Eliakim Perry

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NEW YORK. DAR Ancestor # A089278

Eliakim had property in Stoughton, bounded southerly by "the Colony Line" and by Jeremiah Willis (who in 1742 married Eliakim's widowed sister, Remember [Remembrance] (Perry) Tupper). He served as administrator for the estate of Thomas Tupper, Jr. (his brother-in-law) and on 12 August 1740, as administrator, he sold some of the Tupper land to his brother Nathaniel. In 1746, he served under General Pepperell in the Cape Breton Campaign, with his brother Abner and brother-in-law David Joy.

David Perry reported the death of his mother, Sarah (Joy) Perry, in these terms: "Nothing of consequence took place until the fall after I was seven years old, when my mother died, leaving four small children, viz: one brother and two sisters. There was something very singular took place respecting her sickness. She went with my father, to visit his relations at Eastown [i.e., Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts]. They rode on horse-back. While they were there, on Lord's day, I was at play with my brother and two little sisters, and it appeared to me that I saw my mother ride by on the same horse she rode away on, and dressed in the same clothes. I mentioned the circumstance to my brother and sisters at the time; but she rode out of my sight immediately. At this time she was taken sick at Easton, in which condition they brought her home; and she died a few days afterwards. In consequence of this event, my father broke up housekeeping, and put out his children."

After Sarah's death, Eliakim moved to Norwich, where he married his second wife and sired a second family. Sometime before 1775, according to Bronson, he removed with his brother Josiah to the vicinity of Tinmouth, Rutland, Vermont. However, he enlisted for service in the War of the Revolution from the state of New York (See DAR Patriot Index). All seven of Eliakim's sons were also soldiers in the Revolution.