John "the Quaker" Perrot

John Perrot "the Quaker" (say 1620-1665). He cannot be the same person as John Parrott, of Nansemond River.

He first appears as a Quaker preacher in Limerick, Ireland before 1656. His birth date is unknown but he was likely a young man in his mid 20s or early 30s. He went to Rome in 1657 at the expense of the Quakers on a mission to convert the Pope. He was imprisoned in a madhouse. In 1661 he was released and returned to England. In 1662 he and some of his followers emigrated to Barbados, where he adopted a lavish lifestyle. He died in Jamaica or Barbados some time before October 1671.

The ancestry of John Perrott "the Quaker" is unknown. It has been suggested he was a descendant of Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy of Ireland, through an illegitimate line.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Perrot-199

John Perrot died in Jamaica (not Barbados as stated in error by the ODNB [7]%29 sometime in the 7 days between the drawing up of his will on 30 August 1665 and it being proved on the 7 August [SIC: September] of the same year. In a letter dated February 1665 just before his death he reported he was joined there from England by his wife Elizabeth 'beloved EP' and his minor children 'Blessing and Thank(ful)’

Sources

• John Perrot, Quaker Webmaster's note: He visited Isle of Wight and Nansemond in 1663
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quakers#Other_early_con...
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-lancashire/plain/A13248317
• http://www.homewoodfriends.org/earlyfriends.html
• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell's_Living_Age/Volume_128/Issue_1658/The_Quaker's_Hat
• http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A13248317/conversation/view/F4753433/T... etcetera
• “Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland.” edited by Andrew Carpenter. Page 346. GoogleBooks
• see the standard work on his life "John Perrot: Early Quaker Schismatic" by Kenneth Carroll, p 80/81 published by Friends Historical Society 1971
• The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the ..., Volumes 1-2 By William Sewel. GoogleBooks