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

Deceased married John Perry on 13 Dec 1667 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA. John (son of Deceased and Living) was born in 1644 in London, England; died in 1724 in Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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.

Josiah married Bethia Cutter on 12 Jan 1708. Bethia (daughter of Living and Deceased) was born on 2 Dec 1686 in Cambridge, Middlesex, MA; died on 3 Oct 1735; was buried in Old Burying Place, Watertown, Middlesex, 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]