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     Susan Perley was born in September 1796 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of John Perley and Hannah Mighill of Rowley.¹

She married Ezekiel Todd on 17 November 1822 as his second wife.²

She died in 1850.²

     Susan Perley was born on 15 March 1806.¹ She was the daughter of Isaac Perley and Eunice Hancock.¹

She married Arthur Higgins on 18 May 1833, by Elder Perkins.¹

She died on 9 January 1870 at age 63 of consumption.¹

     Susan Ann Perley of Maugerville is the daughter of Thomas Perley and Rhoda Peabody.²

She married George Peabody and lived in Northampton, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada.¹

     Susanna Perley was born on 16 March 1788 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Henry Perley and Eunice Hood.¹

She died on 23 November 1791 in Boxford, at age 3.¹

     Susannah Perley was born on 19 November 1697 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Samuel Perley and Abigail Cummings.¹

She married Samuel Stickney on 15 November 1715.³

She died on 12 July 1773 at age 75.³

     Susannah Perley was born on 13 July 1744.² She was the daughter of Asa Perley and Susannah Low.¹

She married Asa Peabody on 5 September 1765 and lived in Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.² Susannah Perley and Asa Peabody moved to Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, and the site of his residence was, in 1906, occupied by the residence of Mr. Solomon Washington Howe in the East Parish. He was town treasurer for several years; he was much respected for his integrity and symmetry of character. Just previous to his death he presented the town the original cemetery lot near the First Church; he was the first to be interred there.³

     Susannah Perley was born on 11 August 1782.¹ She was the daughter of Samuel Perley and Hephzibah Fowler.¹

She married Thomas Hancock of Otisfield, Me.¹

     Susannah Perley is the daughter of Eliphalet Perley and Anna Porter.¹

     Susannah Perley was born on 9 April 1780.² She was the daughter of Allen Perley and Judith Case.¹

She married Ezekiel Marsh.²

She died on 8 March 1838 at age 57 of consumption.²

     Susannah Perley was born on 14 January 1801 in Gray, Cumberland County, Maine.¹ She was the daughter of Samuel Perley and Abigail Lewis.¹

She died on 25 June 1805 in Gray, at age 4 of scarlet fever.¹

     Sylvester Strickland Perley was born on 20 August 1805.¹ He was the son of Nathaniel Perley and Lucinda Strickland.¹

He died on 5 April 1866 in Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, at age 60, unmarried.¹

     Thomas Perley was born on 7 June 1783 in Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Lieut. Dudley Perley and Hannah Hale.¹

He died on 22 January 1803 at age 19 unmarried.¹

     Thomas Perley was born in 1641 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Allen Perley and Susanna Bokesen, or Bokenson.¹

He married Lydia Peabody on 8 July 1667.² Thomas Perley moved to Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts . In 1676, Dec. 12, Richard Dole of Newbury, for £75 sold him 175 acres, "one half of that parcel of land which he bought of Mr. Anthony Crosbie, lying in Rowley." The 8th of January, 1677, he and his wife confirmed to her brother William Peabody, then of Topsfield, later of Boxford, for £32, land lying on the south side of the Andover road in Boxford. Before his removal to Boxford with his brother John, in 1684, he deeded, 31 March of that year, for .£20, eighteen acres of upland lying in Boxford, which they bought of Zaccheus Gould. In 1687, he was assessed on the following property, besides three "heads" or polls: 1 house, 25 acres land, 4 oxen, 2 horses, 10 cows, 7 young cattle, 22 sheep, 8 swine. This year he paid the largest tax of any in the town except his brother-in-law, John Peabody, who paid four pence more.

His residence was on the site of the residence of the late Isaac Hale, which by 1906 was marked by an umbrageous elm, and earlier by its proximity to the apple tree and stone bound which then marked the bound between Ipswich, Topsfield and Boxford, but later, by a change in the line, the salient angle of Topsfield.

