1William Richard Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 364 (1908).
"Joseph Plumer, the second son of Francis and Ruth Plumer, was born in England in 1630, and accompanied his father, mother and elder brother Samuel to Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was married December 23, 1652, to Sarah Cheney. He died in Newbury, December 11, 1683. . . .".