Sources, and how to read this history

The four marks

• Seen in recordsA record we have read supports it: a patent, a town register, a will or its abstract, an obituary, a letter, a memoir, or Grandpa’s own first-hand account. The record may still be wrong, but it was made close to the event.
• Published genealogyA published family or local history says so. These books were compiled carefully but from letters, memory and older books, and they sometimes copy each other, so two of them agreeing is not always two confirmations.
• Family chartIt is on Grandpa’s family chart and has not yet been checked against records.
• Probable, not provedThe case is strong but one link is missing.

Family stories are given as stories, with the name of the person who told them, usually Stanley E. Perin.

A few conventions

• Living people. Apart from Grandpa, living relatives are left out of these pages on purpose.
• Spellings. Perrin, Perin, Perryn and Parin all appear in the records. People are named here the way the records most often name them, so the early generations are Perrin and the later ones Perin. Phoebe and Phebe, Rachel and Rachael, are the same women.
• Dates. Where sources disagree, both dates are given and neither is quietly chosen. Dates before 1752 are as the sources print them; England and its colonies changed calendars that year, so a January date may be written as either of two years.
• The four Johns are told apart by their dates. Numbering them first, second and so on is only a convenience.

Sources

Published family histories

• Glover Perin, Genealogy of the Perrin Family (St. Paul, 1885). The foundation of everything before 1880. Read it at the Internet Archive. The scan is of the Boston Public Library’s copy, call number CS71.P458 1885, which we have also held; Grandpa sent the digital copy. A reader has added a few names in ink, among them Mary Polley and Sarah Brewer, which are noted where they arise. Key entries: 1, 7, 28, 66, 136, 218, 459, 467, 469, 475, 484.
• Stanley Ernest Perin, The John Perrin Family of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1974). Listed in Grandpa’s database; not yet seen. Historical Society of Pennsylvania catalogue.
• Allied Families of Purdy, Fauconnier, Archer, Perrin (1910). The Rehoboth records, the first John’s will, and the Roxbury and New York branches.
• Stanley E. Perin, the Perrin family narrative, kept on Grandpa’s blog. Read it on the blog.
• Stanley Ernest Perin, John Perrin and His Family. At the Internet Archive.
• Captain John Perry’s Rehoboth company of minutemen and his later company in Col. Timothy Walker’s regiment: the regiment’s history, and the Sons of the American Revolution’s record of his service, citing Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors. Volume 12, where Lemuel’s own entry should be, has not yet been read.
• History of Clermont County, Ohio (1880), the biography of Samuel Perin. A transcription at Genealogy Trails.

Records

• U.S. Patent 19,099 (1858), Ezra Perin and John Z. Perin. Google Patents.
• U.S. Patent 58,284 (1866), Ezra Perin. Google Patents.
• Ezra Perin’s letter to Charles and Geraldine, 1 January 1885, and Geraldine Allison Perin’s memoir, Permanent Record and Data, both on Grandpa’s blog. Geraldine’s page.
• Vital Records of Charlemont, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1917), pages 116 and 119 for the 1803 marriage. Internet Archive.
• Gertrude A. Barber, Abstracts of Wills of Warren County, New York, Book A (1937), the will of Asa Rice. FamilySearch catalogue 164696.
• Warren County Surrogate’s Court, the estate file of Asa Rice of Luzerne: his original will of 24 January 1833, the executors’ notice of probate of 25 May 1833 with the affidavit of service, and the affidavits of heirship of Robert R. Bennet and Rosett Simpson, 14 April 1841. Scanned and sent by the court in October 2026.
• The obituary of Eliza Sworden, transcribed from a Henry County, Ohio newspaper. Genealogy Trails.
• The Vawter family association newsletter, Summer 1994, page 3. The 1990–1999 compilation.
• The Biographical Dictionary of America, volume 9, on Ezra Perin Savage. Wikisource.
• Town of Perinton, New York, town historian, “Town of Perinton History,” on Glover Perrin and the first settlers. Town of Perinton.
• National Governors Association, Ezra Perin Savage. NGA.

England

• John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, volume III, part II (1804), page 633. University of Leicester.
• John Fetherston, ed., The Visitation of the County of Leicester in the Year 1619 (Harleian Society, 1870), page 198. Internet Archive.
• John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality (1874), pages 121–123. Internet Archive.
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 32 (1878), pages 178 and 424. Internet Archive.
• Henry Hartopp, Calendars of Wills and Administrations relating to the County of Leicester (1902), pages 118 and 140. Internet Archive.
• British Library, Harley MS 1189, folio 95: the Perin pedigree and arms in a seventeenth-century copy of the 1619 visitation, with the manuscript’s index at folios 116v–117r. Read from images the Library’s Manuscripts Reference Service took for this research in October 2026; the manuscript has not been digitised, and the images are not reproduced here.
• The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, the 1624 will of Thomas Peryns of Ashby de la Zouch, as read by its archivist in October 2026.
• The Huguenot Society’s list of family research files. Huguenot Society.

