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Rebecca Perley¹

• Father: Benjamin Perley¹ b. February 10, 1735, d. 1816
• Mother: Hannah Clark¹ b. May 9, 1735, d. about 1772

• Relationship: 4th cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Rebecca Perley was born perhaps 1771 in Boxford, Massachusetts.¹
• She was the daughter of Benjamin Perley and Hannah Clark.¹

• Last Edited: 24 Apr 2010

Rebecca Perley¹

• Father: Amos Perley¹ b. January 28, 1748/49, d. December 6, 1830
• Mother: Rebecca Hovey¹ b. December 15, 1754, d. April 10, 1776

• Relationship: 4th cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Reference: 3846cbdea

• Rebecca Perley was born on March 21, 1776 in Boxford, Massachusetts.¹
• She was the daughter of Amos Perley and Rebecca Hovey.¹
• Rebecca married Isaiah Wood on January 6, 1799 in Winthrop, Kennebec County, Maine.²
• Rebecca died in April, 1868 in North Anson, Somerset County, Maine, at age 92.²

• Last Edited: 6 Sep 2009

Rebecca Perley¹

• Father: Abraham Perley¹ b. May 26, 1777
• Mother: Rebecca Humphrey¹ b. April 21, 1780, d. August 21, 1816

• Relationship: 5th cousin 5 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Rebecca Perley was born perhaps 1810.
• She was the daughter of Abraham Perley and Rebecca Humphrey.¹

• Last Edited: 5 Apr 2010

Rhoda Perley¹

• Father: Samuel Perley¹ b. November 17, 1766, d. September 10, 1828
• Mother: Abigail Lewis¹ b. October 2, 1773, d. June 5, 1848

• Relationship: 5th cousin 5 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Rhoda Perley was born perhaps 1807.
• She was the daughter of Samuel Perley and Abigail Lewis.¹

• Last Edited: 31 Mar 2010

Richard Perley¹

• Father: Nathaniel Perley¹ b. March 22, 1763, d. July 25, 1824
• Mother: Mary Dummer¹ b. 1769 or 1770, d. January 7, 1838

• Relationship: 5th cousin 5 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Richard Perley was born perhaps 1808.
• He was the son of Nathaniel Perley and Mary Dummer.¹

• Last Edited: 5 Apr 2010

Ruth Perley¹

• Father: Samuel Perley¹ b. about 1640
• Mother: Ruth Trumble¹ b. April 23, 1645

• Relationship: 1st cousin 9 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Reference: 3846be

• Ruth Perley was born on June 4, 1675.²
• She was the daughter of Samuel Perley and Ruth Trumble.¹
• Ruth married Moses Tyler on January 3, 1693/94 in Topsfield, Massachusetts, by Rev. Joseph Capen.²
• Ruth died on May 10, 1738 in Boxford, Massachusetts, at age 62.²
• She and Moses Tyler were buried in West Boxford Cemetery, Boxford, Massachusetts.²
  

• Last Edited: 15 Dec 2021

Ruth Perley¹

• Father: John Perley¹ b. September 28, 1669, d. May 2, 1725
• Mother: Jane Dresser¹ b. perhaps 1671

• Relationship: 2nd cousin 8 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Ruth Perley was baptized on November 20, 1715. Upon her father's death her mother was appointed her guardian 28 Jul 1725.¹
• She was the daughter of John Perley and Jane Dresser.¹
• Ruth died on September 8, 1736 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, at age 20, a "singlewoman."¹

• Last Edited: 21 Aug 2009

Ruth Perley¹

• Father: David Perley¹ b. October 25, 1702, d. September 1, 1787
• Mother: Elizabeth Jewett¹ b. 1708, d. May 4, 1768

• Relationship: 3rd cousin 7 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Reference: 3846bbdh

• Ruth Perley was born on September 2, 1747.²
• She was the daughter of David Perley and Elizabeth Jewett.¹
• Ruth married Philemon Foster on September 8, 1767.²
• Ruth died on April 10, 1834 at age 86 Their tombstone reads: qwcenterwqIn memory ofqwbrwqDea. PHILEMON FOSTER,qwbrwqwho diedqwbrwqMay 10, 1818;qwbrwqaged 82.qwbrwqand RUTH his wifeqwbrwqwho diedqwbrwqApril 10. 1834;qwbrwqaged 87.qwbrwqReader, be ye also ready.qw/centerwq.²

