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• Name: Ezra PERRY
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1625 ^b
• Death: 16 Oct 1689 in Sandwich, Massachusetts ^d
• Burial: Old Sandwich Graveyard, Sandwich, Massachusetts ^u


Parents:

Family:
Marriage:

• Elizabeth BURGE on 12 Feb 1651/2 at Sandwich, Massachusetts .^m1
  
• Elizabeth BURGE Birth: Abt 1629 in Truro, Cornwall, England Death: 26 Sep 1717 in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Children:

1. Ezra PERRY Birth: 11 Feb 1652/3 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: 31 Jan 1729/30 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
2. Deborah PERRY Birth: 28 Nov 1654 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: 19 Feb 1711 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
3. John PERRY Birth: 1 Jan 1656/7 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: 31 Oct 1732 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
4. Sarah PERRY Birth: Abt 1659 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: 20 Oct 1734
5. Samuel PERRY Birth: 15 Mar 1667 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: 8 Aug 1751 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
6. Benjamin PERRY Birth: 15 Jan 1670/1 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: Abt 1747 in Stoughton, Massachusetts
7. Remembrance PERRY Birth: 1 Jan 1676/7 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: 3 Nov 1732

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

1625 [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p1]

abt 1625 [Ref: Benns PERRY p1]

d 1689 in 64th year [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p89, Montgomery PERRY p2]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

place:

Devonshire, England [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p2],

parents:

Edward PERRY of Devonshire, England, & Sarah ___ [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p1]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Benns PERRY p1, Brownson PERRY v115p89, Montgomery PERRY p2, Rosengarten PERRY p1],

place:

[Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p89, Montgomery PERRY p2, Rosengarten PERRY p4]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p4]

Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth BURGE

date:

[Ref: Benns PERRY p1, Montgomery PERRY p1]

12 Feb 1651 [Ref: Bowman SandwichMAVitals v14p109, Brownson PERRY v115p86, Pope PioneersMA p80, SandwichMA vitals p12]

12 Feb 1651, 1651/2 [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p573]

12 Feb 1652 [Ref: Sav-age PERRY Ezra],

place:

[Ref: Bowman SandwichMAVitals v14p109, Montgomery PERRY p1, SandwichMA vitals p12],

names:

[Ref: Sav-age BURGE Thomas]

Ezra PERRY & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Bowman BarnstableCoProbate v11p27],

child:

[Ref: Benns PERRY p2, Bowman BarnstableCoProbate v11p27, Brownson PERRY v115p87, Montgomery PERRY p3, Roberts USPres p275, Rosengarten PERRY p5, Sav-age PERRY Ezra, Worden POPE p16]

Research Notes:
supposed that he came from Devonshire, England, with others of his family [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p1, Rosengarten PERRY p1]

circumstantial evidence suggests that Ezra Perry was closely related to others of the name in Sandwich and probably also in Scituate, MA. Conclusive evidence is still to be found. In most printed accounts which refer to early Perry inhabitants of Sandwich it is claimed that the following persons were siblings of Ezra Perry: Margaret Perry, who married 18 Jul 1651 as his second wife Edmond Freeman Jr, Hannah Perry, who married 24 June 1652 Henry Dillingham, Edward Perry who married about 1653 Mary Freeman dau Lt. Gov Edmond Freeman or his step-daughter, and Deborah Perry who married 9 May 1654 Robert Harper. Two points should be noted: (1) The will of Edmond Freeman Sr, dated 24 Feb 1678, names "my son Edward Perry" but does not mention a daughter named Mary (though Edward Perry's wife Mary was then living). Mrs Ferris' research indicates that Mr. Freeman did not have a daughter Mary and concludes that Edward Perry was himself a step-son and that Freeman's wife Elizabeth had been a widow Perry. But if this be so, why were not the other young Perrys named? (2) Edward Perry was a prominent member of the Sandwich Society of Friends as were Hannah (Perry) Dillingham and Deborah (Perry) Harper. Yet neither Ezra Perry nor Margaret (Perry) Freeman seem to have identified themselves with the Quakers [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p86]

Quaker and brother of Edward PERRY [Ref: Worden POPE p16]

first record in America is at a town meeting 6 (7) 1644 Ezra pledged nine shillings toward the repair of their Meeting House [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p86]

other major contributors to the repair of the meeting house: Edmund Freeman 10s, Thomas Dexter 10s, Thomas Gibbs 9s, Ezra Perry 9s, Jacob Burgess 9s [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p2]

Jun 7 1644 [WTM: probably a misinterpretation of 6 (7) 1644)] first mention of Ezra Perry in his subscription to the Minister's salary [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p1]

Apr 4 1657: received 4 shillings pay for service in the militia [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p87]

1657: subscribed for the minister's salary [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p2]

1657: Took the oath of Fidelity at Sandwich, together with Thomas Burgess, John Burgess, and Jacob Burgess [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p2]

Jun 7 1659: allowed by the Court "to be Executor of the Estate of Sarah Perry, there being no other (although she hath many friends in the Country) that claimeth any interest to the Estate." Wording makes it clear that neither Ezra nor any of the other Perrys in Sandwich were closely related by blood to the deceased widow Sarah Perry. There is, however, an implication that Ezra had some claim on the estate (perhaps for himself, possibly on behalf of others also). It would be consistent if Ezra's claim had been based on right to a dower residue of the estate of a step-mother. It could be argued that the Perry family group came to Sandwich with a widowed step-mother in order to live under the protection of some one of the pioneer Sandwich families to whom the widow's husband and/or these minor children may have been closely related. But such a suggestion is sheer conjecture in the absence of further evidence and is useful only in furnishing an added clue for research in England. [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p88]

