, born as early as 1660, and Esther, named for herself.

Birth	Abt 1634	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Marriage		Joseph Boosey
Marriage	Aft 1655	Jehu Burr
Death	Abt 1666	Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Spouse

Joseph Boosey ( - 1655)

Spouse	Jehu Burr (1631 - )
Child	Lt. Daniel Burr (1660 - )
Child	Hester or Esther Burr (1663 - )

Father	ANDREW WARD (1597 - 1659)
Mother	HESTER SHERMAN (1606 - 1665)
Sibling	Edmund Ward ( - )
Sibling	Anne Ward (1628 - 1718)
Sibling	William Ward (1632 - 1675)
Sibling	Mary Ward (1636 - )
Sibling	John Ward (1638 - 1683)
Sibling	Sarah Ward (1640 - 1711)
Sibling	Abigail Ward (1643 - 1718)
Sibling	ANDREW WARD (1644 - 1691)
Sibling	Samuel Ward (1648 - 1692)