Obadiah Perry Sr (1635 - 1691)

Born 1635 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Esther (Hassell) Townsend — married 21 Aug 1667 in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 28 Sep 1691 at about age 56 in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Obadiah Perry, was born in 1635 in Waterown, Massachusetts. He was the son of William Perry and Anna (Unknown) Perry.

He was a freeman in 1678, and one of the founders of the church at Dunstable.

He married Esther Hassell on the 21st of August 1667 in Dunstable, Massachusetts^[1] where they raised six children.

1. Obadiah Perry, born 1669.
2. Ebenezer Perry, born 1671.
3. Esther (Perry) Harwood, born 1774.
4. Samuel Perry, born 1677.
5. John Perry, born 1682.
6. Elizabeth (Perry) Baker, born 1683.

He was killed by Indians on the 28th of September 1691 in Dunstable, Massachusetts.^[2]

One of Obadiah's death sources states he was "slain by Indians"

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, database, FamilySearch (FamilySearch link: 24 January 2020), Obadiah Perry, 1667.
2. ↑ Stearns, Ezra S, Early generations of the founders of old Dunstable, thirty families; Boston : G. F. Littlefield, 1911. Page 59-60

• Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. 550p.
• Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500-1900. William Perry
• Early New England Families, 1641-1700 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2013) "William Parry (m. 1641)", Page 4$
• Stearns, Hon. Ezra S., Some Ancient Dunstable History, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1901) Vol. 55, Page 187.

• Deposition made in 1744: "four were killed in August and two in September of the same year... the massacre of Joseph Hassell, Anna his wife, Benjamin his son, and Mary Marks, the second day of September, 1691... Christopher Temple and Obadiah Perry dyed by the hand of our Indian Enemies the twenty-eighth of the same month."

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