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- 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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1718 - 1806 (~ 87 years)
