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Note: I, Samuel William Aylesworth, who assembled this family tree/database, descend directly from Robert Perry and his wife Jemima Gary Washburn, through their daughter Hannah Perry who married Bowen Aylsworth.
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"Robert Perry (Senior) was born in Rehoboth, Massachussets, in 1751, and was married to Jemima Washburn, of Attelboro, in March 1772, and settled in Rutland, Vermont, then a new country, in September of the same year. He had two brothers, David and Peter, who adhered to the Revolutionary cause while Robert clung to Britain, and was among the New England Royalists. [See the notes on James McKIM, who served with the Jessup Rangers along with Robert Perry. SWA]
After a reverse in the British cause between the years of 1777 - 79, his family and others were driven into Lower Canada, where Hannah and two of her brothers, Daniel and David, were born. Robert Perry and family, with other New England Loyalists, removed, or were removed by the military authorities, from Lower Canada to the Bay of Quinte country about the year 1785-86." (Homer, p93)
When he died in 1837, at the age of 86, Robert Perry left about 300 descendants.
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The following notes are copied and modified somewhat from http://www.qschooner.com/abperrybio.html This information was compiled by Brandt Zatterberg of Napanee, Ontario, an Aylesworth descendant.
"Aylesworth Bowen Perry of the Northwest Mounted Police
by Brandt Z'e4tterberg
Schooner Crew
Robert Perry ... received his land at Bath [Ontario, Canada] as a soldier faithful to the Crown during the American Revolution. Massachusetts born and bred, Robert married Jemima Gary Washburn in 1771. Jemima´s family were descendants of the Mayflower passenger and Plymouth colonist, Francis Cooke [and also of the Mayflower passenger James Chilton].
Late in 1772 Jemima, six months pregnant, relocated with her husband to Rutland, Vermont, where Robert´s uncle, Daniel Walker, of the Battle of Quebec fame, had already settled.
Having refused to take oaths against the British crown, Robert and his cousin, David Shorey, joined the Lt.-Col. John Peters´ regiment under General Burgoyne in 1777. While most Loyalist regiments stayed to the rear, Peters´ Queen´s Loyal Rangers were in the advance units. It is said that only 90 survived the 600 men who served in the regiment. Burgoyne was forced to surrender after the Battle of Saratoga but knowing that the Loyalists would be unduly treated by the Rebels he allowed them to disband. Perry and Shorey left immediately for Quebec, where their families would join them sometime later. It was at Machiche, on the shores of Lake St. Peter, Quebec that [one of their sons,] Daniel Perry, was born in 1779.
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Robert Perry Sr. was renowned for his religious beliefs and was a leading force in the introduction of Methodism in early Upper Canada. He held church meetings in his home and often people would travel from miles around to spend days at the Perry farm just north of Bath to hear the likes of the Reverends McCarthy, Losee and Dunham."
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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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Robert Perry was a Loyalist, fighting with the British against those who sought to separate America from Britain during the American Revolutionary War. During the later years of the war, Robert served with the "Jessup Rangers". Follwing is an aritcle about Edward JESSUP and the "Jessup Rangers", copied here by Samuel Wm. Aylesworth with attribution R. Arthur Bowler, ``JESSUP, EDWARD,´´ in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Universit'e9 Laval, 2003-, accessed February 26, 2015, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jessup_edward_5E.html.
The articles reads:
"JESSUP, EDWARD, army officer, land speculator, judge, office holder, and militia officer; b. either 4 or 24 Dec. 1735 in the parish of Stamford, Conn., son of Joseph Jessup and Abigail James; m. 1760 Abigail Dibble, and they had two children; d. 3 Feb. 1816 in Prescott, Upper Canada.
Although the Jessups had lived in Connecticut for several generations, Joseph Jessup moved his family to the ``Upper Nine Partners Patent´´ in Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1744. Edward Jessup raised a company and served as a captain in Jeffery Amherst*´s campaign of 1759 in the Lake Champlain region, and probably became aware at that time of the opportunities available in northern New York. About 1764 Edward and his brother Ebenezer moved to Albany. There they formed a partnership, and over the next decade the two engaged in land speculation on a grand scale in the upper Hudson and Lake George areas. In their speculations they were no doubt aided by their close relationship with Sir William Johnson* and John Butler*. The brothers eventually established a community, with mills and a ferry, about ten miles above Glen Falls on the Hudson. This settlement, which became known as Jessup´s Landing, was a focus of loyalism in the years just before the revolution, and when Sir Guy Carleton succeeded in driving the American forces out of the province of Quebec in the summer of 1776 the Jessups led a party of some 80 loyalists to join him at Crown Point (N.Y.).