• Last Edited: 28 Aug 2009

Ruth Perley¹

• Father: Samuel Perley¹ b. March 10, 1712/13, d. April 10, 1753
• Mother: Ruth How¹ b. April 19, 1722

• Relationship: 3rd cousin 7 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Ruth Perley was born on October 29, 1747.²
• She was the daughter of Samuel Perley and Ruth How.¹
• Ruth married Jonathan Ames on December 19, 1768, by her brother, Rev. Samuel Perley of Seabrook.²
• Ruth died on June 5, 1769 at age 21 suddenly, and was quickly buried. Foul play was suspected, and a month later, 10 July, the body was exhumed and an inquest held. The verdict ran, that "she came to her death by poison," and that it was "uncertain" who administered it, Jonathan's mother being the person accused of committing the deed. It was thought that the great wealth of the family saved the wretched woman's life. Such was the tragic end of beautiful, young and hopeful Ruth.
  
  The Essex Antiquarian says this was one of the most interesting criminal cases tried in Essex County, and thus relates it:
  
  Spring had hardly come when Mrs. Ames, senior, began to speak of Ruth as her son's housekeeper. Eventually, the latter part of May 1769, a child was born to the newly wedded couple.
  
  On the morning of the fifth of June, one of the neighbors, Mrs. Kimball, called to see the young mother. She was met at the door by Mrs. Ames, senior, who, in reply to the request of Mrs. Kimball to see Ruth, objected, intimating that she was very ill, and had vomited and purged so much that it was disagreeable to enter the chamber. Notwithstanding, Mrs. Kimball entered the house and went into the sick chamber. She found that the room was clean and agreeable, and there appeared no signs of vomiting or purging. But Ruth was in deathly agony, with froth or phlegm exuding from her mouth. She was taken sick in that manner at about seven o'clock in the morning and died between eleven and twelve o'clock before noon. Mrs. Ames said she knew that Ruth would die, as it was the same disorder that a certain Mrs. Chandler died with some years before, and that it "was as mortal as the plague"; and that there would be another death soon, having reference to the baby. On laying out the body, livid spots, indicating poison, appeared on one of the arms of the deceased.
  
  The writer was informed many years ago by an aged lady, who was born and had always lived her almost century of years within a few rods of the Ames homestead, and personally knew many of the people who took a prominent part in the events that followed, that the funeral occurred soon after Ruth's death, that none of the neighbors were invited to it and that a clergyman from a neighboring town performed the burial service instead of Rev. John Cushing, pastor of the church, who was their nearest neighbor. The burial occurred in the old village cemetery, which is shown as it appeared in 1906 in the middle section of the accompanying illustration.
  
  Mrs. Kimball was supicious that Ruth had been poisoned to death. She repeatedly told of what she had experienced at the Ames house and in the sick room. The peculiar attitude which Mrs. Ames assumed towards the deceased seemed to confirm the suspicion of poisoning, and that Mrs. Ames was at least cognizant of the crime. The matter of an accusation was not at first conceived, but about a month afterward the feeling against Mrs. Ames became so strong that a complaint signed by twenty-nine men, and consented to by the relatives of the deceased, was preferred to Henry Ingalls, Moses Dole and Abraham Choate, three coroners, for an inquisition upon the body, which had lain in the ground all that length of time.
  
  The coroners thereupon summoned a jury of twenty-five (whose names are affixed to their report hereinafter given, Joseph Osgood being foreman), thirteen of whom were physicians; and four other physicians were engaged to perform the autopsy.
  
  The inquest was opened on Monday, July 10th, "when there assembled a promiscuous multitude of people." The court was held in the meetinghouse, which stood on the easterly side of the "Sandy road" in the pasture in the rear of the old cemetery, a road which could still, as of 1906, be traced running from the meeting house up the wooded declivity to the cemetery, and from thence to the parsonage on the ancient Andover road. The site of the meeting house, as it now (1906) appears, is shown in the accompanying illustration, at the bottom.
  
  Rarely, if ever, has such a mass of people been seen in the parish, the meeting house being, as the current newspaper (The Essex Gazette, 11-18 Jul 1769) said, "much thronged."
  
