Will of John Perrey/Perry
PROB 11/155/437
Held at The National ARchives, Kew.
Note: John Perry was probably not an "immigrant" to Virginia. He came there in about 1626 or 1627 after James Carter, business partner of John Perry and his brother Richard died. John came to Virginia to oversee their business interests and then died there himself in probably late 1628 or 1629.
His brother was Richard Perry 1580-1650, merchant of London who is mentioned in this will. Richard was married to Dewnes/Duance/Dunes Hicks. See Also "Perry of London: A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615-1753 Author: Jacob M Price Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992 Google Preview
In the name of God Amen I Jhon
Perrey of London Marchant being weake of body but of good and perfect memory God
bee praised doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in manner and
forme following ffirst I commend my soule into the hands of god my master hoping
to have remission of all my sinnes by and through the merritts of Jesus Christ my Saviour
and Redeemer And my body unto the disposinge of my friends in sure and restaine hope
of a blessed resurection And for my temporall estate w[hi]ch it hath pleased god to blesse mee
with all I give and bequeath as followeth Imp[rimus] I give to the poore of the Towne of Plymouth
Twenty shillings Item to Seth Brenton a fatherless child in Redruff Twenty shillings
Item to Susanna Harrison daughter of my cozen John Harrison fortie shillings Item to my
cozen Mary Halse(Hulse?) widow Twenty shillings Item to my cozen Ellizabeth Bourder and her
children twelve pounds, five pounds of it w[hi]ch her husband oweth mee upon his Bill Item to
my cozen to my cozen Ruth White six pounds Item to my cozen Susanna Carter tenn
pounds Item to the poore of St Antholines parish twenty shillings Item to Alise? Symons
Twenty shillings Item I give to my brother Richard Pery and to his children whatsoever
shallbe sound of mind due from any person And doe appoint to part all these legacies
about mentioned And doe make him my sole Executor Alsoe I leave my good friends
Thomas Turter(?) and Jeames Martin in case of mortallity my Overseers to see that
all the presmisses bee punctually performed giving unto them fortie shillings each of them
In witnes of the truth hereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this six and twentyth
daie of June A,Domini one thousand six hunfred twenty eight ? Pery to pointe next
James Ditty in Virginia Jno Pery Witnesses William Pery Tho. Burbage