Ebenezer Perry

GEDCOM Note

“On the 2nd day of March, 1803, in the city of Philadelphia, Dr. Samuel Jones sold this quarter of a township (4,000 acres), which was the southeast quarter of Township 6, in Range 20, to David Pugh, for $2,650, reserving 50 acres given to David Lodwig (a Welshman then living in Philadelphia), and 50 acres donated as a glebe for a Baptist or Presbyterian minister of the Gospel who would settle there. (See records Franklin County, book A, page 32.) On his return from the West, David Pugh met Henry Perry, of Anglesey, South Wales, and arranged with him to commence a settlement on the land which he had visited. Mr Perry left his wife and several small children near Baltimore, and, with his sons Ebenezer and Levi, aged fifteen and thirteen years, made the journey on foot, enduring many hardships. Late in the fall of 1803, Henry Perry and his sons squatted on this land, built a cabin, and during the winter, cleared a few acres, which, in the spring, they planted in corn, potatoes, pumpkins, beans, etc. Their food, except venison, wild turkeys and fish, and the seed used in planting the clearing, they had packed on foot from Franklinton, a distance, through the unbroken forests, of over thirty miles. In the early summer of 1804, Mr. Perry left the boys in charge of the improvement, and, on foot, returned to the vicinity of Baltimore, and with his wife Margaret and the children, after a long and toilsome journey in a cart, arrived back at his new home in the wilds of Central Ohio. The heroic and noble boys were found all right, with a fine crop and a cheery cabin to greet the re-united family. . . .

“In July, 1804, Mr. Pugh sold, for $150, 100 acres of his estate to Henry Perry. This was the first land sold to an actual settler in the township.” Source: Perrin, William Henry, History of Delaware County and Ohio (O. L. Baskin and Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1880; Archive.org, Digital images), p. 503.

“As we have seen, a large number of the early settlers of Radnor Township were natives of Wales. And from the time when the original pioneer, Henry Perry, and his heroic boys, Levi and Ebenezer, used their mother tongue in their first home there, the Welsh language, grand in structure, forcible in expression and euphonious in sound, has been extensively used in the township.” Source: Perrin, William Henry, History of Delaware County and Ohio (O. L. Baskin and Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1880; Archive.org, Digital images), p. 505.

There are three index cards for Ebenezer Perry in the National Archives’ Indexes to the Carded Records of Soldiers Who Served in Volunteer Organizations During the War of 1812, which may or many not all be for the same man. They’re all listed as a Private who served in the following regiments: 1 Regiment (McArthur’s), Ohio Volunteers 1 Regiment (Gano’s), Ohio Volunteers 2 Regiment (Findlay’s), Ohio Volunteers The latter two are cross-referenced to each other. It would make sense for the entries in the 1st Regiment to be for the same man, also. Source: War Department. The Adjutant General's Office, Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812 (Washington, D.C., National Archives; Fold3.com, online database and digital images, 2013), Record Group 94, NARA M602, roll 0163, image 309373208, record for Private Ebenezer Perry. https://www.fold3.com/image/309373208.

Ebenezer was married three times, according to William Sylvester Perry. However, he was not able to find the name of his third wife. He said Ebenezer and Jane Davis had a daughter named Jane, but I wonder if he confused her with Sylvester's wife named Jane (Campbell).

RESEARCH NOTES

1 Aug 2015 - Not listed in “Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850, an Index”

16 Nov 2015 - There were at least four Ebenezer Perry’s who served in the following regiments from Ohio during the War of 1812:

1st Regiment (Gano’s), Ohio Volunteers and Militia 1st Regiment (McArthur’s), Ohio Volunteers and Militia 2nd Regiment (Findlay’s), Ohio Volunteers and Militia Capt. Bartholomew Fryatt’s Company (county unknown), served from 27 Apr - 30 Jun 1812 Capt. Samuel Stewart’s Company (county unknown), served from Apr - 20 Oct 1812

There was no Ebenezer Perry in the Pension List of 1820 at http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48119

Searched Delaware County, Ohio, Burial Index, 1784-2011, at Ancestry.com for him but did not find him.

19 Nov 2015 - Scanned through the following image sets of Ohio, Wills and Probate Records, Marion County, at Ancestry.com: General Index Estates, Vol 1 - No entries General Index Land Sales, Vol 1 - No entries General Index Probate Court Records, 1828-1964 - No entries General Index Wills, Vol 1, 1825-1950 - No entries Delaware County: Will Records, Vol 1-3, 1812-1859 - No entries

15 Sep 2018 - Searched for him with birthday 1790-1795 in Wales, Parish Registers, 1678-2001 at FamilySearch but found nothing