{"id":26831,"date":"2017-11-15T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=26831"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:40:18","slug":"discovering-more-family-stories-henry-short-of-newbury-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/discovering-more-family-stories-henry-short-of-newbury-massachusetts.html","title":{"rendered":"Discovering More Family Stories: Henry Short of Newbury, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry Short<\/span> (1580-1672) is my ancestor and one of the original settlers of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. I spotted his name while I was researching a fellow founder of Newbury, my 10th-great-grandfather John Emery<\/span> (1599-1683).<\/p>\n

Interested in seeing what else I could learn about Henry, I decided to search for his name in GenealogyBank<\/a>\u2019s Massachusetts records with the keyword \u201cNewbury.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This search led me to the obituary of Henry\u2019s 3rd-great-granddaughter Abigail Short<\/span> (1830-1903).<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank, Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 2 September 1903, page 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Curiously, this obituary reports that Abby died in Newburyport, but her FamilySearch records<\/span> say that she died in Newbury. Are these two separate places?<\/p>\n

From an Internet search, I discovered that Newburyport and Newbury were divided into two cities in 1764, about 30 years after Newbury was settled. Henry Short was an original settler of the town before it was divided.<\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cNewburyport was settled in 1635 as part of Newberry Plantation, now Newbury. On January 28, 1764, the General Court of Massachusetts passed \u2018An act for erecting part of the town of Newbury into a new town by the name of Newburyport.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My GenealogyBank search for Henry\u2019s name also produced the obituary of another Short cousin who \u201cwas a direct descendant from Henry Short, who with Richard Dummer, held the original grant of the entire town of Newbury.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank, Boston Journal (Boston, Massachusetts), 23 February 1884, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A detailed obituary, it mentions his three sisters \u2013 including their married surnames; that his father was a \u201ctinman\u201d; and that he was the current holder of \u201cmany valuable documents and papers\u2026 among them all the grants and deeds of land to his ancestors and an entire collection of almanacs from 1726.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would be terrific to know if these papers were passed down and preserved in the family.<\/p>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> The obituaries of your relatives can give you additional details about the family. Find your family stories at GenealogyBank.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about his ancestor Henry Short, one of the original settlers of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,2020],"class_list":["post-26831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/photo-1115-2017-featured-graphic-newbury-elm.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77623,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26831\/revisions\/77623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}