Source 1: New England Marriages Prior To 1700 pg 121.
Source 2: Will of Father: names John as a son.
Source 3. Will of John Burnham dated 31 Dec 1703 & Proved 24 Jan 1704; John is known in various records as John Secundus; meaning, the earliest John in the second generation. So called because John (1) brother of Thomas (1) also had a son John born in 1648.
Source 4: Book: 974.45 P2e, Vol. 7: pgs: 82, 116, 117, 159, 204;
John Burnham (1) settled in Chebacco, first near the head of Whitredge Creek and later remvbed to the Falls. He was a tything man in 1667 & 1695.
His will was dated 31 Dec. 1703; Proved 24 Jan 1704. He is called Senior. He mentions his wife Elizaabeth in his will.
In 1689, He bcame proprietor of the Grist Mill at the falls.
In 1667 John, having raised the dam two feet higher, which was likely to damage the town, was then given liberty to move his mill on the Chebacco River, but he is not to demane any former grant. Much of the property that he owned in the vicinity has remained to the present time in the posession of his family from which most of the Burnhams in Essex county are descended.