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William BERRY

HUSBAND:
[F7606]. William BERRY (Berrey-S6). [PC T4-14].
Born (in 1610)(1619-S7) in (New Castel, Lancashire-S6)(Norfolk-S7), England; son of Johann BERRY [F15212] and Susanna [F15213].

He was in service to Captain John Mason in 1631, when Mason sent over fifty-eight men and twenty-two women to settle on the Piscataqua River. Among them were William Seavey, Francis Rand, and William or Anthony Brackett. {S7}.

He was the first settler at Sandy Beach, which became Rye, New Hampshire.

William married Jane Locke Hermins in 1635-1636 in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

He signed the Glebe Conveyance in 1640. {S7}. In 1640, only seventeen years after the first settling of Portsmouth, Francis Williams, (the governor,) Ambrose Gibbins, William Jones, Renald Fernald, John Crowther, Anthony Bracket, Michael Chatterton, Jno. Wall, Robert Puddington, Matthew Coe, Henry Sherburn, John Lander, Henry Taler, Jno. Jones, William Berry, Jno. Pickering, Jno. Billing, Jno. Wolten, Nicholas Row and William Palmer, the principal inhabitants of Portsmouth, made a deed of fifty acres of land in Portstmouth for a Glebe, or Parsonage. Three fourths of it was the "full tenth part of the fresh marsh lying at the head of Strawberry bank creek," and land adjoining. The other fourth part, or twelve acres, was given in a square lot in that part of Portsmouth between and including the North Church, to the garden of J. K. Pickering on the east, thence by the southern bounds of the Court House lot to the west garden line of John F. Salter, thence north to the garden line east of late Wm. Sheafe's estate, on Congress street, and east on that street to the North church. {S8}.

He became a freeman on 18 May 1642 in Newbury, Massachusetts. {S7}.

Berry served as a Selectman of Strawberry Bank (which is now Portsmouth, New Hampshire) in 1646. {S7}.

January, 1648-49 at a town meeting held at Strawberry Bank, "Granted that Wm Berry shall have a lot upon the neck of land upon the South side of the Little River at Sandy Beach." {S6}.

Sandy Bank includes what is now Portsmouth, Rye, Newcastle, Newington and Greenland in New Hampshire.

He died on 28 June 1654 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire; and was buried on 28 June 1654 in Portsmouth.

WIFE:
[F7607]. Jane Locke Hermins. (Herming-S5)(Hermes-S10). [PC T4-14].
Born (in 1607-S9)(about 1610-S5)(in 1619-S6) in (yorkshire, England-S9).

Jane married (1) William BERRY in 1635 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire.

She married (2) Nathaniel DRAKE of Rye, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, about 1655 or 1657.

She died in 1687 in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

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