Person:William Perry (60)

Bayou Sara, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States

1.   Martini, Don. Who was who among the southern Indians : a genealogical notebook, 1698-1907. (Falkner, Mississippi: D. Martini, c1998)
   511, 512, 515, 519.
2.   United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Armstrong roll of Choctaws, 1831: records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, RG 75. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979).

   Recorded in the 1830 Choctaw Roll 'Armstrong Roll' are listed these names:
   PERRY, 106, 140
   Hardy, 107, 140
   Isaac, 105, 139, 176
   James, 106, 140
   John, 106, 140
   John's place, 106
   Joseph, 106, 140
   Lewis, 55, 109, 174
   Moses, 121, 142
   Ned, 104, 139
   
   Pg. 106 John PERRY (2 places) 50 Ac. cultivated land, 4 in family, 1 male > 16 1 male and female < 10, east side, 640 total acres. Lived on his prairie farm at time of treaty.
   
   PERRY, (widow) 30 Ac cultivated, 2 in family, 15 slaves, 480 total Ac Land good.
   
   Joseph PERRY 30 Ac cultivated 10 in family 4 males over 16, 3 children under 10, 21 slaves, Waters of Loociskoonah creek. Old Lick 640 Ac. Good land
   
   Pg. 107 Hardy PERRY 12 Ac cultivated, 7 in family 1 male over 16 4 children under 10, 160 total Ac of land.
   
   Pg. 140 John PERRY 50 Ac, 640 allowed James PERRY 50 Ac, 640 allowed Joseph PERRY 30 Ac, 480 allowed 5th Hardy PERRY 80 Ac, 640 allowed.

3. ↑ West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in United States of America, Bureau of the Census. 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedule. (Washington D.C.).

   Gender: Male
   Race: Black
   Age: 80 (b. 1770)
   Home in 1860: West Feliciana, Louisiana
   Name of Slave Owner: Hardy Perry
   All Slaves Owned: 37
   Gender Owned: 21 Males, 16 Females

4.   English Names from Greenwood Leflore District
   27 Sep 1830.

   With the passage by the U.S. Congress of the Indian Removal Act that same year, the legal mechanisms were put in place for President Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Indian groups for their deportation.
   
   The Choctaws, Mississippi’s largest Indian group, were the first southeastern Indians to accept removal with the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in September 1830. The treaty provided that the Choctaws would receive land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for the remaining Choctaw lands in Mississippi. The Choctaws were given three years to leave Mississippi.
   
   English names listed on the 1831 “list of claims allowed under the treaty in Greenwood Leflore district”. These are “persons that have relinquished their land.
   
   Hardy Perry
   Isaac Perry
   James Perry
   John Perry
   Joseph Perry
   Moses Perry
   Ned Perry
   Widow Perry
   
   Capt. Turnbull
   George Turnbull
   Robert Turnbull
   William Turnbull'

5. ↑ Cushman, H. B, and Angie Debo. History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians. (Greenville, Texas: Headlight Printing House, 1899)
   Page 390, 391.

   Nathaniel Folsom writes:
   
   “At that time there were several white men among the Choctaws, all of whom married Choctaw wives, and thus became identified with that people. The descendants of nearly all of whom are still among the Choctaws to this day.
   
   “Hardy Perry,” continued Nathaniel Folsom, “brought the first neat cattle into the Nation.”
   
   The old gentleman evidently refers to the eastern part of the Nation, where he lived; since it was well known that, either about the same time or short time before Perry’s drove were first introduced into the eastern part of the Nation, and the waters of the Tombigbee River...
   
   “He bought them of the French at Mobile, Alabama, Twenty-five dollars for a cow and calf. This was soon after I came into the country. Benjamin James then bought one. I was the third man. From these the stocks of cattle have sprung.

6. ↑ Lowrie, Walter (editor). American State Papers Public Lands: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, in relation to The Public Lands, From The First Session of the First Congress To the First Session of the Twenty-Third Congress. (Washington, District of Columbia, United States: Duff Green (Printer))
   Vol. 1, Page 810, March 4th, 1789, To February 27th, 1809.

   Abstract of Certificates entered with the Register of the Land Office west of Pearl River, during the month of March, 1807, on which patents may issue without the payment of any purchase money.
   Commissioners’ certificates | Claim | Title
   When entered: March 9th, 1807
   No. 227
   Date: March 6th, 1807
   Recorded: Vol. 4, Page 256
   To whom granted: Abijah Hunt
   Name of Original grantee, or claimant: Hardy Perry
   Quantity allowed: 600 acres
   Situation: Bayou Pierre
   Whence derived: Spanish Occupancy
   Date of order of survey, or settlement: March 30, 1798
   
   Land Office west of Pearl River, April 1, 1807. Thomas H. Williams

7. ↑ Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in Tax Record
   1821.

   1821 tax list
   Isaac Perry
   George Perry 68 acres
   Hardy Perry 160 acres

8. ↑ Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in Tax Record
   1828.

   1828 tax list
   Hardy Perry 140 acres
   John Perry Sr.
   Isaac Perry
   John Perry, Jr

9.   NATCHEZ TRACE, in FamilySearch.org.
10. ↑ ^10.0 10.1 BAYOU SARA - THE TOWN AWD STREAM West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in USGenWeb Archives.

    H. Perry

11.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Everett Family and the Choctaw Trading Post, the (Factory).
12.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Witness: Hammond
    19 Jan 1838.
13.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Witness: TURNBULL
    22 Jan 1838.
14.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Witness: Robert Cole
    30 Jan 1838.
15.   Patrick Lawrence (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Witness: Moon-tubbee
    30 Jan 1838.
16.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Comment: A. C. Tonner
    Jan 1838.
17.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.
    
18.   Strickland, Ben; Patricia N Edwards; and Jean Strickland. Records of the Choctaw trading post : St. Stephens, Mississippi Territory. (Moss Point).