Ancestry of
Samuel Perry

(1731–1805)

Abigail Presbury

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• • Mother of Samuel Perry — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Presbury 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Skiffe   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1703 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jun 1749 
  • Death Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ebenezer Perry
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1728 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Stephen Perry

  Samuel Perry (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Deborah Perry

  Seth Perry

  Thomas Perry

  Isaiah Perry

  Thomas Perry

  Abigail Perry

  Mary Perry

  • Notes: 
  • Some sources state Abigail's maiden name is Fessenden but this has since been disputed.

• Sources for Abigail Presbury

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Will of father Stephen Presbury, dated 06 APR 1730, proved 30 JUN 1730.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1961, Vol. 115, p. 192.
  • ³ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1942, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 159-166 and accompanying chart.
  • ⁴ Sandwich, MA: Vital Records to 1885, Vol. 1, p. 135, Birth record for son Samuel Perry.
  • ⁵ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 130.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 7.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 437.
  • ⁸ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 138.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S., comp., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 3, Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 4.
  • ¹⁰ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 506.
  • ¹¹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 342-343.