- There is an excellent article on the life of Ezra Perry on the website of the Sandwich Historical Commission written by cousin Paul Rentz. The URL address is http://sandwichhistory.org/ezra-perry/
The article is too long for FamilySearch to put it up here so you will have to go to the URL to read it.
Born: 1625, Bideford, Devonshire, England 19,22
Marriage: Elizabeth Burgess on 12 Feb 1651/52 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA 15,18,19,20,21,139,239,240,245
Died: 16 Oct 1689, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA at age 64 18,19,20,139,245
Ezra was one of the earliest settlers of Sandwich, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Burgess in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts on February 12, 1651/51. He became a minister in 1657. In 1679 he also became constable. Ezra and Elizabeth had eight children.
After his first appearance in the records nothing more is found until his marriage: "Ezra Perry & Elizabeth Burge were maried the 12th day of ffebruarie, Anno. Dom. 1651" (May, Des., 14:109 ). Elizabeth (Burges) Perry, born probably in or near Truro, Cornwall, England, about 1629, was the only daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Burges of Sandwich (see THE REGISTER, 49:240, for her ancestry). Thomas Burges was in Sandwich in 1637, Representative to the General Court, 1642, fought in the Narragansett War, 1645., etc. Savage calls him "one of the chief men of the town." Through the agency of Capt. Miles Standish he received a grant of land 3 March 1652/3 in Manomet, the area later called Monument, lying to the north of the Sandwich Settlement which was named Herring River Village (within the township of Sandwich). This deed shows that the land lay "to the Eastward of Thomas Burgis his sonne in lawes house" thus proving that Ezra Perry was then resident, though he probably did not yet own land, in Manomet. He does not appear on a list of Sandwich land owners in 1658 (Plymouth Colony Deeds, May. Des., vol. 2, p. 29; Sandwich town records).
The births of his first three children are recorded in Sandwich: Ezra, in 1653; Deborah, in 1654; and John, in 1657 (May. Des., 14: 171). A hiatus in the records then occurs until we find the births of his son Samuel, in 1667; Benjamin, in 1670; and Remembrance, in 1676. By his will we know that he had at least another daughter, Sarah Perry, born about 1659.
The town records show that "Lieftenant" Perry received 4 shillings pay 4 April 1657 for service in the militia. Yet he seems not to have played a prominent role in the public life of the community. The fact that he married the daughter of one of its chief men, and that his eldest son married a daughter of the powerful Governor Prence, attests to his standing, however. His multitude of descendants represent an astonishing variety of people, including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the first wife of President Theodore Roosevelt, and several contemporary genealogists as well as the present compilers. Among these was Capt. Thomas Crosby Perry (1807-1885), who kept a genealogical Note Book to which the attention of all those concerned with early Sandwich history and genealogy is hereby directed.
The next item referring to Ezra Perry appears in the Plymouth Colony Court Records, vol. 3, p. 163: "June 7, 1659 - Ezra Perry is allowed by the Court to be Executor of the Estate of Sarah Perry, there being noe other (although she hath many friends in the Country), that claimeth any interest to the Estate, having put in securities into the Court to be accountable for the Estate encase it shall bee required by any that hath better title thereto. ..." He presented the Inventory on the Estate of Sarah Perry, deceased, on the following day, June 8th.
All the printed accounts which we have seen appear to base their claim that Ezra Perry and his "brother Edward Perry the Quaker" were sons of the "widow Sarah Perry of Devonshire, England,"on the above statement, but the wording of the record makes it quite clear that neither Ezra nor any of the other Perrys in Sandwich were closely related by blood to the deceased widow Sarah Perry. There is, however, an implication that Ezra Perry had some claim on the estate (perhaps for himself, possibly on behalf of others also). It would be consistent if Ezra's claim had been based on right to a dower residue of the estate of a step-mother. It could be argued that the Perry family group came to Sandwich with a widowed step-mother in order to live under the protection of some one of the pioneer Sandwich families to whom the widow's husband and/or these minor children may have been closely related. But such a suggestion is sheer conjecture in the absence of further evidence and is useful only in furnishing an added clue for research in England.
A deed from the Sachem Quachatasett to Mr. John Alden, dated in Plymouth 27 July 1661, mentions a tract of land "on that side of Manomet River next unto Sandwich: the bounds of which is from the lands of Esra Perry, ..." (Plymouth Colony Deeds, May. Des., vol. 18, p. 88). But Ezra Perry was then still resident on his father-in-law's tract which the latter, Thomas Burges, obtained, says Thomas C. Perry, "from the Plymouth Court in consideration for his public service in 1652" (Note Book, p. 66).
