I concur, I bought this book when last in Sandwich, and just loved reading it! I am descended from the Freeman, Perry line as well as Atkins, there are lots of old Sandwich names in my line.. Paul Green Bay, WI Bobbie Hall wrote: >Hi Howard, > >Maybe this will help a little: > >"Edward and his brother Ezra Perry and three sisters came to Sandwich as >teenagers in the 1640s with an older lady Sarah Perry. These five all >married and became strongly identified with the town. Edward's home was out >on Old County Road probably in the Talbot's Point area, and he later became >the town's leading Quaker, a forceful dedicated literate and conscientious >man. In 1653 when criticism of the established church and Colony government >was mounting, Perry married Mary Freeman, a young lady in Edmund Freeman's >household. The young couple took each other in marriage and declined the >services both of Thomas Tupper, who was authorized to conduct marriages in >Sandwich, and of the magistrate for this district. Plymouth Court was very >stern about this as a bad example in the town and Colony, and fined Perry £5 >for his refusal, with a promise of a similar fine every quarter until he >conformed. There is no record that he ever did. The Court must have been >angered at Edmund Freeman as well for permitting this breach in his own >family. The only recorded result is that Thomas Tupper was made a scapegoat >and was dismissed from his authority to marry couples in Sandwich. The >Edward Perrys had nine children and many famous descendants." > >>From pp. 34-35 R.A. Jr. Lovell's, _Sandwich A Cape Cod Town_, (Sandwich, MA: >Town of Sandwich, MA, 1996) . > >To help you dig up the original documentation... from the "Notes on Sources" >section, several items are listed: >Perry Family: Register, 115:86-99, et seq (1961); Perry Gen., 72-3, Elwell >H. Perry, New Bedford, 1979. >Perry-Freeman marriage: Freeman Gen., 30; PCR, III: 46, 47, 52. >Tupper marriage authority: PCR, II:155 (bestowed); III:47 (removed). > >(I can personally rave about this book for anyone with family from Sandwich, >it is superb and worth adding to one's library). I hope I'm not breaking >list/copyright rules with this short citation, but it gives such great >detail! > >Cheers, >Bobbie Hall >Chicago > > > >==== MABARNST Mailing List ==== >Visit the Barnstable County GenWeb site at: >www.rootsweb.com/~mabarnst >It is ably done by the founder and former Admin of this list, and contains a wealth of links and other information on Barnstable genealogy. > > > > >