1. OBADIAH PERRY, son of William and Anna Perry of Watertown; married August 21, 1667, Esther Hassell, born Cambridge, December 6, 1648, daughter of Richard Hassell. They lived a few years in Watertown and was one of the first families of Dunstable. On account of the exposure during King Philip's War, he removed to Concord and soon after, to Billerica. It is recorded in Billerica, "February 10, 1675-6, Obadiah Perry, belonging to Dunstable towne, now resident at Concord, but being inforced to remove from thence and not accounting it safe at ye present to remove to his owne at Dunstable, desiring at present to hire a house at Billerica, the selectmen, considering his condition, do grant him liberty to hire in this towne."
He returned to Dunstable before 1680, and was there killed by the Indians, September 28, 1691. "Obadiah Perry and Christopher Temple dyed by the hand of our Indian enemies, September, the twenty eighth day in the morning." His widow, Esther, married second, August 30, 1693, Martin Townsend of Watertown. He died 1698.
Record is found of six children of Obadiah and Esther (Hassell) Perry.
i. Obadiah, born, Watertown, October 11, 1669
ii. Ebenezer, born, Watertown, November 20, 1671
iii.Esther, born, Watertown, August 11, 1674; married at Concord, May 11, 1692, to William Harwood
iv. Samuel, born, Billerica, July 19, 1677; died November 25, 1677
v. John, born, Dunstable, January 31, 1682
vi. Elizabeth, born, Dunstable, April 7, 1683
