"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."