Daniel Perley1

b. perhaps 1804
  • Father: Samuel Perley1 b. September 15, 1757 or September 15, 1758, d. June 18, 1807
  • Mother: Phebe Dresser1 b. April 29, 1762, d. February 25, 1850
  • Last Edited: 31 Mar 2010

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 138.
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Daniel Perley1

b. perhaps 1787
  • Last Edited: 31 Mar 2010

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 144.
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Daniel Jewett Perley1

b. January 23, 1797
  • Last Edited: 19 Feb 2015

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 164.
  2. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 319.
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David Perley1

b. October 25, 1702, d. September 1, 1787
  • Reference: 3846bbd
  • David Perley was born on October 25, 1702 in Rowley, Massachusetts.2
  • He was the son of Samuel Perley and Abigail Cummings.1
  • David Perley was baptized on July 11, 1714 in Topsfield, Massachusetts.2
  • David married Elizabeth Jewett on June 18, 1729.2
  • Mr. Perley lived where his father had, a few rods west of the 1906 residence of David Eri Perley, and cultivated the parental estate. He was some seven miles from the official center of the town, and so was not burdened with official trust. He was tithing man, 1737 and 1750; surveyor of highways, 1757; was sergeant in Capt. Thurston's company before 1749, and bore the title long afterwards. He was one of the original signers to the covenant at the formation of the Linebrook church, 15 Nov 1749. He was chosen a Ruling Elder in the church, 1756, but declined to serve, believing the office to exist only in the pastor.3
  • David married Sarah Lummus of Ipswich on September 22, 1768.2
  • David died on September 1, 1787 at age 84. His will was dated 12 Jun 1779, and provided tor his widow yearly, so long as she shall remain single, the east end of his house, eight cords of good wood, sawed and split for the fire, two barrels of cider, and as many apples as she wants to use, "if the orchard shall produce so much," one gallon of rum, six quarts of molasses, six lbs. of sugar, six lbs. of tallow, one gallon of lamp oil, six lbs. of good sheep's wool and six lbs. of good flax. Besides other devises his grandson Samuel Perley had land bought of Nathaniel Brocklebank, eight acres lying west of his barn, and about six and a half acres elsewhere. His son John had the homestead, and was the executor. —Probate registry, 591: 115. The will was proved 1 Oct 1787; his estate was appraised by Jeremiah Searl, Francis Pingry and Daniel Dresser, 16 Oct 1787, at £542 13s. The inventory mentions two oxen, four cows, four young cattle, two spring calves, one horse, fourteen sheep, two young steers, one swine, and a pew in the Linebrook church.2
  • Last Edited: 23 Aug 2009

Family: Elizabeth Jewett b. 1708, d. May 4, 1768

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 27.
  2. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 44.
  3. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 45.
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David Perley1

b. May 10, 1776, d. August 14, 1851
  • Father: John Perley1 b. April 7, 1737 or April 1, 1737, d. November 30, 1822
  • Mother: Lydia Perley1 b. May 13, 1741, d. August 10, 1804
  • David Perley was born on May 10, 1776 in Rowley, Massachusetts. He settled upon the parental estate, where his son David Eri later lived.

    He enlisted in the service in the 1812 war, and received therefor of his town, Apr 1815, $10.63. He was, 27 May 1830, a petitioner for the incoporation of the Second Parish in Rowley, now Georgetown. His nephew John writes that he lived a few months with his Uncle David, when the latter was about sixty-five years old. He says: "I still see him with his staff in hand wending his way on some mission of labor or business, singing his favorite air, 'I'll take my staff and travel on.' He was fond of singing and withal was an inveterate joker. He was stout built, of medium height, had flowing curly hair, was straight as an arrow, and his countenance was open, genial, pleasant. He lived in a quiet, secluded nook of rural beauty; the scenery was surpassingly lovely, which accounts, in some measure, for his happy, genial disposition. The face of the territory is undulate with forest hills and pasture knolls, with arable plains and green, mossy meadows, with meandering brooklet. How delightful the forests, in still, dreamy October days, decked in their many-hued regalia! How sparkled the orchard after a gentle winter rain and the frost-embrace of night had secured on twig and limb its store of crystal waters, scintillating as gems of rarest worth and beauty, in the radiance of a morning sun! What gratifying sweetness, as spring brought back the babbling of the brook, the chirp of the squirrel, the chatter of the woodchuck, the lowing of the cattle, and filled the broad expanse of sky with birds and melody. How picturesque and sweet the home of Uncle David.