The Jessup party was first attached to Sir John Johnson*´s King´s Royal Regiment of New York, but on 7 June 1777 the King´s Loyal Americans corps was tentatively established with Ebenezer as lieutenant-colonel and Edward as captain. Although the corps was not fully formed, the Jessup brothers took part in John Burgoyne*´s campaign, with Edward as commander of the bateaux service on the Hudson. Both Edward and Ebenezer were taken prisoner in the Saratoga campaign but were paroled and allowed to make their way to Quebec.
Since many members of the King´s Loyal Americans were dispersed during the Burgoyne fiasco, the unit never attained its established strength and remained for the next four years a semi-independent appendage of Johnson´s regiment, engaged mainly in building, repairing, and garrisoning fortifications around Montreal, Sorel, and lower Lake Champlain, although it also took part in several raids into New York. Edward went on such raids in October 1780 and again the following fall. It was probably these services, as well as his administrative capacities, that led Governor Haldimand to choose Edward over Ebenezer as major commandant of the new corps of Loyal Rangers, created 12 Nov. 1781 from a number of smaller military formations including the Loyal Americans. The new corps soon became known as Jessup´s Rangers. Until their disbandment on 24 Dec. 1783 the Rangers were employed in the same kind of duties that had previously engaged the Loyal Americans. They were usually stationed at Sorel or Verch'e8res and provided garrisons for posts at Yamaska, Rivi'e8re-aux-Chiens, 'cele aux Noix, and Dutchman´s Point (near Alburg, Vt).
With the war lost, Jessup began in the summer of 1783 to plan the resettlement of his corps and was one of those who proposed the Ottawa River and the upper St Lawrence for that purpose. Although his proposal for structured settlements based on military rank was rejected, Haldimand incorporated a number of his other ideas into the plan finally adopted. In that plan Jessup´s Rangers were allotted townships No.6 (Edwardsburg), No.7 (Augusta), and part of No.8 (Elizabethtown), all on the St Lawrence, as well as No.2 (Ernestown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario, Canada ), west of Cataraqui (Kingston). Jessup spent the summer of 1784 supervising the settlement of his men on their new lands and in the fall of that year journeyed to London, England, to submit a claim for his losses during the revolution. He returned to Quebec by 1788 and took up his own land grant of 1,200 acres in Augusta Township, immediately opposite Fort Oswegatchie (Ogdensburg, N.Y.) on the St Lawrence and beside the lots granted to his son, Lieutenant Edward Jessup.
In the post-war years Jessup resumed his career as a land speculator. As a loyalist and a major he was entitled to considerable land beyond his 1,200 acres, and he shortly applied for and was granted 3,800 acres in a single block on the South Nation River (Ont.); he apparently intended to settle and develop it but there is no evidence that he was able to do so. He also had considerable land in the seigneury of Sorel, where his family lived until at least the late 1780s and possibly longer. It seems he had some standing with both Haldimand and Carleton (now Lord Dorchester), although not enough either to persuade the government to invest 'a36,000 in a plan to provide loyalist settlers with cattle in return for oak barrel staves, or to gain approval for a township settlement scheme he drew up with three American entrepreneurs who, he assured Dorchester, were ``Loyalist in heart.´´ Haldimand, however, made him a justice of the peace; and Dorchester, besides recommending him for the Executive Council of Upper Canada, appointed him a judge of the Court of Common Pleas and lieutenant-colonel of the Edwardsburg, Augusta, and Elizabethtown militia.
Jessup was not able to maintain his influence after the establishment of the new colony of Upper Canada in 1791. In the struggle for place at York (Toronto) it was Ephraim Jones and Solomon Jones* who won out, not Jessup; Lieutenant Governor Simcoe did not take up Dorchester´s recommendation of Jessup for the Executive Council. Yet by this point age may well have begun to make Jessup less competitive since his son did achieve some standing. Edward Jr sat for Grenville in the second session of the legislature of Upper Canada, succeeded his father as lieutenant-colonel of the local militia in 1795, and was appointed a clerk of the peace for the Johnstown District in 1800 and a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in 1802.
In 1810 Jessup and his son laid out the town of Prescott, named after Governor Robert Prescott, along the front of their St Lawrence River lands, but only two years later their own home sites were expropriated by the army for the construction of Fort Wellington. Jessup´s active career, however, was now over. By 1812 he was no longer able to conduct business for himself, and when he died in February 1816 he had been bedridden and ``afflicted with the palsy´´ for several years and could not even sign his name.
