Samuel Perley

SAMUEL PERLEY (d. 1725), Allen Perley and Susanna Bokesen

RUTH TRUMBLE (b. 1645), daughter of John Trumble and Ellen Unknown

Samuel Perley died on 29 January 1724/5 in Ipswich. [1] He married Ruth Trumbull on 15 July 1664 in Ipswich. [1]

John How was presented for slander at the court in Ipswich on 27 (7) 1664. Samuel Perley testified that when he was with him John How took out a piece of paper and read verses about Goodwives Peabody, Clark and Andrus. These women "do together flock and so the spend their husband's stock and master woodcock shall be preacher to these women, he need not study above an hour or two in one week. [2]

Samuel was on a Newbury list of freemen on 19 May 1669. [3]

Children of Samuel Perley and Ruth Trumble: Births, as children of Samuel, recorded in 1686 in Ipswich. [1]

i. Sarah Perley was born on 7 June 1665. She died on 15 January 1693 in Boxford. She married Capt. Joseph Andrews.

ii. Samuel Perley was born on 28 May 1677. He died on 10 April 1753 in Ipswich. [1] He married Abigail Cummings on 28 March 1694 in Topsfield. [4]

iii. John Perley was born on 28 September 1669. John, the son of Samuel, died on 2 May 1725, age 57, in Ipswich. [1] He married Jane Dresser on 13 July 1698. [5]

iv. Hannah Perley was born on 8 June 1671.

v. Ruth Perley was born on 4 June 1675. Ruth died on 8 September 1736, unmarried, in Ipswich. [1]

vi. Hepsibah Perley was born on 28 September 1679.

References

1. 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: 340–2 (Perley marriages); vol. 2: 643, 647–8 (Perley deaths).

2. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol. 3, digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu), 197.

3. Lucius R. Paige, "List of Freemen, " New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3 (1849): 240.

4. Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1903), 176.

5. Nora Emma Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry (Hillburn, NY: Snow, 1939).

last revised 25-Jul-2020