A quick scan of my notes indicates I have not come across your Elizabeth Perry. I have a Patsy (or Patsey) Perry, born 20 Nov (or 2 Oct) 1784, daughter of Abner Perry and Peggy Burns, who married Robertson (or Robinson) White in Pasquotank county on 11 Oct 1815. I have never looked at the Whites: would you know if he is related to your Reuben White. If your Elizabeth Perry was from Perquimans county, she would probably have been a Quaker. I am not sure about the likelihood of a Quaker woman marrying firstly a plantation owner (and thus almost certainly a slave owner) and then a Methodist Episcopal minister - although my wife's grandmother shifted from Quaker to Methodist. A colored woman who sometimes worked for her had a forebear who had been freed by one of her ancestors when he bought a farm that included slaves. The Quakers who left this area did so because of their opposition to slavery - and mostly moved to the free territory of the Northwest, not deeper into the South. At 11:23 AM 10/31/1999 EST, you wrote: > >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 > > >> > >