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In a list dated 162G, he is mentioned as owning iCK) acres of land on the south side of the river below the falls, which it is probable were granted to him in the year of his coming over and at the time of Sir Thomas Dale's attempt to settle the upper region of the James. After the massacre of 1622, the settlements there were abandoned, and we find i'erry livnig either at or near "Pace's Taines" on the south .^ide of the river not far from Jamestown. He was in England in April, 1624, but was back in \ irginia and, as "Lieutenant William Perry.' v*as representing 'Pace's Paines" in the house of burgesses in Oct., 1629. and in March of the year following. At this last session he wa.- appointed one of a committee to manage the building of a fort at Point Comfort. In Feb.. 1631-32, he was a burgess for the territory "From Capt. Perryes downwards to Hog Island." It was in the summer of 1632 that he was appointed to the council, and in Septem- ber of the same year, that he appeared for the first time as a member. He was also present In Feb., 1632-33, and in March of the next year. Some years before his death he went >'o live in Charles City county, where he died in 1637, and was buried at the old "Westover" church. His tomb, which is doubtless the old- est in \ irginia. may ?till be seen near "W'est- C!ver" house, but the epitaph is entirely illeg- ible. It was once examined by Charles Camp- bell, the historian, who says that there was engraved upon it a shield with armorial bear- ings which could not even then be made out, and also the following epitaph :

"Here lyeth the body of Captaine

W'm. Perry who liv^ed neere

Westover in this Collony

Who departed this life the 6th day of

August. Anno Domini 1637."

Cai)t. Perry married prior to 1628. Isa- bella, widow of Richard Pace of "Pace's Paines." They had, as far as is known, only or.e child, Capt. Henry Perry, of whom a sketch will appear hereafter. In the general court records, under date of 1674. there is mention of a patent "long before" granted to Capt. Perry Sr., for 2,000 acres, and a later tne to George Menifie of 1.500 acres, in be- half of Capt. Henry Perry the orphan. Both of these grants were situated in Charles City county.

Hinton. Thomas, first appears as a member c f the council on Feb. 8, 1633-34. He did not enjoy the honor long as Harvey soon removed inm on the charge that he had given the gov- e'.ior "ill words," which reason seems to have been accepted by the English privy council as i \ci!i(i one, and there is no other mention of Ihomas Hinton in our records. Xeill, in "Vir- ginia Carolorum," says that the councillor was ."^ir Thomas Hinton, whose daughter married Samuel Mathews, but this seems unlikely, for an account of Mrginia written in 1649 asserts that Mathews married a daughter of Sir Thomas Hinton, while the notices of the Vir- ginia councillors in 1634 and 1635 style him simply "Thomas Hinton, Escj." or "'Mr. Thomas Hinton.'' He is "Mr. Thomas Hin- ton" in the account of the examination of Gov. Harvey before the English privy coun- cil on Dec. 11, 1635. Xeill says that one Wil- liam Hinton, a brother of Mrs. Mathews, was a gentleman of the King's privy chamber, and it seems probable that Thomas Hinton. the councillor, was another brother. Foster, in his "Oxford Matriculations," states that a Thoinas Hinton was knighted July i, 1619, and thinks he may have been the same as Thomas Hinton of Wiltshire, gent., who ma-