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Vol. II - THE PERRIGO PAPERS - No. 1, page 2
> Robert E. Bishop, Editor - MAY, 1981

Mr. Robert Bishop again asks: Are you passing along the information in these memos to others in your family? He alsos states The Perrigo Papers need more readers.

David Perrigo [21] is the featured ancestor in this issue. David is recorded as being born in Skenesboro, N.Y. cc 1760-61 Since the Cutler account states David's mother was a Flint, we must assume that his father Joseph Perrigo [16]
had more than one wife as the other "brothers" mentioned do not make this reference. Rufus Perrigo [19] was born in Dover, N.Y. either before or after David, most likely earlier. Skenesboro, later renamed Whitehall is purported to be the birthplace of the American Navy.
The town first got its name from Philip Skene,a British army officer who obtained a large land grant at the southern end of the Lake Champlain, was pro-British in the early fighting up and down that great waterway. The Americans, in due course, were to develop into the Green Mountain Boys and make Vermont history.

Due to some bad military advice which Skene gave the British as to how strong the Americans were he was to lose, not only his huge grant of land, but a mansion, a blockhouse,sawmill, and smithy furnace for converting local ores into mallable iron. His properties were very prized by the Americans as together they made possible the ship construction the Americans needed to start their own navy. Philip Skene was a British loyalist who accompanied Burgoyne and the British forces as they chased the Americans south and caught up with them at Hubbardton and Benington. The British won the first battle but lost the second one at Bennington. While David Perrigo was in both battles, it was a Bennington that he made the history books.
Joseph Perrigo, David’s father, could well have been working as a mariner in the Skenesboro area as Skene was heavy into trading.
A mariner role is, of course, conjecture.

5th Generation (1725-1750)	6th Generation (1750-1775)	7th Generation (1775 - 1800)	8th Generation (1800-1825)
David Perrigo [13] m. Katherine Alsop, Boston, 1735. The Cutler account lists Joseph [16] as either the son or nephew of David Perrigo [13] [16] Joseph -------------* (_______) m. Flint This suggests that David [13] had another son (very likely a "David". Records show that Frederick [25] did have a father David and that Perrigos [19], [21], [23], and [25] all lived in Pownal, VT. between 1762 and 1782 before moving on further north in Vermont.	Children of Joseph [16] [17] Joseph Jr. [18] Robert, Dr. (1766-1829) m. N. Rock [19] Rufus (1760-1832) m. A Hulbert m. P. Hulbert [20] Branscom (______) **[21] David -------- (1761-1826) m. E. Hulbert [22] Elijah (ca 1771- m. A. Steward [23] Dr. John (1762-1820) m. A. Hitchcock [24] Polly (______) m. __. Wilson	[43] Lucy (1787-1833) m. J. Bailey [44] Ebenezer ---- (1789-1882) m C. Ferguson [45] Zimri (17931873) m. L. Spafford [46] Clarissa (1794-1879) m. L. Bass [47] Elijah (1798-1861) m. A. M. Hall [48] Permelia (1800-1893) m. N. Griffin [49] Heman (1804 - ) m. [50] Huldah (1804 - ) m. H. Martin [51] Sylv. Flint --- (1806-1883) m. L. Brooks [75] Polly (1791 - 1870) m. A. Wood	Children of Ebenezer [44] [113] William E. (1816-1899) m. E. Pratt [114] Clarissa [115] Ambrose [116] David Children of Sylv. Flint [51] [117] Eunice [118] Elbert Melvin [119] Herman Lewis [120] Mary Arvilla [121] Harlan Sylvester (1843 - ) m. J. A. Griffin [122] Lucy Ann ( - ) [123] Stephen Frank [124] Isadore Clarissa -------------- Descendants of William E. Perrigo {113] continued on page 4 Descendants of Permelia [48] and Sylvester Flint Perrigo [51] con't page 6 Are you passing along the information in these memos to others of your family?

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