Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Benjamin PERRY
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 15 Jan 1670/1 in Sandwich, Massachusetts b
  • Death: Abt 1747 in Stoughton, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Ezra PERRY Birth: Abt 1625 Death: 16 Oct 1689 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth BURGE Birth: Abt 1629 in Truro, Cornwall, England Death: 26 Sep 1717 in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Meribah PERRY Birth: 11 Jun 1695 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
  2. Remembrance PERRY Birth: 13 Mar 1696/7 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: After 1789
  3. Benjamin PERRY Birth: 19 Mar 1699/00 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
  4. Seth PERRY Birth: 19 Mar 1699/00 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
  5. Susannah PERRY Birth: 27 Dec 1701 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
  6. Abner PERRY Birth: 10 Mar 1703/4 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: 26 Mar 1758 in Louisburg
  7. Josiah PERRY Birth: 18 Oct 1709 in Sandwich, Massachusetts Death: 27 Sep 1784 in Shaftsbury, Vermont
  8. Nathaniel Capt PERRY Birth: 2 Jul 1713 in Sandwich, Massachusetts
  9. Eliakim PERRY Birth: 8 May 1716 in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Barclay, Mrs John E, Hannah (Swift) Tobey, daughter of William Swift, and the Family of Ambrose Fish, of Sandwich, Mass, TAG v35 (1959), pp40-3. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Barclay TOBEY p[0-9]*].
  2. Benns, Martha Adele Halton, Perry Family, SLC: GeneSocUT, 1950. Film#022332#17. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008139268 images 614-625. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Benns PERRY p[0-9]*].
  3. Bowman, George, Abstracts of the Barnstable County Mass Probate Records, Mayflower Descendant v2 (1900) pp176-8, v3 pp176-8, pp201-2, v4 pp179-81, v10 pp6-8, pp100-103, v11 pp26-8. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/mayflower-descendant-the/image/ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bowman BarnstableCoProbate v[0-9]*p*].
  4. Brownson, Lydia B, Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass (1625-1689), NEHGR v115 (Apr 1961) pp86-99, 181-198, 268-289, and v116 pp27-44, 100-109, and 191-204. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p[0-9]*].
  5. Montgomery, Alvin E, Ancestry and Descendants of Nathaniel Perry Jr, SLC: GeneSocUT, 1972. FHL 929.273 A1#213. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/107429. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p[0-9]*].
  6. Rosengarten, Ruth Vesta Pope Werner, Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants in Saratoga County, New York. Washington, DC: author, 1955. FHC Fiche#6019198. Available at https://archive.org/details/ezraperryofsandw00rose. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Rosengarten PERRY p[I0-9]*].
  7. Kardell, Caroline Lewis, Vital Records of Sandwich Massachusetts to 1885, Boston: NEHGS, 1996. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SandwichMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  8. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p91, Rosengarten PERRY p5, SandwichMA vitals p22, Sav-age PERRY Ezra]
15 Jan 1670 [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p3],
place:
[Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p87, Montgomery PERRY p3, Rosengarten PERRY p5, SandwichMA vitals p22],
parents:
[Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p87, Montgomery PERRY p3, Rosengarten PERRY p5, Sav-age PERRY Ezra]
Ezra PERRY & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Bowman BarnstableCoProbate v11p27],
father:
[Ref: SandwichMA vitals p22]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
15 Feb 1670 [Ref: Benns PERRY p2]
Sources for death Information
date:
abt 1747 [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p3]
after 25 Aug 1740 [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98],
place:
[Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98, Montgomery PERRY p3]
Sources with Information about marriage to Dinah SWIFT
date:
1694 [Ref: Benns PERRY p2, Montgomery PERRY p3]
abt 1694 [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98],
place:
[Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98],
names:
[Ref: Barclay TOBEY p40, Rosengarten PERRY p5],
child:
[Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98, Brownson PERRY v115p99, Montgomery PERRY p3, Montgomery PERRY p4]
Research Notes:
evidently not married in 1689, since his father gave him personal property similar to other unmarried children. [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98]

1733: sold his house and real property to Gideon Ellis [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98, Montgomery PERRY p3]

moved to Stoughton, abt 50 miles to the northwest [Ref: Montgomery PERRY p3]

Oct 11 1733: purchased from his son Benjamin, of Stoughton, 386 acres located in the 25th division [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98, Montgomery PERRY p3]

Oct 15 1735: sold 386 acre tract to three youngest sons Josiah, Nathaniel, and Eliakim [Ref: Brownson PERRY v115p98, Montgomery PERRY p3]



Pedigree of Benjamin PERRY
 /-----Ezra PERRY
Benjamin PERRY
|                                    /-----Ellice BURGES
|                           /-----Thomas BURGES
|                  /-----Thomas BURGES
|                 |        |         /-----Humphrey SIDMAN
|                 |         \-----Honor SIDMAN
|         /-----Thomas BURGES
|        |        |                           /-----John PYE
|        |        |                  /-----Alexander PYE
|        |        |         /-----Anthony PYE
|        |        |        |        |         /-----Richard CORNE
|        |        |        |         \-----Marian CORNE
|        |         \-----Elizabeth PYE
|        |                 |         /-----William POUND
|        |                  \-----Constance POUND
 \-----Elizabeth BURGE
          \-----Dorothy WAYNES



Descendants of Benjamin PERRY
1. Benjamin PERRY m. Dinah SWIFT
m. Dinah SWIFT father: William SWIFT mother: Ruth (SWIFT)

2nd generation

2. Meribah PERRY m1. Cornelus GIBBS m2. William CHURCHILL
m. Cornelus GIBBS father: Thomas GIBBS mother: Alice WARREN
m. William CHURCHILL
3. Remembrance PERRY m1. Thomas TUPPER m2. Jeremiah WILLIS
m. Thomas TUPPER father: Thomas TUPPER mother: Mary (TUPPER)
m. Jeremiah WILLIS