I have the following. I am sending only part of it because it is huge. Let me know if anyone wants all of it.. Rosalie Descendants of Burgeon Bird Generation No. 1 1. BURGEON5 BIRD (ANDREAS JR4 BORDT, ANDREAS SR3, JOHN2 BIRD, THOMAS1) was born April 30, 1707 in Reformed Dutch C, Raritan, Somerville Co, NJ, and died Aft. 1773 in Black Creek, Ogeechee River, St Phillips Pari, GA. He married MARY ROBESON 1736 in St Gabriel's Chu, Douglasville, Berks County, PA, daughter of ISREAL ROBESON and UNK. Notes for BURGEON BIRD: WFT 6-340 Probably buried in the Bird Family Cemetery, Black Creek area of the Ogeechee River, now in present day Bryan County GA. - John Wise Database Moved from Berks County PA to St Phillips Parish on the Ogeechee River, Georgia in the mid to late 1750's because they were promised landgrants. Burgeon Bird, with his family, i.e. wife and children: Christina, Israel, Sylvanus, Abraham, Andrew, Sarah, and Margaret, settled on Black Creek, a tributery of the Ogee chee River, and located in what is now the present Bryan County, Georgia. Except for a few descendents that lived just across the county line in nearby Effingham and Bulloch Counties, GA., almost all of the Bird family plantations and home sites were located in what is now the present day Black Creek area of Bryan County GA., not too far from Pembroke, Bryan County, GA. ON 6 Jan 1767, Burgeon Bird applied for and received a land grant from the Colonial British Governor for 100 acres on Black Creek, located then in the southern part of St. Phillip Parish, GA. His sons received similar land grants in the same area and about the same time period. >From 1760 to 1770 Burgeon Bird and his sons Andrew, Abraham, and Israel were given land grants amounting to over 400 acres each. Reference: "Pioneers of Wiregrass, GA", by Judge Folks Huxford and the Huxford Genealogical Society, Inc. of Homerville, Clinch County GA: V. 4 pp 22-23, 395; V. 5, p 573; and V. 6 p 318. Ray Montgomery says bn 30 Apr 1707, Somerset Co NJ. died Morlatton, Amity Twp Berks Co PA geocities.com/~jupisano/EBcds/WC03/WC03_147.htm gives Bergund Bort, died Morlatton, Amity Twp, Berks Co PA Married to Mary Robinson Karen McClain mcclain@cheerful.com ON Microfilm in Berks Co Hist Soc But failed to write the name of the local paper. An article in the paper of the time June 12, 1941. Union Twp had a settler by name of Bird. on Burgoon Bird On Nov 29 1737 Burgoon Bird had a warrent for 50 acres in Philadelphia Co.; Jan 9 1752 a warrent for 300 acres in Phila. Co.; and Feb 4 1755 a warrent for 50 acres in Lancaster Co. A deed recorded in Book A1 p 330 under date Sep 14 1754 recites Burgoon Bird of the New Indian Purchase in Berks Co., to Peter Conrath of Heidelburg Twp, Lancaster Co. - improvement on the mouth of Mahanin Creek south by River Schuykill; West by land surveyed for George Boone; North by James Boone's land; northeast by Francis Parvin's land; east by hill of vacant land 300 acres - surveyed, by warrent to Burgoon Bird". Rec'd Mar 16 1759 Burgoon Bird married a daughter of Iarael Robeson of Robeson Twp, Berks Co., as is proven by the will of Israel Robeson made Mar 1 1769. "I give and bequeath unto the Children of my Eldest Daughter, Mary Bird, Deceased, Wife to Burgoon Bird, the sum of One Hundred & Fifty Pounds lawful money to be equally divided amongst them by my executors one year after my decease or as soon as may be." Two children of Burgoon Bird and his wife Mary were baptozed in St. Gabriel's Church, Douglassille, one in 1735 and the other in 1737. Burgoon Bird disappears from Berks Co and nothing more known of him until we find in Deed Book 14 p 430 the following: "Israel Bird, County of Scriven, Georgia, Executor of the will of Sylvanus Bird, deceased. Diana Bullock, late Diana Bird, Widow. Abraham Bird, Co, of Effingham, Georgia. Shared McCall, Bryan Co., Georgia and wife Margaret, only daughter and heir at law of Abraham Bird, deceased. Reuben Saffold, County of Wilkes, Georgia, and Sarah Saffold (formerly Sarah Bird) wife of Reuben Saffold. William Harn, Bryan Co. Georgia, late husband of Margaret Bird, decased. The said Israel Bird, Sylvanus Bird, Andrew Bird, Sarah Bird and Margaret Bird, Granddaughter (some missing here). There is no documentary evidence, but it seems William Bird and Burgoon Bird may have been brothers, which may account for William Bird, son of William Bird emigrating to Georgia. William Bird, son of William Bird, called his home in Georgia, "The Aviary". Mary Owen Steinmetz. More About BURGEON BIRD: Burial: Bird Family Ceme, Black Creek, St Phillips Pari, GA Notes for MARY ROBESON: WFT 6-340 Robeson Ancestry Chapter V " The Ancestry of Frances Sample Franklin" Died 1774 at home at the Bird Plantation, Black Creek, St Phillips Parish, now Bryan County GA. John Wise. geocities.com/~jupisano/EBcds/WC03/WC03_147.htm gives Bergund Bort, died Morlatton, Amity Twp, Berks Co PA Married to Mary Robinson Children of BURGEON BIRD and MARY ROBESON are: i. MARY6 BIRD, b. 1735, Berks Co, PA. Notes for MARY BIRD: WFT 6-340 ii. CHRISTINA BIRD, b. July 31, 1737, Robeson Twp, Berks Co, PA. Notes for CHRISTINA BIRD: WFT 6-340 john Wise says Christina. I had Christine from Ancestry. iii. ISRAEL ROBESON BIRD, b. 1738, Robeson Twp, Berks Co, PA; d. December 28, 1802, Ogeechee River, Effingham Co, GA; m. ANNA STAFFORD, March 04, 1768, Ebenezer Church, Effingham Co, GA. Notes for ISRAEL ROBESON BIRD: WFT 6-340 John Wise 2. iv. SYLVANUS BIRD, b. 1741, Berks Co, PA; d. January 27, 1780, Wright Plantatio, Effingham County, GA. v. ABRAHAM BIRD, b. 1742, Berks Co, PA; d. GA; m. ELIZABETH, Effingham Co, GA.