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Thomas Newberry

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Thomas Newberry

Birth
Axminster, East Devon District, Devon, England
Death
1636 (aged 41–42)
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
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Baptized Yarcombe, Devonshire, 10 November 1594, son of Richard Newberry. Merchant from Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 on the "Recovery" (on 31 March 1634, "Thomas Newbery" appears on the passenger list of the Recovery, preparing to sail for New England from Weymouth, Dorset; on 17 April 1634, "Mr. Neuburgh of Marshwood Vale and many others set sail from Waimouth towards New England"). Settled in Dorchester MA & died there between 17 December 1635 (town grant of land) and 28 January 1636[/7?] (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1619 Joane Dabinott, daughter of Christopher Dabinott of Yarcombe, Devonshire. (2) By about 1632 Jane _____. (Bartlett suggested that she was Jane Dabinott, cousin of his first wife. She married (2) by 1638 Rev. JOHN WARHAM {1630, Dorchester}(on 1 May 1639, "John Warham, pastor of the [Windsor] church, and Jane his wife, executrix of the last will and testament of Thomas Newberry, gent., deceased," leased to Richard Wright of Mount Wollaston, husbandman, the farm "which the said Thomas Newberry purchased of William Pyncheon." She died at Norwalk on [2]3 April 16[4]5.
Thomas Newberry was undoubtedly planning to make the move from Dorchester to Windsor. Evidence that he did not may be found in the 1662 petition of his children, where they state that after their father's death "in their minority [they] were transported to Conecticut."
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project
Baptized Yarcombe, Devonshire, 10 November 1594, son of Richard Newberry. Merchant from Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 on the "Recovery" (on 31 March 1634, "Thomas Newbery" appears on the passenger list of the Recovery, preparing to sail for New England from Weymouth, Dorset; on 17 April 1634, "Mr. Neuburgh of Marshwood Vale and many others set sail from Waimouth towards New England"). Settled in Dorchester MA & died there between 17 December 1635 (town grant of land) and 28 January 1636[/7?] (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1619 Joane Dabinott, daughter of Christopher Dabinott of Yarcombe, Devonshire. (2) By about 1632 Jane _____. (Bartlett suggested that she was Jane Dabinott, cousin of his first wife. She married (2) by 1638 Rev. JOHN WARHAM {1630, Dorchester}(on 1 May 1639, "John Warham, pastor of the [Windsor] church, and Jane his wife, executrix of the last will and testament of Thomas Newberry, gent., deceased," leased to Richard Wright of Mount Wollaston, husbandman, the farm "which the said Thomas Newberry purchased of William Pyncheon." She died at Norwalk on [2]3 April 16[4]5.
Thomas Newberry was undoubtedly planning to make the move from Dorchester to Windsor. Evidence that he did not may be found in the 1662 petition of his children, where they state that after their father's death "in their minority [they] were transported to Conecticut."
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project


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