Husband: Joseph PERRY (1)
Birthdate: May 28, 1719 (1)
Birthplace: Scituate, MA (1)
Death date: abt 1789 (2)
Place of death: So. Thomaston, ME
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Father: Joseph PERRY (1)
Mother: Mercy LEACH (1)
Other Spouses: [1] Rachel JONES [2] Abigail TILDEN

Marriage date: pub March 07, 1757 (3, 13)
Marriage place: Marshfield, MA

Wife: Abigail FORD (3, 13)
Birthdate: Sept. 24, 17?? (3)
Birthplace: Marshfield, MA
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Father: William FORD (3, 13)
Mother: Hannah TRUANT (3,13)
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Child No. 1: Mercy PERRY (2)
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Marriage date: pub. May 16, 1794 (4)
Marriage place: Thomaston, ME
Spouse's name: Joseph FORD (4)

Child No. 2: David PERRY (2, 3)
Sex: M
Birthdate: January 26, 1758 (3)
Birthplace: Marshfield, MA
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Child No. 3: Hannah PERRY (2,3)
Sex: F
Birthdate: March 09, 1759 (3)
Birthplace: Marshfield, MA
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Child No. 4: Joseph PERRY (2)
Sex: M
Birthdate: November 21, 1760 (5)
Birthplace: Marshfield, MA
Death date: January 18, 1853 (2, 6)
Place of death: So. Thomaston, ME
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Child No. 5: Eli PERRY (2)
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Birthdate: November 21, 1762 (12)
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Death date: January 20, 1848 (12)
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Spouse's name: Martha Gooding/Goodwin (14)

Child No. 6: Job PERRY (2)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1766 (7)
Birthplace: Georgetown, ME
Death date: December 31, 1841 (2,8)
Place of death: So. Thomaston, ME
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Marriage date: August 03, 1792 (2)
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Spouse's name: Mary Jordan (2)

Child No. 7: Abigail PERRY (2)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1767 (9)
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Spouse's name: Robert THORNDIKE (2)

Child No. 8: William PERRY (2)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1771 (2, 11)
Birthplace: Boothbay, ME
Death date: January 29, 1853 (10)
Place of death: So. Thomaston, ME
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Spouse's name: Mary RENDELL (2, 11)
 
 
Documentation:
1. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850.
2. Cyrus Eaton, History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine, vol. II, (Hallowell, 1865; reprinted by Courier-Gazette, Inc., 1972), p. 352.
(Note: Joseph Perry is inaccurately called Job Perry in this record. See source number 13 below, Plymouth Co. Deeds 180:136. Abigail Ford was his third wife.
3. Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Marshfield, MA to 1850, (Society of Mayflower Descendants, reprinted 1993
4. Vital Records of Thomaston, Maine, (FHC microfilm 012253), Book I, p. 126.
5. Pension Application File W5507 (B.L.Wt. 8461-160-55) for Joseph Perry or Lucy Perey, State of Mass., (Joseph's application dated 8 August 1832; Lucy's application dated 10 March 1853).
6. Pension Application File W5507 (B.L.Wt. 8461-160-55) for Joseph Perry or Lucy Perey, State of Mass., (Joseph's application dated 8 August 1832; Lucy's application dated 10 March 1853), Joseph's widow, Lucy Holland Perry, petitioned for a pension after his death and cited his date of death as 18 January 1853.
7. Pension Application File S 17015 for Job Perry, State of Mass., (Application dated 8 August 1832).
8. Tombstone of Job Perry in Hix Cemetery, Owl's Head, ME.
9. Rev. Murray's Book of Records, cited in a letter from Barbara Rumsey of the Boothbay Historical Society, 12-5-1999.
10. "[Rockland, ME] Courier-Gazette," Obituary of William Perry, 11 Feb. 1853.
11. Thomaston, ME, Town Records, p. 127.
12. Supposedly this information is contained in his pension application. I have not actually seen it.
13. Plymouth County Deeds 180:136. Here is the pertinent paragraph: "This Indenture of Division and Partition made & concluded upon the twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty seven, Between Abner Foord of Balltown in the county of Lincoln, Joseph Perrey & Abigail his Wife of OwlsHead in the county aforesaid, Nathan Foord of Milton in the County of Suffolk Elijah Foord & Livi Foord both of Marshfield in the County of Plymouth and Anthony Sherman & Silence Sherman his Wife of Bridgwater in the County of Plymouth aforesaid all of Within the Commonwealth of Massachussetts, Yeomans, and spinsters witnesseth that whereas we the said Abner Foord, Nathan Foord, Elijah Foord, Levi Foord Silence Sherman and Abigail Perrey in Common and undivided: Stand [can't read word] in fee of two peices of Salt Meadow Land that fall to us the only Legal heirs to our Honoured Parents Mr. William Foord & [next page] Hannah Foord his wife Late of Marshfield..."
14. Joseph Crook Anderson II, editor, Maine Families in 1790, (Picton Press, Rockport, ME), 7:23.