This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burgess, Perkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DIB.2ACE/378 Message Board Post: Is anyone familiar with the N.S. Burgess family listed in Ottawa township in the 1860 census? I believe they came from Seneca county, New York. I do not find themin the 1870 census. I am tracking Burgesses descended from Thomas Burgess of Ulster county, New York, and think this family belongs on one branch.