The Rice family

• Edmund Rice (1638) Association, genealogy of the descendants of Edmund Rice. edmund-rice.org.
• Edmund Rice and his family. Wikipedia.
• Charlemont and Moses Rice. Wikipedia, citing Joseph White’s 1858 centennial discourse on Moses Rice and Andrew Henshaw Ward’s 1858 Rice genealogy.
• Francis M. Thompson, History of Greenfield, volume I (1904), page 219, for Samuel Rice’s report on Asa’s capture.

Grandpa’s life and ministry

• Beaverton Enterprise, 3 January 1947, page 6, “Barnes School Notes.” The paper at Historic Oregon Newspapers.
• Unity Ministerial Students Association, Christmas 1955, photograph and caption. TruthUnity.
• Weekly Unity, 7 February 1965, the directory of ministers, for the Spokane church. Read in the scanned issue by the research for this history; not linked here.
• Unity Ministers Association, 1966 Yearbook: the committees for 1965–68 and, on printed page 44, the Spokane church and the Idaho study classes. TruthUnity.
• Glenn R. Mosley and Rebekah A. Dunlap, eds., The Association of Unity Churches International: Its Beginning, Its Evolution, and Its Vision for Worldwide Service (2006), printed pages 36–41, 53, 63–65 and 76–77. Partly written from Grandpa’s own contribution.
• Unity ordinations of 1961, photograph and roster. TruthUnity.
• Association of Unity Churches, 1989 Yearbook, the ordained ministers. TruthUnity.
• Contact, November 1969: the youth education report: thirty seminars in twenty-seven cities. TruthUnity.
• Contact, July 1971: the Teaching Methods Intensive, Barbados and Trinidad, and the summer timetable. TruthUnity.
• Contact, September 1971: the fall timetable: Teaching Methods. TruthUnity.
• Contact, December 1971: the winter 1972 timetable: Contemporary Ministry to Youth. TruthUnity.
• Contact, February 1972: “Space Utilization in the Executive Office”. TruthUnity.
• Contact, March 1972: the Service Attitude Study committee and the YOU Guidebook. TruthUnity.
• Contact, May 1972: the International New Thought Alliance. TruthUnity.
• Contact, December 1972: the changes in the youth education department. The notice of his resignation was read from the scanned page; its printed text is too damaged to search. TruthUnity.
• Contact, January/February 1973: “News from Daniel Perin in Denver”. TruthUnity.
• Renee Ruth, “Freeman Writing Scholarships,” in the Association of Unity Churches newsletter Contact, 1989, as collected by TruthUnity (page 36 of the year’s file).
• Neighborhood Plan, North Capitol Hill (University of Colorado at Denver, Urban and Regional Planning, May 1977), the education listing. Read by the research for this history from the scanned report; not linked here.
• Ed Rabel, 1976 New Testament lectures, “The Calling of the Disciples,” given 19 January 1976. TruthUnity.
• The Association’s newsletters are indexed at TruthUnity. Unity Ministers Association publications.
• Daniel J. Perin, Moments: In the Journey Through Life (2009), his own account of his life, read for this history from the family’s copy: chapters one to five and the essays “Journals, Diaries and Pathways” (2008) and the account of 1955 that precedes it.
• Daniel Perin, the LifeCentering blog, 2007–2026, for his later years and the violins.
• LifeCentering With Dan Perin, his newsletter. Substack.
• Daniel Perin, author’s biography. The page cuts off in mid-word; nothing has been filled in. Lulu.
• Daniel J. Perin, Moments (2009), the publisher’s listing. Lulu.

Grandpa’s own work

• Grandpa’s family chart, and his answers to questions in October 2026.
• His genealogy database, kept in Legacy and exported for this history in October 2026. Most of its dates and places before 1900 are drawn from the FamilySearch Family Tree, which anyone may edit, so they are marked here as family chart, not as records.
• His Comparative Lineage From Common Ancestor: Lemuel Perrin, compiled from the cousins who contacted him after seeing him in 23andMe’s DNA Relatives listings; the version he sent in October 2026.
• His blog. perinancestry.blogspot.com.

About the pictures

The two patent drawings are copies of the patent office’s own scans, kept with these pages; as works of the United States government they are free to reproduce. The archive pages, portraits and family photographs are shown directly from the places that keep them: the Internet Archive, the University of Leicester, the National Governors Association, TruthUnity’s archive of Unity photographs, Grandpa’s publisher, and Grandpa’s blog. Selecting a picture opens its source. The painting of the arms is a modern reconstruction made from the 1619 description for this history; it is not a historical artwork.