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• FamilySearch ID: LR1M-6CR
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 79422113

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Josiah was one of at least 8 children born to John and Sarah (Clary) Perry of Watertown. He married first Bethia Cutter, daughter of Ephraim and Bethia (Wood) Cutter of Cambridge, Mass. They lived at Watertown where their 9 children, who included Jonathan, Lydia, Josiah Jr., Ephraim, Nathan, Bethia, Mary, Israel, Dorcas and Sarah, were born between 1710 and 1728. His wife Bethia died in 1748 at Watertown.

He married (second) Elizabeth (Bigelow) Harrington of Watertown on March 10 1735/6. They were joined in marriage by Revd Seth Storer. Elizabeth died 26 Sept. 1748.

Josiah died at Worcester, or possibly Watertown, Mass., at age 83.

See "New England Families" by Wm. R. Cutter. 1914. p. 1700. Also, thank you Bill Boyington for providing some of the historical research.

Inscription
Cemetery: Old Burial Ground On the Common
Stone: 242
Name: Mr Josiah Perry
Death Date: 16 Sep 1767
Age: in ye 83d year of his age
Inscription: In memory of; who departed this life
[Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1727 to 1859: With Biographical and Historical Notes]

Gravesite Details
ae 83y - His stone if there was one, may have been laid flat and buried.

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79422113

Josiah married Bethiah Elizabeth Cutter on 12 Jan 1707/08 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Bethiah was born on 2 Dec 1686 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was christened on 18 Aug 1689 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 3 Oct 1735 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was buried after 3 Oct 1735 in Old Burying Place, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GCYY-JT3
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 111754073

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Nathan Perry was a son of Josiah Perry and Bethia (Cutler) He was a weaver and tailor by trade, as were his progenitors.

He married at Watertown on about May 1, 1745, Hannah Fiske, daughter of Sarah (Coolidge) and Deacon Nathan Fiske.

He came on April, 1751, to Worcester and was for twenty-three years Deacon of the church (Old South) from 1783 until he died at age eighty-eight years. He was very prominent in town, becoming town treasurer, county treasurer, selectman for ten years from 1780 to 1790, and was also surveyor and collector of taxes in 1760, 1768 and 1769. He served as town moderator of meetings when there was debate on the Continental Congress and was selected to a committee to decide what should be done; he and the other committee members signed the report to uphold the Congress. He was also involved in numerous other early government issues.

His homestead was on what is now Vernon street, the Elijah Hedge estate, which he bought when he came to Worcester.

His children with Hannah were: Hannah, born in Watertown, 1747, died 1749; J Hannah, born 1749, in Watertown; Nathan, Jr., born March 30, 1751, in Watertown; the following children were born in Worcester: Sarah, born November 29, 1752; Josiah, Mary, born March 1, 1759; Deacon Moses, born February 16, 1762, father of Deacon Samuel Perry and ancestor of many of the Worcester Perrys.

[Source: Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1. Edited by Ellery Bicknell Crane. 1907 and Proceedings of the Worcestor Society of Antiquity for the year 1907. Vol. XXIII. Published 1908.]

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Nathan married Hannah Fiske about 1 May 1745 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Deacon Nathan Fiske, III and Sarah Coolidge) was born on 19 May 1719 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 2 Sep 1813 in Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 2 Sep 1813 in Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LHGD-VTX
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 111754060

Notes:

Walter Perry Green, Jr, is a descendent of Nehemiah Hall, Sr. and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.  His National Number is 122244 and his Rhode Island Number is 1545.

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Moses married Hannah Hall on 2 Apr 1791 in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Nehemiah Hall and Sarah Hayward) was born on 19 Mar 1768 in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was christened on 8 May 1768 in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 26 Nov 1861 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 26 Nov 1861 in Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 111754106
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• 1855 Massachusetts Census: 1855, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111754106

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.

1855 Massachusetts Census:
Ward 5
Joseph S Perry   26  M   Farmer    Mass
Lucy E      "        30   F                    "

Samuel Perry      59  M   Farmer     Mass.
Mary H    "          51   F                     "
Mary S.   "          28   F                     "
Julie M    "          25   F                     "
Nethan F   "        22   M  Farmer        "
Lydia A.    "        20   F                     "
Harriet W.  "       18   F                     "
David B      "       16  M   Farmer        "
Samuel P    "      14  M                      "
Moses         "      12  M                      "
Hannah       "      87  F                       "
... 4 Boarders.

Samuel married Mary Harrington in 1820. Mary was born in Nov 1804 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 18 Feb 1869 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 18 Feb 1869 in Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]