Lt. Philip Perry
- Born: Abt 1743, Stoughton, Norfolk, MA 139
- Marriage: Lydia Howes about 1769 139
- Died: 1 Aug 1775, Shaftsbury, Bennington, VT about age 32 139
General Notes:
LT. PHILIP4 PERRY (Josiah,3 Benjamin,2 Ezra1), born about 1743, died in Shaftsbury, Vt., 1 Aug. 1775. He married about 1769 LYDIA HOUSE, born in Coventry, Conn., 6 May 1750, died probably after 1800, sister of Lt. Samuel House who married Hannah Perry (q.v.).
Mrs. Bristol (op. cit.) says that "according to family tradition, in which facts are corroborated by various descendants, Lt. Philip Perry was shot down in Shaftsbury, probably near the Arlington line, while trying to arrest Hazard Wilcox, a Tory spy, in the early days of the Revolution. There is a tablet to his memory in the station in Arlington, Vt." (The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 44, p. 334). Philip Perry's widow is said to have married secondly, Lt. Robert Blair; and thirdly, --- Duell of Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y.
[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)]
Philip married Lydia Howes about 1769.139 (Lydia Howes was born on 6 May 1750 in Coventry, Tolland, CT 139 and died after 1800 139.)
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