. BURIAL OF OFFICERS SLAIN Ferrys Nictorv, Lake Erie, September io, 1813 From picture of L. B. Chevalier. Monument erected in Japan to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, U. S. by his Grandson Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers, U. S. N. Tales of Silver Creek 43 The Rhode Island Perrys and Their Origin Edward Perry, the first American ancestor of the RhodeIsland Perry family, was a member of the Society of Friends(commonly called Quakers), who were proscribed and persecutedby our Puritan forefathers. It would be interesting to
. BURIAL OF OFFICERS SLAIN Ferrys Nictorv, Lake Erie, September io, 1813 From picture of L. B. Chevalier. Monument erected in Japan to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, U. S. by his Grandson Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers, U. S. N. Tales of Silver Creek 43 The Rhode Island Perrys and Their Origin Edward Perry, the first American ancestor of the RhodeIsland Perry family, was a member of the Society of Friends(commonly called Quakers), who were proscribed and persecutedby our Puritan forefathers. It would be interesting to know therelations, whether friendly or otherwise, between him and his fel-low-townsman, the preacher, Richard Bourn. The intermarriageof their descendants two centuries later is recorded on thesepages. Perhaps Sandwich was more liberal than most Puritansettlements. Certain it is, as proved by contemporary records,that Friend Perry, notwithstanding his Quaker convictions, boththrived and prospered in that community and was held in gen-eral esteem, and appointed to many offices of trust. He more-over won the hand of a Puritan maiden of high degree, Mary,daughter
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