Person:Thomas Berry (61)

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Captain Thomas Berry
d.Bet 1695 and 1696
m. Bef 1663
  1. Captain Thomas Berry1663 - Bet 1695 & 1696
  • HCaptain Thomas Berry1663 - Bet 1695 & 1696
  • WMargaret Rogers1664/65 - 1720
m. 28 Dec 1686
  1. Thomas BerryCal 1690 - 1690
  2. Margaret Berry1692 - 1692
  3. Elizabeth Berry1693 - 1773
  4. Thomas Berry1694/95 - 1756
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Captain Thomas Berry
Gender Male
Birth[1] 6 Mar 1663 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Degree[1][2] 1685 M.A., Harvard College.
Marriage 28 Dec 1686 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Margaret Rogers
Death[1][2] Bet 1695 and 1696
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Thomas Berry, in Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society & New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005)
    Harvard:989-90.

    "Thomas Berry (Harvard, 1685) Born 1663, died 1696? aged 33? Thomas Berry, M. A., born 6 March, 1663. in Boston, son of Captain Thomas Berry, of Boston and Ipswich, 'Master-Mariner,' and his wife, Grace, daughter of Major John and Grace Hayman, of Charlestown. … commander of a good ship, in which he lost his life in a fight with a French privateer … Judge Sewall wrote, 19 June, 1696: 'News is brought to Town of Capt Berries being slain.' Probably he was killed in the latter part of the year 1695 or beginning of 1696."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Thomas Berry, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:171.

    "Thomas (Berry), Boston, the gr. of H. C. 1685, wh. was d. bef. 1698 by Mather's catal. and in the succeeding, one hundred and sixty yrs. remains with no nearer approx. to exact date, may have been s. of the preced. He had m. 28 Dec. 1686, Margaret, d. of John Rogers, Presid. of H. C. had rem. to Ipswich, there had Eliz. b. 20 Sept. 1693; and Thomas, 1695, H. C. 1712. His wid. m. 25 Nov. 1697, Presid. Leverett."