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     Nathan Perley is the son of Jacob Perley and Dolly Wood.¹

     Nathaniel Perley was born in 1643 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Allen Perley and Susanna Bokesen, or Bokenson.¹

He died on 29 April 1668 in Ipswich,
THE INVENTORY of the estate of Nathaniel Perley, deceased the 29th of April, 1668, as it was prized by Isaac Foster and Nehemiah Abbott, the 26 of May next following:

A frame almost fitted for raising,	5	0	0
2 Cows,	8	10	0
A Bull and a steer,	8	8	0
2 Steers,	5	10	0
Corn,	1	13	0
A Saddle,	0	20	0
A Pike and Interest in a Gun,	0	12	0
Tools,	2	1	0
Chest and Clothes,	10	6	0
Upland and Meadow, 60 acres,	60	0	0
Six acres and half an acre of Meadow,	16	5	0
Two acres and half an acre of Meadow more,	9	0	0
Boards and Logs,	0	10	0
Plow and Tackling,	0	10	0
In debts due the above named Deceased,	3	17	6
	133	2	6
			.
DEBTS OF THE DECEASED
There is due from the estate:
The Deceased being in debt forty-two shilling, [sic]	2	6	0
To the Physician for his coming to him, at about	1	0	0
For Funeral Expenses,	2	0	0
There is due to Francis Wainwright, as appears upon his book.	0	4	5½
	5	10	5½

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     Nathaniel Perley was the son of John Perley and Mary Howlett.¹

He married Lydia ---(?)--- . The following receipt with papers was filed in settlement of Governor Bradstreet's estate. Col. Dudley Bradstreet, his son, was the executor, but died before concluding the trust. It is clear that Nathaniel Perley married the Governor's granddaughter:

"Andover, Nov. 25, 1706.

" Received of Capt. Benjamin Stevens, of Andover, administrator of the estate of Colo. Dudley Bradstreet, Esq., deed, six pounds money, in full of a legacy given to my wife Anne Perly, alias Brad- street, by her grandfather Simon Bradstreet, Esq., as appears by his last will. Nathaniel Perley."¹

He was taxed in Boxford in 1727, was selectman in 1705, fence-viewer in 1704, witness to the Indian deed of Topsfield in 1701, was one of the committee to perambulate the boundary between Boxford and Rowley in 1717, and lived in Boxford near "ye great meadowe."¹

He died probably in the winter of 172 . Perley Derby says "in Boxford, Feb., 1738;" but the deed of Samson and "Allis" How argues for the earlier date.¹

     Nathaniel Perley was born on 13 February 1734/35 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Amos Perley and Margaret Cogswell.¹

He married Mehitable Perley on 30 October 1753 or 31 October 1753 in Boxford, . They were third cousins.²

About the time of his marriage he built his house in Boxford, where Mrs. A. N. Harrington's house was in 1906. The house was burnt in the spring of 1832. His home farm contained more than a hundred acres. In 1775 he bought of a Jewett family a farm adjoining his, and soon after he owned the farm now the property of Joseph H. Janes. He gave to his son Nathaniel the buildings and land, in Hanover, N. H., "which were set off" to satisfy an execution against Jabez Bingham.

He was a cooper, and familiarly known as "Cooper Nat." His commodious shop stood at the corner of the Andover and Rowley roads, near his dwelling. After him it became a tenement house.

Mr. Perley bought, 11 Apr 1769, of John Berry, yeoman, and Elizabeth Berry, widow, both of Ipswich, for £58 13s. 4d., several lots of land in Winchendon, that were drawn originally for the rights of Nathaniel Lord, Jonathan Jewett, Nathaniel Caldwell, Thomas Lufkin and Joseph Goodhue.—Registry, 61: 344. He sold to Jonathan Smith, Paxton, yeoman, land in Winchendon, 24 Oct 1771, for £20.— Registry, H7: 418: to Samuel Denny of Leicester, gentleman, two lots in Winchendon, 17 Jan 1772, for £44.—Registry, 67: I80; and to Jonathan Stimpson of Winchendon, two lots in same town, 17 Jan 177:1, for £20; and to Joseph Stimpson of Winchendon, "home lot" so called, for £27, 17 Jan 1773, 3 lots.—Registry, 77: 214.³ He and Mehitable Perley joined the First Church at Boxford, on 14 March 1762, when two children were baptised and where the others were afterwards.⁴

He married Lydia Ayers, daughter of Peter Ayers and Lydia Perley, on 10 September 1776.⁵

He was very active at the time of the Revolution. He served on the town's committee of safety, in procuring soldiers and in obtaining money to pay them. In 1769 he was a selectman and overseer, and in 1800 a member of the school board, and a tax collector in 1806. He was three years a constable, a field driver one, warden one, a tithing man two, a hogreeve six, a surveyor of highways ten, a fence viewer four, a moderator of town meetings one, a surveyor of lumber six.

In old age he dressed in the fashion of his youth and he wore a small red cap. One day, to tease his little grandson then only three years old, he offered to put him into his pocket. The wrinkled face, the bent form and the ancient garb so impressed the pliant mind of the boy, that the circumstance was vividly in his memory at the age of seventy-five years.⁴

He died on 18 July 1810 at age 75 . The inventory of his estate, made by Thomas Perley, Parker Spofford and Solomon Low, valued the home farm, fifty-eight acres, at $2242; a tract of meadow, pasture and woodland at the "old place," about eighty acres, at $1440; "a bible, 75c.," and his entire estate at $5335.99.³ He was buried in Harmony Cemetery, East Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, in the same plot with Mehitable Perley and Lydia Ayers.²

     Nathaniel Perley was born on 11 October 1745 in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Samuel Perley and Ruth How.¹

He married Sarah Dutch of Ipswich Village on 23 September 1769, sister to Rev. Ebenezer Dutch, many years pastor of the East Parish, Bradford, now Groveland.²

He was a member of Capt. Daniel Rogers' company of minute men that marched from Ipswich to Lexington on the 19th Apr 1775. His company hung upon the rear of the Red-coats as they worried their sad way to Boston, and was stationed in that vicinity four days. He marched sixty miles and received ten shillings, eight pence. After that service he entered with enthusiasm into privateering, and did excellent service for a long time. "Cleared from Salem, Schooner Sally, Perley Master, for Nova Scotia," 1774, probably refers to him.

