When Abigail Perley was born on 26 April 1708, in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Perley, was 40 and her mother, Abigail Towne, was 43. She married Samuel Morse on 24 November 1728, in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died from 1740 to 1802.
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English: variant of of Purley . This surname is very rare in Britain.
Possibly also a variant of Berley 2, a surname of Swiss German or German origin.
Possibly also an Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
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