Ancestry of
Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

Philo Benson Castle

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Matthew Perry — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 86 
  • Father:
  • Sely Castle 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Jenkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 May 1791 
  • Birth Location:
  • Columbia County, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Feb 1875 
  • Death Location:
  • Homer, Cortland, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pompey Hill Cemetery, Pompey, Onondaga, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Emma Cadwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Oct 1814 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pompey, Onondaga, New York 
  • Child:

  Adeline Castle (Ahnentafel No:43 )

  • Notes: 

  • War of 1812 veteran

• Sources for Philo Benson Castle

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Onondaga County, 1850, Fabius, Image 30 of 58.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/01/2025).
  • ³ New York, U.S., State Census, 1855, Monroe County, Rochester Ward 6, Image 43 of 56.
  • ⁴ U.S., War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815, Pension records for Philo B Castle and Emma Castle.
  • ⁵ Geer, Sharon Jeanne Cadwell and Gary Dallas Cadwell, Fourteen Generations of the Cadwell Family in America: Plus Families of Cadwell Spouses, Woodbridge, Virginia: S. J. C. Geer and G. D. Cadwell (1992), 96.
  • ⁶ Ingraham, William Wallace, A History of the Castle Family from 1635 to 1900, Chicago: E. J. Decker Company [1900?], 194.