    " I occasionally spent much time at Uncle David's in my boyhood. He gave me my first lesson in astronomy. We had been husking corn in the barn. When we returned to the house, the whole heavens appeared one vast sea of sparkling crystals. The northern constellations shone with unusual brilliancy. Attracted probably by the splendor, he pointed to the Dipper and told how by it to find the Polar star—a lesson that often recurred to me when pursuing that study in school!

    "He related to me, how my father 'crossed the Rubicon.' It occurred in the work of marshing, as it was called, when probably my grandfather was in his prime, and 'the boys,' father, and Uncles David and Samuel, were sprightly and helpful. On this occasion, a deep and narrow creek ran between them and the marsh lot. They were threading their way up the side of it, in search of a fording place, when to my father a circumvention was suggested. He threw his luggage to the opposite bank, all but one hay pole. That pole he planted in the middle of the creek, expecting by a masterly muscular effort to spring up upon the perpendicular pole and be carried to the opposite side. The muscular effort was a success, but when the pole assumed a perpendicular, it sank and stuck in the mud, with my father clinging to the top of it. It was an object lesson with a practical turn, always to be remembered."2
  • He was the son of John Perley and Lydia Perley.1
  • David married Dolly Scott, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Scott and Martha Perley, on December 17, 1809 (published 24 May). They were fourth cousins.3
  • David died on August 14, 1851 at age 75 of consumption.4
  • He was buried in Linebrook Cemetery, Ipswich, Massachusetts, qwcenterwqDAVID PERLEY
    DIED
    Aug. 14, 1851
    Æt. 75.

    The eye of him that hath seen me
    Shall see me no more.qw/centerwq.4
  • Last Edited: 15 Sep 2009

Family: Dolly Scott b. June 5, 1787, d. February 7, 1871

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 79.
  2. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 180-181.
  3. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 181.
  4. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 181-182.
  5. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 182.
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David Perley1

b. perhaps 1788
  • Last Edited: 31 Mar 2010

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 133.
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David Eri Perley1

b. perhaps 1810
  • Last Edited: 20 Apr 2010

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 182.
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David Lewis Perley1

b. perhaps 1805
  • Last Edited: 31 Mar 2010

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 189.
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Deborah Perley1

b. February 13, 1715/16, d. January 25, 1754
  • Last Edited: 24 Aug 2009

Family: Nathan Lambert b. February 11, 1715/16, d. March, 1795

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 38.
  2. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 62.
  3. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 63.
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Deborah Perley1

b. December 11, 1760, d. April 6, 1840
  • Deborah Perley was born on December 11, 1760.2
  • She was the daughter of Allen Perley and Martha Fowler.1
  • Deborah Perley and Timothy Dorman published their marriage intention.2
  • Deborah died on April 6, 1840 at age 79.2
  • Last Edited: 9 Sep 2009

Family: Timothy Dorman b. October 24, 1757, d. December 23, 1835

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 64.
  2. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 161.
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Deborah Perley1

b. May 5, 1768
  • Last Edited: 2 Apr 2010

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 146.
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Deborah Perley1

b. July 5, 1776
  • Last Edited: 2 Apr 2010

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 146.
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Deborah Perley1

b. February 21, 1796
  • Last Edited: 6 Sep 2009

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 148.
  2. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 149.
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Deborah Perley1

b. perhaps 1786
  • Father: Jacob Perley1 b. March 16, 1750/51, d. January 5, 1832
  • Mother: Dolly Wood1 b. October 14, 1752, d. January 30, 1825
  • Last Edited: 5 Apr 2010

