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     Hannah Perley is the daughter of Francis Perley and Hannah Payson 2d, of Rowley.¹

     Hannah Perley was born on 7 July 1798.¹ She was the daughter of Nathan Perley and Ruth Gould.¹
As of 1880, Hannah lived at South Groveland, Essex County, Massachusetts, unmarried. She was as fine an old lady as is often met. Her natural faculties and physical strength were well preserved, and her memory of her childhood's years was vivid and entertaining.¹

     Hannah Perley is the daughter of Amos Perley and Hannah Proctor of Danvers.¹

     Hannah D. Perley is the daughter of Nathaniel Mighill Perley and Mary Elizabeth de Bade.¹

She early became a member of her aunt Judith's family, perhaps by legal adoption, when her father took his homesick wife back to her kindred under the probability of never returning.¹

She married Stephen S. Kendrick of Ipswich.¹

     Hannah Mable Perley was born on 28 October 1868 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.¹ She was the daughter of John Quincy Adams Perley and Hephzibath Woodbury.¹

     Harriet Perley is the daughter of Aaron Perley and Mehitable Wood.¹

     Harriet Augusta Perley is the daughter of Artemas Ward Perley and Eleanor Putnam of Danvers.¹

     Haskell Perley is the son of Artemas Ward Perley and Eleanor Putnam of Danvers.¹

     Henrietta Perley is the daughter of Israel Perley and Elizabeth Mooers.¹

     Henrietta Perley is the daughter of George Perley and Hannah Huston Low.¹

She married Orrin Smith Higgins, son of Arthur Higgins and Susan Perley, . They were second cousins.²

     Henry Perley was born on 2 July 1785 in Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Lieut. Dudley Perley and Hannah Hale.¹

I, Henry Perley, yeoman, for $1400 convey my interest in land, house and other buildings, (the premises my honored father, Dudley Perley, conveyed to me 19 Oct 1807) to Joseph Whitney, 2 Sep 1811, all of Winchendon.—Registry, 239:170.

David F. Burgiss and wife Lois G., for $435, sold, 10 Dec 1816, to Henry Perley—both of Ashburnham, 135 acres land.—Reg., 246:12.

His name appears in the Lynn directory for 1832.²

He married Martha Hanford on 12 January 1814.²

He died on 9 June 1833 at age 47, leaving no children. He is remembered as the poet of the family, having left several pieces of meritorious verse.

He made his will 19 May, 1833, and named his wife executrix. In it he is called cordwainer. Her notification of appointment is dated 3d Tuesday (20) Aug 1833. He gave his brothers John and Dudley, his sisters Hannah Whitney and Mehitable Spaulding, and his nephew Ezra Hyde, 3d, one dollar each, and the use and improvement of the rest to his wife and if anything remained after her decease, it was to be equally divided among the children of his brother Asa decd, provided, however, that she could sell the entire estate, if, at her discretion, it was needed for her "comfortable maintenance."²

     Henry Perley was born on 17 February 1755 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, . During his minority he was living in Stoughton, Mass. He left a manuscript of his Revolutionary experience, from which we gather the following: On the morning of 19 Apr 1775, he marched to the battle of Lexington, in Capt. Asahel Smith's company, of Stoughton, attached to Col. Lemuel Robinson's regiment. He served nine days and received £12 10s. 4d. He then enlisted in the service, in Capt. William Bent's company, Col. John Greaton's regiment, where he remained till his term of service expired, 31 Dec. The next day he enlisted again in Capt. Bent's company for one year, and was stationed at Fort No. 2, in Cambridge. About the 18th of March they were ordered to New York, via Connecticut. They shipped at Norwich, sailed to Long Island, and marched to New York. There they encamped about three weeks, when they were ordered to Canada via Albany. The division was commanded by Gen. Thompson, who died at Chambly of small-pox. The troops were ordered over a great part of Lower Canada. Most of the army being sick with small-pox, they were obliged to retreat before the enemy, leaving their sick and languishing upon the ground. They retreated to Ticonderoga, and when the regiment was ordered to Mt. Independence, Mr. Perley, who was sick with intermittent fever, was discharged, 1 Nov 1776, by order of Gen. Gates, commander. He then came home to Boxford, where he remained some time, and was a member of Capt. Jacob Gould's company. On 31 Jul 1778, he was ordered to Rhode Island, where he served six months in Gen. Sullivan's expedition in the company of Capt. Simeon Brown of Salem, Col. Wade's regiment, Marquis de Lafayette's division. They were afterwards disbanded. In the year 1779, he belonged to the company of Jeremiah Putnam of Danvers, Col. Tyler's regiment, and was stationed at Providence till the enemy left Newport. This regiment occupied Newport till the expiration of their term of service 5 Jan 1780. For his service, he was granted a pension.² He was the son of Asa Perley and Susannah Low.¹

He married Eunice Hood on 27 October 1781 and lived in Andover or in North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts.³ About 1786, Henry Perley moved to Boxford . The house here pictured was built about 1754 by Joseph Matthews. Mr. Perley bought the estate about 1786 and "settled down to a life of repose." He died there, and his son Henry occupied the place till he also died there. Then Maj. Moses R. Rust rented it, occupying it twenty years. From that time it fell into "innocuous desuetude," except an occasional dweller, till it became quite untenantable. It was demolished in 1883.³

He married Mehitable Peabody on 30 October 1799.³ , in answering a letter received from the widow of his brother Eliphalet, concerning Eliphalet's death, he says, "I can mourn with you as one that mourneth. . . . I have been carried through troubles, and have been supported when I was almost overwhelmed with sorrow. ... I am an old man and cannot expect to tarry long on the stage of human affairs. . . . God's tender mercies are over all the work of his hands; and I hope that He who hath made us will have mercy upon us."

Mr. Perley was five feet and four inches in height; his complexion was dark with black hair and black eyes; and his physique was compact and muscular, and capable of extreme endurance.

The only town office of importance that was held by him was surveyor of highways in 1800 and 1810.⁴

He died on 6 February 1838 at age 82 . His remains repose in the cemetery near the First Church edifice.⁵

     Henry Perley is the son of Henry Perley and Eunice Hood.¹

     Henry Augustus Perley was born on 16 April 1804.¹ He was the son of Nathaniel Perley and Mary Dummer.¹

He died on 1 July 1806 at age 2.¹