Brief Life History of Mehitable
When Mehitable Newberry was born on 7 September 1688, in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Tryall Newberry, was 38 and her mother, Priscilla Starkey, was 22. She married Edward Steven in 1708, in Massachusetts, United States. She was buried in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Mehitable Newberry, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Mehitabel in entry for Mehitabel Clough, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Mehitable Newberry, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places called Newbury, named with the Old English elements nēowe ‘new’ + burh ‘fortress, fortified town’ (see Newbury ).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Le Neubourg in Eure, France.
History: Thomas Newberry emigrated from Devon, England, to Dorchester, MA, in 1634. Among his descendants were a number of very successful manufacturers and entrepreneurs, including the brothers Oliver (1789–1860) and Walter (1804–68) Newberry, whose prosperity was linked with the growth and development of Chicago.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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