Captain George Pearis b. 16 Feb 1745/46 South Carolina d. 4 Nov 1810 Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia: If the Legends Are True...

1746 - 1810 (64 years)

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Name	George Pearis [1, 2]
Prefix	Captain
Born	16 Feb 1745/46	South Carolina [2, 3, 4]
Gender	Male
Alt. Birth	16 Feb 1745/46 [1, 5]
Military Service	Bef 1782	Mountgomery County [5]
	as a Captain in the militia
	On the advance of the British Army into the Carolinas, in the fall of 1780, there was a Tory uprising in Surry County, North Carolina, of such formidable proportion as to impel General Martin Armstrong, commanding that military district, to call on Major Joseph Cloyd, of the Montgomery County Militia, to aid in its suppression. About the 1st day of October, 1780, Major Cloyd with three companies of mounted men, one of which was commanded by Captain George Pearis, marched to the State of North Carolina, where he was joined by some of the militia of that state, augmenting his force to about 160 men, with which he, on the 14th day of the month, attacked the Tories at Shallow Ford of the Yadkin, defeating them with a loss of fifteen killed and a number wounded; Major Cloyd had one killed and a few wounded, among them Captain Pearis, severely, through the shoulder. This fight cleared the way for the crossing of General Green's Army at this ford, which the Tories were seeking to obstruct.
Residence	Abt 1770-1782	New River, Montgomery County, Virginia [5]
Residence	Aft 1782	Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia [5]
	Pearisburg Station
	Captain Pearis returned home wounded, and in addition to his suffering from his wound had the misfortune to lose his wife by death in a few days after his return, she dying on November 14th. Captain Pearis' wound disabled him from performing further military service, and having purchased from Captain William Ingles, about the year of 1779, for seventy pounds sterling (about $350.00), the tract of 204 acres of land on New river--whereon is now situated Pearisburg Station on the line of the Norfolk & Western Railway, and which land was known for years as the Hale and Charleton tract--he, in the spring of 1782, removed thereto, erecting his dwelling house at a point nearly due south of the residence of Mr. Edward C. Hale, and a little to the southeast of where the road from Mr. Hale's house unites with the turnpike. Two or three years after Captain Pearis made his location, he had a ferry established across the New River, and kept a small stock of goods, and later kept public entertainment.
Political	Bef 1810	Giles County, Virginia [1]
	was long a magistrate in Montgomery and
	The first court of the County of Giles was held in a house belonging to him, and the land for the county buildings and town was given by him and the town of Pearisburg took its name from him.
Alt. Death	4 Nov 1810	Giles County, Virginia [2, 4]
Name	George Pearis [5, 6, 7]
Name	George Pearis [4]
Died	4 Nov 1810	Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia [1, 5]
	He and his wife left numerous descendants, among them the wife of Mr. Robert Sanders, the wife of Edward A. Oney, the wife of M. W. Winfree, a son, Cornelius, who was killed on the retreat for the Confederates from the battlefield at Clark's house, May 1st, 1862. David E. Johnston – 1906
Buried	Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia [1]
	He is buried on the farm on which he died, on the hill just southwest of Pearisburg station. The two unmarked graves alongside are said to be those of his two wives.
Person ID	I5596	If the Legends Are True...
Last Modified	24 Apr 2010

Father	Robert Pearis, d. Abt 1781
Family ID	F6559	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Eleanor Howe, b. 1755, d. 14 Nov 1780, Pepper's Ferry, Montgomery, Virginia (Age 25 years)
Married	26 Feb 1771 [1, 5]
Last Modified	7 Dec 2009
Family ID	F2056	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 2 Rebecca Clay, b. 1768, Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia , d. 15 Apr 1844, Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia (Age 76 years)

Alt. Marriage 1784 [8]

Married 5 Oct 1784 [4, 5]

Biographical had 9 children [1]

Children

+	1. Colonel George Neeley Pearis, Junior, b. 25 Dec 1785, Princeton, Mercer, West Virginia , d. 28 Mar 1835, Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia (Age 49 years)
	2. Robert Alexander Pearis, d. Yes, date unknown
+	3. Samuel Pepper Pearis, d. Yes, date unknown
+	4. Charles Lewis Pearis, d. Yes, date unknown
+	5. Rebecca Pearis, b. 23 Apr 1796, d. Yes, date unknown
+	6. Julia Pearis, b. 1785, Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia , d. 11 Apr 1818, Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia (Age 33 years)
+	7. Rhoda Pearis, d. Yes, date unknown
	8. Sallie Pearis, d. Yes, date unknown
+	9. Eleanor Pearis, d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 24 Apr 2010

Family ID F2057 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources

[S486] Listen to the Mockingbird, Daniel Dunbar Howe, (Boyce, Virginia: Carr publishing Company, Inc., 1961), page 287 (Reliability: 4).
[S518] DAR Online, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, (Washington, District of Columbia: http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research), Ancestor: A086916 (Reliability: 4).
[S518] DAR Online, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, (Washington, District of Columbia: http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research), Ancestor: A086916, National: 754917 (Reliability: 4).
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[S191] Middle New River Settlements, David E. Johnston, (Huntington, West Virginia: Standard Printing & Publishing Co, 1906), Appendix C. Biographical - Peck-Peters.. (Reliability: 4).

[S89] Howe Genealogies, Daniel Wait Howe, (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1929, 1236 pgs.), Appendix 555 (Reliability: 3).
[S484] Notable Southern Families, II, Janie Zella Armstrong, (Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Lookout Pub. Co., 1922), page 26 (Reliability: 4).
[S518] DAR Online, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, (Washington, District of Columbia: http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research), National: 377504, Ancestor: A086916 (Reliability: 4).