The Perry Family - Charlestown, Rhode Island

🌳 Wayne Perry Jr.'s Tree - captured from his own hand

Our Proven Line - the Documents Speak

Deborah Hoxsie (Quaker, of Charlestown) freed Betty by Bill of Manumission, 1786 - witnessed by Simeon Perry, Mary Kinyon, and Riley Cross Jr.

Peter Perry, "a mustee man" married Elizabeth (Betty) Hoxsie, "mustee", both of Charlestown - by John Collins, Justice, June 8, 1794 (Vital Record, marriages 1-40 - the clerk's own hand).

Their six children (1811 guardianship record): Elizabeth jun · Mary · Anna · Solomon · Henry · Hannah.

Granddaughter Henrietta Perry - listed in the 1850 US census as an Indian medicine woman.

Betty is Angie's proven 5th great-grandmother. Every claim above carries a public document.

Open Simeon Perry · find Betty · find Peter

The Suspected Bridge Ancestors hypotheses - marked honestly

NameEraCounty mappingStatus
Evan Malbone Sr.1747-1830Kings Co. RI / Brooklyn CT (Godfrey Malbone line)MALBONE HYPOTHESIS - likely white; closest paternal bridge
Godfrey Malbone line1700sNewport / Kings Co.slaveholding line connected to Evan Sr.
Lewis (white branch)pre-1800Kings Co. RI - deep colonial Lewis familysurname bridges BOTH sides of Angie's tree via Lucy Ann Lewis
Darnall line (via Mary Watkins match)1600s-1700sMaryland (Deputy-Governor family)ELIZABETH WARREN phenomenon - 30cM hidden-ancestor signal

These are DNA-and-record hypotheses under active research - shown so the family can help confirm or refute.