…Francis and Ruth Plumer, with their children, Samuel, Joseph, Hannah, and Mary, emigrated in 1633 from Newbury, in Berkshire, England, to New England, and in May, 1634, Francis Plumer took the freeman’s oath in Boston.

Frances Plumer was descended from an ancient and honorable family, which from the time of the barons’ wars has always maintained a respectable standing in the midland counties of England.

In 1635, Francis Plumer, in company with some of the inhabitants of Ipswich, under the pastoral care of the learned Dr. Parker, obtained leave of the general court to remove to Quascacunquen, and began a town at that place which they called Newbury, Francis Plumer being one of the original grantees; and it may be here mentioned that it is stated in a recent history of Essex County that “the meeting-house, which was likewise the school and the town house, was on land owned by one of the descendants of Francis Plumer, who have held the paternal acres through all the years to this date” (1878).