In the spring of 1779, despite his vigilance and alertness, he was captured by the hated Britisher. He could not brook the haughty insolence of his captor, and he answered back with spirit. The British officer shot him dead upon the spot. Thus tragically ended the heroic life of a sterling patriot, at the age of thirty-two years. He left a widow and several small children. The administration of his estate was granted his widow 6 Jul 1779; the inventory was ,£218 17s; her accounts were allowed in 1779, 1788, and 1793. The children's guardian was their mother's second husband, appointed 5 Dec 1791.³

     Nathaniel Perley was born on 22 March 1763.² He was the son of Nathaniel Perley and Mehitable Perley.¹ He was graduated in 1791 from Dartmouth College . He received his Master's degree in course. In his class were Humphrey C. Perley, Ebenezer Adams, Heman Ball, Dudley Chase, John Coffin, Seth Williston, Eliphalet Gillet, et al. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1794.² In 1792, Nathaniel Perley moved to Hallowell, Kennebec County, Maine, a thriving settlement on the Kennebec river, to which many families of Essex County migrated, for the building of homes, about that time. He and Amos Stoddard were the only lawyers there till 1798, when Samuel S. Wilde located there from Waldoboro, when Stoddard left.

Mr. Perley was naturally a business man, active, and eminently social. He gathered to himself many friends and easily established himself in a lucrative practice. The country was too young for cases that required eloquent pleading at the bar. Whatever may have been his power to unfold the law, to set forth a case and to sway a jury cannot be known. His natural shrewdness and good judgment equipped him for the service of his constituency, as attorney and counselor. It is said he was lavish of his knowledge and legal advice; nevertheless he amassed wealth. He gave much of his attention to local improvements in the care of his property, thus augmenting his own and the public's together. His property business at last absorbed all his time and attention, to the entire loss of his practice in law. By and by, business reverses met him, in advancing age, and despondency brooded over his mind. The affection of his faithful wife and children sustained him to the last. In 1806 he was blasting stone in building a conduit for water from a pond to a stream upon which he erected a grist mill, in Winthrop, about a mile west of Hallowell, when a large piece of the ledge struck him upon the breast and seriously affected him at the time. This hurt was considered a remote cause of his death. For several years considerable business was carried on at the mill; but the Cotton Manufacturing Company purchased Mr. Perley's establishment and closed the canal.

While Mr. Perley confined his attention to the practice of his profession, his home was attractive to the legal and judicial profession in general. Chief Justice Parsons, also a native of Essex County, held to him the relation of esteem and regard, and often enjoyed Mr. Perley's hospitality. Members of the profession frequently enjoyed Mr. Perley's home, his fund of anecdotes and wit, while court was sitting at Augusta, two miles away. He represented Hallowell in the General Court in 1804 and again 1816. The Salem, Mass..Gazette, 9 May 1803, reported: "More increase of Federation. Hallowell, heretofore uniformly represented by a Democrat, has this year made choice of N. Perley, Esq., (Federalist) by a majority over Col. Fillebrown, the old member, 111 to 66."

Charles Dummer, Esq., in speaking of our subject, says: "Had he remained faithful to the noble objects of true professional life, had he diligently strengthened his mind by study as a lawyer, he would have gathered the fruits of honorable labor and attainments, —all would finally have been well. Possessing great quickness of perception, his free social habits were both an attraction and temptation."

He was apt at repartee, and frequently was surprised by the effect of his replies. Once in particular he was engaged in an action of replevin before Judge Weston, in the Court of Common Pleas. The case was warmly contested. An important witness of the other side had been examined for two or three hours, when the court adjourned for dinner. After dinner, Mr. Perley called the same witness to the stand, when the judge remarked: "This witness has been examined at great length already; what further do you expect to obtain from him?" Mr. Perley immediately replied: "The truth, your honor; I've obtained everything else." He was public spirited and patriotic; he was social, witty, learned; he was a faithful and firm friend: his home was cheerful, happy and cultured.³

He married Mary Dummer on 7 February 1796.⁴

He died on 25 July 1824 at age 61.⁴

     Nathaniel Perley was born on 1 March 1769 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.² He was the son of Samuel Perley and Hephzibah Fowler.¹
Nathaniel lived at New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, for awhile when a small boy.² Nathaniel Perley moved to Gray, Cumberland County, Maine.² In 1794, Nathaniel Perley moved to Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine.²

He married Lucinda Strickland on 19 July 1795.²

From 1798 to 1799, Nathaniel Perley was assessor, and a selectman in 1801. He was a farmer and trader, and a justice of the peace.²

He died on 8 January 1851 at age 81.²

     Nathaniel Perley was baptized on 27 February 1771.¹ He was the son of Nathaniel Perley and Sarah Dutch of Ipswich Village.¹

     Nathaniel Perley is the son of Asa Perley and Hannah Pickard of St. John.¹

     Nathaniel Perley is the son of Solomon Perley.¹

     Nathaniel Perley is the son of John Perley and Hannah Green of Haverhill.¹

     Nathaniel Perley is the son of Amos Perley and Hannah Proctor of Danvers.¹

     Nathaniel Perley is the son of Nathaniel Perley and Lucinda Strickland.¹