. rown eyes, her dark hair, rich complexion, fine whiteteeth and stately figure. Well educated and surrounded withthe atmosphere of liberal culture, of high ideas of the sacrednessof duty and the beauty of religion, she had been morally wellequipped for the responsibilities of motherhood and mature life,(Griffis.) William Bailey Wallace, her cousin, to whom allusion hasbeen made already as the friend of young Perry in his imprison-ment in Ireland, has left in his own handwriting notes writtenOctober, 1799, giving the genealogical de
. rown eyes, her dark hair, rich complexion, fine whiteteeth and stately figure. Well educated and surrounded withthe atmosphere of liberal culture, of high ideas of the sacrednessof duty and the beauty of religion, she had been morally wellequipped for the responsibilities of motherhood and mature life,(Griffis.) William Bailey Wallace, her cousin, to whom allusion hasbeen made already as the friend of young Perry in his imprison-ment in Ireland, has left in his own handwriting notes writtenOctober, 1799, giving the genealogical descent of himself and hiscousin, to whose marriage in America to a Mr. Perry he record tracing the descent back as far as their great-grand-father Wallace, and their great-grandfather Bailie, bears testi-mony to fighting blood on both sides of the house. A copy waskindly made for the writer by Mrs. Rhoda Wallace, the widowof the late Colonel Wallace of Dublin, of the British Army. BothColonel and Mrs. Wallace, being cousins, were direct descendants. THE LATE COLONEL \VILLL\M ROBERT WALLACE Of the British Army Son of the late Robert Wallace of Newry Ireland who like his cousin, Mrs. Christopher R. Perry, was the granchild of James Wallace of Loughbrick- land, Ireland. Tales of Silver Creek 59 of the Bailey Wallace who was Mrs. Perrys favorite cousin, andher husbands friend in captivity. Christopher Raymond Perry, having once yielded to the lureof the sea, never again became a mere landsman. For sometwelve years after his marriage he remained in the merchant serv-ice, trading in the West Indies and making many long Judge, his father, was living on the old farm on which thegrandfather, Benjamin, had built when he turned his back uponPlymouth Colony and the persecution which he there endured asa Quaker. Whether Christophers family resided during thistime with his father, or lived in one of the several houses which,according to old deeds, appear to have been b
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