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  (b. abt. 1651 Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony   d. 2 September 1691 Dunstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony )  
Cause of Death: killed by Indians in massacre

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Anna PERRY was born abt. 1651 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Anna PERRY was the child of William PERRY   and   Anne UNKNOWN

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Anna  married  Joseph HASSELL 21 August 1667 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony .  The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Joseph HASSELL  was born 20 September 1645 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.  Joseph died 26 September 1691 in Dunstable, Massachusetts, USA.  Joseph was the child of Richard HASSELL (HASWELL) and Joan BATEMAN? BANKS?.

Anna PERRY died 2 September 1691 in Dunstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony.





SOURCE: History of the Old Township of Dunstable: Including Nashua, Nashville, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, and Merrimac, N. H.; Dunstable and Tyngsborough, Mass., by Charles J. Fox, Nashua: Charles T. Gill, Publisher, 1846.
(pp. 62-63)
". . . In the summer of 1691 the war was renewed and the Indian ravages recommenced. Small scouting parties attacked many of the neighboring settlements. . . On the evening of Sept. 2, 1691, they suddenly appeared in this town, and attacked the house of Joseph HASSELL, senior. Hassell, his wife Anna HASSELL, their son Benjamin HASSELL, and Mary MARKS, daughter of Patrick MARKS, were slain. There is a tradition that Mary MARKS was killed between the Hollis road and the canal about a quarter of a mile above the Nashua Corporation.
They were all buried upon the little knoll where Hassell's house stood, and a rough stone without inscription points out the spot.* A second stone stood there until within a few years, having been preserved for so long a period as raised to the dead, but at length falling into the hands of a new proprietor, and standing in the way of his plough, it was taken up and thrown into the cellar by their side which is not yet quite filled up. . ."
*Hassell's house stood on the north bank of Salmon Brook, on a small knoll just in rear of Miss Alids' house, where the cellar and grave stones may still be seen. [presumably at the time of publication, in 1846]

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Anna PERRY - TITLE	EARLY GENERATIONS OF THE FOUNDERS OF OLD DUNSTABLE AUTHOR	EZRA S. STEARNS PUBLISHER	HERITAGE BOOKS, 1986 ISBN	0917890787, 9780917890789 LENG
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TITLE EARLY GENERATIONS OF THE FOUNDERS OF OLD DUNSTABLE
AUTHOR EZRA S. STEARNS
PUBLISHER HERITAGE BOOKS, 1986
ISBN 0917890787, 9780917890789
LENGTH 103 PAGES

marriage1667 Marriage / Partner
Anna PERRY and Joseph HASSELL 21 August 1667, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
1669 Birth of Child
Anna HASSELL was born 6 October 1669, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
1673 Birth of Child
Abiah HASSELL was born 13 May 1673, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
marriage1686 Marriage of Child
Anna HASSELL married 7 December 1686, Dunstable, Massachusetts, USA to John LOVEWELL
1691 Death
1691 HASSELL ANNA, W. JOSEPH, SR., SLAIN BY OUR INDIAN ENEMIES, SEPT 2, 1691. N. R. DEATH DUNSTABLE

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TITLE HISTORY OF THE OLD TOWNSHIP OF DUNSTABLE: INCLUDING NASHUA, NASHVILLE, HOLLIS, HUDSON, LITCHFIELD, AND MERRIMAC, N.H. DUNSTABLE AND TYNGSBOROUGH, MASS
GENEALOGY & LOCAL HISTORY
AUTHOR CHARLES JAMES FOX
PUBLISHER C. T. GILL, 1846
ORIGINAL FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIGITIZED AUG 31, 2006
LENGTH 278 PAGES
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007).
Added: 3/25/2009 8:44:16 AM - Updated: 3/17/2025 1:59:25 PM
Did You Know?The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)

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February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state

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