rom Perry. Married Mehitable Leonard (1705-1792).
Lived in Easton, Massachusetts, on land given Mehitable by her
father. Served on the Church Committee and was commissioned a
Captain in the militia under Colonel John Winslow. Raised a
company of 46 enlisted men and in May 1755 he raised a company of
96 men (2d battalion, Governor Shirley’s Regiment) for
"removing the French encroachments from His Majesty’s
Government in Nova Scotia," where he died in service at age
44. Brownson, NEHGR 115:99, 196> Evidently lived in Easton on
land given Mehitable by her father. In April 1740 Nathaniel Perry
of Easton sold for £269 to Johnson Tolman of Dorchester 140
acres of land (lot 39, 25th Division) in Stoughton; on 29 August
1740, he bought from Eliakim Perry, administrator of the estate
of Thomas Tupper, deceased, for £181, 141 acres in Stoughton. On
the same date, he sold to his brother Josiah his third of the 386
acres the three brothers had purchased jointly from their father.
On 9 Sep 1740 Nathaniel and Josiah Perry jointly mortgaged the
Stoughton land; Nathaniel purchased this land from Josiah on 20
Nov 1740. On 17 Nov 1744, Nathaniel purchased land in Easton from
Ezekial Titus and Patience, his wife. On 8 Nov 1748, he bought
land in Easton from Samuel and Abigail Pollard of Taunton. On 1
Jan 1750, Nathaniel Perry of Easton sold land in Norton to
Mehitable Smith of Norton; in the same year, he bought land in
Easton from Samuel Pollard of Taunton and Henry Hix of
Middleborough. On 31 Oct 1752, he sold land in Taunton to
Hezekiah Smith of Easton. On 6 Nov 1742, Nathaniel Perry of
Easton received his commission as Captain of the militia under
Colonel John Winslow. On 6 Nov 1754, he had a company of 46
enlisted men and the next month received a warrant for further
enlistments. On 29 May 1755 he raised a company of 96 men (the 2d
Battalion, Governor Shirley’s Regiment) for "removing
the French encroachments from His Majesty’s Government of
Nova Scotia." A letter from Nathaniel Perry to his wife,
dated Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, 25 Jun 1755, and other
details regarding him may be found in Chaffin’s History of
the Town of Easton (1886). [BINGHAM.GED]
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