He was one of the most prominent and influential citizens of the town, and in an enlarged sense was one of "the fathers of the town." He was made freeman 23 May, 1677. He and John Peabody were chosen, 3 June, 16*9, representative to the General Court, "teell government shall be seated, only they bee to sarve but one at a time." They were again chosen 11 March, 1689-90, but Peabody "sarved" both times. They served together at the quarterly session beginning s June, 1692. He was chosen a representative 31 Oct 1693, and 8 May 1700, he and John Peabody were chosen, only one to serve at a time. He was again chosen for 1702. He was a selectman, 1690, 1694, 1699, 1701, 1704, 1709; a constable 1688; a grand juror 1695; trial juror 1692,1698, 1707; moderator of town meetings 1698, 170l,1704, 1706, 1707 and 1709; he was made quarter master of the Boxford militia company about 1688, and lieutenant in 1691. He served in the committees on settling the boundary between Topsfield and Boxford, on erecting the first church, on organizing the first religious society, on assigning pews and building galleries. In January, 1701, he was one of the committee to receive the deed of the town of Boxford from the Indians, Samuel and Joseph English and John Umpee, grandsons of the old Sagamore Masconnomet ("£8 4s and on pound in vittels and drink to Samuel and Joseph English and two shillings and six pence to John Umpee and Rum and vittels Enouf."). They all assembled at his house to make the transfer and seal it. His name is found on numerous committees, all of peculiar importance. He was extensively interested in promoting iron-smelting, which was begun in the town in 1669. He sold to Mr. John Ruck of Salem, one-sixteenth of the works, 7: 10, 1671, for £60 sterling. He was one of those who composed the jury that condemned Elizabeth Howe of Linebrook Parish, et al., of witchcraft, and who afterwards signed a recantation. He was deacon in the First Church till his death.³

He died on 24 September 1709 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, . His will is dated 9 May 1704, and, without the usual verbiage, says: "I bequeath my soul to God and my body to a decent interment in the earth." He devised to his son Thomas all his land not already disposed of by deed to his son Jacob, and to his beloved wife Lydia all the personal estate during her life-time, and after her death in equal portions to his two sons Jacob and Thomas, requiring his "son Thomas to furnish his mother a horse to ride upon and a suitable person to ride before her as often as she wishes to go abroad." He mentions in his will his daughter Mary Hazen and granddaughter Alice Cummings.⁴

     Thomas Perley was born in 1669.² He was the son of John Perley and Mary Howlett.¹

He married Abigail Towne on 14 January 1695/96 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He and Abigail Towne were members of the church in at Topsfield.³ In 1710, Thomas Perley moved to Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, and undoubtedly lived with his father, who was then about 80 years of age, making the parental home his own till his death. He was a prominent and efficient man. In Topsfield, he was a surveyor of highways in 1700, a fence viewer in 1703, a selectman in 1703 and 1705, besides holding other offices at other times. In Boxford he was moderator of town meetings in 1717, 1720, 1722, 1734 and 1735, a surveyor of highways in 1719 and 1735, a selectman in 1717, 1723 and 1730, a constable in 1731, a surveyor of hemp and flax in 1736 and 1737 and a representative to General Court in 1727. He drew and carried on Nathaniel Cogswell's right in the settlement of Pennacook (now Concord, N. H.) 1725-7. He, his cousin Thomas Perley, and Joseph Hale, were the trustees of the "£50,000 loan" of the town in 1732. In the militia he was a sergeant at the age of thirty and a lieutenant in 1712. He was a farmer and owned considerable property. His exhibit on an old valuation list, the date of which has been torn off, is as follows: 1 house, 2 acres orcharding, 13 1-2 acres mowing, 21 acres pasturing, 7½ acres tillage.³

He married Hannah Goodhue in 1713.⁴

He died on 24 October 1740 The probate inventoried his estate at £725. His son Amos was his executor, and was given all his father's buildings and land in Boxford. Dr. Wood, a skillful practitioner of Boxford, attended him in his last sickness.² He and Hannah Goodhue were buried in Harmony Cemetery, East Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, His inscription reads:

HERE LIES BURIED
the BOdy oF
LIEU^t THOMAS
PERLEY WHO
DIED OCtObr 24th
1740 And In the
72nd, YEAR OF
HIS AGE.³