WI BIO - Dane Co - TRUMBULL, Mary, Mrs.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol I, pp 140-141

Mrs. Mary TRUMBULL, the widow of Salmon TRUMBULL, was born in England in 
1815, and was the daughter of James LEE, a spinner in a woolen factory in 
England, and the mother of our subject was Bettsy [Betsy?] BUTTERWORTH. 
[Thus the parents of Mrs. Mary (LEE) TRUMBULL were James and Bettsy 
(BUTTERWORTH) LEE, assuming BUTTERWORTH was the mother's maiden name.] They 
came to America and located in Massachusetts in 1825, and came upon a sailer. 
The journey was in summer time and the ship was six weeks sailing from 
Liverpool to New York, and encountered some severe storms and the vessel was 
reported lost, and on their return to England it was lost, and some lives 
with it. The parents [James and Bettsy (BUTTERWORTH) LEE] resided at 
Pawtucket, Massachusetts, not far from Providence [Providence County, RI]. 
[Biographer means they resided in Pawtucketville, Middlesex County, MA, or 
Pawtucket, Providence County, RI?] They [James and Bettsy (BUTTERWORTH) LEE] 
had a family of nine children, of which of subject [Mary] was the first born. 
Her first sister, Alice LEE, is the widow of John HERSHAW, of Westport, and 
Sarah is the widow of Nathan P. HICKS, of Pawtucket [Providence County], 
Rhode Island. The father [James LEE] died in Providence [Providence County], 
Rhode Island, in middle age, in 1837, and his wife [who afterward remarried 
and became Bettsy BRIELEY] survived him many years, dying in 1872, in her 
eighty-fourth year. For eight years prior to her death she [Bettsy] was a 
helpless and suffering cripple, cared for by Mrs. TRUMBULL, at whose home she 
[Bettsy then BRIELEY] died. The parents [James and Bettsy (BUTTERWORTH) LEE] 
were in indigent circumstances and the daughters [only Mary, Alice, and Sarah 
are named] obtained but little schooling, but all were bright, enterprising 
girls and managed to become well informed. The mother of our subject [Bettsy 
(BUTTERWORTH) LEE, who later became Bettsy BRIELEY] was unlettered, as in her 
day the boys had most of the education, as public opinion at that time 
decided that girls were married. She [Bettsy (BUTTERWORTH) LEE] buried her 
first husband, James LEE, and then married John BRIELEY, an Englishman, and 
this union [of John BRIELEY and Bettsy (BUTTERWORTH) LEE] was blessed with 
two daughters and one son, the latter of whom died at the age of four.

Mrs. TRUMBULL [Mary nee LEE] has been twice married, first to William PERRY, 
of Massachusetts. This occurred in Pautucket [Providence County, RI] when 
our subject was twenty-six years old [about 1841, calculated from her year of 
birth given above]. At the age of eleven [about 1826] she had entered a 
cotton factory, where she remained eighteen years [until about 1844, when she 
was about 39 years old], and the most she ever received was $3 per week, out 
of which she paid her mother [Bettsy] $2 for board. Mrs. [Mary] TRUMBULL has 
but one son, Theodore William PERRY, who died some ten years after his 
father, in his twentieth year. Mr. PERRY was a farmer and the lad was reared 
on the farm and was a good and promising young man.

The second marriage of our subject [then Mrs. Mary (LEE) PERRY] was in 
Pawtucket [Providence County, RI], in 1859 [when she was about 44]. She and 
her husband came west to Madison [Dane County, WI] and settled on an 
eighty-acre farm left her by Mr. PERRY [her first husband?]. This was wild 
land and required hard work to improve it, and Mr. [Salmon] TRUMBULL died in 
1872, aged sixty-two [thus born about 1810]. He had been a widower and had 
had one son and one daughter. Frances J. TRUMBULL is at home, and Dennis 
TRUMBULL died in his nineteenth year, of consumption.

Mrs. [Mary] TRUMBULL has rented the land since the death of her [second] 
husband. She was in debt [p 141] at that time and has had a hard time to pay 
up. Mrs. TRUMBULL raises from ten to thirty pigs, keeps eight head of horned 
cattle and one pair of horses. Mrs. TRUMBULL is a lady much respected in 
this locality and is a consistent member of the Baptist Church.

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