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Deborah 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

• Deborah Perley was baptized on February 21, 1796 in Boxford, Massachusetts.²
• She was the daughter of Francis Perley and Hannah Payson 2d, of Rowley.¹

• Last Edited: 6 Sep 2009

Deborah Perley¹

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

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

• Deborah Perley was born perhaps 1786.
• She was the daughter of Jacob Perley and Dolly Wood.¹

• Last Edited: 5 Apr 2010

Disperse Perley¹

• Father: Lieut. Dudley Perley¹ b. November 23, 1738, d. December 16, 1810
• Mother: Hannah Hale¹ b. October 26, 1743, d. August 9, 1806

• Relationship: 2nd cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• 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

Dorothy 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

• Dorothy Perley was born on September 26, 1761 in Boxford, Massachusetts.¹
• She was the daughter of Benjamin Perley and Hannah Clark.¹
• Dorothy Perley and Moses Adams of New London, N. H. published their marriage intention on February 6, 1790.¹

• Last Edited: 5 Sep 2009

Lieut. Dudley Perley¹

• Father: Maj. Asa Perley² b. October 10, 1716, d. April 10, 1806
• Mother: Susannah Low² b. January 1, 1719, d. January 15, 1762

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

• 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

Dudley Perley¹

• Father: Lieut. Dudley Perley¹ b. November 23, 1738, d. December 16, 1810
• Mother: Hannah Hale¹ b. October 26, 1743, d. August 9, 1806

• Relationship: 2nd cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Dudley Perley was born on August 26, 1770 in Winchendon, Massachusetts. He had no children.^1,2
• He was the son of Lieut. Dudley Perley and Hannah Hale.¹
• As of August 15, 1812, Dudley Perley lived at Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, when he sold to Asa Perley of Winchendon, for $150, lot No. 26, 33 acres, the part set off by a committee of probate to Dudley Perley, late of Winchendon.—Registry, 237:429.²

• Last Edited: 3 Sep 2009

Dudley Perley¹

• Father: Asa Perley¹ b. December 13, 1740, d. about November, 1815
• Mother: Hannah Pickard of St. John¹ b. perhaps 1742

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

• Reference: 3846cajbd

• Dudley Perley was born in 1778/79.²
• He was the son of Asa Perley and Hannah Pickard of St. John.¹

• Last Edited: 1 May 2016

Ebenezer Perley¹

• Father: Nathaniel Perley¹ b. October 11, 1745, d. about April, 1779
• Mother: Sarah Dutch of Ipswich Village¹ b. 1749, d. May 3, 1819

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

• Ebenezer Perley was baptized on July 25, 1773 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His father died in 1778, and his stepfather, Lt. Samuel Bacon of Bradford, was appointed his guardian 5 Dec 1791. When of Salisbury 19 July 1798, he discharged his guardian, and acknowledged the receipt of $200 as per his guardian's account. He married and resided in Salisbury. He bought 12 Nov 1798, for £570, one-quarter acre of land "with the house" upon it, on Webster's Point, of Jacob Currier of Salisbury, calker, " extending three rods on both sides of the highway," bounded by the river channel southerly, by Daniel East- man and Meltiah Merrill westerly, by Joseph Wells northerly, by John Stevens easterly, the highway (?) "holding the width of three rods from one end to the other." He owned a farm in that town, located back of S. Smith's farm, north of the Rocky-Hill Church, marked E. Dow on D. G. Beer & Co.'s County Atlas 1872. Hannah, his wife, 30 Dec 1817, represented to Probate Court that her husband, Ebenezer Perley of Salisbury, was absent at sea and was not expected soon to return, that the property in Salisbury of which the children were joint owners in their own right, half an old house, thirty acres of woodland, and twelve of pasturage, and that the children, Sally, nineteen ; Nathaniel, sixteen; John Hodge, fourteen; Louisa, twelve; James, ten; Ebenezer George, eight; and Benjamin Dutch, six, needed "immediate and constant care and attention" and asked a guardian of the children to take care of their real estate. John Balch of Newbury, merchant, was appointed. A house on Ring's Island is mentioned.²
• He was the son of Nathaniel Perley and Sarah Dutch of Ipswich Village.¹
• "Lowle" in the Georgetown Advocate printed the following paper, which in this connection is very interesting:—
  
