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In a list dated 162G, he is mentioned as owning
iCK) acres of land on the south side of the
river below the falls, which it is probable were
granted to him in the year of his coming over
and at the time of Sir Thomas Dale's attempt
to settle the upper region of the James. After
the massacre of 1622, the settlements there
were abandoned, and we find i'erry livnig
either at or near "Pace's Taines" on the south
.^ide of the river not far from Jamestown. He
was in England in April, 1624, but was back in
\ irginia and, as "Lieutenant William Perry.'
v*as representing 'Pace's Paines" in the house
of burgesses in Oct., 1629. and in March of the
year following. At this last session he wa.-
appointed one of a committee to manage the
building of a fort at Point Comfort. In Feb..
1631-32, he was a burgess for the territory
"From Capt. Perryes downwards to Hog
Island." It was in the summer of 1632 that he
was appointed to the council, and in Septem-
ber of the same year, that he appeared for the
first time as a member. He was also present
In Feb., 1632-33, and in March of the next
year. Some years before his death he went
>'o live in Charles City county, where he died
in 1637, and was buried at the old "Westover"
church. His tomb, which is doubtless the old-
est in \ irginia. may ?till be seen near "W'est-
C!ver" house, but the epitaph is entirely illeg-
ible. It was once examined by Charles Camp-
bell, the historian, who says that there was
engraved upon it a shield with armorial bear-
ings which could not even then be made out,
and also the following epitaph :
"Here lyeth the body of Captaine
W'm. Perry who liv^ed neere
Westover in this Collony
Who departed this life the 6th day of
August. Anno Domini 1637."
Cai)t. Perry married prior to 1628. Isa-
bella, widow of Richard Pace of "Pace's
Paines." They had, as far as is known, only
or.e child, Capt. Henry Perry, of whom a
sketch will appear hereafter. In the general
court records, under date of 1674. there is
mention of a patent "long before" granted to
Capt. Perry Sr., for 2,000 acres, and a later
tne to George Menifie of 1.500 acres, in be-
half of Capt. Henry Perry the orphan. Both
of these grants were situated in Charles City
county.
Hinton. Thomas, first appears as a member c f the council on Feb. 8, 1633-34. He did not enjoy the honor long as Harvey soon removed inm on the charge that he had given the gov- e'.ior "ill words," which reason seems to have been accepted by the English privy council as i \ci!i(i one, and there is no other mention of Ihomas Hinton in our records. Xeill, in "Vir- ginia Carolorum," says that the councillor was ."^ir Thomas Hinton, whose daughter married Samuel Mathews, but this seems unlikely, for an account of Mrginia written in 1649 asserts that Mathews married a daughter of Sir Thomas Hinton, while the notices of the Vir- ginia councillors in 1634 and 1635 style him simply "Thomas Hinton, Escj." or "'Mr. Thomas Hinton. He is "Mr. Thomas Hin- ton" in the account of the examination of Gov. Harvey before the English privy coun- cil on Dec. 11, 1635. Xeill says that one Wil- liam Hinton, a brother of Mrs. Mathews, was a gentleman of the King's privy chamber, and it seems probable that Thomas Hinton. the councillor, was another brother. Foster, in his "Oxford Matriculations," states that a Thoinas Hinton was knighted July i, 1619, and thinks he may have been the same as Thomas Hinton of Wiltshire, gent., who ma-
