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     Moses Perley was baptized on 12 June 1709 in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Jacob Perley and Lydia Peabody.¹

He married Hannah Frye on 7 February 1739/40.²

Mr. Perley inherited the homestead and made it his home — the southern slope of old Baldpate, the deep soil around the lake and a commanding view of its placid waters. He gave his whole attention to farming and seems to have cared little for military or town affairs. He was hogreeve in 1752, 1756, 1774 and 1770; and was on a committee to arrange the school districts of the town in 1765. In 1773 he built and fenced the road from the town line, by his house, to the brook at the northeast. Apr 1741, he united with the First Church.²

He died on 23 October 1793 at age 84 . His will is dated 15 Nov 1788; was witnessed by Aaron Wood, William Perley and Daniel Gould, neighbors; proved 5 Nov 1793; its executors were his sons Nathan and Eliphalet, to whom he devised all his real estate, and who shortly after his death erected two dwellings and razed the old one. His inventory, amounting to £1474 19s., was made 3 Jan 1794, by Thomas Perley, Jr., Jonathan Wood, and David Mighill, and mentions: 1 chaise, 2 three- year-old steers, 2 oxen, 8 cows, 2 two-year-old steers, l6 sheep and lambs, 3 swine, "Bible and other books 24s.", 1 "time-piece", 2 looking-glasses, 22 barrels cider, "loom, several wheels, etc."² He was buried in Harmony Cemetery, East Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, , where one stone is broken down and the other has the following inscription:

Memento mori
In Memory of
Mr MOSES PERLEYOct^r ye 23^d AD 1793
Ætat. 84.²

     Moses Perley was born on 24 January 1742/43 . His name appears on the Thomas Perley chart of three generations, but without children. His niece, Mrs. Abigail Perkins of Georgetown, said: "Moses died unmarried in the Revolution."¹ He was the son of Moses Perley and Hannah Frye.¹

     Moses Perley was born on 5 June 1779 in the part of Rowley now called Millwood, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of John Perley and Lydia Perley.¹

His son writes: "My father remained at home till his majority, when he hired out as a farm laborer with a neighbor. After a few years, his brothers having homes of their own, and his father being alone, he returned and assisted in carrying on the farm. At the age of forty he married, but remained with his father till the latter's death, when the farm was divided among the heirs. My father then bought the farm where I now live and what we are pleased to call the 'old homestead.' It is situated in the northeastern part of Rowley near the Newbury line. My mother had lived here but a few years when she died. Three years after her death, my father married again, and thus the remainder of his life was greatly embittered for nearly twenty-five years. The last eight years of his life were spent in Newbury. My father was a very snug, shrewd, calculating man, as are the Perleys generally with but few exceptions. By his frugality and trading in cattle he succeeded in accumulating considerable property, which was considerably diminished at the time of his death by his second wife's prodigality. He was a man of temperate habits, as were also his brothers, and are the Perleys in general. I think I never heard him utter a profane word. He always showed his respect for religion, and was charitable toward those who differed with him in religious belief. It is said he walked from some point in Maine to Rowley, in one day, a distance of eighty miles."³

He married Sarah Morse on 4 April 1822 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts.³

He married Nancy Greenough on 23 April 1835 as his second wife, and her second husband.³

He died on 24 May 1857 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 77.³

     Moses Perley was born in that part of Nova Scotia which became New Brunswick, Canada in 1785-85.¹ He is the son of Oliver Perley and Sarah ---(?)---.¹

     Moses Perley is the son of Jacob Perley and Sarah Andrews.¹

     Moses Perley was born on 28 January 1793.¹ He was the son of Nathan Perley and Ruth Gould.¹

He died on 25 February 1838 in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, at age 45 . His will is dated 21 Feb 1838, and was proved "the 4th Tuesday," 27th of Feb., same year. He bequeathed $1000 to Moses Perley, 2d, son of Warren, $100 to his brother Jeremiah of Boxford, $50 to his sister Sarah Perley, widow, of New Rowley, $5 to Ruth Nelson, wife of Deacon Asa, $200 to Sister Hannah Perley of Bradford, $25 to Henry Bachelor, son of George of Bradford, and the remainder to Moses Perley, 2d, son of Warren. Humphrey C. Perley of Dunbarton was executor.¹

     Nancy Perley was born on 28 July 1791.² She was the daughter of Enoch Perley and Anna Flint.¹

She married Ruel Barrows on 26 December 1820.³

     Nancy Perley was born on 13 April 1783 in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Eliphalet Perley and Anna Porter.¹