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 151.
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Disperse Perley1

b. August 3, 1774, d. September 26, 1775
  • Reference: 0960lad
  • Disperse Perley was born on August 3, 1774 in Winchendon, Massachusetts.1
  • Disperse Perley was the child of Lieut. Dudley Perley and Hannah Hale.1
  • Mrs. Hannah Whitney writes: "Grandmother told me that she prayed one night when grandfather was in the army that the enemy might be dispersed. Before morning a daughter was born, and that same night the enemy fled, and the daughter was named Disperse."1
  • Disperse died on September 26, 1775 at age 1.1
  • Last Edited: 3 Sep 2009

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 128.
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Dorothy Perley1

b. September 26, 1761
  • Last Edited: 5 Sep 2009

Citations

  1. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 141.
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Lieut. Dudley Perley1

b. November 23, 1738, d. December 16, 1810
  • Lieut. Dudley Perley was born on November 23, 1738 in Boxford, Massachusetts.3
  • He was the son of Maj. Asa Perley and Susannah Low.2
  • January 10, 1764, his father gave him, laborer, of Ipswich-Canada, lot No. 26, 100 acres, originally Thomas Lord's.—Registry, 49:331. John Hale of Boxford, gentleman, for love, gave his daughter Hannah, wife of Dudley Perley, 80 acres adjoining Perley's, in Mar 1768.—Registry, 133:411.

    Dudley and Hannah his wife, 29 Apr 1780, sold to Ebenezer Richardson, blacksmith, 20 acres, for £600.—Registry, 82:455. They sold, 7 June, 1798, for $233, to John Flint of Winchendon, 45 acres. — Registry, 133:592. He sold his son Henry of Winchendon, for $100, "half the homestead farm in Winchendon, which he could not sell while his father lived," 19 Oct 1807.—Registry, 169:166.3
  • Dudley married Hannah Hale, daughter of John Hale and Priscilla Peabody, on December 3, 1767 in Boxford, Massachusetts, (pub. 3 Aug.)1,4
  • On July 26, 1768, Lieut. Dudley Perley and Hannah Hale moved to Winchendon, Massachusetts, when that town was almost an unbroken wilderness, and began to make a farm.3
  • March 17, 1774, a committee reported "the most convenient place for a schoolhouse for the east part of the town is in the great road by Mr. Dudley Perley's." On 5 May 1796, a proposed new road from James Raymond's to Dudley Perley's was negatived. A road was early laid out from "Mr. Dudley Perley's by Moses Hale's, through the village to Mr. Benjamin Kidder's, 4 miles 117 rods." At a town meeting, just prior to the Revolution, obeying the precept of a public letter from Boston, urging an earnest consideration of "the distressing and dangerous circumstances of our public affairs," Mr. Perley was made one of a committee of five, "to prepare a draft to lay before the town of such measures as may be thought proper for the town to come into, in order to defend.their rights and liberties." The same committee was made a committee of correspondence. He was a member of the Winchendon company of Minute Men. He attained to lieutenant in the militia, and ever after wore the title. He was a selectman in 1772.5
  • Mrs. Hannah Whitney writes: "Grandmother told me that she prayed one night when grandfather was in the army that the enemy might be dispersed. Before morning a daughter was born, and that same night the enemy fled, and the daughter was named Disperse."4
  • Dudley died on December 16, 1810 in Winchendon, Massachusetts, at age 72. A paper beginning "We the heirs of the estate" is signed "Henry Perley, Ezra Hyde, Jr., Joseph Whitney, Jeremiah Spaulding." His oldest son, 9 Jan 1811, had received his share of the estate, given a quit-claim, and settled in Maine; the second son lived in the state of New York. The rest of the children attended their father's funeral.—Registry, 46020.1,4
  • Last Edited: 3 Sep 2009

Family: Hannah Hale b. October 26, 1743, d. August 9, 1806

Citations

  1. Robert Safford Hale, Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and of Newbury, Mass., , at https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00hale . Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, printers, (1889) , p. 223.
  2. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 57.
  3. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 127.
  4. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 128.
  5. M. V. B. Perley, History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, , at https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy01perl . Salem, Mass.: Published by the Compiler, (1906) , p. 127-128.
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