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Originally Posted by BigHouse9
I believe it is a form of "burg" which is German for town or city.
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Thanks for the interesting comments. This and the other related comments make sense when you consider the Edinburgh in Scotland is pronounced Ed-in-burr-A. You can easily see how burr-A could become Bury. And so the connection to the German Burg(h) seems quite logical.
It also interesting that the Buries seems run in a diagonal swath going from SW to NE all along the western side of the Connecticut River. Hmmm, I wonder if they represented a line of settlements at a relatively stagnant borderline between the colonists and the Native Americans. Perhaps in the 1600s a Bury still carried some of its original meaning as a fortified hamlet, and was not just a place name of unknown meaning. That borderline may have persisted for awhile because the Berkshires discourage homesteading and farming further up in the mountains. Just a theory.
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Towns with 'Bury' In their name!
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