She married Nathan Andrews on 15 December 1810.²

She died on 19 February 1842 in Fitchburg, at age 58.²

     Nancy Perley was born on 19 May 1778.² She was the daughter of Francis Perley and Ruth Putnam of Danvers.¹

She died on 21 November 1805 in Boscawen, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, at age 27.²

     Nancy Putnam Perley was born on 10 June 1812.¹ She was the daughter of Artemas Ward Perley and Eleanor Putnam of Danvers.¹ She and Henry F. Burchstead published their marriage intention on 14 June 1833 . He was of Worcester when married.¹

     Nathan Perley was born on 17 November 1703.³ He was the son of Jacob Perley and Lydia Peabody.²

Nathan Perley was probably an itinerant tailor, according to the custom of his day; for Dr. David Wood has the following item of credit in his account with Nathan's father: "January: 1730-31, to a spell of Nathan to cut wescuts 12^d." He was taxed in Boxford from 1729 to 1738 inclusive.³

He married Lydia Hale, daughter of Capt. Joseph Hale and Joanna Low, on 20 March 1732/33 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts.⁴

He died late in the fall of 1738 . He was attended in his last sickness by Dr. Wood; he died intestate; the inventory of his estate, dated 7 Mar 1738-9, mentions 60 acres of land, buildings, 2 steers, 4 cows, 3 heifers, 3 yearling' heifers, 1 colt, 8 swine, etc. His widow administered upon the estate, which was valued at £1040. Two items of his debts were "To Edward Kitchen for funeral £26 3s. 6d.", and to "Bringing up a young child three and one-half years £35."³

     Nathan Perley was born in 1737 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Nathan Perley and Lydia Hale.¹ Nathan Perley moved to Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts . The last house in that town on the main road to Haverhill was, in 1906, occupied by Edmund Perley, a grandson of Nathan. Three half-centuries prior to this, the house was owned by one Symonds, among whose children, "to the manor born," was a daughter Sarah. Nathan went a-courting Sarah, and Nathan and Sarah expected to wed. For some unexplained reason the wedding was deferred.²

He married Mehitable Mitchell.²

Sarah Symonds married William Rea of Danvers, who died leaving one son, who was called by his father's name, William.. Nathan Perley remembered his first love and paid a visit to Sarah. The flame was warm and reciprocating. Rev. Christopher Sargent, the first minister of that town, aged and much loved, made them one, on 13 October 1774.²

The first year of his second marriage he lived in Methuen. He had been a soldier in the French and Indian War, and he foresaw the approaching conflict of arms, and in consequence advocated the study and practice of military tactics. He was then a member of the first militia company of Methuen, and with the rest of the company signed a paper 6 Oct 1774, "covenanting and engaging to form themselves into a body, in order to learn the manual exercises." He was at the battle of Concord and Lexington, as sergeant, in Capt. James Jones's company, and was out four days.

Shortly after the Lexington campaign, he removed to Danvers, where he lived several years and the rest of his children were born. About 1790, he returned to Methuen, and located Upon the old Symonds estate, the nativity and patrimony of his wife. He razed the old house and erected a new dwelling.³

He died about 1816 in Methuen.⁴

     Nathan Perley was born on 9 March 1752 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, north of Bald-pate pond.² He was the son of Moses Perley and Hannah Frye.¹ In 1783, Nathan Perley built a dwelling house, near his birthplace, just over the town line in Rowley, now Georgetown, Essex County, Massachusetts . He was centrally located upon an extensive and productive farm, upon the southern slope of Baldpate hill, alike noted for its height (being the highest but one in the County) and fertility. In 1825 Thomas Nelson purchased the estate; afterwards Luther P. Tidd was the owner; in 1880 it belonged to and was occupied by Henry E. Perley. His daughter Hannah wrote that the current report that her father's barn was moved from "the Stetson place" was false, and further that her father had a piece put on in 1815 or '16, two men from Newburyport doing the work.³

He married Ruth Gould on 13 September 1787.⁴

He died on 9 October 1820 at age 68.⁴ He was buried in Harmony Cemetery, East Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, . His epitaph is:

Beneath this urn, till God shall bid him rise.
A husband dear and much beloved lies;
In vain our tears, death comes at Heaven's command,
Deprived the world of a good and useful man.⁴

     Nathan Perley was born on 27 February 1769.¹ He was the son of Nathan Perley and Mehitable Mitchell.¹