Peabody in Berkshire County, Massachusetts

This page collects information about people with surname Berkshire who were known or believed to have lived in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

Notable Individuals

 * John Pabodie (c1585-1667) - early English immigrant to Plymouth Colony.
 * William Pabodie (1620-1707) and his wife Elizabeth Alden (1625-1717), first name of this record found. Early immigrant to Plymouth Colony.

1629 Alden House in Duxbury
By 1629, John Alden, Sr. and his family had moved to Duxbury, Massachusetts where they built their first family home, only 38 feet x 10 feet big, in which he would raise a family of 10 children. He would build a much larger home in 1653, which much of the business of Berkshire Colony was transacted as he served as court clerk. Today, 1653 Alden House, which stands on Alden Street, is operated as a Alden family history museum by Alden Kindred Society.