William Perry

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Phillip PERRY dec'd April 10, 1754. Heirs: wife Judith, Sarah, Mary, Jesse, Phillip, Elizabeth,Rachel, Judith, & Miriam PERRY.

North Carolina Will abstracts will proved Oct 1751 Sons: Jesse (lands on Little River known by the name of Sandy Hook), Phillip (plantation whereon I now live), Daughters: Sarah, Mary, Rachel, Jude, Elizabeth, and Miriam. Executor Jacob Perry son of Jacob Perry. Witnesses Moses Field, Benjamin Perry, Elizabeth Perry. Clerk of court Edmund Hatch. Also mentioned in this will are brothers: John and Joseph; and Jacob Perry son of his brother Joseph.

DEED BOOK C 55 p. 99 Jacob PERRY, of Perq, for £22 pd by Phillip PERRY, of afore' sold 200a on Perq River, adj Benj PERRY. Land pattented for Wm MOORE, & sold by him to me, July 14, 1724. Seal July 17, 1732. Test' Frances JAMES, Thos PARKER.

Phillip appears on the quit rents list of 1735 with 200ac owing £3. Quit rents were small fees paid by land grant owners back to the crown. Fees were sometimes not collected, and thus the crown is catching up on overdues in that list.

Deed Book E 7 p. 136 Thomas NICHOLSON of Pasq, farmer---for £42 pd by Phillip PERRY of Perq, sold 174a "upon the head of Little River, called Sandy Hook, on the Upper side of gum Swamp, where ye sd Swamp makes out of the River" adj Sd NICHOLSON. Test' Aaron HILL, Barnabe NIXON, Samuel Scott. 27, 9mo, 1744.

DEED BOOK E 7 p. 136 Thomas NICHOLSON of Pasq, farmer---for £42 pd by Phillip PERRY of Perq, sold 174a "upon the head of Little River, called Sandy Hook, on the Upper side of gum Swamp, where ye sd Swamp makes out of the River" adj Sd NICHOLSON. Test' Aaron HILL, Barnabe NIXON, Samuel Scott. 27, 9mo 1744.

He is listed ont he quit rents list of 1735 with 200 acres paid in part.