  The court was opened with prayer. The coroners then gave the jury "their solemn charge." During these exercises, the same newspaper account says, "there appeared not the least irregularity or disorder, but a solemn, silent sadness seemed to be fixed on the face of the gayest youth."
  
  After the charge, the coroners, the jury and the spectators 'proceeded "with decency and good order," over the winding roadway up the hill to the old burying ground, where for five weeks had lain the body of the murdered girl.
  
  The exhumation of the body was begun; and as it progressed the human mass surged around the grave so eagerly to see the whole operation that they were only kept from causing harm by being told that all should have an opportunity of seeing the remains.
  
  The body was taken to the meeting house, the procession taking up its route down the hill, at the middle of that midsummer day.
  
  An autopsy was made by the physicians; the jury heard their report and other testimony, and two days later the coroners and the jury made report of their inquisition as follows:—
  
  "Essex Ss.
  
  "An Inquisition. Indented & taken at Boxford within the s^d County of Essex, the Twelfth Day of July, in the Ninth year of our Sovereign Lord George, the third, by y^e Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of y^e Faith, &c., before Henry Ingalls, Moses Dole, & Abraham Choate, Gentlemen, Coroners for our S^d Lord the King, within the County of Essex afores^d upon the View of the Body of Ruth Eams Wife of Jon^a Ames Jur. then and there being Dead by the Oaths of Joseph Osgood, II Foreman, Nehemiah Abbot, Amos Putnam, Enoch Sawyer Jun., Micajah Sawyer, James Brickett, W^m Hale, Silas Miriam, Thomas kit- redge, Wallace Rust, Ephraim Davis, Simons Baker, Benin. Muzzy, Ephraim Wales, Peter Osgood, Dan^l. Spafford, Asa Perly, Benjn. Berry, Nathan Wood, John Hale, Ephraim Fuller, Moody Bridges, Nathaniel Pearly, Oliver Peabody, Rich^d Peabody, Good and Lawful Men of the County of Essex afores^d, who being Charged and Sworn to enquire for our Lord the King, when, by what means, and how, the s^d Ruth Eames came to her Death, upon their Oaths do say, the sd Ruth Eames on the fifth Day of June last in the morning Died of Felony (that is to say by Poison) given to her by a Person or Persons to us unknown which murder is against the Peace of our s^d Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof We the s^d Coroners, as well as the s^d Jurors to this Inquisition, have interchangeably put our Hands and Seals the Day and year above-said.
  
  "Joseph Osgood, Nehemiah Abbot, Amos Putnam, Enoch Sawyer Jun^r., Micajah Sawyer, James Brickett, William Hale, Silas Mer- fiam, Tho^s. Kittredge, Wallis Rust, Symonds Baker, Benj^a. Muzzy, Ephraim Davis, Eph^m. Wales, Peter Osgood, Daniel Spaffard, Asa Perley, Benj^a. Berry, Nathan Wood, John Hale, Moody Bridges, Ephraim Fuller, Nath^l. Perley, Oliver Peabody, Richeard Peabody."
  
  When it was found that no sufficient evidence could be adduced to connect either the husband of the murdered girl, or his mother, with the murder, then was demanded an exhibition of that almost forgotten "ordeal of touch," which has rarely been known in England in modern centuries, and, as the writer believes, never in New England, except in this instance.
  
  The body being laid upon a table with a sheet over it, Jonathan and his mother were invited to prove their innocence by this gruesome test. The ancient practice was similar. The body was laid at length, covered only with a sheet of the purest white, in the dim and weird church, and the suspected party was invited to touch the neck of the deceased with the index finger of the left hand, the superstition being that when the guilty hand touched the remains blood would issue, the whiteness of the sheet making it plainly visible, "pleading trumpet-tongued against the deep damnation of her taking off."
  
  These scenes were always awful, being rendered more so by the environment and the nervous tension of every one of the multitude that gazed with strained eyes and breathless upon the accused as he dared to either advance toward or retreat from the remains, either direction tending to confirm his guilt in the minds of the spectators until he finally passed the ordeal, which but few persons ever did.
  
  In this instance, from fear, probably, not that they believed in the superstition, but were afraid that by some chance blood might flow, both refused.
  
