Col. Peter Perkins

• BIRTH: Jun 1739, Goochland co,VA
• DEATH: 1813, SC

FATHER: Col. Nicholas Perkins   (1718 - 1762)
MOTHER: Bethenia Hardin   (abt 1717 - ? )

SPOUSE: Agnes Wilson   (abt 1742 - ? )

dau of Peter Wilson   (abt 1715 - ? )   &
Ailcy ----

• MARRIAGE:   abt 1760

issue:

1. James Perkins ,   b.abt 1761,   Pittsylvania co,VA
   
2. Elizabeth Perkins ,   b.abt 1763,   Pittsylvania co,VA
   
   marr.1: 25 May 1792, Pittsylvania co,VA
   John Pryor   (abt 1767 - ? )
   
   son of Green Pryor (ca.1747- ? )   & Susannah Perkins
   
   
   marr.2: 26 May 1798, Pittsylvania co,VA
   William Henley Stone
   
   
3. Bethenia Perkins ,   b.abt 1765,   Pittsylvania co,VA
   
   marr: 13 Oct 1778, Pittsylvania co,VA
   Lemuel Smith   (abt 1757 - ? )
   
   son of Charles Smith (ca.1731- ? )   & Elizabeth Pryor
   
   
4. Elsie Perkins ,   b.abt 1767,   Pittsylvania co,VA
   
   marr: abt 1788
   Peter Hairston   (abt 1767 - ? )
   
   son of Robert Hairston (ca.1725- ? )   & Ruth Stovall
   
   
5. Nicholas Perkins ,   b.abt 1770,   Pittsylvania co,VA
   
   marr:
   Elizabeth Staver Perkins   (abt 1780 - ? )
   
   dau of Lt. Thomas Hardin Perkins (1757-1838)   & Mary Magdalena O'Neal
   
   

Notes

-Resident of Pittsylvania co,VA; in 1795 removed to NC & made his home in
 Stokes County; per History of Pittsylvania County,VA
-Member of VA House of Delegates for Pittsylvania co 1777-1778
-Service in REVOLUTIONARY WAR; Colonel, Pittsylvania co,VA Militia;
 saw action in many skirmishes in VA; fought in the Battle of Guilford
 Courthouse, Guilford co,NC
-His home at "Berry Hill" on the Dan River served as an American military
 hospital for which Peter Perkins received £95 compensation in 1785
-Per Surry co,NC Deed Book B:137, on 9 Sep 1780 Joseph Carmichael sells to
 Peter Perkins of Pittsylvania co,VA for consideration of 10 negroes &
 £5,000 a tract of 333 acres on the North side of the Dan River, by name
 the Middle Tract-Upper Sauratown, which land descended to Joseph
 Carmichael by the death of his brother William Carmichael; witnesses:
 William Hill, Henry Hampton, Nicholas Perkins
-Per Surry co,NC Deed Book D:27, on 5 Jul 1786 Peter Perkins of
 Guilford co,NC, sells to Peter Hairston [his son-in-law] of Henry co,VA
 for consideration of £1,200 VA money, a tract of 333 acres on the South
 side of the Dan River adjoining lands of Lemuel Smith [another son-in-law],
 Thomas Gray, & Constant Perkins

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