  "The first notice of Ebenezer Perley in this town by his employment of our mechanics is the nearest that I can fix his advent in Salisbury, and perhaps a list of the vessels built by his order, while a resident here, may be of interest to the editors of the Advocate, if not to some reader. Let me here add that he bought quite a large farm in Salisbury and occupied it while in business here. The old farm is still known as the Perley farm, although long ago deserted by its distinguished proprietor. His first vessel was the schooner Hope, of 29 tons, built at Newbury in 1786 in company with S. Clark of Salisbury. In 1799 he had built in Amesbury the schooner Regulator, of 94 tons. In 1800 the ship Jason, of 151 tons, built at Salisbury and owned by Perley and Daniel Webster of Salisbury. In 1801 the ship Hannah, of 181 tons, built at Salisbury. In 1802 the ship Favorite 134 tons, built at (Pleasant Valley) Amesbury, by David Clough. One of the builder's descendants, Mr. J. S. Clough of Chelsea, Mass., has a fine oil painting of this old ship Favorite under full sail, and gaily decked with colors, represented as taking her departure from some foreign port. This is truly a valuable relic of the old builders, not merely as the work of the foreign artist, but by the careful drawing of all minor parts of hull, spars and rigging, and presents to us clearly the peculiar style in every particular of the ship of-one hundred years ago. [The picture of the ship here shown is from a photograph of the painting, by the kindly favor of Mr. Clough.] In 1803 the ship Aurora, of 235 tons, built at Salisbury. This ship I think was built by the Stevens Brothers, as also were other vessels of his fleet, in their old ship-yard in front of their dwelling house, a part of which is at present occupied by the writer, (who has the honor of being of that family of shipwrights), but only as a builder of dories and skiffs, on such hallowed ground! ! where those old shipwrights produced from the rough white oak of our forests, many a noble ship,—'qwiwqO tempore, O moresqw/iwq' how hath the mighty fallen, from the staunch old ship to the frail skiff,—'Pity 'tis, 'tis true.' Well, we will use the skiff occasionally to paddle with pleasure alongside of that old drifter of our fathers, the old wooden ship, whose noble place, with all those ancient associations of its construction's fast being taken up by the riveted plate-iron, pot-like monster of the present, with no charm in history for the New England shipwright.
  
  " The last ship Perley was concerned in here was named the Rising Sun, of 284 tons, built at Salisbury in 1804 and owned by Perley and J. Nelson. How long Perley remained in Salisbury I cannot say, but certainly while here, this record of a few years proves him to have been an active and enterprising man, whose memory we should ever respect. I learned that he sold out here after a few years and removed with his family to Baltimore, Md., and that comprises all that I can give of the interesting history of Ebenezer Perley, the bright meteor that once flashed across our pathway and so soon disappeared."
  
  "Boston, Jan. 31. Loss of ship Favorite. The ship Favorite, Nathaniel M. Perley, master, sailed from thence to Lisbon:—after standing off, with a light breeze, from 11 A. M. until 8 P. M., the wind began to haul to N. E. and coming on to snow, the weather very thick, Capt. P. thought best to heave about and stand in, and endeavor to make a harbor—he ran in about a mile above the light and came to, with both anchors ahead and rode until about 5 o'clock on Monday morning, it then blowing very hard from E. N. E. The ship parted both her cables, and in ten minutes struck on Rocky Point and is bilged; it is expected a large part of the cargo will be saved."³
  

