History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . sjundncss andstrength of the town is apparent; and while itsgrowth has been checked by causes which have operate, it seems certain that, with its good soil,its admirable location, the prosperity its proximity to the flourishing city of Haverhill,its future increase aud prosperity are assured. BIOGRAPHICAL. GARDNER B. PERRY, Braman Perry was the fifth child andsecond son of Nathan a?id Phoibe (Braman) Perry,of Norton, Mass. He was born August 9,
History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . sjundncss andstrength of the town is apparent; and while itsgrowth has been checked by causes which have operate, it seems certain that, with its good soil,its admirable location, the prosperity its proximity to the flourishing city of Haverhill,its future increase aud prosperity are assured. BIOGRAPHICAL. GARDNER B. PERRY, Braman Perry was the fifth child andsecond son of Nathan a?id Phoibe (Braman) Perry,of Norton, Mass. He was born August 9, was a lineal descendant of Anthony Perry, oneof the first settlers and most influential citizens ofRchoboth. His father was a farmer, a man of quiet,methodical and industrious habits, yet energetic andpublic-spirited when the occasion demanded it. Agood evidence of this was afloided by his enlistmentafter the battle of Bunker Hill and service in thesiege of Boston. His readiness thus to leave hisyoung wife and infant child at a period when thecolonists had not yet fully testified their ability to. (j /^COn/yy /3. /e?-^ GROVEL AND. 1705 Ksist regular troops showed both andpluck. If he iiilierited good principles ami (pilot decisionfrom his father, he indebted to his mother forthat energy, uoblo and)ition and geniality by whichhe was so enimently characterized. It the testi-mony of more than one of Mrs. Terrys children thattheir success in life was mainly attribntable to herinstructions and c.\anii>le. She was a woman of raresweetness, sprightliness and tact. She was a sisterof the late Isaac Braman, )., who, called to of the church in Georirelown, after more thanfifty candidates had been heard, retained the positionuntil his death, sixty-one years later, and ruled hisHock in peace. Soon after his death the old quarrelbroke out under new pretexts, but between thegrandchildren of the former combatauts, who wereranged pretty much as th
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