  The "examination gave great occasion to conclude that they were concerned in the poisoning," and on Tuesday, July 18, they were arrested and taken to Salem, where they were confined in the ancient jail where the persons accused of witchcraft were imprisoned many years before.
  
  When the grand jury sat, Mrs. Ames was duly indicted as the principal, and Jonathan as accessory in the crime. Mrs. Ames' indictment was as follows:—
  
  "The Jurors for the said Lord the King upon their Oath presented that Elizabeth Eams the wife of Jonathan Eams of Boxford in the said county of Essex yeoman, on the fourth day of June last past, at Boxford aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, not having the fear of God in her heart, but feloniously, wickedly and of her malice aforethought intending and contriving with Poison to kill and murder one Ruth Eams, then and there being in the peace of God, and of the said Lord the King, did then & there with force and arms feloniously willfully and of her malice.aforethought, mix and mingle a great quantity of white arsenic, being a deadly poison, in a certain quantity of Spermaceti she the said Elizabeth Eams, then and there well knowing the said white arsenic to be a deadly poison; And that she the said Elizabeth Eams, there afterwards, to wit, on the same day, the poison aforesaid so mixed and mingled as aforesaid; with force and arms feloniously willfully and of her malice aforethought, did offer and give to her the said Ruth Eams, to take, eat and Swallow down; and that the s^d Ruth Eams, not knowing the poison aforesaid, to have been mixed and mingled as aforesaid, in the Spermaceti aforesaid, there afterward on the same day, by the procurement and persuasion of the said Elizabeth Eams, did take, eat and swallow down the said Poison, so mixed and mingled as aforesaid; and thereupon the said Ruth Eams by the said poison, so as aforesaid taken eaten & Swallowed down, then and there became sick and distempered in her body; and the said Ruth Eams of the poison aforesaid, and of the sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned, did languish, and languishing did live from the said fourth day of June last, untill the fifth day of the same June, at Boxford aforesaid in the county aforesaid; on which same fifth day of June, at Boxford aforesaid in the county aforesaid, the said Ruth Eams died of the poison aforesaid and of the Sickness and distemper thereby occasioned as aforesaid; and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their said Oath do say that the said Elizabeth Eams, in manner and form and by the means aforesaid, feloniously, willfully and of her malice aforethought, did poison kill and murder the said Ruth Eams against the peace of the s^d Lord the King his crown and dignity.
  
  "Jon: Sewell, Att^y. pro. Dom^o. Reg^e.
  
  "This is a true bill
  
  "David Britton, Foreman."
  
  While lodged in jail, Mrs. Ames was heard to mutter in her sleep, "Don't tell on me, Jonathan; if you do, I shall be hanged."
  
  The superior court, in which the case would be tried, being about to sit in Salem, Jonathan's sister Elizabeth was arrested as an accessory to the murder, by Amos Mulliken, deputy sheriff, on November 9th, and lodged in the jail at Salem on the same day.
  
  The court convened on the morning of Tuesday, the 14th, in the old court house that then stood in the middle of Washington street, opposite the Tabernacle church. The judges upon the bench were Benjamin Lynde, John Cushing, Peter Oliver and Edmund Trowbridge, and during the session they boarded with William Goodhue.
  
  The jury impaneled to try the case consisted of Jonathan Orne of Salem, foreman, and John Gardner of Salem, William Bowden of Marblehead, Daniel Jacobs of Danvers, Thorndike Proctor, Jr., of Salem, William Becket of Salem, Richard Manning of Salem, Stephen Phillips of Marblehead, Thomas Grant of Marblehead, Theophilus Breed of Lynn, Mascol Williams of Salem, and Samuel Holton of Danvers.
  
  The counsel for the king was Jonathan Sewell of Boston.
  
  The counsel of the accused was John Adams, afterwards President of the United States. He was, at this time, thirty-four years of age. In the trial of this case, we can imagine the dignity and deliberation of his procedure, and the beaming of his intelligent face, which attracted so much attention when a few years later he became the man second in America to none but Washington.
  
