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Summary

Name: Ezra Perry 
Gender: M
Birth: 1625
Devonshire, England
Christening:
Death: 16 Oct 1689
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Burial:
Father: Edmund Perry
Mother: Sarah Betts
AFN/PRN: LZ6Z-W98
Notes:
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in mother's will.
The following information is derived mostly from Brownson's article in NEHGR: 115:86-90.
The first recorded notice of Ezra Perry in America is found in the Sandwich town records, where at a meeting in August [or September] 1644 we learn that "divers persons engaged freely to pay in goods and merchantable corn" toward the repair of their Meeting House. Ezra Perry pledged nine shillings toward the project -- a very generous contribution considering his age (about seventeen, if the information we have on the year of his birth is correct). Ezra's next appearance in the records is notice of his marriage: "Ezra Perry and Elizabeth Burge were married the 12 day of Februarie, Anno. Dom. 1651" (1652 N.S.). On 4 April 1657, "Lieftenant" Perry received four shillings pay for service in the militia, yet his name is absent from the 1658 list of Sandwich land owners. On 7 June 1659, Plymouth Colony Court (Records, Vol. 3., p. 163), authorized Ezra to serve as executor of the estate of Sarah Perry, "there being no 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 in case it shall be required by any that hath better title thereto..." Ezra presented the inventory of the estate the following day.
A deed from the Sachem Quachatasett to John Alden, 27 July 1661 mentioned a tract of land "on that side of Manomet River next unto Sandwich: the bounds of which is from the lands of Ezra Perry..." But Ezra Perry was then still resident on his father-in-law's tract, which the latter, Thomas Burgess, obtained "from Plymouth Court in consideration for his public service in 1652." On 10 July 1663, Burgess conveyed half his Manomet holding to Ezra, one quarter to Joseph Burgess (his son), and the remaining quarter to Lt. Josiah Standish of Sandwich.
On 29 May 1665, Ezra agreed to assist in building a new meeting house for Sandwich. On 25 June 1666, the Court granted him a small quantity of land in the Neck (about 30 acres) "where Mr. Edmond Freeman, Jr. hath his land," and on 3 July 1667 it granted him an additional 20 acres "being in the purchase of Mr. Edmond Freeman and not suitable for anyone besides, being there is no meadow on it." On 5 June 1671, Ezra and one Edward Perry were appointed to represent Sandwich on a committee "to view the damage done to the Indians by the horses and hogges of the English." On 3 June 1674 and again on 5 June 1677, Ezra served on the Grand Inquest. His name is absent from the 1675 list of Sandwich men "who have just right to the privileges of the town," but appears together with that of his son, Ezra, Jr., among the names "added to a list of townsmen" in 1677. Ezra was appointed constable for Sandwich on 3 June 1679.
By will dated 4 April 1684, Thomas Burgess gave "to my son Ezra Perry ... two lots I bought of Edmond Freeman Jr." and directed that if his son, Joseph, prefered not to accept certain land under the conditions he prescribed, this land would also go to Ezra. The will named "Sons Ezra Perry and Joseph Burges" co-executors.
Ezra made his own will five years and six months later, and died the same day:
In the name of God Amen ye 16 Day of October 1689. I Ezra Perry Sr., Of Monument and Town of Sandwich, being sick of body but of good and perfit memory thanks to Allmighty God and calling to Remembrance ye uncertaine estate of this Transitory Life and that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall please God to Call, do make, constitue, ordaine, and declare this my Last Will and Testatment in manner and forme following, revoking and annulling by these presents all and every testament, testaments, will and wills heretofore by me made and declared either by word or writing. And this is to be taken for my Last Will and testament and none other.
And first being penitent and sorry from the bottom of my heart for my sins past, most humbly desire forgiveness for ye same. I give and comit my Soule unto Allmighty God my Saviour and Redeemer in whom and by ye merrits of Jesue Christ I trust and believe assuredly to be saved and to have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins, and that my Soule with my body at the generall day of Resurrection shall rise again with Joy and throue ye merritts of Christ's Death and Passion, possess and inherit ye kingdom of Heaven, prepared for His Elect Chosen.
And my body to be burried at ye ordinary place of burreing. And now for ye setling of my Temporal Estate and such goods and chattles and debts as it hath pleased God, far above my deserv to bestow upon me. I do order and bestow the same in manner and forme following: That is to say; All my outward moveables without doars and within doars to my truly and beloved wife as my true and undoubted and lawful executrix, to order and dispose of as she pleases and shall see cause to dispose of at her pleasure, execpting what I leave and bequethe to my well beloved son Samuel Perry, that is, two stiers of two and one heifer of four years and a mare coult; one bed and furniture belonging thereto and a gune and sword and bandaleers and one iron pot.
To my well beloved son Benjamin Perry, two cows, two steeres above three years old, one bed and its Furniture, one gune and sword. To my daughter Remember two cowes and a bed and its Furniture, one meare and all her increase. Also to my son Ezra, one shilling. To John Perry, my son, one shilling. To Deborah, my daughter wife to Seth Pope one shilling. To Sarah wife of Ephraim Swift, one shilling. As witness my hand and seal day year and month first above written.
Inventory of the estate showed goods valued at £78 8s, but no real estate. Evidently, Ezra disposed of his real estate before his death, probably by gift to each of his sons on their coming of age. He also evidently gave each child a "marriage portion" of furniture and livestock. The three children who were unmarried at the time of his death received their portion by bequest.
Ezra and his wife were buried in Sandwich, as related by "The Old Cemetary of Sandwich, Massachusetts" by Mrs. Jerome Holway, being a paper read before the Sandwich Historical Society, 20 Oct 1908: "The oldest stone is that of Thomas Clark, son of Thomas and Jane Clark, 1683, age seven weeks. Beside this is the grave of Thomas Burgess, 1685, and his wife Dorothy, 1687. He was one of the settlers in the party that came in June 1637, after the settlement of the town in 1637. Another one of these is Ezra Perry, buried nearby, who died in 1689, and his wife Elizabeth Burgess, 1717."
Of Ezra's appointment as executor of Sarah Perry's estate, Brownson says this: "Most printed accounts 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 this statement. But the wording of the record makes it clear that neither Ezra nor any of the other Perrys in Sandwich were closely related by blood to the deceased widow Sarah. There is, however, an implication that Ezra Perry had some claim on the estate (perhaps for himself, possibly on behalf of others also), perhaps 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. Such a suggestion is, however, sheer conjecture."

Marriages

To Elizabeth Burgess married 12 Feb 1652
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States



Stories

Ezra Perry (1627)
Ezra Perry (1627)