On 10 July 1663 "Thomas Burge, Senr. of the Towne of Sandwich, ... planter ... in consideration of a valluable sume; to him already payed by his son in law Named Esra Perry of. the towne aforesaid ... planter" conveys "one halfe of a certain tract ... of land at Manomett in the jurisdiction aforesaid, which said tract was purchased by Captaine Standish by the appointment of the Court, of Josias of Nausett an Indian Sachem ... as appears by a deed bearing the date the third of March Anno Dom 1652 ... bounded to the Northwards ... by a tree to the Eastward of the said Perry's house ..." (Plymouth Colony Deeds, May. Des., vol. 18, p. 86) . Thomas C. Perry says this tract lay on both sides of the Monument River, nearly the whole length of it (Note Book, p. 66). Two other deeds, bearing the same date as above, disposed of the remainder of Thomas Burge's 1652 tract; since he sold one-quarter to son Joseph Burge and the remaining quarter to Lt. Josiah Standish of Sandwich (son of Capt. Miles Standish) (May. Des., vol. 18, p. 89). On 29 May 1665 Ezra Perry agreed to assist in building the new Sandwich Meeting House (town records). On 25 June 1666 "The Court have graunted unto Ezra Perry a smale quantity of land in the Neck" (about 30 acres) ... "where Mr. Edmonde Freeman Junr. hath his land ..." (Plymouth Colony Court Orders, vol 4, p. 131). On 2 July 1667 "twenty acres additional graunted to Ezra Perry ... being in the purchase of Mr. Edmund Freeman, and not suitable for anyone beside, being there is no meadow on it" (ibid., p. 159).
Ezra and Edward Perry were both appointed, 5 June 1671, to represent Sandwich on a committee "to view the damage done to the Indians by the horses and hogges of the English" (Plymouth Colony Court Orders, vol. 2, p. 62). Ezra Perry served 3 June 1674 on the Grand Enquest (ibid., vol. 5, p. 145), and again 5 June 1677 (ibid., p. 230). It is a curious fact that in a 1675 list of Sandwich men who "have just right to the priviledges of the town" of Sandwich Ezra Perry's name does not appear, though Edward Perry's does (Freeman, History of Cape Cod, vol. 2, p. 69). But in 1677 the names of Ezra Perry, Senr., and Ezra Perry, Junr., are among those "added to a list of townsmen" (ibid., p. 73). Ezra Perry was appointed Constable 3 June 1679 (Plymouth Colony Court Orders, vol. 6, p. 11). The will of "Thomas Burges Senr. of Sandwich," dated 4 April 1684, gives "to my son Ezra Perry ... two lots I bought of Edmond Freeman Junr.," directs that if a son, Joseph Burges, prefers not to accept certain land under testator's conditions, then this, too, to "son Ezra Perry," and makes "sons Ezra Perry and Joseph Burges" co-executors (Barnstable County Probate Records). The records show that Ezra Perry conveyed lands by deeds of gift to his sons, probably as each reached his majority and it is evident that each child was given also a "marriage portion" in furniture and livestock. This is made plain by the will (vide post), under which the three unmarried children received their shares of "moveables" while the absence of mention of any real property in either will or inventory proves that the lands had been disposed of by deeds poll in the testator's lifetime.
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Cape Cod History Blog (Capecodonline.com) Quaker Burial Ground By Robin Smith-Johnson, Published May 11, 2012
In 1694, the town of Sandwich gave to "their neighbors called Quakers, half an acre of ground for a burial place on the hill above the Canoe Swamp and between the 'Ways' at Spring Hill." According to capecodquakers.org, Sandwich has the oldest continuous meeting in America. The first meeting took place on April 13, 1657 at the home of William and Priscilla Allen at Spring Hill, East Sandwich. These early Quakers were persecuted and even jailed for holding illegal meetings. When Edward Perry, an early Quaker, died in 1695, there was no stone to mark his grave. It was the practice at the time to bury Quakers in unmarked graves. Perry was one of the first settlers of the town of Bourne and the first known clerk of the Meeting. He was often called "Edward, the Quaker". Added by Perry Baker Hall, his 7th great-grandson.
He settled in Scorton on the eastside of Sandwich and was a leading member of the first Quaker establishment on the continent.
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9 September 2018 by jmedell
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