Joseph PERRY

Joseph married Deborah BURR about 1710. Deborah (daughter of Daniel BURR and Abigail GLOVER) died about 1718. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Abigail PERRY was christened on 8 Feb 1710/11.
2. Joseph PERRY was christened on 30 Sep 1713; died on 20 Aug 1753.

Joseph married Sarah BULKLEY about 1708. Sarah (daughter of John BULKLEY and Esther BURR) died about 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Mary CLUGSTON about 1718. Mary (daughter of Michael CLUGSTON and Mary WAKEMAN) died on 08 Nov 1773 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Esther LYON. Esther (daughter of Richard LYON and Margaret ?) was born about 1658. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1691

Notes:

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Richard Lyon settled in Fairfield, Conn., as early as May, 1649, the exact date of his arrival there not being now known. According to family tradition he was the youngest of three brothers, who came to New England probably about 1648 and located first in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The earliest item relating to him is found in the Colonial Records of Connecticut (I. 183) where we read in the proceedings of a "Perticular Courte" in Hartford, May 16, 1649 "Nehemiah Olmstead Plt contra Richard Lyon defent in an action of the case to the damage of L12." The report is certainly tantalizingly brief, and leaves us quite in the dark as to the merits or the outcome of the controversy.

Richard Lyon had a house and lot recorded in the Land Records of Fairfield ("Fayarefeild") in january, 153, and was made a freeman there in 1664 (Conn. Colonial Records I. 432). In 1673 he had recorded five acres of land at Barlow's Plains, and 18 1/2 acres "on the Rocks." He was chosen Commissioner for Fairfield, May 1669 ( Conn. Col. Rec. II. 106.) It is related that on the occasion of a witchcraft trial "the prisoner was sharply rebuked by Richard Lyon, one of the keepers, for bold language." From the abusive reply which is recorded one may gather that the rebuke was well deserved.

The will of Richard Lyon, dated April 12, 1678, probated Oct. 17, 1678, is almost the only source of information about his family.

Richard married Margaret ?. Margaret died in 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]