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• Birth	11 Aug 1753	Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 Aug 1837	Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I79150	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2004 00:00:00
  Father	John TERRY, b. 26 May 1708, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts
  Mother	Lydia WILLIAMS, b. Abt 1712
  Family ID	F33584	Group Sheet
  Family	Rebecca WINSLOW, b. 8 Mar 1764, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts
  Married	25 Nov 1781	Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Wealthy TERRY, b. 19 Feb 1782, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts   2. Job TERRY, b. 7 Oct 1783, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts   3. David TERRY, b. 9 Sep 1788, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts   4. Rhoda TERRY, b. 11 Mar 1790, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts   5. Hannah TERRY, b. 10 Jul 1802, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F34251	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Job Terry and wife were accustomed to attend religious services with the Christian Baptist denomination in Freetown, and ministers of that oersuasion used frequently, when traviling, to put up at their house. It is traditionally related of them that one of these ministers was for a time keeping his horse in their barn, but furnishing his own hay, one of the mows or hay lofts being assigned to the preacher whereon to put his fodder. All went well until they began to mistrust that the minister, when feeding his horse (in the evening, as it was common for him to do) used their hay, when "Aunt Becky," as she was called, had recourse to the following expedient: Taking a pack of playing cards she went to the barn, and while pretending to seek for some hen that had stolen a nest, scattered the cards in their own hay. That evening the minister fed his horse some time after dark, and on going out the next morning several of the cards were found in that horse's manger, when "Uncle Job" said to the minister: "I have room enough here for your horse to stand, and plenty of room to keep the hay for him, but I can't have him here any longer, for he's got to playing cards, and I think that's wicked."

• Sources

  [S1117] Town of Freetown, Massachusetts, Vital Records, 1686-1793 (Providence, RI: January 1969), page 2, 7, 30, 31, 76, 79. [S1068] NEHGS Register, (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society), Volume 57, Page 77. [S357] RootsWeb's World Connect (rootsweb.com). Deb Gunther