Virginia Family Group Sheet for the Richard PEARIS Family

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Submitted by: J. Daniel Mahar
Email address: <mahard@jps.net>

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Husband: Richard PEARIS
Birth date: c1725-7
Birthplace: possibly Ireland
Death date: 11 Nov 1794
Place of death: Nassau, Bahamas
Burial:
Father: George PEARIS
Mother: Sarah (UNKNOWN)

Marriage date:
Marriage place: prob. Virginia

Wife: Rhoda (UNKNOWN)
Birth date: c1730
Birthplace:
Death date: after March 1806
Place of death: Bahamas
Burial:
Father: UNKNOWN
Mother: UNKNOWN

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CHILDREN
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Child No. 1: Sarah PEARIS
Sex: F
Birth date: c1748
Birthplace: Virginia?
Death date: 23 Jan 1795
Place of death: Charleston, SC
Burial: First Scots Presbyterian Chruch, Charleston, SC
Marriage date: by 1783
Marriage place: SC
Spouse's name: John CUNNINGHAM
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Child No. 2: Margaret PEARIS
Sex: F
Birth date: c1755
Birthplace: Virginia
Death date: 00 Nov 1806
Place of death: New Providence, Nassau, Bahamas
Burial: Nassau, Bahamas
Marriage date: 12 Apr 1790
Marriage place: Nassau, Bahamas
Spouse's name: William JONES
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Child No. 3: Richard PEARIS
Sex: M
Birth date: c1765
Birthplace: Frederick Co, VA
Death date: between 1806-1808
Place of death: prob. Camden Co, GA
Burial:
Marriage date: 22 Jun 1790
Marriage place: Nassau, Bahamas
Spouse's name: Margaret CUNNINGHAM (#1)
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Child No. 4: Richard PEARIS
Sex: M
Birth date: c1765
Birthplace:
Death date: betwen 1806-1808
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: by 1806
Marriage place: prob. Camden Co, GA
Spouse's name: Catherine HOWELL (#2)
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Documentation: Richard Pearis left numerous records in VA, SC, and the
Bahamas. His father's will and his Loyalist Petition provide detailed
family information. Richard Pearis' daughter Sarah is the only child by
Rhoda's who had issue. Richard Sr. also had a Cherokee family by at
least one Cherokee woman; her name is not known. Richard identifies in a
deed and deposition a Cherokee son named George; however, Moravian
records establish that George had at least two sisters who may be
Richard's daughters. The Cherokee mother of George Parris is not
identified, but believed to be a sister to the warrior Savarooka also
known as "The Raven of Chota." George was a cousin to James Vann.
Elizabeth Pearis Jones left a detailed will dated 1806 indicating that
her brother had no children and that her mother was still alive. Richard
Jr.'s estate is mentioned by 1808 when his second wife posts a notice in
the Bahamas. There is no record of any issue by either of his wives. .