The magazine of American history with notes and queries . the long voyage, there was time for friendship to ripen into love, andthat time was well improved. On their arrival in the City of BrotherlyLove, they were met by Doctor Benjamin Rush with the news of heruncles death, and so the young couple, Christopher Raymond Perry andSarah Alexander, were married at once, and removed to the Perry farm inRhode Island. From this marriage have descended probably more naval officers thanfrom any one American connection, that of the Nicholsons alone the eight children were three daugh
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . the long voyage, there was time for friendship to ripen into love, andthat time was well improved. On their arrival in the City of BrotherlyLove, they were met by Doctor Benjamin Rush with the news of heruncles death, and so the young couple, Christopher Raymond Perry andSarah Alexander, were married at once, and removed to the Perry farm inRhode Island. From this marriage have descended probably more naval officers thanfrom any one American connection, that of the Nicholsons alone the eight children were three daughters : Anna, became the wife ofCommodore George Rodgers, killed in Charleston Harbor, 1863. Anothermarried Dr. Butler, of South Carolina, the father of Matthew CalbraithButler, United States Senator ; and the third remained single. Of the sons,Oliver Hazard was the hero of Lake Erie. James Alexander, who was inthe boat with his older brother, the commodore, when crossing from theSt. Lawrence to the Niagara, had his hat pierced and a curl of his hair cut. 422 COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY off by bullets. He was drowned at Valparaiso in 1821, while trying torescue a companion. The fourth and fifth sons, Nathaniel and Raymond,were both naval officers. Matthew was the third son in this decidedly naval family. Theirfather being away at sea most of the time, holding the rank of Captainin the American navy, their training fell upon the young mother, andsublimely did she fulfill her charge. Those who knew her in later lifespeak of her as a Spartan mother, a grand old lady. Her ancestrywas Scotch. She was descended from Sir William Wallace, and wasproud of it. Having emigrated to North Ireland, her people, thoughProtestants, were involved in the Irish rebellion in Cromwells time. In herchildhood she had often listened to accounts of the battles which hadtaken place on her native soil, and now, as a mother, she loved to recountthem again to her children. Believing that her people wer
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