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Thomas PEERY

SAR Patriot #: P-267889

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State of Service: VA Qualifying Service: Ensign / Patriotic Service

DAR #: A088083

Birth: 1749 Back Street Station / / VA
Death: 27 Jun 1820 / Tazewell / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

Ensign in the Company of James Maxwell, Montgomery Co, Virginia Militia

DAR RC # 725545 and 742059 state: Rank(s): ENSIGN; Captain JAMES MAXWELL, SIGNED OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

Participated in the Battle of Point Pleasant, 10 Oct 1774

Additional References:

Fincastle & Montgomery Counties, Virginia Rev War Records, 1775-1783, pg 89

DAR RC # 725545 and 742059 cite: BENTLEY, VA MIL RECS, pg 237; KEGLEY, EARLY ADVENTURERS ON THE WESTERN WATERS, Volume 1, pg 149

Poffenberger, The Battle of Point Pleasant (1909) pg 92; DAR Patriot Index, Vol 1, pg 524

Spouse: Margaret Dennis
Children: Thomas; James; Joseph; Harvey George; Polly; Rebecca;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
2000-04-25	PA	5990	William Steven Mark (153823)	Harvey
2002-05-13	VA	13115	James Peery Cover (158151)	Harvey
2002-05-13	VA	13116	William Hurt Cover (158152)	Harvey
2005-08-17	VA	18638	Barry Michael Abel (165517)	Rebecca
2009-07-09	VA	35899	William Steven Mark Jr. (174616)	Harvey
2012-02-28	IN	46743	Charles O'Neal Richert (182686)	Joseph
2012-02-28	IN	46744	John Daniel Richert (182687)	Joseph
2016-09-01	IL	70170	George Thomas Gillespie USA (176933)	Mary/Polly

Burial:

Old Town Peery Cemetery_(C-0374348)

Location:

Tazewell / Tazewell / VA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2652044

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

183819578

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

No GPS for gravesite on Find-a-Grave-Aug 2020

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Lt George Thomas Gillespie USA

The father of Thomas Peery II, Thomas Peery, and his two brothers, James and George emigrated from Great Britain aboard the ship “Charming Nancy” from Plymouth, England via Rotterdam to Philadelphia, PA on November 9, 1738. They initially settled in the Lancaster, PA area. By 1749 they were in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where they purchased land in the Beverly Patent, on Black Creek near Staunton, Virginia which was then Orange County. The brother, Thomas, was killed by a band of about 60 Shawnee Indians near Purgatory Creek, a small tributary of the James River, in 1763.

Thomas Peery II, who was about 24 years old, accompanied by his brothers, William and George, moved into the Clinch Valley area of Western Virginia in 1773 and settled a short distance west of the town of Jeffersonville (now Tazewell) and lived there until he died. He married Margaret Dennis in 1781. They were the parents of 11 children.

Thomas gave land to build both the Pisgah Church and the first Methodist Church in Tazewell County. The Methodist Church was on the north side of Fincastle Road, one mile east of the court house.

He was commissioned as an Ensign under Captain James Maxwell in the Montgomery County Virginia Militia. He later attained the rank of Captain.

Thomas Peery will is in Tazewell County Will Book #1, 1800-1832, Page 132, 133, 134. He had 468 acres of land and also mentions Negro slaves. The will was prepared 6 Aug 1817 and was proven 27 Jun 1820.

A memorial dedication by the Clinch Mountain Militia Chapter of the Virginia Society Sons of the American Revolution was held May 27, 2007 at the Peery Family Cemetery, Tazewell, VA, honoring Thomas as a Patriot of the American Revolution.

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