Deborah (Kidd) Peery (1770 - 1853)

Born 11 Feb 1770 in Staunton, Powhatan, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of John Peery Jr. — married 8 Jan 1787 in Montgomery County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 15 Apr 1853 at age 83 in Tazewell, Virginia, USA

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Biography

Deborah Kidd, the daughter of William Kidd, was born 1770 in Virginia and married John Peery on 15 December 1786 in Montgomery County, Virginia. ^{[1] [2]} The Peery Family Bible gives Deborah's date of birth as 11 Feb 1770. This was a contemporary bible writing and considered to be accurate, as it was used as part of Deborah's widows pension application in about 1845. See attached image of the family bible with birth and marriage dates for herself and her children. The website Find A Grave gives Deborah Kidd Peery's birth as Feb. 11, 1768 in Powhatan County, Virginia, USA; and her death as Apr. 15, 1853 in Virginia, USA. ^[3]

She and John Peery (aka "Silversmith") were the parents of the following known children, as documented in their family bible and tracked in other documentary sources: Hiram Wilson Peery (1788–1845), William Kidd Peery (1790–), Mary Peery (1793–), Joshua Peery (1795–), Sally Peery (1797–), Martha Mattie Peery (1799–1870), John Peery (1801–), Nancy Peery (1803–), Elizabeth Peery (1806–), Clarissa Louisa Peery (1808–), Rebecca Peery (1811–), and Peggy Peery (1813–).

Her husband died 5 Mar 1844 in Tazewell County, Virginia.^[4] Deborah Peery, the widow of John Peery, while living in Tazewell County, Virginia, about 1845, applied for a pension for his Revolutionary War service but it was rejected. ^[5]

State of Virginia County of Tazewell:

On this tenth day of July in the year 1845, personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the County of Tazewell aforesaid, Deborah Perry, a resident of said County, aged seventy-five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed July seven, 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of John Perry who was a cornet in the Continental line & served seventeen months. That she knows of one witness by whom to establish her husband's services, but she is advised that the rolls furnish evidence thereof: That her husband drew land & she presumes that the evidence upon which that was granted would be sufficient to entitle her to a pension. She is able to give no detail of her husband services, never having been well informed on the subject & her memory being at present almost gone. She further declares that she was married to the said John Perry January 8, 1787, & that her husband the aforesaid John Perry died on the 5th of March 1844: that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the 1st of January 1794 – viz. at the time above stated: & that she has since intermarried with no other person. She also declares that she is unable to attend personally in court by reason of bodily infirmity.

S/ Deborah Perry, X her mark^[6]

In the 1850 census Debora Peery, was age 80, born Virginia, and living in the household of Hiram Peery in Tazewell, Virginia. ^[7]

On January 22, 1853, Deborah Peery executed an affidavit in Tazewell, Virginia in support of her Revolutionary War Widow's Pension application.^[8]

Deborah passed away in Tazewell County Virginia on 15 Apr 1853.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Montgomery County, Virginia Marriages, FHL Film Number: 32633, Reference ID: P 14
2. ↑ "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5RZ-ZVV : 29 January 2020), Delisah Peery, 1853. According to this Tazewell County VA death index, she was the widow of John Peery and the daughter of William Kidd. The informant was her grandson, Hiram Peery, who the couple had raised since he was a baby. This fact was according to John Perry's will. Various indexes interpreted the old handwriting in this record as Delorah, and Delisah but we conclude that the Tazewell death record for Deborah Kidd Peery because the Virginia record names both her husband and father correctly.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #171169546
4. ↑ * Will: "Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1900," database with images, Will Books, 1800-1932; General Indexes to Wills, 1800-1985; Author: Virginia. Circuit Court (Tazewell County); Probate Place: Tazewell, Virginia, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62347 #635591 (accessed 16 April 2024), Will of John Peery of Tazewell, granted probate on 1 Aug 1844.
5. ↑ Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C.: n.p., 1852. #R-8127. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, Roll Number: 1915. Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
6. ↑ So. Campaign Rev. War App. Available here
7. ↑ US Census 1850, Western District, Tazewell, Virginia; Roll: M432_979; Page: 230B; Image: 39
8. ↑ Peery Rev. War. App. R 8127 Available on Fold3.com here
9. ↑ * Death: "Virginia, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917," database, FHL Film Number: 2048586, Ancestry Record 2558 #467169 (accessed 16 April 2024), Delorah Peery death 15 Apr 1853 (age 83), daughter of William Kidd & Kidd, in Tazewell, Virginia.