  The witnesses were summoned to present themselves at eight o'clock in the morning, and there was a host of them. There were Dr. Nathaniel Perkins and Dr. James Lloyd, both of Boston, Dr. Isaac Rand of Charlestown, David George and Josiah George, both of Newburyport [These young men were underage, and were summoned in behalf of the prisoner], Rev. Samuel Pearley of Seabrook [brother of the murdered woman], John Fowler of Ipswich, yeoman, Enoch Kimball, yeoman, John Chadwick, gentleman, and his wife Susannah, Prudence Tyler, singlewoman, Mehitable Tyler, wife of Gideon Tyler, Benjamin Porter, Jr., yeoman, John Tyler and Jonathan Tyler (sons of Gideon Tyler), William Eiles, yeoman, Oliver Foster, yeoman, Jonathan Foster, gentleman, George rarnam, laborer, all of Boxford, Miriam Dole of Rowley, Joseph Manning, John Calfe, Ephraim Chadwick, Dr. Thomas Kittredge, Dr. Francis Hodgskins, Dr. John Manning, Jr., Abraham How, yeoman, all of Ipswich, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Kimball, Dr. Moses Barker, Soloman Cole, yeoman, Daniel Long, yeoman, all of Andover, Sarah Estey of Middleton, spinster, Nathan Browne, gentleman, and Jonathan Cook, fisherman, both of Salem, Aaron Wood, esq., and Amos Kimball, yeoman, both of Boxford, Dr. William Hale of Boxford, Dr. Macajah Sawyer and Dr. Enoch Sawyer, Jr., both of Newburyport, Dr. Nehemiah Abbot of Andover, Lucy, wife of Abraham How, Ezekiel Potter, yeoman, and Martha Pearley, spinster, both of Ipswich, Dr. Ward Noyce of Andover, Moses Dole, yeoman, Daniel Spafford, gentleman, and Robert Cregg, yeoman, all of Rowley, Moses George of Newburyport, shipwright, Mary, wife of Isaac Blunt of Andover, Sarah Porter, widow, and Dea. Thomas Chadwick, both of Boxford, John Barker of Andover, Dr. Henry Dow Banks of Haverhill, and Richard Dole and his wife Miriam of Boxford.
  
  Mrs. Ames "was thereupon brought and set to the bar and arraigned and upon her arraignment pleaded not guilty and for trial put herself upon God and the country,"—so runs the official record. The jury were then sworn to try the issue.
  
  The trial began at nine o'clock; and the substance of the evidence, according to the report of the case in the then current Essex Gazette, was as follows:—
  
  "That on a violent Suspicion that the said Ruth Eames, who died the Beginning of last May, was poisoned, her Body, five Weeks after the Burial, was taken up; and a Number of Physicians, summoned on the Jury of Inquest, on opening the same, and finding a Substance, which they believed to be Arsenick or Ratsbane, adhering to the Coats of the Stomach, were unanimously of Opinion, that she lost her Life by Poison: That to corroborate this Opinion, it appeared that one Mrs. Kimball went to see the Deceased the Morning before her Death, and on signifying her Desire of going up Chamber, the Prisoner (who was Mother in Law to the said Deceased, and resided in the same House with her) made an Objection to it, intimating that her Daughter was very ill, and had vomited and purged so much as to render it very disagreeable to enter the Chamber; notwithstanding which, Mrs. Kimball went up, found (the Reverse of what had been told her by the Prisoner) the Chamber clean and agreeable, and no Signs of vomiting or purging, but found the Deceased almost or quite in the Agonies of Death, with Froth or Phlegm issuing out of her Mouth, and expired soon after, viz., between 11 and 12 o'Clock in the Forenoon, having been ill from about seven in the Morning: That before her Death, the Prisoner said, she would certainly die, for her Disorder was the same that one Mrs. Chandler died of some Years before, and was as mortal as the Plague; and that there would be another Death in the Family soon (meaning an Infant which the Deceased, its mother, had lately suckled): That on laying out the Body, livid Spots, an Indication of Poison, appeared on one of her Arms: That the Prisoner, when she was assured the Body would be dug up, expressed much Concern, and said she should not live a Month: That since her Imprisonment she has said she believed her Daughter was poisoned, and that her Son Jonathan (Husband to the Deceased ) did it: and asked whether she could not turn King's Evidence."
  
  The court thought proper to admit the evidence of Jonathan, who had turned King's evidence against his mother.
  
