William O. Peery

Served in the American Revolutionary War. DAR Ancestor #: A088084

• Service: VIRGINIA Rank: SERGEANT
• Birth: 2-6-1755 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA
• Death: 6-28-1830 VIRGINIA
• Service Source: VA MAG HIST & BIO, VOL I, P 139
• Service Description: 1) GEN ROGERS ROGERS CLARK

Buried at Archibald Peery Cemetery near Edinburgh.

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He was little more than a boy when the Revolutionary struggle broke out between the mother country and the colonies, and was one of the volunteers who followed the leadership of George Rogers Clark in his brilliant invasion of the West and conquest of the Northwest Territory. He served with the troops who captured the British frontier posts of Vincennes and Kaskaskia, and his name appears as one of five who enlisted and continued in service throughout the entire course of the expedition. William Peery also fought for the cause of the colonies on the eastern slope of the Alleghenies. He was in the battle of Alamance, North Carolina, against General Tarlton’s British cavalry, and was also in the great battle of King’s Mountain as a member of Acting Captain Reece Bowen’s company.

William Peery, with his three brothers, John, Thomas, and George, in 1773 migrating from Augusta County, Virginia, settled within the bounds of what is now Tazewell County. As a member of Captain William Russell's company, he participated on October 10, 1774 in the Battle of Point Pleasant, one of the first battles of the American Revolution, and was with George Rodgers Clark at the capture of Vincennes from the British. As a member of Lieutenant Rees Bowen's company he was wounded at the battle of King's Mountain; and in 1781, under Captain James Moore, he and his brother, John, and John's son, Thomas, participated in the engagement at Whitzells Mills, and the battle of Guilford Court House.

When Tazewell County was established in 1800, William Peery donated 13 acres of land for the county seat. In December, 1800 George and William Peery were appointed coroners for Tazewell County, and William's son, Thomas, represented Tazewell County in the Virginia House of Delegates at the sessions of 1819-20 and 1823-24, and at one period was a justice of the county court.

William Peery's will, dated June 17, 1822, was probated in Tazewell County, with Robert Peery, his son, and John Wynne, a son-in-law, executors, and with bequests to the following sons: Robert, Evans, George, Thomas, and Henry Fielding, and to his daughters, Nancy, Olivia, Sophie, Cynthia, Emily and Cosby. William Peery's wife was Sarah Evans, a daughter of John Evans.

The Peery family are still prominent in Virginia, with George Campbell Peery of Tazewell County a member of the Congress of the United States, beginning with the 68th Congress on March 4, 1923, and later Governor of the state of Virginia. Dan W. Peery's kinsmen, the Reverend Edward T. Peery, was for years superintendent of the Indian Manual Labor School in the Kansas Territory, west of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Reverend John T. Peery in 1844 was an assistant to N. M. Tolbert, assigned to the Delaware and Kickapoo charge in the Indian Mission Conference.2 In 1845, John T. Peery was assigned to the Kansas, and Edward T. Peery to the Cherokee District. In 1846 Edward T. Peery was assigned to Wyandotte, and John T. Peery to Tahlequah.

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