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From Baltimore: Biography, edited by Clayton Colman Hall James Berry [was] the first of the family to come over to the New World. He sailed from England in about 1630 or 1632 settling in James City county Virginia In 1652 with his wife Elizabeth and son William he migrated to the province of Maryland and they established themselves in Calvert county on the Patuxent river. By patent and purchase he acquired large tracts of land in this county, and in Somerset now Talbot county. He attained a prominent position in the colony, was member of the Provincial Court for Calvert, became commissioner under the commonwealth being appointed and serving at a court held at Patuxent in 1654 and was a member of the Maryland Assembly dying in 1657. He was married in Virginia References
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