Benjamin Very, Jr.

Baptism confusion

A Benjamin Verry was baptized Nov 1705, son of Benjamin in First Church

Benjamin Verry son of Benjamin and Jemima was baptized in 1720 according to a church record for South Church (or Middle Precinct), Peabody per Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts to the end of 1849, Volume I - Salem Births p. 375.

Wife confusion

On 04 Dec 1731 marriage intentions were recorded at Salem MA for Benjamin Very of Salem and Rebecca Boice. She was not the Rebecca Boyce b 1697 at Salem, the daughter of Rebecca Trask b 1674 & Joseph Boyce d 1723, who died at age 18 in 1715. Some sources show Benjamin’s wife as the widow Boyce, probably an error, but she’s 30 years older, and could not have had children; and her FindAGrave record has her dead in 1739 as a Boyce. Also seen - the widow Boyce as wife of Benjamin Very Sr. (But he supposedly died 1717, so ...)

References

• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aBirthsV.shtml Verry (Very), Benjamin, s. Benjamin, bp. Nov. ––, 1705. CR1
• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aMarriagesB.shtml Boyce, Rebeckah, and Benjamin Very, int. Dec. 4, 1731
• historical Collections of the Essex Institute. Essex County (Mass.) Page 35 GoogleBooks
• New England Marriages BOYCE, Joseph (3) (1673-1723) & Rebecca (TRASK) POTTER (1674-1739+) w Samuel, m/3 Benjamin VERY, b 1695(6?) Salem (p. 88: p. 597) [13]
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Verry-32
• http://tree.wellswooster.com/getperson.php?personID=I26570&tree=bryant
• GoogleBooks Joseph Boyce died 1723; m. about 1695, Rebecca (Trask), widow of Samuel Potter [n1 (2) 1731/2, Benjamin Very of Salem]. He was a ...