  THE SHIP FAVORITE.
• Ebenezer married Hannah Currier.⁴
• In 1804, Sept. 10, Mr. Perley was on a committee to establish an academy for the two towns, Amesbury and Salisbury. The academy was instituted at Bartlett's Corner. He became a sea captain and sailed on foreign voyages. He probably began his sea life out of Newburyport. "Arrived at Newburyport forty-nine days from Hamburg, 26 Aug 1799, schooner Regulator, Perley, master." Perley was in Hamburg the July before. The Salem Gazette 13 Jan 1804, reported : "The Favorite, Perley, master, arrived at Norfolk, from Newburyport."²
• Between March 31, 1818 and September 29, 1818, Ebenezer Perley and Hannah Currier moved to Baltimore, Maryland.⁵
• About 1820 he sailed and was never heard of afterwards. James says his grandfather was "lost at sea in 1825."²

• Last Edited: 19 Sep 2009

Ebenezer George Perley¹

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

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

• Ebenezer George Perley was born perhaps 1806 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.¹
• He was the son of Ebenezer Perley and Hannah Currier.¹
• In 1811, he was put under guardianship, being a minor.¹
• As of from 1818 to 1820, Ebenezer George Perley lived at Baltimore, Maryland.²

• Last Edited: 5 Apr 2010

Ebenezer Putnam Perley¹

• Father: Francis Perley¹ b. January 11, 1744/45 or January 11, 1745/46, d. July 17, 1810
• Mother: Ruth Putnam of Danvers¹ b. 1751 or 1752, d. April 6, 1784

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

• Ebenezer Putnam Perley was born on October 12, 1782 in Boxford, Massachusetts.²
• He was the son of Francis Perley and Ruth Putnam of Danvers.¹

• Last Edited: 24 Apr 2010

Edmund Perley¹

• Father: Nathan Perley¹ b. 1737, d. about 1816
• Mother: Sarah Symonds¹ b. perhaps 1755, d. about 1839

• Relationship: 2nd cousin 6 times removed of Steven George Levine

• Edmund Perley was born perhaps 1781.
• He was the son of Nathan Perley and Sarah Symonds.¹

• Last Edited: 31 Mar 2010

Ednah Jewett Perley¹

• Father: Capt. Allen Perley¹ b. September 5, 1789, d. February 22, 1876
• Mother: Martha Hale Cressey¹ b. April 27, 1792, d. February 24, 1871

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

• Ednah Jewett Perley was born on September 6, 1823 in Rowley, Massachusetts.¹
• She was the daughter of Capt. Allen Perley and Martha Hale Cressey.¹

• Last Edited: 19 Feb 2015

Edward Payson 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

• Edward Payson Perley was born on April 8, 1798.²
• He was the son of Francis Perley and Hannah Payson 2d, of Rowley.¹
• Edward died abroad.²

• Last Edited: 6 Sep 2009

Edwin F. Perley¹

• Father: Artemas Ward Perley¹ b. January 29, 1776, d. January 6, 1862
• Mother: Eleanor Putnam of Danvers¹ b. 1783 or 1784, d. June 1, 1821

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

• Edwin F. Perley was born perhaps 1819.
• He was the son of Artemas Ward Perley and Eleanor Putnam of Danvers.¹

• Last Edited: 5 Apr 2010

Elcy Perley¹

• Father: Samuel Perley¹ b. July 19, 1775, d. April 30, 1830
• Mother: Lucy Balch¹ b. February 21, 1779, d. April 29, 1831 or 1854

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

• Elcy Perley was born on August 1, 1802 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.¹
• She was the daughter of Samuel Perley and Lucy Balch.¹

• Last Edited: 20 Sep 2009

Eliphalet Perley¹

• Father: Maj. Asa Perley¹ b. October 10, 1716, d. April 10, 1806
• Mother: Susannah Low¹ b. January 1, 1719, d. January 15, 1762

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

• Eliphalet Perley was born on August 27, 1742.¹
• He was the son of Maj. Asa Perley and Susannah Low.¹

• Last Edited: 24 Aug 2009

Eliphalet Perley¹

• Father: Maj. Asa Perley¹ b. October 10, 1716, d. April 10, 1806
• Mother: Susannah Low¹ b. January 1, 1719, d. January 15, 1762

