Person:Phillip Perry (2)

Philip Perry was shot down in Shaftsbury, probably near the Arlington line, while trying to arrest Hazard Wilcox, a Tory spy, in the early days of the Revolution. There is a tablet to his memory in the station in Arlington, VT.

Given Name: Philip SURNAME: Perry PAGE #: 341 LOCATION: Connecticut REGIMENT: Second REGT.COMMAND: Whiting, Nathan Colonel & Captain COMPANY: Tenth CO.COMMAND: Fitch, Azel Captain CAMPAIGN YEAR: 1762 SOURCE LIST: Pay Roll

1.   Elwell, Levi Henry. The gravestone records of Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont : copied and verified 1908-10: copied and verified 1908-10. (Amherst, Massachusetts: Composition and Presswork, 1911)
   p 52.

   buried Grandview Cemetery, North Bennington, VT

2.   Hall, Hiland. The history of Vermont, from its discovery to its administration into the Union in 1791. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968)
   174.

   A number of the men from the southern part of the district, who
   had visited Clarendon, on their return, met Jacob Marsh. Esq., at
   Arlington, who was on his way from New York to Socialborough,
   took him prisoner, and put him on trial for his crimes against the
   New Hampshire claimants, before Samuel Tubbs, Nathaniel Spencer
   and Philip Perry as jndges. Seth Warner and Remember Baker
   were his accusers, the latter insisting upon the application of the
   beech seal," as a punishment. But his advice did not prevail;
   the sentence of the jndges, which was in writing, and read to him
   by Warner by direction of the court, was to the effect that he should
   thereafter encourage settlements of lands under the New Hampshire
   charters, and discourage those under New York, and that he should
   not act as a justice of the peace under a New York commission "
   upon pain of having his house burnt and reduced to ashes, and
   his person punished at their pleasure." He was then dismissed,
   his jndges furnishing him with a eertificate to protect him against
   further mob punishment for past offences.1
   It appears from the affidavit of Marsh that on his reaching Social-
   borough he found that the roof of his house had been publicly taken
   off by a party of Green Mountain Boys, probably under the idea
   that when put on again it would be, like that of Speneer, under the
   New Hampshire title. A day or two after the departure of the
   mob from Clarendon. Charles Button, a constable residing in that
   town, was arrested at Pittsford, in the northern part of Social-
   borough, and a prisoner he had in charge for debt was taken from
   his custody. Button was put on trial for acting in the offiee under
   the New York authority, threatened with the " beech seal," and
   compelled to give the party six shillings for his damages, and to "
   promise he would never execute any preeept under the provinee '
   The following is given in the affidavit of Marsh as a literal copy of the
   eertificate. "
   Arlington Novr 25th AD 1773. These may Sertify that Jacob Marsh
   haith ben Examined, and had on fare trial — so that our mob shall not
   medeal farther with him as long as he behaves
   Sartified by us his jndges, to wit
   SAML TUBS
   NATHANIEL SPENCER
   PHILIP PERRY