Abner Perry (1703 - 1758)

Born 10 Mar 1703 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Joanna (Gibbs) Perry — married 12 May 1726 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1758 at age 55 in Île-Royale, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Birth

Abner was born, 10 Mar 1703, in Sandwich, Massachusetts Bay. He is the son of Benjamin Perry and Dinah Swift. Abner Perry son of sd Benjamin and Dinah Perry was born the 10th day of March Anno domini 1703/4 ^[1][2]

Abner married Joanna Gibbs at Sandwich in May of 1726^[3] and they had nine children together.^[4]

Children

1. Dinah b 10 Sep 1727 in Sandwich; m Thomas Wood
2. Lydia b 17 Aug 1729 in Sandwich; m Lemuel Lyon
3. Manassah b 21 Apr 1731 in Stoughton
4. Benjamin b ca 1733 in Scituate
5. Joseph twin
6. Josiah b 19 Dec 1735 in Wrentham
7. Joanna b 22 Oct 1739 in Stoughton
8. Eliakim

Death

Abner died during the Siege of Louisburg at Cape Breton Island^[4] and was buried in Perryville Cemetery, Dudley, Massachusetts Bay. Perry, Abner ________ , 1758, Seige of Louisburg. G.S. 6^[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Birth Record
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RSY-ZW4?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DM-JW5%3A353349701%2C353349702%2C353357101 : 13 July 2016), Barnstable > Sandwich > Births, marriages, deaths 1682-1842 > image 30 of 181; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC8L-GMN : 24 January 2020), Abner Perry, 1726.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Brownson, Lydia (Phinney) and McLean, Maclane. "Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass. (c1625-1689). The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: Volume 115, 1961. Page 194. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11695/194/23496645
5. ↑ Vital Records of Dudley, MA to 1850 Death Record
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #50827859 Headstone photo added by Suzanne M Stewart

See also:

• The Connecticut Quarterly (Hartford, Conn., 1897) Vol. 3, Page 238
• Forbes, Harriette Merrifield. New England Diaries, 1602-1800, a descriptive catalogue of diaries, orderly books and sea journals. (Priv. print., Topsfield, Mass., 1923) Page 360: He m. Joanna Gibbs.