Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

BERRY.
RICHARD BERRY.
In the list of those who were able to bear arms in
Barnstable, in 1643, is the name of Eichard Berry. It is
not slanderous to say the son is a better man than the father,
or that the daughter is a better woman than the mother.
This remark applies to Eichard Berry and his wife Alice.
They did not sustain good characters, but their children
followed not in their footsteps. He did not reside long in
Barnstable. He probably removed to Boston in 1647, and
thence to Yarmouth where his large family of children were
born.
Oct. 29, 1649, Berry accused Teague Jones of Yarmouth,
of the crime of sodomy, and Jones was put under
heavy bonds for his appearance at the March term of the
Court to answer. At that Court Berry confessed that he
had borne false witness against Jones, and for his perjury
was whipped at the post in Plymouth.
His wife Alice was a thievish woman, and husband and
wife were well matched. May 3, 1653, she was presented
for stealing a neckcloth from the wife of William Pierce of
Yarmouth ; at the June Court for stealing bacon and eggs
from Mr. Samuel Arnold; at the March Court, 1654-5, for
stealing from the house of Benjamin Hammond a woman's
shift and a piece of pork, and at the following Court in