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Alachua County, Florida
Biographies
BURR, FREEMAN
Freeman Burr, b.
Wacahootie, Alachua county, Florida, Dec. 31, 1831. When six
years of age he removed with his father to Conn. After a common
education, at the age of 16 he went to sea. At 18 he shipped for
San Francisco, Cal., stopping at Rio de Janeiro. From here the
vessel was thirty days reaching the Straits of Magellan, in
which they remained forty-three days. He arrived in San
Francisco in time to see the first wharf built at that port. He
became interested in the surface mines near Sonora, and remained
there about one year, when he sailed for Boston with Capt.
Holmes, in the ship Raritan. After a few trips to Georges Banks
he became captain of one of the finest vessels in the fishing
trade connected with Fulton Market, New York. Dec. 24, 1860. he
m. Olive Champlin of Ludlow, Mass., a dau. of Charles Dire and
Mary (Smith) Champlin of East Lyme, Conn. [See record, 130.] In
May, 1878, they removed to New Haven, Conn., taking with them
letters to the First Congregational Church. His wife was b. July
31, 1837, and d. Nov. 19,1882; bur. lot 638 Evergreen Cemetery,
New Haven. She had no children, but adopted a daughter who at
the time was only two weeks of age. She is now a highly-educated
lady and a teacher in Rolins' College at Winter Park, four miles
from Orlando, Florida. Mr. Smith removed to the latter place in
May, 1886, and as elected a deacon of the Congregational Church,
1887. No ch.
[A
Genealogical History of the Descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah
Smith of New London County, Conn. , 1889, by Henry Allen Smith.
Transcribed by B. Wiesner.]
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