Beatrice Berry

Notes

Probable descendant or other relative of Sir Thomas Burte, Esq and Eleanor Burte

Comments

Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1683 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts (unattested).

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From page 1608 of Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the ..., Volume 3 edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams

(I) William Canterbury, believed to be brother of Cornelius Canterbury, was born in England and settled as early as 1638 in Salem, of which he was a proprietor at that time. He was in Lynn in 1641. He died June 1, 1663. He appears to have been a fisherman and owned a "fishing lot." His will was proved July 3, 1663, bequeathing to wife Beatrice, son John, daughters Ruth and Rebecca, and the latter's children, Joseph and Mary. The estate was divided July 29, 1684, after the death of the widow. The widow Beatrice married (second) Francis Plummer, of Newbury, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Rebecca, born 1638, married Benjamin Woodrow. 2. Ruth, married (first) Thomas Small, and (second) William Sibley. 3. John, mentioned below.

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FRANCIS PLUMER, Newbury 1635, linen weaver, came in 1633 from Woolwich, near London, but another source says from Wales; we know not in which town he first inhabited but he was a freeman. In 14 May 1634, he brought wife Ruth, who died 18 Aug. 1647, and seven children for certain Samuel and Joseph. He married 31 Mar. 1648, widow Ann Palmer, who died 18 Oct. 1665; and he married third, 29 Nov. following, Beatrice widow of William Cantlebury, and d. 17 Jan.1673.

From http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Beatrice_Burt_%281%29

Francis Plummer entry, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

Marriage... (3) Newbury 29 November 1665 Beatrice (Burt) Cantlebury, widow of William. She m. (3) by June 1676 Edward Berry of Salem. Francis said of her "that he lived so comfortable with her ... as a man would desire, and that if he had sought all the world over he could not have had a better wife" [Plumer Gen 9, citing EQC 25:91].

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From http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2009/10/last-of-edward-berry.html

""Edward Berry married Beatrice (Burt), who married, first, William Cantlebury of Salem; second, Francis Plumer of Newbury Nov. 29, 1665; he died Jan. 17, 1672-3 ; and she married, third, Edward Berry; they lived in Salem Village; and she died in 1683, aged eighty-three. William Sibley called her "mother," and claimed to have maintained her for eight years prior to her death. Her inventory amounted to ^181l, 18 s. She was formerly of Frampton, Dorset, England. ... " —Records -Sydney Perley Essex Antiquarian v 9 p88