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Note: Hannah (Perry) Aylsworth was born August 3, 1781, in Lower Canada. The following notes were extracted by Homer from a biographical notice set forth in 1869 in the Wesleyan Daily Recorder, May 28, 1869, at the time of her death. See Homer, pp 93f.
Her father, Robert Perry, and family, "with other New England Royalists, removed, or were removed by the military authorities, from Lower Canada to the Bay of Quinte country about the year 1785-86, when Hannah was four or five years old.
Often has she in after years related the particulars of the trying period, and of later period in the settlement of this part of the Province, with clearness and precision. For eighty years she and her husband Bowen, her children and reltives [were] identified with the domestic, socil civil, political and religious progress of this part of Canada. Their record would make up much of its history.
She remembered the voyage up the Bay of Quinte in the small French boats and its incidents, such as the fine sight of the tents pitced upon the shore (near the place where Bath was afterwards built) by a fatique party that had preceeded the main body of settlers; the firing of musketry by the shore party to attract attention, the firing of the boat party in reply; the hearty cheers of both when they neared the shore and the preparation made for their reception.
Hannah took her place, according to her age, at the family christening shortly after the settlement in Ernesttown, where her father allowed the Rev. J. Langhorn (an Anglican) to baptize all his children.
They were glad when a man from the United States, by the name of McCarthy, a lay preacher of the school of Whitfield, came among them. Robert Perry, her father, at once opened his house to him. Hannah was present when he was arrested, as stated in Playter's History of Methodism in Canada, in her father's house on the Sabbath day while preaching, by an armed man under the authority of certain military dignitaries, who did not intend that dissent should take root in Canadian soil. But how wondrously, by the prevalence of Prebyterianism and Methodism in Canada, has the presentament been fulfilled to which Mr. Perry gave utterance when he say Mr. McCarthy put into a small boat and shoved off from the shore in charge of some soldiers after what he he used to call a "mock trial," although Mr. McCarthy's doom may never be known until the last day. "You may," Mr Perry said, "banish, or drown, or burn McCarthy, but god will raise up a hundred from his ashes."
Hannah, then about eleven years of age, was converted and joined the first class form by Dunham in the neighbourhood, and probably the second or third in the Province, as it was during the first year of his superintendency. Hannah continued a member until her death, viz., about seventy-four years.
Hannah was sixteen when she married Bowen Aylsworth. Their family consisted of eleven sons and four daughters. When Hannah died she left about 250 descendants. She was eighty-five. She was buried at the cemetary at Violet Church.
Her oldest brother, Robert Perry, Jr., of those days, became a traveling preacher of great power in the M. E. Church, and two of her brothers, David and Daniel, local preachers. Another brother, the late Peter Perry, of Whitby, was associated with M.S. Bidwell, (then) of New York, as the celebrated representatives of Lennox and Addington from 1824 to 1835, whilst her only other brother, the Hon. E. Perry, of Coburg (became) a member of the Legislative Council." (Homer, pp 93f)
"When Lorenzo Dow visited Canada for the last time (around 1830 or 1835), he preached three times in the neighbourhood and was entertained by her together with about sixty others who staid over night on the premises to hear him preach on the second day. ...
Among her children one (was) a travelling preacher, quite extensively known, three (were) local preachers, others stewards, etc, whilst of her grand-children, two (were) traveling ministers in another Methodist body in the Province.
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It is interesting to note the following: clearly the PERRY FAMILY and the AYLESWORTH FAMILY were very close generations ago '85
(1) Hannah PERRY, married Bowen AYLSWORTH, and they named one of their sons Daniel Perry AYLSWORTH.
(2) Daniel PERRY, a brother to Hannah, married Jane WILLIAMS, and they named one of their sons 'Aylesworth Bowen PERRY'. This 'first' Aylesworth Bowen PERRY was a brother to William Hawley PERRY, and William named one of his sons 'Aylesworth Bowen PERRY' after William's brother and thus after the husband of Hannah Perry.
Further, Ken Campbell shared the following information with me in 2009:
"After Aylesworth Bowen Perry, it became a family 'tradition' to give the oldest son the second name 'Aylesworth'. Thusly, my father is Kenneth Aylesworth Campbell, my brother is Bruce Aylesworth Campbell, and his eldest is Stuart Aylesworth Campbell. Until I started my research, there was a belief that Aylesworth was part of the family's direct lineage. The use of surnames of extended family as part of the given names of children was never clear. I'm still not altogether on the origins of 'Bowen' but this too shall probably become clear over time. Ken Campbell"
(This note added December 10, 2010 by Samuel William Aylesworth.)
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