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SUSANNA BOKESEN
Allen Perley died on 28 December 1675 in Ipswich. [VRI]
The widow Susanna Perley died on 11 February 1691 in Ipswich. [VRI]
Allen Perley of Ipswich wrote his will on 23 June 1670 and added a clarifying codicil on 16 November 1671. It was proved on 3 February 1675/[6?] He mentioned—with some apparent resentment—his three elder sons John, Thomas and Samuel, saying, "Taking there liberty at the age of one & twenty to leave me &c. yet I have given untio them, three parts of the Land beyond Bachelours brooke." He also mentions his deceased son Nathaniel and left bequests to his two daughters Sarah and Martha, his son Timothy, not yet 23, and his beloved wife Susanna. He named his wife his sole executrix." [QCR]
Children of Allen Perley and Susanna Bokesen:
i. Samuel Perley married Ruth Trumble.
ii. Thomas Perley was born about 1641 in Ipswich. [PP] He died on 24 September 1709, age 68, in Boxford. [PP] He probably married first Lydia Horsley on 8 July 1667 in Rowley. [PP] He married second as her second husband Lydia Peabody.
iii. Martha Perley was born on 20 April 1657 in Ipswich. [VRI]
References
VRI. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1910), vol. 1: 291–2 (Perley births); vol. 2: 643, 647–8 (Perley deaths).
QCR. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol. 6, digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu), 137.
PP. John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants (Boston: privately printed, 1918), 298–9.
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