Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bethia married Josiah Perry on 12 Jan 1708. Josiah (son of John Perry and Deceased) was born on 28 Nov 1684 in Wartertown, Middlesex, MA; died on 16 Sep 1767 in Worcester, Worcester, MA; was buried in Worcester Common Burial Ground, Worcester, Worcester, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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.]

Nathan married Hannah Fiske on 1 May 1745 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA. Hannah (daughter of Dea. Nathan Fiske, III and Sarah Coolidge) was born on 17 May 1719 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA; died in Sep 1813 in Worcester, Worcester, MA; was buried in Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Farmer

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.

(Medical):Deacon Moses Perry died from Hydothorax.

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