The PERRY Family of Sandwich, Barnstable, MA Send comments and corrections to anneb0704@yahoo.co.uk
EZRA PERRY (d. 1689) of Sandwich m. Elizabeth Burge
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REMEMBER PERRY (1676 - 1732) m. Jonathan Tobey


Generation 1

EZRA PERRY (d. 1689) of Sandwich

Parents: Unknown

Ezra Perry died on 16 Jan 1689 in Sandwich. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Burge on 12 Feb 1651 in Sandwich. [Ref]

On 5 Apr 1654 Ezra's wife's parents, Thomas and Dorothy Burge, sold him half a tract of land at Mannomett. [Ref transcript of deed]

On 20 May 1655 Ezra pledged five shillings for the building of a meeting house in Sandwich. [Ref] On 15 (5) 1671 he was one of four people appointed to go with James Skiffe and look at upland and meadow that James wanted to exchange with the town. [Ref] On 21 (3) 1674 Ezra Perry, Sr was chosen grand juryman. [Ref] On 12 May 1679 Ezra Perry was chosen constable. [Ref] On 16 Jan 1682 Mr Edmund Freeman, Sr and Ezra Perry were to see the minister paid. [Ref]

Ezra Perry of Manumet and the town of Sandwich signed his will with his mark on 16 Oct 1689: the same day that he died. He left bequests to his wife; his sons Samuel, Benjamin, Ezra and John; his daughter Remember; his daughter Deborah, wife of Seth Pope; Sarah, wife of Ephraim Swift. Inventory was taken on 24 Oct 1689 and was sworn to by his widow Elizabeth on 18 Apr 1690. [Ref]

Perhaps the Deborah Perry who married Robert Tupper is a sister of Ezra?

Children of Ezra Perry and Elizabeth Burge:

  1. Ezra Perry, Jr. was born on 11 Feb 1652 in Sandwich. [Ref] He died on 31 Jan 1729 in Sandwich. [Ref] He married Rebecca Freeman. [Ref] Rebecca was the daughter of Edmund and Rebecca (Prence) Freeman, Jr. [Ref] and the granddaughter of Edmund Freeman and Gov. William Prence. She died on 16 Apr 1638 in Sandwich. [Ref]
    some descendants of Ezra Perry
  2. Deborah Perry was born on 28 Nov 1654 in Sandwich. [Ref] She died on 19 Feb 1710/11. [Ref] She married Capt. Seth Pope. Seth, the son of Thomas Pope, was born on 13 Jan 1648 in Plymouth and died on 26 Mar 1726/7. [Ref] Seth and Deborah are ancestors of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. [Ref]
  3. John Perry was born on 1 Jan 1656 in Sandwich. [Ref] He died on 31 Oct 1732 in Sandwich. [Ref] He married first Elizabeth Williamson, the daughter of Timothy and Mary (Howland) Williamson. [Ref] Elizabeth, the wife of John Perry, died on 23 Apr 1727. [Ref] Children of John, born in Sandwich: John ('latter end of' Apr 1684), Johanah ('almost the last of' Aug 1686), Timothy ('about the latter end of' Sep 1689), Experience (1 Mar 1691/2), Ezra ('last of' May 1693), Arthur (27 Nov 1698), [?]ijah (2 Apr 1701), [?] son 1 Dec 1696), [?] ('last week in' Dec 1698), [?] 2 Apr 1701, [?] ([?]). [Ref] John married second Hannah, the widow of Aaron Savary. [Ref]
  4. Sarah Perry died on 20 Oct 1734. [Ref] She married Ephraim Swift. [Ref] Ephraim was the son of William Swift.
  5. Samuel Perry was born in the middle of March 1667 in Sandwich. [Ref] Samuel Perry married Esther Tabor of Dartmouth on 23 Oct 1689. [Ref] Children born in Sandwich: Elizabeth (15 Jan 1690), Deborah (16 Jun 1692), Thomas (24 Feb 1693/4), Sarah (8 Jun 1696), Nathan (12 Jan 1700/1), Mary (10 Dec 1702), Ebenezer (5 Mar 1705/6), Seth (24 Feb 1707/8), Mercy (8 Dec 1710). [Ref]
  6. Benjamin Perry was born on 15 Jan 1670 in Sandwich. [Ref] He married Dinah, the daughter of William Swift of Sandwich. [Ref]
    some descendants of Benjamin Perry
  7. Remember Perry was born on 1 Jan 1676 in Sandwich. She died on 4 Nov 1732 in Sandwich. She married Jonathan Tobey 1.

Generation 2

REMEMBER PERRY (1676 - 1732) of Sandwich

Parents: Ezra Perry and Elizabeth Burge

Remember Perry was born on 1 Jan 1676 in Sandwich. [Ref] She died on 4 Nov 1732, age 58, in Sandwich. [Ref] She married Jonathan Tobey 1. [Ref]

References

Family Genealogies

Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney) and Maclean W. McClean, "Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass. (1625-1689)," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 115, 1961, 86-99.

Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney) and Maclean W. McLean, "The Rev. Richard Bourne of Sandwich, Mass. (c. 1610 - 1682)," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 118, 1964, 83-.

Public Records

No Author, "Sandwich and Bourne Colony and Town Records," 1912, C.W. Swift, Yarmouthport, reprinted in Leonard H. Smith, ed., Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, v. 2, 1992, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore.

Vital Records

Kardell, Caroline Lewis, and Lovell, Russell A. Jr., Vital Records of Sandwich, Massachusetts to 1885, Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.

Locke, J. G., trans., "Records of Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 12, 1858, p. 311 - 312.

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.

Websites

Through the Looking Glass, Mayflowerfamilies.com