R. Arthur Bowler
AO, ms 521; MU 1107, package 4; MU 2828-31. BL, Add. mss 21670, 21678, 21717, 21766, 21822-23, 21828-29, 21874-75 (transcripts at PAC). Conn. State Library (Hartford), Indexes, Barbour coll., Stamford vital records, 1: 39. PAC, MG 23, A3; C9; K12 (originals and transcripts); MG 25, 59; RG 1, E14; L3, 254: I-J1/26-28, 40; 254A: I-J4/50; I-J5/10-11; I-J6/5; 255: J9/1; 266: I-J misc., 1788-95/24-29; I-J misc., 1795-1837/2-3; 522: W2/16; RG 8, I (C ser.), 279; RG 19, 3757; RG 68, General index, 1651-1841: ff.81, 260, 276, 292, 324, 330, 334, 403, 405, 411, 413, 415, 417, 419, 427, 534, 629, 631-32, 646, 679. PRO, PRO 30/55 (copies at PAC); WO 28/4, 28/6, 28/10 (mfm. at PAC). ``Book of official instructions to the land surveyors of Upper Canada,´´ AO Report, 1905: 369-70, 390-93. Corr. of Lieut. Governor Simcoe (Cruikshank). ``Grants of crown lands in U.C.,´´ AO Report, 1928: 22-24, 128-29, 138-39, 210-11; 1929: 139, 171. [J. M. Hadden], Hadden´s journal and orderly books: a journal kept in Canada and upon Burgoyne´s campaign in 1776 and 1777, by Lieut. James M. Hadden . . . , ed. Horatio Rogers (Albany, N.Y., 1884; repr. Freeport, N.Y., [1970]). Johnson papers (Sullivan et al.). Loyalist narratives from Upper Canada, ed. J. J. Talman (Toronto, 1946). NYCD (O´Callaghan and Fernow), vols.4-5, 8. The settlement of the United Empire Loyalists on the upper St Lawrence and Bay of Quinte in 1784; a documentary record, ed. E. A. Cruikshank (Toronto, 1934; repr. 1966). ``Settlements and surveys,´´ PAC Report, 1891: 17. Stamford registration of births, marriages and deaths, including every name, relationship, and date now found in the Stamford registers from the first record down to the year 1825, comp. E. B. Huntington (Stamford, Conn., 1874), 57. ``Surveyors´ letters, etc.,´´ AO Report, 1905: 437-38, 440-41, 458-59, 482-83, ``U.C. land book B,´´ AO Report, 1930: 49. ``U.C. land book D,´´ AO Report, 1931: 171-72, 175. Alexander Fraser, ``Report of the Ontario Bureau of Archives: prefatory,´´ AO Report, 1909: x. H. G. Jesup, Edward Jessup of West Farms, Westchester Co., New York, and his descendants . . . (Cambridge, Mass., 1887). ``List of documents, furnished by his honour, judge Pringle, Cornwall, Ontario,´´ PAC Report, 1884: xxvi. A. C. Flick, Loyalism in New York during the American revolution (New York, 1901). T. W. H. Leavitt, History of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, from 1749 to 1879 . . . (Brockville, Ont., 1879; repr. Belleville, Ont., 1972). E. R. Stuart, ``Jessup´s Rangers as a factor in loyalist settlement,´´ Three hist. theses. H. B. Yoshpe, The disposition of loyalist estates in the southern district of the state of New York (New York, 1939). P. H. Bryce, ``The Quinte loyalists of 1784,´´ OH, 27 (1931): 5-14. E. A. Cruikshank, ``The King´s Royal Regiment of New York,´´ OH, 27 (1931): 193-323.
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Document History
Published 1983
Occupations and Other Identifiers
Business
Legal Professions - Judges
Legal Professions - Magistrates and justices of the peace
Armed Forces - British - Army: officers
Armed Forces - British - Militia: officers
Region of Birth
North America - United States of America
Region of Activities
North America - Canada - Ontario - East
North America - Canada - Quebec - Montr'e9al/Outaouais
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CARLETON, GUY, 1st Baron DORCHESTER (Vol. 5)
HALDIMAND, Sir FREDERICK (Vol. 5)
JOHNSON, Sir JOHN (Vol. 6)
JOHNSON, Sir WILLIAM (Vol. 4)
Cite This Article
R. Arthur Bowler, ``JESSUP, EDWARD,´´ in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Universit'e9 Laval, 2003-, accessed February 26, 2015, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jessup_edward_5E.html.
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Permalink: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jessup_edward_5E.html
Author of Article: R. Arthur Bowler
Title of Article: JESSUP, EDWARD
Publication Name: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5
Publisher: University of Toronto/Universit'e9 Laval
Year of publication: 1983
Year of revision: 1983
Access Date: February 26, 2015
[This note added here on Feb 26, 2015 by Samuel William Aylesworth, with appreciation to Mr..Bowler and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.}
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