Micajah FAIRFAX, 1800 Bladen County, NC Census! Lord Thomas FAIRFAX, 6th! "Micajah" PERRY! an apparent Business Contact to Lord Thomas FAIRFAX, 6th while Lord FAIRFAX was still in England and Micajah Perry was doing business in the American area of the NORTHERN NECK of VIRGINIA! Along with "Robert CARTER" as evidenced in the excerpt enclosed.....{:). --------------------------------------------------------- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/berkeley/public/Cbiodir.html#MP ---------------------------------------------------------- Brown, Stuart E. Virginia Baron; the Story of Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax. Berryville, Va.: Chesapeake Book Co., 1965. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ROBERT CARTER PROJECT, 2001 Edmund Berkeley, Jr. ---------------------------------------------------------- PERRY, MICAJAH (1641-1721), eminent London merchant deeply involved in the colonial tobacco and other trade. With his brother Richard, and Thomas Lane, he operated the firm of Perry, Lane and Company. Another brother, Peter Perry, was a merchant in York County, Virginia. Perry frequently represented the interests of Virginia in England, both officially and unofficially, and was often consulted when questions concerning Virginia were discussed by government bodies ranging from the Board of Trade to Parliament. There is some evidence that he had visited Virginia himself; he was widely knowledgeable about its citizens. (Donnan. "18th-Century English Merchants: Micajah Perry" <Cbibl.html>; and Price. Perry of London. . . . <Cbibl.html>) PERRY, MICAJAH (1695-1753), London merchant, grandson of the eminent Micajah Perry, who became active in the firm well before his grandfather's death in 1721. He and his younger brother Philip inherited their grandfather's shares in the business. (Price. Perry of London. . . . p. 26 and many others.) <Cbibl.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------- This may be the NAMESAKE of our MICAJAH FAIRFAX, Bladen County, North Carolina Census .....{:). Ergo ... dig up any references to the PERRY folks and their doings in both ENGLAND and AMERICA during the early 1700s through 1770s ....{:). Anybody have any information that includes Names like MICAJAH in Virginia and Maryland and North Carolina??? Micajah FAIRFAX is our "brick wall"!!! THANKS and have a great weekend!!! Dan Fairfax 2629 Somerset Drive Nashville, Tennessee 37217 [email protected] or [email protected] =================================