  "By his Testimony, it appeared that five or six Days before his Wife died, his Mother told him that she would deprive him of his Housekeeper (as she called his Wife) if she did it by a Portion of Ratsbane; and the Night before her Death, he saw his Mother give his Wife a Piece of Bread and Butter, with Ratsbane on it, as near as he could tell; and said that since he has heard the Doctors tell what Ratsbane is, he is certain that it was that; and that he cautioned his Wife against taking it."
  
  The trial continued through the short November day, and the dusk of evening found the court in session. Candles were lighted, and dimly dispelled the darkness of the ancient court room. Gloom must have settled on the prisoners, who knew not what the result of the trial might be, and the jury, too. could not have escaped from the feeling of awe that their duty that night must give or take a human life.
  
  The trial wore on. The midnight hour approached and passed before the lawyers began their arguments to the jury.
  
  John Adams spoke first. With all the solemnity of the hour and the occasion, he urged the jury to give release to the prisoner. As the substance of his argument, he said that by the evidence it did not appear that Mrs. Ames had been guilty of any ill behavior toward the deceased during their residence together in the same house; that it was the opinion of physicians that it was very improbable, if not impossible, that arsenic should lie so long in the body, as it was said it did in that of the deceased, that is, from some time in the evening till seven o'clock in the morning, before it operated; that the body, when taken up, was not putrefied in such a manner as it must have been had the deceased been poisoned; and that the evidence of the prisoner's son, Jonathan Ames, was not to be relied on, as he had sworn before the coroner, at the time the body was taken up, that he had no knowledge of anyone's poisoning his wife; and now, in order to get clear himself, was so base as to give testimony which not only rendered him guilty of perjury, but had a direct tendencv to take away the life of his own mother.
  
  In reply Jonathan Sewall said, in substance, that the deceased on the same day that she ate the bread and butter dined on a fish called shad, and in the evening following ate a hearty supper of the same kind of fish; which, together with the quantity of butter on the bread, with which it is said the arsenic was mixed, and some spermaceti which she took soon after, might very probably tend to delay the operation of the arsenic; or, that which the prisoner gave the deceased, on the bread and butter, might have been salt, and, that Jonathan was made to believe that it was ratsbane, as an artifice to. render a discovery more difficult and perplexing, and that she in fact administered the arsenic the next morning; that as to the body's not being putrefied as much as might be expected, it was the opinion of physicians that so large a quantity of arsenic might be received into the stomach as to cause violent convulsions and contractions of the large and small orifices, which might bring on death before the poison had mixed with the blood, and therefore a speedy putrefaction, as in cases wherein the body swells, might not take place; that the prisoner's son, Jonathan Ames, was a legal witness; and that it could not be supposed that he would come into court, and, in a most solemn manner, swear to that which was false, when he must be convinced that his evidence would probably be the means of taking away the life of her who bore him.
  
  Three of the judges, in summing up the evidence, were clear and explicit in declaring their opinion that the circumstances proved amounted to a "violent presumption" that the prisoner was guilty. The other judge was not so clear in his opinion and said that a doubt might arise concerning the prisoner's guilt from the judgment of the physicians in her favor.
  
  The case was then committed to the jury, and the court adjourned, at two o'clock in the morning, until nine o'clock.
  
  At nine o'clock the court came in, the prisoner was placed at the bar, and the jury rendered their verdict which cleared the prisoner from the bands of the law at least. The record continues, "It is therefore considered by the court that the said Elizabeth Eames go without day." The record of the court closes as follows:
  
  "Upon the motion of John Adams Esq^r, attorney to Jonathan Eams Jun^r and Elizabeth Eams Jun^r who stand committed to his majesty's Goal in this county, viz The said Jonathan for the murder, and the said Elizabeth as being accessory to the murder of one Ruth Eams, be discharged the King's attorney not objecting—
  
  "Salem november 15th: 1709. Judgment was entered according to the Verdicts and Complaints, &c, and the court is adjourned without day."
  
  The next spring Jonathan Ames Sr. sold the farm, and the family removed to some place unknown to the people of the parish, being virtually exiled from all their old associations and homeland.³
  

  Bar and Post in the Ames Cellar.
  The Ancient Cemetery.
  Site of the Meeting House
  
  APROPOS OF THE AMES MURDER.

