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About John Perry
GEDCOM Note
[Master File.ftw]
Admitted as an apprentice to the "Clothworkers' Compnay" of London in
1621. The records of the Company show the following entry, " John
Perry, son of John of Farneborogh, of the county of Southhampton, a
clergyman deceased, is put apprenticed
to John Lawson for seven years from this date, namely, November 26,
1621".
The great Fire of London struck on the night of Sept, 2 1666 and he
most likely lost his property and buisness. Late that fall or early
the next spring he relocated his family across the Atlantic to
Watertown, MA where his brother-in-law Nathaniel Holland was already living..
"Prior to the publication of his book entitled 'Miscellanies' in 1902, Arthur Latham Perry-7 (6903) (Chapter 17) discovered an old record in London, England, which established the identity of the man who became the immigrant ancestor of the large family whose records are herewith published, none other than John Perry of London. Although comparatively few facts are known about this man, yet there are enough to set him apart from the many others who bore the same name and who were residents of London and contiguous areas in the seventeenth century.
Sir Owen Roberts, F.S.A., then the nominal clerk of the ancient and honorable 'Clothworkers Company' of London, allowed Professor Perry to search the records of that company; the search was rewarded when the following entry in abbreviated Latin was found:
'Lawson: -- Johes Perrie filius Jonis de ffarneborogh in Com. Southt. Clice Def. Appr. Johi Lawson a die Dat Septem
Dat XXVI Novemberr 1621.'
Rendered in complete Latin text, this entry would probably read:
'Johannes Perrie filius Johannis de Farneborough in Comitatu Southampton Clerici Defuncti; Apprenticius Johnni
Lawson a die Data Septem (annos). Datum vicesimo sexto Die Novembris 1621.'
Translated into English these phrases will read:
'John Perry, son of John of Farneborough, of the county of Southampton, a clergyman deceased, is put apprenticed to
John Lawson for seven years from this date, namely, November 26, 1621.'
Irvine Bertram Adams, An Incomplete History of the Descendents of John Perry of London, 1604-1954, (1955, Utah Printing, Salt Lake City, UT), page 5.
"London then did not admit any man to full civic rights of citizenship until he reached the age of twenty-four years; the craft guilds were such prominent factors in the municipal life of the city that admission to full freemanship in any of these guilds was also simultaneously and consequently an admission to the freedom of the city. Therefore an indenture of apprenticeship was almost always so drawn that the day of the boy's craft-freedom would fall on the opening day of his twenty-fifth year. Thus it may be inferred that the date of birth of young John Perry fell in November 1604 and that he became clothworker and citizen of London in November 1628 (third year of Charles I)."
Irvine Bertram Adams, An Incomplete History of the Descendents of John Perry of London, 1604-1954, (1955, Utah Printing, Salt Lake City, UT), page 6.
"Eight years after Joseph Holland made his will and his body was interred in St. Sepulchre's the great Fire of London occurred. In the night of 2 September 1666, a fire broke out in the heart of London, which raged for four days and reduced the city to ashes from the Tower to the Temple. Thirteen hundred houses and ninety churches were destroyed. The loss of merchandise and property was beyond calculation. (Green III, 382). There is every probability that John Perry, then sixty-two years of age, lost his property and business in the Fire of London.
It is certain that late in the autumn, or early the next spring, he emigrated from London to Watertown on the Charles River, bringing his family with him. The oldest family Bible says, 'In or about 1666 came from London John Perry,' and so on. ... Watertown was also the home of his brother-in-law Nathaniel Holland, who was still a resident in 1709, as well as of William Perry (3) (see Chapter 23) believed to have been his brother. Bond's 'History of Watertown' records his death in that town in 1674 "aged sixty-one." This age was incorrect; it is now known he was approaching the age of seventy. Johanna, his wife, had died in 1667." Irvine Bertram Adams, An Incomplete History of the Descendents of John Perry of London, 1604-1954, (1955, Utah Printing, Salt Lake City, UT), page 7.
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John Perry's Timeline
| 1604 |
November 1604
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Hampshire, England
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| 1644 |
May 1644
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St. Sepulcher's Parish, London, England
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| 1646 |
1646
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London, England
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| 1648 |
1648
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London, England
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| 1666 |
1666
- 1667
Age 61
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After the great fire of London on Sept 2, 1666
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| 1674 |
December 13, 1674
Age 70
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Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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