Josiah Perry

  General Notes:

JOSIAH3 PERRY (Benjamin,2 Ezra1), born 18 Oct. 1709, died in Shaftsbury, Vt., after 27 April 1784. He married in Stoughton, Mass., 16 June 1740, "MARY KINSLEY of Easton" (Bristol Co.) (Endicott, op. cit.), daughter of Samuel Kin[g]sley, Jr. of Easton.

Josiah, his father and his brothers Benjamin, Nathaniel and Eliakim had all moved from Sandwich, Mass., before October 1735. A deed, dated in Stoughton 15 Oct. 1735, shows that Josiah, Nathaniel and Eliakim Perry purchased from their "Honoured father Benjamin Perry" 386 acres of land in Stoughton, at which date they are all named as resident there (Suffolk County Deeds, vol. 48, p. 89). This tract was held in common by the three brothers until 1 April 1740, when Josiah Perry purchased one third part of it for £200. from his brothers Eliakim and Nathaniel (ibid., vol. 61, p. 108) and on the following 25 August he bought the remaining third part (ibid., vol. 63, p. 96). On 9 Sept. 1740 Josiah Perry of Stoughton (his wife Mary quitclaiming her dower right) and Nathaniel Perry of Easton (his wife Mehitable also signing a release) mortgaged a tract in Stoughton to the directors of a Stoughton manufactory (ibid., vol. 60, p. 95). The mortgage was paid off in 1742. Josiah Perry and his wife Mary removed to Easton 1747 when they signed the church covenant there (Easton Church Records). They moved to Norwich, Conn., before 1752 when "Josiah Perry of Norwich" bought of his cousin, Mayhew Tupper, the latter's right in lot 39 in the 25th division of Stoughton (100 acres for £60.), including the dower right of the grantor's mother, Remember (Perry) Tupper (Suffolk County Deeds, vol. 82, p, 2; Theresa Hall Bristol, "More Notes on the Ancestry of Early Vermont-New York Settlers" in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 44, p. 334; William Root Bliss, Colonial Times on Buzzard's Bay [2d ed. enl.], passim). Mrs. Bristol states that Josiah Perry and his brother Eliakim both moved into the area which was in dispute between the Province of New York and the Colony of New Hampshire). Before 1775 Josiah had settled in Shaftsbury (now in Bennington County, Vt.).

His will, dated in Shaftsbury 27 April 1784, gives to his "wife Mary" one third real property, buildings, livestock and household goods during her life. To his son Josiah, after his mother's death, all the home farm and other property given to her, plus the remaining two thirds of the home farm, which he had "bought of James Brakenridge, being part of Gov. Wintworth's lot." To his "son Winslow Perry, ... all the farm where he now lives which I formerly gave to my son Philip Perry, deceased, together with 16 acres adjoining which I bought of Benony Potmeture." To "my daughter Hannah House" £6. He appoints as executors his "sons Samuel House and Josiah Perry." Witnesses: Jeremiah Clark, Eldad Kibbe and Ezekiel Parker. Probated 28 Dec. 1884. Inventory: £820. 7s. 4d. (Bennington County Probate).
[Ezra Perry of Sandwich, Mass. (c. 1625-1689), By Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson, of Buzzard's Bay, Mass., and Maclean W. McLean, of Pittsburgh, Pa., NEHGS 115 (1960)]

Moved with his father, and brothers Ben, Nathaniel and Eliakim from Sandwich to Stoughton, and later to Norwich, Conn. [PERRY.TXT]

From Perry. Married Mary Kingsley, 12 May 1726. Moved with father and brothers Benjamin, Nathaniel, and Eliahim from Sandwich to Stoughton and, later, to Norwich, Connecticut. Brownson, NEHGR 115:99, 194. In 1740, Purchased from brothers Eliakim and Nathaniel their shares of the 386 acre lot the three brothers had purchased from their father five years before. Moved to Easton in 1747 and to Norwich before 1752. Before 1775, Josiah had settled in Shaftsbury (now Bennington County, Vermont). [BINGHAM.GED]

  Noted events in his life were:

• Will, 27 Apr 1784, Shaftsbury, Bennington, VT. ¹³⁹

Josiah married Mary Kingsley, daughter of Samuel Kingsley, Jr. and Unknown, on 16 Jun 1740 in Stoughton, Norfolk, MA.¹³⁹