JOHN, I am very much interested in your early PERRY family as I have been trying to find the parents of my ELIZABETH PERRY b 1776 in NC d11 June, 1853 in Dallas County, Alabama. She married REUBEN WHITE (1770-1818) in 1796 in South Carolina. I know essentially NOTHING about her PERRYS, but they must have been a fairly prominent family as they joined the BEASLEYS (who were former house of burgesses, etc) of Perquimans and Chowan counties in South Alabama and had plantations in both Dallas and Lowndes Counties in Al. They had eight children. After REUBEN WHITE'S death, ELIZABETH PERRY married REV. JAMES HOLLY, Methodist Episcopal Minister in Lowndes County, Alabama. Can you give me any direction? My problem is common names..... Thanks for whatever you can suggest, Caroline Burnett Cook In a message dated 10/31/99 6:49:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, NCPERQUI-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << John Collins <johnc@ecsu.campuscwix.net> To: NCPERQUI-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.32.19991030221726.006c807c@ecsu.campuscwix.net> Subject: Re: [NCPERQUI] Alexander and Edmund Perry Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have recently started researching the Perry family, because a cousin of my (deceased) mother-in-law married a Perry. I found three marriages between my wife's grandmother's family (Chappell) and the Perrys around 1800. Both families were Quakers, members of the Piney Woods meeting (which still exists). One interesting feature of the Perrys in Perquimans county is that they are related to Micajah (Mike) Perry, Lord Mayor of London 1738-39. I had not yet come across your branch of the Perrys, but some quick research found: Benjamin Perry (no middle initial shown) married Martha White on 14 Dec 1829, ____, Perquimans, NC. I could not find his parents. The children I found were Edmund Perry, born 1831; William B Perry (maybe the G of Gaston was misread by someone as a B), born 1834; Alexander Perry, born 1835. There is a Wiiliam G Perry born 1844, son of Alfred Perry and Perrina (or Penina). At 09:09 PM 10/29/1999 -0400, you wrote: >My great grand father was William Gaston Perry born 1833. He had two >brothers Alexander born 1835 and Edmund born 1831. Their parents were >Benjamin R. and Marhta Perry all of Perquimans NC (Belvidere Area). does >anyone know this family. >Thank you, >Frances > >>