This is an excerpt from THE HISTORY OF THE BURCH FAMILY by Davis Burch, June 1935. In 1720 Thomas B. Burch and Elizabeth Hammond, the daughter of Elder Jacob Hammond of Swanshire, Eng. were, accompanied by his brother James, married aboard ship on the way to America. James moved to NY and Thomas and family lived in VA until 1773. " The foregoing facts were told to me by my grandfather, James B. Burch, about 58 years ago ----------" Comments by Lee Burch, 23 June 1949, age 70 " I am sorry to say with all due respect and love for Davis, that he was very much confused in his memory of the Burch family history. I know nothing of the story of said Thomas B. Burch. I know that my grandfather's mother was not a Hammond but a Lawrence. I do not know what her given name was but she was a sister to Captain Lawrence's father, so Captain Lawrence and my grandfather James B. Burch were cousins.-------------------------------- I did understand that Capt Lawrence's father also married my great grandfather's sister, traded sisters, you might say." Any comments or thoughts? George