BYRAM, Dr. Nicholas

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• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
• Great Migration: Yes, but no GM profile
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Byram-11
• Residence: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
• Immigration: 1637
• Probate: 1688, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

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About Nicholas Byram, Sr.
Name: Nicholas Byram 1
Sex: M
Death: 13 APR 1688 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma
Note: NICHOLAS BYRAM, a physician, resided in Weymouth from ~:1638 to 1662, and in Bridgewater from 1662 to 1688. Dr. Byram was joint executor of the will of Abraham Shaw in or about Nov. 1638. (Lechford's Note-Book, 329.)
-------------------- came to Weymouth 1638 stayed 24 years removed to Bridgewater.Family tradition states his father came from Kent moved to Ireland when nicholas was born.Sent his son to England when he was 16 to friend... stole all his money sent him to West Indies was sold into service to pay for his passage..made his way to Weymouth. -------------------- Nicholas Byram, according to family tradition, was son of an English gentleman of the county of Kent, who removed to Ireland about the time this son was born. His father sent him at the age of 16 to visit his friends in Eng. in charge of a man who betrayed his trust, robbed him of his money, and sent him to the West Indies, where he was sold to service to pay his passage, and after his term expired he made his way to New England and settled at Weymouth. He m. Susanna, D. of Abraham Shaw of Dedham. In 1660 he bought three proprietary or original purchase rights in Bridgewater viz.: Moses Simmons', Philip Delano's, and George Soule's, and settled here soon after. He d. 1688; she d. a. 1698.

Their children,
all born at Weymouth, were as follows:

(32) Nicholas, Jr.; married Mary, daughter of Sam-
uel Edson, January, 1676. He was born
about 1640.

Abigail, born 1636 or 1637; married Thomas
Whitman, 1656.

Deliverance; married Rev. John Porter, 1660.

Experience ; married John Willis.

Susanne; married Samuel Edson. about 1677.

Miary ; married Samuel Leach.

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Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Colony

On April 9, 1676, the Natives crept up Satucket Path to the Latham farm. Robert Latham’s house would be the first of nine houses to be destroyed by fire that day, the natives sparing only one dwelling…that of Nicholas Byram.

Worcester County, Massachusetts Memoirs, Volume I-II

Abraham Shaw (1) the immigrant ancestor of Thomas Asa Shaw, of Worcester, came from Halifax, York County, England and settled in Dedham, MA, before 1636. In that year he signed the famous Dedham Covenant. In the old country he was a clothier and a man of some property. He was a planter at Dedham. When he first came to America he went to Watertown, MA, where he was a proprietor in 1636; his house was burned in October of that year, whereupon he seems to have removed to Dedham, where he was a constable in 1636-37-38, and was admitted a freeman March 9, 1637. He was owner of coal mines in Halifax and November 2, 1637, shortly before his death, he received a grant of half the coal and iron he might find in the common lands. He was given a permit to erect a coal mill February 12, 1637. He died in 1638, and his will, made November of that year, was proved before the end of the year. He mentions Joseph, John, Mary and Martha, his children, and Nicholas Byram, son-in-law. Of the children Joseph removed to Weymouth; Mary was born about 1638; Martha born about ---; Susanna married married Nicholas Byram before 1638.

Nicholas Byram. according;- to family tradition, was the son of an English gentleman of some prominence, William H. By- ram and his wife, Mary, of the County of Kent, who ri.moved to Ireland about the time this son was born in 1610. His father sent him at the age of sixteen to visit his friends in England m charge of a man who betrayed his trust, robbed him of his money, and took him to the West Indies, supposed to have been Barbadoes, where he was sold to service to pay his passage, and after his term expired he made his way to New England in 1633 or and settled at Weymouth. He married Su- sanne (36), daughter of Abraham Shaw in Dedham, about 1635. In 1660 he bought three proprietary or original purchase rights in Bridgewater. viz. : Moses Simmons, Phillip Delanos, and George Soules, and settled there soon after. He died in 1688. His wife died April 13. 1688-9.

Dr. married SHAW, Susannah in 1636 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Susannah (daughter of SHAW, Abraham and BEST, Bridget) was born in 1617 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died on 21 Aug 1698 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BYRAM, Deliverance was born in 1644 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 Sep 1720 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
2. BYRAM, Ebenezer was born in 1642 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1753 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
3. BYRAM, Susanna was born in 1644 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 May 1742 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
4. BYRAM, Josiah was born in 1645 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1736.
5. BYRAM, Joseph was born in 1646 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1647 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
6. BYRAM, Bass was born in 1649 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1744 in Norfolk, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
7. BYRAM, Nicholas was born in 1656 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 20 Sep 1727 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
8. BYRAM, Mary was born in 1658 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 13 Jun 1687 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
9. BYRAM, Abigail was born about 1637 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 13 Nov 1712 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
10. BYRAM, Experience was born about 1646 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1712 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.

William married WILLIAMS, Mary in 1608 in Kent, England. Mary was born in 1589 in Kent, England; died in 1640 in Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]