Samuel Perley

SAMUEL PERLEY (say 1639– 1725), son of Allen Perley and Susanna Bokesen

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

Samuel Perley was born say 1639. [1] He died on 29 January 1724/5 in Ipswich. [2] He married Ruth Trumbull on 15 July 1664 in Ipswich. [2]

Ruth, the daughter of John and Ellen Trumble, was born on 23 April 1645 in Rowley. [3]

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. [4]

Samuel was on a Newbury list of freemen on 19 May 1669. [5] He took the oath of allegiance in Ipswich in 1683. [6]

Samuel was named in his father's will of 23 June 1670. He left him land that he was possessed of beyond Bachelour's Brook. [1]

Children of Samuel Perley and Ruth Trumble: Births, as children of Samuel, recorded in 1686 in Ipswich. [2]

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

By a deed dated 1714 in Essex County, it appears that the Sarah, wife of Joseph Andrews of Salem Village, was a daughter of Samuel Perley. [3]

ii. Samuel Perley was born on 28 May 1677. He died on 10 April 1753 in Ipswich. [2] He married Abigail Cummings on 28 March 1694 in Topsfield. [7]

iii. John Perley was born on 28 September 1669. John, the son of Samuel, died on 2 May 1725, age 57, in Ipswich. [2] He married Jane Dresser on 13 July 1698. [8]

John and Jane Perley were apparently the grandparents of Ruth Perley, who married Jonathan Ames of Boxford. Ruth's husband and mother-in-law were tried for poisoning her. The were represented by the future president John Adams and were acquitted. However, they quickly left the area. Sidney Perley presents an account of the incident. [9]

John and Jane were also the parents of Martha Perley, who married John Chapman, and was the grandmother of John Chapman ("Johnny Appleseed"). [10]

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. [2]

vi. Hephzibah Perley was born on 28 September 1679.

References

1. "Great Migration 1634–1635, M–P," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org., originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume V, M–P (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), 439–40.

2. 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), 643, 647–8 (Perley deaths).

3. Editors, "Answers," Essex Antiquarian 3 (1899): 112.

4. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols. (Essex Institute, 1911 - 1975). Online at Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html), 3: 197.

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

6. A.W. Brown, "Materials for a History of Newbury," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7 (1853): 349–350.

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

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

9. Sidney Perley, "The Ames Murder, " Essex Antiquarian 2 (1898): 1–7.

10. Gary Boyd Roberts, "Notable Kin: Figures in American Folklore," NEHGS NEXUS 5 (1988): 19–22.

last revised 26-Dec-2022