John TERRY [TERRYE or TIRRYE] (1555-1625) was born at Long Sutton Hampshire the son of Stephen Terry and Alice Cannar. A scholar of Winchester School from 1572 he went onto New College Oxford where he matriculated 10th January 1574/5 at the age of 19 and was made a Fellow in 1576. He graduated BA 12 Nov 1578; MA 15 June 1582. He was ordained deacon and priest on 29th August 1585. He resigned his Fellowship of the College on being presented by Bishop Cooper of Winchester to the living of Stockton on 6 May 1589. In the year 1591 he married Mary White the sister of the Rev. John WHITE. John Terry and Mary had six children at Stockton between 1592 and 1608 (Stephen, John, Samuel (died), Josias, Nathaniel, Stephen). Through his connection with John White he became an investor in the Dorchester Company. Mary remained in close contact with her brother the patriarch and when he and his wife Ann had their first child (John White junior) he was christened in Stockton by John Terry on 27th Dec 1607. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fordingtondorset/genealogy/Files/FordingtonDorchesterCo2.html#johnterry
Record of Alumni Originally published by University of Oxford, 1891
"Terrye, John (Tirrye). of Hants, pleb. New Coll., matric. entry under date 10 Jan., 1574-5, aged 19, scholar 1575, from Winchester school, fellow 1576, B.A. 12 Nov., 1578, M.A. 15 June, 1582; rector of Stockton, Wilts, 1589, as Tirry, until his death 10 May, 1625."[1]
Birth
John Terry (aka Terrye, Tirrye), son of Stephen and Alice (Cannar) Terry, was born in 1555 at Long Sutton, Hampshire, England, the home town of his father Stephen.[1][2]
Death
Rev John Terry died 10 May 1625, at Stockton, Wiltshire, England[1][2]
Memorial in the Church at Stockton, Wiltshire
"If men should be silent, this stone shall speak the due praise of God's grace in John Terry, lately a faythful, paynful, vigilant and Fruitful Minister of God's truth in this Church of Stockton. He was born of substantial parentage at Long Sutton, in Hampshire: bredde a well deserving Member of New College in Oxford; Freely presented to this charge by the Right Rev. Bishop of Winchester, An. Dom. M.D.X.C., and now in his ripe age of LXX. An. Do. M.D.C.XXV., May XXX, sleepeth happily in the public Cemetery of this Church, till the last trumpet shall awake him to a joyful resurrection in Christ:"
He lived, he learn'd, he wrat, he tought,
Well, much, truly, duly, he brought
Hoame the lost sheep, which Christ's Blood bought
Against Hell's power he stoughtly Fought.
Terrae Terra datur, Caelum sep spiritus ornat,
Mundus habet famam, lusa Gehenna fremit.
Marriage
Rev John Terry married Mary White, daughter of Rev John and Isabel (Bawle) White, and sister of Rev John White, the 'Patriarch of Dorchester'.[2]
Mary (White) Terry died about 17 October 1637 at Dorchester, Dorset, England. [3]
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (1891), pp. 1453-1478. ('Tabbe-Thomyow')
↑ 2.02.12.2John White, the patriarch of Dorchester (Dorset) and the founder of Massachusetts, 1575-1648, page 451
↑Will of Mary Terry 1637, Justin P. Kellogg, NEHGR Vol 55 (1901), pages 222-223
Will of Mary Terry 1637, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) NEHGR Vol 55 (1901), Author: Justin P. Kellogg, page 222-3
Ancestry.com. John White, the patriarch of Dorchester (Dorset) and the founder of Massachusetts, 1575-1648, with an account of the early set [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Rose-Troup, Frances James,. John White, the patriarch of Dorchester (Dorset) and the founder of Massachusetts, 1575-1648 : with an account of the early settlements in Massachusetts, 1620-1630. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 1453-1478. ('Tabbe-Thomyow'). British History Online (accessed 18 May 2016).
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Long Sutton is a town in HAMPSHIRE (abbreviated "Hants") county England. It is the place the father of John Terry was born and died. John later removed to Dorchester where he became known as the "Patriarch of Dorchester" for his great preaching.
The source for John Terry's birthplace being "Long Sutton, Hants, Dorchester, England" was OneWorldTree, not always a reliable source.
I appreciate the interest in my family, but the "Patriarch of Dorchester" as he was known was The Reverend John White, younger brother to the Reverend John Terry's wife Mary White Terry. John White never made it to the colonies.
I disconnected Richard Terry, immigrant, from this couple and another couple to facilitate merging the Richards. If this couple is actually his parents please provide valid sourcing and request that they be reattached.
The source for John Terry's birthplace being "Long Sutton, Hants, Dorchester, England" was OneWorldTree, not always a reliable source.
I appreciate the interest in my family, but the "Patriarch of Dorchester" as he was known was The Reverend John White, younger brother to the Reverend John Terry's wife Mary White Terry. John White never made it to the colonies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_White_(colonist_priest)
The Reverend John Terry had the living in Stockton, Wiltshire until his death in 1625.
edited by Aaron (Terry) Bittner