Alexander Parris Jr. (abt. 1690 - abt. 1752)

Born about 1690 in Province of South Carolina

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Died about 1752 at about age 62 in Province of South Carolina

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Biography

Alexander was born about 1690. He is the son of Alexander Pearis and Mary Collins.

Alexander Pearis, Jr., had a son, John Alexander, who likewise had a son, John Alexander, as shown by his will probated August, 1752. The last mentioned John Alexander had a son, Robert, who spelled his name as did his father, John Alexander "Pearis." This Robert Pearis died about 1781; he had a daughter, Malinda, who married Samuel Pepper, who removed to the New River Valley prior to 1770, and located at the place where, about 1780, he established a ferry, and which place has since been known as Peppers. His two brothers-in-law, George and Robert Alexander Pearis, sons of the preceding Robert, came with him, or about the same time. At the date of the coming of Pepper and the Pearises, in fact, before that date, there lived in the neighborhood where Pepper located, a gentleman by the name of Joseph Howe, who had some pretty daughters, and it did not take long for these young Huguenots to fall in love with these girls, at least with two of them. An examination of the Pearis Bible discloses that George Paris was born February 16th, 1746, and was married to Eleanor Howe February 26th, 1771. Robert Alexander Pearis was probably two years younger than his brother George. He married also a daughter of Joseph Howe, and about 1790 removed with his family to Kentucky and settled in what is now Bourbon County, and from whom it is said the town of Paris, in that county, is named. He had a son who in the early history of that state was a member of its Legislature. George Pearis remained in the vicinity of Pepper's Ferry until the spring of 1782; prior to this time he had been made a Captain of one of the militia companies of the County of Montgomery.^[1]

Other Mentions

— "The Register of Christ Church Parish." Mabel L Webber, Compiler. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Volume 18, Issues 3 & 4 (1917) Internet Archive

• John & Elizabeth: Son John A — b 12 Dec 1734 (Vol 18, #4, p 171) OR 11 Dec 1724 (Vol 18, #3, p 126)
• 2nd m — Mary Cahill, 15 Jun 1741 (Vol 18, #4, p 173)
• John & Mary: Daughter Mary — 25 Sep 1738 @ Islington Plantation (Vol 18, #4, p 173)

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Sources

1. ↑ Johnston (1906) entered by Michelle Brooks, Tuesday, December 31, 2013. '

• Webber, Mabel L. “Colonel Alexander Parris, and Parris Island.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 26, no. 3 (1925): 137–45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569662.

See also:

• Johnston, David E., A History of The Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory (1906).
• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/a/r/Jesse-Edward-Parris/GENE2-0005.html