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Note: THE TRANSITION THE DECENDENTS OF EZRA PERRY OF SANDWICH IN WILTON SARATOGA COUNTY NEWYORK by Ruth Vester Pope The foregoing records of the family of Benjamin Perry are (with minorexceptions) taken from the records of Sandwich Massachusetts. Benjaminremoved from Sandwich to Stoughton [that part which is now Sharon] ;Norfolk county, Massachusetts, with his father , Benjamin , and two ofhis brothers, Nathaniel and Eliakim, and undoubtedly his own wife andchildren, probably in 1734. In 1739 he was still in Stoughton since hisname is there signed to the petition to set off the second precinct ofStroughton into the new town of Sharon which was done the next year, [1740 ]. Before 1742 he moved [ probably through Fairfield County andDanbury , Connecticut ] into Dutchess County, New York, the part nowPutnam County which was then called Fredericksburgh precinct, where atPatterson his daughter, Rebecca [then eighteen years of age ], wasmarried to a baptist miinister , the Rev. Simeon Dakin. In addition tothe four children whose births are noted in Sandwich records, Benjaminand Deborah (Johnson) Perry had three other children whose dates are notrecorded, born later, perhaps in Stroughton, Massachusetts, but one ofthem traditionally in Dutches county , New York. It does not appear , andit is not likely, that Benjamin or his wife , Deborah, went to Wilton,although their four sons and one daughter did [as can be proved bycensus, deeds, and wills]. It is probable that they lived and died inDutchess County, presumably in the town of North East. Since Rebecca wasmarried in Dutchess County in 1742, it would be reasonable to supposethat Ruth, and Jerusha, age 16 and 15, respectively, at that time wouldhave been with the family in Northeast Precinct and would have marriedbefore 1769 when the first member of the family to migrate, Isaac , wentto Hancock. [Western Massachusetts ]. With the removal of Benjamin toStroughton in 1734 and his name on the petition to set off Sharon in 1739we have the last Massachusetts record of him.
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