The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Reuben Perry was born 26 October 1739 at Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a son of Eleazer Perry and Mary Johnson.1 He married Desire Needham about 1775. She was a daughter of Humphrey Needham and Dorothy Munger.2 They were the parents of three known children: Molly,3 Abijah,4 and Ruhama.5
Perry enlisted as a private, 12 May 1775, at South Brimfield, Massachusetts.6 He later achieved the rank of sergeant. He served in Captain Ames Walbridge’s Company of the Ninth Regiment, of Colonels Rufus Putnam and Brewer, from South Brimfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Perry enlisted again, 1 July 1780, in Captain Wright’s Company of the Fifth Connecticut Regiment of Colonel P. B. Bradley.7
Reuben Perry died after 1810, likely at Connecticut. The date and place of death of Desire Needham Perry is not known.
6. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, Vol. 12, database with images (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7726/images/7726-Volume12-0221?pId=3260
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