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

• Eliphalet Perley was born on November 22, 1747 and lived, first, in Danvers, Massachusetts.²
• He was the son of Maj. Asa Perley and Susannah Low.¹
• Eliphalet married Anna Porter on March 24, 1774 in Boxford, Massachusetts.²
• About 1777, Eliphalet Perley moved to Boxford, Massachusetts. Asa Perley of Boxford, gentleman, for natural affection, gave his son Eliphalet, cooper, then of Boxford, 80 acres, drawn on the original right of Thomas Lord, 4 Jun 1776.—Registry, 77:104.²
• About 1779, Eliphalet Perley moved to Rindge, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and located probably near Perley pond in that town. In 1775 he was a corporal from Danvers in Capt. Israel Hutchinson's company of militia, which marched to the battle of Lexington, and serving two days received pay for fifty miles travel. While the Continental Army was stationed at Dorchester, 18 Apr 1776, Ens. Eliphalet Perley was a member of the Board of Survey, which consisted of a president and four members. He kept a diary while in the army, and it is said his son Asa had it. Miss Alice H. Byrd says Eliphalet was a farmer and later the first mate of a merchantman. J. P. Lowe says he was a major under Gen. Washington and much in the general's company. He was surveyor of highways in 1787.
  
  When of Rindge, gentleman, 1 Mar 1779, he sold for £250, land in Winchendon—80 acres—to Thaddeus Bowman of Winchendon, yeoman.—Registry, 82 :244.
  
  Eliphalet Perley of Rindge, 2 Jan, 1783, sold Isaac Gibson, Jr., of Fitchburg, 31 acres of land in Fitchburg, courses and distances fully stated, for $150.—Registry, 87: 223.²
• About 1782, Eliphalet Perley moved to Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Eliphalet gave Samuel Perley and Solomon Perley security on note dated 4 June, 1789, and 8 Oct 1797, relinquished 15 acres, the southerlypart of Eliphalet's farm,amount $87.09.—Registry, 135:236.
  
  Eliphalet and Anna sold Joseph Fox, Esq., land and buildings— 31 acres—all of Fitchburg, 11 Mar 1799, for $274.60. Registry, 130: 600.
  
  Eliphalet, gentleman, and wife Anna, 28 Jan 1808, sold 31 acres land and buildings in Fitchburg to Israel Wetherbee, Jr., of Ashley, for £625.—Registry, 67: 520.²
• Eliphalet died on April 15, 1822 in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 74 His widow in a letter to his brother Henry, of Boxford,dated 22 Jul 1822, thus speaks of his sickness and death: "Your brother Elipnalet is dead. . . . He had been failing for some time, but was able to keep about and do some work, until the 1st of January, when he was taken with a dropsical affection. He continued very feeble through the winter, but was able to walk about the house. On the morning of loth of April he got up, ate breakfast, and talked with one of the neighbors an hour, and appeared to be as well as usual, but was suddenly taken speechless and senseless, and appeared to be in a lit. For two years past he had been considerably affected with numb palsy, and it was thought to be that and a fit of apoplexy, which terminated his life at half past nine in the evening. . . . We are very lonely; my family now consists of myself and two daughters Betsey and Clarissa. Putnam and Susan with their families have removed 240 miles from us into the State of New York. Asa was with us through the winter and spring, but is now living in Lancaster, fifteen miles from Fitch burg. Brother Allen was here at the funeral of his brother. ... I wish you to write to brother Daniel soon."
  
  His son Asa "the only son in this State" was his administrator. His bond is dated 12 Nov 1822. In the settlement his wife Anna is mentioned, and that he was a pensioner.—Registry, 46022.
  
  His brother Henry wrote in Aug 1822, to his (Eliphalet's) widow: " Tell your children that their father and my brother was a brother soldier with me in 1776, and that he was never known to desert his post. It is a great comfort that Congress has remembered the remnant of the poor men who helped gain our freedom. I desire that you would tell your children and that they would tell their children's children that they may defend the liberties which we have gained for them, and which were bought with the blood of my fellow soldiers."³

• Last Edited: 4 Sep 2009