In published records of Plymouth Colony, vol III and IV, p163: "Ezara Perry is allowed by the court to be exequitur of the estate of Sarah Perry, there being no other, although she hath may friends in the country, that claimethany interest in the said estate, having put in securitie into the Court to be accountable for the estate in case it shall be required by any that hath better title thereto." [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p2]

Jun 4 1661: Deputy to the "Grand Enquest" [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p3]

Jul 10 1663: Thomas Burge, Senr. of the Towne of Sandwich, planter, in consideration of a valluable sume; to him already payed by his son in law Named Esra Perry of the towne aforesaid, planter conveys one halfe of a certain tract of land at Manomett in the jurisdiction aforesaid, which said tract was purchased by Captaine Standish by the appointment of the Court of Josias of Nausett an Indian Sachem. [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p88]

May 29 1665: Ezra Perry agreed to assist in building he new Sandwich Meeting House [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p88]

Jun 5 1666: Court granted to Ezra Perry "A small quantity of land of about 30 acres in the neck of land where Mr. Edmund Freeman Jr hath his land that was granted unto him by the Court" [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p3]

Jun 5 1671: appointed by the Court to view the damage done to the Indians by the horses and hogs of the English [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p3]

Jun 3 1674: Deputy to the "Grand Enquest" [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p3]

Jun 5 1677: Deputy to the "Grand Enquest" [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p3]

Jan 3 1679/80: appointed Constable [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p3]

Jun 3 1679: appointed Constable [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p89]

Jun 1682: Ezra Perry Sr and Exra Perry Jr appointed a Committee to see that the Minister is paid [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p3]

will dated 16 Oct 1689 [Ref: Bowman BarnstableCoProbate v11p26]

will dated Oct 16 1689. "all ourward moveables without doars and within doars to my truly and well beloved wife" son Samuel two stiers and one heifer and a mare coult one bed and furniture belonging thereto and a gune and sword and bandaleers and one iron pot. son Benjamin two cows, two steeres above three years old one bed and its furniture one gune and sword. daughter Remember two cowes and a bed and its furniture one meare and all her increase. son Ezra one shilling, son John one shilling, dau Deboray wife to Seth Pope one shilling. Sarah wife of Ephraim Swift one shilling [Ref: Bowman BarnstableCoProbate v11p27, Brownson PERRY v115p89]

will pro Apr 18 1690, Barnstable Bk 1 p38 [Ref: Benns PERRY p1]
will pro Apr 18 1690, Barnstable Bk 1 p33 [Ref: Bowman BarnstableCoProbate v11p27, Montgomery PERRY p2, Rosengarten PERRY p4]

inventory of estate, dated Oct 24 1689, totaled 125 pounds 80 shillings 3 pence [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p3]

24 Oct 1689: Inventory, taken by Elisha Bourne and Nathaniel Wing. Sworn to by "Elizabeth Perry ye Relict of ye above sd Ezra Perry" on 18 Apr 1690 [Ref: Bowman BarnstableCoProbate v11p27]

---------- Will of Ezra Perry, from Barnstable Wills vol 1 pages 34-35:
In ye Name of God Amen ye 16: day of october 1689 I Ezra perry snr of manumont and Towne of Sandwich being sick of Body but of good and perfit memory thanks to Allmighty God and calling to Remembrance ye uncertaint estate of this transitory Life and that All flesh must yield unto death when it shall plese God to call do make Constitute ordaine and declare this my Last will and Testament in manner and forme following Revoking and Annulling by these presents all and every Testament and Testaments Will and Wills here to fore by me made and declared either by word or writing And this is to be taken for my last Will and Testament and none other And first being penitent and sorry from ye bottom of my heart for my sins past must humbly desiring forgiveness for ye same I give and comit my Soule unto Allmighty God my savior And Redeemer in whom and by ye merrits of Jesus Christ I trust and believe Assuredly to be saved and to have full Remission and forgiveness of all my sins and that my soule with my Body at ye General day of Resurrection shall Rise againe with Joy and threw ye merritt of Christs death and passion passess and Inherite ye Kingdom of heaven prepared for his elect and chosen. And my body to be burried at ye ordinary place of burreing. And now ye settling of my Temporal Estate and such Goods and Chattles and debts as it hath pleased God far above my desarts to bestow upon me I do order give and dispose the same in manner and forme following (that is to say) all my outward moveables with out doars and With in doars to my truly and well beloved wife as my true undoubted and lawful executrix to order and dispose of as she pleases And shall see cause to dispose of at her pleaseure. Excepting what I Leave and bequeath to my well beloved son Samuel perry that is to stiers of two and one heifer of four years one Mare Could one Bed and furniture Be Longing there to one gun and sword To my Daughter Remember two cows one bed and its furniture one meare and all her Increase also to my son Ezra one shilling to John perry my son one shilling to Deborah my Daughter wife to seth pope one shilling To Sarah wife of Ephraim Swift one shilling As witness my hand and seal day year and month first above written. Ezra perry.
In presence of Jacob C Burg, James Stewart. [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p3]



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