• Last Edited: 2 Sep 2009

Ruth Perley¹

• Father: John Perley¹ b. November 22, 1743, d. November 28, 1811
• Mother: Hannah Mighill of Rowley¹ b. 1752 or 1753, d. September 8, 1812

• Relationship: 4th cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Ruth Perley was born perhaps 1794 in Rowley, Massachusetts.
• She was the daughter of John Perley and Hannah Mighill of Rowley.¹
• Ruth died on July 28, 1803 in Rowley, Massachusetts, at Moses Dole's.²

• Last Edited: 5 Apr 2010

Ruth Perley¹

• Father: Nathan Perley¹ b. March 9, 1752, d. October 9, 1820
• Mother: Ruth Gould¹ b. January 22, 1755, d. July 18, 1822

• Relationship: 4th cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Ruth Perley was born perhaps 1790.
• She was the daughter of Nathan Perley and Ruth Gould.¹

• Last Edited: 5 Apr 2010

Ruth Perley¹

• Father: Amos Perley¹ b. July 30, 1759, d. August 3, 1829
• Mother: Hannah Proctor of Danvers¹ b. perhaps 1761, d. August 14, 1809

• Relationship: 5th cousin 5 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Ruth Perley was born on April 16, 1798.¹
• She was the daughter of Amos Perley and Hannah Proctor of Danvers.¹
• Ruth married Thomas Frye Odell on April 22, 1824.¹
• Ruth died on January 20, 1826 at age 27.¹

• Last Edited: 14 Sep 2009

Ruth Putnam Perley¹

• Father: Francis Perley¹ b. January 11, 1744/45 or January 11, 1745/46, d. July 17, 1810
• Mother: Hannah Payson 2d, of Rowley¹ b. July 28, 1760, d. January 22, 1814 or July 21, 1814

• Relationship: 4th cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Ruth Putnam Perley was born on June 12, 1791.²
• She was the daughter of Francis Perley and Hannah Payson 2d, of Rowley.¹
• Ruth died young.²

• Last Edited: 6 Sep 2009

Ruth Putnam Perley¹

• Father: Francis Perley¹ b. January 11, 1744/45 or January 11, 1745/46, d. July 17, 1810
• Mother: Hannah Payson 2d, of Rowley¹ b. July 28, 1760, d. January 22, 1814 or July 21, 1814

• Relationship: 4th cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Ruth Putnam Perley was born on December 25, 1793.¹
• She was the daughter of Francis Perley and Hannah Payson 2d, of Rowley.¹
• Ruth married Joseph T. Haskins of Gloucester on January 27, 1818.¹
• Ruth died in 1840 or 1849 without issue.¹

• Last Edited: 6 Sep 2009

S. Emily Perley

• Reference: 0224cbbads2

• S. Emily Perley was born in 1843.
• S. married Edwin Story Annis, son of Amos Hadley Annis, on August 6, 1872 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
• S. died in 1883.

• Last Edited: 29 Mar 2004

Sally Perley¹

• Father: Stephen Perley¹ b. October 7, 1770, d. April 13, 1855
• Mother: Abigail Ladd¹ b. October 4, 1778, d. October 4, 1798

• Relationship: 4th cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Sally Perley was born on November 19, 1796.¹
• She was the daughter of Stephen Perley and Abigail Ladd.¹
• She married Dr. John Durkey and lived in Staten Island, Richmond County, New York.¹
• Sally Perley and Dr. John Durkey lived at Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire, where he practiced medicine, for many years during the latter part of his life.¹
• Sally died on November 6, 1853 at age 56, leaving several children.¹

• Last Edited: 13 Sep 2009

Sally Perley¹

• Father: Ebenezer Perley¹ b. July 25, 1773
• Mother: Hannah Currier¹ b. perhaps 1775

• Relationship: 5th cousin 5 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Sally Perley was born about 1798 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.¹
• She was the daughter of Ebenezer Perley and Hannah Currier.¹
• Sally married Orlando S. Morse between March 31, 1818 and September 29, 1818.¹
• Sally Perley and Orlando S. Morse lived at Baltimore, Maryland.¹

• Last Edited: 19 Sep 2009