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Identifier: magazineofamericv13stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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ed all these. He came of DevonshireEnglish stock on the paternal, and of Scotch-Irish stock on the maternalside. His ancestor in the sixth degree was Edward Perry, born in 1630.Well educated, he became a Quaker preacher, whom the Spirit often moved.Suffering annoyances if not persecution under Cromwells government, hehelped, by emigrating to America, in what a certain writer has called TheQuaker Invasion of Massachusetts. Settling at Plymouth, he married thedaughter of Edmund Freeman, the assistant-governor of the colony. Incrossing the ocean, however—if we may mix such contradictory metaphorsas fire and water—he leaped from the frying-pan into the fire, for Massa-chusetts soon gave him a hot reception. He was an unusually militant COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY 419 Broadbrim, and in 1576 retaliated upon his persecutors, by writing arailing accusation against the court of Plymouth, copies of which are stillpreserved, and for which he was heavily fined. Here, we behold the foun-
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COMMODORE M. C. PERRY. \_Fro7n a Photograph from life in the possession of Mrs. August Belmont,.) tain-head of that stream of irrepressible fighting quality so often manifestedon ship and shore, in war and in politics, and last exhibited by our youngLong Island congressman, Perry Belmont, a grandson of the Commodore. 420 COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY Banished from Massachusetts, the son of Edward Perry emigrated toRhode Island, in company with Roger Williams, and purchased land nearSouth Kingston. From the first, friendship was secured with the Indians ;and one of the faithful aborigines served with Commodore Oliver H.Perry,losing his life at Lake Erie. The original farm still remains in possessionof the family, and near the site of the rebuilt homestead is the ancestralcemetery. The father of the two commodores was Christopher Raymond Perry,who was born December 4, 1761. He served during the Revolution as avolunteer in the Kingston Reds, and on the Mifflin, an American pri-vateer

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